IRANIAN FM:ANY MAJOR ESCALATION IN LEBANON WILL MAR NETANYAHUS LAST DAY-MY COMMENT-I GOT NEWS FOR YOU IRANIAN COCKROACHES-THE MIGATING BIRDS ARE IN ISRAEL NEXT MONTH.SEE WHOS GONNA BE BIRD FOOD ISLAMIC COCKROACHES.IT WON'T BE ISRAEL.I KNOW THAT FOR SURE.SO GOOD LUCK IRANIAN COWARDS - FIGHTING BEHIND PROXIES.SINCE YOUR MAHDI (SO CALLED SAVIOR) IS JUST A USELESS NOSE PICKER IN A WELL.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
STRONGS CONCORDANCE FOR VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE-SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES.
2554. chamas - Strong's Concordance - chamas: to treat violently or wrong - Part of Speech: Verb - Transliteration: chamas -Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mas') - Definition: to treat violently or wrong - make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong -A primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat -- make bare, shake off, violate, do violence, take away violently, wrong, imagine wrongfully.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another.” I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia – Iraq, Syria,Lebanon,Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor – full of blood. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear weapons were used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard these words, “Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.”The angel said, “The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.” I saw fires rising to heaven.The angel said, “This is the final judgment My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
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ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
ISAIAH 54:3
03-King James Bible-For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
The right hand was a symbol of strength-Exodus 15:6, ” Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.”
EZEKIEL 17:15-24 (MUSLIM COUNTRIES HISTORY)
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
16 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.
22 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
8 Assyria (SYRIA) also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
9 Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”
13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be [e]confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE..
Iranian FM: Any major escalation in Lebanon will mark Netanyahu’s ‘last day’Hossein Amir-Abdollahian claims Tehran uninterested in war, involved in talks with Saudis to end Gaza fighting; US asked Iran to keep Hezbollah out of full-on war with Israel
By Reuters and ToI Staff Today, 8:35 pm-FEB 10,24
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned Israel against taking any steps towards a broader war against its proxy, the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, saying that would be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “last day.”At a news conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, he also said Iran saw a political solution as the only way to end the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.“Iran and Lebanon confirm that war is not the solution and that we absolutely never sought to expand it,” Amir-Abdollahian said.He also said Tehran was in talks with Saudi Arabia on a political solution to hostilities in Gaza.Hamas this week proposed a ceasefire of four and a half months, during which remaining hostages held by Hamas would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from Gaza, and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war. It also demand the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails for terror attacks.Netanyahu called the Hamas terms “delusional” and vowed to fight on. But Amir-Abdollahian said Hamas was presenting ideas based on a “realistic view,” and that they should be widely backed to end the war.Iran, which does not recognize Israel and whose leaders have openly called for its destruction, was one of the first countries to hail the murderous Hamas assault on southern communities on October 7, when terrorists massacred some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 253 hostages to Gaza.Tehran provides military support to Gazan terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in addition to its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.During his visit, Amir-Abdollahian also met Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister and parliament speaker, and Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah.Hezbollah published pictures from the meeting with Nasrallah that took place in an undisclosed location. The terror group said the two discussed developments in Gaza, the situation in southern Lebanon — where Hezbollah has traded fire daily with Israel across the border since Hamas’s October 7 massacre — and other fronts on the “axis of resistance.”The conflict has rippled across the region and earlier this month Washington staged strikes against Iran-aligned groups in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen in retaliation for a deadly attack on US troops in Jordan.Later at a press conference capping off the visit, Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran and the United States have exchanged messages throughout the war, including about its proxy Hezbollah.“During this war and in the recent weeks, there was an exchange of messages between Iran and America,” he said through a translator.He said the United States had asked Tehran to request Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, “not to get widely, fully involved in this war against” Israel.Amir-Abdollahian is set to travel on to Syria, according to Syrian media, and will meet top officials there.
IDF kills senior Hamas official in Rafah; security chiefs visit Khan Younis-Arab world pushes Israel not to invade Gazan city on Egyptian border as airstrikes kill three of terror group’s operatives-By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 10:39 pm-FEB 10,24
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said an airstrike was carried out on Saturday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, killing a senior Hamas police official along with two other operatives.The main target of the strike was Ahmed Al-Yaaqoubi, who the IDF and Shin Bet said was responsible for security arrangements of senior Hamas officials and served as a senior officer in the Rafah district’s secret police department.Iman Rantisi, a Hamas military operative and senior official in the terror group’s general security investigations department, was also killed, as was another officer in the Rafah district’s secret police department.Footage released by the IDF showed the airstrike on the car in Rafah.The airstrikes in Rafah come as the IDF prepares for a ground invasion of the city, where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering. The looming invasion of Rafah, which is adjacent to the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, has left Egypt wary of the possibility that Gazans will be pushed into the country as they flee from the war.Egypt warned Israel once again on Saturday that any mass displacement of Palestinians into its territory would put the Israeli-Egyptian decades-long peace agreement and close security ties at risk.The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that when Israel informed Egypt of its expansion of the ground operation into Rafah, Egyptian officials warned that the move could lead to the suspension of the countries’ peace treaty.Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan all issued statements on Saturday calling on Israel not to expand its ground operation to Rafah.Meanwhile, the IDF was continuing its offensive in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis.IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar visited the city on Saturday, with the former saying the fighting against Hamas in the area was far from over.“The fighting in Khan Younis — we have not yet finished it, we are far from finishing it, we are summing it up so far as a great success,” Halevi told troops.Bar said that the IDF’s actions to dismantle Hamas’s intelligence and communications capabilities were “impossible for [Hamas] to recover from.”The IDF announced Saturday that it had made a significant intelligence achievement by finding a Hamas data center under the Gaza headquarters of UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees. The subterranean data center was used by Hamas for intel and communications.The terror group likely built the server farm, complete with an electrical room and living quarters for the Hamas IT staff, directly below the UN agency’s complex and a nearby UNRWA school in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood in order to ensure Israel would never strike it.Following the IDF’s announcement, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini denied that the organization had any knowledge of the database.UNRWA, he said, “is a human development and humanitarian organization that does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises.”UNWRA has come under increased scrutiny and calls for its disbanding have grown following findings by Israel last month that accused 12 staff members of taking part in the October 7 massacre by Hamas-led terrorists who killed 1,200 people and took 253 hostages.Following the attack, Israel launched a war on Hamas. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said Saturday that the Palestinian death toll in the Strip since the start of the war has reached 28,064. These figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 10,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
Top Hamas official in Lebanon survives alleged Israeli strike; 3 others killed-Basel Salah, believed injured, is a recruiter for the terror group; Hezbollah member among dead in attack 40 kilometers north of border; rocket strikes building in Kiryat Shmona
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian-Today, 6:49 pm-FEB 10,24
A senior Hamas member targeted in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Lebanon 40 kilometers from the Israeli border survived the attack Saturday, a Palestinian security official told AFP, as rockets continued to target Israeli northern communities.Two other people were killed in the strike in Lebanon, including one Hezbollah operative.Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli drone struck a car in the coastal town of Jadra, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border.The target of the alleged Israeli airstrike was Basel Salah, a Hamas operative charged with recruiting and managing members of the terror group, including in the West Bank, The Times of Israel learned.The Hamas unit Salah was a member of was headed by Azzam Al-Aqraa, who was killed in the alleged Israeli strike in Beirut last month that also killed the terror group’s deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri.Salah, whose condition is unknown but who is believed to have been injured in Saturday’s strike, was allegedly involved in recruiting Hamas members for years, even amid the war in Gaza.The strike took place deeper into Lebanese territory than the usual exchanges of fire between Hamas ally Hezbollah and the Israeli military, which have been mostly limited to the border region.There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.Watch: The aftermath of an alleged Israeli drone strike in the village of #Jadra, north of #Lebanon’s port city of Saida.https://t.co/0uORWFYIe4 pic.twitter.com/7DQKt1gBvw— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) February 10, 2024-Northern communities continued to be targeted by projectiles throughout Saturday, with a missile fired from Lebanon striking a building in Kiryat Shmona, causing damage. Local authorities said there were no reports of injuries.A missile fired from Lebanon struck a building in Kiryat Shmona, causing damage.Local authorities say there are no reports of injuries.The apparent anti-tank guided missile did not set off alarms in the city. pic.twitter.com/yySndttxQg— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 10, 2024-In response to Hezbollah’s ongoing attacks in the north, the IDF said fighter jets carried out strikes against a building used by the terror group in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, an observation post in Markaba, three command centers in Naqoura and Ayta ash-Shab where members of the terror group were gathered, and two other sites in Khiam and Marwahin.— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) February 10, 2024-The IDF also said it shelled the launch sites of three projectiles that were fired from Lebanon toward the northern community of Shlomi. The projectiles landed in open areas.On Friday night the IDF had said it struck a Hezbollah command center and another site used by the terror group’s air defense unit.Meanwhile, the IDF said a suspected drone infiltration alarm that sounded in northern Israel on Saturday afternoon was a false alarm.At the same time, the Iran-backed terror group claimed Saturday that it had seized an Israeli Skylark drone over Lebanese air space “in good condition.” The Skylark is a small, unmanned aerial vehicle typically used for surveillance and produced by Israel-based weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.Many such comparatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles, which are used primarily for reconnaissance missions, have crashed in hostile territory over the years.As fighting raged between Israel and Hezbollah, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met in Beirut with Lebanese leaders, including the country’s caretaker prime minister, parliament speaker and the terror group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah.Hezbollah published pictures from the meeting that took place in an undisclosed location.The terror group said the two discussed developments in Gaza, the situation in southern Lebanon — where Hezbollah has traded fire daily with Israel across the border since Hamas’s October 7 attack — and other fronts on the “axis of resistance.”At a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart, Amir-Abdollahian said neither Iran nor Lebanon sought a wider war.“Iran and Lebanon confirm that war is not the solution and that we absolutely never sought to expand it,” he said.So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of nine IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 186 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 25 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier and at least 19 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.Hezbollah has intensified its attacks over the past two days, firing a barrage of over 30 rockets at northern Israel on both Thursday and Friday evening.Top Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to go to war in Lebanon following the campaign to root out Hamas in Gaza, with the aim of driving Hezbollah away from the border in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006.Israel has said it cannot tolerate Hezbollah forces along its border, where they could launch a murderous attack on civilians in a similar vein to Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.It has increasingly warned that if the international community does not push Hezbollah away from the border through diplomatic means, Israel will take action.Due to the concerns of another war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanese officials said Thursday that foreign diplomats have intensified their efforts to restore calm to the volatile Lebanon-Israel border in parallel with the ongoing negotiations for a hostage deal and accompanying truce in Gaza.
Report: Iran recruiting British Muslims on Middle East pilgrimages to spy on UK Jews-UK newspaper says IRGC approaches Shiite Muslims visiting religious sites in Iraq, Iran, asks them to gather intel on prominent British Jews, synagogues, Iranian dissidents
By ToI Staff Today, 1:27 pm-FEB 10,24
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimages to Iran and Iraq to spy on Jews and Jewish targets in the United Kingdom, according to a Friday report citing Israeli and UK officials.According to the report in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, IRGC recruiters have been approaching Shiite Muslims visiting religious sites in the Middle East and asking them to “gather information on prominent British Jews or targets such as synagogues.”The agents are also reportedly asked to spy on Iranian dissidents based in the UK.An unnamed source quoted in the report said, “We do not know the scale of Iranian agents inside Europe and the UK, but all it takes is for one to slip through the net.”Another expert, Kasra Aarabi, of the United Against Nuclear Iran think tank, was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying that the recruiters usually focus on hiring British Shias who originated from Pakistan, Iraq and Lebanon rather than British Iranians “who are usually secular and oppose the Ayatollah regime.”According to the report, British Muslims visiting the holy Iraqi city of Karbala in September to commemorate Arbaeen, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, were approached to spy for Iran.The report also quoted a British official as saying that the Iranian regime often uses British-based organized crime networks to carry out attacks on UK soil, and that information gathered by the British spies may be used in such plots.In late January, Britain imposed sanctions on seven Iranian officials and one organization it said were involved in threats to kill journalists on British soil, and others it said were part of international criminal gangs linked to Iran.The sanctioned Iranian officials were members of the IRGC’s Unit 840, which an ITV investigation in Britain said was involved in plots to assassinate two television presenters from the news channel Iran International in Britain.In the wake of Hamas’s devastating October 7 massacres in southern Israel, Britain’s domestic MI5 spy agency chief warned that the ongoing current conflict between Israel and the Gazan terrorists had increased the UK’s terror risk, singling out Iran as a cause for concern.The comments by MI5 director-general Ken McCallum, reported in UK media in mid-October, followed terror attacks by suspected Islamist extremists in France and Belgium since war broke out in Gaza following Hamas’s devastating onslaught, which saw terrorists kill some 1,200 people and kidnap another 250, mostly civilians.The Daily Mail report came as British Jews were on edge amid a spike in antisemitic incidents and sustained displays of anti-Israel sentiment in London since Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Data from the Community Security Trust, a Jewish security group, indicated that antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom have risen to record levels since October 7, with 2,093 incidents reported in the 68 days after the attack.Agencies contributed to this report.
Regrets 'missteps,' perceived lack of concern for Gaza civilians-Top Biden aide tells US-Arab leaders he has no confidence in Israeli government-In recorded meeting in Dearborn, deputy NSA Jon Finer also says administration finds some Israeli leaders ‘somewhat abhorrent’; constituency is key to Biden’s reelection hopes-By ToI Staff Today, 2:53 pm-FEB 10,24
A top White House official said he does not have “any confidence” in the current Israeli government, specifically regarding its readiness to take “meaningful steps” toward the creation of a Palestinian state, The New York Times reported Friday, citing a recording from a meeting between the official and Arab American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan.US Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer reportedly made the comments Thursday during a visit to the city, which has a large Arab-American population. He visited alongside other Biden administration officials, including ex-UN ambassador Samantha Power, to plead the president’s case before a constituency that is crucial for his 2024 reelection bid, but has been outraged by his support for Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
According to the report, Finer told attendees at the meeting about the Biden administration’s efforts to end the war in Gaza, and to establish formal diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which, he said, is a crucial step toward Palestinian statehood and would demand all parties to compromise.“We will have to do things for Saudi Arabia that will be very unpopular in this country and in our Congress,” Finer was quoted as saying. “Will Israel be willing to do the hard thing that’s going to be required of them, which is meaningful steps for the Palestinians on the question of two states? I don’t know if the answer to that is yes. I do not have any confidence in this current government of Israel.”Finer also called some unnamed Israeli officials “abhorrent” and said the administration should have taken a stronger stand against those who compared “residents of Gaza to animals.”While he did not name names, the Times report specified that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was quoted in the first days of the war saying, “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”Gallant was referring to Palestinian terrorists behind the October 7 massacres in Israel and not all residents of Gaza, but his quote has been widely used as ostensible proof of Israeli dehumanization of the Gaza population.“Out of a desire to sort of focus on solving the problem and not engaging in a rhetorical back-and-forth with people who, in many cases, I think we all find somewhat abhorrent, we did not sufficiently indicate that we totally rejected and disagreed with those sorts of sentiments,” Finer said.He also expressed regret at the “missteps” the Biden administration has made handling the war, particularly with regard to a perceived lack of concern about the civilian casualties as it refused to back calls for a ceasefire.“We are very well aware that we have missteps in the course of responding to this crisis since October 7,” Finer said.“We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration and the country values the lives of Palestinians. And that began, frankly, pretty early in the conflict,” he added.Most explicitly, he expressed remorse that a Biden statement marking 100 days of war did not mention Palestinians killed in Gaza.“It did not in any way address the loss of Palestinian life during the course of the first 100 days of the conflict,” Finer said, according to the Times. “There is no excuse for that. It should not have happened. I believe it will not happen again. But we know that there was a lot of damage done.”Finer declined The New York Times’ request for comment.The Associated Press later reported that a White House National Security Council spokeswoman had confirmed the reported comments’ veracity, but sought to downplay them, saying that “the President and Mr. Finer were reflecting on concerns we have had for some time and will continue to have as the Israeli operation proceeds, about the loss of Palestinian lives in this conflict and the need to reduce civilian harm.”The comments reported in the Times come as the White House has stepped up public criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resistance to the prospect of Palestinian statehood, and his prosecution of the war, which Biden said Thursday was “over the top.”War was triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught, in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and taking 253 hostages.Israel’s ensuing campaign in the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of over 27,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-ruled health ministry, whose figures cannot be independently verified, and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, of whom the Israel Defense Forces claim to have killed upward of 10,000. An additional 1,000 Hamas terrorists were killed inside Israel on October 7.Among those present at the Thursday meeting were Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News, one of whose previous meetings with Biden administration representatives was slammed by the Anti-Defamation League due to the publisher’s remark at an October rally that Hamas “is not a terrorist organization.”Finer also reportedly met with Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, who, in a November rally, articulated Arab Americans’ growing disenchantment with Biden ahead of the 2024 presidential election.“If American democracy depends on our current president being reelected, then why is being bedfellows with the terrorist Netanyahu, worth sacrificing American democracy?” Hammoud was quoted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based think tank.Hammoud has recently found himself at odds with MEMRI after a senior figure from the think tank published a Wall Street Journal op-ed dubbing Dearborn America’s “jihad capital,” which led the mayor to beef up security in the Michigan city, and elicited condemnation from President Biden.Michigan is a battleground state in the 2024 US presidential election in November. Biden won it in 2020 with a margin of under 3 percent. Arab Americans make up some 2 percent of Michigan’s population.Dearborn, which has America’s highest per-capita population of Arab Americans, is represented on Capitol Hill by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress, who has fronted progressive Democratic calls for a ceasefire.Agencies contributed to this report.
Syrian military claims Israeli airstrikes hit near Damascus; war monitor: 3 dead-British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says early morning attack targeted building in upscale area near capital; unclear if reported casualties were terror operatives
By Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 12:41 pm-FEB 10,24
Israeli airstrikes allegedly hit several sites on the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday, according to the Syrian military, while a war monitor said three people were killed in the attacks.The strikes came from the direction of the Golan Heights, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, citing an unnamed military official. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down some missiles and those that landed resulted in “some material losses.” It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said on Saturday that three people were killed in early morning strikes that targeted a building in an upscale area near the Syrian capital.The war monitor said that the strikes may have killed “figures of non-Syrian nationalities” though it could not immediately confirm whether the dead were fighters.Rahman added that many other people were injured in the strikes on a neighborhood hosting “villas for top military and officials.”Videos circulating on social media on Saturday morning appeared to show the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes, including a multi-story residential building in rubble.#BREAKING: The #Israel Air Force conducted an airstrike against an #IRGC linked target in Al-Dimas neighbourhood of #Damascus, #Syria. The target of the airstrike is said to be a group of high ranking officials of IRGC Quds Force & #Hezbollah terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/gJ12WmskvZ— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) February 9, 2024-Since the Gaza war erupted, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacres, Israel has stepped up a years-long campaign of airstrikes aimed at rolling back Iran’s presence in Syria, attacking both Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah, which has been exchanging fire with Israel across the Lebanese-Israeli border since October 8.Israel rarely comments on its attacks in Syria and has not declared responsibility for the recent strikes there, aside from its responses to the firing of projectiles launched from Syria.The observatory said the assault was the 10th apparent Israeli strike on Syrian territory since the beginning of the year.Presumed Israeli strikes in Syria in the past have killed high-ranking figures with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and allied groups. In December, a strike on a Damascus neighborhood killed a high-ranking Iranian general, Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria.The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacres, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 250 hostages of all ages — mostly civilians — many amid horrific acts of brutality.Vowing to destroy Hamas and secure the release of the hostages, Israel launched a wide-scale military campaign in Gaza which has come under increasing criticism in the region and the wider international community as it stretches into its fourth month.Iran, which supports Hamas both financially and militarily, has hailed the devastating October 7 attacks as a “success” but denied any direct involvement.Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border with Lebanon on a near-daily basis, with the Iran-backed group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there. So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in six civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of nine IDF soldiers and reservists.There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 186 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 25 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 19 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
UK university rabbi goes into hiding after death threats over wartime IDF service-Hundreds’ of menacing messages, phone calls targeting Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch for reserve duty drive him and family out of their home, as campus antisemitism flares post-October 7
By ToI Staff Today, 11:59 am-FEB 10,24
The Jewish chaplain at the University of Leeds was forced into hiding with his family after receiving numerous death threats over his service as a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces, the UK’s Daily Mail reported Friday.Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, a rabbinical emissary serving as the Jewish chaplain of several British universities since 2021, returned to Israel to serve in the IDF during the war in Gaza. Since resuming his chaplaincy in January, he has received multiple messages and phone calls threatening violence against him, his wife Nava, and their two children.The threats, reported by the Daily Mail to be in the “hundreds”, were graphic and profane, and led local police to transfer the Deutsch family to a safe location, amid a worrying rise in antisemitism in the United Kingdom, both on and off campus, following Israel’s war on Hamas.The war was triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught, which saw thousands of Hamas-led terrorists storm southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and take 253 hostages of all ages, while committing numerous atrocities and weaponizing sexual violence on a mass scale.Following the shock assault, Israel launched a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of over 28,000 Palestinians to date, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The figure, which cannot be independently verified, does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, of whom the IDF claims to have killed over 10,000. The army also said it killed some 1,000 Hamas operatives in Israel on October 7.On Western university campuses, the war has sparked unprecedented anti-Zionist protests, which sometimes feature thinly veiled antisemitic rhetoric. At the University of Leeds where Deutsch is chaplain, the Jewish campus Hillel House was defaced Friday with “Free Palestine” graffitied on its walls.This is Hillel House at Leeds University… campus is a cesspit of antisemitism.If we ignore this because it is "only" the Jews, we will regret what this country becomes. Take a stand. pic.twitter.com/EnBeUgznb5— Claudia Mendoza (@Claud_Mendoza) February 9, 2024-The campaign against Rabbi Deutsch has been waged since at least November 2023, when a petition was circulated by Leeds students demanding the rabbi’s dismissal from the chaplaincy of their university, as well as those of Sheffield, York, Bradford and Leeds Beckett universities, for having “left the UK to participate in a foreign war with the Israeli army, even going as far as sharing videos on an open student WhatsApp group.”On Friday, students at Leeds University staged a protest in the city calling for Deutsch’s dismissal, which the Daily Mail reported was organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Socialist Worker Student Society. A similar protest was held on campus in November.The Friday protest came after the campaign against Deutsch was picked up by the Muslim Association of Britain, a self-described “grassroots” organization shown by the London-based Jewish Chronicle to have ties to Hamas, which called the rabbi a “war criminal complicit in genocide.”Students at Leeds University held a pro-Palestine walk-out this lunchtime. One of the things the were protesting about is a row over the Uni’s Jewish chaplain Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch who has gone to fight for the Israeli army; pic.twitter.com/tdSWW2dbif— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) November 17, 2023-“We are deeply shocked and appalled by the despicable torrent of horrific anti-Semitic hate and threats of violence being directed at Rabbi Deutsch and his family,” the Daily Mail quoted the University Jewish Chaplaincy as saying.“To find ourselves in this situation in the UK in 2024 marks a dark day for British Jews,” the Chaplaincy added.-Like other diaspora communities, British Jewry has faced rising levels of antisemitism during the current Gaza conflict, including recent attacks on a kosher supermarket and a group of Israelis putting up posters of hostages. A recent poll found “frightening” rates of antisemitic tropes among British youth.Rabbi Deutsch and his wife Nava both trained for two years at Ohr Torah Stone’s Straus-Amiel Institute for rabbinical emissaries in Jerusalem. They previously worked with the Jewish community in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Digging a tunnel takes longer than 4 months'UNRWA head says agency was in dark about Hamas center under Gaza HQ; Israel: ‘You knew’Philippe Lazzarini says allegations should be probed, any other ‘suspicious’ activity reported to UN; COGAT says UN officials were informed but alleges claims were ignored-By ToI Staff and AFP 11 February 2024, 1:08 am
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees denied Saturday any knowledge of a Hamas data center found by Israeli troops underneath its Gaza headquarters, with the Israeli military and Foreign Minister Israel Katz immediately casting doubt on the claim by UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini.In a tweet shortly after the findings were published by The Times of Israel and other media organizations, Lazzarini said UNRWA “did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza” and that the reports “merit an independent inquiry that is currently not possible to undertake given Gaza is an active war zone.”He said Israel has “not informed UNRWA officially about the alleged tunnel.”The subterranean data center, seen by The Times of Israel’s military correspondent on Thursday during an Israel Defense Forces media tour, included an electricity room, industrial battery power banks, and living quarters for alleged Hamas terrorists operating the computer servers.The allegation that Hamas was running a data center under UNRWA’s nose has added to growing concerns over the level of Hamas infiltration in the agency, which is already probing claims that at least a dozen staffers took part in Hamas’s October 7 massacre across southern Israel.Jerusalem has long argued that the agency should be disbanded, and the recent allegations have led several donor countries to announce funding freezes, leading to concerns that the agency, which says it is the main conduit for aid for millions in the Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war, could stop operating in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East within weeks.“Oh, you knew, ” Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, known by its acronym COGAT, tweeted at Lazzarini Saturday night, after the UN agency chief pleaded ignorance.Lazzarini said UN staff had left the Gaza headquarters on October 12, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza began ramping up in the wake of Hamas’s killing spree in southern Israel five days earlier.“We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there,” he claimed.– UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza.– UNRWA is made aware of reports through the media regarding a tunnel under the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza.– UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as… — Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) February 10, 2024-UNRWA, he said, “is a human development and humanitarian organization that does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises.”He said any previous “suspicious” activity was promptly dealt with and “consistently reported in annual reports presented to the General Assembly and made public.”In a response posted to Twitter, COGAT said that UN officials had been informed of the terror group utilizing the Gaza City headquarters and that the data center had been there before the agency’s staff decamped for elsewhere.“Digging a tunnel takes longer than 4 months. We invited senior UN officials to see, and during past meetings with you and other UN officials, we stated Hamas’s use of UNRWA’s headquarters,” it wrote in a tweet.Oh, you knew.Digging a tunnel takes longer than 4 months.We invited senior @UN officials to see, and during past meetings with you and other UN officials, we stated Hamas’s use of UNRWA's headquarters.You chose to ignore the facts so you can later try and deny them. https://t.co/EIliKpDi5h — COGAT (@cogatonline) February 10, 2024-“You chose to ignore the facts so you can later try and deny them,” it added.The foreign minister dismissed Lazzarini’s claim that he was unaware of the Hamas facility’s presence as “not only absurd but also an affront to common sense” and reiterated calls for Lazzerini to step down.“His prompt resignation is imperative,” Katz wrote on X, formerly Twitter.He claimed the discovery showed UNRWA’s “deep involvement” with Hamas.As an ostensibly neutral party, UNRWA facilities are deemed off-limits for military operations, with tens of thousands sheltering in UNRWA schools across the Strip, according to the agency. Israel’s military has been condemned for operating near the facilities and other civilian infrastructure, but Jerusalem blames Hamas for embedding fighters, weapons and bunkers deep within Gaza’s civilian population, including under hospitals.Hamas has previously denied Israeli claims that it has dug an extensive network of tunnels under schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure as cover for terror activities.Israel’s army and the Shin Bet security agency said the data center was uncovered after military operations in Gaza City in recent weeks led to the discovery of a “tunnel shaft” near a school run by the humanitarian agency.“The shaft led to an underground terror tunnel that served as a significant asset of Hamas’s military intelligence and passed under the building that serves as UNRWA’s main headquarters in the Gaza Strip,” they added in a statement.“Electrical infrastructure” in the tunnel — 700 meters (765 yards) long and 18 meters underground — “connected” to the agency’s HQ, “indicating that UNRWA’s facilities supplied the tunnel with electricity,” they said.Documents and a stash of weapons in the UN compound itself “confirmed that the offices had in fact also been used by Hamas terrorists,” the joint statement said.The UN has launched two separate probes into UNRWA, the first into Israeli claims that 12 of its staff may have participated on October 7, and the other a review of its overall political neutrality.UN chief Antonio Guterres has spoken out in defense of the agency, calling it the “backbone” of Gaza aid.Despite the US freezing funding, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says UNRWA plays an “absolutely indispensable role in trying to make sure that men, women, and children who so desperately need assistance in Gaza actually get it.”
WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went
to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
Election year starting to show cracks from “nuclear” disruption of deepfakes-Feb 9, 2024, 11:15 am EST-| Joel R. McConvey
The packed election year of 2024 is ramping up and so are political attacks using deepfakes. U.S. President Joe Biden has already been faked in robocalls related to primary elections in New Hampshire. Now deepfakes have surfaced in more local races, with victimized politicians comparing the potential impact of deepfake technology on democracy to weapons of mass destruction.For firms working at the edge like Paravision and ID R&D, the emergent threat has spurred action to develop new tools that can match fraud and injection attacks powered by AI, video deepfakes, audio spoofs and other weaponized technology. Biometric authentication, facial recognition, algorithmic deep learning and liveness are among the countermeasures available. But the most precious resource is time: news of new attacks breaks weekly, and the biggest fish – the U.S. presidential election – is months away.In the U.S. alarm bells are ringing at both state and federal levels of government, prompting a scramble to enact regulatory legislation. Spectrum News New York reports on a fake audio recording circulating in which former state Assemblyman Keith Wright was heard disparaging sitting Assemblywoman Inez Dickens by calling her lazy and incompetent. Wright, who sent a cease-and-desist letter to the platform hosting the fake content, compares the current regulatory landscape for deepfake spoofs to the Wild West. “It’s just something that’s very, very dangerous,” he says. “It’s almost like a nuclear bomb that people are able to use.”Audio “hot mic” deepfakes among the most compelling and dangerous-A report from CNN has disturbing echoes of the New York story. This time the setting is last year’s Chigaco mayoral race. Deepfake audio of candidate Paul Vallas made the rounds, in which Vallas espoused extreme pro-police opinions. (“Back in my day, cops would kill, say, seventeen or eighteen civilians in their career. And nobody would bat an eye.”) Vallas lost the election by four points. “I won’t be the first and I won’t be the last” to be the victim of a deepfake scam, he tells CNN.Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at UC Berkeley, says these kinds of “hot mic” audio deepfakes could be even more compelling than faked video. “You don’t see the mouth moving,” says Farid. “You don’t see anything. But you hear the voice, and it’s visceral. It sounds like you’re eavesdropping on them. I think those are really powerful.”ID R&D recently released new software for detecting voice cloning and preventing deepfake audio attacks, in response to developments like these.Laws and tools fly in effort to dismantle algorithmic time bomb-Regulators have also been working to keep up. PBS reports that this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) outlawed robocalls that contain AI-generated voices. Those robocalls from deepfake Joe Biden in New Hampshire are now illegal under a technicality of the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act.“Bad actors are using AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities, and misinform voters,” says FCC chairwoman, Jessica Rosenworcel. “We’re putting the fraudsters behind these robocalls on notice.” Violating the law could lead to lawsuits or fines of up to $23,000 per call.Authorities in New Hampshire have identified the source of the calls as Texas-based Life Corp. and its owner, Walter Monk, with the calls being transmitted by Lingo Telecom. Both entities have previously been investigated for separate instances of illegal robocalls. Meanwhile, states including California and Wyoming are among those pursuing or already enforcing laws prohibiting the distribution of synthetic media without disclosure and with the intent to manipulate or deceive. In New York, following the Keith Wright deepfake, Queens Assemblyman Clyde Vanel is pushing for new laws to fight what he calls “identity theft on steroids.”Voting rights groups are similarly concerned and pushing for even speedier legislation on deepfakes. Organizations such as Public Citizen and the Brennan Center for Justice have lobbied Congress for a crackdown on synthetic media and biometric deepfakes and tougher penalties for anyone using the technology to try and fool voters.Having been transformed by social media, electoral processes now stand to be invaded en masse by synthetic humans with bad intentions. As the results play out, very little will be certain – except that it stands to be a wild and disorienting trip.
Hamas warns of ‘tens of thousands’ of casualties-Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty-Saudis also raise alarm; ground op pledged by Netanyahu in refugee-packed border city draws rebukes even from allies
By ToI Staff Today, 4:58 pm-FEB 10,24
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have added their voices to a rising tide of criticism of a planned Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that such a campaign was forthcoming.Netanyahu announced Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to present the cabinet with a plan to both evacuate the city’s civilian population — augmented by over one million refugees from the strip’s north and center — and destroy Hamas’s remaining battalions in the area.According to Netanyahu, an assault on Rafah is critical to completing Israel’s stated war aim of dismantling Hamas. Earlier in the week, the premier rejected Hamas’s “delusional” terms for a hostage deal, which included a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip and the release of hundreds of terrorists serving life sentences.“There is limited space and great risk in putting Rafah under further military escalation due to the growing number of Palestinians there,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday during a press briefing, warning that an escalation would have “dire consequences.”The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Egyptian officials warned the decades-long peace treaty between Egypt and Israel could be suspended if Israel Defense Forces’ troops enter Rafah, or if any of Rafah’s refugees are forced southward into the Sinai Peninsula.In addition, Saudi Arabia — which has already conditioned normalization with Israel on an end to hostilities and steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state — issued a statement Saturday warning of “the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip,” given the city being “the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of people.”Reuters reported that in an effort to forestall a massive influx of refugees, Egypt has over the past two weeks stationed some 40 tanks near its border with Gaza, after having reinforced the border wall since the beginning of hostilities, both structurally and with surveillance equipment.On Friday, Israel’s Channel 12 also reported that IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was opposed to Netanyahu’s plan for a swift Rafah campaign, saying that although the military is technically capable of such an operation, it would be unwise to undertake it without coordination with the Egyptians and plans for the city’s massive refugee population.Netanyahu, according to the report, thinks the IDF would need to wrap up a Rafah campaign by the March 10 start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.The two Arab countries’ admonitions follow similar warnings by the United States, where senior figures in the administration of President Joe Biden have publicly decried the prospect of a Rafah offensive as a “disaster.” Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN’s aid agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, was also quoted by Reuters saying “there is a sense of growing anxiety, growing panic in Rafah because basically people have no idea where to go.”Hamas, meanwhile, issued a statement Saturday saying military action in Rafah would have catastrophic repercussions that “may lead to tens of thousands of martyrs and injured,” for which the terror group would hold “the American administration, international community and the Israeli occupation” responsible.The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s brutal October 7 onslaught, in which thousands of gunmen led by the Palestinian terror group stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people, mainly civilians, while taking 253 hostages of all ages, committing numerous atrocities and weaponizing sexual violence on a mass scale.Pledging to dismantle Hamas, Israel launched a war in the Gaza Strip, which has thus far claimed the lives of over 27,900 Palestinians, according to the Strip’s Hamas-ruled health ministry. The figure, which cannot be independently verified, does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, of whom the IDF claims to have killed over 10,000.At the outset of the war, Israel ordered residents of northern Gaza to flee southward. The evacuation orders have since expanded to some two-thirds of the Strip, where Rafah is the southernmost city, bordering Egypt.
The moment of truth’: Nationwide protests set to demand hostage deal, new government-Rallies planned in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and other cities; protester with megaphone reading names of hostages arrested outside Netanyahu’s Caesarea residence
By ToI Staff Today, 4:58 pm-FEB 10,24
Protests were scheduled to get underway Saturday evening throughout the country to call for an immediate deal to release hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with some of the rallies also expected to call for an end to the current government.The rallies come as Qatari and Egyptian-mediated efforts to secure a release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas and a truce in the war have stalled, with Hamas making demands Israel has rejected, including a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners serving sentences for deadly attacks.According to reports over the weekend, members of the war cabinet are drawing up an official response to Hamas’s proposal, after rejecting the terror group’s demands.The Hostages and Missing Families Forum urged the public to join them at the main weekly rally at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square at 7:30 p.m. under the slogan: “The moment of truth — life or death!”“The families of the hostages call on the citizens of Israel to stand by them and convey the message together: The price of abandoning [the captives] will be a stain for generations,” the group said in a statement to the press.Speakers at the event will include Hailey Cooper and Or Nochomowitz, 10-year-old grandchildren of Amiram Cooper, 84, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz; Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan Zangauker, 24, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz; Idit Ohel, mother of Alon Ohel, 22, who was taken captive from the Supernova music festival; and Yael Adar, whose son Tamir Adar‘s body is being held in Gaza.An hour earlier at 6:30 p.m., anti-government protesters were set to gather nearby at Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square calling for the release of all hostages, along with a demand for immediate elections.“Israel’s government is responsible for the worst disaster in national history. They must resign,” the organizers said in a statement on Saturday announcing the protest. “Elections now!”The protesters were referring to Hamas’s grisly October 7 attack on southern Israel, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 250 hostages of all ages, mostly civilians. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 360 people were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists.Additional protests demanding a hostage deal and elections to replace the current government were planned in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, Rehovot, Ra’anana and other cities and towns throughout the country.Meanwhile, police arrested a woman protesting outside Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea, according to local social media reports.Videos posted by activists on social media showed police officers detain Yolanda Yavor as she read the names of Israelis held by terror groups in Gaza since October 7 into a megaphone.Media reports said she was taken to the Hadera police station for questioning.Calls for an election have grown amid intense criticism of the government for the failures that enabled the October 7 attacks as well as dissatisfaction with its handling of the war, with repeated polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu losing his majority in the Knesset if a vote was to be held today.Hamas and other terror factions are holding 132 of the 253 hostages taken on October 7, following a weeklong November truce deal that saw the release of 105 civilians, mostly women and children.The IDF has said 29 of the 132 are dead, citing intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza. One more person has been listed as missing since October 7, and their fate is still unknown.Hamas has also been holding the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014, as well as two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are both thought to be alive after entering the Gaza Strip of their own accord in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Senior UN official: US proposal to fund other agencies instead of UNRWA not viable-OCHA head in Palestinian territories tells ToI dismantling aid organization, some of whose members are accused of ties to terror, would lead to humanitarian disaster
By Jacob Magid-Today, 6:17 pm-FEB 10,24
A top United Nations official told The Times of Israel this week that replacing the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the middle of the Israel-Hamas war would end in a humanitarian disaster.Calls to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency have mounted following UNRWA’s January announcement that it had fired or suspended 12 employees who allegedly participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught against Israel. The announcement, alongside reports of Israeli intel on many more employees with ties to terror groups, led the US along with over a dozen other countries to suspend their funding as they demanded an investigation.UNRWA says the funding halt will force it to stop operating by the end of the month if those decisions remain in place.The US has said it supports the work UNRWA does in Gaza to provide aid to the Palestinians amid the widening humanitarian crisis sparked by the war. However, Congress is advancing legislation that would bar relief funds from going to UNRWA, and the Biden administration says it will abide by the measure if it passes and is looking into sending US funds to other agencies such as the World Food Program or UNICEF, the UN’s relief agency for children.Andrea De Domenico, who heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian territories, told The Times of Israel that trying to replace UNRWA with other agencies in the middle of the war would not be “viable.”The humanitarian effort “is not something you can unplug and plug back in somewhere else,” argued the branch head of OCHA, which coordinates humanitarian work with the various aid groups on the ground.UNRWA is currently the primary organization delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza with some 13,000 local staff members. No other agency comes close to UNRWA’s presence in the enclave.“All of the logistical operations and the entry of the humanitarian aid [into Gaza] is handled by UNRWA, so the moment you [de]fund UNRWA, that entire operation is blocked,” said De Domenico, whose office currently has 11 staff members in Gaza.With such large numbers of local staff in a territory controlled by a terror organization, Hamas’s infiltration into the agency was inevitable, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel.De Domenico noted that the salaries of the local UNRWA staffers were on a far lower pay scale than those received by employees recruited by other agencies, so switching to another agency would cost a lot more money, which donor countries were not likely interested in spending.The fastest way to switch to a new agency instead of UNRWA would be by using the same local staff — which would likely be a non-starter for supporters of a change, who would fear those employees were tainted by terror ties. However, building an agency from scratch while barring involvement from anyone ever involved in UNRWA will take “considerably more time,” De Domenico said. “In the short term, it seems like a gigantic effort that is very unlikely to [succeed].”The senior UN official explained that ending UNRWA’s mandate would make the conflict’s parties liable for distributing aid to Gaza’s over 2 million civilians.Israel “doesn’t understand that we are actually trying to help them meet their obligations as a party of the conflict. It’s an obligation of international humanitarian law for the occupying power to take care of the civilians that they occupy,” De Domenico said.Jerusalem argues that it is facilitating the entry of enough aid into Gaza and that the bottlenecks are due to an inability of the UN to keep up with the pace. Moreover, it claims that Hamas is diverting aid from civilians to its fighters.“We hear [Israel say] that the aid is diverted to Hamas and that Hamas is in control. No! What we are seeing on the ground is that no one is in control at the moment, and that’s a big problem,” De Domenico argued.The senior OCHA official acknowledged that the UN “might be forced” into a new framework for distributing aid in place of UNRWA “because only so much is in our control.”But this will require “a gigantic effort from our side and a serious commitment, particularly from the Israelis, to allow us to scale up operations.”He pointed to repeated Israeli rejections of requests for his office to be allowed to bring armored vehicles, personal protective equipment and radio communications into Gaza in order to ensure the safe and swift distribution of aid.Israel says it only rejects requests for items on security grounds, particularly supplies that it feels can be stolen and exploited by Hamas.“Some of their concerns are serious, and I totally understand them… But some of their other concerns seem more fictitious and intended simply to slow down our operation all while they continue to say, ‘Keep up the pace.’” he charged. “You break my leg, and then you asked me to run. We’ll try, but it’s not going to be easy.”Also in the interview, the senior UN official said his office has begun the earlier stages of an assessment mission in northern Gaza aimed at determining the conditions necessary to allow Palestinians to return to those areas.Since the beginning of the current war between Israel and Hamas, a humanitarian crisis has broken out in the Gaza Strip, leaving over a million Palestinians displaced, many of whom are not receiving adequate access to basic needs.The war broke out following Hamas’s massacre on October 7, which saw some 3,000 terrorists infiltrate Israel under a barrage of rockets, killing about 1,200 people and taking approximately 250 hostages.The ensuing Israeli offensive on Hamas has killed over 27,900 Palestinians, according to the health ministry in Gaza run by the terror organization. These numbers cannot be independently verified and are believed to include over 10,000 members of Hamas’s military wing who were killed in battle and Gazans killed by misfired rockets.
US CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)
THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Policy experts call for AU-EU cooperation in building Africa’s digital economy-Feb 9, 2024, 1:21 pm EST | Masha Borak
African countries participating in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) are preparing to adopt the Digital Trade Protocol in early 2024, set to define the continent’s digital infrastructure. As a key component of the planned African digital single market, the trade agreement will regulate digital trade, eliminating barriers and establishing rules, standards and interoperability frameworks.The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) policy experts Chloe Teevan and Melody Musoni argue in a brief that the European Union (EU) should cooperate with the African Union (AU) to boost interoperability.“To advance the African [Digital Trade Protocol], the EU and AU should collaborate on developing interoperable digital services and the regulatory frameworks to support them,” the duo writes in a brief published on ECDPM’s website. “The AU can draw upon the EU’s experiences and tailor strategies unique to the African context.”The EU is currently building its interoperability framework and digital ID system, known as the eIDAS regulation for interoperable digital ID and the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet. And while the European project has already kicked of pilot programs and is making progress on standardization, Africa’s e-governance and digital ID systems and their policy frameworks are in early developmental stages.The AU released its Digital ID Framework in December, complementing it with the AU Interoperability Framework for Digital ID this January, a document that lays out the bloc’s vision of a digital ID ecosystem. The framework doesn’t call for a unified continent-wide digital ID system but proposes increased interoperability between different projects. The use of biometrics is yet to be determined as technical specifications will be decided during the second phase of implementation.In May 2023, African countries including Ghana, Gabon, Guinea, Rwanda, Tunisia and Zimbabwe have signed a declaration on data and digital identity interoperability called the Smart Africa Trust Alliance (SATA).“As Africa takes further steps towards developing its own [digital single market] the EU can engage African policymakers to get a clear picture of the support Africa needs moving forward,” says the brief. “This also includes the EU being more open and transparent in sharing Europe’s successes and the challenges it has faced in establishing its own cross-border interoperable digital services, to develop new areas of potential collaboration for the future.”Aside from the Digital Trade Protocol and the Digital ID Framework, the AU has also recently published its Data Policy Framework. All of these efforts are part of the AU’s Digital Transformation Strategy and Agenda 2063, the pan-African plan for its future digital economy.The bloc has already adopted the AU Cyber Security and Data Protection Convention, known as the Malabo Convention, which regulates e-commerce transactions, cybersecurity and data protection aspects and is looking at building its own AI strategy.
Biometrics squaring off with deepfakes-Feb 10, 2024, 11:20 am EST-| Chris Burt
Biometrics can protect against the fraud threat of generative AI and deepfakes, but can also be defeated by them if not deployed properly as part of a comprehensive system, as seen in a series of the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update. Generative AI tools are becoming more easily available and another big-figure deepfake heist has been reported, though Pindrop and Prove have technologies they say can defend against them. The multi-hundred million dollar acquisition of Onfido by Entrust, meanwhile, extends a promising trend for the industry, as Idemia makes changes that may presage another, even larger instance in the series.Top biometrics news of the week-The acquisition of Onfido by Entrust at a reported valuation well north of $400 million allows the latter to address the entire identity lifecycle. Entrust will integrate Onfido’s selfie biometrics, orchestration services and reusable digital identity capabilities, which were bolstered with Onfido’s acquisition of Airside less than a year ago.Onfido Co-founder Husayn Kassai writes a summary in Sifted of how the company made a 320-times return on investment for its first investor, from 2010. Kassai credits the company’s success to a healthy ecosystem that supplied advice from peers, and an empowered team that owned more than 20 percent.Eurostar says the passport biometric checks mandated by the EU’s EES will cause delays of “many hours” for departures from the UK. At issue is the number of pre-departure kiosks deployed, with the French government ordering roughly half the number modeling shows will be needed at peak traffic.A new authentication service has been introduced in the Philippines through the QR code included with the national digital ID. As PhilSys Check launches, the PSA has put out a public service announcement to sensitize the population about its enrollment drive for isolated and disadvantaged areas.More than 600,000 applications for ID cards are reportedly sitting in limbo, accumulating since the Kenyan High Court halted the rollout of the new national ID, Maisha Namba. The system is awaiting a final judgement, but the printing had already been reconfigured, preventing the issuance of previous cards in the meantime.Regional group Austroads plans to assess the provider options for Australia’s mobile driver’s licenses through an expression of interest. The association of government officials will consider mDL uniformity, privacy protections and mutual recognition. It will also hold a forum later this month to discuss hardware and software requirements.Australia has a tentative launch date for its new national digital ID, pending finalized legislation. The plan is for Australians to be able to choose from a list of accredited digital identity providers to access public and private services following a phased rollout beginning in July.Idemia has reorganized into Idemia Secure Transactions, Public Security and Smart Identity. Secure Transactions makes up more than half of the total workforce, but the other two are more focused on biometrics and digital ID. The changes could be motivated by the likelihood of intensive regulatory scrutiny were Idemia to be acquired by another digital identity giant like Thales, as has previously been rumored.A deepfake delivered through an injection attack was used to steal $25 million from a company in Hong Kong, with a phishing email to an employee followed by a fake video call with the company’s CFO. The growth in deepfake attacks necessitates the combination of presentation attack detection, injection attack detection, and image inspection to accompany selfie biometrics, according to Gartner.The phenomenon of generative AI fraud is not just confined to selfies and video calls, with IBM researchers discovering the use of voice cloning technology to hijack a conversation with a real user or customer and manipulate it without them knowing. New Pindrop research indicates the extent to which algorithms outpace people at detecting artificially generated speech.Pindrop is also explaining the science behind its unmasking of a prominent deepfake through close analysis of the individual sound components of speech. Prove’s Tim Brown pitched the chain of data points tied to each phone number as a way to provide resilience against identity fraud vectors that can spoof biometric matching at a recent FIDO Alliance conference.A website has been discovered offering AI-generated photos that can be used in synthetic ID fraud for $15 each. Realistic looking fake ID documents from at least several countries have been seen, and in at least one case used to defeat a crypto exchange’s identity verification.Professor Karen Yeung of the University of Birmingham offers a bleak assessment of the use of live facial recognition by UK police. Yeung contrasts the practice in England and Wales with the EU and democratic states in general, and argues that the watchlists used are contrary to the presumption of innocence.Please let us know if you spot any opinion pieces, podcasts or other content we should share with those in biometrics and the digital identity community in the comments below or through social media.
Biometric ID firms face the music on growing threat of generative AI, says iProov-Threat report shows a massive spike in face swap injection attacks in 2023-Feb 7, 2024, 3:51 pm EST-| Joel R. McConvey
https://www.iproov.com/reports/iproov-threat-intelligence-report-2024
The latest threat intelligence report from iProov addresses the algorithmic elephant in the room, as implied by its subtitle: “The Impact of Generative AI on Remote Identity Verification.” Specifically, the report zooms in on tools and techniques that threat actors use to launch digital injection attacks that pose a risk to secure digital identity verification.“In the last 24 months,” reads the report, “the threat landscape has undergone significant changes. Organizations considering incorporating facial biometrics into their remote identity platforms need to understand the benefits and drawbacks of the various technologies available and the pros and cons of different deployment methods.” Biometric solutions that looked secure two years ago may not instill the same confidence in a world of deepfakes, face swaps, voice cloning and whatever mass uptake of Apple Vision Pro might look like.Notable statistics in the report include an observed increase in face swap injection attacks of a whopping 720 percent from the first to second half of 2023. “Face swaps,” it says, “are now firmly established as the deepfake of choice among persistent threat actors.” The most common tools being used for face swap attacks are SwapFace, DeepFaceLive and Swapstream. Most easily accessible options include a free tier for user experimentation – or, in the case of fraudsters, exploitation.Synthetic media created using generative AI tools has become harder to detect and can be injected as a malicious payload into an audio or video feed and manipulated in real time; security methods that would typically detect if virtual cameras were used to film synthetic faces can now be fooled with emulators, the use of which increased by 353 percent from H1 to H2 2023. Injection attacks on mobile platforms shot up by 255 percent in the same period. And the variety of tactics, the volume of bad actors and a “significant increase in the persistence of threat actors” mean the threat ecosystem is growing with pestilent speed; among threat groups identified by iProov’s analysts, 47 were created in 2023.This all sounds bad. But the outlook is not as bleak as it would seem: those who are equipped with the appropriate technological safeguards have less to worry about. “Organizations leveraging biometric verification technology are in a stronger position to detect and defend against these attacks than those relying solely on manual operation,” says the report. Its key takeaways confidently state that “human operator-led systems can no longer consistently and correctly detect synthetic media such as deepfakes,” and that “in order to detect synthetic media created using generative AI, verification technologies that leverage AI are essential.”In addition, iProov calls on the biometrics industry to establish more rigorous certification requirements for vendors, and to factor in both user experience and potential bias, as well as steps to mitigate it.“Threat actors are exploiting processes that rely on lower-cost technology as well as those that leverage human intervention,” says the report in its conclusion. “Current tools are outpacing defenses in both availability and sophistication. As a result, these new threat vectors are evading many current remote identity verification techniques faster than organizations can detect or adapt their security measures.”“A proactive approach leveraging science is needed to identify, mitigate, and prevent potential threats before they become serious.”
Hospitals have heard for years to deploy ID infrastructure; here’s a new nudge-Feb 9, 2024, 2:05 pm EST | Jim Nash
A day’s not complete in the digital ID world until someone (and usually it’s many people) shakes a stick accusingly at health care (and usually it’s in the United States).Here are three announcements addressing the need for broadly deployed, secure and efficient systems.The first one is expected to address industry accreditations.Inteleos, a nonprofit health care certification organization, says it’s going to collaborate with identity verification exchange Credivera to create digital identities and verifiable credentials. The goal is to address fraud but also to make credential verification more efficient with a digital wallet.If successful, the collaboration could offer verification services on a broader scale than per facility or hospital company. However, it would focus on Inteleos’ commercial work with continuing education organizations.The wallet will be able to hold multiple other digital credentials, according to Inteleos.Meanwhile, a team of digital health researchers in Canada launched a rapid review of data about federated digital identifiers have been established and launched in the field.The researchers were from either Women’s College Hospital or the University of Toronto. They said they found important features, including opt-out registration, that were linked to better adoption rates of patient accessible electronic health records.In database and Google searchers, the team found 93 references to federated digital IDs in health care, which could be said to be miniscule. Among the nations using federated IDs were Australia, Canada, Estonia, Singapore, Sweden and Taiwan.Ten of the 11 nations use a single sign-on. Most programs are national or provincial in scale and require people to go to a bank or government office to enroll. The average adoption rate is below 30 percent.Australians are allowed to verify their ID and register entirely online, and adoption was about 90 percent. Australia also uses a an opt-out consent model.Neither the United States nor almost all other European Union members showed up in the search.An infrastructure approach to ID verification popped up in a LinkedIn post from Christine Kim, an investor with Greylock Partners venture fund.Kim describes how in the United Kingdom people use a National Health Service login that is authenticated once by uploading the image of government ID and a selfie. Providers get access to the information they need to treat the patient for the visit.The infrastructure approach eases verification and has a better chance off improving outcomes because data access is efficient and consistent.
New hires at Signicat, Au10tix, AuthID, Delinea-Feb 9, 2024, 2:49 pm EST | Masha Borak
Identity verification companies are on a hiring spree this February, bolstered by successful financing rounds and expansions into new territories.Singicat is beefing up its position in Germany with a new team member. After four years at its competitor IDNow, Philipp Wegmann has joined Signicat as Country Manager for DACH, meaning Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH).Wegmann’s task is to make the Norwegian digital identity company the “go-to provider” in the region and grow its German team, the company says in an announcement. Aside from IDNow, his previous experience includes business development for companies such as the automotive arm of Panasonic and heating equipment supplier Truma Geraetetechnik.Privileged Access Management (PAM) software maker Delinea announced its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Kate Reed.Reed has spent 15 years at IBM, including leading a team of more than 200 marketing professionals at the company’s cybersecurity division. She has also served as CMP at enterprise logging company Devo and data management provider Synti.Au10tix has been on a real hiring spree. Over the past year, the Israeli identity verification and authentication firm has added seven executives, including Erez Hershkovitz who joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Amazia Keidar serving as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Avidan Lamdan, the company’s new Vice President (VP) of Research and Development (R&D).In January, the company also introduced a new Chief Revenue Officer Hanna Schindler. Other additions to the team include VP of Product Matan Shaham, VP of Delivery and Operation Moshe Naftaly and VP of Human Resources Chen Hofesh Katz.Not to be left behind, identity verification and authentication company AuthID has also expanded its executive pool, following a fundraising in November 2023. The U.S. company has hired two new Directors of Sales – Prateek Bijapurkar and Spencer Bybee.AuthID has also taken on a new Principal Solutions Architect, Linh Nguyen, and plans to expand its development ranks to strengthen its products, according to the company.The Security Industry Association (SIA) has welcomed a new member of its Executive Advisory Board: Bill Brennan is the President of i-Pro America, an AI surveillance company that was spun off from Panasonic in 2019. The board gathers thought leaders from member companies that create the strategy and initiatives for the U.S.-based trade association for global security solution providers.DHS hiring AI specialists-Are you looking for a job? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is hiring an IT Specialist for artificial intelligence. The new hire will help the agency use AI to expand services and increase their efficiency.Among other tasks are developing product strategies, leading teams to integrate solutions and mitigating safety and security considerations of AI such as bias, dual-use, data privacy and civil rights.
Ethiopia digital ID program seeking biometric registration kits, SDK toolkit-Feb 9, 2024, 10:49 am EST | Bianca Gonzalez
Ethiopia is accepting bids to supply and install biometric registration kits for use in the country’s national digital ID program. The NIDP is also seeking an information system supplier for an encoding platform and associated client-side SDK toolkit.Bids to supply the biometric registration kits must include a proposal security of ETB 1.8 million ($35,000 USD). Submissions are due March 22, 2024. Those interested can get more information from reaching out to the project’s procurement specialists listed on the request for bids page.
Also posted is a request for proposals for the supply, installation, and configuration of the encoding platform and associated client-side SDK toolkit for the Ethiopian Digital ID ecosystem. The project should be completed within 16 weeks from the date of opening at the Ethiopian National ID headquarters in Addis Ababa.Bidss must include a proposal security of ETB 1.3 million ($23,000 USD). Submissions are due March 6, 2024. Those interested can get more information from the request for proposal page.World Bank is providing funding for the Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project (EDFP) led by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology. Part of the funds is allocated to these projects.Both tenders are open to international applicants, and the procurement process will follow World Bank’s procurement regulations.World Bank has committed to supporting Ethiopia in the development of its DPI more broadly. The RFP is announced soon after Ethiopia has set the goal of making digital IDs mandatory for access to government services.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
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