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girlactionfigure · 2 months

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🔅Shavua Tov, a good and blessed week!

🔻Only a few rockets over Shabbat.. Hamas at Ashkelon and Zikim, Hezbollah at Zaria and Shomera.

🔻HAMAS - Rockets from Gaza - at Be’eri and HaTzerim.

🔻HEZBOLLAH - Anti-tank missiles from Lebanon - at IDF post Sheba farms.

▪️HOSTAGE CEASEFIRE LEAKS.. The White House: Israel agreed to the outline, Hamas has not yet responded.

A senior member of the Biden administration: “Israel agreed in principle to the deal, the ball is in Hamas's court. The discussed outline includes a six-week pause in fighting, Israel demands that elderly patients and women be released first.”

President Biden: “I’m hoping so, we’re still working real hard on it. We’re not there yet,” he told reporters at the White House when asked if he expected a deal by Ramadan, which will start on March 10. “We’ll get there but we’re not there yet — we may not get there.”

▪️3 HERO SOLDIERS FELL.. in battle in Gaza, as a booby trapped building exploded on the entering force killing 3 and wounding 14. The fallen heroes:

.. Dolev Malka, 19 of Shlomi

.. Afik Tery, 19, of Rechovot

.. Inon Yitzchok, 20, Mitzpe Ramon

…. may their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem, and may G-d avenge their blood!

▪️ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST THIS EVENING.. Demonstrators against the government protest at the Kaplan intersection in Tel Aviv and call for elections, the police block the intersection to prevent them from moving further. The police arrested seven protesters after they went down to demonstrate on the road near the Azrieli mall in an area not approved.

Demonstrators blocked Derech Begin in front of IDF HQ in Tel Aviv in both directions.

▪️ON RELEASING ARAB PRISONERS.. The Shin Bet will release about 30 more Palestinian administrative detainees this week; the Shin Bet clarifies: we have room to take in detainees on nationalistic grounds (who are a terror threat), we never said that we are in need of cells.

National Security Minister MK Ben Gvir responded: "We are before the Ramadan period, in the midst of a war in Gaza and in the north, attacked on a daily basis. Now they decide to freely release threatening prisoners? Does everyone in the Shin Bet think we are in Switzerland?"

▪️ATTEMPTED TERROR ATTACK - SAMARIA - ELON MOREH.. IDF forces captured 2 terrorists headed towards Elon Moreh equipment with M-16’s, en route to a terror attack.

▪️AID DROPS, BIDEN SAYS.. after day’s U.S. air drops of aid supplies into Gaza, President Biden announced that the U.S. will continue to air drop aid supplies into Ukraine and see about opening a marine corridor for supplies into Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5_XnP0rTxg

#Israel #Realtime War Updates #October 7 #Operation Swords of Iron #Hamas Massacre #Israel/HamasWar

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mightyflamethrower · 3 months

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Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times.

Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.

In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing.

That way, Iran will be free to fulfill its old dream of becoming a nuclear shield for a new Shiite/Persian terrorist axis from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut to the West Bank and Gaza—surrounding Israel and intimidating the Gulf regimes and more moderate states like Jordan and Egypt into concessions.

These Iranian appendages have made a number of unfortunately correct assumptions about America in general and the Biden administration in particular.

One, after the recent serial humiliations of the flight from Afghanistan, the passivity of watching a Chinese spy balloon traverse with impunity the continental United States, the mixed American signals on the eve of the Ukraine war, the troubled Pentagon’s recruitment and leadership lapses, and the destruction of the US southern border, both Iran and its surrogates feel that the United States either cannot or will do much of anything in response to their aggression.

They see the U.S. military short thousands of recruits, its leadership politicized, its munition stocks depleted by arms shipments to Ukraine and Israel, and the massive abandonment of weapons in Kabul.

Two, they view Joe Biden’s serial appeasement as a force multiplier of these perceptions of American weakness. After entering office, the Biden administration begged for a renewed Iran deal from a preening theocracy. It sought to ensure calm by delisting the Houthis from global terrorist designations and sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas and radical Palestinians to buy good behavior.

Biden may have agreed that Iran was the spider in the center of the Middle East Islamic terrorist web, but only thereby to win over it with bribes such as lifting embargoes and sanctions to ensure an Iranian windfall of $90 or more billion in oil sales revenue.

Biden greenlighted a bribery payment of $6 billion to Iran to return American hostages, thereby ensuring more will be taken. It loudly distanced itself from the Netanyahu government. The gulf encouraged radicals to believe they could coerce Israel into accepting radical Islamic states on the West Bank and Gaza.

Three, after hitting American stations and bases 170 times and seeing little sustained, much less disproportionate, responses, Iran and its satellites now feel they are winning proxy wars with the US.

They have all but shut down the Red Sea as an international shipping route—damaging Europe, Egypt, and Israel, which all depend on Red Sea commerce for vital imports and exports.

Iran has forced Biden to publicly alienate the Netanyahu government and push a ceasefire down Israel’s throat. And it has helped to spark international pro-Hamas protests throughout Europe and the US that timid and compliant left-wing governments fear could lose them close elections.

But most damaging are administration spokesmen who mouth the same empty script after each serial attack: 1) The US will respond at the time and place of its own choosing. 2) The US finds no direct evidence of Iranian involvement, although it clearly has supplied the attackers; 3) The US does not wish a wider war and has no plans to attack Iran itself.

Translated to our enemies, it means an 80-year-old non-compos-mentis president is in no position to prevent, much less win, a theater-wide Middle East war that his own serial appeasement has now nearly birthed.

Biden and the Democratic Party know, as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pointed out just prior to the October 7 attacks on Israel, that the administration inherited a deterred and quiet Middle East. And then it blew up on their appeasing watch.

Now they are terrified of a theater-wide conflict breaking out during an election year—a fact known to all of America’s Middle East enemies.

Biden and company have forgotten the ancient wisdom that preparing loudly only for peace guarantees war. To prevent war, it should return to oil sanctions on Iran, embargo its banking transactions, slap a travel ban on Iran and its allies, cut off all aid to Hamas and the West Bank, and restore a true terrorist designation for the Houthis.

US officials must stop aimlessly babbling. If the administration must speak, Washington should do so by conveying disproportionality and unpredictability. And if, and when, America were to strike, it should do so in silent and devastating fashion.

When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.

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archtroop · 30 days

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Since apparently Google Translate is not that bad if one can edit/run through the translation, I present to you one very well written, cheeky article, that goes like this (oh and do check out the article for photos!):

"A blast from the past: this is how the Harrier was flown to defend the State of Israel

The old fighter plane, the hero of the action movies from the nineties, was already on the way to retirement - then it was unexpectedly sent to intercept the dangerous UAVs of the terrorist organizations. How did it deal with the mission, and why did the Americans send it?"

"Hello, this is the captain; Reno Raines was a good cop who testified against corrupt cops, and they tried to get revenge on him but they killed the woman he loved, then he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, and sentenced to roam the US deserts as a criminal who hunted other criminals. It wasn't until the nineties that there were such over-the-top action heroes; what What I just described was not the plot of an entire series, but rather the exposition that was said in a dramatic voice at the opening. All the nineties looked like this: excessive content but full of grace, stormy revolutions alongside optimistic innocence. Today, we will talk about such a clichéd action hero, who on his way to retire was given one last mission : to stop a dangerous air attack on Israel.

Our story begins on Saturday morning, when a pleasant wind caressed the waves of the Persian Gulf and the stern of the American aircraft carrier Bataan. After two months on patrol in the sector, the ship's crew prepared to pack everything, iron their uniforms, and sail back to the USA; the sailors did not see home for a long time. Then, an emergency order was received: two hours ago, a new war broke out in the Middle East.

Bataan was required to spray, and row at full steam down the Persian Gulf, through the Red Sea - and reach the Gaza Strip sector. At first, the sailors thought it was another round of fire and even wondered why they were being thrown into something that would surely end before they arrived - after all, Israel and the terrorists in the Gaza Strip often exchange blows. In a short time, the first reports were received about the occupation of Israeli territory, and everyone realized that this time, it was a completely different opera.

The sailors of the ship weren't tense for nothing: they could easily find themselves on Gaza soil, aiming at Hamasniks. This is not a standard issue carrier, but smaller ship, intended for an amphibious attack by the Marine Corps. Its body has compartments for unloading hovercraft and landers, and even APCs that know how to swim - a force for invasion from the sea.

Its air force is small, and is only intended to support such an attack: it has helicopters of various types - Cobras for attack, Super Stallion (the American cousin of the Storm) and Osprey helicopters for transport. And what about planes? It has a small force of Harriers for close range support. And on the morning of October 7, 2023, it was the only mobile air force of the United States in the sector: huge aircraft carriers with 70 advanced F18s had not yet been sent here; the modest Bataan was what there is.

On the way to Gaza, the sky began to boil hot: the first attacks by suicide drones were launched towards Israel. Until then, every intelligence analyst in the world knew that the Houthis know how to surprise and that their heads aren't screwed up tight - but no one expected their involvement in the attack by Hamas. When the drones began to go north from Yemen towards Israel, the order was received from the American headquarters: the Bataan ship will remain in the Red Sea, and will stop these attacks, no matter how.

The challenge seemed too big for the aircraft by several sizes: long-range suicide drones are very small, and fly low so that it is difficult to track them - and they are disguised by radar reflections from the surface of the sea. Intercepting such an enemy is a difficult case even for advanced fighter jets.

All this to say, the Bataan's harriers were mostly heading to the museum; their replacements, state-of-the-art F35s, are already waiting for them at the home port.

The Harrier was revolutionary at the time, and became a very famous aircraft: it was designed in the sixties to survive Soviet nuclear strikes on NATO bases in Europe. how? Using an engine with thrust nozzles that allow vertical take-off and landing, like a helicopter. In this way, the Harriers were deployed in forests and improvised airstrips, and could evade any blow that fell on the airfields.

The plane was developed in Great Britain, and was well proven in air battles during the Falklands War of 1982. The Americans adopted it, improved it and gave it attack missions: its ability to take off from a short runway and land vertically suited the small invasion ships of the marines, and in the Gulf War of 1991 the plane became a superstar. The Harriers were recorded on CNN as they pounded Iraqi army positions with rockets and cannons, winning the hearts of the action-loving American public. And not only that: the marines themselves loved their air support, and more than once owned their lives to the successful sniping abilities of the airborne snipers.

The plane became so popular that it began to appear and star in video games, and even reached Hollywood; I once told you about his affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But beyond the glamor and the high level of stealth of a fighter plane that knows how to hover and dance in the air, it was a very dangerous plane.

Its body is built around the engine, and is full of piping that transfers the exhaust stream to the maneuvering nozzles - and a slight hit to the center of the body or one of the pipes is enough, and the plane loses its stability. Even without enemy fire, the plane was so sensitive and vulnerable to malfunctions that about 25% of all Harriers built crashed and were lost in accidents.

When you think about it, the Harrier is one of the least suitable tools for hunting UAVs: its radar is very weak and limited - and it finds its targets mainly using a case with a thermal camera; after all, it is built to attack targets that are very close to the ground force that called him up for help. In general, the Harrier pilots of the US Navy do not practice air-to-air combat of the required type, and only at very short ranges - defense missions. They do not have the appropriate equipment for an interception mission in which they are required to find a target, pursue it, and stop it.

Bataan pilots' Harriers still had a small advantage though: when the F18 fleet got new advanced radars, the old ones went to some Harriers, and Bataan's planes were among the few who got one. That way, they could detect targets in the air from greater distances despite more interference from the ground and launch RADAR guided missiles at them. On their side stood also destroyers of the Arleigh Burke model, which are equipped with a powerful radar that can detect movement in the air and provide a general directions of the UAV.

And that's it: just like the action heroes of the nineties, the Harrier on the way to retirement is required to take on one last mission - to deal with the targets that are among the most difficult for aerial interception.

In the darkness of the night and the winter storms, the drones of the Houthis advanced ahead - the Smad 2 and Smad 3 models, which even for an improved sensor have the radar signature of a rice cracker. And the interception teams were sent in front of them, to probe in the dark.

The method worked like this: when the destroyers picked up something suspicious, the Harriers were sent in the direction and flew to a meeting point with the target, initially at the same height as it or a little above; when they got close, they opened the interception radar and looked for a reading that moved like a drone. After finding a target, they tried to lock the thermal sensor on it and verify that it was indeed a Houthi suicide drone - and often this required an extremely dangerous maneuver: the UAVs flew at a low altitude, sometimes only 100 or 200 m. The Harrier crews dived to let the thermal sensor look at the target from below, so that it stands out against the sky.

Do understand the risks here: flying the Harrier is still like spinning a Russian Roulette, and the crews knew very well that at such an altitude any malfunction or fragment from the UAV is a 100 percent crash. And even if they succeed in abandoning, they will be planted in the middle of a dark sea so stormy that even the sharks stay put and won't surface.

To shoot down the target, they had to get very close; Sometimes they also passed by without finding it. The firing range was short, and the armament - radar-guided or heat-guided missile - was simply chosen according to who was able to lock on the target. The thermal signature of the UAV is also very low.

But despite everything, the pilots strove for contact, managed to reach and intercept more and more UAVs on their way to Israel. One pilot, Earl Earhart, eliminated seven Samads - which, in principle, made him the first ace of the American Air Force since the Vietnam War.

Only after the arrival of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower to the scene, with its huge jet assembly, did the Bataan came down from formation. Since then, dozens of Yemeni drones have been intercepted by ships and planes more suitable than the geriatric Harrier.

For dessert, I want to talk about the American assistance in this story: in general, even if Earhart and his friends had missed a Houthi drone, there was a very high chance that the IDF would have been able to stop it before it reached Eilat; In the south, an F35 squadron of the Israeli Air Force is stationed, with excellent crews that have already managed to intercept such daring flyers more than once before.

But at the beginning of the war, all our forces were stretched to the limit with attacks in the Gaza Strip and later also in Lebanon, and any help we received was a real blessing. And in addition, we must appreciate people who are willing to risk their lives for Israel; Since the beginning of the Gaza war, three American crew members have been killed in a rescue mission of a vessel, and another five in a helicopter crash.

The American pilot in the cockpit does not think about geopolitics and interests, about Biden's goals or foreign relations; He just gets into his Taranta*, motivates and fights for us simply because he has to - and for that, he deserves thanks and appreciation.

Take care of yourselves, be alert and we will win."

Nittany Sadan for Calcalist

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*Google Translated it as "truck". A "Taranta" is Hebrew/Israeli for "run down, old, used and battered, from two centuries ago vehicle. But it starts, so its ok".

God Bless America, as far as I'm concerned, and congratulations to the new US Ace, Earl Earhart. For some reason, mainstream media like Forbes and Co are digging in that that's not true/drones aren't jets, it doesn't count etc. My god, can't you guys just have a hero?

#bataan #US #aircraft carrier #Houthies #israel #war #pilots #article #Hebrew to English with Google Translate and editing by me and my god did i have to edit #ace pilot #airborne warfare #Harrier #7th october

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bllsbailey · 3 months

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Political Pressure Builds on Biden to Strike Iran After US Deaths

The killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more Sunday by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he's been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.

Biden's response options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.

American forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.

But until Sunday's attack on a remote outpost known as Tower 22 near Jordan's northeastern border with Syria, the strikes had not killed U.S. troops nor wounded so many. That allowed Biden the political space to mete out U.S. retaliation, inflicting costs on Iran-backed forces without risking a direct war with Tehran.

Biden said the United States would respond, without giving any more details.

Republicans accused Biden of letting American forces become sitting ducks, waiting for the day when a drone or missile would evade base defenses. They say that day came Sunday, when a single one-way attack drone struck near base barracks early in the morning.

In response, they say Biden must strike Iran.

"He left our troops as sitting ducks," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said. "The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran's terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East."

The Republican who leads the U.S. military oversight committee in the House, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., also called for action against Tehran.

"It's long past time for President Biden to finally hold the terrorist Iranian regime and their extremist proxies accountable for the attacks they've carried out," Rogers said.

Former President Donald Trump, who hopes to face off against Biden in this year's presidential election, portrayed the attack as a "consequence of Joe Biden's weakness and surrender."

The Biden administration has said that it goes to great lengths to protect U.S. troops around the world.

One Democrat openly voiced concern that Biden's strategy of containing the Israel-Hamas conflict to Gaza was failing.

"As we see now, it is spiraling out of control. It's beginning to emerge as a regional war, and unfortunately the United States and our troops are in harms way," Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., said, renewing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian war.

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Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine, urged against Republican calls for war, saying "deterrence is hard; war is worse.”

"To the chicken hawks calling for war with Iran, you're playing into the enemy's hands—and I’d like to see you send your sons and daughters to fight," Moulton said. "We must have an effective, strategic response on our terms and our timeline."

Experts caution that any strikes against Iranian forces inside Iran could force Tehran to respond forcefully, escalating the situation in a way that could drag the United States into a major Middle East war.

Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, said striking directly inside Iran would raise questions for Tehran about regime survival.

"When you do things overtly you represent a major escalation for the Iranians," Lord said.

Charles Lister of the Washington-based Middle East Institute said a likely response would be to go after a significant target or high-value militant from Iran-backed groups in Iraq or Syria.

"What happened this morning, was on a totally different level than anything these proxies have done in the past two to three months... (but) despite all of the calls to do something in Iran, I don't see this administration taking that bait," Lister said.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear what the second and third order effects would be in going after Iran.

"Unless the U.S. prepared for an all out war, what does attacking Iran get us," the official said.

Still, Lord and other experts acknowledge that Israel had hit Iranian targets in Syria for years, without dissuading Iran, including four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials in Damascus on Jan. 20.

The United States has also struck Iranian-linked targets outside of Iran in recent months. In November, the U.S. military said it struck a facility used not only by Iran-backed group but also by the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.

But Lister said the U.S. had gone after Iranians outside of Iran in the past, like the 2020 strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, and only yielded a response during a limited period of time.

"So to an extent, if you go hard enough and high enough, we have a track record of showing that Iran can blink first," Lister said.

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wisestudentpeanut · 5 months

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eng8b24 · 6 months

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October 7 was not the beginning. Something go wrong with this deal?

Look at the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) extension into the sea controlled by Hamas. There are other gas sources within the occupied West Bank.

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eretzyisrael · 3 years

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Some of the French Jews that were interviewed for this article asked not to be mentioned by name. Even though what they said is published in Israel, in Hebrew, they are afraid that their neighbors or co-workers would find out and trouble would ensue. Others were cautious in how they expressed themselves and could not speak their mind freely. That alone is enough to make one understand the feeling of terror French Jews experience daily.

Many admitted they don't see a bright future in France. The country, in their opinion, is already in a civil war. It is being waged by the French and Muslims, and it will only get worse. Some 60,000 French Jews have already immigrated to the Jewish state in recent years, and thousands more moved to the United States, Britain, and Australia. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic prompted even more Jews to look for options elsewhere.

And yet, many also said they felt like a civil war was lurking around the corner in Israel as well. They feel trapped.

Nicole (pseudonym) is in her early 50s. She has been working for many years in a prominent French media outlet. The media's deliberate disregard of the Halimi case is something she experienced personally.

"For four years, the media did not deal with the murder at all. We did not call on investigations. We did not write opinions on it. There was complete silence on the affair. The public media has a way of thinking that makes certain subjects invisible. It's a kind of censorship that has taken over our work without anyone having said anything to us officially.

"In editorial meetings, each time, a different reason came up as to why the affair should not be addressed. First, because it happened around the presidential elections, they said they didn't want to strengthen Marine Le Pen and her political party out of fear that she would win. Then they said they weren't sure that the murder had antisemitic motives.

"After President [Emmanuel] Macron himself announced that the murder stemmed from antisemitism, they said that experts should be the ones to determine whether the killer was in a psychotic state or not, and that professionals did not disagree on the matter. It felt like the approach was dictated by those in charge.

"A few days ago, out of nowhere, we received instructions to emphasize the large number of casualties in the Gaza Strip compared to the low number in Israel, especially the number of Palestinian children injured. People who work in the news don't even dare to write articles on what's going on on the Israeli side, because they know that they will immediately be labeled as "fascists," especially if you are Jewish.

"Nor do they dare offer articles about the war that is already being waged in the suburbs [of Paris] by immigrant communities, the assaults on policemen, and the threat to their lives and the lives of their families.

"In the last few years, there emerged a private kind of media, especially TV channels, that do report these things and have an open dialogue about what is happening in France, including the Halimi case and its serious consequences. Two parallel worlds have been created: the public media that ignores reality and a few [private] media outlets that reflect reality and are growing more and more popular."

#france #jews #aliyah #isreal #muslims #emmanuel macron

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kittesencula · 2 years

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Francesco Cito

Born in Naples in 1949, he moved to London in 1972 to devote himself to photography, although in the early 1970s he adapted to the most varied professions. His professional debut in the world of photography took place in 1975, when - thanks to his employment at the pop-rock weekly Radio Guide Magazine - he began touring England photographing concerts and pop music characters. Later he began to collaborate as a free-lance photographer for The Sunday Times Magazine, which dedicated to him the first cover for the reportage "La Mattanza". Later he also collaborates with L'Observer Magazine.

In 1980 Cito was one of the first photojournalists to clandestinely reach Afghanistan occupied by the invasion of the Red Army and, following various guerrilla groups fighting the Soviets, he traveled about 1200 KM on foot. His photographs of the first Red Star soldiers who were ambushed.

In 1982-83 he made a report on the Camorra in Naples, published by the major national and foreign newspapers. Also in Naples in 1978 he made a report on cigarette smuggling from within the smuggling organization for The Sunday Times Magazine.

In 1983 he was sent to the Lebanese front from the Weekly Era and follows the ongoing conflict between the Palestinian factions, represented by the pro-Syrian leader Abu Mussa and the nationalist Yasser Arafat, founder of Al-Fatah (Organization for the Liberation of Palestine). Cito is the only photo-journalist to document the fall of Beddawi (refugee camp), Arafat's last stronghold in Lebanon. He later documents the various phases of the Lebanese civil war up to 1989.

In particular, in 1984 he devoted himself to the conditions of the Palestinian people within the occupied territories of the West Bank (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip. He follows all the phases of the first "Intifada" of the years 1987-1993 and of the second in the period 2000-2005, being wounded three times during the clashes.

In 1989 he was sent to Afghanistan on the Friday of the Republic and still moves clandestinely in the wake of the "Mujahideen" to tell the story of the Soviet retreat. He will return to those areas again in 1998 sent by the weekly Panorama, with the intention of meeting Osama Bin Laden (meeting never happened due to the start of the bombing).

In 1990 he was in Saudi Arabia in the first "Gulf War" following the first contingent of US Marines after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It follows the whole process of the "Desert Storm" operation and the liberation of Kuwait (February 27-28, 1991).

In the 90s he documents the different phases of the Balkan conflicts.

In 1994 he made a report on the extremist Israeli settlers for the German weekly "Stern".

In 1995 he won the third World Press Photo prize for the reportage with "Neapolitan weddings".

In April 2002 he was among the few to enter the Jenin refugee camp under curfew and siege for 40 days by the Israeli "Tzahal" army (as well as other cities administered by the Palestinian Autonomy Government).

In Italy Francesco Cito often deals with mafia cases, but also with other kinds of events (such as the Palio di Siena which earned him the first prize at the World Press Photo in 1996) and other relevant aspects of contemporary society.

From 1997 onwards, the goal is also aimed at Sardinia, documented outside the tourist itineraries to better read its social aspects and restore an identity more linked to traditions. This work is partly enclosed in a dedicated photo-book ("L'Isola al di là del mare", 2003).

In 2007 he was invited by the Sakhalin Governorate (Russian islands former penal colony told by Chekhov) for a photographic work on the territory, during which he illustrates the life and production activities following the discovery of huge oil fields. This work has been the subject of a photographic exhibition and a photo book on the subject published in Russia ("Sakhalin", 2007).

Between 2005 and 2011 he carried out a documentary work in Palestine of the various phases of the construction of the Israeli wall, subsequently exhibited in various Italian cities.

In 2011 he dedicated himself to documenting the conditions of Palestinian children suffering from deafness problems. This work too has been the subject of a photographic exhibition (in Bergamo), like the complex work on the coma theme (“Vite suspended”), still under construction, exhibited several times in various Italian locations.

In 2015, the Author created the photographic exhibition "Color W&B" in Seravezza (Lucca), a retrospective of the many reportages conducted over the years in various countries around the world. On the occasion of this exhibition, he produces the book "Francesco Cito, Photographer", accompanied by texts by Ferdinando Scianna and Carlo Verdelli.

In his long and intense career as a photojournalist, Francesco Cito has collaborated with the major national and foreign newspapers. To name a few: Era, People, The Friday of the Republic, Italian Illustration, L'Espresso, L'Europeo, Oggi, Panorama, Sette-Corriere della Sera, D Donna, Io Donna. And then: Die Zeit Magazine, Figaro Magazine, Frankfurten Allemain Magazine, Life, Paris Matche, The Independent Magazine, The Observer Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, and more.

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Growing Worse by the Day (Prophecy Update)

By Daymond Duck Published on: September 5, 2021

Things seem to be growing worse by the day, and many students of Bible prophecy believe that is exactly what will happen at the end of the age.

It is bittersweet: Bitter because it signifies that the world is approaching the Tribulation Period, and sweet because it signifies that Jesus is coming soon to straighten things out.

Here are some of the events that recently got this writer’s attention:

One, when the U.S. started withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. turned over some of its military bases to the Afghan government, the Afghan government collapsed, the Taliban took over the nation, and the Taliban freed thousands of captured ISIS troops from Afghan prisons (confirmed by the Pentagon on Aug. 27, 2021).

On Aug. 25, 2021, a group of Islamic State terrorists (called ISIS-K) exploded bombs at the airport in Kabul that killed 12 U.S. Marines, 1 U.S. Navy officer, 169 Afghan citizens, and injured more than 200 other people (U.S. troops, women, children, etc.).

On Aug. 26, prophecy teacher Amir Tsarfati said the U.S. and U.K. were warned several hours before the attack that one was coming.

Tsarfati said Biden sent the CIA to strike a deal with the Taliban to pay tens of millions of dollars (they would call it international aid or something like that instead of a ransom) to allow U.S. citizens passage to the airport.

According to Tsarfati, some officials believe the Taliban then started obstructing those trying to get to the airport because the Taliban would get more international aid/ransom for many hostages than they would get for a few hostages.

The Biden administration then said it had credible information that there would be more terrorist attacks, and it started warning U.S. citizens not to go to the airport (even though they had just 3 days to get there before the Aug. 31 deadline).

Think about this: the Biden administration was relying on a terrorist organization called the Taliban (that released thousands of ISIS terrorists from prison) to protect our troops and citizens from a terrorist attack.

When a U.S. Marine battalion commander created and posted a video criticizing our leaders and demanding accountability for the death of the Marines and Navy officer, he was relieved of his command.

Our leaders (under the influence of the shadow government) are:

The ones that gave the names, addresses and biometric I.D. information on U.S. citizens and our Afghan allies to the Taliban terrorists.

The ones that abandoned billions of dollars of weapons to the terrorist Taliban and won’t protect our border with Mexico.

The ones that turned hundreds of thousands of guns over to the terrorist Taliban and want to take guns away from U.S. citizens (don’t forget that former Pres. Obama also gave guns to the Mexican drug cartels).

The ones that are bussing and flying unvaccinated immigrants with Covid-19 into our nation and want to force U.S. citizens to be vaccinated or lose their job.

The ones that we are trusting to defend our homeland from terrorists, a North Korea EMP attack, a sneak attack by China, etc.

Who will protect America from the Shadow government and their Antichrist?

If the Biden administration would give the names, addresses and biometric I.D. information of U.S. citizens to Taliban terrorists, why wouldn’t they give that, or vaccination records, or any other information to the head of a world government?

Two, concerning deceit: Biden said, “It is unlikely the Taliban will take over Afghanistan.” (The Taliban took over Afghanistan.)

Biden said, “No Americans will be left behind.” (Americans have been left behind). On Aug. 30, 2021, Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command, said hundreds (perhaps in the low hundreds) of Americans have been left behind, but others said it could be thousands.

Biden’s campaign slogan was “Build Back Better.” (Afghanistan has been destroyed, and the women in a nation of 35 million people have been enslaved).

Biden also said the election was fair, the vaccinations work, etc.?

This reminds me of the king that wore no clothes and no one would tell him.

Update One: On Aug. 31, 2021, it was reported that the Taliban is already going from house to house and executing people.

Update Two: On Aug. 31, 2021, a video was posted of the Taliban flying a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter over Kandahar with a body hanging below it.

Update Three: On Aug. 31, 2021, it was reported that 90 U.S. Generals and Admirals have signed a letter calling for the resignation of Sec. of State Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley for botching the Afghanistan pull out. (Biden calls it a great success.)

Three, it is being reported that the shadow government and their Democrat puppets are between a rock and a hard place with Pres. Biden.

With 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, the U.S. Senate is split, and Vice-Pres. Kamala Harris can break ties by casting the deciding vote.

If Biden dies or is removed, Harris will replace Biden, and the power to break tie votes (including a vote on anyone that is nominated to replace Harris) will switch from Harris to Mitch McConnell (and control of the U.S. Senate will switch from Harris and the Democrats to McConnell and the Republicans).

This could threaten the Democrats’ entire agenda, so the shadow government must keep Biden in office if they can.

Four, concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog, on Aug. 25, 2021, the head of Israel’s Defense Forces said Israel has speeded up its plans to deal with Iran’s nuclear program, and money has been budgeted to address the issue.

He added that a team has been assembled to prepare for a strike should one be ordered by the Israeli government.

Five, also concerning the Battle of Gog and Magog: on Aug. 27, 2021, Israeli Prime Min. Naftali Bennett met with Pres. Biden at the White House.

Advance reporting indicated that Biden would ask Bennett for two things: 1) A freeze on all settlement construction, and 2) A promise not to attack Iran without U.S. permission.

Said reporting indicated that Bennett would tell Biden the U.S. must immediately deal with Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons, or Israel will.

It is obvious that Israel is preparing to strike Iran in the coming weeks if the U.S. and others fail to act.

It is also obvious that Biden hasn’t been told what the Bible says about this, or he doesn’t remember it, or he doesn’t believe it.

This doesn’t bode well for the U.S.

Update One: Following the meeting, it was reported that Bennett told reporters:

“These very days (a reference to what is happening in Afghanistan) illustrate what the world would look like if a radical Islamic regime acquired a nuclear weapon; that marriage would be a nuclear nightmare for the entire world.”

“We (Israel) will never outsource our security” (never turn control of Israel’s security over to the U.S.).”

Update Two: On Aug. 30, 2021, Israel 365News reported that Biden nodded off to sleep while Bennett was talking during their meeting (it is on video).

These are perilous times, and anyone that says Pres. Biden is qualified to lead the U.S./free world is lying or uninformed.

It is likely that the calls to revise or reset global governance (replace Biden with leaders from a handful of nations; ten) will soon grow louder.

Update Three: On Aug. 30, prophecy teacher Amir Tsarfati reported that Iran has decided that America is weak and will now go “full-blown nuclear.”

He added that Iran is now “openly enriching uranium to 90%.”

Six, concerning war between Israel and her neighbors: on Aug. 29, 2021, the head of Israel’s Defense Forces said, “The IDF is preparing, with a concerted effort, for the possibility of another operation (war) in Gaza.”

His statement followed the launching of several incendiary balloons and rockets into Israel and two weeks of violent protests.

Another war in Gaza could lead to several prophesied wars.

Seven, concerning perilous times (also the Kings of the East): on Aug. 30, 2021, prophecy teacher Amir Tsarfati noted that “China just announced that any vessel, whether it is above the water or under the water, that is entering into Chinese territorial waters or the disputed waters in the South China Sea with Japan and the Philippines must report to the Chinese.”

Many officials believe the disputed waters that China is claiming are international waters, meaning China’s claim is illegal.

Tsarfati added, “While everybody is watching the incompetence of America, (Russia, Turkey, Iran, China and No. Korea) are willing to make a move.”

Eight, concerning the Mark of the Beast and a global tracking system, on Aug. 30, 2021, it was reported that the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging its member nations to “roll out a global digital information system to check if people are vaccinated against Covid-19.”

The WHO wants its member nations to force this system on all other nations, and it wants people that have been vaccinated (and are in this global system) to have benefits that others that are not in it won’t have.

This would be a major step toward a global medical dictatorship.

Nine, concerning a falling away in the Church: Harvard University was founded under Church sponsorship in 1636 to train Puritan pastors. On Aug. 26, 2021, it was reported that the president of Harvard’s organization of Chaplains is an atheist, meaning Harvard has a Chaplain that doesn’t believe in the existence of God.

If the elite that control a prestigious, once-Christian university are willing to allow a Chaplain that doesn’t believe in the existence of God, why is it so difficult to believe that other elite want to establish a godless world government and religion?

If their Chaplain doesn’t believe what the Bible says about God, why should he believe what the Bible says about Satan, the Antichrist, or anything else, and why should any true Church want a pastor that was educated at that institution?

By the way, it is being reported that, as things now stand, universities cannot force student organizations on campus to have pro-LGBTQ officers, pro-abortion officers, etc., but the Biden administration is considering ways to change that.

Ten, on Aug. 27, 2021, LifeSiteNews reported that the head of the Tokyo Medical Association announced that Ivermectin “seems to be effective at stopping COVID-19 and publicly recommended that all doctors in Japan immediately begin using Ivermectin to treat COVID.”

Currently, America’s shadow government, in collusion with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), big pharma, the social media, and others, is suppressing the use of Ivermectin.

Why would these groups suppress the use of an inexpensive, effective drug that will stop Covid and save lives?

Could the belief that Covid is a created crisis that has been designed to reduce the population of the earth, control people, bring in a world government, make the rich richer, etc., be true?

Eleven, on Aug. 21, 2021, it was reported that less than one-third of the people that have died from the Delta variant in the U.K. (Feb. 1, 2021, to Aug. 2021) have been people that were unvaccinated. (Two-thirds of the people that have died from the Delta Variant in the U.K. are people that have been vaccinated).

Put another way, the U.K. data is showing that vaccinated people are more likely to die from the Delta Variant than unvaccinated people.

Twelve, concerning deceit: on Aug. 30, 2021, it was reported that about two dozen nurses told people at a town hall meeting in Minnesota that adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccination are being underreported, and one nurse said her friends at other hospitals are saying the same thing.

Thirteen, according to the Bible, the Euphrates River will dry up during the Tribulation Period to prepare the way for the Kings of the East (Rev. 16:12).

On Aug. 31, 2021, it was reported that the Euphrates River is drying up fast and barely running for a distance of about 1,700 miles.

Different officials are blaming Climate Change, drought, and Turkey for building dams on the river and holding back too much water.

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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Friday, June 4, 2021

America’s Biggest Companies (Fortune) Fortune magazine released its annual ranking of America’s largest companies, with Walmart topping the list for the ninth straight year. Boosted by the pandemic-driven consumer shift to online and bulk purchasing, the retail behemoth brought in nearly $560B in revenue. The company was followed by Amazon ($386B in revenue), Apple ($275B), CVS Health ($269B), and UnitedHealth Group ($257B). The combined list generated almost $14T in revenue last year—about two-thirds of the US economy.

Drought ravages California’s reservoirs ahead of hot summer (AP) Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires. But now the mighty lake—a linchpin in a system of aqueducts and reservoirs in the arid U.S. West that makes California possible—is shrinking with surprising speed amid a severe drought, with state officials predicting it will reach a record low later this summer. While droughts are common in California, this year’s is much hotter and drier than others, evaporating water more quickly from the reservoirs and the sparse Sierra Nevada snowpack that feeds them. The state’s more than 1,500 reservoirs are 50% lower than they should be this time of year, according to Jay Lund, co-director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California-Davis. If Lake Oroville falls below 640 feet (195 meters)—which it could do by late August—state officials would shut down a major power plant for just the second time ever because of low water levels, straining the electrical grid during the peak demand of the hottest part of the summer.

Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change (NYT) Three years ago, not long after Hurricane Irma left parts of Miami underwater, the federal government embarked on a study to find a way to protect the vulnerable South Florida coast from deadly and destructive storm surge. Already, no one likes the answer. Build a wall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed in its first draft of the study, now under review. Six miles of it, in fact, mostly inland, running parallel to the coast through neighborhoods—except for a one-mile stretch right on Biscayne Bay, past the gleaming sky-rises of Brickell, the city’s financial district. The dramatic $6 billion proposal remains tentative and at least five years off. But the startling suggestion of a massive sea wall up to 20 feet high cutting across beautiful Biscayne Bay was enough to jolt some Miamians to attention: The hard choices that will be necessary to deal with the city’s many environmental challenges are here, and few people want to face them. The trouble is that the magnitude of the interconnected obstacles the region faces can feel overwhelming, and none of the possible solutions are cheap, easy or pretty.

A deadly vote (Washington Post) TAXCO, Mexico—Mario Figueroa sat in his armored SUV, surrounded by bodyguards clutching semiautomatic rifles. The bulletproof vest was stashed behind the back seat. These days, Figueroa rarely travels without his security team. As a candidate for mayor of this Spanish colonial city—once popular with American tourists, now lashed by drug violence—the 53-year-old businessman has already taken a bullet in the chest. Mexico is in the final days of one of its most violent electoral campaigns in modern times. Eighty-nine politicians have been killed since September, according to the security consulting firm Etellekt. Scores more have been wounded or threatened. The campaign has become a stark illustration of crime organizations’ quest to expand their control of Mexico’s territory. The violence has focused largely on races for mayor and other local government posts. “They want control of the police, control of public works projects, the budget, and illicit activities,” said Marcial Rodríguez Saldaña, the state leader of Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “We’ve reached an extreme,” Figueroa said.

US troops storm sunflower oil factory in Bulgaria (Foreign Policy) The owner of a sunflower oil factory in Bulgaria has taken legal action after U.S. soldiers accidentally stormed his business during a NATO training exercise. The mix-up occurred while soldiers were simulating the clearing of an airfield in southern Bulgaria, and continued on to Marin Dimitrov’s factory, where workers watched on as gun-wielding soldiers stalked through the premises. The incident has led to a rebuke from the highest levels with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev calling it “absolutely unacceptable.” “We always learn from these exercises and are fully investigating the cause of this mistake,” the U.S. embassy in Sofia said in a statement.

Beijing Introduces Three-Child Policy (Foreign Policy) On Monday, China announced that married couples would be allowed to have up to three children, raising the official two-child limit in a widely anticipated move. Despite government hopes, the introduction of the two-child policy in 2016 failed to produce a baby boom. It’s unlikely the latest policy change will affect China’s fertility rate, either. The public has responded with mocking contempt toward the idea that government restraints have held parents back from having more children, rather than the exorbitant costs of child rearing in China—from migrant families forced to pay fees for local public schools to upper-class parents who fear their children will fall behind without flute or calligraphy lessons. So why keep a limit on the number of children a couple can have at all? One reason is to provide cover for the ongoing forced sterilization of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, whose birthrate fell by nearly 50 percent between 2017 and 2020. Another is that China now has an enormous family planning bureaucracy that supports many jobs. Party leaders may also be concerned that the rich flaunting large families—such as late Macao casino tycoon Stanley Ho, known for his four wives and 17 children—would spark resentment.

Lebanese leaders exchange barbs as country sinks into crisis (AP) Lebanon’s president and prime minister-designate traded barbs Wednesday, accusing one another of obstruction, negligence and insolence in a war or words that has for months obstructed the formation of a new government as the country sinks deeper into economic and financial crisis. The power struggle between the premier-designate, Saad Hariri, on one side and President Michel Aoun and his son-in-law Gebran Bassil on the other, has worsened despite warnings from world leaders and economic experts of the dire economic conditions tiny Lebanon is facing. The World Bank on Tuesday said Lebanon’s crisis is one of the worst the world has seen in the past 150 years. In a late night burst of anger, protesters blocked main roads in Beirut and north of the capital. A young activist told a local TV station the protest was against the constant humiliation of Lebanese who line up to fill their cars with fuel, increasing power cuts, search for medicine and deal with confused banking decisions that are robbing thousands of their savings. The Lebanese pound, pegged to the dollar for 30 years at 1,507, has been in a free fall since late 2019. It is now trading at nearly 13,000 to the dollar at the black market.

Netanyahu opponents reach coalition deal to oust Israeli PM (AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced Wednesday that they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the longtime Israeli leader. The dramatic announcement by opposition leader Yair Lapid and his main coalition partner, Naftali Bennett, came shortly before a midnight deadline and prevented what could have been Israel’s fifth consecutive election in just over two years. The agreement still needs to be approved by the Knesset, or parliament, in a vote that is expected to take place early next week. If it goes through, Lapid and a diverse array of partners that span the Israeli political spectrum will end Netanyahu’s record-setting but divisive 12-year rule. Netanyahu, desperate to remain in office while he fights corruption charges, is expected to do everything possible in the coming days to prevent the new coalition from taking power. If he fails, he will be pushed into the opposition. (Foreign Policy) While a new government is not yet set in stone, normal business carries on: Benny Gantz arrives in Washington today to request $1 billion in emergency military aid in order to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome defenses and help restock its bomb supply following the bombardment of Gaza. “I would imagine that the administration would say yes to this request and it will sail through Congress,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday.

In Syria camp, forgotten children are molded by IS ideology (AP) At the sprawling al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, children pass their days roaming the dirt roads, playing with mock swords and black banners in imitation of Islamic State group militants. Few can read or write. For some, the only education is from mothers giving them IS propaganda. It has been more than two years since the Islamic State group’s self-declared “caliphate” was brought down. And it has been more than two years that some 27,000 children have been left to languish in al-Hol camp, which houses families of IS members. Most of them not yet teenagers, they are spending their childhood in a limbo of miserable conditions with no schools, no place to play or develop, and seemingly no international interest in resolving their situation. Only one institution is left to mold them: remnants of the Islamic State group. Kurdish authorities and aid groups fear the camp will create a new generation of militants. They are pleading with home countries to take the women and children back. The problem is that home governments often see the children as posing a danger rather than as needing rescue.

��Come On In, Boys’: A Wave of the Hand Sets Off Spain-Morocco Migrant Fight (NYT) Daouda Faye, a 25-year-old migrant from Senegal, was elated when he heard that Moroccan border guards had suddenly started waving in undocumented migrants across the border to Ceuta, a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the North African coast. “‘Come on in, boys,’” the guards told him and others as they reached the border on May 17, Mr. Faye said. Normally, Morocco tightly controls the fenced borders around Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that Spain has governed since the 1600s. But now its military was allowing migrants into this toehold of Europe. Over the next two days, as many as 12,000 people flowed over the border to Ceuta in hopes of reaching mainland Spain, engulfing the city of 80,000. The crisis has laid bare the unique pressure point Morocco has over Spain on migration. Spanish government officials and other experts say Morocco increasingly sees the migrants as a kind of currency and is leveraging its control over them to extract financial and political prizes from Spain. Hours after the migrants began pouring into Ceuta, Spain approved 30 million euros, about $37 million, in aid to Morocco for border policing.

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says (NPR) Military-grade autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. Such weapons are known to be in development, but until recently there were no reported cases of autonomous drones killing fighters on the battlefield. Now, a United Nations report about a March 2020 skirmish in the military conflict in Libya says such a drone, known as a lethal autonomous weapons system—or LAWS—has made its wartime debut. But the report does not say explicitly that the LAWS killed anyone. The assault came during fighting between the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord and forces aligned with Gen. Khalifa Haftar, according to the report by the U.N. Panel of Experts on Libya. “Logistics convoys and retreating [Haftar-affiliated forces] were subsequently hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems such as the STM Kargu-2 ... and other loitering munitions,” the panel wrote. The Kargu-2 is an attack drone made by the Turkish company STM that can be operated both autonomously and manually and that purports to use “machine learning” and “real-time image processing” against its targets.

#headlines #news

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News Roundup 8/28/20

by Kyle Anzalone

US News

A Florida woman will get $4.6 million from the state after prison guards beat her until she was paralyzed. [Link]

New Jersey police vandalized the car of a man who filed a complaint against the department. The car’s tires were smashed, and windows were broken. [Link]

The US is seeking to seize 280 crypto accounts it says are linked to North Korea hacks. [Link]

Europe

Greece and Egypt sign a new deal for marine boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier in the year, Turkey signed a marine boundaries deal with Libya that divided up the sea. The borders in the opposing agreements overlap. [Link]

Japan

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe steps down, citing his health. [Link]

Afghanistan

A Taliban official contradicts the Afghan government and says no peace talks are planned for early September. [Link]

A roadside bomb killed thirteen people in Afghanistan. [Link]

Israel

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured Middle East states hoping others would follow the UAE in making a deal with Israel. Sudan and Bahrain rejected the idea, and Oman is not making any public statements on the matter. [Link]

Israel continues to drop bombs on Gaza. Israel reports the bombs are in response to rockets and flaming balloons launched by Hamas. [Link]

#kyle anzalone #immersion news #libertarian institute #news roundup

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Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times.

Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.

In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing.

These Iranian appendages have made a number of unfortunately correct assumptions about America in general and the Biden administration in particular.

They have all but shut down the Red Sea as an international shipping route—damaging Europe, Egypt, and Israel, which all depend on Red Sea commerce for vital imports and exports.

Now they are terrified of a theater-wide conflict breaking out during an election year—a fact known to all of America’s Middle East enemies.

When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.

#victor davis hanson #government corruption #media bias

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Two years were wasted on this investigation to find out what most people already knew.

Senate Finds No Direct Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion

And look who else was cleared.

Investigation Clears Covington Catholic Students, “No Evidence of Offensive or Racist Statements”

Now let’s look at some real collusion.

Andrew McCabe: DOJ considered how to remove Trump under 25th Amendment after Comey firing

Alan Dershowitz: Yes, Using the 25th Amendment to Oust Trump is an Attempted Coup

Here we go.

Trump will sign omnibus, then declare National Emergency to get border wall built

Trump Declares National Emergency to Stop ‘Invasion of Our Country With Drugs, Human Traffickers’

No jobs for you!

Ocasio-Cortez Victory: Amazon Won’t Build Headquarters in New York City

Amazon, Others Rip Into Ocasio-Cortez After Company Flees NYC Deal, Taking 25k Jobs With It

It didn’t work.

Minnesota Jewish Leaders Attempted an Intervention With Ilhan Omar Last Year

Lovely.

Report: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Penned Column for Anti-Semitic Farrakhan Publication in 2006

The truth comes out.

Democrats Come Out in Support of Taking Down Existing Border Barriers

Surprise!

Antifa Mobster Arrested for Allegedly Taking Part in the Assault of Two Marines Was a Go-To Democrat Activist

World news.

India Vows Revenge After Deadly Islamist Terror Attack

Report: Egypt pumped deadly gas into tunnel between Gaza and Sinai, killing two

EU Election: Study Says Right-Wing Gains Could ‘Paralyze’ the Bloc

Branco cartoons!

Branco Cartoon – Justice for Some

Branco Cartoon – Blowhard

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Islamic Separatism in France

photo from AFP. "Palestinian demonstrators lift flags and placards during rally to protest comments of French President Emmanuel Macron in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Oct.25, 2020"

A controversial issue that France has been dealing with is Islamic separatism. Islamic separatism is “the effort of the government to “reinforce the country's traditional embrace of secular identity” (Griffin, 2021) says writer Cailey Griffin. On February 16th, 2021, France’s controversial bill against separatism was approved. This bill “plans to crack down on online hate speech and foreign funding for religious groups” (Tidey, 2021), more specifically Muslim religious groups. The idea for the bill was conceptualized after two terrorist attacks, one beheading of a teacher by an 18 year old Muslim extremist and what French officials think was an Islamic terrorist attack at a church in Nice. Both these attacks completely freaked out the country which led to the country believing they would be under attack if Islamic people were not monitored. Macron believed a “enlightenment of Islam” was necessary. He described this as Islam being “at peace with the republic” which he described as “a renewed fight against radicalism and challenges to the nation’s secular ideals” (Onishi, Meheut, 2021). The Minister of the Interior of France, Gerald Darmanin, called Muslim citizens “the enemy within”. Populist front runner against Macron for the upcoming presidential election in 7 weeks, Marine Le Pen believes that “Islamism is a bellicose ideology whose means of conquest is terrorism” (Le Pen, Nossiter, 2020). Another front runner for the election, Eric Zemmour told France Inter Radio that “French people who are Muslims must live in the French way and not consider that Sharia Law is superior to the laws of the Republic” (Zemmour, 2022). It is clear that there is not much support for Islamic citizens and their freedom/rights in the current government. Right now, the politicians in power have a sense of nativism that they want to preserve, and this bill does exactly that.

The bill has been criticized for stigmatizing the Muslim community. The bill plans to “crack down on online hate speech and foreign funding of religious groups (Tidey, 2021). They have closed down mosques, proposed to ban Muslim groups the governments deems are “extremists” and have discussed getting rid of ethnic food in grocery stores. Macron has also promised to end homeschooling, bringing in foreign imams, abolish the virginity certificate, and any Islamic citizen who wishes to continue to receive government subsides must profess their allegiance to republican principals. The Prime Minister of France, Jean Castex claims that the bill is “not a text against religions, not against the Muslim religion in particular, it's a law of emancipation in the face of religious fanaticism” (Castex,McAuley, 2020), but Islamic citizens do not feel the same way.

Many Islamic citizens don't feel safe in France anymore in fear of what the consequences of the hostile bill may be. Islamic French citizen Mehdy Belabbas says he is “wondering if I should leave France” (Belabbas, Meheut, 2020). He says he doesn't “know what is expected of us… as Muslims, we pay the damages of those two forms of extremism [two terrorist attacks]” (Belabbas, Meheut, 2020). Another Islamic citizen, Mohamed Akrid, who is the president of Annour, an organization building a new mosque in France, says that “we Muslims are all targeted, we are all likely to be related to this new paradigm of ‘separatism’, that we are all suspected” (Akrid, Meheut, 2020). Rim-Sarah Alouane, an expert in religious freedoms in France says that “the government is not targeting nonreigious forms of separatism -- its clear target is Islam” (Alouane, 2020). Islamic citizens feel threatened and targeted. It effects their everyday life because they feel they can not be authentic if they want to live in France. They can not follow their religion freely. Or, even if they are not religious, they are still targeted for looking a certain way by islamophobic citizens.

Islamic people from the Middle East and Asia are protesting this bill by boycotting French products and holding protest marches against Macron. Macron publicly showed images of Islamic Propher Muhammad, which is offensive to Muslims. There are also protests in France itself, with Islamic and non-islamic people protesting Islamophobia from Macron and the bill. Omar Slaouti, organizer of one of the protests said “The French government has targeted Muslims, even Islam, and is interfering with Islamic practices. This is too much. We condemn the (government’s) colonialists and neo-colonial approach… He (Macron) wants this system to be more unequal. We condemn his liberal and racist policies that deep the inequalities” (Slaouti, 2021). Today, these citizens still do not feel they are being treated equally. With the election coming up, no front running candidates seem to want to change the way Islamic citizens are treated, and if anything want to be stricter with the laws.

Right wing populist political figure Marine Le Pen is extremely supportive of islamic separatism in France. It is one of her main policies that she planned on putting in place if she won the election. She wants heavy immigration control, especially against muslims. She wants to limit 75% of migrants into the country. She wants to focus on prioritizing french citizens. She wants stricter protectionism, more housing for students, and more jobs for French citizens. She is also focused on preserving french culture. She has once said, “People of France! Stand up against those who have so little consideration for the defense of our civilization, who have denigrated your history, your culture, and your traditions, who have made migratory subversion our demographic horizon.” To her, Islams do not follow what she believes French citizens should act or look like. She wants French citizens to “act” French, “look” French, and support all French ideas. She turns this into a populist idea because she expresses that this is what she believes the people of France want. She has an internet army that also spreads this idea. With 3 million followers between Instagram and Twitter alone, she posts all about her ideas and policies which get reposted, seen, liked, commented, and so on within her audience and supporters.

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