Author: Blazingcatfur

A New Palestinian Offer for Peace With Israel

The idea of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians has never seemed more futile than in the months since Oct. 7, 2023. But maybe that opens the door to a new way of achieving peace.

“We want cooperation with Israel,” says Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari, also known as Abu Sanad, from his ceremonial tent in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city located south of Jerusalem. “We want coexistence.” The leader of Hebron’s most influential clan has said such things before, as did his father. But this time is different. Sheikh Jaabari and four other leading Hebron sheikhs have signed a letter pledging peace and full recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Their plan is for Hebron to break out of the Palestinian Authority, establish an emirate of its own, and join the Abraham Accords.

From JPost – ‘Post’ just met with top Hebron Sheikh who wants to pull out of PA

The South Hebron Hills seem ancient and as unchanging as ever, but massive change may be in the wind.

In the aftermath of the Wall Street Journal’s blockbuster disclosure early Sunday morning that half a dozen major Palestinian sheikhs from the Hebron area, all led by Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari (also known as Abu Sanad), are ready to break off from the Palestinian Authority and sign a new Abraham Accords-style deal with Israel as the “Emirates of Hebron,” The Jerusalem Post can now disclose having recently met with Jabari at his ceremonial tent.

Lots going on in the comments, caution being first among equals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Jury acquits teen who claimed self-defence in fatal Toronto school shooting, saying he carried gun because his neighbourhood was ‘like Iraq’

A Toronto jury on Friday acquitted a 20-year-old man of second-degree murder, accepting his claim that he fired four shots in self-defence, believing the victim — 18-year-old Jefferson Guerrier — was “lunging” at him with a knife outside a high school in the city’s east end.

The fatal shooting just as classes were ending for the day on Halloween in 2022, drew widespread attention due to the proximity to students, one of whom filmed the incident on their cellphone.

Jurors, who deliberated for about a day before returning to the downtown courtroom Friday afternoon, also found the man not guilty of reckless discharge of a firearm that resulted in his brother being shot.

This “understanding” had better be shown to homeowners and others threatened by Toronto’s ferals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Inside the ugly relationship between Islamism and the Left

Barely an hour after Zarah Sultana announced that she was leaving Labour to lead a new Left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn, the Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) campaign group posted a statement on X wishing the pair “every success in this bold new chapter”.

Labour refused to engage with Mend after Sir Keir Starmer took over as leader, and cut the party’s ties with groups accused of links to Islamism. In his official review of the Prevent anti-extremism programme in 2023, Sir William Shawcross described Mend as an “Islamist organisation” and, before becoming Met Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley highlighted the group’s alarmist opposition to British counter-extremism measures.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Doug Ford heads west to meet with Danielle Smith and promote pipelines

Premier Doug Ford is stampeding west to promote pipelines.

Ford will be at the Calgary Stampede on Monday and is to sign a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to build new energy and trade infrastructure.

“I’ve never seen a country more united. I’m going to be flying out to see Premier Smith and we’re going to have a great conversation about building pipelines right across our great country,” he told reporters two weeks ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada

Death toll in catastrophic Texas flooding rises to 51, including 15 children and 28 adults, officials say

The death toll in the devastating Guadalupe River flash flood in Texas has risen to 51 — including 28 adults and 15 children in Kerr County, officials said in a grim Saturday night update.

At least five of the dead — Renee Smajstrla, 8; Sarah Marsh, 8; Janie Hunt, 9; and Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 — were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls where 22 other campers were still unaccounted for.

Family members took to social media to post the heartbreaking news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

A little good news …

Palestinians celebrate Jew Killing

Palestinian students say visa delays have stranded them despite admission to Canadian schools

With two of their peers killed last year, more than 70 Palestinian students are raising the alarm over stalled immigration to Canada despite admissions and scholarships at universities across the country, stranding them in Gaza or nearby Egypt and Jordan as they wait out a war.

“The situation in Gaza is getting hard day by day, they are targeting many crowded and random places,” said Meera, an industrial engineering student who has been accepted to the University of Regina on scholarships to pursue a master’s degree, but is stuck waiting in Gaza City, where she’s unable to submit a completed visa application to the federal Immigration Department.

“Like so many other students, I become trapped with my dreams,” she told CBC News in an interview.

We have more than our share send them to North Korea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Leftist MPs Want To Ban News Reports on Migrant Crime To Prevent ‘Far Right’ Speech

On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months. In line with this observation, several left-wing MPs proposed an amendment to media regulations aimed at “conducting an editorial review of the place of news items in the coverage of current events” in the public media. Behind this move lies an attempt to stifle media coverage of these cases—which are in fact linked to immigration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s retaliatory tariffs having little impact on U.S.

The practical problem Prime Minister Mark Carney faces in negotiating a new trade and security deal with President Donald Trump is that Canada is firing blanks with its retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.

The issue, as Carney noted in explaining why “dollar-for-dollar” tariffs against the U.S. won’t work — after he initially supported them while running for the Liberal leadership — is that the U.S. economy is 10 times the size of Canada’s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Homes for hipsters

More than his good looks, charm and great social-media game, the biggest reason that Zohran Mamdani may become New York’s next mayor grows from his focus on the city’s affordability crisis, most of which is tied to high housing prices.

Mamdani’s ‘cost of living’ campaign – offering rent control, free buses, childcare and city-owned supermarkets – seems to some leftist pundits a potential road back to power, under the guise of the burgeoning YIMBY (‘yes in my backyard’) movement that seeks to lower rental prices through massive housing construction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCommunism, Communists

Men Listen To Podcasters Like Andrew Schulz Because Women Have Invaded Their Real-Life Spaces

In the 2024 election, candidate appearances on podcasts were huge, yuge even. Donald Trump showed up on an array of them, from Theo Von to Joe Rogan to Barstool Sports’ Bussin’ With The Boys. Kamala Harris did fewer, with Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy being the most notable. After Trump’s resounding win, some Democrats blamed Rogan for the victory, though even John Oliver cautioned against that notion. (Also, Rogan gave Harris an “open invitation” to come on his podcast, but she declined his terms.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toxic Masculinity"