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https://www.jns.org/penalizing-the-criminal-international-court/

Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune (R-S.D.) on Thursday called the International Criminal Court’s issuing of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant “outrageous, unlawful and dangerous.”

Thune then demanded that current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “bring a bill to the floor sanctioning the ICC,” warning that “if he chooses not to act, the new Senate Republican majority next year will.”

The double threat—aimed simultaneously at Schumer and the kangaroo court at The Hague—was significant for two reasons.

First, Thune has good reason to finger-wag at his Democrat counterparts, thanks to their disturbing attitude towards Israel. Professing an “ironclad commitment” to the Jewish state’s “right to defend itself” while withholding crucial arms shipments to America’s key ally and only democracy in the Middle East has made them deserving of suspicion by the likes of Thune and the rest of the unflinchingly pro-Israel Republicans.

The fact that a whopping 19 Democrat senators voted this week to advance resolutions put forth by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to block the transfer to Jerusalem of offensive weaponry necessary for its self-defense is a case in point.

Though Schumer—like President Joe Biden and other members of his party who have been critical of Israel’s prosecution of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon—opposed those resolutions, they’ve been openly hostile to the Netanyahu government since its inception; so much so that they’ve never concealed their desire for it to be toppled.

Second, there are concrete steps that the powers that be in D.C. can take against the ICC, such as the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday reiterated his demand that the Senate vote on it “immediately.”

Similar to Thune, Johnson pulled no punches.

The international criminal court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for the PM of Israel (Bibi) and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity. Apparently defending your country from animals who raped, murdered, tortured and kidnapped babies, Holocaust survivors and other innocent civilians constitutes a war crime.

In the ICC’s defence, in order to show how unbiased they are, they also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas leader Deif who the IDF killed in a raid a while back. So they’ll arrest a dead guy, great. 
And our PM here in Canada, the leader of the Liberal party said the following:

“We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts,” Trudeau said, when asked if he would allow Netanyahu and Gallant to be arrested if they come to Canada. 

“This is just who we are as Canadians,” he said. 

I’m a Canadian and I would sooner arrest Trudeau! I sincerely doubt that most Canadians would agree with him. In fact most Canadians would consider him a vile, antisemite for saying what he just did. I certainly do. This is by far the most obscene and overtly antisemitic act he’s done to date. He previously called out Israel for creating a genocide in Gaza. How any Jewish citizen voted for him is beyond me. He can’t leave office soon enough. At this rate he’ll arrest me because I support Bibi. (As long as the ICC makes such a decree).

http://bit.ly/40Xe8QQ

According to the State Department’s annual human rights report on Iran: “Iran’s restrictions on human rights worsened in a number of areas during the year….[For instance], transnational repression against individuals, femicide, forced sterilization, early and forced marriage, trafficking in persons, recruitment of child soldiers, worst forms of child labor, violence targeting ethnic minorities [e.g., Shiite Arabs, Sunni and Shiite Kurds and Sunni Balochis], severe restrictions on freedom of expression and religion [e.g., Sunnis, Baha’is, Jews], criminalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons, enforced disappearance, torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government….”

The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights adds: ”Human rights violations by Iran… amounting to crimes against humanity…. Women and girls subjected to rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including gang rape, rape with an object, electrocution of genitalia, forced nudity and groping…. State authorities at the highest levels encouraged, sanctioned and endorsed human rights violations through statements justifying the acts and conduct of the security forces….”

*Since its February 1979 violent rise to power, the Ayatollahs’ regime has been intensely committed to its 1,400-year-old fanatical vision, as documented by its Constitution, school curriculum, mosque sermons and the daily enforcement of its Islamic Revolution, domestically and globally.  The Ayatollahs’ vision – which transcends financial and diplomatic considerations – has transformed Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to the leading global epicenter of anti-US terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced military systems.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/putin-lowers-nuclear-strike-threshold-as-ukraine-launches-long-range-missiles-into-russia/

Russian president Vladimir Putin revised Russia’s nuclear doctrine Tuesday, reducing its threshold for using nuclear weapons just as the Russian military announced that Ukraine had launched long-range missiles supplied by the U.S. into Russian territory.

Putin’s new nuclear doctrine proclaims that Russia can use nuclear weapons in response to an attack from a non-nuclear state with support from a nuclear state, a clear reference to U.S. support for Ukraine. The doctrine formalizes a policy Putin announced in September during a televised meeting with top officials.

“[Russian] President [Vladimir Putin] gave the relevant instructions prior. The president himself stated that the preparation of the amendments was in the final stage. The updated document was released on schedule,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the state-run Tass news agency.

Peskov was addressing a question about whether the document’s publication coincided with news reports that Biden would allow Ukraine to launch American missiles deep into Russia.

He also said Russia’s nuclear doctrine stipulates that a Ukrainian attack with western missiles could trigger a nuclear response. Throughout Russia’s war against Ukraine, Putin has threatened to escalate the war into a nuclear conflict against Ukraine and its western allies.

https://mexiconewsreport.com/index.php/2024/11/20/criminals-linked-to-sinaloa-cartel-arrested-in-spain/

In a recent article I reported on criminals linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel arrested in California.

Now some have been arrested across the pond in Spain, Mexico’s madre patria.

From CBS:
“Spain has arrested 14 people suspected of links to the powerful Mexican Sinaloa cartel as part of a kidnapping and murder probe, police said Sunday [November 17th]. The ring busted by Spanish investigators was mainly made up of Mexican nationals. It was connected to the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is based in northwestern Mexico and has been shaken by weeks of gang infighting.”

“ ‘The dismantled criminal network, which is based in Catalonia, is believed to be involved in the kidnapping and death of a man whose body was found in a wooded area’ in the northeastern Spanish region in August, police said in a statement. The victim, whose nationality was not specified, allegedly worked with the gang and ‘had come from Italy for a meeting with several chiefs.’ The victim’s family in Kosovo reported his disappearance to the police after he was abducted between late May and June. The family received a 240,000-euro ransom request ($253,000) and a total of $32,000 was paid in cryptocurrency.”

https://jihadwatch.org/2024/11/canada-isis-arrests-spiking-with-youths-driving-the-threat?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canada-isis-arrests-spiking-with-youths-driving-the-threat

The exclusive report below from Global News paints a grim and disturbing picture of what is developing in Canada, and developing rapidly. ISIS arrests are spiking, with youth driving the threat. The problem is so grave that Global News titled its report The Return of ISIS.

Recently, Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, expressed concerns about the terror risk from Canada, and warned Ottawa of “tough conversations” ahead.

Canada didn’t suddenly descend to this point. It has been a gradual process.

ISIS jihadis were invited to return to Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who not only set out a welcome mat for them in the name of “diversity and inclusion,” but praised what he claimed could be their future “contributions,” saying:

We know that actually someone who has engaged and turned out from that hateful ideology can be an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future generations, and young people within the community.

Never did he stop to think about the victims of the Islamic State, nor about their future possible victims.

The woke establishment has been equating opposition to open-border policies with opposition to all immigration. Canada’s government has encouraged this bizarre thinking.

In 2018, CBN published a telling article, “Canada Becoming a Potential Base for Terrorists to Attack the US.” A year before that, it emerged that dozens of jihadis were walking free in Canada, yet authorities wouldn’t charge them. Leaked documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also showed a greater threat of Islamic terror inside the country than the government was admitting.

Now the power of social media in recruiting youngsters is a growing factor:

According to police and experts, today’s ISIS devotees are younger and more immersed in social media and gaming platforms, where they are connecting with propaganda, recruiters and fellow extremists.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21134/new-axis-of-tyrannies

The reason for the axis’s actions appears to be a desire for a new world order with themselves at the helm. They seem to believe that through their combined effort, America’s unipolar global leadership in the political, economic and military spheres can be upended.

[T]he driving forces underlying this developing clash of major powers have many facets, one of which appears to be religion, always a convenient pretext as so much can never be proven.

[I]n autocratic or totalitarian regimes comes the imperative to forcefully assert the regime’s idea of religion, of its “truth,” often upon an unwilling populace. Associated with such systems is the intention of ultimately establishing global compliance with their beliefs, which sometimes appear to be a “religion” of state supremacy.

Standing in Iran’s path is the Jewish state of Israel, whose inhabitants inconveniently refuse to vacate it. To many Islamists, continual jihad appears to go hand-in-hand with the need for acquiring land.

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day,” the Quran commands Muslims in Surah 9:29.

To this effect, the February 2024 issue of the Urdu-language al-Qaeda publication Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind indicates, “Allah has declared Jihad as the path for the enforcement of religion.” In plain words, jihad is required to forcibly establish Islam as the one “true” faith – a global religion.

Hamas’s primary concern, however, does not appear to be an independent state for Palestinians — as it identifies with the Muslim Brotherhood — but a Sharia-based global Islamic Caliphate through jihad. For Hamas, as for the Muslim Brotherhood, a Palestinian state would be merely the first-step in a wider agenda.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the catalyst movement behind the modern global jihadist movement, and should rightly be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, said, “it is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”

Hassan Nasrallah espoused the same idea: “We won’t stop until every country on Earth is ruled by the law of Allah and the people of Islam, like our prophet promised.”

The West, meanwhile, due to a variety of weak and compromised political decisions, has tried to prevent Israel from acting alone in direct conflict with jihadists, whether Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran itself. All the same, the nation of Israel, despite nearly 4,000 years of unremitting challenges to its existence, appears to be enduring just fine.

The volatile world political order currently reflects a clash between an axis of hegemonic dictatorships flexing their increasing military prowess, and an alliance of Western nations, including Israel, the West’s sole democratic partner in the Middle East.

Driven by disparate ideologies, the axis includes Russia, with imperialist aims over vast regions, Slavic and otherwise; China, with a desire for world domination; Iran, striving for a global Islamist Caliphate; and, to a lesser degree, North Korea, apparently intent on seizing the Korean peninsula, for a start.