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US citizen murdered in Palestinian terror attack near Jericho
The IDF confirmed that two interconnected terror attacks were carried out near
the Beit HaAravah Junction late Monday
By TZVI JOFFRE Published: FEBRUARY 27, 2023 17:36
Updated: FEBRUARY 28, 2023 07:36
Jerusalem Post
Israeli security forces guard at the scene of a shooting attack in Bet Ha'Arava Junction, in the Jordan Valley,
February 27, 2023. (photo credit: ERIK MARMOR/FLASH90)
A US-Israeli dual national was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit HaArava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon.
Elan Ganeles was identified as the US citizen who was killed in a shooting attack near the Beit HaArava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley on Monday afternoon.
Ganeles, from West Hartford, Connecticut, recently graduated from Columbia University. Ganeles' funeral will take place in Israel and his family will return to Connecticut to sit shiva, according to an announcement by the Young Israel of West Hartford.
Later on Monday night, four shots were fired at an Israeli vehicle near Qusra. No injuries were reported in the attempted attack.
Video from the scene at Beit HaArava showed the terrorists driving up to the junction and firing at passing cars. A passing car was damaged although no injuries were caused. The terrorists then proceeded to the Mul Nevo area where they shot an Israeli, critically injuring him.
The victim, 26 years old Ganales, was transferred to Hadassah Medical Center at Har Zofim in critical condition as paramedics conducted resuscitation efforts. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. On Monday night, US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides confirmed that "sadly, a US citizen was killed in one of the terror attacks in the West Bank tonight."
The terrorists proceeded to drive to the area of the Monastery of Saint George in Wadi Qelt, burned their vehicle and switched to a different vehicle before driving away from the area.
UK PM Sunak vows to deport all illegal immigrants:
‘You will not be able to stay’
Sunak says illegal immigrants will not be able to apply for asylum
By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned illegal immigrants entering the country that they would be deported and "will not be able to stay" on Sunday.
Sunak made the vow in a Sunday interview as the U.K. faces a steady flow of migrants crossing its borders from Europe. Sunak's government is expected to push legislation cracking down on illegal immigration later this week, with a special emphasis on illegal immigrants arriving in boats across the English Channel.
"Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay," Sunak told U.K. media.
Much like the U.S., Britain currently has laws allowing illegal immigrants to claim asylum after crossing the border. The migrants are typically allowed to stay while their case is being litigated, but the new legislation would prevent such migrants from claiming asylum in the first place, the BBC reported.
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says all illegal immigrants arriving to the U.K. will be deported.
(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
The U.K. saw tens of thousands of migrants cross its borders via the English Channel last year.
"Illegal migration is not fair on British taxpayers, it is not fair on those who come here legally and it is not right that criminal gangs should be allowed to continue their immoral trade. I am determined to deliver on my promise to stop the boats,"
The illegal immigration crackdown from America's closest ally comes as the U.S. itself faces an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has tracked more than 230,000 migrant encounters each month since October, up from 100,000 per month when President Biden took office.
In comparison, the U.K. tracked just 45,000 migrants crossing the English Channel in 2022, according to Reuters.
U.S. immigration authorities are tracking more than 230,000 migrant encounters each month, far more than the U.K.
(Fox News Digital / Jon Michael Raasch)
Like Sunak, Biden has faced growing calls to address the crisis at the border.
Unlike Sunak, Biden has no plan to do anything about it.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Oh! This is clever!
Swiss national referendum will limit population to 10 million
through strict immigration control to save environment
Can a national referendum on immigration in Switzerland help save the country’s environment?
December 30, 2022
editor: REMIX NEWS. author: JOHN CODY
Migrants protest after they are stranded in Como, Italy, following Switzerland's decision to close its border.
(Source: Shutterstock).
The most popular party in Switzerland, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), known for its agrarian roots and opposition to mass immigration, is set to pursue a referendum calling for the renegotiation of international treaties, or even their complete abandonment, if the Swiss population hits 10 million.
The proposed referendum comes at a time when Europe increasingly faces environmental catastrophe, a housing crisis, and huge strains on public resources due to soaring immigration levels. Many European nations are among the most densely populated nations in the world and life in them is only expected to become more crowded in the near future unless dramatic action is taken. Switzerland is no exception.
“Our country is cracking in every corner. We are going through the debacles of recent years. If we don’t intervene, we will be overtaken by events,” said Marcel Dettling, the SVP’s campaign manager.
Dettling warns that economic migration remains high, especially from groups known for their difficulty integrating into Switzerland, a fact highlighted by Switzerland’s alarming prison population data.
“Today, there is very strong economic migration,” says Dettling. “Whoever has set foot in Switzerland will never leave the country. Migrants from Africa have welfare rates of 34 percent.”
Dettling’s party is meeting on Jan. 6 and 7 in Thurgau, near the shores of Lake Constance, and the main topic of discussion is expected to be immigration, with the new referendum featuring the working title “initiative for sustainability.”
Explosive population growth
The text for the referendum has also already been completed and would stipulate that Switzerland’s population should not exceed 10 million until 2050. After 2050, this limit could be slightly increased but only due to organic, surplus births, according to the Le Temps new outlet.
SVP National Councilor Thomas Matter says he must sound a “red alert” over Switzerland’s rising population, adding that “this is the last moment when we can still change something for Switzerland.”
“The migration figures are hair-raising,” he said. “In 2022, Switzerland will have 200,000 more inhabitants, the population of the canton of Basel-City.”
‘I have never seen such violence’
– Beninese migrant convicted for nearly killing Swiss woman with a broken bottle,
leaving her with 200 stitches and deep psychological trauma
“Every morning when I see my body, I think back to everything. I feel like a monster,”
said the young Swiss woman during her attacker’s trial
There is also the threat that a conflict between Serbia and Kosovo would only ramp up the refugee numbers Switzerland is facing.
The country is already rapidly approaching 9 million residents. In 2022, 145,958 people arrived, raising the population to 8.89 million. It is now only a matter of time until the population hits 9 million.
Over the past 20 years, Switzerland’s population has increased by 21 percent.
“If Switzerland grows so strongly again over the next 20 years, everything will collapse,” said Matter, who serves as a national councilor. According to him, the country’s financial reserves for education, health and transport are exhausted.
“It is urgent to leave the model of quantitative growth for qualitative growth.”
Details of the referendum text
Just like the country’s debt brake, the referendum would serve as a brake on immigration. The text stipulates that if certain population limits are reached, the government must take certain steps to inhibit population growth. For example, if Switzerland’s population reaches 9.5 million, the Swiss Federal Council will have to take steps with new laws to counteract this growth.
However, if the country reaches 10 million, the government must respond with “rigorous measures,” including the Federal Council abandoning international agreements, such as the UN migration pacts or EU treaties relating to free movement.
Ukraine, war, refugee, borders
Ukrainian women threatened with murder, harassed in Swiss asylum center
Some of the Algerian migrants already present in the asylum center support
the invasion of Ukraine and do not hesitate to let the Ukrainians know about it
It is important to note that Switzerland has featured a number of referendums on the topic of immigration in the past, including the famous 2014 referendum “against mass immigration,” which won with 50.3 percent of the vote. The SVP-backed referendum was designed to place strict quotas on immigration, but despite winning the vote, the referendum was more or less made toothless by the Swiss parliament.
Switzerland was threatened by the EU over any attempt to restrict free movement, with the EU warning Switzerland that any abandonment of free movement would have meant that all EU agreements became null and void, which would have presented severe economic consequences for the country.
The SVP harshly criticized the final agreement, which failed to implement immigration quotas but instead offered moderate improvements regarding job market conditions for the Swiss. The SVP called it “a betrayal of voters’ wishes” and unconstitutional, while the EU commission celebrated the “hugely watered-down version of the initiative.“
‘There is no racism against whites’
– Black artist collective occupies theater in Switzerland, demands non-White theater
A non-White theater group has received hundreds of thousands in funding from
the Swiss government despite calling for a “non-White theater” to be established
The SVP, this time around, will include language in the referendum that outright calls for Switzerland to ignore these international agreements, but Swiss business interests and the country’s left-liberal bloc are likely to put up a serious fight should the referendum win.
SPV argues that immigration does not equal endless growth
The current Western model promotes the idea of endless GDP growth through mass immigration. More immigrants equal more consumers, more housing construction springing up across the countryside, and more Third World peoples adopting a First World lifestyle.
Left-liberal and Green parties across the Western world have simultaneously called for Europeans to have fewer children to save the environment, while promoting mass immigration from Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries, with these newcomers known for their notoriously high birth rates. At the same time, countries like Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom are breaking population records due to immigration, leading to a severe strain on the environment and social welfare models within these European nations — a development that has been rejected by only a handful of nations such as Denmark and Hungary.
The right, if it wants to survive, may have to tie environmental causes and climate change, which the youth of Europe overwhelmingly believe is occurring, to soaring population growth through immigration. The Swiss referendum may be a nod to a growing reality. Any referendum that calls for immigration restriction is likely to fail given the growing pro-migration youth vote, but if it can be tied to green causes, such a referendum may have a chance.
‘My dream is zero asylum seekers in Denmark’
– Danish migration minister sets ambitious goal
Denmark’s Minister of Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye has called
Europe’s asylum system immoral and unsustainable,
saying that his dream is to have zero asylum seekers in Denmark
Futhermore, the SVP argues that this endless population growth model is not only unsustainable, but actually will not result in the desired outcome of endless economic growth.
SVP National Councilor Manuel Strupler states that purely “quantitative” immigration does not guarantee higher per capita growth. Furthermore, this type of immigration “dilutes” the values of Switzerland.
“At some point, someone will have to pay the costs of our current policy. We have a duty to the next generation to preserve the values that have made Switzerland successful”
Thomas Matter argues that population growth has actually reached the point of harming economic growth and will help push the country into recession. He says that while the population will increase by 2.5 percent in 2022, per capita income will only rise by 2 percent:
“They want us to believe that immigration rhymes with growth. But in reality, we are heading towards a recession,” he said.
He notes that France and Germany have closed their borders to illegal immigration from Switzerland, with Switzerland increasingly seen as a transit country. He warns that “a disaster is brewing.”
Gunmen Kill Pastor And His Two Sons In Plateau Fresh Attack
Last updated: 2023/03/05 at 10:35 AM
BY DANMASANI DANKWADA
A Clergy with the Church of Christ in Nations, COCIN, Rev Musa Hyok, was on Saturday night killed alongside two of his only Sons in the Ganawuri community of Riyom local Government area of Plateau.
The incident which occurred in the early hours of Sunday was said to be a reprisal attack following the killing of three Fulani Youths on Wednesday in Ganawuri.
Youth leader of Ganawuri, Song Mura, who confirmed the development to AIT said trouble started when some Suspected Fulani kidnappers were arrested during the Market day last Wednesday but later escaped in the hands of Fulani Vigilante who were to keep them before the arrival of security operatives.
According to Muru, the situation degenerated into an argument and later escalated to Crisis leading to the death of three Fulani Youths despite several meetings and appeals for calm, some Suspected Fulanis still launched an attack on an innocent Family who had nothing to do with the last Wednesday’s incident.
The Plateau State Police Command through its spokesman DSP Alfred Alabo confirmed the incident and said the command has commenced an investigation to unravel those behind the attack.
As of the time of filing this report, the Pastor and his two sons are being buried amidst tension in the entire Ganawuri axis. Men of Operation Safe Haven and other security operatives have taken over the entire Ganawuri Community to restore normalcy.
Death toll rises to 15 in killer herdsmen attack on Christian communities
The Two council wards were overrun by herders after the attack
MICHAEL NDU-OKEKE AND ARDO HAZZAD •
MARCH 2, 2023
Peoples Gazette
Armed herdsmen used to illustrate the story [Photo credit: Africa Daily News]
Herdsmen, on Tuesday evening, attacked Tse Fela in Mbabuande and Tse Akyegh in Ikaaghev council wards in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, killing at least 15 people with additional bodies still being expected by the locals.
Benue State is predominantly Christian. And it's a long way south for Fulani Herdsmen.
The Two council wards, Ikaaghev and Mbabuande, were overrun by herders after the attack.
At least eight bodies were recovered in Gwer West, while four bodies were recovered in Turan community in Kwande. Three people were killed in Agasha in Guma, officials said.
Amongst those killed were the council’s ward commander of the Community Volunteers Guard and six other community members.
The attack was confirmed by the district head of Ikaaghev, Chief Adi-Bata, who stated that the casualties of the attack would have been more if not for the alarm raised by community members after seeing strange faces parading in the community.
“If not for the alarm raised by members of the community, the number of casualties would have been very high”, Mr Adi-Bata said.
Mr Adi-Bata charged security agencies to rise up to the challenge and secure the lives and properties of the people.
Good plan. For sure the army is not going to protect you.
The police in Benue have yet to issue a statement about the attack, despite two separate requests for comments from Peoples Gazette.
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