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Trample Trump botched it: US to resettle white refugees from South Africa while expelling others
As always, the move starts with the UK (Rwanda), Germany (Afghan refugees) follows suit. With the US intervention, the avalanche takes over the fascists in the EU, Australia, New Zealand, India, etc.
A group of people holding a demo outside the US Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa on February 15, 2025 show their gratitude to US President Donald Trump for signing an executive order giving white South Africans special refugee status. US to resettle white refugees from South Africa while expelling others –
The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to welcome its first group of white refugees from South Africa at the same time as it is arresting and deporting many refugees.
According to US media reports, a charter flight carrying dozens of Afrikaans South Africans is scheduled to arrive on May 12. NPR reported on Thursday that 54 Afrikaaners have been officially granted refugee status, with the process of interviewing them being “unusually quick.”
The Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch and other European colonists, represent the first group to benefit from a February executive order that prioritizes their admission under the United States Refugee Admissions Program.
The order, signed on February 7, directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to “take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” The directive also included a reduction in aid to South Africa.
President Trump has accused the South African government of targeting Afrikaner farmers through land expropriation efforts without compensation. Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and South African-born advisor Elon Musk, has characterized the policy as discriminatory.
Despite these claims, South Africa’s Department of International Relations has rejected the accusations, stating in a February statement: “It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.”
This policy shift has drawn criticism for its apparent inconsistency. While Afrikaners, who still maintain substantial economic and political influence in post-apartheid South Africa, are being resettled under humanitarian grounds, many asylum seekers from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East continue to face deportation or lengthy detentions under the same administration.
Comedian Leah Jazz satirized the narrative of Afrikaner victimhood in a widely circulated Instagram video, mocking the idea that white South Africans are oppressed.
“I then need to wash, so I have a dip in our pool which is used for bathing and drinking as we have no running water,” she says in the clip. “Then I sit down to apply for a job I’m not qualified for, and cry when I don’t get it.”
Afrikaners have historically been part of South Africa’s ruling class. Until the end of apartheid in 1994, English and Afrikaner colonists dominated political and economic life under a racially segregated system that denied the Black majority basic rights.
On January 21, President Trump signed a separate order realigning the broader refugee admissions framework, stating that the country lacked “the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants… in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans.”
Trump’s allegations against South Africa come as the latter filed a case at the International Court of Justice against Israel, a close US ally, for committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.PressTV report
These so-called white South Africans are responsible for the Apartheid that existed until the 1990s in South Africa.
They must not be assigned a special status and privileges for their crimes against humanity.
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The war against Yemen’s Ansar Allah has cost the US over $1 billion since it began in March
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UK keeps sending arms to the colony despite ban: Report
A new report says Britain keeps exporting arms and equipment, including F-35 fighter jet parts, to the Zionist colony despite a government suspension in September 2024.
The report released by three campaign groups says parts for the jet, which has been critical for the Zionist colony’s brutal military campaign in Gaza, appear to have arrived in the Zionist colony as recently as March.
Investigation using Zionist colony customs data says 8,630 munitions items were sent from the UK to the Zionist colony since the suspensions.
The munitions fall under a category of import labelled “bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, and similar munitions of war and parts thereof.”
Most of the shipments cited in the report happened after the government’s arms suspension.
Britain had said it suspended its direct exports over concerns they might be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Soon after the suspensions, Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament that “much of what we send is defensive in nature. It is not what we describe routinely as arms.”
“On the basis of the evidence in this report, it appears that Lammy has misled parliament and the public about arms shipments to Israel,” according to the report.
Nearly two dozen MPs have written to Lammy, calling on him to come before parliament to respond to the allegations.
They said that the public “deserves to know the full scale of the UK’s complicity in crimes against humanity.”
“We urge the government to disclose the details of all arms exports to Israel since October 2023 and to immediately halt all arms exports to Israel,” they wrote.
“This could not be more urgent given the risk that British-made weapons could be used to enact Netanyahu’s plan to annex Gaza and ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people.”
Former Labor shadow chancellor and MP John McDonnell and MP Zarah said the findings showed the government “has been lying to us about the arms it is supplying to Israel while it wages genocide in Gaza.”
“Far from ‘helmets and goggles’, the government has been sending thousands of arms and ammunition goods and [is] even still supplying components of the world’s most lethal fighter jets,” she said.
Emily Apple, media coordinator for the UK-based Campaign Against Arms Trade, said the report had shattered the claim that the UK arms export regime is transparent.
“Our arms export regime is not fit for purpose and this government is complicit in Israel’s horrific war crimes. Time and again, it has either refused to act or manufactured loopholes to prioritize arms trade profits over Palestinian lives. This has to stop,” Apple said.PressTV report
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The UK has denied Gaza’s injured children treatment in Britain
Despite the Zionist colony’s brutal war on Gaza, which has injured tens of thousands of children, the British government has admitted only two girls for medical treatment of congenital conditions.
They were chosen not because they are among those most severely injured by the Zionist colony ’s onslaught in Gaza; quite the opposite. Their diagnoses appear more politically neutral, involving congenital conditions not directly related to the Zionist colony’s ongoing violence in Gaza.
The full MEE report
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Violent US-BACKED terror colony airstrikes hit southern Lebanon while the US military on visit
Footage of a series of airstrikes launched by enemy warplanes on the heights of Kfar Tibnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa. Al Manar on Telegram Channel In an initial toll, one martyr and 8 injuries have been reported following the violent IOF airstrikes that targeted Al-Nabatiyeh Al-Fawqa in South Lebanon.
Nearly 20 airstrikes were launched in a belt of fire targeting the area in an ongoing violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Al Manar Arabic report A US military team, accompanied by a Lebanese Army unit, has been conducting tours since this morning in the valleys stretching across the slopes of Qusayr, Deir Seryan, and Taybeh.
The so-called Lebanese PM parrots the same shallow monologues on repeat.
With a government such as this, the people of the South are abandoned.
“It is essential to put an end to Israeli violations as soon as possible.
The government has spared no diplomatic effort to halt these actions and push for “Israel’s” withdrawal.”
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More than 90 killed in Gaza strikes as the Zionist entity prepares to ramp up offensive
Initial moments after the Zionist airstrike on the restaurant in Al-Remal, Gaza At least 92 people were killed by the Zionist colony’s trikes across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, one day after the Zionist government approved plans to seize territory and forcibly displace residents to the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Zionist strikes across Gaza killed at least 92 people, including women, children and two journalists, officials said Wednesday, as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign in the strip, with the devastating war now entering its 20th month.Two Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday targeted an area in central Gaza, killing at least 33 people and wounding 86, including several children, though the actual death toll is likely higher, according to health officials.
The occupation military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
This came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday there is “doubt” about the survival of three hostages previously believed to be alive in Gaza. The statement came a day after US President Donald Trump said only 21 of 24 hostages believed alive had survived.The news sent families of remaining captives in Gaza into panic. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group representing the captives’ families, demanded that if “new information is being kept from us, [the Israeli government must] give it to us immediately”. It also called for Netanyahu to halt the war in Gaza until all hostages are returned. “This is the most urgent and important national mission,” the group said in a post on X.
Strikes hit market and school
Wednesday’s strikes included two attacks on a crowded market area in Gaza City, health officials said.
Footage posted online reportedly showed the aftermath with men found dead, including one still seated in a chair inside a Thai restaurant used by locals as a gathering spot, and several children lying motionless on the ground, covered in blood.
Journalist Yahya Sobeih, who freelanced for several local outlets, was among those killed, according to Gaza’s media office. He had recently shared a photo on Instagram of his newborn daughter.
Victims of the blasts, some with severe injuries, were taken to nearby Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza health ministry spokesperson Zaher al-Wahidi told The Associated Press.
Another local journalist, Nour Abdu, was killed while covering an attack early Wednesday morning at a school turned shelter in Gaza City, the media office said. That strike killed 16 people, according to officials at Al-Ahli Hospital, while strikes in other areas killed at least 16 others.
And an attack Tuesday night on a school sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians killed 27 people, officials from the Al-Aqsa Hospital said, including nine women and three children. The school has been struck repeatedly since the war began.
In Bureij, an urban refugee camp, paramedics and rescuers rushed to pull people out of a blaze after a large column of smoke and fires pierced the dark skies above the school shelter.Seizing Gaza
The new bloodshed Wednesday comes days after Israel approved a plan to intensify its operations in the Palestinian enclave, which would include seizing Gaza, holding on to captured territories, forcibly displacing Palestinians to southern Gaza and taking control of aid distribution along with private security companies.Israel is also calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers to carry out the plan. Israel says the plan will be gradual and will not be implemented until after Trump wraps up his visit to the region later this month.
Israel already controls some 50 percent of Gaza. Increasing its hold on the territory for an indefinite amount of time could open up the potential for a military occupation, which would raise questions about how Israel plans to have the territory governed.
Since Israel broke a ceasefire with the Hamas militant group in mid-March, it has unleashed fierce strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds and captured swaths of territory. Before the truce ended, Israel halted all humanitarian aid into the territory, including food, fuel and water, setting off what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis in 19 months of war.
World Central Kitchen, the food charity, said it had run out of supplies after serving 130 million meals in Gaza over 18 months and could no longer offer bread or meals at most of its centres. The group, in social media posts, urged Israel to allow loaded trucks it has waiting at the border to enter Gaza.
Key interlocutors Qatar and Egypt said Wednesday that mediation efforts were “ongoing and consistent”. But Israel and Hamas remain far apart on how they see the war ending. Israel says it won’t end the war until Hamas’s governing and military capabilities are dismantled, something it has failed to do in 19 months of war.
Hamas says it is prepared to release all of the hostages for an end to the war and a long-term truce with Israel.
The Zionist offensive has so far killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
The colony blames Hamas for the death toll, saying it operates from civilian infrastructure, including schools. The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern occupied Palestine, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages.France24 report
The IOF continued its attacks throughout Gaza, in several massacres, the most devastating of which was the targeting of a school housing displaced people in Al-Bureij camp. Another massacre on the Al-Talyani restaurant, resulted in at least 25 civilians, including journalists and a child. RNN -
Macron hosts Syria’s de facto HTS-terrorist-leader ‘president’ Jolani in first European visit
Jolani arrived in Paris for his first official trip to Europe after shedding his identity as a former Al-Qaeda leader and deputy commander to the founder of ISIS.
Syria’s self-appointed interim President Jolani of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace on 7 May in his first official visit to a European nation since overthrowing the previous Syrian government.
According to a statement released by the Elysee Palace, the meeting between Macron and Sharaa sought to “accompany the transition towards a free, stable, sovereign Syria that respects all components of Syrian society.”
“The new wave of sectarian violence in Syria cannot be ignored. I reminded President Sharaa of the need to protect all Syrians and to hold those responsible for the violence accountable,” Macron said in a statement to the press.
Since the start of March, hundreds of Alawite families have been massacred by Syria’s new security forces under the command of Sharaa. Dozens of young Alawite women have also been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by the former ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighters.
The sectarian violence recently extended to Druze villages south of Damascus, where heavy clashes broke out last week.
Macron also spoke about the situation in the Lebanon-Syria border, where extremist groups allied with Sharaa have also attacked Lebanese army positions.
“We are ready to launch negotiations between Lebanon and Syria to demarcate the border,” Macron said.
The French president also supported a “gradual lifting” of EU sanctions against Syria and revealed that he is “trying to persuade” the US to postpone its troop withdrawal from the war-torn nation.
For his part, Sharaa confirmed that his government is holding “indirect” talks with Israel.
“There are indirect negotiations with Israel through mediators to de-escalate tensions and prevent a loss of control,” Sharaa said.
He also claimed that Damascus “has provided guarantees to all countries that foreign fighters will abide by Syrian law and not harm their country,” adding that foreign extremists he folded into the new military will obtain Syrian citizenship under a new constitution.The Cradle Media report
Macron & Jolani in matching couple-suits. “The new wave of sectarian violence in Syria cannot be ignored. I reminded President al-Sharaa of the need to protect all Syrians and to hold those responsible for the violence accountable,” said the French President.
Reminding a proscribed terrorist to uphold human lives.
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Statement by the Spox of the Yemeni Armed Forces General Yahya Saree
Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian people and their mujahideen, and in rejection of the crime of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The UAV force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two military operations.
The first targeted the Zionist enemy’s Ramon Airport in the Umm al-Rashrash area in southern occupied Palestine using two drones.
The other targeted a vital target of the Zionist enemy in the occupied area of Yafa using a Yafa drone.
As part of the retaliation to the American aggression against our country and its crimes against our beloved, faithful, and steadfast people.
The naval and UAV forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the US aircraft carrier Truman and a number of its warships in the northern Red Sea with a ballistic missile and several drones.
The operation resulted in the following:
_ The thwarting of an air attack the American enemy was preparing to carry out against our country.
_ The downing of an American F-18 due to the state of confusion and panic the enemy reached during the targeting operation.
– The US aircraft carrier Truman fled to the far north of the Red Sea.
This operation was carried out before the American enemy announced the cessation of its aggression against our country.
The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not hesitate to deliver harsh and painful blows to the American enemy should it resume its aggression against our country.
Our great Yemeni people stand in the rightful position, striving for the sake of Allah and fulfilling their religious, moral, and humanitarian duties toward the oppressed Palestinian people and toward all the peoples and countries of the Arab and Islamic nation.
They reject submission and subservience, and they will not retreat or surrender, regardless of the repercussions.
Let our dear, faithful, and struggling people rest assured that the armed forces possess the military capabilities that, with reliance on Allah, enable them to respond appropriately to the Israeli aggression.
We will continue to ban Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas, and to ban air traffic at Lod Airport.
Our operations will continue until the aggression against Gaza stops and the blockade is lifted.
We will remain faithful and persevere, blood for blood, with Gaza and Palestine until victory.
Sana’a:
Dhu al-Qi’dah 9, 1446 AH
May 7, 2025 AD
Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
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A second $60 million US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet has gone down during a failed landing attempt on the Truman aircraft carrier, with American taxpayers once again left to foot the bill. PressTV -
At least 3 killed, over 50 injured in Zionist airstrike in areas in Yemen capital Sana’a
Zionist colony strike causes $500 million in damages at Sanaa Airport.
Director of Sanaa International Airport, Khaled Al-Shaif, said yesterday’s Zionist airstrike caused massive damage, hitting the main runway with four missiles and creating a 20-meter-deep crater. The arrival and departure halls and the aviation fueling administration were completely destroyed.
Al-Shaif reported that six passenger planes were damaged, including four belonging to Yemen Airways, leaving the airline with only one operational plane in Jordan. He estimated losses at $500 million and said a team would assess the damage. Temporary alternatives for the airport will be announced soon.
He rejected Israeli claims of missile launchers at the airport, calling them false. Al-Shaif stressed that Sanaa Airport is a civilian facility monitored by the UN and said Yemen’s military sites are in remote, fortified locations away from civilians.Sanaa airport suspends flights after severe damage from Zionist strikes.
Sanaa International Airport in Yemen has suspended all flights until further notice following “severe damage” from Zionist airstrikes on Tuesday. The airport’s director, Khaled al-Shaief, confirmed the suspension due to the impact of the attacks.
Images shows the damage to Sana’a International Airport following Israeli airstrikes. PressTV At least 3 killed, over 50 injured in Zionist airstrike in areas in Yemen capital Sana’a.
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Trample Trump plans to announce the U.S. will call the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Gulf, officials tell AP
President Donald Trample Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the U.S. will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf.
The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. The White House and National Security Council didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
The Persian Gulf has been widely known by that name since the 16th century, although usage of “Gulf of Arabia” and “Arabian Gulf” is dominant in many countries in the Middle East. The government of Iran — formerly Persia — threatened to sue Google in 2012 over the company’s decision not to label the body of water at all on its maps.
On Google Maps in the U.S., the body of water appears as Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf). Apple Maps only says the Persian Gulf.
Trump can change the name for official U.S. purposes, but he can’t dictate what the rest of the world calls it.
The International Hydrographic Organization — of which the United States is a member — works to ensure all the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them. There are instances where countries refer to the same body of water or landmark by different names in their own documentation.
In addition to Saudi Arabia, Trump is also set to visit Doha, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, which also lie on the body of water. Originally planned as Trump’s first trip overseas since he took office on Jan. 20, it comes as Trump has tried to draw closer to the Gulf countries as he seeks their financial investment in the U.S. and support in regional conflicts, including resolving the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and limiting Iran’s advancing nuclear program.
The U.S. president also has significant financial ties to the countries through his personal businesses, over which he has retained ownership from the Oval Office.
The move comes several months after Trump said the U.S. would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
The Associated Press sued the Trump administration earlier this year after the White House barred its journalists from covering most events because of the organization’s decision not to follow the president’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” within the United States.U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled last month that the First Amendment protects the AP from government retaliation over its word choice and ordered the outlet’s access to be reinstated.
Huffington Post report
In a post on his X account, FM Abbas Araghchi expressed hope that ‘the absurd rumors about the PERSIAN Gulf that are going around’ are only ‘a disinformation campaign,’ adding that ‘politically motivated attempts’ to alter the name of the Persian Gulf ‘are an affront to all Iranians’
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