The US held off authorizing this Israeli armed force unit notwithstanding proof of misuses. Presently its powers are molding the battle in Gaza
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The news that the US could keep help from the Israeli military unit set off an enraged reaction at the time from top Israeli authorities, including State head Benjamin Netanyahu, who said: "Assuming anybody figures they can force sanctions on a unit of the IDF, I will battle energetically."
In a letter got by CNN, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told House Speaker Mike Johnson that the US was working with Israel "on distinguishing a way to viable remediation" for the Netzah Yehuda regiment. The letter didn't name the unit, however current and previous US authorities affirmed to CNN that Blinken was alluding to Netzah Yehuda, which has been blamed for a series of maltreatments in the involved West Bank throughout recent years, remembering for the passing of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American man in 2022.
Utilizing facial acknowledgment innovation and other open-source methods, CNN has tracked down that three previous leaders of the Netzah Yehuda brigade - who were accountable for the unit at the hour of supposed maltreatments in the West Bank - have ascended through the positions of the IDF. CNN followed these administrators by matching their countenances to openly accessible symbolism throughout the long term, going from photos of military functions to combat zone refreshes.
"At the point when a commandant from a spoiled unit happens to another unit, he can deliver the new unit ineligible for US help as well."
Charles Blaha, previous head of the Express Division's Office of Safety and Basic freedoms
CNN has spoken with a previous individual from the unit, who definite occurrences of horrible and unreasonably rough treatment of Palestinians in the involved West Bank. The informant said that leaders effectively upheld vigilante savagery and that advancing them into senior IDF positions gambled with carrying similar culture to different pieces of the military.
"A great deal of us presumably didn't see Bedouins, Palestinians specifically, as somebody with privileges - OK, similar to they're actually the occupier of a portion of the land and they should be moved," he said.
The previous warrior, who asked not to be named because of fears about his security, let CNN know that the unit was notable for completing what he portrayed as the "aggregate discipline of Palestinians." He gave an illustration of the legion's powers attacking a Palestinian town, going house to house with daze projectiles and gas explosives as retaliation for a few nearby youngsters tossing rocks.
While he was in Netzah Yehuda, he said, the legion's leaders assumed a key part in sustaining a culture of savagery, both by holding on as it worked out and advancing it.
Answering CNN's solicitation for input on the charges of maltreatment by Netzah Yehuda, the IDF said that the contingent "works in an expert and moral way" and that its warriors and leaders "act as per the orders and conventions expected of troopers in the IDF." The IDF added that it examines "each remarkable episode," and goes to order and disciplinary lengths against those included when fitting. It didn't remark on the ensuing advancement of certain administrators.
Over its extended examination, CNN talked with a few current and previous US authorities, who uncovered the extraordinary disappointments inside the Biden organization at the apparent unique treatment that Israel gets from the US with regards to tending to basic freedoms infringement by its security powers. The previous US authorities said the way that Netzah Yehuda's previous leaders have kept on being advanced through Israel's tactical positions was a stressing aftereffect of America's inaction and could have wrecking outcomes.
The US confirmed that four of the five Israeli units under a magnifying glass were remediated on the premise that Israel had done whatever it takes to "deal with" dependable help individuals, as indicated by an inner update sent by the State Division to Congress and got by CNN. Israeli military veterans from Ending the Quiet, an enemy of occupation backing bunch, let CNN know that the IDF frequently substitutes junior warriors or officials, contending that misuses are the shortcoming of a couple of rotten ones instead of intelligent of institutional issues coming from longstanding military practices or government strategies. That approach shouldn't meet the bar for successful remediation, US authorities said.
A State Division representative let CNN know that they don't examine the conditions of individual cases, yet its specialists had "reasoned that few Israeli security force units were soundly ensnared in gross infringement of common liberties (GVHRs)," and that for four of those, the Israeli government had "found a way viable ways to deal with those dependable."
"We keep on surveying reports of GVHRs by Israeli security powers, as per the law, and all US security help to Israel is furnished reliable with homegrown and worldwide regulation," the representative added.
Current and previous US authorities additionally let CNN know that the five Israeli units were by all accounts not the only ones the State Office had been analyzing. The exceptional State Division board had arrived at consistent agreement at a functioning level that three extra units had been at fault for maltreatments before October 7, the authorities said. Just Blinken or the Delegate Secretary of State can cause a last assurance on whether units to stay qualified to get US military help and it is indistinct on the off chance that the matter has preceded them. The discoveries by the master board would have been sufficient to exclude a tactical unit from some other country, the authorities said.
The occurrences incorporate the killing of Ahmad Jamil Fahd, who was supposedly shot by powers from the Israeli police counterterrorism unit, the Yamam, close to Ramallah, in the involved West Bank, in May 2021; the killing of a Bedouin man recognized as Sanad Salaam al-Harbad, who was purportedly shot by the Israel Line Police in the southern Israeli city of Rahat in Walk 2022; and the supposed assault of a 15-year-old kid by a questioner from the Israeli Inner Security Powers at the Russian Compound (Moscobiyya confinement focus) in Jerusalem in January 2021. One US official CNN talked with said these were among "the most incredibly blatant maltreatments investigated."
CNN connected with the Israel Line Police and Shin Bet, the country's homegrown security office, for input on the Express Division's discoveries.
Josh Paul, who as a previous chief in the Express Division's political-military undertakings department went through over 11 years dealing with US safeguard discretion, security and weapons help prior to leaving in October 2023 over the exchange of arms to Israel, let CNN know that there was "not even the smallest premise" to recommend that the three further units distinguished to CNN — the Yamam, the Israel Boundary Police and Interior Security Powers associated with the Moscobiyya detainment focus — had successfully change.
Paul had recently referred to the Moscobiyya assault charge in a meeting with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, adding that a foundation had attracted it to the consideration of a State Division checking board he was on. The claim was accepted to be tenable and raised with Israel's administration, he said. "Also, do you have any idea about what happened the following day? The IDF went in to the (noble cause's) workplaces and eliminated every one of their PCs and proclaimed them a fear based oppressor substance," he told Amanpour.
Two of the units have been connected to dangerous occurrences directly following October 7. The Yamam was engaged with Israel's prisoner salvage activity in Nuseirat exile camp, in northern Gaza, on June 8, which liberated four Israelis and, as per nearby wellbeing specialists, killed in excess of 270 Palestinians and harmed more than 700. The IDF has questioned those numbers, asserting that setbacks from the activity were "under 100." CNN can't freely confirm the loss figures given by one or the other side. In the mean time, the Israel Line Police shot and killed a 3-year-old Palestinian young lady in the involved West Bank in January and a 12-year-old Palestinian kid in involved east Jerusalem in Spring.
The way that the US has never forced sanctions on any Israeli military unit shows "the absence of political will and moral mental fortitude to consider Israel responsible," Paul added.
'Culture of exemption'
The US is by a long shot the greatest provider of weapons to Israel, and its tactical help has helped shape Israel's tasks in Gaza. However, it has progressively gone under global strain over its help as the conflict delays.
Nine months since Hamas assailants killed around 1,200 Israelis and abducted in excess of 250 individuals, Israel's attack on Gaza has killed in excess of 38,000 Palestinians, as per neighborhood wellbeing specialists. US President Joe Biden has required the conflict to end, and spread out a US-upheld Israeli truce proposition, yet his organization has kept on providing Israel with billions of dollars of weapons.
Paul told CNN that Israel's arraignment of the conflict in Gaza would look far changed assuming the US had authorized regulation known as the Leahy regulation. The 1997 regulation, named for previous Sen. Patrick Leahy who wrote the regulation, restricts the US from giving help to any unfamiliar security units that are soundly ensnared in common liberties infringement.
"Had the US utilized the influence that Leahy regulations give over the course of the years to urge the IDF to get serious about rowdiness and to snuff out its ongoing society of exemption, we would have seen at any rate a lot more grounded unit discipline (than what we find in Gaza at the present time) at a strategic level," said Paul, who was an individual from the Israel Leahy Screening Discussion - made in 2020 to recognize Israeli units that ought to be banned from getting US help.
Under the Leahy regulation, in situations where a whole unit is assigned to get help, the State Office vets the unit as well as its commandant.
Charles Blaha, the previous overseer of the State Dep
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Archeological history that change our view of history
Intro History is far more complicated that we would like to believe. Even in our schools today, different versions of events are being taught to students, depending on the country they’re in and how those events in history affected that country. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” right? Nevertheless, we also have archaeology, which sometimes helps us to better understand what happened regardless of what was written down in centuries past. And sometimes, some such discoveries turn the way we saw history right on its head. 10. Ancient Fast Food Ancient Fast Food We generally tend to think that fast food came about fairly recently, right? And it does make sense, after all, given the faster pace the world is moving nowadays as opposed to the slower ancient times. In fact, the first such shops, which were serving fish and chips, opened in Britain during the 1860s. Then, in the 1950s in the US, the drive-through restaurants became popular, and… well, you know the rest. But taking a quick snack for lunch and then hurrying on your way is not something new and has been going on since ancient times. This place was the so-called thermopolium, or “place where (something) hot is sold,” and it was a common sight all throughout the Greco-Roman world; particularly in larger towns and cities. These thermopolia are, in fact, the forerunners of all present-day restaurants. They usually consisted of a small room that opened onto the street and specialized in two or three items such as spiced wine, meats, cheese, or lentils. These establishments were quite tiny and almost never had tables for people to sit at. There was only a counter with several embedded earthenware jars called dolia where the food was stored. These places were frequented mostly by slaves or people who did not have the means or facilities to cook for themselves. And as it so happens, these thermopolia were also frequent hangouts for all sorts of shady characters. These places were even abolished on several occasions for this exact reason, since they harbored all sorts of “effeminate Greeks and thieving slaves,” as Plautus, a Roman playwright from the 3rd century BC, once said. There were, however, some fancier establishments too, with some tables inside and even some frescoes painted on the walls. One such ornate restaurant called the “Thermopolium of Asellina” was discovered in Pompeii and is one of the best preserved in the world. 9. War is Older Than We Thought War is Older Than We Thought War was commonly believed to have originated alongside the advent of civilization. This, of course, doesn’t mean that people weren’t killing each other even before that. After all, the reptilian part of the brain, which we all have and which pushes us towards things like hate, envy, aggression, dominance, and territoriality among others, was also found in people more than 10,000 years ago. This means that before the discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry, people were only able to kill each other through the occasional murder or small family skirmishes. But after people began settling down and growing in number, more organized and coordinated forms of battle were invented; things like raids or wars, for instance. The fact that structured hierarchies and slavery also appeared during this time also helped wars along. Nevertheless, an archaeological discovery made in 2012 in Kenya seems to indicate that small scale wars were also taking place even before agriculture appeared there. On the banks of the Lake Turkana, archaeologists came across 27 skeletons dating back to somewhere in between 9,500 to 10,500 years ago. These skeletons once belonged to men, women, and children which archeologists believe were members of a semi-nomadic tribe that settled close to the lake. All of the skeletons showed signs of blunt force trauma or wounds from projectile weapons. One of the women had both of her knees shattered and showed signs that her hands were bound when she died. Who attacked them, or what really happened is not known, but no other massacre on this scale has ever been discovered from so long ago. 8. Europeans and America Europeans and America Christopher Columbus and his men are no longer believed to be the first Europeans to discover the American continent. Today it is fairly common knowledge that Leif Ericsson, an Icelandic Viking explorer, was the first European to come across to North America when he was blown off course on his way to Greenland from Norway almost 500 years before Columbus. In the Saga of the Greenlanders which talks about Leif Ericsson and his travels to Vinland, present-day Newfoundland, there is mention of a Bjarni Herjólfsson, who also made it to a land west of Greenland when he too was blown off course by the wind, even before Leif Ericsson himself. But whatever the case may be here, some newer archaeological evidence points to the fact that the Europeans made it to North America even before Europe had a name, or at least the name of “Europe.” Several dozen stone tools have been found along the East Coast in six distinct locations. One in Pennsylvania, three from the Delmarva Peninsula in Maryland, one in Virginia, and another one was discovered by a scallop trawler some 60 miles off the Virginian coast. All of these tools bear a striking resemblance to the stone tools used by the prehistoric Solutrean tribes from present-day western France and northern Spain. What’s more, all of them were dated somewhere in between 19,000 to 26,000 years ago. Because of this time period, most archaeologists have rejected the idea of being just a simple case of coincidence based on the too-similar design. Furthermore, one of the stone knives discovered in Virginia revealed under chemical analysis that it actually originated in France. The reason for the relatively small number of tools found on the East Coast dating from that period also explains how those Stone Age Europeans got to America in the first place. Back in those times, the planet was going through an Ice Age, and like the Native Americans who crossed into America from Asia over the Bering land bridge, so did these Solutreans cross over what is now the north Atlantic, Iceland, and Greenland. As shown by that knife found by the scallop trawler 60 miles off the coast of Virginia, the sea level was far lower than it is today. And since these people stayed mostly around the coast, many of their tools are also underwater. Another archaeological discovery that places Europeans in North America longer ago than previously believed is an 8,000-year-old skeleton found in Florida. When subjected to a genetic marker test, this man’s remains revealed high levels of European markers, not found in Asians. 7. Australians and America Another archaeological discovery, this time from Brazil, points to the fact that Australians also made it to the Americas long ago. Several human skulls discovered there match the characteristics of those from places like Australia and Melanesia. Similarly, some 33 skulls found on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico also point to this theory. And according to the stone tools and charcoal discovered at the site in Brazil, these people could have inhabited the area for nearly 50,000 years. The theory is that they arrived in the Americas by boat across the Pacific. Though seemingly impossible for people from 50,000 years ago, cave paintings in Australia have shown some boats that were actually built to withstand the ocean. Moreover, in 1947 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and a few others made it across on a balsa wood raft. Archaeologists also believe that these people died out with the appearance of the Asian peoples coming in from the north via the Bering land bridge. This is because the shape of the skulls changes from those with an Australian appearance to those with a Mongoloid appearance between 9,000 to 7,000 years ago. The only survivors could be tribes of people who lived in the Terra del Fuego region of South America. This is the southernmost tip of the continent, and the people who still live there show hybrid skull features of both mongoloid and negroid ancestry. If proven true then Native Australians could be the first Americans ever. 6. How Old is Our Friendship with Dogs? How Old is Our Friendship with Dogs? There is no debating that wolves were the first animals ever to be domesticated by humans. Even before animal husbandry became a thing, man and wolves (which then turned into dogs) were hunting together in a sort of synergy that benefited both species. But how old is this interspecies collaboration, really? Common theories place the beginning of this relationship somewhere around 15,000 to 18,000 years ago and it happened separately in both China and the Middle East. This is without a doubt far older than any other domesticated animal in the world. Dogs were well established as part of human society around 10,000 years ago, and in Germany for instance, humans and dogs were sometimes buried together as long as 14,000 years ago. But the discovery of a canine skull in the Altai Mountains in Siberia pushes this timeline by at least another 15,000 years. Radiocarbon dating has placed the skull somewhere around 33,000 years old, and its genetic markers indicate that it more closely resembled modern-day dogs than actual wolves. The similarity between modern dogs and this particular skull was also evident thanks to its shape and size. Another old canine fossil dates back to around 31,000 years ago and was discovered in Goyet Cave in Belgium. And even though its mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) indicates that it does not share its matriline with any extant wolves or dogs, its skull morphology is more similar to a dog than an actual wolf. 5. The Oldest Writing in the World Three inscribed tablets that were found in what is now present day Romania may contain the oldest writing system in the world. Each of them is about two and a half inches wide, each has markings on it, and all of them are dated back to around 5300 BC. They were found in 1961 in a ritual pit, alongside other clay and stone offerings and the bones of an elderly woman, probably a sort of priestess. The Tartaria Tablets, as they are known, are thought to have belonged to the Turdas-Vinca culture that inhabited the area during that period. But despite the importance of the discovery and what they stand to represent if proven to be the real deal, the tablets are still shrouded in some controversy. For instance, Mesopotamian experts disregard the Tartaria Tablets by saying that the symbols on them are not actually writing, but only decorations. Other experts believe that these tablets actually contain an early form of Sumerian script since some of the symbols found here are identical to pictograms found in Jemdet Nasr in Iraq. A German linguist and Mesopotamian script specialist by the name of Harald Haarmann strongly believes that the symbols on the tablets are an early form of writing. He bases his assumptions on the many other symbols that are part of the so-called Danube script found throughout the region on various other ceramic objects and which number roughly the same as the Egyptian hieroglyphs. A more recent discovery from 2009 has brought to light a Neolithic workshop that was once manufacturing clay tablets. Another 120 similar tablets were found at the site, some containing symbols similar to the ones at Tartaria. If these symbols are ever proven to be authentic and part of an actual ancient script, then the cradle of civilization could be moved from the Middle East to Eastern Europe. 4. The City of the Sun in North America The City of the Sun in North America Native Americans usually lived in tepees, right? Well, yes… at least, some of them did. But in fact, many Native North Americans lived in large cities before the arrival of the Europeans to the continent. One notable example is Cahokia, or the City of the Sun. It is located in in the state of Illinois, close where the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers merge. This area is one of the most fertile on the continent and here one Native American culture, the Mississippians, made it their home. But they didn’t just live in tepees, but rather in grand cities of some 20,000 people strong. Cahokia was at its peak between 1050 and 1200 AD, and during this time, it was bigger than any other European counterpart. And here is where this tepee misconception comes into play. It was so ingrained into white people’s imaginations that when they came across some earthen mounds in the region, they initially attributed them to retreating glaciers. When they did eventually realize that these were actually man-made, they attributed their construction to Phoenicians, Vikings, and even a lost tribe of Israel. Pretty much anyone other than the Native Americans themselves. And Cahokia is big. It spans over an area of about six square miles and had a total of 120 earth mounds. The city was carefully planned and organized, with plazas, residential areas, and elite compounds. The largest of the earth mounds found here is about 100 feet tall and contains more than 25 million cubic feet of earth, carried here in willow baskets 50 pounds at a time. Known as the Monks Mound, this is the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere. Fairly little is known about the civilization that built it, however. We do know that their trade network was vast, reaching from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians and from the Great Lakes to Florida. They practiced human sacrifice and relied heavily on corn for nourishment. Today, however, only 70 of the original 120 earth mounds have survived and there is a four lane highway running right through the historic site. Cambodia's Medieval Cities 3. Cambodia’s Medieval Cities The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful in Southeast Asia, and probably in the world at the time. It existed in between 802 AD to 1431 AD and extended over what are now Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. They ruled over the region including where the temple complex of Angkor Wat is located. The temple complex itself is one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia and consists of many architectural marvels besides the obvious temples found there. Back in 2012, a team of archaeologists made use of state of the art laser technology called LiDAR. This technology has the ability to see through dense vegetation and map the topography under the jungle canopy. What they discovered was amazing, to say the least. They used LiDAR again in 2015, in a project that became the most extensive airborne survey used for archaeological purposes ever. Some 734 square miles of terrain was scanned and it revealed an unimaginable network of roads, water ways, and densely populated cities, unrivaled anywhere in the world at the time. Lead archaeologist on the project Damian Evans had this to say about the discovery: “We have entire cities discovered beneath the forest that no one knew were there – at Preah Khan of Kompong Svay and, it turns out, we uncovered only a part of Mahendraparvata on Phnom Kulen [in the 2012 survey] … this time we got the whole deal and it’s big, the size of Phnom Penh big.” Phnom Penh is the current capital city of Cambodia. This survey has shown that the Khmer Empire was able to design and implement an elaborate water system on a grand scale, centuries before archaeologists believed the technology even existed. This new discovery also disproves the theory on how the Khmer Empire eventually collapsed. Up until 2015, it was believed that they were invaded from the north and people fled south. But the lack of any cities in that direction disproves this theory. In any case, Angkor is now, without a shadow of a doubt, the most extensive urban settlement in the world prior to the Industrial Revolution. This is, of course, if LiDAR technology doesn’t discover any others. 2. The Gold Crucifix of Denmark The Gold Crucifix of Denmark One beautiful afternoon in 2016, an amateur metal detector in Denmark came across a gold crucifix in a field near the town of Aunslev, Østfyn. After he posted his discovery on social media, some people advised him to take it to a local museum, which he did. Here, the curator dated the Birka crucifix to somewhere in the first half of the 10th century AD. It is made out of finely articulated goldthreads and small filigree pellets, and has a loop through which a chain once went. What is really interesting about this find is that it’s dated between 900 and 950 AD, leading historians to believe that the Danes were converted to Christianity earlier than previously believed. Prior to this discovery, the earliest representation of Jesus on a cross in Denmark came in the form of the Jelling Stones – two large rune stones dated to 965 AD, and which are located in Jutland. These stones commemorate Harald Blåtand, or Harald Bluetooth, for his role in converting the Danes to Christianity. What this tiny cross does is push back the period when these Vikings became Christians by several decades, at a minimum. The Appearance of Agriculture 1. The Appearance of Agriculture It’s a common belief that agriculture started off in what are now Armenia, eastern Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Iran around 11,000 years ago. Then it spread to the rest of the Old World. And while this is still true, new archaeological evidence shows that agriculture actually developed in two distinct parts of this particular region, known as the Fertile Crescent, and each then spread to different parts of the world independently. Genetic evidence has proven that there are stark differences between people living in the southern Levant, like Israel and Jordan, and those from across the Zagros Mountains in western Iran. Each of these groups of people developed their own style of agriculture and animal husbandry, favoring different plants and animals for domestication. They lived in complete isolation from each other for centuries or even millennia before they actually met. And it is believed that they only came in contact in eastern Turkey when both groups were in search of obsidian needed for all sorts of tools. It’s also believed that these people met, intermingled, exchanged agricultural techniques and ideas, and then migrated westward into Europe. Those who remained behind, however, went their own separate ways, spreading their distinct forms of agriculture to other parts of the world. Those living in the southern Levant eventually travelled to East Africa, going through present-day Egypt and down the Nile and the Red Sea coast, while those living in western Iran made their way north into the Eurasian steppe and then eastward into present day India and Pakistan. While this discovery doesn’t seem like much given that both of these populations emerged from the Fertile Crescent region, it does change our perspective of how history and the start of civilization actually played out.
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