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The terror group Hamas has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it expelled or killed hundreds of members of its rival, Fatah. It has ruled with an iron fist, arresting, imprisoning, and even, on occasion, murdering those Gazans who have dared to oppose its rule. Now many Gazans are at the end of their tether, fed up with Hamas’ corruption and mismanagement, and exhibiting the courage that be prompted by despair, they are planning to hold an anti-Hamas rally on July 30. More on this planned rally – if it comes off, it will be the largest of its...

Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar took to spewing lies and false hoods again this week when she claimed that Americans should live in abject fear of white men, alleging that white men commit the majority of violence in the United States. None of which is true — but of course, the truth has never stopped this squad banshee from pushing her narrative. In an interview with Al Jazeera, of all places, Omar claimed, “Our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.” […] In 2018,...

Israelophobia: While a global bigoted media Al Jazeera talks about so called "Zionist control", here are some of more of such Goliath Arab/Islamic Media control "Qatar-Run Outlet Warns Of Zionist-Controlled Media. The dire consequences of a foreign country setting the editorial and content agenda. [preoccupiedterritory.com/qatar-run-outlet-warns-of-zionist-controlled-media/)... ___ Now let's talk about media controlling Israelophobia. Before we go on into a list of rabid anti-Israel bigots like Patrick Kingsley of NYT or Jeremy Bowen of BBC, or Christiane Amanpour at CNN & PBS, three distorters, among many, or entire media outlets dedicated for anti-Israel when it comes to the M.E., like The...

It feels like we are worlds away from the time when French President Emmanuel Macron declared NATO “brain dead” on the eve of its London summit in 2019. Since then, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived and reinvigorated the North Atlantic alliance like never before in its 74-year history, as demonstrated by the enthusiasm for its summit this week in Lithuania.

Israel will buy its third fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal worth $3bn that will be financed through US military aid, according to the Israeli military. “This new agreement will ensure the continuation of cooperation between American companies and Israeli defense industries in the production of aircraft parts,” the ministry said in a statement.

Despite being allegedly shot in the abdomen by the IDF, a Palestinian photojournalist is, remarkably, able to run & climb unaided into an ambulance.Also remarkable: the lack of any visible blood on the victim or the pristine white gloves of the medics.Fake news? You decide. https://t.co/XiTR30pFFF— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 19, 2023

May 4, 2023 (Twitter/Screenshot) New US report confirms Al Jazeera journalist’s death was an accident Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May 2022 during an exchange of fire between the IDF and terrorists in Jenin. The report confirms earlier findings, says State Department spokesman. By JNS The U.S. Security Coordinator has submitted a new report on the killing of an Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin in May 2022, which is said to confirm the USSC’s previous finding that her death was unintentional. Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin.

יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad Don’t miss this! This video is proof of how anti-Israel organizations work and brainwash people around the world without regard to reality and without having any idea what the truth is...You have to see what happened when I arrived in New Zealand to the Palestinian club's booth at the University of Auckland... Watch! Credit - Perry Trotter Mar 7, 2023

With its population declining, China’s period of rapid growth is likely over. How it copes is critical for the world. ...The country’s economy expanded by only 3 percent in 2022. Growth is projected to remain slow in the early quarters of 2023 before rebounding strongly in the second half of the year, according to a survey of 37 economists conducted by Nikkei in December. The average GDP growth figure put forth by the group was 4.7 percent, with the vast majority of predictions falling between 4.0 and 5.9 percent. Yet even the most optimistic recovery scenario for China does not...

The FBI announced that it will be investigating the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but was silent when an American was injured in a bombing. By Stephen M. Flatow November 27, 2022 The Biden administration’s Justice Department recently announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the accidental death of an Arab-American journalist in Israel. So why isn’t it investigating this week’s intentional attempted murder of a Jewish American citizen in Israel? Shireen Abu Akleh, a reporter for the Qatari media agency Al Jazeera, was accidentally shot and killed while covering a shooting attack by Palestinian Arab terrorists...

Outgoing PM at swearing-in of the 25th Knesset: "IDF soldiers will not be investigated by FBI or any foreign body or country' Prime Minister Yair Lapid slammed the US Administration's decision to launch an FBI investigation into the death of AL Jazeera Shireen Abu Aqleh during the swearing-in ceremony for the 25th Knesset Tuesday. "The IDF is a moral and ethical army. IDF soldiers and their commanders defend the State of Israel. The IDF thoroughly investigates any irregular event and is committed to the values and laws of democracy," Lapid said. "Our soldiers will not be investigated by the FBI...

After the revolt of Bar Kokhba against the Roman Empire (132-135 C.E.), the Judea province was renamed Syria Palaestina by the Roman Emperor Hadrian to detach the Judean province from Jewish identity. In recent history, the area called Palestine includes the territories of the present-day Israel and Jordan (see the map). From 1517 to 1917 most of this area remained under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. During World War I, in 1917, the British army occupied Jerusalem. On November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration for "the establishment in Palestine of a...

The Thomson Reuters Foundation rescinded its bestowal of a Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism on Palestinian freelance journalist Shatha Hammad after discovering old social media posts in which she praised Adolf Hitler. In 2014, Hammad posted a comment on Facebook that said “Me and Hitler are friends. We have influence over each other and share the same ideology, such as the extermination of the Jews.” In a post the same year, Hammad described the terrorists that killed five Israelis in a terrorist attack as "martyrs." ...Meet Shatha Hammad, a Palestinian journalist with Al Jazeera & Middle East Eye....

A letter on Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop shows the Biden family pursuing a deal with Qatar, undermining the Trump Administration and appearing like an effort at a shadow foreign policy. The letter — retrieved from the “Laptop from Hell” by Congressman Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) office after being in a previously unreadable format — shows James Biden, President Biden’s brother, making an overture to an associate of Qatari Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Al Thani. They say, “my family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels,” despite unfavorable policies of the “fractured” and “beleaguered” then-Trump...

After the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa "Zhina" Amini, on September 16, 2022, after Iran's morality police beat her because she was not wearing a head covering correctly, Iranian protestors took to the streets throughout the country. Footage showing thousands of protestors clashing with security forces have quickly made it to social media platforms under multiple hashtags. As the protests expanded and gained momentum, Arab intellectuals on social media expressed their disappointment in coverage of the protest by the Qatar-based and funded TV channel Al-Jazeera, which they accused of ignoring the protests, abandoning the protesters, and focusing on promoting...

Controversy erupts after Shinzo Abe’s assassin says he killed the former leader over his support for a ‘predatory South Korean religious cult’. Controversy erupts after Shinzo Abe’s assassin says he killed the former leader over his support for a ‘predatory South Korean religious cult’. Snip... In a letter Yamagami sent to a blogger a day before shooting Abe with a handmade gun, he wrote that it was “impossible” to kill Hak Ja Han Moon. And although Abe was “not my original enemy”, the 67-year-old politician was “one of the most influential sympathisers” of the Unification Church, he wrote. “I can...

The radar of a Greek S-300 missile system based on the island of Crete locked on to the Turkish jets on Tuesday, Anadolu reported on Sunday, citing defence ministry sources. The F-16s were at an altitude of 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) to the west of Greece’s Rhodes island when the Russian-made S-300’s target-tracking radar locked on, the report added. The Turkish planes completed their mission and returned to their bases “despite the hostile environment”. Radar lock-ons are considered an act of hostility under NATO rules of engagement. Greek defence ministry sources dismissed the allegations. Last week, Turkey summoned the Greek...

Nivedita Bhasin became the world’s youngest commercial airline captain in 1989, but the Indian pilot still recalls her early years when other crew would urge her to rush into the cockpit so passengers wouldn’t get nervous at the sight of a woman flying their plane. Three decades after Bhasin’s career began, female pilots are no longer a rarity in India, making the country a success story when it comes to diversity in the airline industry. India has the highest percentage of female pilots globally, the International Society of Women Airline Pilots estimates, with about 12.4% of all pilots women, compared...

Reality Winner smuggled a top-secret NSA dossier out of her office at a US government IT contractor by hiding it in her pantyhose, she told special agents.That's according to a transcript, released this week, of her interview with investigators who showed up at her house in Georgia, USA, to grill her. If you've ever wondered what it must be like being interrogated and coaxed by Uncle Sam's g-men, wonder no more: it's all laid out in this court filing, revealing the special agents' interviewing techniques.Winner, 25, is accused of printing off NSA files that claim Russian spies hacked at least...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday evening agreed to a forensic investigation by the US of the bullet that they claim killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, Kan News reported, quoting a statement by the Palestinian Authority's general prosecutor to Al Jazeera. "We will not give the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Aqleh to Israel at all," the prosecutor added. "Due to our belief that the occupying forces fired the bullet, we have agreed that the Americans examine it. We received several guarantees from the American coordinators that the bullet will not be passed to Israel." At the same...