The German government confirmed on Wednesday that the Mossad played a role in building a legal case to ban the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah within the borders of the federal republic.However, unnamed German government sources told the weekly paper Die Zeit that Berlin was not pleased that Israel took major credit for the proscription of Hezbollah as a terrorist entity.

“Within German government circles, they are not happy with the statements made by the Israeli official. The information about the ice packs was indeed received from the Mossad.”In early May, Channel 12 reported that an Israeli official said the operation to ban Hezbollah in Germany was “the result of many months of work with all parties in Germany. The heads of services were required to present explicit evidence and legal proof… linking the organization to significant terrorist activity, and that is what we did,” the official said. “Bruno Kahl, the head of the German intelligence organization BND, is a close friend of Mossad,” he added.The German paper said the Mossad material provided to the authorities is, according to the Berlin government sources,”a single component in a complex investigation process…The German services themselves had done the vast majority of the work.” Zeit wrote that it obtained the 30-page interior ministry memorandum outlining the reasons for outlawing Hezbollah.According to the document, “so-called travel sheikhs” were sent by Hezbollah “to advise Hezbollah-affiliated associations in Germany and Europe.”The paper said “a famous Hezbollah preacher spoke in Shi’ite communities in Berlin and Bremen in 2018 and 2019. A server in Germany was also used to store malware that Hezbollah used to spy on the cell phones of soldiers and civilians in Israel and the United States. The document provides the names of supporter websites and a donation association and describes how Hezbollah-related youth organizations in Germany wooed young people.”

The paper asked why the Mossad took significant credit for the Hezbollah ban. According to German government sources, Zeit wrote, they “suspect that the Israeli authorities wanted to signal in this way that they could inflict a painful blow on their Hezbollah archenemies, even in other European countries.”It is unclear how reliable the German government sources are who played down the role of the Mossad in the article by Paul Middelhoff.German and American commentators noted that the US government’s acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell,
was the driving force in convincing a largely recalcitrant German government to outlaw Hezbollah. Grenell also serves as the US ambassador to Germany.The Jerusalem Post exclusively reported last year on a Hezbollah member declaring in a Hezbollah-controlled mosque in the German city of Münster: “We belong to the party of Ruhollah [Khomeini]. We have been accused of being terrorists – we are proud of terrorism.”The Post received a tip about the pro-Hezbollah terror activity in the Imam Mahdi center in Münster. The intelligence agency for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Münster is located, told the local media that it was unaware of the pro-terror declaration.The German officials raided the Imam Mahdi center in late April.The Post reported on May 2 that the intelligence was collected by the Mossad throughout several months in a complex operation.The information included incriminating details about Hezbollah operatives on German soil.One of the discoveries made thanks to the Mossad intelligence was a collection of warehouses in southern Germany belonging to Hezbollah operatives and containing hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate, which is used to make explosives. Shi’ite businessmen were involved in transactions and money laundering and transferred millions of euros to bank accounts belonging to Hezbollah.The ice packs mentioned by the German sources in Zeit have been used by Hezbollah in the United Kingdom  to contain ammonium nitrate for explosives.In 2018, the Post reported that the Al-Mustafa Community Center in the northern German city-state of Bremen is a major hub for raising funds for Hezbollah in Lebanon and sends the money directly to Hezbollah’s main headquarters in Beirut.The Mossad has a history of supplying counter-terrorism officials in Europe with information to stop jihadi terrorism.The British Daily Telegraph reported last year that the United Kingdom had foiled Hezbollah efforts to stockpile explosives in London in 2015. The Kan public broadcaster said the Mossad furnished the British authorities with material that stopped the Hezbollah terror operation.

https://www.jpost.com/international/germany-confirms-mossad-help-with-hezbollah-ban-but-upset-about-credit-627888

Illegal migrants quarantined aboard the Moby Zaza ferry after landing in Italy to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus are estimated to be costing taxpayers over 4,000 euros per month each.

The ferry, which is to be placed two or three miles offshore from the Sicilian town of Porto Empedocle after around a month of pleas by the mayor of Lampedusa Salvatore Martello, houses around 250 people at a time including 35 medical staff to aid the migrants who will be made to engage in quarantine measures in order to make sure they do not have or spread the Chinese virus.

Operations aboard the vessel are expected to begin next Monday but the true costs of renting the ship were not revealed until Alessandro Pagano, a member of Matteo Salvini’s League, revealed that the government had given upwards of a million euros to the Moby Line company to rent the ferry from them, Il Giornale reports.

“The Moby Line company will receive between the €900,000 and €1.2 million: the sum of €4,210 per month for illegal immigrants embarked,” he said.

“We are not talking about a third-hand dinghy, but of a ship equipped with a self-service restaurant, pizzeria, ice cream parlour,  pub with special wine assortment, play area and video room, double or quadruple cabins with services and even luxury suites. All this while Italian families and businesses are on their knees due to the serious economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” he added.

Italy has seen a new surge in illegal migrant arrivals in recent weeks despite the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures put in place by the government of Prime minister Giuseppe Conte.

The island of Lampedusa has once again seen hundreds of new arrivals which threaten to overwhelm the small island community and Italian police in the north of the country have complained that Slovenian police and border guards have allowed migrants to cross into Italy as well.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/14/quarantined-migrants-costing-italy-over-4000-euros-a-month-each/

Decision Desk has declared Republican Mike Garcia the winner of Tuesday’s special election in California’s 25th House District.

The seat was in Democrat hands, vacated when rookie Rep. Katie Hill resigned last fall ahead of the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of her “throuple” affair with her legislative director.

Katie Hill won that seat in 2018 by 9 points. Garcia has flipped it from blue to red with a 13-point walloping of the Democrat. Quick math, that’s a 22-point swing toward the red in a year when President Trump is supposed to be so vulnerable. It’s a special election, with different dynamics from a regular election, but still a very significant result.

Does this look like he’s vulnerable at the moment?

He still may be, it’s a long way yet to November, but that’s not what the signs from last night say. In addition to the big win in CA-25, Republicans held a set in Wisconsin they were expected to hold, and Trump got another indication of high voter enthusiasm in Nebraska. He overperformedhis 2016 primary win, by a lot.

Trump himself put up historic numbers in the Nebraska presidential primary. With less than half the vote in, Trump has already doubled his 2016 total in the state — leading GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to tout what she called surging “enthusiasm” for the president’s reelection.

The Democrats had a bad night. Trump had a good night. California is replacing Hill with Mike Garcia, whose resume as a combat veteran pilot is gaudy.

https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/05/13/trump-trifecta-republicans-win-in-california-wisconsin-trump-overperforms-in-nebraska-n390475

Two of the six far-left extremists Antifa suspects involved in the brutal beating of a German television crew have been revealed as coming from a privileged middle-class background, originally from a well-off Swabian town.

The two suspects, 27-year-old Miriam S. and her 25-year-old brother Simon S., were arrested shortly after the attack on a camera crew of German broadcaster ZDF on May 1st in Berlin that sent four members of the crew to the hospital with various injuries suffered during the brutal assault. The background of the pair has now been revealed by German newspaper Die Welt which reports that the two Antifa extremists originally come from the small wealthy town of Schwaigern near Heilbronn in the historic Swabia region, now divided between Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria.

According to the paper, both siblings have connections to far-left extremist groups and have expressed support for Antifa and migrant transport NGOs in the past.

The father of the pair, who did not find out about his children’s role in the assault until approached by the paper, said that his son works as a kickboxing coach and has supported migrant transport NGO “Sea-Watch” along with other pro-mass migration and left-wing extremist groups in the past.

His daughter Miriam has also expressed her support for far-left groups and causes including signing various petitions and leftist campaigns and both siblings are well-known among the local leftist scene.

The pair fit the profile of many far-left extremists in Germany and elsewhere across Europe who seldom come from working-class or more financially humble backgrounds. Antifa rioters arrested after the ultra-violent May 1st riots in Paris in 2018 were also revealed to have come from privileged upper-middle-class backgrounds as well.

A 2017 report from the Agency for the Protection of the Consitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence organisation, found that while many far-left extremists may come from wealthy backgrounds, nine in ten still live with their parents and just 16 per cent are female. Nine in ten are also said to not have any sort of romantic relationship.

Far-left violence and extremism continue to be a major problem despite the lockdowns put in place across Europe due to the Wuhan coronavirus, with French authorities believing Antifa extremists may be linked to a series of serious acts of sabotage of communications infrastructure in recent weeks.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/13/far-left-antifa-suspects-in-beating-of-german-camera-crew-come-from-privileged-backgrounds/

Billionaire financier and convicted inside trader George Soros fears that Hungary and Poland will benefit from a recent decision from Germany’s Constitutional Court by gaining more independence and sovereignty from the European Union.

In the same interview with Project Syndicate where he said the European Union faces an “existential crisis” due to the coronavirus that it may not survive, Soros also said one of his top concerns is last week’s verdict from Germany’s Constitutional Court.

“When Germany joined the EU, it committed itself to abide by European law. But the ruling raises an even bigger issue: if the German court can question the decisions of the European Court of Justice, can other countries follow its example?

“Can Hungary and Poland decide whether they follow European law or their own courts — whose legitimacy the EU has questioned? That question goes to the very heart of the EU, which is built on the rule of law,” said Soros, whose network has been unsuccessfully attempting for months to smear Hungary’s government with claims that they violate international law.

In last week’s German case, the country’s top court decided that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overstepped its mandate in the case of the bond purchasing program that started in 2015.

According to the German court, the Central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany has to suspend purchases of bonds under the ECB’s program within three months, unless the ECB proves that such purchases are necessary.

Soros worries nation states may gain more freedom

The verdict is expected to strengthen the hand of nationalists who want greater sovereignty from Brussels in a wide range of cases. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed it  as”one of the most important [decisions] in the EU’s history”.

Soros believes that Poland’s judicial reforms, which have been fought aggressively by the EU, may now have a greenlight if national courts have supremacy over decisions from the European Court of Justice.

“Poland has immediately risen to the occasion and asserted the supremacy of its government-controlled courts over European law,” said Soros. “In Hungary, Viktor Orbán has already used the COVID-19 emergency and a captured parliament to appoint himself dictator. The parliament is kept in session to rubber-stamp his decrees, which clearly violate European law. If the German court’s verdict prevents the EU from resisting these developments, it will be the end of the EU as we know it.”

Despite Soros’s claim that Orbán’s government’s actions “clearly violate European law”, the EU itself announced just this month that none of the actions Hungary has taken during the coronavirus crisis or its state of emergency are in violation of European law. Although the law gave Orbán extra powers during the crisis, the EU found that many countries across the EU have enacted similar legislation.

European Commission legal experts also examined the law and found no breaches of European rules.

The Project Syndicate interview also explored Soros’s plan for a type of bond he labeled a “consol”, which he says countries such as Germany and the Netherlands have been opposed to in the past, but which are needed now during the coronavirus crisis. As with Orbán, he also called US President Donald Trump a “dictator” and lamented that Italy may leave the EU due to the coronavirus crisis.

Soros has made a number of inflammatory comments in the past as well about Trump, Orbán, and migration.

rmx.news/article/article/soros-fears-hungary-and-poland-could-gain-indepedence-from-eu-after-german-court-decision

With more than 400,000 immigrants, the first of January is recorded as the birthday in the Central Register of Foreigners. According to an inquiry by the AfD member of parliament René Springer, which has been published in the daily newspaper Die Welt, the majority of them come from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan.

According to the report, a quarter of the 416,420 people with a birthday on the first of January arrived in 2015. Thirteen of the 47 minors recently welcomed from the Greek camps also have a date of birth on the first of January. The first of January is recorded as the date of birth if immigrants do not know when they were born. “With regard to the date of birth, the registration of personal data necessarily provides for an exact date of birth, but not all countries and cultures register birth dates to the day and month,” the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees told the newspaper. The scholar of Islamic Studies Susanne Schröter, on the other hand, assumes that most immigrants know their birthday very well. There are pragmatic reasons for giving a fictitious date. Minors are “in many ways privileged over adults”, so that there is a great incentive “to appear younger than one actually is”.

jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2020/bei-ueber-400-000-migranten-ist-der-erste-januar-als-geburtstag-vermerkt/

Seven of them lunged at their victim, inflicting life-threatening injuries from knife wounds. Four suspects were arrested, three are still at large, wanted:

Heavy knife attack in broad daylight, Saturday afternoon (9th of May) in the northern district of Dortmund.

Around 2:30 pm, a 25-year-old man from Dortmund clashed with about seven men at the street Bornstraße, police spokeswoman Kristina Purschke reported. “The quarrel escalated and a brawl broke out.”And even fisticuffs were not enough: after the perpetrators had first beaten up the 25 year olds , one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim’s upper body.

The seriously injured man fell from the platform into the track bed.
The attackers fled. An ambulance took the 25-year-old to a hospital where he remained in hospital. Kristina Purschke reported to our editor that his life was in danger at first.

Only two hours after the bloody attack, police officers spotted four young men on the spot and arrested them temporarily. The men living in Dortmund are 18, 19, 23 and 26 years old. During the search of the 19-year-old, the police officers found a knife and seized it.The police are now looking for three more suspects. As the police spokeswoman told us on request, the seriously injured 25-year-old is of Spanish origin. The attackers are all Syrian.

Zu siebt auf einen: 25-Jähriger durch Messerstiche in DO-Nord lebensgefährlich verletzt