|
SVIAZ 2020 Moscow to unleash power of Business Digitization in April 2020 |
6 |
|
MoscowBoys |
4 |
|
Soi keo nha cai hom nay Spartak Moscow vs Italy U20 18h21 ngày 11-9 |
3 |
|
Diễn đàn quốc tế lần thứ 5 Blockchain Life 2020 diễn ra vào ngày 22-23 tháng 4 tại Moscow |
3 |
|
China’s Central Asian Plans Are Unnerving Moscow |
2 |
|
Interlight Moscow powered by LightBuilding 2016 |
2 |
|
From the Archive: New Year’s in 90s Moscow in Photos |
2 |
|
Moscow State University |
2 |
|
Jews Celebrate Hanukkah in Moscow Some Still Can’t Believe It |
2 |
|
Medical Institute Of MEPhi Moscow |
2 |
|
Zarif to make trip to Moscow in few days |
2 |
|
Christmas horror in Moscow as man goes Shooting Spree |
2 |
|
Самая крупная база московских ИТ-решений собрана на ICTMoscow |
2 |
|
CPM-COLLECTION PREMIÈRE MOSCOW 2020 в Москве |
2 |
|
Breaking: Shootout near FSB HQ in Moscow vid |
2 |
|
5th International Forum Blockchain Life 2020 Takes Place on April 22-23 in Moscow |
2 |
|
A Moscow ArtistRussian Federation |
2 |
|
MOSCOW |
2 |
|
Top-20 most anticipated exhibitions in Moscow and St Petersburg this fall |
2 |
|
The Moscow Militia |
1 |
|
Moscow Mule Shake |
1 |
|
Anti-Putin Russian Leader Held Moscow Raid as His Ally Sent to Arctic |
1 |
|
1941: Race to Moscow |
1 |
|
TOUR MÙA THU VÀNG NƯỚC NGA: Hà Nội – Moscow – Saint Petersburg |
1 |
|
Moscow Volvo Club |
1 |
|
قاب گوشی Moscow |
1 |
|
Central Classic /Moscow/ EU-RU |
1 |
|
Moscow Mitch Planning to Railroad Acquittal in Trump’s Senate Trial but May Lose Vulnerable Members More Horrors of GOP Gaslighting Through the Roof: Fox News Concedes 50 Majority of Voters Want Trump Impeached Convicted and Removed! |
1 |
|
Moscow Factory Club |
1 |
|
Why should you visit WorldFood Moscow |
1 |
|
2nd Annual GAR Live Moscow |
1 |
|
WorldFood Moscow – крупнейшая в России осенняя выставка продуктов питания мирового класса |
1 |
|
oneworld’s first branded lounge will open at Moscow Domodedovo airport |
1 |
|
Best Places for Vegan amp Vegetarian Food in Moscow |
1 |
|
AUTOMECHANIKA MOSCOW 2019 |
1 |
|
Mar-Pro Retail Championship Challenge at WorldFood Moscow 2019 |
1 |
|
MOSCOW MISFITS |
1 |
|
SUPER MOSCOW W5 |
1 |
|
Этап мирового тура по кeрлингу среди мужских команд WCT Moscow classic |
1 |
|
In Moscow Saint Petersburg-get the best IT |
1 |
|
Alaska GOP Sen Murkowski “Disturbed” by Moscow Mitch’s Vision of Senate as Abject Rubber Stamp for Defense in Trump’s Acquittal Republican Lockstep Could Break Apart in Face of Exorbitant Demands from White House Four GOPers Plus All Democrats Can Compel Testimony from Bolton Mulvaney Giuliani Pompeo and Others Implicated Leadership Now Needed from Collins Romney Gardner McSally Tillis Alexander |
1 |
|
Aerostar Hotel Moscow |
1 |
|
Blockcahin Life Forum – Moscow RUSIA 16-17 Oct |
1 |
|
33 CPM Moscow – drew to a successful close |
1 |
|
Elton John in Moscow: finalmente dopo 40 anni di attesa |
1 |
|
Приветствуем Вас на сайте MoscowVolvoClub!!!! |
1 |
|
New RampD facility in Moscow Russia |
1 |
|
Two Dead 15 Hurt as Bus on Moscow-Tbilisi Route Overturns |
1 |
|
Dozens of Israelis Detained for Hours at Moscow Airport |
1 |
|
Симфония дизайна «made in Italy»: обзор выставки Salone del Mobile Milano Moscow 2019 |
1 |
|
Команда БГУИР победила на международном фестивале студенческого и молодежного спорта «Moscow Games» |
1 |
|
ilovemoscow |
1 |
|
Gorky Park – Moscow Calling 1992 Japanese Edition |
1 |
|
RUSSIAN DOMINATRIX FEMDOM in Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow Region Debate Academy» |
1 |
|
IHOP-Moscow проведет конференцию для подростков и молодежи |
1 |
|
Top Tourist Attractions In Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow circus on ice |
1 |
|
The Men’s Guide to Moscow Russia Guest Post |
1 |
|
Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Moscow HQ Raided By Police |
1 |
|
Дверные замки в интернет-магазине zamkimoscowru – покупать легко |
1 |
|
24th International Food Exhibition Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow’s water usage down in 2019 despite growth in population |
1 |
|
Stalin’s limo worth 28 million was stolen in Moscow by crew of 6 with tow truck — RT Russia News |
1 |
|
Заказать быстрый качественный доступный ремонт телевизоров в Москве на дом – с помощью LED-TVMOSCOW |
1 |
|
Махмурян К С и др Онлайн-ресурс Учебное пособие для 10-11 кл Москва / Moscow Английский яз |
1 |
|
MosBuild WorldBuild Moscow 2018: 3-6 апреля Москва |
1 |
|
Moscow to build on its smart city credentials |
1 |
|
© 2003-2013 Англо- итало- и франкоязычная ведущая Тамада JULIA Bilingual wedding parties in Moscow All rights reserved |
1 |
|
Ресторан Megu в отеле Lotte Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow: Colorful Architecture Steeped in Military Tradition |
1 |
|
Prepare and Take IELTS in Moscow |
1 |
|
National Library of Moscow is Completed |
1 |
|
PRO RUSSIA MOSCOW STPETERBURG COODLING EVERYDAY 7D5N |
1 |
|
Сообщество проекта moscowwalksru |
1 |
|
NOV 14 – MOSCOW RU – SOLD OUT |
1 |
|
CSKA Moscow – Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade Highlights |
1 |
|
BKC-IH Moscow IELTS Centre in Russia |
1 |
|
Жидкость URBN DRIP SERIES Moscow Splash Ягодный микс |
1 |
|
Minecraft Moscow |
1 |
|
Pay a visit to Moscow |
1 |
|
Выставка «Moscow Fair 2011″ |
1 |
|
Phong độ thi đấu của Spartak Moscow sau 10 lần đối đầu gần đây |
1 |
|
Avangar and ForZe in Vitality out at BLAST Pro Series Moscow – News – CS:GO |
1 |
|
«Ensambles Juveniles Mexicanos» Triunfa en el Festival Internacional «Moscow Meets Friends» |
1 |
|
Podolsk at CSKA Moscow |
1 |
|
Махмурян К С и др Онлайн-ресурс Учебное пособие для 10-11 кл Москва / Moscow Английский язык |
1 |
|
КОМПАНИЯ MOSCOW EVENT |
1 |
|
Please complete the security check to access callboys-moscowru |
1 |
|
Read Three Days in Moscow Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire Three Days Series Bret Baier Catherine Whitney 9780062748430 Books |
1 |
|
2020 Moscow モスクワ・ロシア）に出展致します |
1 |
|
Emails Show Mulvaney’s Underling Duffy of OMB Told Pentagon to Secretly Freeze Aid to Ukraine 90 Minutes After Infamous July 25 Trump-Zelensky Phone Call Senate Trial Must Hear Sworn Testimony from Both 71 of Voters Want Senate Trial with Witnesses Including 64 of Republicans Witnesses Remain Key to Inducing Trump Resignation Moscow Mitch Is One-Man Insurrection Against Constitution! |
1 |
|
Checking your browser before accessing flowers2moscowcom |
1 |
|
Match: Lokomotiv Moscow – Juventus |
1 |
|
Moscow Country Club |
1 |
|
2D Artist Illustrator designer // Moscow |
1 |
|
office: 23A st Signalnij proezd Moscow 127273 RussianPhone/Fax : 7 495 325-26-27e-mail: |
1 |
|
Accused US Spy Paul Whelan Marks a Year in Moscow Prison |
1 |
|
1953 to 1978: Soviet RF-EMR That Was Beamed at US Diplomats living/working in US Embassy in Moscow — Metered at 50000 μW/m² — Linked to Deaths and Illnesses |
1 |
|
CID c/o UNESCO Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow Open-2020 |
1 |
|
Lịch sử gặp nhau giữa Spartak Moscow vs Italy U20 |
1 |
|
Moscow 27th Mar 2020 Up to 100 Participants |
1 |
|
Новогодняя Ярмарка в Москве мы попали в сказку Moscow fair |
1 |
|
Abigail WA British executive living in Moscow |
1 |
|
Letter of Appreciation from the Iran Ministry of Industry Mine and Trade as the best booth at the Moscow World Food Exhibition 2015 |
1 |
|
Radio Moscow Last Drive amp Electric Feat στην τελευταία ημέρα του φεστιβάλ των Αναιρέσεων 2019 videos |
1 |
|
Exhibition on Screens Presents – movies that salute the great artistbolshoi ballet from moscow russia / national theatre live from london |
1 |
|
Насыщенная деловая программа от InDecor Moscow 2017 |
1 |
|
О клубе мафии «Moscow» |
1 |
|
Конференция SEO MOSCOW 2019:ВЗРЫВ ПРОДАЖ ВАШЕГО БИЗНЕСА в ЦДП на Покровке организаторы Batobiz при поддержке ГБУ МБМ |
1 |
|
DU LỊCH NGA: MOSCOW – MURMANSK – SAINT PETERSBURG |
1 |
|
Жидкость URBN Moscow Splash Ягодный микс |
1 |
|
Moscow Nightlife Guide: Bars and Clubs |
1 |
|
Moscow Circus On Ice |
1 |
|
From Moscow to Saint Petersburg |
1 |
|
PRO RUSSIA MOSCOW ZAGORSK BEAUTY OF SNOWFLAKES 5D3N |
1 |
|
Шкаф-куртка оттоманка-туфля диван-губы – эпатажный и ироничный бренд Москино выпустил в свет первую коллекцию Moscow состоялась уже в 23-й раз |
1 |
|
WorldFood Moscow 2018 |
1 |
|
Снеговик 2019 Moscow edition |
1 |
|
Приглашаем на выставку WORLDFOOD MOSCOW |
1 |
|
Bahubali Goes to 39th Moscow International Film Festival |
1 |
|
Amarantes – Lord Sapanos Total War Moscow Mix |
1 |
|
Open Mic Night in Moscow — SIGNED COPY |
1 |
|
Paid-riots: protesters in Moscow and Hong Kong are at the behest |
1 |
|
2 Elite Russian Officers Charged With Killings in Moscow |
1 |
|
Полезные рекомендации мастеров сервисного центра LED-TVMOSCOW |
1 |
|
Police Raid Navalny’s Anti-Corruption HQ In Moscow |
1 |
|
Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow Russia |
1 |
|
С 11 по 13 октября в Москве состоялась 4-я Международная выставка предметов интерьера и декора InDecor Moscow Организатором этого мероприятия выступила Группа компаний ITE лидер рынка выставочных услуг России |
1 |
|
Premium Office Space in Moscow |
1 |
|
Северный 10pogodaru arhpogodaru Spb-pogodaru 35pogodaru kaliningrad-pogodaru pogoda-Moscowru 16pogodaru pogodatverru yar-pogodaru krasnodar-pogodaru kalugapogodaru |
1 |
|
Aquatherm Moscow 2019: 12-15 февраля Москва |
1 |
|
Moscow Mistress Karolina |
1 |
|
Moscow: Gazprom’s 3 billion payment to Ukraine’s Naftogaz is ‘a drop in the ocean’ |
1 |
|
Celebrations Greet Moscow-Simferopol Train After Opening Of Bridge To Crimea |
1 |
|
Moscow Metro Guide |
1 |
|
Moscow Worship BandАльбом — Из глубины — EP |
1 |
|
Выставка производства напитков Beviale Moscow – вся цепочка от сырья и оборудования до упаковки и логистики |
1 |
|
Причины посетить клуб «Moscow» |
1 |
|
5 Russian Restaurants in Moscow to Get Your Borsch and Pelmeni Fix |
1 |
|
Moscow Games 2017 |
1 |
|
Старт открытой регистрации доменов МОСКВА и MOSCOW |
1 |
|
RUSSIA MOSCOW ZAGORSK HAPPY CAVOIR NEW YEAR 2020 5D3N |
1 |
|
Moscow 29th Mar 2020 Up to 100 Participants |
1 |
|
Peter V Moscow ID US 25 |
1 |
|
moscowwalks |
1 |
|
Starts Selling Euro 6 Gasoline at Gas Stations in Moscow and Moscow Region |
1 |
|
Graduation ceremony of Executive MBA took place in the Moscow Kremlin |
1 |
|
Конференция WordCamp Moscow 2017 |
1 |
|
CHESS FEDERATION OF ZAMBIA ANNOUNCES POWERFUL CHESS OLYMPIAD TEAMS FOR MOSCOW… |
1 |
|
Moscow Classic Grand Prix или закрытие сезона |
1 |
|
Welcome to CPM – Collection Première Moscow |
1 |
|
DMANET Moscow Conference on Combinatorics Graph Theory and Applications MoCCA’20 May 11-15 2020 |
1 |
|
Информационные партнеры Beviale Moscow 2020 |
1 |
|
IMA Accredited Centers: Amsterdam Birmingham Dubai Leicester London Madrid Mexico Moscow amp more … |
1 |
|
The Moscow Times |
1 |
|
CHESS FEDERATION OF ZAMBIA ANNOUNCES POWERFUL CHESS OLYMPIAD TEAMS FOR MOSCOW |
1 |
|
1953 to 1978: Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Microwave Radiation RF-EMR Exposure at US Embassy in Moscow |
1 |
|
вчера в 19:37Россия Москва пл Гагарина Russia Moscow Gagarin Square |
1 |
|
Ginger Binge / Moscow Mule |
1 |
|
Проживание для двоих в номере на выбор с завтраками в отеле Mandarin Moscow 4 Скидка до 52 |
1 |
|
Automechanika 2019 Mims Moscow |
1 |
|
Обучающая программа «НИМА PREMIÈRE MOSCOW 2020 в Москве |
1 |
|
A shaman unnerves Vladimir Putin: Shades of Rasputin surround a mystical figure attempting to ply his trade in Moscow |
1 |
|
Get the most perfect experience with an amateur Russian escort in Moscow |
1 |
|
Consular District of the Consulate General of Spain in Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow Raceway/莫斯科赛道 |
1 |
|
Subsequently he moved to Moscow to the Renaissance Group where he was a Partner COO and CFO for the Group which traded managed and invested in assets across Russia CIS The UK the US Hong Kong and Sub-Saharan Africa |
1 |
|
One Week to go until WorldFood Moscow! |
1 |
|
Cung đường vàng: Moscow – Saint Petersburg năm 2019 |
1 |
|
The Hottest New Year’s Parties in Moscow |
1 |
|
Name of Patriarch of Alexandria was removed from Diptychs of Moscow Patriarchate |
1 |
|
VAPEXPO MOSCOW 2019 |
1 |
|
TerraCrypto Moscow Цифровой Майнинг 7 декабря 2019 года |
1 |
|
Innovation Summit Moscow 2019 |
1 |
|
MONOCHROME CAFE IN MOSCOW BY ASKETIK |
1 |
|
Moscow Mule Punch! |
1 |
|
H-Bahn System for Moscow |
1 |
|
SKADE vs Moscow5 Academy |
1 |
|
Six Degrees of Separation from A Gentleman in Moscow to A Widow for One Year |
1 |
|
InDecor Moscow 2017: итоги 3 дней |
1 |
|
NatalieBBW Moscow Dream |
1 |
|
CELEBRITIES AT CPM MOSCOW |
1 |
|
И конечно хочется чтобы это была действительно романтичная свадьба весeлый Новый год яркое корпоративное мероприятие стильный праздник фирмы динамичный team building трогательный юбилей гармоничная выставка интересная промо-акция успешная презентация Совместно со своей командой профессиональных музыкантов и артистов ведущая Julia сделает Ваше событие запоминающимся и особенным! Имея диплом переводчика английского французского и итальянского языков помимо русских праздников тамада Джулия так же организует и проводит международные праздничные мероприятия на двух английский – русский / французский – русский / итальянский – русский / французский – английский или трeх английский – французский – русский языках Среди корпоративных клиентов: Air France Bonduelle Renault Panasonic Peugeot CVIP Provence Food Service итд Ведущая шоу программ JULIA имеет богатый опыт проведения межнациональных и международных праздников не только в Москве но и в других городах России а так же ближнего и дальнего зарубежья выездные мероприятия в Италии Германии Франции Англии итд Являясь ценителем собирателем и знатоком праздничных традиций разных стран тамада JULIA бережно аккуратно и тщательно готовится к каждому новому частному или корпоративному празднику А при проведении мероприятий всегда учитывает особенности менталитета русских и иностранных гостей – носителей разных культур что делает праздники с еe участием одинаково комфортными и увлекательными для всех приглашeнных Звоните и команда профессионалов тамада JULIA музыканты и артисты будут рады сделать Вашу свадьбу/ bilingual wedding party in Moscow / marriage à Moscou ou Saint Pétersbourg en français / le nozze nella Russia in italiano волшебной и романтичной юбилей ярким и трогательным корпоративный праздник зажигательным и стильным! |
1 |
|
Khuyến mãi sock: Tour Nga Moscow – Saint Petersburg – 8 Ngày 7 Đêm |
1 |
|
PRO RUSSIA MOSCOW ZAGORSK FINE SNOW NEW ZEALAND COUNTDOWN TO NEWYEAR 2020 6D3N |
1 |
|
De meest performante beurs ter wereld is de Moscow Exchange Dit is waarom… |
1 |
|
Interlight Moscow 2017: 7-10 ноября 2017 Москва |
1 |
|
Жюри WorldBuild Moscow 2018 сделало свой выбор |
1 |
|
Отель Holiday Inn Express Moscow – Baumanskaya открылся в Москве |
1 |
|
House Judiciary Approves Two Articles of Impeachment Against Trump He Faces Vote of Whole House in Coming Week Historic Repudiation Is Fourth in American History GOP Relies on Gaslighting Moscow Mitch Admits He Is Lackey of White House in Senate Trial Turning Fairness Argument on Its Head Prof Eddie Glaude of Princeton Calls It “Death Rattle of Republican Party” |
1 |
|
Thất bại của Hitler và bí ẩn phong thủy Moscow |
1 |
|
ЖК Метрополия New York / Tokyo / Moscow / London / Rome / Berlin / Paris / Vienna / Saint-Petersburg / Stockholm / Vienice |
1 |
|
Взяли золото! WorldFood Moscow 2017 |
1 |
|
Moscow Ticketing Forum 2017 |
1 |
|
Прием заявок на Beviale Moscow 2020 подходит к концу! |
1 |
|
WorldFood Moscow International Food amp Drink Exhibition |
1 |
|
Alla is a Moscowite with a wig collection Marcus from LA is a big fan of Young Thug Together they are the newest faces to be featured on Daily duo: Meet Sara amp Nicolas |
1 |
|
Prediksi Bola Lokomotiv Moscow vs Juventus 7 November 2019 |
1 |
|
Popular in Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow circus on ice manager and artistic director |
1 |
|
1953-1978: US Embassy in Moscow |
1 |
|
Anna Andronova – Miss Pole Dance Russia Moscow 2014 |
1 |
|
ดูหนังออนไลน์ เรื่อง ดูหนังออนไลน์ Moscow Chill ล่าข้ามชาติ เรื่อง ดูหนังออนไลน์ สายล่อฟ้า |
1 |
|
Отзывы участников Beviale Moscow 2019 |
1 |
|
MOSCOW – THÀNH PHỐ VÀNH ĐAI VÀNG SERGYEV POSAD – SAINT PETERBURG |
1 |
|
Central Barren Moscow EU-RU |
1 |
|
Why should you exhibit at WorldFood Moscow |
1 |
|
An attack on power in Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow Golf Holiday |
1 |
|
Moscow Sends Warning on New START |
1 |
|
Why is Moskva called Moscow in English |
1 |
|
After Long Day of Hearings House Rules Committee Set to Forward Articles to Full House for Vote Late Tomorrow Moscow Mitch Making Senate into Rubber Stamp for Would-Be Dictator Trump’s Six-Page Letter of Self-Pity and Dark Fantasies Sent to Pelosi Gives Rise to New Concerns About Mental Instability Many Moderate Democrats Declare Intent to Vote for at Least One Article of impeachment |
1 |
|
Shemale in Moscow |
1 |
|
Republished with permission The views in this article may not reflect editorial policy of The Mind Unleashed Source Article from Related Posts 4 men accused of gang-rape of young Indian doctor in Hyderabad killed by police All four of the men accused of a grisly rape and murder of a young Half-Million Hermit Crabs Killed by Plastic Waste on Remote Islands Sparking Fears of Global Tragedy TMU — Over half a million tiny hermit crabs have been trapped and killed by Lost count Israel killed 43 Palestinians in November Relatives of Arkan Mizhar a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid At least 26 people killed by landslides caused by heavy rain in Burundi At least 26 people have died and more are missing after heavy rain triggered landslides Hits: 10 “White Man’s Burden”: The US Has Been Fighting “Forever Wars” Against Muslims for 120 Years December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ TMU Op-Ed — US-led wars in the Middle East have killed some four million Muslims since 1990 The recently published Afghanistan papers provided an insight into the longest war in US history and revealed how US officials continuously lied about the progress being made in Afghanistan lacked a basic understanding of the country were hiding evidence that the war was unwinnable and had wasted as much as 1 trillion in the process Unfortunately this phenomenon is nothing new While most people accept that the United States has been interfering with Muslim populations quite heavily since World War II the truth is that the US has been fighting “forever wars” against Muslim populations for well over 100 years If you want to really go back into history Thomas Jefferson was also fighting Muslims in the oft-forgotten Barbary Wars in the early 1800s The average American school curriculum likely doesn’t feature the fact that the US waged a war from 1899 to 1913 in the southernmost island of the Philippines Known as the Moro War it was the longest sustained military campaign in American history until the war in Afghanistan surpassed it a few years ago As a result the US and the Philippine governments are still embroiled in a battle with Islamist insurgents in the southern Philippines which takes the meaning of “forever war” to a whole new level Despite over a century passing since the US led a counterinsurgency war against the Islamic Moros its similarities with the Afghanistan war are incredibly noteworthy to say the least Even reading accounts of the terrain in which both conflicts were fought suggest they were equally as treacherous As detailed in the memoir of Captain John Pershing fighting the Moro Wars “entailed guerrilla warfare in a country unknown to us with its swamps and rivers and its hills and mountains every foot of which was familiar to the inhabitants and their insurrecto troops” While the US often boasts about fighting for freedom many Americans may be wondering how it is that their freedom came to be located in the Philippines in the first place Was it worth sending 75000 American troops in just 1900 alone to the Philippines to fight and die And was the operation even remotely successful More importantly seems to be the indication that the US military was not welcome in the Philippines much as it is not welcomed by Afghanistan or any other Muslim-majority nation which has to duel with the US Empire After the US defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and annexed the Philippines under the 1898 Treaty of Paris the Moro population were not even consulted The US then sought to “pacify” them using brute force “I want no prisoners” ordered General Jacob Smith on Samar Island during the war in 1902 “I wish you to kill and burn the more you kill and burn the better you will please me” Fast forward over 100 years later and it is difficult to see how US military doctrine has changed for the better A video came to light in 2010 of then-General James Mattis saying that it was “a hell of a lot of fun to shoot” people in Afghanistan Mattis was later rewarded for his heroism and bravery by being crowned Donald Trump’s secretary of defense for a short while As you can imagine General Smith received his wish just as Mattis after him with perhaps half a million locals dying as a result of the US invasion At Bud Dajo some 1000 Moro separatists including their families had fled to the crest of a volcano to escape the American invasion Allegedly American troops reached the top of the volcano and fired down into the crater until they killed 99 percent of the inhabitants The colonizers then took the time and effort to pose for a photograph with the hundreds of dead bodies no seriously It is also worth noting that some 4000 US soldiers lost their lives during this particular war This closely mirrors the number of coalition deaths since 2001 in Afghanistan—and for good reason To minimize US personnel deaths in the Philippines’ war the US military deployed Filipinos led by US officers into battle Sound familiar At one stage Filipinos ended up doing almost all of the dying as US soldiers slowly left the battle theatre In fact the final year of conflict was the bloodiest year of the Moro war This seems to be the trend in a number of US wars This is certainly true with respect to Afghanistan with the US military and its Afghan lackeys on the ground killing more civilians than the Taliban in recent times But what is all this senseless violence for To put it simply whether in the Philippines Iraq Afghanistan or elsewhere this rampage is all borne out of the belief that America’s subordinates are not capable of ruling themselves and will ultimately profit from American occupation This was actually the firm thinking of US President Theodore Roosevelt who saw it as the duty of the United States to maintain the Philippines as a protectorate This idea was famously or infamously termed the “White Man’s Burden” in a poem written by Rudyard Kipling who sent the poem to Teddy prior to his decision to engage in the Philippine-American war A 1902 Life Magazine cover even depicted an apparent waterboarding of a Filipino POW by US personnel the supporters in the background seem to be watching with glee When not much has changed it seems it never will We can also expect this type of activity to continue for the foreseeable future given the geopolitical stakes at hand In the case of the Philippines it was recently reported that Chinese and Philippine foreign ministers have sealed an agreement for the two nations to pursue joint oil and gas exploration in the hotly contested South China Sea As it turns out the South China Sea could contain anywhere between 125 billion barrels of crude oil and 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas The idea that a foreign adversary especially one rising to prowess on the world stage such as China could control the majority of these resources unchecked is a major blow to the US Empire Whether it is lithium opium and geostrategic chess moves in Afghanistan or natural gas and oil in the South China Sea Muslim populations will continue to suffer in a colonial terror campaign which has been unfolding for over 100 years Think of it this way: if another century passes and your great grandchildren had never heard of the “forever war” that took place in Afghanistan in the early 2000s all the while watching a new war unfold in the Indo-Pacific region for similar reasons you would rightfully be fuming in your grave Source Article from Related Posts Oprah-Endorsed Spiritual ‘Healer’ Gets 19 Years in Prison for Four Rapes A spiritual healer known as João de Deus or John of God received his first A decade in review: the moments that shaped the past 10 years in Israel/Palestine As another decade of the Israel-Palestine conflict comes to a close the idea of a Ancient Chewing Gum Holds Clues to Life of Young Girl Who Lived 5700 Years Ago TMU — We always like to learn more about our ancestors What they used to Circus Elephant Held in Captivity For 53 Years Reunites With Her “Sisters” Life in captivity is the worst form of living and for an elephant named Rhea Hits: 10 In first PTSD sufferer gets Defense Ministry citation for rehabilitation work December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ The Defense Ministry has for the first time awarded a post-traumatic soldier with its Citation of Rehabilitation Excellence for his work to recover as well as help others Channel 12 news reported Friday Yizhar David suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following his participation in combat during the events of the Second Intifada or Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and now works as a volunteer with other PTSD sufferers David is the first PTSD sufferer to receive the award usually handed out to disabled veterans Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up According to Channel 12 David is currently working on building an umbrella organization for the various NGOs that treat PTSD and has written an autobiography about his experience “I’ve met many sufferers and took many paths to rehabilitation and a return to life” David said at the award ceremony at the Dan Region headquarters of the ministry’s Department of Rehabilitation “I chose to go back to the Valley of Death where there are many like myself feeling their way through deep darkness Many of them like me have built a fortified wall around themselves and their bloodied souls are invisible to all be themselves “I went back mainly to tell them not to make the mistake I made If your soul is wounded go and talk talk save your own life and that of your family Bravery today is to go and talk about it” Source Article from Related Posts Any cooperation with British Council will lead to prosecution: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Press TV – Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says any form of cooperation with the British Council — Foreign Ministry urges Iranians to postpone travels to Iraq IRNA – Iran Foreign Ministry urged Iranian pilgrims to postpone travel to Iraq until further Netanyahu takes over Diaspora Ministry his fourth portfolio Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to assume a fourth ministerial position on Monday formally Justice Ministry to investigate after suspected terrorist injured in custody The Justice Ministry on Sunday launched an investigation after a suspected terrorist sustained serious injuries Hits: 9 Gantz: Party of Jabotinsky Begin elected a leader with 3 criminal indictments December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s crushing defeat of challenger Gideon Sa’ar in a Likud leadership race drew predictably divided responses from Israeli politicians on the right and left Friday as parties turned from the previous day’s vote to look toward March’s general election Benny Gantz head of Likud’s main rival party Blue and White lamented the fact that “the party of Zeev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin who spoke of the supremacy of the law has elected a leader with three criminal indictments who seeks to bring down the rule of law and obtain personal immunity instead of dealing with what is important to Israelis” Gantz said Blue and White would now seek to present the country with “a mirror image to ‘the Netanyahu party’” as an alternative in the next election the nation’s third in less than a year Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Within Likud the party’s No 2 Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein the only senior lawmaker in the party to not have backed either candidate praised Netanyahu and urged the party to move beyond any rifts caused by the charged primary “After today we are one big united Likud” Edelstein tweeted Netanyahu won some 725 percent of the vote in the Likud primary with Sa’ar his only challenger taking the other 275 Some 57000 Likud voters or 494 of party members took part in the primary On the left politicians expressed disappointment with the results chiding Likud for sticking by a leader facing corruption charges and predicting the result would lead to continued political deadlock Netanyahu failed to form a government following elections in April and September leading to the unprecedented upcoming third poll Public surveys have predicted the new election will bring similar results to the previous too and may even see Likud do worse “The results show Likud is disconnected from the nation” said Labor Party head Amir Peretz “The popular and dignified movement that was once led by Menachem Begin has chosen a man charged in three serious cases as its leader Likud as a popular and dignified movement has ended definitively today” Nitzan Horovitz leader of the left-wing Meretz party wrote on Twitter that the victory had sunk any chances of a unity government “because he won’t let anybody else have Balfour” he wrote referring to the Prime Minister’s Residence “The only option for Blue and White to form a coalition: center-left-Arabs” Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman a potential kingmaker who has demanded that Likud and Blue and White form a unity government said the results “haven’t changed a thing” In a Facebook post Liberman contended that both Likud and Blue and White were in the pocket of the ultra-Orthodox “Today it’s clearer than ever that Netanyahu and Gantz are not interested in a liberal unity government but rather a narrow government with the ultra-Orthodox who will just go with whoever gives them the most money” On the right party leaders who have allied with Netanyahu hailed him for the victory expressing hopes that he would manage to break the political impasse on his third try “We all hope that this is the first victory ahead of a big win for the right-wing camp a victory that will begin the creation of a strong stable right-wing government” tweeted New Right No 2 Ayelet Shaked Shas leader Aryeh Deri who had campaigned for Netanyahu ahead of the vote said: “As a partner I am happy for the great vote of confidence you received from a large public” He promised to maintain the bloc of right-wing and religious parties set up after the September election and “God willing we’ll form a strong right-wing government after the next election that will upkeep the nation’s Jewish character” Netanyahu allied himself with the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties as well as right-wing Yamina after the year’s second vote in September forming a large negotiation bloc that critics say helped stymie unity talks with Blue and White Liberman a hard-line right-wing secularist has refused to sit in a coalition with either the ultra-Orthodox or Arab parties However he has shied from coming out forcefully against immunity for Netanyahu in his criminal cases leading to hopes by some in Likud that he could be convinced to join their bloc Thursday’s leadership contest was the first significant challenge to Netanyahu’s leadership of the Likud in more than a decade but he maintained the support of the vast majority of the party’s Knesset members and its prominent local leaders and activists and can thus utilize the result as a boost ahead of Israel’s third general elections in under a year He hailed the win as a “huge victory” as results came in early Friday Sa’ar later conceded defeat and pledged support for Netanyahu and Likud ahead of the March 2 vote “The contest was vital to the Likud and its democratic character” he said Sa’ar had argued that Netanyahu having failed twice to form a government after the April and September elections would lead the right-wing bloc to a third failure and that he by contrast would ensure the right retained power A series of polls in recent weeks have indicated a Sa’ar-led Likud would win fewer seats in a third election than under Netanyahu but the overall right-wing bloc might be larger — potentially enabling it to break the impasse and form a majority government Source Article from Related Posts The Most Dangerous Political Party in Europe — Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog DECEMBER 16 2019 BY GILAD ATZMON By Gilad Atzmon The Brits cast their votes They Tennessee: Christian Beliefs Make The Loser Party What It Is IT’S VERY IMPORTANT that we show our support for the Jew-loving blowhard as he battles The Labour Party lost but a new left is emerging in the UK The results of the 2019 elections in Britain shocked many people both in the country The Nation: Dem Insiders try to block party from supporting Palestinian rights Representative Rashida Tlaib and Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hold hands on stage during Hits: 10 ‘New triangle of sea power’: Iran China Russia start unprecedented naval drill December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Iran’s navy on Friday kicked off an unprecedented joint naval drill with Russia and China in the northern part of the Indian Ocean Iranian state TV reported The four-day exercise launched from the southeastern port city of Chahbahar in the Gulf of Oman and near the border with Pakistan is aimed at boosting security of the region’s waterways the report quoted Iran’s navy chief Adm Hossein Khanzadi as saying The joint exercise the first of its kind comes at a time of heightened tensions since the United States withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran in May last year and with Iran gradually breaching elements of the agreement Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Tehran has been seeking to step up military cooperation with Beijing and Moscow amid unprecedented economic sanctions from Washington Visits to Iran by Russian and Chinese naval representatives have also increased in recent years The Iranian TV report also said the drill shows that Iran is not isolated The drill is also seen as a response to recent US maneuvers with its regional ally Saudi Arabia in which China also participated “The message of this exercise is peace friendship and lasting security through cooperation and unity … and its effect will be to show that Iran cannot be isolated” Iranian flotilla chief Rear Admiral Gholamreza Tahani said on state television Tahani added that the drills included rescuing ships on fire or vessels under attack by pirates and shooting exercises with both Iran’s navy and its Revolutionary Guards participating State television showed what it said was a Russian warship arriving at Chabahar port in southern Iran and said the Chinese will join shortly calling the three countries “the new triangle of power in the sea” “The aim of this drill is to bolster security of international maritime commerce combating piracy and terrorism and sharing information… and experience” the flotilla commander said “Us hosting these powers shows that our relations have reached a meaningful point and may have an international impact” he added The United States reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran after quitting the nuclear deal last year prompting Tehran to hit back with countermeasures by dropping nuclear commitments Remaining parties to the badly weakened agreement include Britain France and Germany as well as China and Russia Iran last week said it had begun testing its latest much faster model of centrifuges in a further signal the international deal limiting its nuclear program was unraveling “Today our new IR-6 centrifuges are working and the newer IR-9’s are being tested” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said during a visit to Malaysia According to Iranian officials an IR-6 centrifuge can produce enriched uranium 10 times faster than the country’s first-generation IR-1 centrifuges The IR-9 for its part works five times faster than the IR-6 and 50 times faster than the IR-1 the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi has said A centrifuge enriches uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas with more advanced centrifuges further cutting into the one year that experts estimate Tehran would need to have enough material for building a nuclear weapon — if it chose to pursue one Iran also began new operations on Monday at a heavy water nuclear reactor In June US President Donald Trump authorized a military strike after Iran shot down a US drone only to call off the retaliation at the last moment The crisis deepened with September 14 attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco’s Abqaiq processing plant and Khurais oilfield which halved the kingdom’s crude output Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack but Washington accused Tehran a charge Iran has strongly denied Washington has responded with a military build-up in the Gulf and has launched an operation with its allies to protect navigation in Gulf waters Set to last until December 30 the military exercises aim to “deepen exchange and cooperation between the navies of the three countries” Chinese defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian told reporters last week Wu said the Chinese navy would deploy its Xining guided missile destroyer — nicknamed the “carrier killer” for its array of anti-ship and land attack cruise missiles — in the drills But he did not give details on how many personnel or ships would take part overall China’s foreign minister said the exercises were part of “normal military cooperation” between the three countries Israel’s Army Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday lamented that Israel is alone in the fight against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East as the Islamic Republic grows increasingly aggressive in the region “It would be better if we weren’t the only ones responding to them militarily” Kohavi said in an apparent criticism of the United States and Persian Gulf countries who also see Iran as a major foe The military chief in his first major speech said the Israel Defense Forces was operating throughout the region — openly covertly and clandestinely — in order to thwart the plans of Iran and its proxies “even at the risk of war” Source Article from Related Posts ‘Unprecedented’ rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty AN UNPRECEDENTED RISE in infant mortality in England is linked to poverty according to new Deja Vu: Israel to hold unprecedented third election cycle Israelis woke up on Thursday morning to what seemed like a bad case of deja Unprecedented ‘Architecture of Surveillance’ Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report A new report from Amnesty International accuses Facebook and Google of having a surveillance-based business model ‘A time of unprecedented darkness’: Rivlin passes coalition-building buck to MKs President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday handed Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein formal notice that Benny Gantz’s Hits: 9 An extra trounce in his step: 6 things to know for December 27 December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ 1 Winner winner chicken dinner: As expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu easily swept to victory in the Likud leadership primary defeating challenger Gideon Sa’ar 725 percent to 275 Sa’ar had been hoping to cross the 30 threshold to at least show that Netanyahu’s grip on the party wasn’t ironclad and fell short of even that goal “The wide margin of his victory though again never really in doubt also underlines that the overwhelming majority of the Likud’s Knesset faction its prominent local leaders and activists and the party machine remain steadfastly behind him Fourteen years after he regained the party leadership and a decade after he returned to the Prime Minister’s Office ‘Only Bibi’ remains the Likud loyalists’ mantra” writes Times of Israel editor David Horovitz Walla’s Tal Shalev writes that Sa’ar’s results only slightly surpassed those of Moshe Feiglin and Danny Danon before him placing him in the same league of also-rans “The final results don’t make Sa’ar into Netanyahu’s natural successor but rather into the latest of a series of Likud members who have tried to challenge Netanyahu over the last decade and who led the anti-Bibi camp within the Likud which has historically been made up of about a quarter of the members” “It’s his Likud” Ynet says of Netanyahu “Netanyahu wins: ‘Massive victory” exults Israel Hayom in a massive headline on its front page 2 This isn’t the last you’ll see of ol’ Gideon: Some though see the results as keeping Sa’ar in the game and exposing very real cracks in Likud Channel 12’s Amit Segal predicts that if he does form the next government Netanyahu will have no choice but to appoint Sa’ar to a senior government position given his popularity Speaking to Army Radio Ramat Gan mayor and Sa’ar supporter Carmel Shamah-Hacohen writes that support for Sa’ar among local party bosses will need to be contended with: “Netanyahu can’t ignore them when putting together a government Not bringing them in will make things hard for Likud” Pundit Ben Caspit tells Radio 103 that despite the big win “Let’s not forget that we have today not just Gideon Sa’ar but the Sa’ar camp and I predict that this camp will not break up and is not going anywhere” “I think this is the first sign of the end of the regime of fear and terror” he adds becoming the latest in a long long list of those who have called some event or another the beginning of the end for Netanyahu 3 Get out the panic: Channel 13 news notes that Sa’ar managed to only carry 7 of 106 ballot stations across the country While Netanyahu only won by a couple hundred votes in Tel Aviv in Jerusalem he smushed Sa’ar 2401 to 611 Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Yedioth Ahronoth reports that fears that rainy weather would keep voters away proved unfounded with almost 50 percent coming out to cast ballots normal for a primary Nonetheless Netanyahu spent much of his day at a call center being filmed phoning party members and urging them to vote At one point he was heard trying to arrange a babysitter for a supporter who didn’t want to bring her kid in the rain to the polling station “It what has become routine during this election-filled period those around Netanyahu telegraphed real panic throughout the day Briefings given by those around him talked about low turnout numbers which won’t surpass 40 percent That’s despite the fact that in comparison to past primaries the turnout percentage was reasonable” Yedioth reports A twitter account belonging to a user named “Freddie the bear” jokes “Worry in the Netanyahu camp: the percentage of deception lower than normal” mimicking headlines on turnout that typically metastasize across the Hebrew media landscape on election days thanks to this or that spin doctor 4 Storm of democracy: The rain was a topic of conversation throughout the day and ToI’s Raoul Wootliff reports that many of those who did slog out were miffed by unclear opening times and rules forcing them to travel far away in order to vote “I won’t be able to vote now There is no way I can get to the polling station Certainly not in this weather” says one Likud member who found out she is registered in Rishon Lezion some 10 kilometers away “I’ve barely ever even been there let alone lived there” she says Yet he reports that even despite a dirty campaign the atmosphere in the Tel Aviv polling station he visited remained calm in contrast to the storms outside No so in Beit Shemesh where Sa’ar’s English-language spokesman Jason Pearlman says a Netanyahu supporter told him to return to his native UK Challenged on video the supporter only offers a baffling “I am Maccabi Tel Aviv” Other Sa’ar supporters also reported getting nasty text messages warning that people who don’t vote Netanyahu are traitors and the like though Netanyahu’s camp blamed them on a false flag attack meant to tar their side In Netanyahu-supporting Israel Hayom columnist Eitan Orkabi writes that the primary as a display of “democracy in all its most glorious abundance” poking fun at parties on the center and left that don’t have primaries His larger point about the importance of “letting the people decide” dovetails overtly with Netanyahu’s campaign against letting the courts decide his fate 5 Oh the immunity! A December 31 hearing on whether the president can task a lawmaker with an indictment as prime minister is now looming and being seen through the lens of the big win Reuven Hazan a political science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem tells the Associated Press that the court is now likely to defer any ruling potentially even until after the elections “They understand that if he wins big tonight and they turn around and say he cannot be prime minister then although they’ve done their job which is to make the right legal decision that they will be in political turmoil that could rip the elections apart” Hazan is quoted saying before the primary results were announced And on January 2 Netanyahu will have to say whether or not he wants immunity Likud’s Miki Zohar is quoted in Israel Hayom as saying that the results “provide an answer on whether he should seek immunity” Speaking to Radio 103 Netanyahu backer David Bitan says that if Sa’ar or any of his cronies dare object to Netanyahu asking for immunity “they are done in the Likud” Haaretz’s Yossi Verter writes that Netanyahu wanted to make sure to have the primary before his likely immunity request but it’s a lose-lose situation anyway He can drop the matter and be whisked into court or make the request show himself to be a liar and break yet more precedents “ A candidate for prime minister who is under indictment and requests immunity for himself is something we’ve never had in these parts It’s hard to see how he with all his sophisticated campaigning abilities can make this situation work in his favor” he writes 6 The right stuff: Verter also notes that Netanyahu doesn’t really have any more voters to rely on in the March election as those who left Likud in disgust over his indictments aren’t about to come flocking back But Zman Yisrael’s Shalom Yerushalmi writes that Netanyahu can still look to the rest of the right for support: “Netanyahu mission is get another 300000 right-wing voters out of the house in order to fight the prosecution’s ‘coup’ This is his last chance Yesterday he passed his first test with a good grade: 725” He got an ever better grade in the settlements notes Makor Rishon’s Shirit Avitan Cohen In Beit El Netanyahu won 103-27 and in the rest of the settlements in the Binyamin Regional Council he took some 81 of the votes she writes adding that he managed to isolate the pro-Sa’ar voices who saw him as the best hope for the right Haaretz’s lead editorial urges the left meanwhile to unite as the best way to make sure that Netanyahu does not succeed: “The danger is clear and present If either Labor or Meretz in its present wrapping as the Democratic Union do not make it into the next Knesset the right will enjoy a crushing victory with Netanyahu forming a coalition that will grant him immunity from facing trial while destroying the judicial system and annexing the West Bank” the paper warns Source Article from Related Posts Sa’ar you ready for this 6 things to know for December 26 1 Exit stage right: Scenes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being whisked offstage at a Judging Amir: 7 things to know for December 18 1 Amir vs the world: A blistering battle is being set up between Justice Minister Number the Sa’ars: 9 things to know for December 17 1 Surgin’ Sa’ar: Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar kicked off his longshot bid for the leadership Horse race fever: 7 things to know for December 16 1 Scoreboard politics: After two elections and oodles of primaries Israel’s media is nothing if Hits: 9 ‘Mame’ ‘Hello Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88 December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ AP — Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman who wrote the cheerful good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as “Mame” “Hello Dolly!” and “La Cage aux Folles” died Thursday He was 88 His goddaughter Jane Dorian confirmed his death to The Associated Press early Friday She said he died in Miami where he had been living with his partner real estate broker Terry Marler The creator of 10 Broadway shows and contributor to several more Herman won two Tony Awards for best musical: “Hello Dolly!” in 1964 and “La Cage aux Folles” in 1983 He also won two Grammys — for the “Mame” cast album and “Hello Dolly!” as song of the year — and was a Kennedy Center honoree Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Herman wrote in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition an optimistic composer at a time when others in his profession were exploring darker feelings and material Just a few of his song titles revealed his depth of hope: “I’ll Be Here Tomorrow” “The Best of Times” “Tap Your Troubles Away” “It’s Today” “We Need a Little Christmas” and “Before the Parade Passes By” Even the title song to “Hello Dolly!” is an advertisement to enjoy life Herman also had a direct simple sense of melody and his lyrics had a natural unforced quality Over the years he told the AP in 1995 “critics have sort of tossed me off as the popular and not the cerebral writer and that was fine with me That was exactly what I aimed at” In accepting the Tony in 1984 for “La Cage Aux Folles” Herman said “This award forever shatters a myth about the musical theater There’s been a rumor around for a couple of years that the simple hummable show tune was no longer welcome on Broadway Well it’s alive and well at the Palace” Theatre Some saw that phrase — “the simple hummable show tune” — as a subtle dig at Stephen Sondheim known for challenging and complex songs and whose “Sunday in the Park with George” Herman had just bested But Herman rejected any tension between the two musical theater giants “Only a small group of ‘showbiz gossips’ have constantly tried to create a feud between Mr Sondheim and myself I am as much of a Sondheim fan as you and everybody else in the world and I believe that my comments upon winning the Tony for ‘La Cage’ clearly came from my delight with the show business community’s endorsement of the simple melodic showtune which had been criticized by a few hard-nosed critics as being old fashioned” he said in a 2004 QampA session with readers of Broadwaycom Herman was born in 1931 in New York to Jewish parents who ran a children’s summer camp in the Catskills and raised in Jersey City He spent all of his summers in the Borscht Belt from age six to 23 and it was there that he taught himself piano He noted that when he was born his mother had a view of Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre marquee from her hospital bed Herman dated his intention to write musicals to the time his parents took him to “Annie Get Your Gun” and he went home and played five of Irving Berlin’s songs on the piano “I thought what a gift this man has given a stranger I wanted to give that gift to other people That was my great inspiration that night” he told The Associated Press in 1996 After graduating from the University of Miami Herman headed back to New York writing and playing piano in a jazz club He made his Broadway debut in 1960 contributing songs to the review “From A to Z” — alongside material by Fred Ebb and Woody Allen — and the next year tackled the entire score to a musical about the founding of the state of Israel “Milk and Honey” It earned him his first Tony nomination “Hello Dolly!” starring Carol Channing opened in 1964 and ran for 2844 performances becoming Broadway’s longest-running musical at the time It won 10 Tonys and has been revived many times most recently in 2017 with Bette Midler in the title role a 19th-century widowed matchmaker who learns to live again “Mame” followed in 1966 starring Angela Lansbury and went on to run for over 1500 performances She handed him his Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009 saying he created songs like him: “bouncy buoyant and optimistic” In 1983 he had another hit with “La Cage aux Folles” a sweetly radical musical of its age decades before the fight for marriage equality It was a lavish adaptation of the successful French film about two gay men who own a splashy drag nightclub on the Riviera It contained the gay anthem “I Am What I Am” and ran for some 1760 performances Three of his shows “Dear World” “The Grand Tour” and “Mack and Mabel” failed on Broadway Many of his songs have outlasted their vehicles: British ice skaters Torvill and Dean used the overture from “Mack and Mabel” to accompany a gold medal-winning routine in 1982 Writer-director Andrew Stanton used the Herman tunes “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” and “It Only Takes a Moment” to express the psyche of a love-starved trash-compacting robot in the film “WALL-E” Later in life Herman composed a song for “Barney’s Great Adventure” contributed the score for the 1996 made-for-TV movie “Mrs Santa Claus” — earning Herman an Emmy nomination — and wrote his autobiography “Showtune” published by Donald I Fine He is survived by his partner Marler and his goddaughters — Dorian and Dorian’s own daughter Sarah Haspel Dorian said plans for a memorial service are still in the works for the man whose songs she said “are always on our lips and in our hearts” Source Article from Related Posts Jerry Nadler Actually ADMITS IT: We ‘Cannot Rely On An Election’ To OUST Trump House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler D-NY has admitted that Democrats “cannot rely on an Jerry Nadler: Standard Of Impeachment MUST CHANGE To Suit Our Case Against Trump Chairman Jerry Nadler admitted in the preface of the House Judiciary Committee Report that Democrats Jerry Nadler Loses Patience Slams Omar Tlaib over Anti-Semitism Democratic Rep Jerry Nadler has finally had enough of far-left “Squad” members Reps Ilhan Omar Ben Jerry’s rolls out Bernie Sanders ice cream that tastes like communism satire About the author: Mike Adams aka the “Health Ranger“ is a best selling author 1 Hits: 9 The decade Israel erased the Green Line December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ The time “Time came and stole our happiness and our peace and our security” — “The Love That Was” Baligh Hamdi On February 10 2009 elections for the 18th Knesset took place in Israel three-and-a-half years after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon removed 9000 settlers from the Gaza Strip Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party did not win the most votes but he was the only politician able to cobble together a coalition Just a few months before the elections Netanyahu launched his campaign in an area known as E-1 strategically located between the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim and East Jerusalem Speaking to a group of journalists on the day of the launch Netanyahu said: “We want to establish contiguity between larger Jerusalem from the west to the east the Palestinians want to build contiguously from the south to the north and one will defeat the other” Several months after the 2009 elections Netanyahu delivered what became known as the “Bar Ilan Speech” in which he said that “the territorial question will be discussed as part of the final peace agreement In the meantime we have no intention of building new settlements or of expropriating additional land for existing settlements But there is a need to enable the residents to live normal lives to allow mothers and fathers to raise their children like families elsewhere” Over a decade has passed and the rhetoric Netanyahu uses today can be summarized in a statement he delivered a week before the second elections of 2019: “Today I announce my intention with the formation of the next government to establish Israeli sovereignty on the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea settlements” Ten years is a long enough time to “look back with a certain fear” as Israeli journalist Amos Elon once put it and take stock of what has — and hasn’t — happened over the years First and foremost the distinction between the Land of Israel and the State of Israel has never been more enigmatic for the majority of the Israeli public Here’s a short story to illustrate: on the first day of the school year my daughter’s class she goes to a relatively liberal and secular high school in Jerusalem was invited to take part in a day working on a date plantation in one of the West Bank settlements in the Jericho region The principal who as far as I know leans left did not see any problem with this The same went for the other teachers and parents apart for one The students raised in the Israeli education system don’t have the basic tools to understand the political context in which they live Does this mean the settler right has won Can the settler right — whose political doctrine rests on the idea of Greater Israel and complete legal and political segregation between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank — win Can the reality in the West Bank which is a combination of military occupation and civil apartheid last in the long run Ten years ago my answer to these questions was undoubtedly “no” I was convinced that maintaining such a status quo in the long run was impossible Today after a decade of Netanyahu and three years of Trump we live in a reality in which the term “impossible” sounds as anachronistic as the words “peace process” If there is one thing the last 10 years has done to us — all of us — it has been to entrench the current reality in our consciousness and fundamentally undermine our confidence as to the boundaries of the possible Reality out in the open “And does any one of you raise the possibility that a Jewish settlement will live at the bottom of a hill while armed Palestinians sit above…” MK Ariel Sharon October 18 1999 Kufr ad-Dik is located six miles west of the town of Salfit on the western slopes of the West Bank In 2007 the last time a census was held in the West Bank the village’s population was approximately 4500 people No less than 1000 settlement units of the total 20000 that have been built over the last decade in the occupied territories can be found in the settlements of Alei Zahav and Paduel both of which were built in the first half of the 1980s on land belonging to Kafr ad-Dik The massive building in these settlements began immediately with the end of the fictitious 10-month “freeze” on settlement construction that began at the end of November 2009 At the time I published an article in Haaretz that ended with the following words: Benjamin Netanyahu will probably not win the Nobel Peace Prize but he is certainly likely to win the Nobel Prize for physics or at least chemistry in the name of the Israeli government which discovered that — contrary to what scientists had thought until now — water is not the only substance that expands rather than contracts when it freezes Aerial photos of Paduel and Alei Zahav from the last decade show precisely how a significant part of the open space that was at the disposal of the residents of Kafr ad-Dik for generations was gradually stolen for the purpose of building bourgeoise settlement suburbs A similar process took place in dozens of settlements located along the western strip of the West Bank These include Eshkolot and Sansana in the south Nili Na’ale Barkan and Salit in the central region of the West Bank and Shaked and Reihan in the north The vast majority of the residents there are secular and over the years these settlements have undergone an accelerated process of growth and suburbanization The last decade has also been especially generous to ultra-Orthodox settlers which are in fact the locomotive of accelerated demographic growth among the entire settler population Over a third of settlers today are Haredi and the annual growth rate in Modi’in Illit Beitar Illit Agan HaAyalot Tel Zion and Immanuel stands at between four to eight percent — significantly higher than that of the general settler population 35 percent and that of the Israeli population 19 percent This was after all a decade in which real estate prices drastically increased the pressures of the real estate market and particularly that of the ultra-Orthodox flowed into the settlements Construction also took place in the national-religious settlements home to the ideological core of the movement and located in the heart of the West Bank Over the last 10 years between dozens and hundreds of new homes were built in Susya Otniel Karmei Tzur Efrat Geva Binyamin Ofra Beit El Eli Tapuach and Itamar This took place concurrently with the building frenzy in the outposts around the settlements dozens of which are now in various stages of becoming formalized settlements When it comes to outposts one cannot help but give credit to Ehud Barak The former prime minister may have become part of the opposition in the last two years but between 2009-2013 he served as defense minister under Netanyahu It was Barak who approved a military order that created a legal and planning platform through which 25 new outposts — most of them sheep or cattle farms — were established This was the most significant move that has taken place over the last few years vis-à-vis the takeover of open spaces in the West Bank This has been particularly felt in the “Gav Hahar” region where the hyper-ideological settlements of Itamar Elon Moreh Har Bracha and Yitzhar are located and where Palestinian shepherd communities dependent on access to these open areas have lived for generations The residents of these outposts which were built with utmost precision in order to become formalized in the future are involved in the most violent form of dispossession and expulsion One can cautiously assume that they have managed to minimize or entirely prevent access by Palestinian shepherds The settlers of the shepherd outposts are not the only ones to have taken land from the open areas of the West Bank They have been joined by motorcycle enthusiasts visitors to natural springs and others who over the past decade helped turn large parts of the West Bank into an amusement park for the Israeli middle class which has enough money and time to entertain itself Looking back however it turns out the Israelis love bathing in West Bank springs and plowing through its terrain with jeeps and motorbikes much more than they actually love living there The number of settlers over the last decade grew from 270000 to 440000 80 percent natural growth yet they still only make up 45 percent of the Israeli population and 14 percent of the entire population of the West Bank The settlement enterprise found greater success in agricultural takeover — a process that requires large budgets violence and deceptive lawyers to represent criminal settlers in the courts Over the last 10 years settlers began working nearly 4000 acres of land a third of which is recognized by the Civil Administration — the IDF body that runs the day-to-day life of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories — as private Palestinian land The majority of that land is located near the Gav Hahar settlements and is used to grow olives and grapes for wine production Another 60 percent of the land that was added 2300 acres in the last decade turned into date plantations in the occupied Jordan Valley The rapid increase in the area of date plantations was enabled by the completion of the sewage treatment plant in Nabi Musa in 2014 which streams tens of thousands of liters daily to irrigate date plantations around the Jordan Valley the northern Dead Sea settlements and in Military Zone 151 located between the Jordan River and the border fence The intensive activities of the settlement enterprise over the last 10 years is inversely correlated to the efforts Israel has invested in completing the separation barrier since 2010 the work on the barrier included making minor alterations including by changing its route in places like Bil’in and Jayous This fact reflects a shift away from the once-dominant paradigm of unilaterally evacuating Israeli settlements beyond the separation barrier which — despite all the denials and the lies — was planned as a means of forming a demographic barrier between Israel and the Palestinians Instead we have seen a return of the old paradigm of direct Israeli control through army and settler presence across the West Bank The reality Israelis don’t see “The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes” – The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In addition to the visible changes the past decade has seen changes among the two populations embroiled in the conflict In the West Bank we have seen a new generation of Palestinians that has never crossed the Green Line Most of them do not speak Hebrew or know Israelis They hate the Palestinian Authority which they view as corrupt and collaborationist They do not know the reality in the Gaza Strip and have not experienced or do not remember the scars of the Second Intifada I have a hard time imagining a scenario in which all these characteristics are not translated into actions that the Israeli public does not take kindly to I’ve witnessed this shift firsthand in my encounters with young Palestinians whenever they ask if I can help them obtain work permits in Israel I used to understand this as a matter of individual urgency which overrides the interest of the wider Palestinian public Today I wonder whether it expresses a transformation of the Palestinian concept of sumud or steadfastness in the face of Israeli dispossession Either way it indubitably expresses the delicate balancing act and the interdependence that exists between the occupiers and the occupied One can hardly imagine a political constellation that will bring about the end of 52 years of occupation and settlements On the one hand the current political reality creates meeting points and joint interests between Palestinians and settlers while on the other hand it deepens the dead end that the conflict finds itself in This is the bedrock upon which the murderous and pro-transfer rhetoric we see online and in the Israeli media grows The villages of Khan al-Ahmar and Susya may not have been evacuated due to the fear of a severe response from a number of Western countries but smaller-scale expulsion attempts continue endlessly far and away from the collective Israeli consciousness According to the UN Israel demolished 6000 structures in the West Bank over the last decade leading to the displacement of 9000 Palestinians All people struggle to continue living in a situation of uncertainty and I am often asked about what I think will happen here The trivial response is that no one knows In the meantime it is worthwhile to reflect on the fact that close to five million Palestinians now live in East Jerusalem the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under various types of Israeli occupation Approximately one million more Palestinians lived in those same areas a decade ago The vast majority of them and many others will also be here at the end of the next decade lt!– Get Our Weekly Newsletter Sign up –gt Source Article from Related Posts Maccabee Task Force covertly funded 3200 pro-Israel events on US campuses Photo collage from Maccabee Task Force website David Brog announced that his organization secretly funded Israel to reinstitute ‘assassinations policy’ Email Us For general inquiries and advertising email: Admin at BlacklistedNewscom Article Israel admits ‘mistake’ in killing Gaza family refocuses blame on Palestinian factions The Israeli army has admitted that it made a “mistake” in an airstrike last month Hamas Israel trade barbs after rocket fire during Netanyahu rally Israeli ministers and Palestinian terror group Hamas traded threats and accusations Thursday a day after Hits: 10 Slavoj Zizek: Liberals’ ‘humanitarian’ open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis radical economic changes are needed December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Pia Klemp captain of the Luventa the ship saving refugees in the Mediterranean concluded her explanation of why she decided to refuse the Grand Vermeil medal awarded to her by the city of Paris with a crowd-pleasing slogan: “Documents and housing for all! Freedom of movement and residence!” If she means that – to cut a long story short – every individual has the right to move to a country of his/her choice and that this country has a duty to provide him/her with a residence then we are dealing here with an abstract vision in the strict Hegelian sense: a vision which ignores the complex context of social totality The problem cannot be solved at this level the only true solution is to change the system which produces immigrants The task then is to take a step back from direct criticism to an analysis of the imminent antagonisms of the worldwide situation with a focus on how our critical position itself participates in the phenomenon it criticizes In a recent TV debate Gregor Gysi a key figure in the German Die Linke The Left party gave a good answer to an anti-immigrant who aggressively insisted that he feels no responsibility for the poverty and horrors in Third World countries and that instead of spending money to help them European states should only be responsible for the welfare of their own citizens The gist of Gysi’s answer was: if we don’t get responsible for the Third World poor and act accordingly they will come here to us…precisely what the anti-immigrant is so ferociously opposed to Also on rtcom Greens’ leader takes heat as he wants Germany to take 4000 migrant children stuck in Greece Cynical and unethical as this reply may appear it is much more appropriate than abstract humanitarianism The humanitarian approach appeals to our generosity and guilt “we should open our hearts to them also because the ultimate cause of their suffering is European racism and colonization” This appeal is often combined with a strange economic reasoning that Europe needs immigrants in order to continue to expand economically that its birth rates are falling and it is losing vitality It is strange to hear the Leftists invoke the typical Rightist motif of vitality The hidden stakes of this approach are clear: let’s open ourselves to immigrants as a desperate measure to avoid much-needed radical change and to maintain our liberal-capitalist order The logic that sustains the quoted Gysi statement is the opposite one: only a radical socio-economic change can really protect our identity our way of life Caught in a social limbo A symptom of this type of ‘Global Leftist’ is how they simultaneously reject any talk of “our way of life” and of cultural differences as a reactionary Huntington-like stance masking the fundamental identity or rather leveling of all of us in global capitalism and demand of us a respect for the immigrants’ specific cultural identity ie not to impose on them our standards The obvious counter-reproach that our way and their way of life are not symmetrical since our ‘way’ is hegemonic makes a valid point but avoids the core of the problem – the status of universality in the struggle for emancipation It is true that in some sense the refugee is a ‘neighbor’ par excellence the neighbor in the strict biblical sense the Other reduced to its naked presence Without possessions without a home without a determined place in society refugees are like a stain on the social edifice always too close to us Since they lack a stable place in our society they stand for the universality of being-human – how we relate to them indicates how we relate to humanity as such They are not just different from us – we are all different from other groups – they are in one sense Difference itself as such But in a properly Hegelian way universality and particularity coincide here: refugees come naked only materially and it’s for this reason that they cling all the more to their cultural identity They are perceived as universal rootless but at the same time as stuck in their particular identity From this fact alone it is clear why nomadic immigrants are not proletarians – in spite of attempts by Alain Badiou and others to promulgate the refugee as the exemplary figure of today’s proletarians “nomadic proletarians” What makes proletarians proletarian is the fact that they are exploited: they are the key moment of the valorization of capital their labor creates surplus-value – in clear contrast to nomadic refugees who are not just perceived as worthless but are literally value-less worthless “trash”/leftovers of global capital Also on rtcom Triumph of the right in Sweden is a result of the total failure of liberalism Leftists and capitalists dream that the new wave of immigrants will be integrated into the capitalist machine as happened back in the 1960s in Germany and then France because “Europe needs immigrants” But this time it isn’t working immigrants cannot be integrated and the bulk of them remain outsiders This fact makes the situation with immigrants and refugees much more tragic – they are caught in a kind of social limbo a deadlock from which fundamentalism offers a false exit As with the circulation of global capital refugees are put in a position of being surplus-humanity a mirror image of surplus-value and no humanitarian help and openness can resolve this tension only a restructuring of the entire international edifice will do The usual Left-liberal retort to this is: “What about the ‘let’s work to fix the countries from which immigrants are coming in order to abolish their reasons for leaving their countries’ approach Is it not just a subtle excuse to prevent refugees coming to us” The answer to this is clear: in a strictly symmetrical way “opening our hearts” to refugees here is a not-so- subtle way of doing nothing to change the global situation that creates them… So the solution is simply: look at what they are doing – are they really doing it About us not them The falsity of humanitarianism is the same as that of the rejection of anthropocentrism advocated by deep ecology – there is deep hypocrisy in it What all the talk about how we humanity pose a threat to life on Earth and the life of the Earth really amounts to is our worry about our own fate Earth in itself is indifferent: even if we destroy life on it it will just be one of – not even the greatest of – many catastrophes that have befallen it When we worry about the environment we worry about our own environment we want our own good and safe life The falsity of this position is the same as the falsity of white anti-Eurocentric liberals who while ruthlessly rejecting their own cultural identity and soliciting others to assert this identity reserve for themselves the position of universality The proponents of deep ecology of the rights of animals plants and living habitats continue to act as universal beings as representatives of all beings – animals and plants have no awareness of others’ interests they just live and struggle for survival Also on rtcom Erdogan says Turkey can’t handle Syrian migrant influx warns Europe of new refugee wave The general lesson to be learned here is that one should avoid at any price cheap humanitarian sentimentalization of the world’s downtrodden For this reason alone Parasite Korea 2019 Bong Joon-ho is well-worth seeing Here is the film’s succinct storyline: “Jobless penniless and above all hopeless the unmotivated patriarch Ki-taek and his equally unambitious family – his supportive wife Chung-sook his cynical twenty-something daughter Ki-jung and his college-age son Ki-woo – occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment Then by sheer luck a lucrative business proposition will pave the way for an insidiously subtle scheme as Ki-woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family Now the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-take-all class war How does one get rid of a parasite” The film avoids any moralizing idealization of the underdogs in Frank Capra style: they are the parasites intruding manipulating exploitative And we should oppose here both content and form: at the level of content the upper-class Parks are without any doubt morally better they are considerate sympathetic helping while the underdogs effectively act like exploitative parasites However at the level of form the Parks are the privileged ones who can afford to be caring and helpful while the underdogs are real underdogs pushed by their situation into not very gracious acts So the solution is not to play humanitarian games but to change the situation that requires humanitarian games – or as Oscar Wilde put it in the opening lines of his “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”: “People find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty by hideous ugliness by hideous starvation It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this Accordingly with admirable though misdirected intentions they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it” “Indeed their remedies are part of the disease They try to solve the problem of poverty for instance by keeping the poor alive or in the case of a very advanced school by amusing the poor But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim” he wrote READ MORE: Slavoj Žižek: Until the rich world thinks ‘one world’ migration will intensify Exactly the same holds for one of the usual anti-feminist complaints: “I treat women in a kind not-patronizing way but they are often so aggressive towards me…” Of course they are since for them this is often the only way to counteract their formal submission – as a rule it is only those at the top who can afford kindness and sympathy Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you Source Article from Related Posts Slavoj Zizek: Big Capital will use every tool at its disposal to crush socialists like Corbyn Since in some sense the election was about Brexit the first thing that strikes the Slavoj Zizek: The trouble is not with the Jews but with my accusers My text on the Independent website is followed by over 50 responses mostly brutal attacks Slavoj Zizek: Will the global Left allow right-wing nationalists to take control of society’s discontent Today it’s commonplace to emphasize the “miraculous” nature of the fall of the Berlin Wall A border ‘buffer zone’ is a hair-brained scheme that won’t work It’s not a ‘solution’ to the backstop The leaked UK proposals to Brussels for a “buffer zone” along both sides of the Hits: 2 US approves new military training deal with Pakistan as it seeks to bolster its weakening foothold December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ In 2018 US President Donald Trump signaled his decision blindsiding the State Department in a tweet squarely blaming Pakistan for failing to crackdown on terrorist groups in their country and providing “nothing but lies and deceit” That decision was rolled back by the end of the year – as Pakistan’s strengthening relations with Russia and China threatened to sideline American influence Also on rtcom ‘We’ve always been on receiving end of US hegemony’: Pakistan seeks closer ties with Russia and has a real chance of success Defense training as a policy instrument Defense training is a useful policy in the long term that helps to cultivate potential military leaders and influencers particularly in military dominated states such as Pakistan Trump’s decision to cut-off military training assistance for Pakistan appears to have raised concerns in the State Department over loss of influence in the country carefully cultivated through years of defense cooperation and training provided to a generation of military officers who trained at various defense establishments in the United States This move to resume the IMET is clearly an attempt to restore American strategic influence in Pakistan Significantly this comes at a time when the United States government is reviewing training for foreign personnel on American soil following a recent incident involving a Saudi Royal Air Force officer who opened fire in a classroom at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida killing three American sailors and wounding eight other people before being shot dead by police This factor could possibly weigh against the government’s decision when it comes up for a vote in Congress However the military establishment in the United States which has always tried to insulate military-to-military engagements from political tensions regards that long-term benefits of defense cooperation that could potentially build mutual trust outweigh short-term political risks Cutting into regional politics The resumption of defense training comes in the wake of the Prime Minister Imran Khans’ visit to Washington in July this year in an attempt to re-boot Pakistan’s relations with the US Pertinently Imran Khan was accompanied by the country’s top military leadership including the Chief of the Army and the Director General of the ISI Inter-Services Intelligence the premier national intelligence agency of Pakistan In recent years Pakistan-US strategic ties have declined significantly with the Trump administration pressuring Pakistan to crack down on terrorist groups within its borders that targeted US troops in Afghanistan At the same time the US elevated its relationship with India – which has always opposed US-Pakistan defense cooperation – to a strategic partnership Evidently Pakistan’s reacceptance into IMET is likely to upset India But for Washington the wish to have an avenue of influence on the Pakistani military appears stronger than concerns about India’s opinion – especially seeing as how snubbed by the United States the Pakistan military has sought to build closer ties with China and even Russia Another reason for a closer alliance with Pakistan could be to facilitate Trump’s promised withdrawal from Afghanistan where the US has lost over 2200 soldiers over the past 18 years and spends 45 billion per annum The Pakistan military could potentially play a crucial role in the ongoing negotiations involving the Taliban and the Afghan government Also on rtcom India amp China could find a 21st-century purpose for the aircraft carrier Military ties mean political influence The military has always played an instrumental role in Pakistan since its creation in 1947 with the country being ruled by military dictators on three occasions Even with a civilian government now in place the influence of the military is massive – and having it as an ally can be seen as a way for Washington to influence Pakistan politically Pakistan was a Cold War ally of the United States at a time when India refused to align with the Americans and several US presidents particularly Nixon were known to be enamored with the Pakistan military Significantly during the Cold War in 1971 Pakistan’s military dictator General Yahya Khan brokered the historic Sino-US rapprochement by facilitating Kissinger’s secret trip to China Over the years the United States government has advanced strategic ties with the Pakistan military establishment supported by close defense cooperation including arms sales and training for officers many of who have since reached senior and influential positions in the government Thus the resumption of the IMET is clearly a step towards preserving American strategic influence in Pakistan by promoting its military engagements in a country that has shown it is ready to turn elsewhere for allies Think your friends would be interested Share this story! Source Article from Related Posts The Boom Turns Into A Bust — Here are 14 Signs That The US Economy Is Steadily Weakening By Michael Snyder There should no longer be any doubt that the US economy is Secretive warfare training being staged in 21 North Carolina counties Army says A similar Fort Bragg military exercise in 1997 created panic in Charlotte when uptown Trump Finalizes Disastrous Weakening of Endangered Species Act youtube twitter facebook rss Source Article from A few minutes of resistance training is all you need to lower your risk of CVD and diabetes Natural News Physical exercise is necessary for your overall health According to Hits: 2 How do you know woke ‘Star Wars’ is a failure When social justice warriors start blaming ‘Russian bots’ December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ The latest – and perhaps the last – installment in the saga ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ premiered the weekend before Christmas While the box office receipts have reportedly been anemic Rotten Tomatoes review averages show that the audience liked it as much as 2015’s ‘The Force Awakens’ By contrast critics hated it – almost as much as moviegoers hated 2017’s ‘The Last Jedi’ which was beloved by critics and activists alike Also on rtcom Dear Media: The new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy is garbage and your endless fawning ‘rankings’ can’t change that That clearly cannot stand according to one Annalee Newitz whose tirade about ‘Star Wars’ was published in the New York Times on Christmas eve The best she can say about ‘Skywalker’ is that it’s the Joe Biden of ‘Star Wars’ movies managing to “deliver a few liberal-sounding messages” while the previous two movies were like Barack Obama and “gave fans truly diverse casts and grappled in a relatively nuanced way with the class and race conflicts that have hovered at the margins of every ‘Star Wars’ story” Then she pulls the trump card – or rather a Hillary: a “recent study” sic says Newitz showed that “over 50 percent” of anger directed at director of ‘The Last Jedi’ on Twitter “came from the same sources as Russian election meddling” “So it seems that it was political operatives not fans who were denigrating the movie and fomenting some of the virulent racism and misogyny against its cast” Newitz concludes triumphantly Not surprisingly just like every other ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy this too is bunk Even before the study – by one Morten Bay a researcher at the University of Southern California – was published in November 2018 CNet had unmasked the reporting about it as fake news Simply put Bay had looked at Rian Johnson’s twitter account and handpicked 967 tweets using methodologies put forth by various “Russian troll hunters” Then he subjectively decided whether those tweets were negative positive or neutral coming up with 206 Of those 61 belonged to real people alleged to have a political agenda 11 he declared to be bots and 33 trolls – amounting to 105 and therefore “more than half” Clever isn’t it Never mind that only 16 of the 33 “trolls” supposedly had “characteristics consistent with” Russians as determined by Palpatine-knows-who Also on rtcom The only ‘Russian bots’ to meddle in US elections belonged to Democrat-linked ‘experts’ Likewise never mind that the entire field of “troll hunting” should have been conclusively discredited last December when the very same paper that published Newitz’s tirade revealed the existence of actual “Russian” bots as the handiwork of a Democrat-tied outfit – and one that was later entrusted by the Senate to write a report on “Russian meddling” no less! According to these revelations a company called New Knowledge had literally meddled in the 2017 special election for the US Senate in Alabama creating a thousand fake Twitter accounts with Russian names and having them follow the Republican candidate in an elaborate “false flag” operation amplified by friendly news outlets and the notorious Hamilton 68 dashboard No one really got punished for this New Knowledge – since rebranded as Yonder – is still being treated as an authority by “Russiagate” truthers Being a Russiagater means never letting facts get in the way of the Narrative – which in this case is that Johnson’s ‘Last Jedi’ was the best of them Which in turn means that JJ Abrams trying to undo the monumental narrative mess that his predecessor had made must amount to racism sexism misogyny and general Badthink The way things are going it may be just a matter of time before someone accuses him of secretly colluding with the Kremlin! It is not “Russians” or the “alt-right” phantom menace that made everything in the West political however but rather the horde of self-appointed social justice warriors who seek to inject their Message literally everywhere Since Newitz argues that ‘Star Wars’ is the “new national mythos” of America obviously that makes it a perfect vessel At the end of the day however the American moviegoing public thinks otherwise and no amount of name-calling or crying ‘RUSSIA’ will change that Source Article from Related Posts Greta’s growing up and now liberal eco-warriors and the media face losing their teenage talisman Anyone with a teenager at home knows how unreasonable and unexpected their moments of rage NBA: Golden State Warriors 110-127 San Antonio Spurs It Happened Again: Ship Carrying ‘Climate Change Warriors’ Concerned About Melting Arctic Ice Gets Stuck in Ice A ship carrying passengers who included a group of ‘Climate Change Warriors’ who are concerned When Warriors Become Saints As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house Hits: 2 Deadly snakes venomous spiders killer bushfires amp bad sportsmanship don’t get a look-in with our new Aussie tourism campaign December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ As an Aussie-born and bred bloke I cringed at the latest campaign from Tourism Australia aimed at luring curious Brits to the Great Southern Land as it recycled all the old stereotypes while asking a collection of UK-friendly celebrities to sing tonelessly along to the embarrassing ‘Matesong’ It is three minutes and ten seconds packed with cliches interspersed with a 51-year-old Kylie Minogue goofing about wiggling her butt while so-called comedian Adam Hills yet to say one thing I find funny makes Brexit jokes Again just not funny All that’s missing is someone in a hat fringed with dangling corks while their nose is caked in white zinc cream One striking image the advert does use is of Uluru the big red rock in the centre of Australia Over the years millions of tourists – domestic and foreign – have climbed this rock despite the protests of indigenous people who hold the site sacred Nonetheless they were ignored and people continued to climb and fall from Uluru until November this year when it was finally agreed that it would be permanently closed The problem with that is why would you want to go and look at a towering rock in the desert if you can’t climb to its peak and admire the view It is the middle of nowhere and apart from some high-priced luxury hotels stories of dingoes stealing babies and miles and miles of nothing there’s not much else to see And then there’s the campaign advert’s obsession with sport! Sure we Australians like our sport like most nations around the world but sometimes that interest reveals a really ugly underbelly of win-at-all-costs competitiveness that is not endearing at all In fact many of us cringe at the extravagant boasting of sporting success and the extroverted celebrations Because when you start imagining sport is actually the be-all and end-all in life that’s when you get the international-level cheating of the sort that the Australian cricket team undertook against South Africa Funny that didn’t make it to the Tourism Australia advert So it all looks rosy Down Under Where everyone surfs every day is full sunshine and cloudless skies and we all just want to be mates with visiting Poms Sorry to pop the balloon but we Aussies can be just as xenophobic casually racist and culturally insensitive as the next nation There are also a few more things that a British tourist intending to visit our nation at Kylie’s invitation needs to know Things that Tourism Australia won’t tell you Also on rtcom ‘Of course it’s in fking Australia’: Nightmare image of wasp battling HUGE Huntsman spider horrifies the internet Flies And more flies There are flies everywhere and they are incredibly annoying Just when you think life can’t get any better because the barbie’s blazing and the beer is cold swarms of little black bushflies engulf you crawling in your eyes your ears your mouth your nose Of course there are also the deadly spiders – redbacks funnel webs and the creepy huntsman And the snakes – the highly venomous southern death adder its bite will kill you in just six hours red-bellied black snakes taipans brown snakes tiger snakes copperheads and the list goes on Then there’s the heat Okay so one day it’s a pleasant 24 degrees Then suddenly the next day soars to a strength-sapping 40 degrees You can cook meat at that temperature It pretty much rules out anything physical forget the beach you would literally roast Thanks to the thinning of the ozone layer above Australia the sun burns incredibly fiercely Twenty minutes at a time in the sun at high temperatures is really all anyone can bear before it actually becomes quite painful Add to that the intense heat of the rampant bushfires that have engulfed the country this year burning an estimated four million hectares leaving nine people dead and a thick pall of smoke hanging over Sydney turning the sky an eerie twilight color in Australia’s largest city It’s like the post-apocalyptic world of that other well-known Australian who also was left out of the ad campaign Mad Max But please don’t let me put you off go to Australia for a holiday but just make sure you do not overstay your visa An estimate in 2017 put the number of people who have overstayed their visas in Oz at around 64000 If you are caught without a valid visa you will be deported and you could even end up in a detention center You do not want to end up there Just this year they were subject to a report by the Australian Human Rights Commission which found the excessively harsh conditions use of force and disregard of basic human rights a serious cause for concern Maybe Kylie and her mates could sing a song about that Source Article from Related Posts Pedophile Child Killer Who Killed 9-Year-Old Set Free by Judge A convicted serial pedophile who was imprisoned for killing a nine-year-old-girl is due to walk Big Tech Russia and US Under Fire for AI Warfare “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots” Doubles in Size August 26 2019 By Nicholas West Renewed attention over artificial intelligence for use in warfare Gvt Shuts Down US Bio Warfare Lab Warns Killer Bugs Could Escape Through Wastewater by Tracey Watson With its long and devastating history the Ebola virus is truly terrifying Cop Murders Woman While Trying to Killer Her Dog…One of Endless More No question the victim had it coming She may have had some Hispanic blood or Hits: 3 UN women’s rights agency tweet depicts motherhood as a ‘penalty’ – at CHRISTMAS December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ As the 13 billiion Catholics all over the world reflect on the miracle a lowly young girl giving birth to the Savior just over 2000 years ago UN Women ironically in charge of gender equality and female empowerment tweet out a message detailing the disadvantages of motherhood as some sort of political point In a message of the kind usually sighted on the office feminist’s coffee mug in the communal kitchen the note lists the penalties of motherhood as if those women with children needed any reminding So there’s “more unpaid care and domestic work” which usually goes by the term of ‘parenting’ but hey it’s Christmas so we’ll accept the cracker-level joke Next on the list is “irregular work” then “reduced employment” see irregular work Again these are the compromises that millions of people around the world make in order to raise their children The choices are either don’t have kids which is a non-argument or pay for childcare which in most cases makes the whole point of working irrelevant as the money earned is simply paid out to the carer The essence of this argument is one of priorities which is up to the individual to decide not the welfare state or employers looking for a stable and reliable workforce And then we have further impositions “limited maternity benefits” arguable country-to-country and the juicy issues of “gender-based occupational segregation” and “gender pay gaps” Also on rtcom Harry Potter author JK Rowling gets burned by own fans as she steams into latest UK gender scandal on the wrong side Excuse me but what have those two things got to do with motherhood It would most likely be argued that all women regardless of whether or not they have children face issues here As for the final suggestion of ‘higher rates of poverty in old age” well yes this is an issue but again highly variable among the nations of the world A single African mother with four children will have a hard time building a future not just for her family but for herself once those children become adults with dependent families of their own But these women are not those concerned with “gender-based occupational segregation” To them that language and the concept it expresses would be utter nonsense How does the UN square this sort of political posturing with those things it should be looking at like reducing infant mortality rates in the developing world or ensuring that women are not dying through the natural act of childbirth Motherhood is not an issue that needs some post-ironic message shared by UN Women with its first world social media followers Sure it has its minuses but as any mother – or father – will tell you they are far outweighed by the pluses So to pick Christmas Day of the other 364 available to insult the Catholic belief in the sanctity of the Virgin Mary and everything that she as a mother sacrificed is not only tin-eared it is ignorant foolish and a sackable offense Just wait until the grown-ups return to work from their holiday break Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you Source Article from Related Posts UN women’s rights agency tweets motherhood is a ‘penalty’ – on CHRISTMAS As the 13 billiion Catholics all over the world reflect on the miracle a lowly Obama says women are ‘indisputably better’ leaders than men Including Tulsi Gabbard or just Hillary Clinton amp Liz Warren While speaking at a private event in Singapore the former president of the United States Obama Says Women Are Indisputably Better Than Men And Should Lead Every Country Are President Obama and his wife having some kind of lover’s quarrel Speaking at a Sweden invests millions to teach migrants how to have sex ‘with blonde women’ -Urgent Political Action Required On A Governmental Level — Mothman777’s Blog Sweden invests millions to teach migrants how to have sex ‘with blonde women’ Comment by Hits: 2 ‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Twelve-year-old Mohammed Al-Najar was shot in his eye by Israeli soldiers Getty Eyes are a ‘common target’ of Israeli snipers at Gaza’s Great March of Return To date Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that Israeli soldiers have shot 50 men women and children in the eye since the weekly demonstrations began last March leaving many permanently blind by Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey reposted from TheNewArab Media coverage and social media posts went wild when Palestinian photojournalist Muath Amarneh was blinded in his left eye after he was hit by a rubber bullet while covering a protest in the West Bank However Amarneh was far from unique Israeli snipers targeting participants in Gaza’s weekly Great Return March protests have aimed for the legs – and eyes To date Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that 50 protesters have been shot in the eye since the demonstrations began March 30 2018 – leaving them permanently blind “Some of these protesters and journalists were hit in the eye with teargas canisters but most were targeted directly with what is commonly called a ‘rubber bullet’ giving the impression they are somehow benign” says Ashraf Alqedra MD a treating physician at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital and spokesperson for the Ministry of Health “But there is still steel at the core and although these bullets don’t usually kill they do grave damage It is impossible to save an eye hit directly by a rubber-coated steel bullet” However he adds due to the Israeli blockade there are no artificial glass eyes in Gaza – only a cosmetic improvement but one that can be a significant psychological aid These are available only by travelling out of Gaza for treatment and permits for such journeys are often not granted According to data released by the World Health Organization Gaza residents submitted 25897 applications to travel via Erez Crossing to receive medical treatment in the West Bank or Israel an average of 2158 were submitted each month However the Israeli government only approved 61 percent Mai Abu Rwedah: the most recent victim Mai Abu Rwedah 20 grew up in north Gaza’s al-Bureij Refugee Camp in a family of nine children supported by a father who works as a janitor for a UN school She just graduated from university hoping to start her professional life as a medical secretary and contribute her income But that dream was dealt a severe blow December 6 when she became the most recent Gazan to lose an eye to an Israeli bullet Abu Rwedah believes in using peaceful but active resistance to reclaim Palestinians’ right to return to their ancestral homeland So she has joined participants in the Great Return March protest since its launch on March 30 2018 On September 21 of that year she was shot by a rubber-coated bullet in one of her legs but that didn’t stop her from participating she kept on going Doctors had to extract Mai’s right eye and the bullet damaged her jaw as well A sit-in protest takes place in Gaza in solidarity with Mai Earlier this month stood with a few friends about 100 metres from the fence that marks the border between Gaza and Israel She glimpsed an Israeli soldier waving and pointing his finger to his eye “He was trying to intimidate me but I was not afraid because I was doing nothing wrong I wasn’t even throwing stones” Abu Rwedeh recalls The soldiers fired tear gas then and Mai and her friends ran away but still were in sight of the young man who had threatened her “He was watching me wherever I moved he kept watching Then suddenly he raised his gun and pointed it at me I was about to flee but he was too fast He shot me in my eye” The bullet damaged her jaw as well Doctors had to extract her right eye since it was destroyed Her determination however is intact Abu Rwedeh continues to protest The youngest victim Mohammed Al-Najar 12 is the second-oldest son among four children supported by a father who works in a wedding hall in Khan Younis In January during the mid-year vacation from school Mohammed begged his parents to allow him to watch the Friday protest with his cousins and other relatives thinking it would give him an exciting story to share with classmates He was given permission to ride one of the government buses that collected people from the various neighbourhoods taking them to the protest sites When he disembarked teargas bombs were flying and he shouted to warn those around him Then next one hit him directly in his right eye When Mohammad learned later that his eye could not be saved he locked himself in his room and stopped going to school When he did go back he struggled “At first his marks at school dropped and he isolated himself He tried to hide his missing eye” says his mother Um Edress She took to him an organisation that provided psychotherapy but he refused to speak Today he is socialising but goes quiet when asked about his injury When Mohammad learned later that his eye could not be saved he locked himself in his room and stopped going to school Getty The journalist According to Dr Alqedra most people with eye injuries from the Great Return March are journalists or photographers One of them is Sami Musran 35 a photographer who works for Al-Aqsa TV On July 19 he was shot several times – first in his hand the next two times in his shoulders and the fourth time in the chest Fortunately he was wearing a bulletproof vest so it did not harm him The last time cost him his left eye Sami says he had received several calls from Israeli officers warning him not to take photos at the Great Return March His mother also received calls saying her son might be killed “Forty times my Facebook account was hacked or deleted for me and I received death threats as well” he says “But I decided to keep on with my work to reveal the Israeli crimes against unarmed Palestinians who participate in the march” The night before Musran was shot his wife tried to insist he stay home but he refused “Minutes before I was hit my mother called me twice saying she was very worried about me But I said that nothing happens that isn’t God’s plan” he recalls He was about 250 metres away from of the Israeli fence when two women and a child were shot Musran was taking photos of them and went in close That’s when a rubber-coated bullet hit his eye and he lost consciousness Two days later he woke up in the intensive care unit to find out he had a skull fracture and an injured eye The bullet had damaged the iris retina and cornea and his vision was gone Today it is hard for him to continue with his job his depth perception is off he gets headaches and the sight in his remaining eye “fades” at night But he will keep trying “Israel wants to blind the eyes of the truth by sending messages to photographers saying we will hit your eyes to make you stop taking photos” he says “But we do not surrender” Tareq Hajjaj is an author and a member of Palestinian Writers Union He studied English Literature at Al-Azhar university in Gaza He started his career in journalism in 2015 working as news writer/translator at local newspaper Donia al-Watan then writing in both Arabic and English for international outlets such as Elbadi MEE and Al Monitor Now he’s writing for We Are Not Numbers Pam Bailey is a freelance writer and social-justice activist based in Washington DC who lived and worked in the Gaza Strip immediately following the 2008/9 Israeli assault She also traveled to Yemen and Pakistan to interview people impacted by imperialist drone surveillance and warfare Her writings can be found on sites such as Truthout Alternet Mondoweiss Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera RELATED READING: Emily Henochowicz: artist to pro-Palestinian activist Facts amp latest news on Gaza Great March of Return periodically updated Haidar Eid: Contextualizing the Great March of Return Palestinian women in Gaza call for solidarity as they march to break the siege on July 3 Gaza fact sheet about why Palestinians are marching Source Article from Related Posts The Truth About Christmas TMU Op-Ed — In Russia Christmas is celebrated on January 7 each year This is the same Discussion: Do truth seekers have a ‘way out’ Escaping the system Photo: WEP If the world is a business and it is truly The Truth About The Life amp Death Of Novelist Jennifer Jaynes The Facts:A recent whooping cough outbreak a a school in Houston Texas has forced an Speaking Truth To Empire: On False Representations of Nuclear Energy and Weapons Linda Pentz Gunter is an international specialist at Beyond Nuclear She writes columns on the follies Hits: 3 O Little Town of Bethlehem what has become of thee December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ O little town of Bethlehem How miserable we see thee lie! Above thy 28 ft concrete separation wall of hatred Palestinians cower in fear and sleepless nights The silent stars are witness to thy dark and somber streets Where the light shineth not And the everlasting darkness of occupation Hangs heavy on the oppressed and occupied Nazi-like Zionist hatred and violence of the past 71 years Kill hope and instill fear in every Palestinian’s heart And nothing but arrests theft torture and killings Are fears that meet thee every single minute Of every single day and every single night Some seven weeks back I attended a colloquium presentation delivered by a member of the religion faculty at the university where I taught for 42 years Known for his scholarship and excellent teaching skills the presenter was reporting on the results of a trip he undertook last summer to study innovative techniques on the teaching of biblical Hebrew Prior to his trip to Occupied Palestine I shared a CP column I’d written summarizing Ilan Pappé’s tome under the title The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 71 Years Later Zionist Terrorism Is Alive and Well April 19 2019 CP and another scholarly article about Israel’s brutal violation of human rights its theft and desecration of Christian monuments and churches and its outright hatred and demonization of Palestinians in general and Christian Palestinians in particular While during his eloquent presentation my former colleague made repeated references to Israel at no time did he mention Palestine Palestinians occupation wall of separation Apartheid Jews only highways on which he traveled midnight arrests the destruction of entire Palestinian neighborhoods the blight of Israeli-Jews-only settlements subsidized by US taxpayers on the once-beautiful now raped Palestinian landscape that used to be accentuated with rolling hills and quaint valleys dotted with lush green olive groves vineyards and verdant fruit orchards that have given way to ugly manufactured homes and heavily armed enclaves inhabited by machinegun-toting ultra-religious fanatics who gun down Palestinians just for the fun of it blow up their homes and cut down hundred-year old olive trees A Palestinian protester dressed in a Santa Claus costume rings a bell in front of tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration against the settlements and demanding for free movement for the Palestinians during Christmas near a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 23 2014 And while these criminals release their pent up hatred in orgies of stone-throwing vandalism and assassinations prescribed by their rabbis in demented expiatory religious and nationalistic rituals akin to ISIL’s orgies of killings the Israel Defense Forces “the most humane army in the world” stand by ready to protect support and cheer the marauders The spectacle always ends in the same manner: the settlers are absolved of their crimes and the Palestinians are arrested for threatening Israel’s security I fear that my former colleague like millions of travelers especially the ignorant Evangelical types to that coveted and fought-over land of the prophets and the birthplace of the Prince of Peace drank the cool aide reeled out by Israel’s ministry of hasbara the world’s foremost Orwellian organ of manufactured facts whose central theme is: Jews Good Palestinians Bad Jews victims Palestinians perpetrators because of the Holocaust the world owes us and must condone what we’re doing to Palestinians those who criticize our racist policies are outright anti-Semites we are God’s Chosen and that includes Trump therefore we can do no wrong Never mind that the Palestinians are also Semites and can also trace their lineage to Abraham and because Palestinians are treated as children of a lesser God they are personae non gratae and fair game in the chess game played by Israel and her subordinate pimps in the US and Europe During the Q amp A session following his presentation my colleague stated that – of all the holy sites he visited – his visit to Bethlehem was the most disappointing – and only because somehow the much celebrated Little Town of Bethlehem lacked the religious/spiritual reverence/charm with which it has been traditionally associated I fear that because much of today’s biblical narratives are a concocted mish mash that evolved over centuries in different climes each succeeding culture augmented its own storyline by interlacing pagan practices with Christian ones A manger scene juxtaposed against concrete blocks seemingly pierced by a mortar shell: with Christmas looming Banksy reveals his latest art piece Hence the blending of the original corpus into myriad European Christmas stories and traditions that resulted in written narratives rich musical and dramatic performances and dazzling canvases With the advent of film and the television America’s 20th century contribution added an abundance of splendor and pageantry And thus it was that in late 18th and 19th century Europe exploiting this celebration of the birth of The Prince of Peace became a motive to ching ching the occasion in what has become for this generation Black Friday and Black Saturday spending bacchanalia to celebrate the billions of dollars going into the pockets of the rich and greedy while giving the rest of us the satisfaction of obtaining made-in-China consumer goods And somehow the meaning of Christmas drifts into the calendar On Sunday December 23 2019 the Beirut Lebanon-based The Daily Star reported the following: BETHLEHEM Palestine: With Christmas looming Banksy’s latest Bethlehem offering appeared Saturday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank: A manger scene juxtaposed with a miniature version of Israel’s separation barrier seemingly pierced by a mortar shell Dubbed the “Scar of Bethlehem” the work shows the baby Jesus Mary and Joseph backlit through damaged concrete chiseled pockmarks exploding out from a gaping hole in four directions approximating the Christmas Star The work is installed at Banksy’s Walled-Off Hotel where all rooms overlook a section of the concrete barrier Israel built to cut off the occupied West Bank from Israeli territory “Love” and “peace” are tagged in English and French respectively on the installation’s concrete blocks while three large wrapped presents are at the forefront of the scene “It is a nativity” hotel manager Wissam Salsaa told AFP after the piece was installed “Banksy has his own contribution to Christmas” “It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem” he continued “the Christmas story in a different way – to make people think more” of how Palestinians live in Bethlehem Salsaa calls the Israeli wall a “scar” that should induce “shame in anyone who supported” its construction The manger scene and hotel which opened two years ago are far from Banksy’s only West Bank imprint In 2007 he painted a number of artworks in Bethlehem including a young girl frisking an Israeli soldier pinned up against a wall In 2005 he sprayed nine stenciled images at different locations along the 8-meter-high separation barrier They included a ladder on the wall a little girl carried away by balloons and a window opening onto a peaceful mountain landscape “Banksy is trying to be a voice for those that cannot speak” Salsaa said He “is creating a new model of resistance through art” The biblical narrative informs us that at the time of Christ’s birth Palestine was an extension of Augustus’ massive empire Palestina/Falasteen was sandwiched between Egypt and Syria the first served as Rome’s breadbasket and the second as Rome’s eastern line of defense and the last stop of the ancient Silk Road and one of the conduits that fed the insatiable Roman treasury to maintain its stranglehold on its expansive Pax Romana Empire Ironic it is that American British and European hegemonic interest in that same region are no different from Rome’s And since 1917 the Brits French and later the Americans have been drawing and redrawing the boundaries of the oil-rich Near East and “What we say goes” is the new Anglo-Franco-Americana Pax Oleum Petra Utilizing the Jewish King Herod as a friendly client and puppet the Romans gave him a free hand And as long as he collected taxes to help enrich Rome’s coffers Herod’s heavy handed rule was viewed benignly by Rome Perceiving the birth of the promised Messiah/King as a threat to his rule Herod ordered the killing of all male infants in Bethlehem and environs One of six images painted by British street artist Banksy as part of a Christmas exhibition in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 2 2007 It is fair to say that if one compared living conditions in Palestine and the occupied West Bank and Gaza during the time of Jesus’ birth to current living conditions of Palestinians all across the Holy Land one would be shocked at the shrieking and howling of anguished cries of a nation robbed of its birthright dignity and freedom Back to the Q amp A session In an agonizingly hushed if not slightly quivering voice I intoned the following comment to my colleague who to use the metaphor could not see the forest for the trees: “Is it possible that because you had to go through the monstrous fortress-like concrete wall to enter Bethlehem a negative tone was set for you” I followed with the following plea: “I am saddened that you didn’t even mention Palestine or Palestinians – at all Please do not relegate the Palestinians into the trash bin of anonymity” My former colleague magnanimously owned up to having made no mention of Palestine/Palestinians I so wish he’d admitted that he like most Evangelicals was guilty of committing the sin of denial denial that Israelis and Evangelicals are complicit in this heinous crime of denial All of this is to say the following: the Jewish King Herod had no qualms about butchering all infant males in the land where the lamenting and screaming of prophets and innocents are today’s wailing and crying of 8 million anguished Edward Munchian Palestinian “Screamers” Modern day Herods such Zionist Netanyahu and all his ilk share the same killing and maiming instincts of hatred and brutality as their Hitler and Mussolini prototypes Deeply embedded in their psyches is a disregard for human life In a November 2019 aerial assault on besieged Gaza and to rally support for his reelection bid at the prime ministry Netanyahu bragged about the three-day killing spree of 37 Gaza civilians that included 13 members of a single family four children under the age 4 and two expectant mothers whose fetuses never took their first breath And where are the anti-abortion Christians Catholics and Evangelicals – alike Like their 17th and 18th century European counterparts those masters who produced thousands of canvases to memorialize Herod’s Killing of the Innocents Palestinian artists have produced tens of thousands of art works depicting Israel’s 71 years of endless brutalities Yet while the former artists’ compositions grace museum walls across the world rarely does one see a work depicting Israeli carnage Israel’s daily war on Palestinians and especially on Palestinian children is rarely transmitted to an increasingly apathetic world and if one were to even hint at it one is immediately charged with the spurious anti-Semitic assault including most recently prosecution To state that Israel is guilty as charged is to state the truth no matter how inconvenient that truth may be A Palestinian protester wearing a Santa Claus costume is carried by medics after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes at Bethlehem checkpoint in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday Dec 23 2014 This Christmas like all the Christmas of the last 71 years Christian Palestinians are denied access to their holy shrines Allison Weir’s online blog If Americans Knew recently stated that Palestinians are “under siege … as Israel announces it will not allow Gaza’s Christians to visit Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas” 12/19/2019 Editor’s note: Israel “reversed” the decision “pending clearance” but permitted just 55 Gazans to cross the border Furthermore the lucky few Christian Palestinians from the West Bank or East Jerusalem who are given permission to visit the holy shrines have to go through excruciating hours on end of successive check points during which they are strip searched insulted and humiliated Lucky is the Palestinian child whose Christmas gift is not stolen by Israeli soldiers the theft of course is always a matter of Israeli national security Ironic it is that while the Christian Palestinians who can trace their ancestry to the early Christian church are denied access to their places of worship hundreds of thousands of foreign pilgrims are given the royal treatment as they are led around much like obedient sheep by Israeli tour guides who indulge in Zionist hasbara while diluting actual historical facts about the role played by Christian and Muslim Palestinians in preserving maintaining and protecting the Holy sites that continue to be desecrated by Israel These modern day Crusaders are no different from their barbarian European counterparts On 12/5/2019 Allison Weir reported that “It feels like Palestinians are constantly dying … 43 in November 526 since Trump’s Jerusalem announcement … 111 of them children … 22 women 6 Palestinians with special needs … and 13 prisoners … killed in Israeli jails … ‘Where in the world is the world’ asked one Palestinian whose family was blown to pieces and whose house was demolished” Much as Herod hated infants Zionists hate Palestinian children Palestinian schools are destroyed their schools’ playground equipment is either stolen or destroyed tear gas and firebombs are lobbed into their schools and homes children as young as 4 years old have been arrested detained and held sans parental visitation for days at a time And finally as proof of Israel’s inhumanity and brazen disregard for common decency Allison Weir reports that “Right now many Palestinian children from Gaza lie in West Bank hospitals facing painful prolonged cancer treatment or surgery One in five are there without a mother or father emphasis hers because Israel denied both parents’ permission to travel with the sick child” 12/182019 Oh how Goya-esque Zionism and its proponents have gotten to be Dear Kafka had you lived to see raw Zionist brutality you would have been shamefully mortified and embarrassed of your tribe’s barbaric behavior You would have also shamed the Netanyahus Trumps Salmans Modis Johnsons Asads Putins Balsonaroses Sissis and Aung Suus of this world You would have no doubt decried the fact that instead of Wise Men and Women heading to Bethlehem carrying precious gifts the world is led by self-centered racist and woefully flawed characters better known as Modern Day Merchants of Death wreaking havoc in all the hamlets and Beit Lahems of our modern world In spite of all the human misery brought about due to Jewish Christian Muslim Hindu and Buddhist fanaticism the story of the birth of the Christ King is a story of the triumph of love over hatred hope over despair giving instead of receiving humility over pride inclusivity over exclusion kindness to the stranger instead of incarcerating him choosing life over death choosing peace over war feeding the needy instead of taking away his sparse meal sheltering the homeless instead of housing him in mangy cardboard boxes and like the Good Samaritan healing the sick wounded and the down and out across the globe Here is wishing everyone a Joyous and Merry Christmas Day Source Article from Related Posts Is ‘Little Rocket Man’ Winning By Patrick J Buchanan “If US sanctions are insufficient to force Kim to “denuclearize” as seems apparent is Trump I spy with my little eye: Threats to civil liberties in Johnson’s Queen’s speech As Harold Wilson famously remarked a week is a long time in politics I wonder I spy with my little eye: Threats to civil liberties in Johnson’s Queen’s speech As Harold Wilson famously remarked a week is a long time in politics I wonder A Little Criticism It’s okay to be white because this phrase embodies submission to the alien invader only Hits: 2 Maccabee Task Force covertly funded 3200 pro-Israel events on US campuses December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Photo collage from Maccabee Task Force website David Brog announced that his organization secretly funded over 3200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses in 2019 and brought over 2300 student leaders on “transformative trips to Israel” He writes: “You will never see our name on the events we sponsor…” By Alison Weir David Brog executive director of the Maccabee Task Force emailed supporters on December 26th: “In the spirit of Hanukkah donate to help us create modern day Maccabees” Maccabees are sometimes seen as violent extremists see below The Maccabee Task Force funds free propaganda trips for campus leaders to Israel while obscuring its role and objective in the trips In his email solicitation for donations Brog acknowledged his organization’s covert tactics: “Many groups like to talk about what they’re doing on campus We rarely do You will never see our name on the events we sponsor You will never see our logo on the buses we send to Israel” His email continued: “But if we hope to continue to raise the funds we need to support these extensive efforts then we do need to share ‘what we’re doing about it’ on occasion “By the time this academic year is over we will have funded over 3200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses across the country and around the world And we will have brought over 2300 leaders from these campuses on transformative trips to Israel “And these efforts are working! Last year BDS passed on only one of the 80 campuses on which we were active And we intentionally go to the campuses with the most active anti-Israel efforts “These efforts are extremely effective — and extremely expensive If we’re going to be able to keep growing at this pace we need your help Together we can ensure that we bring more strategies and support to even more pro-Israel students next year” Brog who is Jewish is also the founding executive director of “Christians United for Israel CUFI” In 2007 the Forward listed Brog in its “Forward 50” most influential Jews in America According to Charisma News “Brog is the powerhouse behind the Christian organization yet he’s also a conservative non-Messianic Jew” The article reports: “Brog who was chief of staff to liberal Sen Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania for seven years is said to run CUFI like a political campaign He has talking points stays focused and rallies his constituency” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is Brog’s cousin” The Maccabee Task Force is funded by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson who once said he regretted serving in the US Army instead of the Israeli military Adelson and others are trying to counter the growing support for Palestinian human rights in the US The 2015 “Campus Maccabees Summit” co-hosted by Adelson and Haim Saban an Israeli-American billionaire who funds Democrats brought together 50 Jewish organizations from both the left and the right The Forward reports: “Adelson and his fellow conference organizers limited participation in the event to donors willing to pledge at least 1 million over the next two years” Maccabees past amp present The Maccabee revolt is at the core of the Hanukkah story However some writers dispute the current interpretation Gary Rosenblatt editor and publisher of New York Jewish week writes: “In our warm and fuzzy packaging of Chanukah in the 21st century a minor holiday on the Jewish calendar has taken on added significance as our very own antidote to the pervasiveness of Christmas in America We prefer to emphasize the miracle of the small cruse of oil in the Temple that miraculously lasted eight days a symbol of hope faith and the triumph of the few over the mighty “But a reading of The Book of Maccabees reveals a bloody struggle that of a small band of zealots led by Matathias and his Maccabee sons who decried the Hellenistic culture of the conquering Greeks and the prohibitions against Jewish religious practice They waged war against the Greeks and some say against their wayward brethren as well The Maccabees for instance forced uncircumcised Jews to have a brit milah” Rosenblatt states: “I have no doubt that if the Maccabees heroes of the Chanukah story were around today they would be leading the West Bank settlers’ current protests decrying the Jerusalem government for abandoning its Zionist and religious imperative to claim” Brog has a long history of advocating for Israel and working to suppress efforts around the US on behalf of Palestinian rights On March 28 2017 Brog addressed the Nevada State legislature in support of an anti-BDS bill SB26 BDS is an international nonviolent boycott of Israel over its systemic human rights violations It is based on the principle that “Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity” Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew president of the Council for the National Interest and author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the US Was Used to Create Israel RELATED: Sheldon Adelson group changes how it’s selling Israel on campus Flashback: Secretive Adelson-Saban Summit Raised Millions to Fight BDS The Lobby USA – Abridged Source Article from Related Posts Israel to reinstitute ‘assassinations policy’ Email Us For general inquiries and advertising email: Admin at BlacklistedNewscom Article Israel admits ‘mistake’ in killing Gaza family refocuses blame on Palestinian factions The Israeli army has admitted that it made a “mistake” in an airstrike last month Hamas Israel trade barbs after rocket fire during Netanyahu rally Israeli ministers and Palestinian terror group Hamas traded threats and accusations Thursday a day after Think about this at Christmas: Israel’s war on Palestinians targets Christians too Here’s a particularly galling thought for Christmas: Israel is much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Hits: 10 Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory December 19-25 2019 December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Palestinian protesters run away from tear gas shot by Israeli army during the “Great March of Return” weekly demonstration near the Israeli-built barrier that surrounds Gaza east of Gaza City Dec 20 2019 Since the beginning of the protests 313 demonstrators have been shot dead and more than 19000 others injured by live ammunition Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun ActiveStills While most American were celebrating Christmas this is what Israel was doing US politicians give Israel over 10 million per day Reposted from Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory 19 – 25 December 2019 45 Palestinians shot and injured including 18 children 3 women and a journalist by IOF near the Gaza border fence at Great March of Return GMR protests in eastern Gaza 7 shootings reported against Palestinian agricultural lands and 3 shootings reported against Palestinian fishing boats east and west of Gaza Strip Shore During 121 IOF incursions into the West Bank including occupied East Jerusalem: 76 civilians arrested including 8 children and 5 women During 2 incursions into the Gaza Strip: 4 Palestinian civilians arrested including 3 children one of them was shot and injured while attempting to sneak into Israel in eastern Gaza Strip 4 houses in occupied Jerusalem and Hebron demolished while vehicles confiscated from the West Bank cities 10 settlers’ attacks reported including burning and puncturing tires throwing stones at vehicles and uprooting trees in the West Bank 71 temporary checkpoints erupted in the West Bank where 4 Palestinian civilians were arrested Summary This week PCHR documented 224 violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law IHL by Israeli occupation forces IOF and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory This week witnessed an increase of Israeli violation regarding demolition and settlement activities in addition to settlers’ attacks and incursions They were as follows: As part of the Israeli shooting and excessive use of force: In terms of excessive use of force IOF wounded 45 Palestinian civilians including 18 children and 3 women on the 85th Friday of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege protest GMR in eastern Gaza Strip IOF shot and injured 11 civilians with live bullets and shrapnel 4 of them deemed in serious health conditions in addition to targeting protestors’ upper body As a result many civilians injured despite the peaceful nature of the protests in the 5 encampments Moreover 7 shootings were reported by IOF at agricultural lands in the Gaza Strip while 3 shootings were reported by the Israeli gunboats against the Palestinian fishing boats east and west of the Gaza Strip no casualties were reported Furthermore a civilian shot and injured in the lower part of his body and arrested while attempting to sneak into Israel via the border fence Under IOF incursions and house raids in addition to arresting Palestinian civilians: IOF carried out 121 incursions into the West Bank including occupied East Jerusalem Those incursions included raids of civilian houses and shootings enticing fear among civilians arresting and/or injuring many others During this week’s incursions 76 Palestinians were arrested including 8 children and 5 women In the Gaza Strip IOF carried out 2 incursions in eastern Khan Younis and northern Gaza Strip no levelling works were reported Under the settlement expansion activities in the West Bank including occupied Jerusalem PCHR documented 12 IOF violations that included banning farmers from afforestation of their lands in Tulkarm and Kisan village east of Bethlehem claiming that these lands are confiscated by IOF demolishing 2 residential tents levelling works to expand ” Shvut Rachel” settlement established in lands of Jaloud village in Nablus demolishing livestock barns confiscating water tanks and an agricultural tractor in Tubas demolishing 2 houses in Jerusalem confiscating a bulldozer and digger and demolishing 2 houses in Hebron PCHR also documented 10 settler-attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property including puncturing vehicles’ tires writing racist slogans in Jerusalem attacking farmers in Bethlehem writing racist slogans in Hebron uprooting 300 olive trees in Bethlhem throwing stones at vehicles in Nablus setting fire in 2 vehicles in Qalqiliyah attacking ‘Ain al-Helwas spring in Northern Jordan Valleys raiding Solomon’s Pools’ archaeological site south of Bethlehem putting the “Menorah Lampstand” at the roof of Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron Old City and cutting 35 olive trees in Ramallah In terms of the Israeli closure policy on 19 December 2019 Israeli authorities decided to decrease the fishing area from 10 to 6 nautical miles off the Gaza Strip shores before increasing it to 15 nautical miles in southern Gaza Strip shores starting from Tuesday morning 24 December 2019 This comes in a time where the Gaza Strip still suffers the worst closure in the History of the Israeli occupation of the oPt as it has entered the 14th consecutive year without any improvement to the movement of persons and goods humanitarian conditions and bearing catastrophic consequences on all aspects of life Furthermore IOF uses Erez Crossing that is designated for movement of individuals as an ambush to arrest Palestinians who obtain permits to exit via Israel Meanwhile the West Bank is divided into separate cantons with key roads blocked by the Israeli occupation since the Second Intifada and with temporary and permanent checkpoints where civilians movement is restricted and they are subject to arrest In this week IOF established 71 temporary checkpoints and arrested 4 Palestinians Violation of the right to life and to bodily integrity Excessive Use of Force against Protests in the Gaza Strip On the 85th Friday 20 December 2019 weekly protests were launched in eastern Gaza Strip in solidarity with Hebron Governorate which has been lately the target of Israeli settlement schemes This Friday’s protest titled: “Hebron is a thorn in the way of efforts to create a Jewish majority” resulted in the injury of 45 civilians including 18 children 3 women and a journalist The incidents were as follows: Northern Gaza Strip: demonstrations took place in northeast of Jabalia and northern Gaza Strip A few protesters threw stones at IOF stationed along the border fence Israeli attacks resulted in the injury of 15 civilians including 6 children a woman and a journalist one of them was deemed in serious condition: 3 civilians including a child and 3 of them including a girl and an elderly woman were shot with live bullets and shrapnel 11 including 3 children were shot with rubber bullets and a child was hit with a tear gas canister The wounded journalist Thair Khaled Fahmi Abu Rayash 24 was shot with a rubber bullet in his left leg ‘Emad Fraij Mohammed Soboh 43 was deemed in serious condition after being shot with a live bullet that entered his back and exited his abdomen Gaza City: protests took part in Malaka area in eastern Gaza City IOF shot and injured protestors with live and rubber bullets as well as tear gas canisters As a result a child was shot with a rubber bullet in the face Central Gaza Strip: IOF stationed behind sand berms and in military SUVs along the border fence in eastern al-Buriej Camp fired live and rubber bullets as well as tear gas canisters at protestors The shooting which lasted until 17:00 resulted in the injury of 6 civilians including a woman and a child: 3 were shot with live bullets and 3 were shot with rubber bullets The wounded were taken to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah: Ibrahim Mahmoud Saleh Abu Khashab 24 was deemed in serious condition after being shot with a live bullet in his abdomen and admitted to Intensive Care Unit ICU while others’ injuries were classified between moderate to minor Furthermore dozens of protestors suffocated due to tear gas inhalation some of them were treated on spot while others were taken to hospitals Khan Younis: Hundreds civilians joined today’s protests in Khuza’ah area in eastern Khan Younis Most of the protesters stayed in the encampment for the activities while only few dozens gathered near the border fence and attempted to throw stones and Molotov cocktails IOF fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at them As a result 9 civilians including 2 children and a woman were shot with rubber bullets Moreover dozens of protestors suffocated due to tear gas inhalation Rafah: hundreds of protestors gathered in eastern al-Shawka neighborhood while others remained at the protest encampment where speeches and theatrical performances were performed Dozens attempted to approach the fence and throw stones IOF fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at protestors As a result 14 civilians including 8 children were injured 2 were deemed in serious condition including a child: 5 shot with live bullets 5 with rubber bullets and 4 were hit with tear gas canisters Those sustained serious wounds were identified: Hazem Khaled Abu Jaridah 20 who was shot with a live bullet in his neck and referred to the Gaza European Hospital Basel ‘Abdul Raouf Salam al-Lolahi 15 who was shot with a live bullet upper his thigh Excessive Use of Force against Protests in the West Bank At the end of Friday prayer on 20 December 2019 dozens of civilians carrying olive trees to implant them in al-Qubeyat area which is threatened to be confiscated by IOF Al-Qubeyat area is located near “Homesh” settlement that is unpopulated northwest of Nablus When the protestors approached the abovementioned area a number of soldiers were waiting them The soldiers dispersed the protestors by firing tear gas canisters at them and chasing them Shooting and other violations of the right to life and bodily integrity At approximately 07:30 on Thursday 19 December 2019 Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence in eastern Khan Younis north of the Gaza Strip fired a number of tear gas canisters at agricultural lands northeast of the city As a result many farmers the area residents and schools’ students suffocated due to tear gas inhalation Abu al-‘Ala’a al-Ma’ari School for girls which is about 1 kilo meter away from the border fence was evacuated for few minutes At approximately 09:15 on the same Thursday Israeli gunboats stationed in northwest of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Strip pumped water at a fishing boat that was moored at a distance of 2 nautical miles The boat is owned by Zuhair Abdul Rahman Zuhair al-‘Amoudi 21 from al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City As a result the boats sustained damage including 6 searchlights a generator and a number of fishing nets in the area At approximately 16:00 on the same Thursday a number of Palestinian young men gathered at the western entrance to al-‘Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron and threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed at a watchtower located in the camp’s main entrance The soldiers chased stone-throwers and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them No arrests were reported At approximately 23:05 on the same Thursday Israeli warplanes launched 2 missiles at an empty land in eastern al-Shoka village east of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip No casualties were reported At approximately 07:50 on Friday 20 December 2019 Israeli gunboats stationed northwest of Beit Lahia in northern of the Gaza Strip chased and heavily opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats sailing within 3 nautical miles As a result fishermen were forced to flee fearing for their lives No casualties were reported At approximately 10:00 on the same Friday Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence in eastern al-Shoka village east of Rafah fired tear gas canisters at a number of Palestinian shepherds As a result the shepherds suffocated due to tear gas inhalation and left the area At approximately 21:00 on the same Friday Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence east of Deir al-Balah opened fire at agricultural lands adjacent to the border fence No casualties were reported At approximately 08:30 on Sunday 22 December 2019 Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence east of al-Buraij opened fire at agricultural lands adjacent to the border fence No casualties were reported At approximately 09:00 on the same Sunday Israeli gunboats stationed northwest of Beit Lahia northern Gaza Strip heavily opened fire at a fishing boat that was moored at a distance of 15 nautical miles The boat is owned by Fahed Zeyad Hasan Baker 43 from al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City As a result 8 searchlights were broken It should be noted that this kind of boats is called “Felucca Boats” which is uninhabited boat where lambs are installed on it to gather the fish around it to facilitate fishing Fishermen usually leave these boats in the water At approximately 16:00 on the same Sunday fisherman Baker went to check the boat and found all the searchlights were damaged after Israeli naval forces opened fire at them At approximately 07:30 on Monday 23 December 2019 Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence in eastern Khan Younis opened fire at a group of bird hunters east of al-Farahin neighbourhood in ‘Abasan As a result bird hunters left the area fearing for their lives No casualties were reported At approximately 11:00 on the same Monday Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence in eastern al-Buraij opened fire at Sami Namer Salem al-Nabahin 32 when he attempted to sneak through the border fence to Israel As a result al-Nabahin was wounded in his lower extremities and arrested by IOF and taken to Soroka Medical Center for treatment Al-Nabahin 32 from al-Buraij refugee camp was interrogated at the hospital and released at approximately 16:00 on the next day evening via Erez crossing north of the Gaza Strip At approximately 19:30 on the same Monday IOF stationed along the border fence fired flare bombs and artillery shells at the east of Wadi al-Salqa village east of Deir al-Balah No casualties were reported At approximately 15:00 on Wednesday 25 December 2019 a number of Palestinian young men gathered at the entrance to al-‘Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron and threw stones at Israeli military vehicles stationed near the military watchtower Israeli soldiers chased stone-throwers between houses and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them As a result a number of young men suffocated due to tear gas inhalation The clashes continued until 18:00 on the same day The soldiers arrested Mohammed Mahmoud Jawabrah 18 and Jamal Nawaf Jawabrah 19 Incursions and arrests Thursday 19 December 2019: At approximately 00:00 IOF moved into ‘Eliyan neighborhood in al-‘Issawiyah village northeast of occupied East Jerusalem They arrested Ahmed Abdul Salam Abu Roumi 19 and beat him after raiding and searching his house At approximately 00:30 IOF moved into Jenin They raided and searched several houses and arrested Mohammed Mousa Jalamnah 20 from the eastern neighborhood in the city At the same time IOF moved into Jenin refugee camp west of the city They raided and searched several houses and arrested Nidal Rebhi al-Shalabi 23 and Walid Jamal Mohammed Husein 26 At approximately 01:00 an Israeli force reinforced with several military SUVs moved into al-Thahriyah village south of Hebron and stationed in Duma area They raided and searched the house of Ibrahim Mahmoud Hawarin 40 and withdrew later from the area No casualties were reported Half an hour later an Israeli forces reinforced with several military SUVs moved into Beit Kahel village northwest of Hebron They raided and searched Ahmed Sami al-‘Atawnah 23’s house and arrested him The same force also raided and searched other houses of al-‘Atawnah family No arrests were reported At approximately 02:30 IOF moved into al-Jalazoun refugee camp north of Ramallah A number of Palestinian young men gathered and threw stones at Israeli soldiers The soldiers chased the protestors between residential buildings and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them As a result a number of young men suffocated due to tear gas inhalation In the meanwhile IOF raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 3 civilians including a child namely: Mousa ‘Essa Sharakah 917 Jihad Mesbah Abu Sbaih 23 and ‘Eliyan Jihad Sharakah 46 An Israeli Intelligence officer phone called ‘Elyain’s wife and ordered her to turn on her son Jihad At approximately 03:30 Israeli forces moved into Abu Shkhiedem village north of Ramallah They arrested Kamal Faisal Qendah 25 after they raided and searched his house At the same time IOF moved into ‘Ein Yabrud village northeast of Ramallah They arrested Suleiman Samih Qatash 14 after raiding and searching his house At approximately 15:30 Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence in eastern al-Buraij area arrested 3 Palestinian children who attempted to sneak into Israel and cross the border fence The arrested children were identified as: Mahmoud Ahmed Abdul Qader al-Dabbagh 16 Mohanned Tahseen Faraj 17 Osamah Omer Shehdah al-Khaldi 16 all of them are from al-Buraij refugee camp At approximately 02:30 on the next day IOF released the them through Beit Hanoun “Erez” crossing IOF carried out 12 incursions in Dura and al-Shuyoukh village in Hebron ‘Alar village in Tulkarm ‘Azzoun village in Qalqiliyah Haras village in Salfit al-Zababdah village southeast of Jenin Madama village southeast of Nablus Birzeit Kuber Betunia Abu Qash and Sarda villages in Ramallah No arrests were reported Friday 20 December 2019: At approximately 08:30 IOF moved into the northern entrance to Talfit village southeast of Nablus They raided and searched commercial shops located at the village main entrance and confiscated the recordings of the surveillance cameras the head office of the Village Council and a house IOF carried out 2 incursions in Nablus and Qabatiyah southeast of Jenin No arrests were reported Saturday 21 December 2019: At approximately 08:30 IOF moved into al-Ras al-Ahmar area in the Northern Jordan Valleys They raided and searched a number of residential tents and then withdrew from the area No arrests were reported IOF carried out 6 incursions in ‘Azzoun and Juyous villages in Qalqiliyah al-Samou’a Yatta Beit al-Roush al-Fouqa and Sa’ir villages in Hebron No arrests were reported Sunday 22 December 2019: At approximately 01:00 IOF moved into Hendazah area southeast of Bethlehem They raided and searched Mahmoud Hasan al-Wardiyan 42’s house and hnded him a summons to refer to Israeli Intelligence Service in “Gush Etzion” settlement south of the city At approximately 01:40 an Israeli force reinforced with a number of military SU moved into Beit Ummer village north of Hebron and stationed in Khelat al-‘Ain and al-Thuhor areas The soldiers deployed between houses and patrolled the area They raided and searched 3 houses of Jawdat Suleiman Bahar and his brother Jawad Mohammed ‘Essa Bahar and Mohammed Mohsen Za’aqiq The soldiers used police dogs during their search and locked each family in a room for 2 hours They also damaged the houses’ contents Before their withdrawal the soldiers arrested Suleiman Jawdat Suleiman Bahar 19 and Mohsen Mohammed Mohsen Za’aqiq 19 At approximately 08:00 IOF moved into Bab al-Rahmah prayer hall east of al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem They arrested Netham Rushdi Abu Romouz 38 while performing prayers Abu Romouz was chased several times by the Israeli police due to his constant presence at al-Aqsa Mosque and denied access to al-Aqsa Mosque 3 times Meanwhile more than 80 settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque square At approximately 13:00 IOF moved into Taqou’a village east of Bethlehem They banned municipality crews from practicing their job at the village northern entrance and detained a number of them Taiseer Abu Mefreh head of Taqou’a’s Municipality said that IOF moved into the village northern entrance during the municipality crew’s work The soldiers banned them and detained a number of them claiming that the crew need a permit from Israeli authorities to do their job At approximately 15:00 IOF arrested Mohammed ‘Ali Hasan Shana’ah 32 from ‘Anata village north of Qalqiliyah taking him to “Gilad Zohar” settlement established in the east of Far’ata village Shana’ah was released after being questioned about a Palestinian flag that was present near his house At approximately 15:30 IOF moved into ‘Ain al-Baida village east of Tubas They raidd and searched the house of Abdullah Mustafa Qabha and confiscated a forklift claiming that it was stolen Qabha confirmed that he owns the forklift and he bought it from Jerusalem and have the purchase papers He added that the cost of the forklift was about NIS 20000 At the same time IOF arrested Abdul Rahman Kahlil Mohammed Mahmoud 39 while he was at his vehicle in north of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City Mahmoud is from al-‘Issawiyah village northeast of occupied East Jerusalem and served 17 years in the Israeli prison and was released in last February At approximately 18:00 IOF moved into ‘Obeid neighborhood in al-‘Issawiyah village northeast of occupied East Jerusalem They raided and searched several houses and arrested 3 civilians including 2 children namely: Ahmed Moneer ‘Obeid 14 Ahmed Maher ‘Obeid 16 and Amir Abdullah ‘Awad 19 At approximately 20:30 IOF moved into Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood east of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City They raided and searched 2 houses of Mohammed Salah Abu Madi 16 and Omer ‘Amer Abu Madi 18 and arrested them IOF carried out 6 incursions in Yatma and Qablan villages southeast of Nablus Durra Hebron Nuba and Taffuh villages in Qalqiliyah Monday 23 December 2019: At approximately 01:00 an Israeli force reinforced with several military SUVs moved into Surif village northwest of Hebron They raided and searched 3 houses and arrested 3 civilians namely: Nadim Khalid Ghuneimat 24 ‘Odai Khalid Ghuneimat 26 and Loai Hasan Abu Saleh 19 At the same time IOF moved into Qalandiya refugee camp north of occupied East Jerusalem They raided and searched Mohammed Nayef Abu Shanab 23’s house and arrested At approximately 01:40 IOF moved into ‘Alar village north of Tulkarm They arrested Diya’a Namer ‘Adnan Taqatqah 25 after they raided and searched his house At approximately 02:00 IOF moved into occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City They arrested Rawhi Mahmoud al-Kalaghasi 23 after they raided and searched his house At approximately 02:30 IOF reinforced with several military SUVs moved into Ethna village west of Hebron They raided and searched Shaher Rayan Tamizi 33’s house and arrested him At approximately 04:20 IOF moved into Ni’lin village west of Ramallah They raided and searched several houses and arrested 3 civilians namely: Mohammed Salah Sorour 24 Hamed Ibrahim Srour 23 and Sadeq Yasser Sorour 25 At approximately 09:00 IOF moved into Bab al-Rahmah prayer hall in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City They arrested and attacked 4 women who are constantly present in the area and attend religious seminars at al-Aqsa Mosque IOF claimed that these women were present in the path of Israeli settlers’ incursions The arrested women were identified as: Fatmab al-Sous 57 Sou’ad Ghurab 60 Lawaheth al-Shuyoukhi 55 and Elham Abu Sbaih 51 It should be noted that arresting these women coincided with the incursion of more than 232 settlers of al-Aqsa Mosque square from Bab al-Magharbah area The settlers were secured by Israeli police that restricted the entrance of Palestinian civilians and students receiving religious lessons at al-Aqsa Mosque and detained ID cards of some of them At approximately 11:00 Israeli soldiers stationed at Checkpoint 160 east of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of Hebron’s Old City arrested Nour Eden Ra’ed Hasan 16 a child with a disability claiming that they found a knife with him The soldiers took him to a police center At approximately 15:00 IOF arrested ‘Ali Hashem Abu ‘Ayash 19 from Beit Ummer village north of Tulkarm after detaining him at a temporary checkpoint near the entrance at al-‘Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron Abu ‘Ayash was taken to a detention center in “Gush Etzion” settlement south of Bethlehem At the same time IOF moved into Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood east of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City They raided and searched Majd Ismail al-‘Abasi 21’s house and handed him a summons to refer to the Israeli Intelligence Service in “Ouz” police station south of occupied Jerusalem At approximately 15:30 IOF arrested 3 children adjacent to Bethlehem’s northern entrance The arrestees were identified as Abdullah ‘Essa al-Najjar 15 ‘Ezz Eden Majed al-‘Ezzah 15 and Mohammed Bashir al-‘Ezzah 15 IOF carried out 2 incursions in Sa’ir and Hebron No arrests were reported Tuesday 24 December 2019: At approximately 00:30 IOF moved into ‘Aqabat Jaber refugee camp south of Jericho They raided and searched Shadi Mohammed Abu Hadid 26’s house and arrested him At approximately 01:00 IOF moved into Beit Daqu village northwest of occupied East Jerusalem They raided and searched Khaled Bassam Dawoud 33’s house and arrested him At the same time IOF moved into Silwad village northeast of Ramallah They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Adam Fathi al-Ghoul 24 and ‘Asef Omer Abdul Ghani 22 At approximately 01:30 IOF moved into Nablus and stationed in Nablus neighborhood They raided and searched Osama Emad al-Masimi 30’s house and arrested him At approximately 02:00 an Israeli force reinforced with military SUVs moved into Beit ‘Awa village west of Durra southwest of Hebron They raided and searched Yahiya Mahmoud Saleh 23’s house and arrested him At the same time IOF moved into Beit Fajjar village south of Bethlehem They raided and searched several houses and arrested 3 civilians including a child namely: Omer Kayed Taqatqa 22 Fadi Fayez Taqatqa 23 and Sanad Amjad Taqatqa 16 At approximately 03:00 an Israeli force reinforced with several military SUVs moved into Halhoul north of Hebron They raided and searched a house belonging to Mohammed Eyad al-Baw 33 and arrested him At the same time an Israeli force reinforced with several military SUVs moved into Beit Ummer village north of Hebron and stationed in Saf neighborhood They raided and searched 2 houses and arrested ‘Obeid Ghazi Hasan ‘Adi 20 and Nadim Falah Mohammed Abu ‘Ayash 28 At the same time IOF moved into Sebastia village northwest of Nablus They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Ja’afar ‘Aziz Haroun Kayed 19 At the same time IOF moved into al-‘Issawiyah village northeast of occupied East Jerusalem They raided and searched several houses after which they arrested 13 civilians including a child and took them to an unknown destination The names of the arrestees are available at PCHR At approximately 03:20 IOF reinforced with a number of military SUVs moved into Um al-Sharayet and Sateh Marhaba neighborhoods in the southern side of the city A number of Palestinian young men gathered and threw stones at Israeli vehicles IOF chased the protestors between houses and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them no casualties were reported In the meanwhile Israeli soldiers raided and searched a number of houses including the house of Ahmed Suleiman Qatamesh 69 political writer and researcher in the Palestinian cause affairs and arrested him Qatamesh served more than 12 years in the Israeli prison as he was arrested several times Israeli soldiers also raided and searched Diya’a Jamil Nawarah 20 a students at Birzeit University from Sateh Marhaba neighborhood and arrested him At the same time IOF moved into Betunia village west of Ramallah They raided and searched Akram Mohammed Salmah 27’s house and arrested him At the same time IOF moved into Ramallah and stationed in al-Irsal neighborhood They arrested Ja’far ‘Aziz Kayed 21 a student at Birzeit University after they raided and searched his house At approximately 04:00 IOF moved into al-Tour neighborhood east of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City They raided and searched Daniel Zuhair Abu Nasrah 18’s house and beat and arrested him At approximately 00:00 IOF reinforced with a number of military SUVs moved about 100 meters into the east of ‘Abasan villages east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip They leveled lands adjacent to the border fence for hours and later redeployed along the border fence IOF carried out 23 incursions in Tal and ‘Iraq burin villages southeast of Nablus Yatta Masafer Yatta Surif al-Rihiyah villages and al-Fawa refugee camp in Heborn al-Zababdah Rabab Masliyah Sanour al-Silah al-Harithiyah Romanah and Ta’nak villages in Jenin Deir Sharaf Qablan Yatma and Madama villages in Nablus Kuber Deir Netham and al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiyah villages north of Ramallah Jericho and al-‘Ouja villages northeast of Jericho Wednesday 25 December 2019: At approximately 01:00 IOF reinforced with a number of military SUVs moved into Kherbat Um al-Safa southeast of Yatta south of Hebron They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 3 civilians namely Ibrahim Hasan Dawoud 22 Majdi Mahmoud Dawoud 19 and Mohammed Mahmoud Dawoud At approximately 01:30 an Israeli force reinforced with a number of military SUVs moved into al-Samou’s village south of Hebron They raided and searched Mohammed ‘Omran al-Daghamin 33’s house and arrested him At approximately 08:15 IOF reinforced with a number of military SUVs moved about 100 meters into the south of the border fence north of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip they leveled and combed lands that were leveled previously and sporadically opened fire at the area At approximately 22:30 on the same day evening IOF withdrew from the area no casualties were reported In the morning IOF arrested Ahmed ‘Ali Wahdan 21 from Jenin refugee camp while passing through a temporary checkpoint established by IOF in the west of IOF carried out 12 incursions in Nablus Deir Sharaf ‘Aqraba Burin Madama and ‘Ourta villages in Nablus al-Zababdah and Zabuba villages in Jenin al-Burj Dura Hebron ad Beit Awla villages in Hebron No arrests were reported Settlement Expansion and settler violence in the West Bank including occupied East Jerusalem Demolition and Confiscation of Civilian Property for Settlement Expansion Activities At approximately 10:00 on Saturday 21 December 2019 IOF moved into Middle Mount area southeast of Tulkarm They prevented civilians from planting trees in their lands claiming these lands were confiscated and forcing the farmers to leave the area at gunpoint The farmers had planted part of the lands with olive and forest seedlings as part of activities organized by the national factions in Tulkarm and local councils in the villages of al-Kafriyat and ‘Ezbet Shofah Those activities came after the Israeli government announced seizure of 788 dunums of these lands in favor of a new industrial settlement area According to this project the agricultural area will turn into industrial and commercial areas where there are transportation buildings public institutions car parking and roads for the new industrial settlement On the same day morning an Israeli military force moved into agricultural lands in Kisan village east of Bethlehem They prevented the lands’ owners from plowing their lands and forced them to leave after threatening to arrest them Hussein Ghazal an activist said that IOF moved into this 100-dunum land and the officer in charge informed the Palestinian farmers that they are only allowed to enter their lands if they refer to the Military Governance office in “Gosh ‘Etzion” settlement complex in order to obtain an entry permit Ghazal said that IOF impose obstacles before lands’ owners preluding to seize the lands as the settlers in the nearby settlements continuously chase and attack farmers the latest was against farmer ‘Atallah Ibrahim ‘Abyat when settlers sic their dogs on him At approximately 08:00 on Monday 23 December 2019 IOF accompanied with Israeli Civil Administration officers and a construction vehicle moved into Kherbet Tana northeast of Nablus The construction vehicle demolished 2 residential tents of 50 square meters belonging to Hakam Zohdi Nasasrah and Yousif Fayez Nasasrah and confiscated their pillars They then damaged the trees planted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the international and local organizations in Tana Nature Reserve which is around 90 dunums and planted with 3000 forest trees At approximately 08:30 on the same day IOF accompanied with a construction vehicle moved into Khelet Abu Salah in the Northern Jordan Valley east of Tubas The construction vehicle demolished residential tents and sheep barns in addition to confiscating drinking water tanks aiming to displace farmers Those affected were: Ibrahim Sa’id Zayed Abu Thaher: his 60-square-meter tent which sheltered 9 family members including 5 children was demolished as well as a barrack for sheep and a water tank was confiscated Zainab Soliman Salem Abu Thaher: his 60-square-meter sheltering 2 persons was demolished as well as a 120-square-meter sheep barn and a water tank was confiscated During the demolition IOF detained ‘Aref Ahmed Tawfiq Daraghmah 50 B’tselem’s fieldworker in his own car After the demolition an Israeli officer sat next to Daraghmah in his car and forced him to drive to Bak’out settlement where a Civil Administration officer handed Daraghmah a decision to confiscate his car after telling him that he makes trouble for the Israeli soldiers and settlers in the valleys Daraghmah was released but his car was confiscated and taken to al-Mazkouh camp around 2 kilometers away from the settlement On the same day morning IOF construction vehicles was leveling in favour of expanding and building more settlement units in ” Shiloh” and “Shvut Rachel” settlements established on the lands of Jaloud Qaryout and Qesrah villages southeast of Nablus Building these units came despite the decision issued last year by the Israeli High Court to stop all the construction and expansion works in “Shvut Rachel” settlement and despite the challenge filed by the Jaloud and Qaryout village councils via “Yish Din” Organization against the plan of expanding “Shiloh” settlement and building more than 175 new settlement units Although the challenge is being considered by the High Court IOF started leveling Jaloud village lands without waiting for the final court ruling At approximately 06:00 on Tuesday 24 December 2019 Israeli Muncipality construction vehicles demolished a house belonging to Shqeirat Family in “Khelet al-‘Abed” area in al-Mukaber Mount village south of occupied East Jerusalem under the pretext of building without a license The house was built in 2016 on an area of 260 square meters and divided into 3 residential units sheltering Montaser Salah Shqeirat with his wife and child and Amin Salah Shqeirat with his wife and 4 children Montaser Shqeirat one of the houses’ owners said that Israeli Muncipality staffs raided his family house in the early morning and expelled the house residents despite the cold weather in addition to banning them from taking out the house contents He added that the Israeli municipality staffs only took out some furniture before starting the demolition He also said that the Israeli Municipality imposed on him an “unlicensed construction fine” of 120000 NIS forcing the family to pay it monthly It should be noted that the municipality surrounded the family house last month to demolish it however the demolition decision was frozen The court later rejected the decision to freeze the demolition so the municipality staffs headed on that morning and carried out the demolition At approximately 10:00 on the same day the Israeli municipality construction vehicles demolished a residential under-construction building in al-‘Issawiyah village northeast of occupied East Jerusalem under the pretext of unlicensed construction Jamal ‘Ata ‘Elian said that the Israeli vehicles demolished his building for the second time consecutively as it was of 3 floors and demolished last May He added that after months of the first demolition he rebuilt it so he can live there with his family and started the licensing measures However on that day morning he was surprised with the Israeli municipality staffs demolishing the building which comprised of 2 floors the ground floor used as a parking and the first floor as an apartment to shelter his family Around the same time IOF moved into Thaghret al-Shabak area adjacent to Bypass Road 60 northeast of Hebron They stormed an agricultural land of 14 dunums belonging to Nabil Munir Baraghit 55 and his brothers and then declared the area as a closed military zone They prevented the vehicles from plowing the land and confiscated a construction vehicle belonging to Mohammed ‘Omer Abu Ayyash and an excavator belonging to Samer Mohammed Ikhalyel They took the confiscated vehicles to “Gosh ‘Etzion” settlement south of Bethlehem It should be noted that the mentioned land is located near “Beit al-Berkah” that was seized months ago by the Israeli settlers claiming they bought it from a Swedish organization Around the same time IOF accompanied with a vehicle belonging to the Civil Administration moved into Kherbet Ghwein west of al-Samou’a village south of Hebron The soldiers were deployed between houses while the excavator started demolishing a house belonging to Ibrahim Khader Isma’il Hawamdah 46 and sheltering his 10-member family The 100-square-meter house built of tin plates was demolished under the pretext of unlicensed construction It should be mentioned that the Israeli authorities notified on 03 July 2019 to demolish the new building within 96 hours under the pretext of building without a license The family then challenged the demolition notice before the court while the Israeli authorities again notified the house under the pretext of rioting archeology The court rejected the challenge 2 months ago and issued a decision to demolish the building At approximately 11:30 IOF moved into Moghayer al-‘Abid area southeast of Yata southwest of Hebron The excavator demolished a 66-square-meter dwelling built of bricks and tin plates and belonging to Fayez Ibrahim Shehadah Abu ‘Aram and his 4 member family It should be noted that the Israeli authorities notified the dwelling’s owner that they would demolish it within 96 hours not giving the family enough time to prepare a legal file to challenge the decision before the Beit El Military Court On Wednesday morning 25 December 2019 the Israeli construction vehicles leveled lands in favor of expansion activities and construction of new settlement units in “Yitsihar” settlement that was established on the lands of Madma Burin ‘Asirah al-Qabaliyah ‘Einabous and Howarah villages southeast of Nablus Eyewitnesses said that the IOF leveled those lands in an area in southern Madama village that is classified Area “B” in a prelude to confiscate it Israeli Settler Violence At approximately 02:00 on Thursday 19 December 2019 Israeli settlers moved into al-Khalaylah neighborhood northwest of occupied East Jerusalem They punctured the tires of Palestinian vehicles and wrote racist slogans on the walls threatening the Palestinian residents Recently the attacks by the “Price Tag” extreme groups against the Palestinian property repeated especially burning vehicles and puncturing tires in Jerusalem It should be mentioned that IOF always arrive at the scene interrogate the Palestinian civilians and take their testimonies However the incidents are always recorded anonymously The Price Tag groups include extreme settlers who carry out hostilities against the Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem On the same day morning Israeli settlers moved into Kisan village east of Bethlehem and prevented the Palestinian farmers from plowing their lands They forced the farmers to leave and attacked ‘Atallah Ibrahim ‘Abayat 53 They sic their dogs on him and he was taken to Beit Jala Governmental Hospital to receive medical treatment Ahmed Ghazal Deputy Head of the Kisan Village Council said “settlers from “Evi Hanahel” settlement beat up the mentioned farmer and sic their dogs on him As a result ‘Abayat sustained various wounds and taken to Beit Jala Hospital for medical treatment” Ghazal added that the settlers attacked ‘Abayat after he refused to obey their orders to leave his land for them noting that such attacks recently recurred and shepherds have become afraid for their lives At approximately 04:20 2 settlers from Giv’at Ha’avot settlement outpost established on the lands of eastern Hebron arrived at the house of ‘Abdel Karim Mahmoud al-Ja’bari in al-Hussein Valley adjacent to the outpost and wrote racist slogans against Arabs signed by the “Price Tag” groups on 2 vehicles parked on the main road At approximately 06:00 settlers moved into the lands al-Ghawit Valley area in al-Khader village west of Bethlehem They uprooted 300 olive trees and seized them The land’s owner Hisham al-Barmil said that he was surprised with a call from his neighbors telling him about what happened He immediately headed to his 30-dunum land to see hundreds of the trees that were planted tens of years ago uprooted and seized by settlers It should be mentioned that it was not the first attack by settlers on the area as 2 months ago they attacked plantings in the area causing losses to the farmers At approximately 15:30 on the same day settlers from Yitsihar settlement established on the lands of Burin Madma ‘Asiret al-Qabilah and ‘Orif villages southeast of Nablus threw stones at the Palestinian cars traveling on “Yitsihar” Bypass Road and Madma Bridge near “Yitshar” settlement As a result the windshield of a bus belonging to Redwan Ma’arouf Hussein ‘Asayrah 58 was broken At approximately 02:00 on Friday 20 December 2019 settlers from “Havat Gilad” settlement moved into the southeastern area of Fre’ata village north of Qalqilya They set fire to 2 vehicles belonging to Saher ‘Abdel Rahim Rafiq Salim and Thaer Raed ‘Abdel Rahim Salim They wrote racist slogans against Arabs on the floor and walls of a house belonging to Saher ‘Abdel Rahim Salim ‘Abdel Men’em Shana’ah Head of Fre’ata Village Council said: “At approximately 02:30 on Friday 20 December 2019 one of the area residents called to tell me that the area and cars were on fire I immediately headed to the area where 2 cars parked in front of Saher Salim’s house were on fire but we could not do anything The Civil Defense arrived to extinguish the fire and the area was full of racist slogans on the walls and floor of Saher Salim’s house Next morning we contacted the competent authority to tell them about what happened” On the same day morning settlers moved into the Northern Valleys area east of Tubas They started repairing ‘Ein al-Helweh Spring that is used by the Valleys’ farmers for drinking and irrigation The farmers said that they were surprised with settlers’ repairing the spring aiming to seize it and prevent civilians from using it At approximately 10:00 on Saturday 21 December 2019 around 100 armed Israeli settlers moved into ancient Solomon’s Pools south of Bethlehem They wandered with their dogs and bathed in the springs while others swam in one of the pools under the IOF protection It should be mentioned that settlers come to the pools from time to time under the IOF protection and the area residents are afraid of the Israeli territorial appetites although the pools are located in Area “A” and many Palestinian projects are established there At approximately 10:00 on Monday 23 December 2019 Israeli settlers under the IOF heavy guard placed the “Menorah” lampstand on the roof of al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City This step is part of the settlers’ ongoing attempts to take over the mosque that started in 1994 when a settler carried out a massacre against the worshippers in the mosque On the same day afternoon Israeli settlers from “‘Aadi ‘Aad” settlement under the IOF protection cut and damaged 35 olive trees in a land belonging to Ratib Haj Na’asan in al-Seder area in al-Moghir village northeast of Ramallah Nash’at Nas’asan 38 said that at approximately 15:30 on the same day he saw 10 settlers approaching the barbed wire surrounding the trees in al-Seder area They destroyed it and then entered the land to cut the olive trees and damage the branches They then fled away to their settlement Closure policy and restrictions on freedom of movement of persons and goods Gaza Strip On Thursday morning 19 December 2019 IOF decided to decrease the allowed fishing area between 6 to 10 nautical miles off the Gaza Strip shore Nizar ‘Ayash Head of the Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli authorities informed the Palestinian Civil Affairs of reducing the fishing area all the way to the northern Gaza Strip to 6 nautical miles and to 10 nautical miles in the central and southern Gaza Strip It should be noted that the allowed fishing area before the decision was 15 nautical miles off the southern Gaza Strip However Maj Gen Kamil Abu Rukun known as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said that the fishing area will be expanded back to 15 nautical miles starting from Tuesday 23 December 2019 at 08:00 He added that the Gaza fishing area expansion would remain only as long as Gaza fishermen stayed within the permitted boundaries West Bank In addition to permanent checkpoints and closed roads this week witnessed the establishment of more temporary checkpoints that restrict the goods and individuals movement between villages and cities and deny civilians’ access to their work IOF established 70 temporary checkpoints and arrested 3Palestinian civilians The military checkpoint were as follows: Jerusalem: At approximately 13:00 on Sunday 22 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance to Beit Daqo village northwest of occupied East Jerusalem They denied the movement of hundreds of cars and civilians for hours Eyewitnesses said that the checkpoint is being almost daily established especially in the peak hours only aiming at obstructing civilians’ daily life On the same day IOF established 3 checkpoints at Jaba’a village intersection the entrance to Badou village and the entrance to ‘Anata village in occupied East Jerusalem On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance of al-Ram village north of occupied East Jerusalem On Tuesday 24 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance to Badou village northwest of occupied East Jerusalem Bethlehem: On Sunday 22 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the entrance of Nahalin village intersection of al-Freides village in ‘Aqabet Hasnah area and at the western entrance to Housan village On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the northern entrance to Taqou’a village near the intersection of al-Nashash in ‘Aqbet Hasnah area and at the western entrance to Taqou’a village On Tuesday 24 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the northern entrance to Taqou’a village the entrance to Beit Jala the western entrance to Beit Fajjar village and ‘Aqbet Hasnah area near the main road to the western villages of Bethlehem Hebron: On Thursday 19 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the southern entrance to Halhoul and no arrests were reported On Friday 20 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the entrances to al-‘Aroub refugee camp al-Nabi Mousa and Halhoul and northern entrance to Hebron At approximately 11:00 on Saturday 21 December 2019 IOF closed the entrances to the villages in Yatta south of Hebron and established checkpoints They denied Yatta residents access to the main road under the pretext that a marathon would be organized by settlers The closure continued for 4 consecutive hours forcing the Palestinian civilians to take roads that are far away from the main road On the same day IOF established 2 checkpoints at the southern entrance to Hahoul and the entrance to Tarqoumia village On Sunday 22 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the southern entrance to Hebron and the entrances to Ethna al-Shyoukh and Deir Razeh villages On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established 3 checkpoints at al-Fawar refugee camp al-Thaheriyah village and al-Kom village On Tuesday 24 December 2019 IOF established 3 checkpoints at the entrances to al-‘Aroub refugee camp Beit Ummar village and Deir Samit village On Wednesday 25 December 2019 IOF established 4 checkpoints at the entrances to al-Aroub refugee camp Sa’ir village Yatta and al-Thaheriyah village Ramallah and al-Bireh: On Thursday 19 December 2019 IOF established 2 checkpoints at the entrances to Beit ‘Or village and al-Jalazone refugee camp On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established 3 similar checkpoints at the entrances to al-Nabi Saleh and ‘Otarah villages northwest of Ramallah On Tuesday 24 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance to al-Nabi Saleh village Qalqiliyah and Salfit: On Thursday 19 December 2019 IOF established checkpoints at the entrances to ‘Azoun village in Qalqiliyah and Deir Balout village in Salfit On Friday 20 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance to ‘Ezbet al-Tabib village in Qalqiliyah On Saturday 21 December 2019 IOF established checkpoints at the entrances to ‘Ezbet al-Tabib and Jeet villages in Qalqiliyah On Sunday 22 December 2019 IOF established checkpoints at the entrance to al-Nabi Elias in Qalqiliyah at the northern entrance to Salfit and at the entrance to Marda village At approximately 17:00 on Monday 23 December 2019 IOF closed the entrances to Salfit City and the entrances to Yasouf and Kafl Haris villages in Salfit Nablus: On Thursday 19 December 2019 IOF established 2 checkpoints at the western entrance to Qeblan village southeast of Nablus and at the southern entrance to Tal village southwest of Nablus On Friday 20 December 2019 IOF stationed at ‘Awerta checkpoint at the southern entrance to Nablus tightened their arbitrary restrictions against the Palestinian civilians who cross the checkpoint and undergo thorough searches before being allowed to cross On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance to Bita village branching from Ramallah-Nablus Street On the same day IOF obstructed the movement at the checkpoints of Shavi Shamron northwest of Nablus Za’tarah southeast of Nablus and Beit Forik village northeast of Nablus They checked the passengers’ ID cards but no arrests were reported On Tuesday 23 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint in al-Moraba’ah area that connects the villages of Tal Burin and ‘Iraq Burin with Nablus south of the city Jenin: On Saturday 21 December 2019 IOF established 2 checkpoints at the western entrance to al-Zababdah village and at the entrance to ‘Arabah village southwest of Jenin On Monday 23 December 2019 IOF established a checkpoint on the Bypass Road northeast of Jenin They stopped the Palestinian vehicles and checked the passengers’ ID cards However no arrests were reported RELATED: Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine Facts amp latest news on Gaza Great March of Return Source Article from Related Posts Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations On Palestinians 12– 18 December 2019 Source 9 Palestinians shot and injured by IOF including 4 children near the Gaza border Weekly report on israel’s terrorism on Palestinians 31 October – 06 November Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 31 October – Weekly report on israel’s terrorism on Palestinians 24 – 30 Oct 2019 Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 24 – 30 Weekly report on israel’s terrorism on Palestinians 17 – 23 Oct 2019 Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 17 – 23 Hits: 10 Is ‘Little Rocket Man’ Winning By Patrick J Buchanan December 28th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ “If US sanctions are insufficient to force Kim to “denuclearize” as seems apparent is Trump prepared to force him to do so” As of Dec 26 Kim Jong Un’s “Christmas gift” to President Donald Trump had not arrived Most foreign policy analysts predict it will be a missile test more impressive than any Pyongyang has yet carried off What is Kim’s game What does Kim want He cannot want war with the United States as this could result in the annihilation of the Kim family dynasty that has ruled North Korea since World War II Kim is all about self-preservation What he appears to want in his confrontation with Trump is a victory without war In the near-term Kim seeks three things: recognition of his regime as the legitimate government of North Korea and its acceptance in all the forums of the world trade and an end to all US and UN sanctions and a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter a US attack including missiles that can strike US bases in South Korea Japan Guam and the Western Pacific And he seeks the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead on the US mainland Nor is this last goal unreasonable from Kim’s vantage point For he knows what became of the two other nations of George W Bush’s “axis of evil” that failed to develop nuclear weapons Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was invaded and he was hanged and his sons hunted down and killed The Ayatollah’s Iran negotiated a 2015 nuclear deal with America and opened up its nuclear facilities to intrusive inspections to show that Tehran did not have a nuclear weapons program Trump came to power trashed the deal reimposed sanctions and is choking Iran to death Moammar Gadhafi surrendered his WMD in 2004 and opened up his production facilities And in 2011 the US attacked Libya and Gadhafi was lynched by a mob Contrast the fate of these regimes and rulers with the Kim family’s success His father Kim Jong Il tested nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of US warnings and now the son is invited to summits with the US president in Singapore and Hanoi If Kim did not have nuclear weapons would American presidents be courting him Would US secretaries of state be visiting Pyongyang If Kim did not have nuclear weapons who would pay the least attention to the Hermit Kingdom Undeniably with his promised “Christmas gift” possibly a missile capable of hitting the US Kim is pushing the envelope He is taunting the Americans We have told him what he must do And he is telling us where we can go But by so doing Kim has put the ball squarely in Trump’s court The question Trump faces: Is he prepared to accept North Korea joining Russia and China as a third adversarial power with the ability to launch a nuclear strike on the continental United States And if US sanctions are insufficient to force Kim to “denuclearize” as seems apparent is Trump prepared to force him to do so Is Trump prepared to use “fire and fury” to remove Kim’s nukes With 28500 US troops and thousands of US citizens in South Korea many within artillery range of the DMZ is Trump prepared to risk a clash that could ignite a second Korean War in the election year 2020 Is the president prepared for whatever that might bring How does this confrontation play out A guess: The US has lived with North Korea’s nuclear weapons for a decade and Trump is not going to risk a second Korean conflict with a military attack on Kim’s nuclear and missile arsenals Kim Jong Un and his father have created a new reality in Korea and we are going to have to live with it Where does East Asia go from here South Korea has twice the population of the North and an economy 40 times as large Japan has a population five times that of North Korea and an economy 100 times as large If the US treaty guarantees dating to the 1950s to fight for these two nations come into question as a result of America’s reluctance to face down Pyongyang more forcibly on its nuclear arsenal these nations are almost certain to start considering all options for their future security Among these are building their own nuclear arsenals and closer ties to the one nation that has shown it can discipline North Korea — China Much is on the line here Kim’s challenge is ultimately about the credibility of the United States which has treaty commitments and issued war guarantees to scores of nations in NATO Europe the Mideast and East Asia but whose people have zero interest in any new war especially a second Korean War If the world sees that America is reluctant to face down or fight a North Korea that is threatening us will they retain the old confidence that the United States will risk war for them What Kim is undermining is not just US security but US credibility Source Article from Related Posts Who Is Winning the Arms Race Russia’s “Super-Weapons” Russia’s defense budget is a small fraction of what the US spends for militarism and The Left Is Finally Winning The War Of Ideas Good ideas are like viruses They grow and spread despite our best efforts to stop Award-Winning Journalist Vanessa Beeley Faces “Deplatforming” at Six Canadian Venues Vanessa Beeley the award-winning journalist who has gained notoriety for her on the ground reporting The violent war against Trump is real But Trump is winning President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is stuck in prison His Hits: 14 « Older Entries |
1 |
|
Traveling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg: Train Plane Automobile |
1 |
|
Программы MBA от Moscow Business School |
1 |
|
UFC Moscow: ЗАБИТ vs КЭТТЕР – Трансляция 9 ноября 2019 |
1 |
|
Moscow Idaho |
1 |
|
Moscow City Government Award |
1 |
|
Moscow – третий корпус |
1 |
|
KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA MOSCOW |
1 |
|
Жюри престижного конкурса WorldBuild Moscow 2018 назвало с каллиграфией от Ретна Retna и бренда Marc Phillips |
1 |
|
Grunge John Orchestra Explosion Made somewhere in Moscow |
1 |
|
4 – 7 March 2019Expocentre Moscow German Pavilion |
1 |
|
Tony Hynes at Power Grids International Forum in Moscow from 3 to 6 December 2019 |
1 |
|
P3019 C2 MOSCOW P3019 C2 MOSCOW |
1 |
|
Our exhibition strengths: Design Desk is a leading specialist in Exhibition Stall designer trade show stand design exhibition fabrication amp execution stall fabricator with in house production direct stand builder for expo booths stalls amp pavilions amp outdoor stands leading exhibition stall contractor award winning exhibition stand designof all sizes all across India including Mumbai New Delhi Bangalore or Bengaluru Chennai Noida Ahmedabad Kolkata We also serve international locations like Asia Barcelona China Shanghai Xiamen Beijing Dusseldorf Europe France Frankfurt Germany Hannover Indonesia Istanbul Italy Bangkok Taiwan Egypt Jeddah Dubai Saudi Arabia Sharjah Malaysia Paris Shanghai Spain Switzerland Turkey Austria Australia Thailand Bangladesh Jakarta Vienna Berlin Cologne Geneva Madrid London Japan Tokyo Milan Amsterdam Netherland Moscow Russia St Petersburg Sao Paulo |
1 |
|
Moscow Botanical Garden |
1 |
|
София Саввидис: вся правда о жизни кто зачем и образы технологические ткани и повседневная одежда на одной сцене Что сотворили художники на Futurum Moscow |
1 |
|
Cranberry Moscow mule |
1 |
|
Expo Food Moscow |
1 |
|
Moscow 26th Mar 2020 Up to 100 Participants |
1 |
|
Moscow Mule 14 |
1 |
|
Анонс: XVII Moscow Synthetic Snow Festival |
1 |
