Video has emerged of Israeli guards gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert, southern Israel. The video, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, shows the captive being selected from a larger group lying bound on the floor. The victim is then escorted to a wall, where guards, using their shields to hide their identity from the camera, proceed to rape him.
The attack was so brutal that after he was transferred to a hospital, the victim was unable to walk. Ten soldiers were ultimately arrested for the rape on 29 July. The soldiers belong to a unit known as Force 100, which is tasked with guarding the Sde Teiman prison facility.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir argued that any action, even gang rape, is permissible if undertaken for the security of the state. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demanded “an immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the [incriminating] trending video.”
In the middle of this horrific continuous onslaught against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (approximately 32,000 killed; 73,000 injured), a rank imbecile in the halls of American power invites the odious Benjamin Netanyahu, a man indicted for war crimes by the Hague, to address the US Congress on 25 July 2024. Why? Were Vladimir Putin or Pol Pot not available?
Mr. Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi occupation forces in Poland said:
“To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.”
What would Mr. Edelman say about the inhumane conduct of these IDF soldiers, as well as the abominable attitude and ghastly comments of these senior members of the Israeli Cabinet?
Below is an image of what Marek Edelman endured in Poland.
German soldiers kicking a Jew in Wloclawek, German occupied Poland, circa 1939. Image courtesy of the Jewish Virtual Library. Look at the expressions on their faces and compare with the photo at the top of this post.
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Warning: Viewers may find the below video disturbing.
Palestine urges ICC arrest warrant for Smotrich over call to starve Gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147512
Ukrainian Youngsters Forced to Assemble AK-47s in Front of the Watchful Eyes of Vladimir Putin and a Russian Flag in Re-Education Center
The Times UK reports that at least 330 Ukrainian children from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are sequestered in “military-patriotic” camps where they learn to shoot automatic weapons and operate drones. These camps were established by order of President Vladimir Putin.
Russian TV ORT reports about a young girl from Kherson attending one of these camps. Notably, the report did not criticize the training, but instead was supportive. Referring to the camp, the girl said “you can learn something here,” adding that the instructors were Russian soldiers with combat experience in Ukraine.
Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert at the Kyiv Regional Center for Human Rights, argues that these camps perpetrate “political indoctrination” of Ukrainian children and violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC] by attempting to sever their connection to their homeland.
Kiev asserts that approximately 19,000 to 20,000 children have been relocated to various Russian camps. Ukraine launched a website called “Children of the War,” to keep track of all its missing children since the 2022 Russian invasion (website link below).
“The Kremlin is forcibly creating a generation of Ukrainian children indoctrinated with hatred and violence against all things Ukrainian,” stated Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament’s leading human rights official. He accused Moscow of turning these children into “full-fledged soldiers.”
Last year, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for President Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova over war crimes charges related to the abduction of Ukrainian children. Russia has denied these allegations but acknowledges that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children have been repatriated to Russia since 2022. Lvova-Belova claimed that the “overwhelming majority” were accompanied by their parents or guardians but did not provide further details.
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Ukrainian teens, 14, are putting together AKs right next to ‘Putin’ (bulgarianmilitary.com)
https://childrenofwar.gov.ua/en/
US Charges Russian-German National with Smuggling Military Technology to Russia
The Orion combat drone has a 200 kg (441 pounds) combat load and can be equipped with anti-tank missiles (ATM). Undated imagery from the Kremlin.
Arthur Petrov (33) allegedly participated in a Russia-based Illicit procurement network that, subsequent to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, illegally procured large quantities of sensitive microelectronics for use by the Russian military.
Arthur Petrov, a dual Russian and German national, made his initial appearance in a Manhattan federal court, following his extradition from the Republic of Cyprus for criminal offenses related to export control violations, smuggling, wire fraud and money laundering. Petrov was arrested on 26 Aug 2023, in the Republic of Cyprus at the request of the US.
“As demonstrated by today’s extradition, just because you’re located overseas doesn’t mean we won’t find you,” said Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Matthew S. Axelrod of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). “If you procure sensitive US microelectronics with military applications for Russia, you risk the very real threat of facing justice in a US courtroom.”
Arthur Petrov has been charged with a multitude of crimes which you could read in the link below. If convicted, he is probably facing 20-years in prison. Mr. Petrov is a potential candidate for a future swap with any unlawfully imprisoned American citizen brutally being held in Russian prisons by Vladimir Putin.
A criminal complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Two Young Men Immediately Sentenced and Imprisoned for Far-Right Agitprop that Incited Vicious Rampage Against Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in the UK
Tyler Kay (26), a father of three, is at left. Jordan Parlour (28) is at right. Note the expression of contempt in Jordan Parlour’s face. He made a “raspberry” noise during his legal proceedings. Undated photos courtesy of Sky News.
Two men have been remanded to prison for inciting hatred and violence online after the Southport attack, in the first cases of their kind linked to the recent riots seen across the country. Jordan Parlour (28) was sentenced to 20 months after pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred with Facebook posts in which he advocated an attack on a hotel in Leeds.
In Northampton, Tyler Kay (26) was given three years and two months in prison for posts on “X” that called for mass deportation and for people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. Authorities in the UK have arrested at least 700 berserkers since the carnage.
Jordan Parlour and Tyler Kay are the first miscreants to be charged for posting criminal messages online linked to the recent far-right violence. A UK opinion maker suggested that Elon Musk should be similarly prosecuted for hosting and enabling hate messaging through his social platform “X.”
The UK Metropolitan Police Department previously linked recent arson attacks against Ukrainian businesses in London by members of far-right extremist groups to the Russia-based Wagner Group.
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First men jailed for riot-related social media posts | UK News | Sky News
Two Men Charged Over Alleged Arson Attack on Behalf of Wagner Group – Bloomberg
Boar’s Head Provisions Co. Recalls to Seven Million Pounds of Ready-To-Eat Meat and Poultry Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination
For pregnant women, listeriosis can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. Fortunately, listeriosis is treatable with antibiotics.
Boar’s Head Provisions Company is recalling approximately 7,000,000 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. Whole genome sequencing results show that a liverwurst sample tested positive for the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes. Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems.
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections can occur in older adults and persons with weakened immune systems.
Consumers with questions regarding the recall may contact Boar’s Head Provisions Co., Inc., Customer Service at 1-800-352-6277. Media with questions can contact Elizabeth Ward, Vice President of Communications, Boar’s Head Provisions Company at media@boarshead.com.
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Ex-POTUS Donald J. Trump’s California Helicopter Crash Story Refuted by Witnesses
Ex-POTUS Donald J. Trump sitting on his golfcart beside his private helicopter in this undated photo. Note how well kept the golf course is.
Former President Donald Trump‘s recent story about surviving a helicopter crash landing with former California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in 2018 is untrue, witnesses informed the New York Times. During a recent press conference, the 2024 GOP presidential nominee claimed that Willie Brown was mean-mouthing Kamala Harris during a close brush with death together in a helicopter crash landing in California.
However, the alleged helicopter ride with Willie Brown never happened. The passenger was then-California Gov. Jerry Brown who accompanied Trump during a trip to survey damage caused by the deadly 2018 California wildfires. The former president either confused the two Browns or fabricated the story.
Current California Governor, Gavin Newsom, who also was aboard the helicopter during the 2018 flight, claimed the aircraft never made an emergency landing and that none of the passengers onboard were ever in any danger.
“I call complete B.S.,” Newsom said.
Willie Brown, now 90, told the NYT that Trump’s tale was false, confirming that he had never ridden in a helicopter with the former president, never nearly died in a crash and that he remained an “avid supporter” of Kamala Harris.
If Donald Trump, who is the oldest candidate to ever run for President was confused over his own experience, then his faculties are certainly in steep decline because Willie Brown is black and Jerry Brown is white.
Years ago North Korean supremo Kim Jong-Un tweeted that Donald J. Trump was a “mentally deranged US dotard.” The leader of the secluded Hermit Kingdom was able to find an archaic English appellation that has steadfastly clung onto the ex-President’s shoe like a long strand of soiled toilet paper after he has ambled out of the washroom.
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Trump’s Calif. helicopter crash story refuted by those cited in tale – UPI.com
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-dotard-mean-2017-9–
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