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Works under Hamas and cooperated in the attack: this is the organization that is believed to be holding the children of the Bibas family. The IDF spokesman informed in Arabic that the Ni Oz babies, who were kidnapped by a Hamas operative, are apparently being held in Khan Yunis by another faction, and according to estimates in Israel, this is the terrorist organization the Popular Front. Very much in Gaza • On the other hand, in the West Bank his influence is greater with strict discipline, despite his small size Sapir Lipkin| N12 | Published 14:54 29.11.23 The organization that...

Maryland’s socialist Bread and Roses Party is disbanding, and its founder, Jerome Segal, is launching a run for governor as a Democrat.Segal said the Bread and Roses Party’s central committee voted to disband and submitted the necessary paperwork to state elections officials this week, ending the group’s brief run as a recognized political party in Maryland. . . .“The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that many things we argued for at the beginning that were viewed as pie-eyed utopianism … now are mainstream Democratic Party positions,” Segal said. “So much more can be done inside the...

[I begin] with the story of a series of Socialist scholars conferences that Barack Obama attended when he lived in New York City between the years 1983 and 1985. And when I finally reconstructed what had gone on at these Socialist conferences that Barack Obama attended, I truly was amazed because what I saw was a kind of map of Barack Obama’s entire subsequent political career. It was at this Socialist conferences in New York in the mid-’80s that Barack Obama encountered the groups, the strategies, and the mentors who would guide him throughout his entire political career. [T]hese Socialist...

Over the Christmas weekend, Chicago surpassed the 750-murder mark for 2016. But as blacks lay dying on the streets of Chicago’s South and West Sides, a Black Lives Matter offshoot is more interested in traveling overseas to learn “resistance” from terrorists. The Dream Defenders bills itself as “an uprising of communities in struggle, shifting culture through transformational organizing.” But an investigation conducted by the Haym Salomon Center reveals the group’s embrace of anti-Semitism and collaboration with a State Department-designated terror group. In August, Black Lives Matter singled out Israel for condemnation, declaring it an “apartheid” state engaged in “genocide.” These...

A major faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected new peace talks with Israel just hours before their scheduled resumption in Washington on Monday after a three-year break. The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that talks’ resumption was a unilateral move by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, which did not have the backing of the PLO as a whole. …

Senior IDF officials told Ynet that the intelligence alert that led to the arrest is one of the most severe they have received so far. "This was a joint plan of the Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the Popular Front to carry out a large scale terror attack in Israel," an army source explained. The IDF is still in possession of 80 general terror warnings, and 15 specific alerts. Most of the warnings originate in the northern Samaria area and the Nablus region, and refer to the Islamic Jihad organization

Damian McElroy in Damascus reports that Colin Powell's demands that extremists be driven out of the Syrian capital are being ignored Backgammon games at the doorway and a steady stream of fresh, sweet coffee from the scullery kept the Damascus office of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine busy yesterday, even as the US secretary of State, Colin Powell, claimed that Syria has begun forcing groups the Bush administration considers terrorist organizations to close down. If Mr Powell's visit to Damascus was designed to bring the pressure of a victorious world power to bear on the capital, and...

Toogood Reports [Tuesday, March 4, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Was communism ever a real threat to the nations of the world, or was it just a phantasm infecting the minds of the cold warriors who for so long supported Containment Theory? As my previous column noted, Containment Theory argued that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. As omniscient Marxist academics now tell us, Containment Theory has "little or no intellectual...

UPDATE 3 - U.S. applies new rules to 22 more 'terrorist' groups   (Adds comments by Rep. Tom Lantos, paragraphs 8-9) By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday added 22 groups including Hamas and Hizbollah to the list of "terrorist" groups under tight financial controls introduced after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The main pro-Israeli lobbying organization in the United States applauded the decision, saying it showed the Bush administration intended to combat all forms of terrorism. Six groups -- al Qaeda and five allegedly associated groups -- came under the new rules in September. Al Qaeda, led by Saudi-born ...