| To: Les H who wrote (42984) | 7/22/2024 9:35:10 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Pagan sacrifice goes wrong
Goat Dies as Israeli Woman Attempts to Sneak It Into Temple Mount for Sacrifice
Police were alerted when the goat began moving around and making noises under the woman's dress in the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City. Attempts to smuggle animals for sacrifice have increased amid perceived support from far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir
A goat kid suffocated to death on Wednesday after a young Israeli woman pretending to be pregnant attempted to smuggle the animal inside her dress in order to sacrifice it on the Temple Mount.
The young Jewish woman and a male teenager accompanying her attracted the attention of police Wednesday afternoon at the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City as they were waiting in a security line when the baby goat began moving around and making noises under the woman's dress.
The pair are activists from "Hozrim Lahar" (Return to the Mount) a fringe right-wing group dedicated to bringing Jewish worship, including sacrificial rites, back to the Temple Mount.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42983) | 7/22/2024 9:52:53 AM | | From: Les H | | | | What a Ukraine peace treaty brokered by Trump might look like
I hazard the guess that notwithstanding the claims that Trump may make that he has forced concessions on both sides to reach a peace, that peace will be largely based on the latest proposal by Vladimir Putin on the day before the phony Summit on Peace held in Switzerland in June.
To be sure, the Russians will give up their territorial claims to the entirety of the 4 provinces they have already incorporated into the Russian Federation but never fully conquered. It may even be that they will keep only two of these, Donetsk and Lugansk, while Kherson and Zaporozhie are returned to Ukraine under conditions that guaranty substantial autonomy to them, in the sense of the Minsk-2 accords that were never implemented for lack of active intervention by the West European guarantors of the accords. After all, Russia’s national interest was never territorial aggrandizement but its security from NATO encroachment.
Why the distinction between the 4 provinces? Firstly, because Lugansk and Donetsk constitute the most heavily Russophone part of Ukraine and suffered the greatest losses of people killed and property destroyed from the 8 years of shelling and ‘anti-terror’ marauding by Ukrainian military units as from 2014 to the start of the Special Military Operation in 2022. They are also the most valuable territory for their metallurgical and general manufacturing traditions. And they are essential to ensure the viability of Russia’s hold on Crimea. Letting go Kherson and Zaporozhie would return to Ukraine valuable Black Earth land which is essential to ensure the economic viability of the rump state.
At the same time, surely the Russians will set as a non-negotiable demand the formal refusal of Ukraine to ever seek NATO membership, a prohibition on the placement of foreign military infrastructure or personnel on Ukrainian territory and limits on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.
It is virtually certain that Russia will raise no objections to Ukraine joining the European Union. And it is conceivable that Russia will contribute to the rebuilding of Ukraine by ceding part or all of the 350 billion dollars in frozen Russian state assets now in the West as an act of good will, not as war reparations. Russia can well afford to do this because it recouped a large part of this amount in the first year of the war from the vastly inflated prices of the hydrocarbons it sold on world markets as a result of global disruptions in energy supplies. In return, Russia will surely demand, and likely the West will agree to rescind all economic sanctions that have been imposed on the country.
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| From: Les H | 7/22/2024 3:10:46 PM | | | | | | Fixed-price contracts to drive new losses for Boeing’s defense arm in second quarter: Exec
“We had a good start to the year, but this quarter you’ll see to be significantly challenged. It'll look like it looked the third quarter of last year,” Boeing's defense CEO Ted Colbert told reporters ahead of Farnborough Airshow.
By VALERIE INSINNA
on July 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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| To: Les H who wrote (42990) | 7/22/2024 3:33:18 PM | | From: Les H | | | | UN: Afghan Taliban increase support for anti-Pakistan TTP terrorists
The U.N. sanctions monitoring team released the assessment late Wednesday amid a dramatic surge in TTP-led terror attacks against Pakistani security forces and civilians, killing hundreds of them in recent weeks.
“TTP continues to operate at a significant scale in Afghanistan and to conduct terrorist operations into Pakistan from there, often utilizing Afghans,” the report read. It noted that the globally designated terrorist group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, is operating in Afghanistan with an estimated strength of 6,000-6,500 fighters.
“Further, the Taliban have proved unable or unwilling to manage the threat from Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, whose attacks into Pakistan have intensified,” the document said. “Taliban support to TTP also appears to have increased.”
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Countering increased US/Pakistan support for ISIS-K in Afghanistan. ISIS-K originally drew from the TTP in Pakistan as well as ISIL in Iraq and Syria. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (42991) | 7/22/2024 6:29:48 PM | | From: Les H | | | | Israeli Forces Strike in Humanitarian Zone; Scores Reported Killed
An official at a major hospital in Gaza said hundreds of injured people had arrived there.
Israel renewed its military assault in parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday, in a ground and air operation that local health officials said killed and wounded scores of people, adding to the misery of a city deeply scarred after nine months of war.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had launched the operation because intelligence indicated that Palestinian militants had used the eastern part of the city — part of an area previously designated as a humanitarian, or “safe” zone — to fire rockets toward Israel and that Hamas was attempting to regroup there. Earlier on Monday, the Israeli military had warned people in that area to leave, and photographs showed thousands fleeing.
The Gazan health ministry said 70 bodies were brought to Nasser Hospital, and at least 200 other people had been wounded, adding that others were almost certainly buried under rubble. The Palestine Red Crescent said its teams in the area had dealt with at least 12 people who had been killed and 50 wounded.
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Logic would dictate that militants would be leery of moving with the civilians to a temporarily designated safe zone after so many Israeli attacks. No mention of any militants killed or targeted.
Very similar to the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre where the village had declared their peaceful intent. That attack precipitated the flight of 700,000 Arabs from Israel during the Nakba. So far, 200 thousand may have been killed by Israel while another 115,000 have fled to Egypt. |
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