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October 7 attacker arrested in Louisiana. 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/gaza-man-arrested-alleged-involvement-october-7-2023-terrorist-attacks

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According to court documents, Al-Muhtadi is an operative for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (DFLP) military wing, the National Resistance Brigades (NRB, also known as the Martyr Umar al-Qasim Forces), a Gaza-based paramilitary group that participated in the Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

As alleged, on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Al-Muhtadi learned about the Hamas invasion, armed himself, gathered others, and crossed into Israel with the intention of assisting in Hamas’s terrorist attack. According to the complaint, Al-Muhtadi’s phone utilized a cell tower located near Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel – the location of a horrifying massacre by Hamas and its supporters resulting in the deaths of many civilians, including at least four American citizens.

In addition, Al-Muhtadi allegedly provided false information in his U.S. visa application relating to his involvement with a paramilitary organization, connection to Hamas, participation in a terrorist attack, and military training. Al-Muhtadi swore to the accuracy of numerous materially false statements in his visa application with respect to at least his affiliation with DFLP, the NRB, and Hamas, his training, and his involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. According to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection records, Al-Muhtadi entered the United States on Sept. 12, 2024.

 

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8 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

You done fucked up, A-aron!

Seriously.....walking right into the arms of a nation state that will happily ship his ass to Gitmo was perhaps not the wisest choice.  I do love watching fuckheads get what they deserve.

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BBC broadcast a documentary where the narrator was the son of a Hamas Deputy 
Minister and didn’t bother to note that in the broadcast. 
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c629j5m2n01o

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The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, UK media regulator Ofcom has ruled.

An Ofcom investigation into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "materially misleading".

The BBC's director general has previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".

Ofcom has ordered the BBC to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.

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The documentary centred on a 13-year-old son of Hamas's deputy minister of agriculture.

Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK, Israel and others.

Ofcom's statement said: "Our investigation found that the programme's failure to disclose that the narrator's father held a position in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading.

"It meant that the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided.

"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a broadcaster and its audience, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.

"This failing had the potential to erode the significantly high levels of trust that audiences would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."

Misleading the audience is "among the most serious" breaches that can be committed by a broadcaster, it said.

The on-air apology ordered by Ofcom is the regulator's first sanction on the BBC since the scandal over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's comments to actor Andrew Sachs on Radio 2 in 2009.

 

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Clicked the link to read the rest of the story and found this. So, the BBC fucked up by not doing a background check and apologized. Ofcom's review, however, apparently found no evidence of familial influence.
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So, this is the son, a 13-year-old kid, seemingly wandering around the rubble. Based on the info provided above, I was imagining something more nefarious.
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I hadn't heard of, nor have I watched, this documentary, so I have no way of judging whether it was overly biased. Fortunately, it looks like it can be viewed on YouTube. It's about an hour long, in English, and this version includes a disclaimer that the kid is the son of a deputy agricultural minister. Thanks for letting me know this documentary exists, as I'll be sure to watch.

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30 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Clicked the link to read the rest of the story and found this. So, the BBC fucked up by not doing a background check and apologized. Ofcom's review, however, apparently found no evidence of familial influence.
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So, this is the son, a 13-year-old kid, seemingly wandering around the rubble. Based on the info provided above, I was imagining something more nefarious.
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I hadn't heard of, nor have I watched, this documentary, so I have no way of judging whether it was overly biased. Fortunately, it looks like it can be viewed on YouTube. It's about an hour long, in English, and this version includes a disclaimer that the kid is the son of a deputy agricultural minister. Thanks for letting me know this documentary exists, as I'll be sure to watch.

 

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5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

 

I'm not clicking to view that video on a website by a man who threw up a Heil Hitler at a political rally, who has reinstated multiple neo-Nazi accounts on this same website that you support through your views and clicks, who stole and opened up all of our personal data to who-the-fuck knows, who dangerously hacked away at vital government services and eliminated the jobs of thousands of civil servants in the process, and who bankrolled and continues support the the charlaton who’s driving everything good about this country into the ground.

Give me another link, and I'll happily check out whatever mistranslation is purported.

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3 minutes ago, Baldwin said:

Strange that a terrorist is in America. I wonder how that happened. I wonder how many more are here.

By applying for a visa.

And, you have to believe the government as to these allegations.  Do you?

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23 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I'm not clicking to view that video on a website by a man who threw up a Heil Hitler at a political rally, who has reinstated multiple neo-Nazi accounts on this same website that you support through your views and clicks, who stole and opened up all of our personal data to who-the-fuck knows, who dangerously hacked away at vital government services and eliminated the jobs of thousands of civil servants in the process, and who bankrolled and continues support the the charlaton who’s driving everything good about this country into the ground.

Give me another link, and I'll happily check out whatever mistranslation is purported.

Lol

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Have we ever discussed the views of Netanyahu's podcasting adult son, Yair?

His very first guest was the son of Bolsonaro, noted reich-wing Brazilian demagogue who tried to overturn democracy down there, and a member of Steve Bannon's political organization in Europe, The Movement, which in turn has the support of Victor Orban and France's Marine Le Pen? 

 

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Let's see what else this guy is all about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Netanyahu
Views and opinions
According to Haaretz, Netanyahu uses social media "for the benefit of spreading lies, defamation and slander against those who are perceived in his eyes as enemies of the camp headed by his father".[28] He is known for defending his father on social media.[29][13][30] Netanyahu has also published his opinions in Breitbart News, an American far-right[31] news and opinion website.[32] In late 2017, Netanyahu posted a meme on Facebook portraying his father's political opponents as puppets controlled by George Soros; the meme garnered support from US white nationalists, including David Duke, and neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer which described itself as "The World's #1 Yair Netanyahu fansite".[29][33][34] Netanyahu later deleted the post following backlash.[29]

In December 2018, he was suspended from Facebook for 24 hours after posting anti-Muslim content.[35][36][37] One of Netanyahu's comments read: "There will never be peace with those monsters in the form of men that have called themselves 'Palestinians' since 1964".[29]

In March 2019, he was asked to leave his work at the Israel Law Center, an NGO that provides legal services to terror victims, after criticizing President Reuven Rivlin for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Israeli coexistence.[10]

In May 2019, Netanyahu expressed support for right-wing nationalist figures Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders in the 2019 European Parliament election.[38] In the same month, some observers hypothesized that Netanyahu was looking for a job in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,[39] although Netanyahu has denied that he is looking for a political career.[29] In June 2019, Netanyahu met with Katrina Pierson, a senior advisor for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.[10]

In July 2019, Netanyahu expressed support for British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, during the latter's imprisonment by British authorities.[40]

In September 2019, Netanyahu accused former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995, of having "murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena". The comments were disavowed by his father.[41][42][43] He has compared Roni Alsheikh, the Israel Police chief who played a role in the Netanyahu corruption investigations, to the fictional mobster Tony Soprano.[29] While being questioned by police during the investigations, Netanyahu called the police "Stasi" and "Gestapo" and said they were worse than the mafia. He also accused Nir Hafetz and Gideon Saar of various crimes.[44]

In May 2020, the far-right politician and Alternative for Germany (AfD) member Joachim Kuhs used a quote from Netanyahu in his campaign graphics. Following this, Netanyahu urged the AfD to work towards stopping German funding for NGOs operating in Israel.[45]

During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, Netanyahu claimed a 2013 video from Egypt was an example of Pallywood and showed Palestinians faking their casualties.[46]

After the Israeli military police in July 2024 visited Sde Teiman detention camp to detain nine Israeli soldiers suspected of abuse of a Palestinian prisoner, Netanyahu commented that the prosecution of the soldiers was "criminal and anti-Zionist".[47]

Legal issues
In January 2018, a scandal erupted when a recording of Netanyahu's visit to a Tel Aviv strip club in 2015 was leaked. In the recording, Netanyahu discussed strippers and referred to a controversial gas deal recently passed into law.[48][49] Netanyahu apologized for his remarks.[50] He filed a lawsuit for 1 million NIS ($272,000) against his driver, who allegedly recorded the conversation.[51]

On 7 July 2019, he won a libel suit against Israeli Labor Party activist Abie Binyamin for claiming that Netanyahu was hiding millions in offshore accounts.[52]

In November 2019, Netanyahu was sued for slander after sharing a Facebook post claiming that former Walla news site editor Avi Alkalay was a plant for the Wexner Foundation.[53] In February 2020, he was ordered to pay damages and legal costs totalling $81,000.[54][55] Netanyahu appealed the decision, but his appeal was rejected by the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in July 2021.[56]

In January 2025, an appeal of a lawsuit previously filed by Yair Netanyahu against former Knesset member Stav Shaffir for publicly calling him "a liar, an evil man, a racist and a sexual-abuser" was rejected by the court, and Netanyahu was forced to compensate Shaffir for her legal fees, in addition to compensation after losing the initial court case.[57]

 

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I passed by Cornerstone Church earlier today on my way to Trader Joes. They were hosting their annual "Night to honor Israel" event. Ted Cruz was there to give a speech. There were some Pro-Palestine protestors assembled on the corner of Stone Oak and 1604. As we drove by, my daughter rolled down her window and gave them a thumbs up and peace sign, I waved and one guy holding a sign smiled and waved back. 

 

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https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-gaza-ceasefire-new-normal-hezbollah-190eb8c2ec2d9fedc94c3fadfc1f41e2

BEIRUT (AP) — As a tenuous ceasefire took hold in Gaza this month, Israel launched more airstrikes on southern Lebanon — 11 months into a ceasefire there.

The bombardment of a construction equipment business killed a Syrian passerby, wounded seven people including two women, and destroyed millions of dollars worth of bulldozers and excavators.

The Oct. 11 strikes would be an anomaly in most countries not at war. But near-daily Israeli attacks have become the new normal in Lebanon, nearly a year after a U.S.-brokered truce halted the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Some see a likely blueprint for the Gaza ceasefire, with ongoing but lower-intensity conflicts. On Sunday, Israel struck Gaza after it said Hamas fired at its troops, in the first major test of the U.S.-brokered truce.

Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, described the Lebanon scenario as a “lessfire” rather than a ceasefire.

Lebanon “could well serve as the model for Gaza, essentially giving leeway to Israeli forces to strike whenever they deem a threat without a full resumption of conflict,” she said.

A ceasefire with no clear enforcement
The latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict began the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza. The militant group Hezbollah, largely based in southern Lebanon, began firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians.

Israel responded with airstrikes and shelling. The low-level conflict escalated into full-scale war in September 2024.

The ceasefire on Nov. 27, 2024, required Lebanon to stop armed groups from attacking Israel and Israel to halt “offensive” military actions in Lebanon. It said Israel and Lebanon can act in “self-defense,” without elaborating.

Both sides can report alleged violations to a monitoring committee of the U.S., France, Israel, Lebanon and the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL, but the deal is vague on enforcement.

In practice, Israel has largely taken enforcement into its own hands, asserting that its strikes in Lebanon target Hezbollah militants, facilities and weapons.

Israel says it aims to stop the badly weakened group from rebuilding. Lebanese officials say the attacks obstruct its efforts to get Hezbollah to disarm by giving the group a pretext to hold onto its weapons.

Lebanon also says Israel’s strikes, including the Oct. 11 one, often harm civilians and destroy infrastructure unrelated to Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s health ministry has reported more than 270 people killed and around 850 wounded by Israeli military actions since the ceasefire. As of Oct. 9, the U.N. human rights office had verified that 107 of those killed were civilians or noncombatants, said spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan.

No Israelis have been killed by fire from Lebanon since the ceasefire.

From Nov. 27, 2024, to mid-October, UNIFIL detected around 950 projectiles fired from Israel into Lebanon and 100 Israeli airstrikes, spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said. During the same period, it reported 21 projectiles fired from Lebanon toward Israel. Hezbollah has claimed one attack since the ceasefire.

Conflicting narratives
After the Oct. 11 strikes in Msayleh, Israel’s army said it hit “engineering equipment intended for the reconstruction of terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon.”

Lebanese authorities, Hezbollah and the equipment’s owner disputed that.

“Everyone in Lebanon, from all different sects, comes to buy from us,” owner Ahmad Tabaja told journalists. “What have we done wrong?”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called the strikes “blatant aggression against civilian facilities.” Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri accused Israel of seeking to prevent communities’ reconstruction. Lebanon complained to the U.N. Security Council.

A few days later, Israel struck a cement factory and a quarry, claiming Hezbollah planned to use it to rebuild its infrastructure.

Last month, an Israeli strike hit a motorcycle and a car carrying a family in Bint Jbeil. It killed Shadi Charara, a car salesman, three of his children — including 18-month-old twins — and the motorcyclist, and badly wounded Charara’s wife and oldest daughter. It was among the highest death tolls since the ceasefire, sparking particular outrage because of the children.

“My brother was a civilian and his children and wife are civilians, and they have nothing to do with politics,” said sister Amina Charara.

Israel’s military said it was targeting a Hezbollah militant, whom it did not name, but acknowledged that civilians were killed.

Even when the target is a known Hezbollah member, the military necessity can be disputed.

Earlier this month, an Israeli drone strike killed a Hezbollah member who was blinded last year in Israel’s exploding pagers attack, along with his wife. Israel’s army said Hassan Atwi was a key official in Hezbollah’s Aerial Defense Unit. Hezbollah officials said he had played no military role since losing his eyesight.

The end of ‘mutual deterrence’
Hezbollah was formed in 1982, with Iranian backing, to fight Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon at the time. Israeli forces withdrew in 2000, and Hezbollah grew into one of the region’s most powerful non-state armed groups.

In 2006, Hezbollah and Israel fought a month-long war that ended in a draw. For the next 17 years, “there was a tense calm ... that was largely due to mutual deterrence,” said Nicholas Blanford, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East program.

Strikes in Lebanon were generally understood to be off limits. Both sides wanted to avoid another damaging war. Now that equation has changed.

Though Blanford said Hezbollah could still deliver blows to Israel, the group’s “deterrence has been shattered by the recent war,” he said.

In an interview with The Associated Press last month, Hezbollah political official Mohammad Fneish said the prospect of coexisting with daily Israeli attacks is “not acceptable.”

But the group has largely limited itself to calling on Lebanon’s government to pressure Israel with what Fneish called “its political, diplomatic or other capabilities.”

He added: “If things develop further, then the resistance leadership is studying matters, and all options are open.”

Yacoubian, the analyst, said she didn’t see the situation in Lebanon changing any time soon, “barring a breakthrough in behind-the-scenes negotiations brokered by the U.S.”

With the Gaza ceasefire, she said, the difference could be the “significant role” of fellow mediators Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.

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https://apnews.com/article/israel-settlers-west-bank-attack-annexation-1e9cbd6af6ea502fbfca5d9ffe949b0b

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, beating them with clubs in an attack Palestinian health officials said sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious injuries.

The attack Sunday in the town of Turmus Ayya, which was captured in videos obtained by The Associated Press, came as Palestinians say settler violence in the region is worsening. The United Nations and rights groups have raised the alarm as harvest season begins and Palestinian farmers are at growing risk while gathering olives.

“Settler violence has skyrocketed in scale and frequency,” Ajith Sunghay, the head of the U.N. Human Rights Office in the Palestinian territory, said in a statement released Tuesday. “Two weeks into the start of the 2025 harvest, we have already seen severe attacks by armed settlers against Palestinian men, women, children and foreign solidarity activists.”

In one of the videos obtained by the AP, a masked man was seen running through an olive grove and beating at least two people with a club, including a woman as she lay motionless on the ground. The masked man appeared to be wearing tzitzit, a ritual fringed garment for Jews.

The woman was hospitalized with serious injures, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry said.

In a separate video, more than a dozen masked men were seen running down a village road alongside an olive grove, pursuing a car. One settler clubbed the car and opened the door. A passenger managed to escape and run away with the group of men running after him.


A third video showed flames and smoke rising from several torched cars.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the head of the West Bank police force said in an internal police WhatsApp group that the footage of the masked settler beating the woman “kept him up at night” and instructed officers to bring the settler to justice.

Israel’s military and police did not respond to an AP request for comment on the attack.

Turmus Ayya, whose population is predominantly Palestinian American, has long been a target of settler attacks, but villagers say the violence worsened during the Israel-Hamas war. It’s nestled in a valley surrounded by hilltops crowned with Israeli settlements and outposts. Since the killing of a 14-year old Palestinian-American, Amer Rabee, by Israeli forces in the town in April protests against settler violence and the military’s perceived failure to curb it have provoked regular clashes with settlers.

More broadly, settler violence is surging across the West Bank. The U.N. says the first half of 2025 has seen 757 settler attacks causing casualties or property damage — a 13% increase compared with the same period last year.

The first week of olive harvest season has seen more than 150 settler attacks and over 700 olive trees uprooted, broken or poisoned, according to Muayyad Shaaban, who heads an office in the Palestinian Authority that is tracking the violence.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek those territories for a future independent state. Settler advocates hold key Israeli Cabinet positions that grant them and the settlers an important say over the West Bank.

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3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

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What I love about that take is the utter lack of self-awareness.  Reminds me of the tale of Guernica, a Picasso painting capturing the horror of the Spanish Civil War:

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A short Guardian editorial on one of his most famous canvases begins with the story of when, “in occupied Paris, a Gestapo officer who had barged his way into Picasso’s apartment pointed at a photo of the mural, Guernica, asking: ‘Did you do that?’ ‘No,’ Picasso replied, ‘you did’, his wit fizzing with the anger that animates the piece” — a piece that took no small amount of boldness to paint in the first place.

Terrorists are not born, they are made.

And I'd wager that in the past two years, Israel made more terrorists (current and future) than we'll ever be able to count.  

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