As the Lebanese people struggle to recover from the catastrophic deaths and destruction wrought by the Beirut explosion, more questions than answers continue to arise. The official story, that in 2013, Lebanese port officials impounded a Moldovan flagged ship bound for Mozambique, laden with explosive chemicals, does not address other facts which have emerged and must be investigated:

1.         Sections of the Beirut port are under the control of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Israeli officials have long complained that the Beirut port, “the Hezbollah Port” was being utilized by the terrorists to smuggle contraband and weapons into Lebanon. As UN Ambassador Danny Danon recently stated: “Israel discovered that Iran and its Quds Force have been exploiting civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut.”

2.         Hezbollah has a long history of illegally acquiring and stockpiling ammonium nitrate in civilian areas. In 2015, Britain’s M15 and Metro Police carried out a raid on a secret Hezbollah warehouse in London that contained 3 tons of ammonium nitrate. The British government shamefully covered-up the raid in order not to damage relations with Iran shortly after signing the dangerous Nuclear Deal. It is believed Hezbollah was planning on using the chemicals for an attack in the UK.

3.         The same year, police in Cyprus discovered a Hezbollah warehouse storing 8.3 tons of ammonium nitrate. A Hezbollah operative was arrested and charged with planning a terror attack. “A state prosecutor said Lebanese-Canadian Hussein Bassam Abdallah admitted that Hezbollah aimed to mount terrorist attacks against Israeli interests in Cyprus using the ammonium nitrate that he had been ordered to guard at the Larnaca home of another official of the Iranian-backed group.”

4.         Israeli intelligence gave German police information, earlier this year, of the location of a Hezbollah stockpile of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany. The fact that the Iranian terror group was warehousing the explosives on German soil helped to push Berlin to outlaw all wings of the Hezbollah organization.  “Mossad reportedly gave Germany information about warehouses in the south of the country where Hezbollah stashed hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate, a material used to make explosives.” 

5.         Hezbollah has a long history and deliberate strategy of stockpiling rockets, weapons and explosives in civilian areas. Hezbollah intentionally utilizes civilian neighborhoods including the basements of schools, mosques, residential buildings and hospitals as missile depots. The terrorists understand that the Israeli air force would be hindered in responding to rockets launched from civilian centers during the next war with Lebanon. And if Israel does attack the launchers and kills civilians, Hezbollah is counting on the UN, the Europeans and the ICC to immediately accuse Israel of war crimes. Hezbollah calls it this “Human Shield” program.

6.         In 2016, Hezbollah’s chief terrorist Hassan Nasrallah had threatened to fire rockets at an ammonia storage facility in Haifa. He vowed that the explosion would be like a nuclear bomb striking Israel. He repeated this threat on several occasions causing Israeli officials to remove the storage tanks. “Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened in the past to destroy Israel by causing a massive explosion in the port of Haifa using ammonia tanks that he said would be like a “nuclear” explosion. In addition Hezbollah allegedly sought to acquire ammonium nitrate via Syria since 2009 and tried to infiltrate the agriculture ministry in Lebanon to do so, according to leaked diplomatic cables.”

7.         On Valentine’s Day in 2005, a team of Hezbollah terrorists murdered then Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri with a powerful bomb in Beirut. 21 people were killed in the massive explosion. Hariri was a strong opponent of the Hezbollah group and the regime of  Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that was attempting to control Lebanon. Four Hezbollah assassins are being tried in absentia by a UN court for the murder. Ironically, after 15 years of stalling, the UN’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon, hearing the Hariri case will deliver its decision on Friday. Its believed the Special Tribunal will declare Hezbollah as responsible for the bombing attack. 

Hezbollah’s long involvement in attempting to procure and stockpile ammonium nitrate perpetuates the growing suspicions that the Iranian terrorist organization, which rules Lebanon, was directly involved in the warehousing of the chemicals at the Beirut port. When the Lebanese population will finish dealing with the devastation and mourning its dead and wounded the finger-pointing at Hezbollah’s role in the tragedy will begin in earnest. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon whose verdict in the Hariri assassination trial will further emphasize Hezbollah’s guilt. Hezbollah and its Iranian masters, the key source of Middle East instability, must be driven out of Lebanon. 

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center (Info@israellawcenter.org)

Great commotion on Thursday afternoon in Magdeburg district Kannenstieg. According to witnesses, a 21-year-old Syrian first threatened a young woman with a baby carriage at the Milchweg tram stop at around 3.40 pm and injured her.

The man then boarded the tram of Line 1, which had been run in in the meantime, and threatened several passengers with kitchen knives – among the attacked was a 72-year-old woman from Magdeburg.

“Afterwards the perpetrator left the tram and walked to the intersection of Ebendorfer Chaussee / Johannes-R.-Becher-Straße with knives in his hands,” said a police spokesman.

A 45-year-old car driver and another car driver became aware of the incident and reacted immediately. The two men managed to overpower the 21-year-old and hold him until the police arrived. The 45-year-old man was injured and was taken to a clinic.

The background of the crime is still unclear.

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Yesterday, Thursday, shortly after 8 p.m., a violent crime was committed in Plattling in which a 20-year-old woman was killed.

According to the current state of investigations, the 20-year-old woman drove to the scene of the crime in a car to visit her 28-year-old partner. The 28-year-old was working in a snack bar there. For reasons not yet known, a dispute arose between the man and the woman at the snack bar.In the course of the argument the man stabbed the woman several times with a knife. The woman suffered severe injuries to her upper body and died at the scene of the crime. The alcoholized 28-year-old was arrested by the Plattling police without resistance. At present, no reliable information can be given about the background and motives of the crime, but it is likely that they are private.In the woman’s vehicle was also the approx. 8-month-old infant belonging to the couple. The child was not injured in the attack. The Youth Welfare Office has taken the child into care and placed it in a foster family.The crime scene was cordoned off during the night with the help of Plattling Fire Department. Specialists of the Straubing Criminal Police conducted the forensics. The suspected murder weapon was found at the scene of the crime. Several witnesses of the crime were interrogated by the criminal investigation department during the night of the crime.The Deggendorf criminal investigation department is carrying out the investigations in close cooperation with the Deggendorf public prosecutor’s office. The suspect, an Afghan national, will be brought before the investigating judge at the Deggendorf District Court today in the course of the day. The autopsy of the corpse will take place today, August 7, 2020, at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.In connection with the crime, the Deggendorf criminal investigation department is looking for a further witness who was at the scene of the crime. According to current findings, this man drove off in an unknown direction immediately after the crime in a VW Golf Plus, on which a fender was taped or fixed with adhesive tape. The witness is urgently requested to contact the Deggendorf criminal investigation department, by calling 0991/3896-0.

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Joe Biden has been a source of humor for years. His inappropriate behavior and verbal gaffes have given us many laughs, but many of these gaffes seem indistinguishable from evidence of cognitive decline. After previously saying, “I’ve been tested and I’m constantly tested,” he now says he’s not taken a cognitive test and refuses to do so.

His recent gibberish on China shows just how big of a problem his cognitive decline is. He just can’t make a coherent statement on policy. He rambles and then loses his train of thought. Imagine him dealing with world leaders. Imagine him with the nation’s nuclear codes. I don’t think anyone wants to.

For some time it was easy to laugh this off. But Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. We’ve been laughing at his gaffes long enough. One of the two major political parties is on the verge on making him their nominee for president.

It’s not like we weren’t warned, either. Even the late Robin Williams was aware of Joe Biden’s craziness.

The following undated clip features Robin Williams mocking Biden during a stand-up routine. It’s obvious from the clip that Biden was not a politician taken seriously by most people—Williams’ bit captures that perfectly by describing Joe Biden as being “like your uncle who’s on a new drug and hasn’t got the dosage right.”

It’s a short clip, but do watch it.

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Just when it seemed America had gone so far off the rails that no one could top us for moonbattery, Germany steps forward with a reminder that progressives always find a way to progress even further into abject insanity:

In a draft law seen by AFP, the country’s environment ministry has drawn up a number of new measures to protect insects …

Light traps for insects are to be banned outdoors, while searchlights and sky spotlights would be outlawed from dusk to dawn for ten months of the year.

The draft also demands that any new streetlights and other outdoor lights be installed in such a way as to minimise the effect on plants, insects and other animals.

If Germans don’t drop the green energy idiocy, they won’t be able to keep the lights on for much longer anyway. Since they have doomed themselves to stumbling around in the dark, they may as well get virtue points for it.

Can they push the crazy even farther? Sure they can. Orchards “are to be protected as natural habitats for insects.” Those who thought the point of orchards was to grow fruit for people to eat now stand corrected.

It’s all part of the government’s “insect protection action plan.” Only self-interest can explain bureaucrats protecting insects at the expense of taxpayers.

Germans have gone batty for bugs before:

Earlier this year, electric car giant Tesla faced delays to the construction of its new “gigafactory” outside Berlin due to the relocation of several ant colonies away from the building site.

No doubt the insects are grateful for the solicitude.

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A 26-year-old woman was out and about on Monday evening together with her girlfriend (24 years old) at Graz main station. In the exit area of a supermarket, a stranger suddenly grabbed her buttocks with his hand as she passed by. During the following verbal argument, the man finally threatened the 24-year-old companion with killing her. In addition to the verbal threat, he also indicated with his hand that he would cut her throat.When employees of the security service ( Austrian Federal Railways) intervened and called the police, the man, together with his friends who were also present, fled via the platform and the passenger tunnel in the direction of the street Waagner-Biro-Straße.On the basis of the existing personal description, police officers were able to arrest the suspect, a 17-year-old Iraqi from Graz, in the course of their search in the downtown area of Graz. The 17-year-old was hardly cooperative and has not yet made any statements about the accusations made against him. He will be reported to the police after the investigations are completed.

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