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Arabia
Qatar 're-evaluating' role as mediator for Gaza ceasefire: PM
[GEO.TV] 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...
's prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said Doha is re-evaluating its role as mediator in negotiations 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 the release of Israeli captives.

The Qatari premier said that some parties have used the mediation for "narrow political interest".

He added that while Qatar remains committed on mediation "humanitarian basis", there has been "abuse and harm" done related to Qatar's role, Al Jazeera reported.

Some parties have made "destructive" statements against Qatar, he added, without saying to whom he was referring.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [130 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Qatar (MB)

#1  Qatar funds more terrorism than Iran, former Mossad official says
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 15:55 Comments || Top||


Britain
Fish and chip shop ordered to REMOVE 'Great British' Union flag mural by local council
[YouTube] Mar 17, 2024
'I cannot imagine a person who has complained about this, I think it's just the council!'

GB News' Theo Chikomba speaks to the owner of a London fish and chip shop which was asked to remove a mural outside after it was deemed 'inappropriate'.
The Golden Chippy in Greenwich, South London.
Posted by: Ulailet+Thud3602 || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [215 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good enough for the deployed ranker. Not good for London shops.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2024 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The f*cking Fish & chips is the only native British food fit for human consumption.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 5:11 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not your country anymore.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/18/2024 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Replace it with a mural of the local council as devils torturing people
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/18/2024 8:38 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The terrorist liquidated in Moscow lived a 20-minute walk from the synagogue
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The terrorist who was preparing an attack on a Moscow synagogue rented an apartment not far from the religious building. According to RIA Novosti, the man lived on the top floor of a 22-story panel building in the Otradny district.

It is two kilometers from the synagogue; you can walk to it in 20 minutes or drive in four minutes.

The apartment is now sealed by law enforcement agencies. You can't get into it.

According to residents of the high-rise building, the man behaved quietly, without attracting the attention of neighbors.

As Regnum reported, the FSB stopped the activities of a native of one of the countries of Central Asia, who was planning a terrorist attack on a religious Jewish institution in Moscow. The would-be terrorist was eliminated during his arrest on April 10. He offered armed resistance.

Security forces established that a foreigner born in 2002, while serving a sentence in a colony in his homeland, established contact with persons convicted of participating in terrorist activities, under whose influence he began to share the ideology of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia.

After his release, in November 2023, the man came to Moscow and began preparing for a terrorist attack in the synagogue. During a search of his home, it turned out that the man kept a bomb of his own making in the apartment, under the mattress.
Sounds uncomfortable…
Components for making an improvised explosive device were also found here.

More from regnum.ru
Details of the liquidation of a terrorist near a synagogue in Moscow have become known

FSB officers eliminated someone who was preparing a terrorist attack near the synagogue of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia “Darkei Shalom” in the Moscow district of Otradnoye. The head of this religious community, Rabbi Dovid Karpov, spoke about this on April 17.

“I was told by friends that the detention (of a terrorist preparing a terrorist attack in one of the synagogues in Moscow, as reported by the FSB on April 11 - Ed.) took place on Berezovaya Alley,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to the rabbi, law enforcement officers came to the synagogue, asked questions, carried out operational actions and were interested in CCTV cameras, but he was not there at the time, and they communicated with the security.

As a representative of the security service said, security forces came to the religious institution before the publication of reports about the liquidation of the terrorist. He noted that during the prevention of a terrorist attack in the capital’s synagogue in March, the terrorists were found to have a map with a dot marking this synagogue.

This time, law enforcement officers did not report preparations for a terrorist attack against the synagogue, the security representative clarified, noting that, in his opinion, this was not necessary.

As Regnum reported, on April 10, the FSB stopped the activities of a native of one of the Central Asian states, who was planning a terrorist attack on a religious Jewish institution in Moscow. The man resisted arrest and was eliminated.

On April 12, the FSB published a video from the home of someone preparing a terrorist attack in the capital’s synagogue. A native of Central Asia kept a homemade bomb in his apartment under his mattress. A man born in 2002 came to Moscow in November 2023, where he began preparing for a terrorist attack.

On April 11, FSB officers also stopped the activities of a terrorist cell that was planning a terrorist attack on a Russian army facility in Donetsk. The group included six citizens of one of the Central Asian countries.
Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [111 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Princess and the IED

A dark, stormy night for our sheikh
Once proved that he wasn't a fake:
A mattress of doom
That concealed no kaboom
Kept the sensitive Muslim awake!
Posted by: One Eyed Protector of the Texans6023 || 04/18/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||


The author of scandalous posts about Crocus, Konashenko, was added to the register of terrorists
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The author of scandalous posts about the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, Nikolai Konashenko, was added to the list of terrorists and extremists. This became known on April 17.

“List of terrorists and extremists. Konashenok Nikolay Vladimirovich, born July 17, 1982, Leningrad,” reports the Rosfinmonitoring website.

Konashenko’s posts caused a public outcry and were removed from social networks. According to the investigation materials, he was detained at Pulkovo airport, presumably while trying to leave the country. After the arrest, the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs distributed a video with an apology from Konashenko, who admitted that he does not support terrorism.

As Regnum reported, terrorists broke into Crocus on March 22, started shooting people and started arson. As a result, 145 people were killed, including six children, and 550 people were injured. In connection with the terrorist attack, 11 people were arrested, including four direct perpetrators, detained near the border with Ukraine in the Bryansk region. On March 24, the Basmanny Court remanded the perpetrators in custody until May 22.

Those involved in the case were also included in the list of terrorists and extremists. Thus, a court in Tver arrested a man who fictitiously registered two of them in his house - brothers Aminchon Islomov (an individual included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists) and Dilovar Islomov (an individual included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists). The accused admitted his guilt in full.

Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [80 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Sydney massacre. Why did quiet Australia decide to get knives?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ol'ga Kuznetsova

[REGNUM] The English word stabbing sounds less ominous than the Russian "massacre" or "stabbing", and is usually used in the crime section - but not in the last few days, when the word has dotted the front pages of the English-language (especially Australian) press.

First, in connection with the story of Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center, where an unknown person with a mental disorder attacked customers with a knife, killing six and injuring eight more (including a nine-month-old girl).
The Daily Mail gives it as Sydney's Bondi Junction Westfield. The killer was identified by police as Joel Cauchi, 40, who’d been diagnosed as mentally ill at age 17, and was most recently living rough.
Then - less than two days later, and also in the suburbs of Sydney - because of a new case with an attempt on the life of a priest of the Assyrian Church of the East.
Down in Australia that’s being reported as Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in Sydney's west
At the same time, even against the backdrop of the first incident, materials immediately began to appear in the Western media that the massacre in the shopping center had yet to be rethought by the whole of Australia, the basic sense of security of the inhabitants of which is now in great question.

It’s not that the author of these lines is inclined to exaggerate the significance of what was said by American columnists, but alas. This seems to be true.

"COMPLETELY INSANE"
The massacre in the shopping center took place in the backdrop of a prosperous area, home to the local Jewish community, as well as emigrants from the post-Soviet (and even “post-imperial”) space. People from all over Sydney came here on weekends, not only for shopping, but also to stop for a cool drink before going to the nearby beach.

Mass murders - unlike in the USA - are a novelty for Sydney and Australia in general. So is the terrorist threat. Almost no one is ready for them - especially security in shopping centers, which after last Saturday began to be called with contempt “fiction.” And even the police officer, who was the only one who happened to be near the scene of the tragedy and shot the killer, did not save the situation much.

Later, witnesses said that the criminal was “completely insane,” as if he was under the influence of some kind of drug and, according to some, sought to kill women. One of the customers with a nine-month-old child was the first to be stabbed. The girl was saved; her mother died in the hospital.

However, the situation could have been worse.

One of the visitors found the strength to block the killer’s path to the top floor, where the playrooms for children were located.

Users of social networks, who were following the situation almost online, immediately began to put forward their versions of what happened.

Focusing primarily on visual factors, as well as on the world agenda, to which the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (banned in the Russian Federation) was recently returned, Islamic terrorists immediately began to be suspected of what happened, and a native of the Middle East began to suspect the tanned and bearded criminal. East.

The police did not reassure public opinion much: at first they said that what happened could well be a terrorist attack, then they said that “nothing indicates a motive for terrorism,” but added that “the investigation will continue for many days” and it is too early to say, what was really behind the attack.

They chose not to reveal the identity of the criminal; they only released information that he had never been under the surveillance of counter-terrorism agencies. But he came to the attention of the police, where he remained in the database of people with mental disorders.

SEVERED FINGERS
Not everyone had time to take the flowers to the memorial when another attack happened - this time not in a well-known area of ​​Sydney, but during an evening service in the Assyrian Church of the East, which was led by a priest popular in local conservative circles, who has repeatedly criticized the globalist agenda and especially LGBT (an extremist movement banned in the Russian Federation).

There were no casualties in this story - the knife did not open completely, and the priest did not receive critical injuries, although the risk was very high: the attacker was aiming for the face and neck.

Several parishioners were also slightly injured as they tried to restrain the criminal, who was shouting “Allahu Akbar” with all his might and trying to speak Arabic. In particular, the criminal smiled idiotically and with a crazy face said that he attacked the priest because he allegedly “insulted the Prophet and his faith.”

In fact, it turned out that the “defender of the faith” is 15–16 years old, he speaks Arabic with great difficulty and his native language is English, and he only recently accepted Islam.
Information not found elsewhere. Thank you, Ms Kuznetsova.
Nevertheless, he almost provoked mass pogroms among the parishioners of the Assyrian Church who wanted to teach him wisdom. The latter quickly formed a dissatisfied crowd, demanding that the police hand over the criminal to them.

However, the situation was resolved quickly, although at some point stones and debris were already thrown at the authorities - but real pogroms and real casualties, which everyone feared at the very beginning, were avoided.

The incident was almost immediately recognized as a terrorist attack, which local representatives of the Islamic clergy immediately condemned. And they wished a speedy recovery to both the priest and the victims.

Nevertheless, local media described what was happening in their own style.

In particular, they focused not on the criminal, but on the angry Assyrians, calling them “Christian radicals” and “bandits.” The situation was further aggravated by the fact that a photograph of a disfigured hand began to be circulated on social networks with the comment that parishioners, in a fit of rage, allegedly cut off the criminal’s fingers.

Subsequently, this report was refuted: the attacker’s hand was indeed damaged during the arrest, in an attempt to knock the knife away from him, but not to such an extent.

KNIVES EVERYWHERE
As a result, we see in the history of Australians a sudden attack by a madman in a shopping center, an Islamic terrorist and loosely controlled diasporas seeking to “execute vigilante justice”. All this in a few weeks.

At the same time, the Australian crime chronicle for April escalates the situation even more.

For example, in the area of ​​a long-suffering shopping center, on the eve of the attack, an unknown person attacked a woman with a knife. On the same day, in Sydney's west, a group of high school students staged a "battle of the boroughs" that left one teenager dead and another in a critical condition due to stab wounds.

And that's just Sydney.

In Queensland, an uncle stabbed his nephew to death in the heat of an argument and then tried to attack a policeman. In Brisbane, teenagers staged a stabbing outside a McDonald's. The trial of a teenager who stabbed his friend to death has begun in Adelaide.

And all this - literally in one week.

Moreover, attacks with bladed weapons turned out to be a kind of “Achilles’ heel” for local security forces, who not so long ago boasted that they were able to stop the illegal circulation of weapons and reduce the number of shootings. With knives and axes, everything turned out to be more complicated, in addition to this, the situation began to worsen - escalating from gang warfare, attacks by drug addicts in a state of withdrawal and domestic quarrels into mass murders and terrorist acts.

And there is no reason to believe that the situation will improve in the near future. Quite the contrary: against the backdrop of gloomy news from the global agenda, layered on local stress, both radicals being developed by Western intelligence services and seasonal madmen, for whom any stress can become a trigger, can raise their heads.

So, it is likely that we will hear about Australia in the news agenda. And not at all for a happy reason.
Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [195 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Could it be the lack of guns?
The problem is not knives, it is not guns.
The problem is crazy people.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/18/2024 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  So knives soon to be outlawed. What will Crocodile Dundee do?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/18/2024 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  A whip with croc teeth on the end.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2024 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2024 16:19 Comments || Top||

#5  There's lethal weapons, less than lethal weapons and that, there appears to be a "you'd wish it was more quickly lethal if it was used on you" weapon.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2024 17:15 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Consequences: Google fires 28 employees who staged anti-Israel protests at company offices
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrations opposing business with Israeli government and led by No Tech for Apartheid group included 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and California; 9 people arrested

Google said Wednesday it fired 28 employees who staged a sit-in and protests in company offices the previous day to demand the tech giant end its business dealings with the Israeli government.

In a statement following media reports of the development, Google only mentioned that it had terminated the employees for violating company policies — without mentioning the nature of the protests.

Protesters demonstrated on Tuesday at Google offices in several locations, while in New York and California, they held a 10-hour sit-in. Demonstrators held signs saying "No more genocide for profit," "No cloud for apartheid," and "Googlers against genocide."

Many of the protesters wore masks and Palestinian headscarves. Nine people were arrested for trespassing during the protests.

They were organized by the No Tech for Apartheid organization, which posted images of the events on social media.

The protests aimed to demonstrate opposition to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion project with Amazon.com Inc. to supply artificial intelligence and cloud services for the Israeli government.

The rallies came against the background of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip that started when the Palestinian terror group Hamas led a devastating October 7 cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and took 253 hostages.

Among the locations targeted by the Google demonstrators was the sixth floor of the company’s Sunnyvale bureau where Google’s Cloud chief executive officer Thomas Kurian has his office.

"Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior," Google said in a statement. "After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety."

"We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the termination of employment for 28 employees, and will continue to investigate and take action as needed."

Protests were held in Google offices in New York City, Seattle, and Sunnyvale in California, Bloomberg reported.

Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow sent a companywide memo, obtained by the New York Post, that said "They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened."

"Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it," Rackow wrote. "It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to — including our code of conduct and policy on harassment, discrimination, retaliation, standards of conduct, and workplace concerns."

The fired workers said in a statement reported by the Post, "This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests."

"This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers — the ones who create real value for executives and shareholders."

"Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers," the statement added, referring also to Google’s CEO.

"We cannot comprehend how these men are able to sleep at night while their tech has enabled 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, or wounded in the last six months of Israel’s genocide — and counting," the fired worker said.
100,000? Clearly the maffs be hard
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told the Post that about 50 people were involved in the protest in that city and that "four arrests were made for trespassing inside the Google building."

The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said that around 80 people were involved in the protest there and that five who refused to leave the Google office were "arrested without incident for criminal trespassing," booked, and then released.

One worker claimed to Bloomberg that protesters did not violate company policies and had left the building when they were asked to without causing any disruption.

A worker told Bloomberg that in the wake of the demonstrations, there was debate on Google’s internal forums between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters while others argued the topic was not suitable for the workplace. Moderators eventually locked down some of the threats, the employee said.

In March, Google fired an employee after he interrupted a speech by the tech firm’s managing director in Israel with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel declarations during a conference in New York City.

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2024 04:08 || Comments || Link || [298 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Getting rid of dead weight (DEI hires)?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2 

When $$$$ Talks, does even Google listen over Social Liberal political agendas?


Again I pose the questions.

These Liberal Minions do understand they were protesting the support of a TERRORIST Group with 10's of 1000's of confirmed civilian murders and rapes to its self proclaimed credit?

A terrorist group that would quickly murder these minions for what these minions consider common civilized world everyday social activities?

A Genocidal agenda, Religious Terrorist Hate group that treats women as cattle to birth their kids, cook for them and has a history of on the spot slaughter LGBT?'s?

Maybe Google will offer these protesting minions a transfer to IRAN or a tunnel located field office?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/18/2024 5:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Market supports firings:

Market Summary
Alphabet Inc Class C
156.88 USD
+0.88
(0.56%)today
Closed: Apr 18, 6:46 AM EDT • Disclaimer
Pre-market 157.50 +0.62 (0.40%)
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||


#5  #3 Market supports firings:

Market Summary
Alphabet Inc Class C
156.88 USD
+0.88 (0.56%)today
Closed: Apr 18, 6:46 AM EDT • Disclaimer
Pre-market 157.50 +0.62 (0.40%)


Google just released their latest terms of Service. It's a doozy.
Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 9:24 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||

#7  These Liberal Minions do understand they were protesting the support of a TERRORIST Group with 10's of 1000's of confirmed civilian murders and rapes to its self proclaimed credit?

Yes. They think it’s romantic, like Che Guevara.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2024 12:52 Comments || Top||

#8  FWIW, inside information on the Tesla layoffs says it's higher than the 10% that was publicly released. How much higher isn't clear.

Also, people were laid off via email to their personal email, not Tesla email. The emails were sent out at 03:00, so people got up and got ready to work only to find out that they no longer had jobs.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 04/18/2024 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  So China (with its Uighur issues) is not fond of its puppet Google hiring Muslim supporting activists?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/18/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Spot on
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2024 13:53 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm surprised but quite pleased. Perhaps some of these people will begin to learn what the real world is about. I'm hopeful.
Posted by: Tom || 04/18/2024 15:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, suspended from Barnard College for her involvement in anti-Israel protests
[NY Post] Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, revealed Thursday she has been suspended from Barnard College over her involvement in anti-Israel protests on Columbia University’s campus.

"I’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege I have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings," the 21-year-old wrote on X.

"I just received notice that I am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide."

Hirsi and the two other students — identified as Maryam Iqbal and Soph Dinu — received notice of their suspension from Barnard Dean, Leslie Grinage, first thing Thursday morning, the Apartheid Divest said in a statement.

"This decision is based on information received from Columbia University Public Safety that you have been involved in an unauthorized encampment on the Columbia University campus and you have not ceased participation in this unauthorized encampment despite repeated requests from Barnard and Columbia on April 17, 2024 that you do so," the dean’s email read, according to the student group.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2024 13:30 || Comments || Link || [209 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Entitled little shit doing entitled little shit things...
Posted by: Raj || 04/18/2024 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Columbia Campus Chaos: Pro-Hamas Protests Turn Violent Resulting in Multiple Arrests
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Which of Ilhan's hubbys is her father?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/18/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  With the Columbia arrests, the USC valedictorian, Google e.ployees, etc... I'm betting on a nationwide strike next week. Unfortunately.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 04/18/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Whatever got into Fetterman is spreading to the population at large.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2024 15:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Psycho daughter, q'est qu ce?

I am my own niece.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/18/2024 15:46 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Nice Talking Heads Ref
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2024 18:27 Comments || Top||


House of Representatives released three separate bills to help Israel, Ukraine and allies in the Indo-Pacific
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [82 views] Top|| File under:


International-UN-NGOs
Security Council to vote on Palestinian UN membership on Friday
[GEO.TV] 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...
Security Council has scheduled the vote in the 15-member council for Friday on a draft resolution put forth by Algeria seeking membership for the State of Paleostine, Rooters quoted diplomats as saying.

The voting is set to happen at 3pm (19:00 GMT).

The draft resolution tabled by Algeria recommends to the 193-member UN General Assembly that "the State of Paleostine be admitted to membership of the United Nations", diplomats said.

The resolution needs at least nine votes in favour to pass the Security Council and no vetoes from the US, Britannia, La Belle France, Russia or China. Diplomats told Rooters the measure could have the support of up to 13 council members, but the US is expected to block the effort because it would effectively recognise a Paleostinian state.

The US, Israel’s top ally, has long maintained that establishing an independent Paleostinian state should happen through direct negotiations between the Paleostinians and Israel and not at the UN.

Paleostinians are currently a non-member observer state at the UN.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [77 views] Top|| File under: PLO


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Media: Israel spent more than $1 billion to repel Iranian attack
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] To repel a massive Iranian attack, Israel spent more than one billion dollars. This was reported by the Financial Times, citing a former Israeli military official.
As has been commented in these pages, it’s much cheaper to let them murder you all. But one can’t really, donchaknow,
“The official estimated the cost of Saturday’s defense at more than $1 billion in materials wasted,” the authors noted.

It was noted that this amount did not include the costs of the USA, France and Great Britain for sending aircraft.

Earlier, the ex-adviser of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on finance, Brigadier General of the Reserve Ram Aminah, said that repelling hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones with an air defense system could cost Israel up to $1.3 billion overnight. He added that this amount significantly exceeds what Iran itself paid for the attack.

As Regnum reported, on April 1, the Israeli Air Force launched a missile attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Among the victims of the attack were two generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran - Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji.

In response to this attack, Iran launched a massive attack on Israel on the night of April 13-14, using more than 200 missiles and attack drones.

The Iranian state television channel Press TV reported on April 15 that all hypersonic missiles used in the attack on Israel successfully overcame Israeli air defenses and hit their intended targets. Before this, the TV channel clarified that Iran used at least seven hypersonic missiles during attacks on Israel.

In turn, the press service of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that the US military, with the support of US European Command destroyers, repelled a large-scale attack on Israel from Iran and Yemen and shot down over 80 drones and at least six ballistic missiles. They also destroyed a launcher and seven drones in the Houthi-controlled part of Yemen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on April 15 that Israel would respond to this attack. He noted that the Jewish state would not give in to emotions and would act “wisely.”

On the same day, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Tehran warned the United States of its tough reaction if Israel decides to carry out a new attack in response to Iran's recent attack on Israeli territory.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on April 16 that in the event of a response to Tehran's strike, Israel would receive retaliatory measures in seconds, and not in 12 days. He clarified that the Israeli side would face a much stronger blow in this case.

Posted by: badanov || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [177 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The real question - what about the next one?
Or, how many Israelis must be murdered until an effective response (and to hell with USA and it's super sophisticated ME plans) is mounted?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  No problem, Congress will be right there to replenish the bank account shortly.
I swear, AIPAC is the best investment any country ever made in America, it pays off more often than a rigged slot machine.
Posted by: Uleremp and Company7042 || 04/18/2024 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  The way he's outraged - you'd think he works and pays taxes (just kidding, it's probably his student loan he's worried about).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 5:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The only time the media complains about military spending is when it's done by the wrong people, which means Republicans and the state of Israel.
Posted by: Raj || 04/18/2024 10:06 Comments || Top||


US voices concerns about report alleging ill-treatment of UNRWA staff by Israeli forces
That would be the UNRWA that hired a significant number of Hamasniks as local staffers, teachers, junior executives, etc? Was the ill-treatment arresting them as enemy combatants?
[GEO.TV] The United States is deeply concerned by claims in a report from the UN Paleostinian refugee agency (Unrwa) that agency staff and others detained by Israeli forces 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 subjected to ill-treatment, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Wednesday.

Washington will press Israel on the need for a full investigation into allegation regarding Unrwa staff, Patel said, after a report outlined incidents including severe beatings and detainees being forced to strip naked.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [231 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Wednesday.

Vedant, a seasoned 'Foggy Bottoms' man, was denied similar "ill-treatment" by the IDF.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2024 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  These same people that knew, supported and even went along with October 7th?

Fuck them
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2024 1:44 Comments || Top||

#4  ^These are the people who are members of Hamas receiving salaries from UNRWA.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 5:17 Comments || Top||

#5 

What should the IDF do wheel out the Red Carpet for a group proven to have knew and supported Oct 7th?

Less we forget, due to Main Stream Media not following up of headlines from just a few months ago.... Hell even CNN covered it.

"UNRWA staffers participated in the October 7 onslaught" .

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/18/2024 5:33 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe DV has it about right at #3. And while we're at it, same goes for the Chinese at the Southern border and PLO protestors and flag wavers.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2024 6:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Ship had its gender assumed and had a breakdown.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/18/2024 14:13 Comments || Top||

#8  US out of UN. UN out of US. now!
Posted by: irish+rage+boy || 04/18/2024 16:08 Comments || Top||

#9  The UN should represent and be located in the third world.

-Mayor Adams theme music starts playing-
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/18/2024 16:27 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Intelligence Minister, Esmaeil Khatib: Our attack on Israel is the beginning of a new strategy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Related from regnum.ru

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Raisi: Iran's strike was aimed at containing Israel
To be fair, they have to try. Israel’s nukes work.
Iran struck Israel to contain it and also in response to the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said on April 17, speaking in Tehran on the occasion of National Army Day. This was reported by Press TV.

“If the Zionist regime commits the slightest act of aggression on our soil, it will receive a violent and severe response,” he added.

Raisi emphasized that Iran's strike was incomplete and limited in nature. He also condemned countries seeking to normalize relations with Israel. The President called on Middle Eastern countries to rely on their resources and on cooperation with Muslim countries.

As Regnum reported, Iran launched a massive attack on Israel on the night of April 14, launching more than 200 missiles and drones. This was a response to the attack on the Iranian Consulate General in Damascus, which the Israeli Air Force carried out on April 1, killing, among other things, two generals of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to the Financial Times, Israel spent more than $1 billion to repel Iran's attack.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov on April 17, commenting on the deterioration of Iranian-Israeli relations, said that Moscow is in contact with both sides. He stressed that the Kremlin is calling on Israel and Iran to de-escalate the conflict.

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [134 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2024 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe warns Israel to stay out of Haifa
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2024 10:51 Comments || Top||


Commander of IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh: ''We will respond, 100%''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [327 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  ^Especially from the White House?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Israeli strike on Iran unlikely until after Passover, report says

So y'all can relax. Ye hear?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/18/2024 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Uh oh. The last major Jewish holiday was Shavuot on 10/7…
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2024 13:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Sukkot, tw. Shavuot is is 9ish weeks.i
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Sanhedrin || 04/18/2024 15:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Todah rabbah, Penguin. I’m feeling a bit frazzled — I just realized that the Passover Seder is this weekend, and I haven’t begun to think about it yet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2024 16:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Israeli strike on Iran unlikely until after Passover

So one of the differences between Islam and Judaism is that in Judaism you don't get extra credit for blowing things up during the holidays?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/18/2024 17:17 Comments || Top||

#8  guess not.

Explosions are reported near bases housing Islamic Republic's nuclear...
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2024 23:47 Comments || Top||



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