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Qatar is holding direct talks with Hamas in an attempt to bridge the gaps between the current cease-fire proposal and the organization's far-reaching demands, sources familiar with the talks told Haaretz. Hezbollah published a video overnight into Sunday claiming to show satellite footage of Israeli military and strategic facilities. Israel's Public Defender's Office condemned the Israel Police's violence against anti-government protesters. PM Netanyahu claimed that there was a "dramatic decrease" in arms shipments from the U.S.

Here's what you need to know 261 days into the war


What happened today

Protesters in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the hostages, on Saturday.

■ CEASE-FIRE/HOSTAGES: Negotiations to reach a hostage/cease-fire deal are continuing, sources familiar with the talks told Haaretz, adding that Qatar is now holding a direct dialogue with Hamas leaders to bridge the gaps between Israel's offer, as presented by U.S. President Joe Biden, and Hamas' far-reaching demands.
An Israeli source familiar with the talks told Haaretz that Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar "wants a war in the north, which is why he won't lead any moves for reaching a cease-fire."
■ LEBANON: The IDF said that a soldier was seriously wounded in a Hezbollah drone strike in northern Israel. Several more drones crossed into Israel from Lebanon, one close to a facility owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael. The Air Force struck Hezbollah targets overnight into Sunday in southern Lebanon.
Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join Hezbollah in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts told AP.

Hezbollah published a video overnight into Sunday claiming to show satellite footage of Israeli military and strategic facilities such as the Haifa oil refineries, Ben-Gurion Airport and the Ashdod Port.

Hezbollah has been accumulating large quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and bombs at the central civil airport in Beirut, The Telegraph reported. Lebanon's airport authority denied the reports saying The Telegraph "presented no proof or evidence," adding that the newspaper "bears all responsibility for the safety of airport staff."
■ GAZA: The IDF said that its 162nd division captured munitions and destroyed tunnel shafts in Rafah, and that its 99th division continues to operate in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of the Muwasi displaced persons' camp in the northwest of Rafah in fierce fighting with Hamas, Gazan residents told Reuters.

Medical sources in Gaza claimed that eight people were killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sabra.

According to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza, at least 37,598 Palestinians have been killed and 86,032 wounded since the start of the war.

"Since Netanyahu does not want to get rid of his extremist allies because his political survival depends on them, the only way to save the state and return it to the path of sanity is to call an early election and replace the worst government Israel has ever known" - Haaretz Editorial
 
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U.S.-ISRAEL: PM Netanyahu said at a weekly government meeting that there was a "dramatic decrease" in arms shipments from the U.S., adding that "certain items arrived in a trickle, but the main mass of armaments stayed behind."
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant flew to Washington for an official visit, where he is expected to meet with senior Biden administration officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and members of Congress.

In response to PM Netanyahu's claims regarding delays in arms shipments, a U.S. official said: "We aren't going to keep responding to the prime minister's political statements. We look forward to constructive consultations with Defense Minister Gallant in Washington this week."
■ ISRAEL: The Israeli government approved a vote later this week to extend the temporary order raising the exemption age from IDF reserve duty by one year. The temporary order is supposed to expire at the end of June, four months after it was first approved.
The High Court of Justice ordered the state to give a formal update detailing the conditions in which Gazan prisoners are held in the Sde Teiman detention center in southern Israel. The state will be required to address issues like meals, medical treatment, hygiene, punishment methods and cuffing conditions.

Israel's Public Defender's Office condemned "widespread" excessive use of force by Israel's police against protesters during demonstrations for a hostage deal and against the government, calling on the Justice Ministry (responsible for investigating police misconduct) to address the issue. The Office added that footage of the violence "wounds the body and soul and tramples human rights" resulting in "loss of trust in law enforcement."

The IDF announced that Israeli reservist Malkia Gross, 25, was killed in an operational accident in southern Gaza.
■ WEST BANK: The IDF said that 13 wanted Palestinians were arrested across the West Bank overnight into Sunday, adding that Israeli forces confiscated materials that were used to make explosives and over 70,000 shekels (about $19,000) used for terror activities in the town of Qalqilya.

■ HOUTHIS: The U.S. military said they destroyed three Houthi naval drones in the Red Sea overnight into Sunday.

■ RUSSIA: Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue in Derbent in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan, and one police officer was killed, according to news agencies quoting the Interior Ministry.
 
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Soit would seem eliminating Iran would dry up funding and weapons for most muzzie terrorist groups.
Boomer, what you up to on Monday?
 
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Taxslave2 said:
Soit would seem eliminating Iran would dry up funding and weapons for most muzzie terrorist groups.
Boomer, what you up to on Monday?
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Much money is funnelled from and supplied from Qatar also…one of the negotiators for Hamas (& HQ for the billionaire leaders of Hamas).
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These guys aren’t living in tunnels under Rafah, etc…
 
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Toronto cops show double standard investigating van
After months of silence during hate-filled marches, TPS launch hate-crime investigation over van showing Muslims praying


Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Jun 20, 2024 • Last updated 3 days ago • 3 minute read

A screengrab from video of a truck carrying a message about Muslims praying in public spaces in Canada.
A screengrab from video posted to X of a truck carrying a message about Muslims praying in public spaces in Canada.
After more than eight months of hate-filled protests on our streets aimed at Jews, Toronto Police were quick to act on Wednesday.


They announced that they are looking into a truck carrying a message about Muslims praying in public spaces in Canada.

Forget all the cries of “from the river to the sea” or “only one solution, Intifada revolution,” the real hate is someone pointing out that taking over streets and public squares for prayer is not normal in Canada.

We’ve had months of pro-Hamas marches throughout the city since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks and the Toronto Police Service (TPS) has stood by and watched. There have been Jewish schools shot up, Jewish businesses attacked, and synagogues vandalized, but the thing that really gets TPS to act is a van with a political message.

“We recognize the community’s concern about a truck displaying Islamophobic messaging in Toronto. The TPS Hate Crime Unit is investigating,” the police service posted online.


OK, noted, calling for death and violence to Jews while marching through Toronto streets or while set up at the Tentifada at the University of Toronto is fine. Questioning the practice of Muslims taking over public spaces – without permits – to engage in prayer is a hate crime worthy of investigation.

We all see where this is going, Chief Demkiw, you and your force aren’t applying the law evenly and instead are looking to appease the larger demographic group.

That’s not law enforcement, it’s political pandering and, quite frankly, it’s disgusting.

The truck being called out on social media, which TPS seems to care more about than what is actually happening on our streets, was a combination of words and video. It asks a series of questions while showing video before asking people to wake up.


“Is this Yemen?” the message asks. “Is this Syria? Is this Iraq?”

The ad then shows what appears to be Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square filled with hundreds of Muslims bowing down to pray.

“No. This is Canada. Wake up Canada. You are under siege,” the ads states.

This has been called racist, bigoted, anti-Islam, an example of Islamophobia and more. First off, Islam is not a race, so this can’t be racist and at best we could call this impolite.

There is no need for the hate crimes unit to be investigating this incident.

If Catholics suddenly started taking over public squares or major intersections without permits for the Angelus or to pray the Rosary or to say Mass, you can bet that there would be public complaints. Those complaining would not be accused of racism, bigotry or Christophobia, they would be championed in the pages of the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail as standing up for the separation of Church and State.


Apparently, neither now nor in the future do we need a separation of Mosque and State.

One doesn’t need to agree with the message put forward by the van driving around Toronto to see the problem in TPS jumping to prosecute on this front. The pro-Hamas protesters have driven around a similar vehicle equating Zionism with terrorism, diminishing the role that Hamas played in starting this war and blaming Israel for all the problems in the Middle East.

They didn’t jump to say the Hate Crimes Unit was investigating, in fact they said nothing.

That’s what TPS has done for most of the last eight months, nothing. They have taken people like me, who generally support the police, and made me question whether defunding them is such a bad idea after all.

It’s high time the police do their jobs without fear or favour.

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Toronto cops show their double standard by ignoring months of hate-filled marches but jumping to investigate van critical of Islam.
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Probe into 'Islamophobic' van signs slammed as free-speech hypocrisy

Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Jun 20, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 5 minute read

Even before investigating, Toronto’s chief of police had already declared that an electronic billboard advertising van showing videos of Muslim protesters and suggesting Canada is “under siege” was “hateful.”


Calling it a “vile and Islamophobic act,” Mayor Olivia Chow said she stands with the Muslim community.

And a prominent Muslim businessman who holds the Order of Canada pledged “up to” $25,000 as a bounty on whoever was behind the messaging.

A manhunt was underway.



Then by late afternoon on Thursday, the owner of the van went public – ending the mystery, but starting the debate.

“The van is owned by Rebel News but was used by a third party,” Rebel owner Ezra Levant told me.

He said Rebel News was preparing a video about the van when word came out that police were investigating and media were on it. In response, Levant said they created a Savethetruck.com webpage, where they declare “Toronto police are officially investigating Rebel News for running these ads by local community activists on our Rebel News billboard truck. The ads were created by a group called ‘Canadians Opposed to the Occupation of our Streets and Campuses.’”




Levant said the group is “anonymous because they know they’d face retaliation for speaking out” and they were merely showing “actual footage of what the pro-Hamas gangs are doing to Toronto — including committing real crimes ignored by the police and politicians.”

Levant said if “convicted for hate speech, I could be jailed for up to two years just for running that ad.”



No charges have been announced so far, but Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw suggested this could be a hate-related investigation.

“Let me be clear, all incidents of hate are serious. Everyone deserves to feel safe in our great city. The service is investigating this incident,” Demkiw said in an X post. “Hateful behaviour should have no place in Toronto.”

Paramount Fine Foods executive Mohamad Fakih announced his own investigation by “offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the individuals who paid for, designed or in any way facilitated this hateful campaign. Please call Toronto Police.”



Fakih, who recently suggested in an X post that Demkiw has “politicized TPS” and “if he continues to lose in the ‘courts and public opinion,’ he will deservedly be losing (his) job,” was more complimentary on Thursday.

“All individuals responsible must be brought to justice,” Fakih wrote. “Hate will never win in Canada. I would like to thank Chief Demkiw and his team for their efforts today. Citizens of conscience are watching closely.”



No person should be convicted or piled on without a fair hearing. People are entitled to be offended on something someone says, but they are are not entitled to put words, opinions or thoughts into other people’s heads.

Police didn’t investigate for long before making up their mind.

“We recognize the community’s concern about a truck displaying Islamophobic messaging in Toronto,” said a social-media meme put out by Toronto Police, adding the “hate crime unit is investigating.”


The vehicle is a cube-style advertising van that shows videos on a loop. The one in question depicts people carrying Palestinian flags, praying and protesting with banner headlines saying, “Is this Yemen? Is this Syria? Is this Iraq? No. This is Canada. Wake up Canada. You are under siege.”


Was this rebuke of Muslims or radical extremists or those who are calling for the elimination of Jews in Israel? People did not seem to want to ask. They skipped the investigation part.

Was what was displayed on that van criminal or free speech? It will be an interesting case because the billboard didn’t use the words Muslim or Islam. Still, many drew their own conclusions.



“This is extremely dangerous messaging and should not be condoned,” the National Council of Canadian Muslims said in an X Post. “This public campaign is pure Islamophobia and hate.”

Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combatting Islamophobia, posted to X, saying there is “deep concern, fear and anxiety related to the appearance of a truck displaying Islamophobic messaging” and “this clear incitement to hate Muslims is deeply worrisome” following the mass killings of Muslims in London, Ont., and Quebec City.

The problem with saying this van can lead to more violence is there have been similar trucks spotted in Toronto since the Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of more than 1,200 Jews by Hamas terrorists coming across from Gaza. Those trucks have displayed messages such as “Zionism equals terrorism” while suggesting Israel has been occupying Palestinian land for 75 years.


There has been no public beef about those. No one was hurt as a result of either van. And the messages were tame compared to what has been said at some protests, from “Intifada now” to “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free.”



But this story is rich with hypocrisy and double standards.

Toronto lawyer and former mayoral candidate Ari Goldkind posted to X, saying “you may like it. You may not like it. You may find it accurate. You may find it odious. You may find it truthful. You may find it offensive. Doesn’t matter. It’s not a hate crime and shame on Toronto Police for pretending it is.”

As the Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley pointed out, there have been eight months of hateful threats, including shootings and firebombings, directed toward Jewish targets with little commentary.

Meanwhile, it’s not a crime to express a point of view. It’s freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom of expression. You take away that and you don’t have a free country.

Charging someone who rented an advertising truck with a hate crime will spark a slippery slope of screams of hypocrisy that there was not the same dragnet deployed to catch people carrying swastikas at the June 9 Walk With Israel or another van that many feel pushed anti-Semitic tropes.

These are things the mayor, chief of police and the powerful did not call out!
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WARMINGTON: Probe into 'Islamophobic' van signs slammed as free-speech hypocrisy

A manhunt was underway. Then, late afternoon Thursday, the owner of the van went public – ending the mystery but starting the debate.
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Was it Toronto or Ottawa where the police were telling folks to leave their key fobs at their front doors so the criminals wouldn’t do home invasions to steal their vehicles?
 
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Ron in Regina said:
Irony is, it’s pretty much a carbon copy of a truck that was running around Toronto with digital advertising anti-Israel/Zionist stuff for several weeks…& the motivation for creating this truck That’s in question now to see if there was a bias or not. Interesting. Kind of funny actually.
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Well, I’m glad they’re mentioning the other one’s here. I thought it was the same one with video of it in different places and evolving scrolling advertisements about “Jews are Bad” but turns out it was multiple trucks. Hmmm…
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The problem with saying this van can lead to more violence is there have been similar trucks spotted in Toronto since the Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of more than 1,200 Jews by Hamas terrorists coming across from Gaza. Those trucks have displayed messages such as “Zionism equals terrorism” while suggesting Israel has been occupying Palestinian land for 75 years.
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What does Amira Elghawaby say about both sides of this goat rodeo doing the same thing???
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Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combatting Islamophobia, posted to X, saying there is “deep concern, fear and anxiety related to the appearance of a truck displaying Islamophobic messaging” and “this clear incitement to hate Muslims is deeply worrisome” following the mass killings of Muslims in London, Ont., and Quebec City.
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She, like the Toronto police, ignore the first one(s) and reacts to the last one. Interesting again.
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I mean, if it was Toronto and the police were rolling over to show their bellies on stolen vehicles, this hot & heavy immediate response is interesting.
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Tecumsehsbones said:
It's understandable. Having your car stolen, especially without violence or threats, doesn't hurt your feels (immediately), and is therefore not a proper cause for state action.
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Leaving your key fobs at you front doors avoids violent home invasions for said fobs, removing the violence potentially. Still interesting contrast.
 
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Who are they protesting? Our governments that support the recognition of Palestine? Israel, Zionists? I'm not sure. Is it a handy way gain grassroots support for US keeping Netanyahu in check from doing something stupid as transition unfolds? Yup. Is it handy that they don't need housing all summer? Yup.

It's in Israel's best interest to take the loss and get the far right extremists out of power. They aren't good people. JKK, Jew Klux Klan
 
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