The Greek government has warned the current conflict between Israel and Hamas will only accelerate the rate of illegal migration into Europe, a trend that is already led by Palestinians.
The Greek Minister for Migration, Dimitris Keridis, complained to a national broadcaster the ongoing war is bound to add pressure to the entire European continent and will only be exacerbated if domestic affairs in countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, and Libya further deteriorate.
“[A]s if the multitude of flashpoints in northern Africa and Syria were not pushing thousands of migrants and refugees to Europe already, now this,” Keridis argued before adding that illegal migration will not cease even if Israel succeeds in removing Hamas or the leaders of the terrorist organization due to the instability of the region.
Greek authorities have seen illegal migration double in 2023 compared to last year’s figure of 18,780. Palestinians account for around 22 percent of illegal entries into the country, followed by Afghans, Somalis, and Syrians.
As a result, the government demanded the European Union increase its budgets for tackling illegal migration alongside Cyprus, Italy, Malta, and Spain earlier this week.
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The Greek government has warned the current conflict between Israel and Hamas will only accelerate the rate of illegal migration into Europe, a trend that is already led by Palestinians.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has launched his most brazen attack on former President Donald Trump to date, claiming Trump “attack[ed] our friend and ally, Israel” and falsely claiming he “praise[d] Hezbollah terrorists” during a speech in Florida.
The clip of Trump’s speech, however, undermines the claim. In context, it is clear the 45th President was referring to how “smart” Hezbollah leadership has been in comparison with the Biden government’s capabilities.
“I read all of Biden’s security people, can you imagine, national defense people, and they said ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north, because that’s the most vulnerable spot!'” Trump said.
“You know, Hezbollah’s very smart, they’re all very smart. The press doesn’t like when I say it… I said that President Xi of China, 1.4 billion people, he controls it with an iron fist, I said he’s very smart – they killed me the next day,” he recalled.
In lock step with the corporate media, DeSantis chose to misrepresent this as “praise” for America’s enemies, rather than a sober warning not to reveal weaknesses that terrorists could exploit.
Terrorists have murdered at least 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans and are holding more hostage, so it is absurd that anyone, much less someone running for President, would choose now to attack our friend and ally, Israel, much less praise Hezbollah terrorists as “very smart.”
Trump described the Hamas raid as “savage” in the full version of his speech, and recalled how he “fought for Israel like no President in history, but then Crooked Joe Biden came along and tossed Israel to the bloodthirsty jihadists” by loosening sanctions on Iran and restoring aid to Gaza and the West Bank.
DeSantis’s claim that Trump attacked Israel also bore no resemblance to reality, as the 45th President was discussing Israeli intelligence failures, not the nation as a whole. Indeed, a full 86 percent of Israeli respondents to a poll released Thursday say their government’s failures were to blame for the Hamas attack.
DeSantis’s team have also been amplifying prominent neoconservatives in their attempt to frame Trump’s comments negatively, with national spokeswoman Carly Atchison sharing a post by war hawk Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin alleging the former president was “criticizing Bibi Netanyahu and Israel and praising Hezbollah as ‘smart.'” Griffin, in turn, was sharing a post by a Democrat PAC known as Meidas Touch, which was explicitly formed by the far-left to attack Donald Trump.
Neoconservatives have been using the backdrop of the Hamas attack on Israel to try and foment a new war with Iran.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has launched his most brazen attack on former President Donald Trump to date, claiming Trump "attack[ed] our friend and ally, Israel" and falsely claiming he "praise[d] Hezbollah terrorists" during a speech in Florida.
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Trump’s willingness to be realistic about America’s relationship with Israel as the world moves “closer to World War III than anyone can understand” sets him apart from DeSantis, but the differences between the two should not be too surprising
Trump’s willingness to be realistic about America’s relationship with Israel as the world moves “closer to World War III than anyone can understand” sets him apart from DeSantis, but the differences between the two should not be too surprising show more
The United States is a “large enough, big enough, economically viable and vibrant enough country to be able to support both” Israel and Ukraine under Joe Biden, insists National Security Council strategic communications co-ordinator John Kirby.
“Both are important,” Kirby said – although whether American taxpayers really can fund the Israeli and Ukrainian militaries simultaneously appears questionable.
U.S. officials have already lamented a “mountain of steel” was built up for the Ukrainian counter-offensive this year, which has achieved very little progress and certainly no breakthrough with little time left before the Autumn rains render further operations unviable. They do not believe similar “mountain” can be found for the Ukrainians to undertake a second such counter-offensive, as “it doesn’t exist.”
Biden himself has already publicly admitted American ammunition is now running “low” – causing Donald Trump to rebuke him for undermining national security – and has had to resort to restocking Ukraine with cluster bombs, outlawed by many U.S. allies for their tendency to litter the ground with unexploded submunitions which kill and maim civilians for years.
Such reserves as still exist will doubtless be further depleted by the decision to send munitions to the Israelis, announced shortly after the Hamas terror raid on the Jewish State over the weekend.
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The United States is a "large enough, big enough, economically viable and vibrant enough country to be able to support both" Israel and Ukraine under Joe Biden, insists National Security Council strategic communications co-ordinator John Kirby.
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The European Union (EU) spent $100 million of taxpayer funds on building over 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians in Gaza, despite Hamas having bragged about their ability to turn the piping materials into makeshift rockets online.
The EU participated in a number of initiatives between 2015 and 2022 to ensure Palestinians have fresh water, including working alongside UNICEF to install an 11-mile pipeline to Khan Yunus and Raha in southern Gaza.
Footage emerged, in 2021, of Hamas fighters digging up the pipes and fashioning them into rockets to launch over the border into Israel. Despite this, the EU bankrolled another 10 miles of pipelines in 2022.
The main missile used by Hamas – an internationally recognized “terrorist organization” – is the Qassam rocket, which is assembled using industrial piping along with chemicals and explosives.
“There must be prudent security assessments before giving taxpayers’ money to Palestinian organizations for infrastructure that can be utilized for military ends by Hamas terrorists,” argued Frank Furedi, executive director of the MCC Brussels think tank.
“Those running EU diplomacy are naive,” he added.
Interesting video released by al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas' military wing) showing how it digs out water pipes meant for Gazans and uses them to make rockets that are fired indiscriminately at Israel. Absolutely evil. #Gazahttps://t.co/eV1DwOarVc
The European Union (EU) spent $100 million of taxpayer funds on building over 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians in Gaza, despite Hamas having bragged about their ability to turn the piping materials into makeshift rockets online.
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The BBC has defended its decision to refer to Hamas terrorists as “militants” amid criticism from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, declaring it is “an editorially independent broadcaster whose job is to explain precisely what is happening ‘on the ground’ so our audiences can make their own judgment.”
Shapps had said the BBC’s behavior was “verging on disgraceful… they’ll always say, well, there’s two sides [but] what Hamas have done, as a proscribed terrorist organisation, meaning that they are illegal in Britain, it’s illegal to support them, is to have gone out and slaughtered innocent people, babies, festival-goers, pensioners.”
“They are not freedom fighters, they are not militants, they are pure and simple terrorists and it’s remarkable to go to the BBC website and still see them talking about gunmen and militants and not calling them terrorists,” he added.
BBC presenter John Simpson, speaking in a personal capacity, spelled out the broadcaster’s position clearly in a post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming “British politicians know perfectly well why the BBC avoids the word ‘terrorist’, and over the years plenty of them have privately agreed with it.”
“Calling someone a terrorist means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality,” he said, insisting “ranting” is “not what we do.”
The BBC does appear to “take sides” in terms of its language in many other areas, however, referring to groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda as “terrorists”, for example.
BBC partiality is also clear in other areas, with the broadcaster referring to abortion advocates by their preferred “pro-choice” terminology while refusing to refer to pro-life advocates as anything but “anti-abortion,” for example.
Every Briton who watches lives television, even if none of it is BBC content, is forced to fund the broadcaster through a license fee.
British politicians know perfectly well why the BBC avoids the word ‘terrorist’, and over the years plenty of them have privately agreed with it. Calling someone a terrorist means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality. The BBC’s job is to…
The BBC has defended its decision to refer to Hamas terrorists as "militants" amid criticism from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, declaring it is "an editorially independent broadcaster whose job is to explain precisely what is happening 'on the ground' so our audiences can make their own judgment."
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The European Union’s pledge to suspend €691 million ($728 million) worth of aid to Palestinian territories following the Hamas terror raid on Israel appears to have unravelled, with the governments of France and other EU member-states voicing public opposition.
Hungary’s Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, had said all payments to Palestinian territories, comprised of Hamas-controlled Gaza and the West Bank, were “immediately suspended” due to the “scale of terror and brutality against Israel and its people” over the weekend, which Varhelyi called a “turning point”.
France, which along with Germany is the European Union’s dominant power, appears to disagree, however, with Emmanuel Macron’s government announcing on Tuesday it is “not in favour of suspending aid which directly benefits the Palestinian populations” and has “made this known to the EU Commission.”
The Irish government, too, seemed surprised by Verhelyi’s announcement, saying: “Our understanding is that there is no legal basis for a unilateral decision of this kind by an individual Commissioner and we do not support a suspension of aid.”
They were backed up by Belgium, Luxembourg, and Spain.
Notably, Verhelyi put out his announcement through his own social media, not the European Commission’s central communications office. The European Commission now says “[t]here will be no suspension of payments” – though it claims a review of the aid portfolio will still be carried out.
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The European Union's pledge to suspend €691 million ($728 million) worth of aid to Palestinian territories following the Hamas terror raid on Israel appears to have unravelled, with the governments of France and other EU member-states voicing public opposition.
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I said after the European Commission announced aid to Palestine was suspended after the terror attacks that it was “a big step for the Europeans, considering their ability to morally obfuscate in such situations
I said after the European Commission announced aid to Palestine was suspended after the terror attacks that it was “a big step for the Europeans, considering their ability to morally obfuscate in such situations show more
A new front appears to have opened against Israel as the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group launches strikes against the Jewish State.
UPDATE: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confirmed the “large-scale” intrusion into Israeli airspace was a “false alarm”. Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said “[t]here was an error, and we are investigating it – we will check if it was a technical fault or human error.” Original article continues below:
Air raid sirens have sounded across the north of the country amid reports of dozens of drones and possibly paraglider-borne infiltrators entering Israeli airspace.
Ma’alot Tarshiha issued a terrorist infiltration alert, but later cancelled it and issued an all-clear. Citizens have been advised to continue to shelter in reinforced rooms, however, as the status of the supposed drones, which set off dozens of alerts, is still to be determined.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously said they received a report “regarding a suspected infiltration from Lebanon into Israeli airspace.”
Smaller-scale skirmishes and exchanges of artillery and missiles have been taking place between the IDF, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group over the last several days, with casualties on both sides.
🚨A report was recieved regarding a suspected infiltration from Lebanon into Israeli airspace.
Joe Biden was being interviewed as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into the discovery of classified documents in his Delaware home and private office at the Penn Biden Center, formerly run by Antony Blinken, as Hamas was unleashing an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
The White House has confirmed the 80-year-old Democrat was answering questions about the presence of classified documents in an office closet and in boxes near the spot in his garage where he kept his Corvette over Sunday and Monday, apparently voluntarily.
Biden’s possession of classified documents has received relatively little legacy media attention, and has been investigated much less aggressively than Donald Trump keeping similar material at his Mar-a-Lago estate – despite the fact Biden, as a former vice president and senator, did not have the same authority to declassify sensitive material as Trump.
The timing of Biden’s interview, in the midst of the international crisis following a huge incursion by Hamas terrorists into Israel and a devastating Israeli response, is unusual.
Trump has accused Biden of taking his eye of the ball in the Middle East, empowering state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and “tossing Israel to the bloodthirsty terrorists and jihadists”.
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Joe Biden was being interviewed as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into the discovery of classified documents in his Delaware home and private office at the Penn Biden Center, formerly run by Antony Blinken, as Hamas was unleashing an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
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If you’re waiting for a Hur to hit Biden with a string of Trump-style indictments for having classified documents strewn around the floor of his garage, don’t hold your breath
If you’re waiting for a Hur to hit Biden with a string of Trump-style indictments for having classified documents strewn around the floor of his garage, don’t hold your breath show more
The Mayor of Hamtramck – America’s first Muslim-majority city council – Amer Ghalib, responded to the past week’s events in the Middle East with a pro-Hamas message insisting: “Peace can never coexist with occupation and injustice, anywhere and at anytime، no matter how strong the oppressor or how weak the oppressed is!”
Mayor Ghalib, who became the Hamtramck’s first mayor without a Polish background for a century in 2021, added there “are enough lessons from history for some people to learn this principle.”
The Michigan city has undergone a radical demographic transformation due to mass migration – Ghalib is himself a Yemeni migrant.
Like Ghalib, most of the city councilmen have a history of posting anti-Israel or outright anti-Semitic content online. Councilman Khalil Refai, for example, has referred to Israelis as “Zionist criminals” and called on Allah to help Muslims “plant firmly our feet and give us victory over the disbelieving people” in Israel. Councilman Mohammed Hassan, meanwhile, has shared images depicting Jewish people as monkeys, and denounced Israel as “the real terrorist!!!”
There are similar issues elsewhere in Michigan, with Dearborn’s Mayor Abdullah Hammoud responding to the Hamas attack with a long social media post suggesting the mass murder of Israeli civilians was the “inevitable” consequence of the “occupation”.
Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable. Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison. Failure…
The Mayor of Hamtramck – America's first Muslim-majority city council – Amer Ghalib, responded to the past week's events in the Middle East with a pro-Hamas message insisting: "Peace can never coexist with occupation and injustice, anywhere and at anytime، no matter how strong the oppressor or how weak the oppressed is!"
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned “[i]f international attention turns away from Ukraine, it will have consequences” in light of the global outrage at the barbaric surprise attack against Israel by the Hamas terrorist group. Zelensky made the remarks during an interview with France 2.
Zelensky told the French television network Russia is in desperate need for a pause in order to reorganize and move more equipment, soldiers, and weapons to the front in Ukraine. He said he feared the shift in focus among world powers form the conflict in Eastern Europe to the new conflict in the Middle East risks giving the Russian military the “break” they need. The Ukrainian leader added speculation a pause in aid to Ukraine would allow Russia to expand its war and attack Eastern European NATO neighbors.
In an effort to tie Russia to the horrific attacks by Hamas – which governs the Gaza territory – against Israel, Zelensky accused the Russian military of providing support for the Islamist terror group. The Ukrainian leader said he believes it was in Russia’s interests to start World War III. Just two days ago, the Biden White House floated a $100bn aid package for Ukraine, in an effort to fund the war until the 2024 presidential election and avoid any potential impasse with Republican congressmen.
The Israeli military has mobilized for a full scale war against Hamas in Gaza. Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, has ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, vowing: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned "[i]f international attention turns away from Ukraine, it will have consequences" in light of the global outrage at the barbaric surprise attack against Israel by the Hamas terrorist group. Zelensky made the remarks during an interview with France 2.
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