MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2025 RD 120 FRI JUL 25, 2025

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2025 - RESULTS AS OF FRI JUL-25, 2025 - DAY-120

MOHAWK PICKS
01-6-3-5-7 4TH WBP (12-1)
02-4-8-7-3
03-2-5-7-4 W-4.40, 4TH WBP (9-1) - 4.40
04-8-5-7-3 P-4.10, 4TH WBP (3-1) - 8.50
05-5-3-6-7 P-7.00 - 15.50
06-8-1-2-3
07-2-4-7-1 W-3.10 - 18.60
08-5-2-9-3 W-3.80, DD-4.80 - 27.20
09-5-4-8-3
10-4-1-6-2 4TH (6-1)
11-4-10-6-2-0
MOHAWKS TONIGHTS TOTAL $27.20 OVERALL TOTAL $38,498.20

STANS PICKS
01-3-4-8-1-2
02-4-5-8-7-2 P-22.20, MTRI-163.10 - 185.30
03-2-7-1-5-3 W-4.40, S-4.40 - 194.10
04-1-7-5-8-2
05-7-5-3-1-4 4TH WBP (47-1)
06-1-6-8-3-2 4TH WBP (16-1)
07-2-1-4-5-7 W-3.10, S-2.60 -  199.80
08-5-2-6-7-9 W-3.80, 4TH WBP (39-1), DD-4.80 - 208.40
09-7-8-3-2-1 P-13.00, 4TH WBP (10-1) - 221.40
10-6-2-5-4-1
11-4-6-10-1-7 MEX-9.60 - 231.00
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $146,516.05
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $231.00 OVERALL TOTAL $29,746.00

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-4 (7.5 )-6 (9.2)-7 (12-1)-5 (8-1)
02-8 (4.5)-5 (50-1)-4 (6.5)-6 (7-1)
03-2 (6.5)-4 (9-1)-1 (25-1)-7 (6-1)
04-6 (35-1)-5 (5.2)-3 (3-1)-2 (34-1)
05-6 (9.2)-3 (7-1)-1 (47-1)-4 (43-1)
06-3 (16-1)-5 (8-1)-4 (48-1)-2 (12-1) 
07-2 (1.2)-6 (30-1)-4 (7.2)-3 (12-1) (5-4P8 FOR INT)
08-5 (4.5)-8 (5.2)-7 (39-1)-4 (22-1)
09-2 (10-1)-8 (12-1 )-7 (15-1)-4 (7-1)
10-3 (14-1)-7 (22-1)-8 (75-1)-2 (6-1)
11-6 (9.5)-4 (1-1)-5 (69-1)-7 (18-1)-9 (39-1) (8-SCR)

MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2025
01-456-BIG-$22.00 (FEB 21-6TH) (10-1), $17.50 (JUL 08-9TH) (7-1), $14.40 (JUL 22-7TH) (6-1)
02-261-BIG-$20.90 (APR 11-1ST) (14-1), $11.20 (FEB 24-10TH (17-1), $09.50 (APR 12-4TH) (12-1)
03-173-BIG-$12.70 (JAN 24-1ST) (20-1), $08.60 (MAY 02-12TH) (15-1), $07.00 (JUN 23-4TH) (7-1)
04-168-BIG-55-1 (FEB 22-10TH), 42-1 (JUN 05-10TH), 41-1 (FEB 14-10TH), 39-1 (JUN 30-9TH)
04-426-W B P-BIG-57-1 (MAY 26-5TH), 49-1 (JUL 22-9TH), 43-1 (JUN 07-2ND), 41-1 (JUL 15-9TH)
S EX-146-BIG-$61.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
M EX-069-BIG-$116.60 (MAY 17-7TH)
S TRI-043-BIG-$87.35 (MAY 10-10TH)
M TRI-103-BIG-$166.95 (JUN 05-1ST)
S SUP-013-BIG-$246.65 (MAY 10-10TH)
M SUP-096-BIG-$2,393.10 (APR 10-8TH)
DD-1,2-15-BIG-$45.50 (FEB 14-2ND)
DD-2,3-25-BIG-$29.10 (FEB 01-3RD)
DD-3,4-17-BIG-$61.10 (JAN 20-4TH)
DD-4,5-09-BIG-$10.20 (APR 21-5TH)
DD-5,6-18-BIG-$29.40 (FEB 07-6TH)
DD-6,7-16-BIG-$75.10 (FEB 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-21-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-13-BIG-$28.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
DD-9,10-12-BIG-$60.10 (MAR 10-10TH)
DD-10,11-06-BIG-$25.60 (MAY 10-11TH)
DD-11,12-01-BIG-$08.10 (JUN 14-12TH)
DD-12,13-01-BIG-$03.80 (JUN 14-13TH)
P3 (1-3)-07-BIG-$23.50 (FEB 01-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-08-BIG-$32.00 (FEB 01-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-04-BIG-$09.45 (JUL 11-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-05-BIG-$12.15 (JUL 03-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-09-BIG-$41.90 (FEB 07-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-06-BIG-$68.50 (FEB 07-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-09-BIG-$33.30 (JUL 22-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-04-BIG-$30.10 (MAY 10-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-01-BIG-$03.45 (JUN 14-12TH)
P3 (11-13)-01-BIG-$06.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P4 (3-6)-02-BIG-$20.20 (JUL 03-6TH)
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-01-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P4 (9-12)-00-BIG-$
P4 (10-13)-01-BIG-$05.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P5 (9-13)-01-BIG-$11.50 (JUN 14-13TH)
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-06-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-02-BIG-$737.60 (JUL 15-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(01)-445
5-1+ LONG TOT-(19)-1,687-26.4% 
PICK 4 PLACINGS-22-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-3,111-4,944-62.9%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-1,236
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-02,03-03,04-02,05-02,06-02,07-02,08-01,09-02,10-01,11-02,12-00,13-00=22-44-OATOT 3,111-4,944-62.9%


(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2025
01-325-BIG-$45.30 (APR 17-9TH) (21-1), $40.00 (APR 10-4TH) (19-1), $39.70 (FEB 03-1ST) (18-1)  
02-209-BIG-$31.40 (JUN 14-6TH) (42-1), $28.70 (JUN 14-2ND) (49-1), $27.90 (MAR 06-8TH) (44-1)
03-157-BIG-$14.90 (MAR 17-7TH) (22-1), $13.60 (APR 03-10TH) (34-1), $13.00 (MAY 31-6TH) (44-1)
04-161-BIG-118-1 (MAY 17-8TH), 105-1 (MAY 08-4TH), 63-1 (MAY 17-3RD), 56-1 (MAY 03-5TH)
04-474-W B P-BIG-93-1 (JAN 25-3RD), 84-1 (MAY 17-6TH), 73-1 (APR 05-6TH), 54-1 (APR 17-8TH)
S EX-074-BIG-$307.5 (JUL 14-11TH)
M EX-063-BIG-$94.90 (APR 19-6TH)
S TRI-017-BIG-$427.40 (FEB 14-2ND)
M TRI-067-BIG-$498.30 (MAR 22-8TH)
S SUP-004-BIG-$207.55 (MAY 03-5TH)
M SUP-062-BIG-$1,797.25 (JUN 30-4TH)
DD-1,2-11-BIG-$29.70 (MAR 21-2ND)
DD-2,3-12-BIG-$24.00 (FEB 24-3RD)
DD-3,4-08-BIG-$40.00 (JAN 09-4TH)
DD-4,5-05-BIG-$187.90 (JUN 12-5TH)
DD-5,6-05-BIG-$83.70 (JUN 12-6TH)
DD-6,7-09-BIG-$67.50 (MAR 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-09-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-07-BIG-$78.10 (APR 17-9TH)
DD-9,10-07-BIG-$79.30 (APR 12-10TH)
DD-10,11-05-BIG-$88.60 (MAY 26-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$
P3 (1-3)-02-BIG-$13.30 (APR 17-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-02-BIG-$12.75 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-02-BIG-$14.60 (JAN 03-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$344.90 (JUN 12-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-00-BIG-$
P3 (6-8)-01-BIG-$30.75 (JUL 22-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-02-BIG-$28.95 (JUL 11-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-01-BIG-$03.65 (JUN 14-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$
P4 (3-6)-00-BIG-$
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-00-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-04-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$323.15 (APR 14-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$100.05 (APR 21-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(05)-573
5-1+ LONG TOT-(19)-1,687-34.029,746.00
%
PICK 4 PLACINGS-21-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-2,890-4,944-58.5%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-1,236
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-01,02-03,03-03,04-01,05-02,06-01,07-02,08-02,09-03,10-01,11-02,12-00,13-00=21-44-OATOT 2,890-4,944-58.5% 

MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2025 RD 119 THU JUL 24, 2025

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2025 - RESULTS AS OF THU JUL-24, 2025 - DAY-119

RACES 7 - 10 WERE CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER.

MOHAWK PICKS
01-3-5-8-9 4TH WBP (4-1)
02-7-5-6-3 W-4.90 - 4.90
03-4-3-6-5
04-4-9-5-0
05-3-4-10-8
06-5-4-6-7
07-9-6-8-3
08-6-4-5-0
09-6-8-2-7
10-4-8-7-5-10
MOHAWKS TONIGHTS TOTAL $4.90 OVERALL TOTAL $38,471.00

STANS PICKS
01-3-9-8-1-4 MEX-52.20 - 52.20
02-2-5-3-7-6 4TH WBP (7.5)
03-6-3-5-1-4 W-7.00, 4TH WBP (12-1) - 59.20
04-4-5-9-8-6 MEX-14.30 - 73.50
05-9-4-3-7-10 MEX-166.60 - 240.10
06-1-5-4-6-7 W-19.20, 4TH WBP (6.5) - 259.30 
07-9-8-3-10-6
08-6-2-7-8-5
09-6-8-2-4-5
10-4-6-9-10-7
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $146,516.05
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $259.30 OVERALL TOTAL $29,515.60

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-9 (4-1)-3 (8.5)-6 (9-1)-5 (3-1)
02-7 (7.5)-6 (5-1)-2 (8-1)-1 (7-1) (3-REF-SCR BE)
03-6 (5.2)-4 (9.5)-1 (12-1)-7 (19-1)
04-5 (3.2)-4 (9.5)-6 (9-1)-1 (75-1) (7-SCR)
05-4 (15-1)-9 (8-1)-5 (1-1)-6 (9-1)
06-1 (8-1)-6 (6.5)-3 (10-1)-4 (7-1) RACES 7 - 10 WERE CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER.
07-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )
08-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( ) (1-SCR)
09-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )
10-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( )-0 ( ) (2-SCR)

MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2025
01-453-BIG-$22.00 (FEB 21-6TH) (10-1), $17.50 (JUL 08-9TH) (7-1), $14.40 (JUL 22-7TH) (6-1)
02-259-BIG-$20.90 (APR 11-1ST) (14-1), $11.20 (FEB 24-10TH (17-1), $09.50 (APR 12-4TH) (12-1)
03-173-BIG-$12.70 (JAN 24-1ST) (20-1), $08.60 (MAY 02-12TH) (15-1), $07.00 (JUN 23-4TH) (7-1)
04-168-BIG-55-1 (FEB 22-10TH), 42-1 (JUN 05-10TH), 41-1 (FEB 14-10TH), 39-1 (JUN 30-9TH)
04-423-W B P-BIG-57-1 (MAY 26-5TH), 49-1 (JUL 22-9TH), 43-1 (JUN 07-2ND), 41-1 (JUL 15-9TH)
S EX-146-BIG-$61.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
M EX-069-BIG-$116.60 (MAY 17-7TH)
S TRI-043-BIG-$87.35 (MAY 10-10TH)
M TRI-103-BIG-$166.95 (JUN 05-1ST)
S SUP-013-BIG-$246.65 (MAY 10-10TH)
M SUP-096-BIG-$2,393.10 (APR 10-8TH)
DD-1,2-15-BIG-$45.50 (FEB 14-2ND)
DD-2,3-25-BIG-$29.10 (FEB 01-3RD)
DD-3,4-17-BIG-$61.10 (JAN 20-4TH)
DD-4,5-09-BIG-$10.20 (APR 21-5TH)
DD-5,6-18-BIG-$29.40 (FEB 07-6TH)
DD-6,7-16-BIG-$75.10 (FEB 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-20-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-13-BIG-$28.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
DD-9,10-12-BIG-$60.10 (MAR 10-10TH)
DD-10,11-06-BIG-$25.60 (MAY 10-11TH)
DD-11,12-01-BIG-$08.10 (JUN 14-12TH)
DD-12,13-01-BIG-$03.80 (JUN 14-13TH)
P3 (1-3)-07-BIG-$23.50 (FEB 01-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-08-BIG-$32.00 (FEB 01-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-04-BIG-$09.45 (JUL 11-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-05-BIG-$12.15 (JUL 03-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-09-BIG-$41.90 (FEB 07-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-06-BIG-$68.50 (FEB 07-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-09-BIG-$33.30 (JUL 22-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-04-BIG-$30.10 (MAY 10-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-01-BIG-$03.45 (JUN 14-12TH)
P3 (11-13)-01-BIG-$06.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P4 (3-6)-02-BIG-$20.20 (JUL 03-6TH)
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-01-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P4 (9-12)-00-BIG-$
P4 (10-13)-01-BIG-$05.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P5 (9-13)-01-BIG-$11.50 (JUN 14-13TH)
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-06-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-02-BIG-$737.60 (JUL 15-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(02)-444
5-1+ LONG TOT-(09)-1,668-26.6% 
PICK 4 PLACINGS-12-24
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-3,089-4,900-63.0%
TOTAL RACES-(06)-1,225
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-02,03-02,04-02,05-01,06-02,07-00,08-00,09-00,10-00,11-00,12-00,13-00=12-24-OATOT 3,089-4,900-63.0%


(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2025
01-322-BIG-$45.30 (APR 17-9TH) (21-1), $40.00 (APR 10-4TH) (19-1), $39.70 (FEB 03-1ST) (18-1)  
02-207-BIG-$31.40 (JUN 14-6TH) (42-1), $28.70 (JUN 14-2ND) (49-1), $27.90 (MAR 06-8TH) (44-1)
03-155-BIG-$14.90 (MAR 17-7TH) (22-1), $13.60 (APR 03-10TH) (34-1), $13.00 (MAY 31-6TH) (44-1)
04-161-BIG-118-1 (MAY 17-8TH), 105-1 (MAY 08-4TH), 63-1 (MAY 17-3RD), 56-1 (MAY 03-5TH)
04-470-W B P-BIG-93-1 (JAN 25-3RD), 84-1 (MAY 17-6TH), 73-1 (APR 05-6TH), 54-1 (APR 17-8TH)
S EX-074-BIG-$307.5 (JUL 14-11TH)
M EX-062-BIG-$94.90 (APR 19-6TH)
S TRI-017-BIG-$427.40 (FEB 14-2ND)
M TRI-066-BIG-$498.30 (MAR 22-8TH)
S SUP-004-BIG-$207.55 (MAY 03-5TH)
M SUP-062-BIG-$1,797.25 (JUN 30-4TH)
DD-1,2-11-BIG-$29.70 (MAR 21-2ND)
DD-2,3-12-BIG-$24.00 (FEB 24-3RD)
DD-3,4-08-BIG-$40.00 (JAN 09-4TH)
DD-4,5-05-BIG-$187.90 (JUN 12-5TH)
DD-5,6-05-BIG-$83.70 (JUN 12-6TH)
DD-6,7-09-BIG-$67.50 (MAR 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-08-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-07-BIG-$78.10 (APR 17-9TH)
DD-9,10-07-BIG-$79.30 (APR 12-10TH)
DD-10,11-05-BIG-$88.60 (MAY 26-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$
P3 (1-3)-02-BIG-$13.30 (APR 17-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-02-BIG-$12.75 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-02-BIG-$14.60 (JAN 03-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$344.90 (JUN 12-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-00-BIG-$
P3 (6-8)-01-BIG-$30.75 (JUL 22-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-02-BIG-$28.95 (JUL 11-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-01-BIG-$03.65 (JUN 14-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$
P4 (3-6)-00-BIG-$
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-00-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-04-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$323.15 (APR 14-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$100.05 (APR 21-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(04)-568
5-1+ LONG TOT-(09)-1,668-34.1%
PICK 4 PLACINGS-13-24
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-2,869-4,900-58.6%
TOTAL RACES-(06)-1,225
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-02,02-02,03-02,04-02,05-02,06-03,07-00,08-00,09-00,10-00,11-00,12-00,13-00=13-24-OATOT 2,869-4,900-58.6%

THE SO CALLED MISSING INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS, THE INDIANS WANT BIG BUCKS FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA FOR.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

THE SO CALLED MISSING INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS, THE INDIANS WANT BIG BUCKS FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA FOR.

DEUTORONOMY 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,(OCCULT SACRIFICES) or that useth divination,(NEW AGER AND CRYSTALS ETC) divination n. The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.) or an observer of times,(Meaning of observer. ... for sketching it. horoscope - Comes from Greek hora, hour, time, and skopos, observer.) or an enchanter,(The word enchant is derived from the Latin word incantare which refers to uttering an incantation or casting a spell). or a witch,(WITCH. Definition: [noun] a female sorcerer (SORCERY IN THE BIBLE IS DRUGS OR OCCULT ACTIVITY) or magician.)
11 Or a charmer,(charmer means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object.) or a consulter with familiar spirits,(function as mediums or psychics) or a wizard,(MALE WITCH)-influence; a magical spell WITH WANDS) or a necromancer.(one seeking unto the dead.)
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues (NUKES) yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS OR SELLING DRUGS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE)(PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

YOU ALWAYS HERE THE PIECE PIPE SMOKIN, DRUG ADDICTED, ALCOHOLIC, PROSTITUTES, TREE AND ANIMAL WORSHIPPING INDIANS ON THESE CANADIAN RESERVES COMPLAINING HOW MANY INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE MURDERED AND MISSING. WELL LETS GET TO REALITY HERE. HOW MANY OF THESE SO CALL MURDERED AND MISSING INDIANS WERE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTED PROSTITUTES. THEN THEY WENT MISSING OR GOT MURDERED BY THEIR JOHNS. JUST LIKE THE BIBLE VERSES ABOVE. WHAT THESE PEOPLE ADDICTED TO DRUGS WILL DO. MURDER PEOPLE, STEAL, PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES. AND INDIANS WORSHIP IDOLS OF TREES, WATER AND THE ENVIROMENT. GOD WARNED THESE IDOL WORSHIPPERS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY WORSHIP IDOLS. THEY WOULD NOT REPENT OF THEIR DEMON WORSHIP. MURDER, PROSTITUTION OR STEALING. SO I WOULD JUST LOVE TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THESE SO CALLED MISSING AND MURDERED INDIAN WOMEN  AND GIRLS. AND NOTICE GOD IS DESTROYING ONE GOD ON INDIAN RESERVES ALREADY IN CANADA. THE IDOL WORSHIP OF TREES. HOW MANY TREES ARE BEING BURNT TO THE GROUND BY WILDFIRES. AND IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE MOSTLY ON INDIAN RESERVES. THEN GOD VOMITS THE INDIANS FROM THE LAND FOR THIS ENVIROMENTAL WORSHIP. AND I COULD CARE HOW THE LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS OR INDIANS COME AGAINST ME FOR REAVEALING THIS TRUTH. GOD WARNED US WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THESE IDOL WORSHIPPERS INSTEAD OF HIM. SO LETS GET A DOSE OF REALITY HERE.I GO BY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. WHICH IS THE ONLY TRUTH. NOT BY USELESS WORDS AND THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS WHEN IT COMES TO SIN. THERES MORE THEN JUST ONE SIDE (INDIANS) OF THIS FACT OF WHY THESE WOMEN AND GIRLS INDIANS GO MISSING. AND FORGET THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT NONESENSE THEIR INDIGENOUS. THEY WERE INDIANS 1,000 YRS AGO. 10 YEARS AGO. AND THEIR STILL INDIANS TODAY.

I GOT A BRIEF STORY OF MY INCOUNTER OF TRYING TO HELP A DOPE OR ALCOHOL OR BOTH ADDICTION INDIAN WOMEN. WHEN I LIVED IN KITCHENER IN 1988.I LIVED THERE FROM 1980-1994. IN A SMALL APARTMENT ACROSS FROM MARKET SQUARE. THIS ADDICTED INDIAN WOMEN WOULD SLEEP IN OUR HALLWAY. I SEEN HER A TIME OR TWO. SO I DECIDED WHEN I SEEN HER IN MY HALLWAY. I WOULD INVITE HER IN TO SLEEP ON MY COUCH INSTEAD OF THE HALLWAY. SO I TOLD HER TO COME ON IN. FILTHY AND DIRTY I SAID WOULD YOU LIKE A COFFEE. SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO USE MY WASHROOM. I SAID OK. A HALF HOUR LATER SHE CAME OUT. AND I ASKED HER IF SHE WAS OK. SHE SAID YES. AND I WENT TO MY COT. AND I TOLD HER SHE CAN SLEEP ON MY COUCH. THEN WHEN SHE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING. SHE SAID SHES LEAVING NOW. I SAID BYE. AND I NEVER EVER SEEN HER AGAIN AFTER THAT. BUT WHEN I WENT TO MY WASHROOM TO HAVE A RELIEF. I NOTICED MY LYSOL SPRAY CAN WAS IN THE GARBAGE. I SAID TO MYSELF. WHY WOULD THAT BE IN THE GARBAGE. I NEVER PUT IT THERE. SO I PICKED THE CAN UP WHICH WAS A FULL CAN OF LYSOL I JUST BOUGHT IT TO CLEAN WITH. AND I NOTICED THE BOTTOM WAS CUT OUT OF THE CAN. AND THERE WAS NO LYSOL IN THE CAN AT ALL. THEN IT FINALLY CAME TO ME. THAT INDIAN WOMEN SOME HOW GOT MY LYSOL CAN OPENED. AND DRANK ALL MY LYSOL. I SAID WHAT THE HECK WAS SHE ADDICTED TO. IT HAD TO BE ALCOHOL FOR SURE. BECAUSE OF THE ALCOHOL IN THE LYSOL CAN. SO I KNEW WHY AND WHAT SHE WAS DOING IN MY WASHROOM FOR A HALF HOUR THE NIGHT BEFORE.SO DON:T TELL ME THESE MISSING INDIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS WERE KILLED BY JOHNS. HOW MANY WERE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTED. AND DIED SOMEWHERE FROM THAT ADDICTION. AND SOMEBODY JUST BURIED THEM SOME WHERE.IS MY QUESTION. AND I DO NOT NEED AN INQUIRY TO WASTE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO GET THAT QUESTION ANSWERED FOR ME. AFTER THAT EXPIERENCE I HAD FOR BEING NICE TO AN ALCOHOL ADDICTED INDIAN WOMAN. BY DRINKING MY CAN OOF LYSOL FOR THE ALCOHOL IN IT. 

AND ALSO IN ON JAN 01,1991.A BLOCK FROM MY FINAL PLACE I LIVED WITH MY EX WENDY, A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE WE SPLIT UP. THERE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL SLAUGHTER OF A GAY MAN AND HIS WIFE. THERE NAMES WERE JOSEF AND PERSA GLIGOR. THEY WERE HACKED TO DEATH WITH AN AXE AND HATCHET. THEN WHEN IN 2004 I MOVED TO HANOVER ONTARIO. I DECIDED TO PHONE KITCHENER POLICE TO SEE IF THE GLIGOR MURDERS WERE EVER SOLVED. THEY TOLD ME NO. BUT THEN CAME BACK WITH. WE WOULD LIKE TO INTERVIEW YOU. WE WILL COME DOWN FROM KITCHENER TO HANOVER TOMORROW TO TALK WITH YOU. I SAID OK WITH ME. THEN THE NEXT DAY AROUND 11AM. THEY MUST OF TOLD ME WHAT TIME THEY WOULD BE THERE. BECAUSE I REMEMBER LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW. AND SEEN THE POLICE CAR THERE. SO I WENT OUTSIDE AND GOT IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CRUISER. THEY ASKED ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MURDERS. AND I ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS. THEN AFTER ABOUT A HALF HOUR OF QUESTIONS. THE POLICE MEN 2 THAT WERE ASKING ME QUESTIONS. SAID IF YOUR NOT INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. YOU WILL GIVE US A SWAB OF YOUR DNA. I TOLD THEM. NO PROBLEM AT ALL. ALL I WANTED TO KNOW IS IF THE CASE WAS EVER SOLVED. THEY GOT A SWAB OUT. SWABED MY MOUTH. PUT IT BACK IN THE LITTLE PLASTIC THING SO IT WOULD NOT GET CONTAMINATED. AND THEY SAID THANK YOU FOR THE INTERVIEW. WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU IF YOU WERE INVOLVED. I GOT OUTTA THE POLICE CAR. THEY LEFT AND I WENT BACK UP TO MY ROOM. THAT WAS 2004. AND I NEVER HEARD FROM THEM AGAIN. BUT IN 2011 OR 12. I GOT CURIOUS ABOUT IF IT WAS EVER SOLVED. BY THEN I HAD AN OLD COMPUTER WITH THE INTERNET. SO I COULD CHECK IF IT WAS EVER SOLVED. AS IT TURNED OUT IN 1993.TWO YEARS AFTER THE SLAUGHTER. THERE WAS A APARTMENT FIRE RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME AS ME AND MY EX SPLIT 2 YEARS EARLIER BUT I STILL LIVED IN AN APARTMENT BESIDE THE HOUSE WE LIVED TOGETHER IN. SO I WAS STILL THERE. SHE MOVED TO COURTLAND AVE 2 YEARS BEFORE. SO I WAS WATCHING THE FIRE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MY APARTMENT. AS THE FIREMEN PUT IT OUT. AS IT TURNED OUT THE PERSON WHO MURDERED THE GLIGORS LIVED THERE AND DIED IN THE FIRE. BUT THE POLICE NEVER GOT THE DNA OF THE KILLER FROM THE SCENE TILL 2007. WHEN IT WAS FINALLY SOLVED.3 YEARS AFTER I PHONED THE KITCHENER POLICE.SO LITTLE DID I KNOW WHILE WATCHING THAT FIRE ACROSS FROM MY APARTMENT. THE MURDEROUS SLAUGHTERER FOR 2 YEARS WAS LIVING RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD FROM ME. BUT WAS BURNT TO DEATH IN THAT FIRE. THATS NOT THE ONLY FIRE HES BURNING IN NOW WITH HIS NEVER DYING BODY. FOREVER THIS MURDERER WILL BE LIVING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER NEVER ENDING. WHEN I LIVED IN THAT APARTMENT I HAD THE INDIAN EXPIERNCE WITH. I WOULD GO ACROSS THE STREET TO THE MARKET SQUARE. AND GET A COFFE ON THE SECOND FLOOR. WERE THE COFFEE STORE WAS. AND THERE WAS TABLES YOU COULD SIT AT WHILE DRINKING YOUR COFFEE. WELL MANY A TIME JOSEF GLIGOR WOULD COME UP TO ME. AND ASK ME IF I WOULD LIKE TO COME TO HIS HOME TO HAVE SEX. I ALWAYS SAID NO IAM NOT A HOMOSEXUAL. I HAVE A GIRL FRIEND. AND I'M NOT INTERESTED. SO HE WOULD CARRY ON WITH THAT REALLY CURLY HAIR OF HIS. RED VERY CURLY HAIR. SO I SUSPECTED RIGHT OFF WHEN IN 1991 WHEN HE AND HIS WIFE WERE SLAUGHTERED. THAT HE PROBABLY WAS AT MARKET SQUARE ASKING GUYS TO COME HOME WITH HIM. WHEN JAMES HAROLD MIDDELJANS 33 WAS PROBABLY HAVING A COFFEE AT MARKET SQUARE. WHEN JOSEF CAME UP TO HIM AND ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD GO TO HIS HOUSE. HE ACCEPTED. HE PROBABLY SAID TO HIMSELF. WHAT A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO ROB THIS GUY. HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOME WITH HIM. JOSEF AND HIM WENT DOWN STAIRS. JOSEF THINKING HE WAS GOING TO HAVE SEX WITH HIM. BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED DOWN THERE. WERE MIDDELJANS DECIDED HE HAD TO KILL THIS GUY, HIS WIFE. THEN STEAL STUFF. BUT THIS IS JUST MY TAKE BY HOW JOSEF GLIGOR ALWAYS CAME UP TO ME. AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO GO TO HIS HOUSE BTO HAVE HOMOSEXUAL SEX.

Josef Gligor Gender Male Crime Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] murdered 
Persa and Josef Gligor of Kitchener were killed with an axe and hatchet at their Madison Avenue North home.Eby ID Number Waterloo-125490 Died     1 Jan 1991 - Kitchener Daily Record Newspaper, Kitchener, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
Cause: murdered Person ID  I125490  Family     Persa,   d. 1 Jan 1991 Sources-[S490] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - The Record (1994-March 2008), Investigator 'solves' murder. 

1991, January 2 (Wednesday) * Gligor Murders (Kitchener)

On p.A1 of The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario), 2007, April 21, there was an article by Melinda Dalton, Record Staff entitled “DNA and a tip crack brutal 1991 slaying of couple” reviewing how the Gligor murder case had finally been solved. Information from that article follows. The reporter noted that on 1991, January 2, Josef Gligor (61) and his wife Persa Gligor (60) had been found brutally murdered in their Madison Avenue home in Kitchener. “In 1991, police said Josef Gligor, an employee of J. M. Schneider Inc.,was known to seek out transient homosexual encounters in downtown Kitchener, and they believed his behaviour may have put him risk.” Insp. Bryan Larkin indicated in the 2007 interview with the reporter that in the early days, there had been much public and police speculation that Gligor's homosexual behaviour had been a factor in the murders. The article also indicated that “A psychological profile of the suspect released by police shortly after the killings suggested he was a psychopathic killer linked to the gay community. Police said Joseph Gligor likely knew his killer and invited him into the house. Yesterday, those claims were laid to rest as police revealed they no longer believed the Gligors knew their killer and that the likely motive was robbery.” The report said that a tip, along with DNA evidence, allowed the police to prove conclusively on 2007, April 20 that the murderer had been James Harold Middeljans (33), who had a lengthy criminal record, and who had perished in a fire two years after the murder. After 16 years, all the speculation about a link between the murders and the local gay community was finally put to rest.[source: The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario), 2007, April 21, p.A1.]

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada Article by Jennifer Brant-Published Online March 22, 2017-Last Edited July 8, 2020

The Missing and Murdered: Statistics and Demographics-There is a lot of disagreement about the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police    (RCMP) acknowledged in a 2014 report that there have been more than 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women between 1980 and 2012. Indigenous women’s groups, however, document the number of missing and murdered to be over 4,000. The confusion about the numbers has to do with the under-reporting of violence against Indigenous women and girls and the lack of an effective database, as well as the failure to identify such cases by ethnicity (See Indigenous Women’s Issues).The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has drawn attention to figures from Statistics Canada documenting high rates of violence against Indigenous women. For example, Indigenous women 15 years and older were 3.5 times more likely to experience violence than non-Indigenous women, according to the 2004 General Social Survey. Violence against Indigenous women and girls is not only more frequent but also more severe. Between 1997 and 2000, the homicide rate for Indigenous women was nearly seven times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous women.The demographics give a sense of the extent of the violence that Indigenous women and girls face across this country, but they fail to tell the stories of the deep trauma that this violence has on entire communities or the stories of children who have lost their mothers to senseless violence. The statistics cannot reflect the experiences of the families and communities who have lost a loved one. The missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls were mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, cousins and grandmothers. Many were students completing post-secondary education, such as Loretta Saunders, an Inuk woman murdered at age 26 in 2014, who was completing her honours thesis on this very issue at the time she went missing. Some were only children, such as 14-year-old Azraya Acakabee Kokopenace and 15-year-old Tina Fontaine — who were both in the child welfare system at the time — or 16-year-old Delaine Copenace. This ongoing tragedy affects all Indigenous women and girls from all walks of life and throughout many communities and cities across Canada. Although some perpetrators are known to the victim, many are strangers.Historical Context: Colonialism, Racism and the Sexualization of Women-Nick Printup, director and producer of the documentary Our Sisters in Spirit (2015), stated in a 2016 interview that “to begin to understand the severity of the tragedy facing Indigenous    women today you must first understand the history.” The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is as old as the development of Canada itself and must be understood within the historical context of settler colonialism that has led to the ongoing racialization and sexualization of Indigenous women. Historically, Indigenous women were sexualized and held against dangerous cultural attitudes and stereotypes that permeate many facets of Canadian society today.The late Mohawk poet Tekahionwake (E. Pauline Johnson) wrote about these stereotypes 125 years ago. In an essay entitled “A Strong Race Opinion: On The Indian Girl in Modern Fiction,” which was originally published in the Toronto Sunday Globe on 22 May 1892, Johnson spoke out about the images of the “Indian    squaw” that were presented in mainstream literature. Similarly, in her book, Iskwewak — Kah’Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Neither Indian Princesses nor Easy Squaws (1995), author Janice Acoose also drew attention to the racialized and sexualized legacy of settler colonialism that has led to an acceptance of violence. As Acoose noted, these colonial attitudes have justified many of the legally sanctioned policies that have targeted Indigenous women and families, such as the Indian Act and residential schools. Other examples include the pass system (a process by which Indian agents approved passes for First Nations people to leave the reserve for whatever reason) and forced sterilization (see Eugenics). These policies severely limited Indigenous women’s livelihood by severing community ties and preventing Indigenous women’s access to community resources and safety networks. Colonial attitudes also justified the mass removal of Indigenous children through policies of state apprehension, such as the Sixties Scoop, and this continues today in what is now referred to as the “Millennium Scoop.” Violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada today cannot be understood without first examining the effects of Canada’s deep history of settler colonialism on Indigenous families and communities.Amnesty International: A Call to Action-In October 2004, Amnesty International released a report called Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada, in response to the appalling number of Indigenous women who are victims of racialized and sexualized violence. This report was positioned as a call for action. Amnesty highlighted the stories of nine women, including Helen Betty Osborne (a Cree woman abducted and killed at the age of 19 by four white men in The Pas, Manitoba, in 1971) and her 16-year-old cousin Felicia Solomon, whose remains were found in the Red River in 2003. Amnesty shared some stories of the missing and murdered to bring clarity to the severity of the violence faced by Indigenous women. The report also noted a lack of comprehensive reporting and statistical analysis, and called for more police accountability, stating that Indigenous women are both overpoliced and under protected. Amnesty documented the social and economic marginalization of Indigenous women, noting that racism, poverty and marginalization, along with a lack of police protection, heighten Indigenous women’s vulnerability to violence.Tragically, since 2004, the numbers have continued to rise. Five years after the initial report, Amnesty International released No More Stolen Sisters: The Need for a Comprehensive Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada. This report highlighted the following five key issues as reasons for the continued national tragedy of violence against Indigenous women:
The role of racism and misogyny in perpetuating violence against Indigenous women
Sharp disparities in the fulfilment of Indigenous women’s economic, social, political and cultural rights
The continued disruption of Indigenous societies caused by the historic and ongoing mass removal of children from Indigenous families and communities
Disproportionately high numbers of Indigenous women in Canadian prisons, many of whom are themselves the victims of violence and abuse
Inadequate police response to violence against Indigenous women as illustrated by the handling of missing persons cases-
In 2014, Amnesty presented a report to the Special Parliamentary Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women entitled Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: A Summary of Amnesty International’s Concerns and Call to Action. This submission urged the federal government of Canada to take immediate action through a comprehensive approach to addressing violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada.Amnesty International has been instrumental in the push to launch a national public inquiry alongside Indigenous communities, women’s groups and grassroots movements.Native Women’s Association of Canada: Sisters in Spirit Initiative-The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) secured funds in 2005 from Status of Women Canada to research and provide awareness about violence against Indigenous women. With this funding, the Sisters in Spirit Initiative was launched. NWAC also developed a national database to track cases of violence against Indigenous women. Their work culminated in a final report entitled What Their Stories Tell Us: Research Findings from the Sisters in Spirit Initiative.The report includes a framework for addressing and preventing violence against Indigenous women along with the stories of missing Indigenous women and recommendations for policy development. NWAC’s prevention and safety policy includes tools for educating young Indigenous women and girls on safety issues and looks at risk factors that make Indigenous women vulnerable to violence, including poverty, homelessness and lack of affordable housing (See also Social Conditions of Indigenous Peoples and Economic Conditions of Indigenous Peoples).The need for police accountability and transparency, cultural sensitivity training and forming good relationships with Indigenous communities are other key areas highlighted in the report. NWAC also expressed a need for more research and awareness about various forms of violence, particularly violence perpetrated by strangers or acquaintances. The need for improvements in tracking and identifying cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women was another key area identified in the report. NWAC articulated that the violence experienced by Indigenous women is much higher than reported in government statistics and police-collected data. The report noted that about six out of ten incidents of violent crimes against Indigenous people go unreported and that demographic information is not always collected (See also Demography of Indigenous Peoples).The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women-The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC) was formed in 2014 following the murder of Inuk student Loretta Saunders. The coalition is a Canada-wide advocacy group that supports a national inquiry and seeks to bring justice to the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women. In February 2015, the LSC released a report in which it argued that over 700 recommendations made in 58 reports on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls have been largely ignored by police and government.RCMP Reports on Violence against Indigenous Women-In 2013, the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) called for a report on missing and murdered Indigenous women to help guide operational planning. In May 2014, the RCMP released Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview. This report documented a total of 1,181 people — 164 missing Indigenous women and 1,017 Indigenous female homicide victims between 1980 and 2012. An updated report was released in 2015, entitled Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: 2015 Update to the National Operational Overview. This update documented an additional 11 Indigenous women identified as missing since the 2014 overview was conducted.Prior to these reports, the RCMP’s investigations of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls had included a stretch of British Columbia’s Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears. While the RCMP acknowledges 18 murders and disappearances (mostly of Indigenous women and girls) in its list of Highway of Tears cases, dating from 1969 to 2006, Indigenous groups argue that this number is misleading because it reflects only the disappearances and murders that have happened in a specific geographic area, and that the real number in northern British Columbia exceeds 40.Critique of RCMP Reports-Groups including Amnesty International and the Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence against Indigenous Women (LSC) critiqued the RCMP report for having critical gaps in the data. Amnesty noted that the 2015 update only included cases within the RCMP’s own jurisdiction. Over 300 non-RCMP police agencies were included in the original 2014 report, but these were excluded from the update. According to Amnesty International, this means that missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Ontario and Québec, for example, were not included in the update. This is concerning given the mistrust and violence that has historically characterized Indigenous-police relationships. In the fall of 2015, eight officers from the Sûreté du Québec were suspended as a result of 14 allegations of abuse of power, sexual assault and other forms of assault against Indigenous women.The LSC criticized the 2015 report for highlighting intimate partner violence as a risk factor, which places blame on Indigenous men and communities while failing to point out that many of the perpetrators are acquaintances or strangers.Response from the Federal Government-Despite the ongoing push from Indigenous women and communities and human rights groups such as Amnesty International, the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, Human Rights Watch and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the federal government continued to dismiss the need to launch a national public inquiry. In fact, former prime minister    Stephen Harper, speaking at Yukon College in Whitehorse in August 2014, following the death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine — who was killed after she left her foster home — stated that violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada should not be viewed as “sociological phenomenon.” In other words, the Fontaine case was not part of a larger crisis resulting from a variety of racial, sexual and colonial abuses or socio-economic issues. Several months later, on 17 December 2014, during an interview with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, Stephen Harper stated that a national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women wasn’t “really high on [the government’s] radar.”Following the change in government in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the government of Canada launched a national public inquiry.National Public Inquiry-On 8 December 2015, the Government of Canada announced plans for the launch of an independent national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The government pledged $53.86 million over the course of two years for the inquiry, and held a “pre-inquiry” to seek input from stakeholders across Canada. The inquiry was officially launched in September 2016. From the outset, the commission of inquiry was scheduled to provide a final report by 1 November 2018, outlining its findings and recommendations for steps forward.Pre-Inquiry Findings-The first step of the investigation was a pre-inquiry process, which took place between December 2015 and February 2016. The goal was to receive input from groups including family members, Indigenous communities and front-line workers about the scope and structure of the inquiry. This process aligns with the inquiry’s commitment to focus on the well-being of Indigenous families and to ensure the process is culturally appropriate. A summary of the feedback from the pre-inquiry process was published in May 2016. It included four recommendations:
The inquiry’s leadership must be transparent, independent and representative of the Indigenous population. It was also recommended that Indigenous women should lead the inquiry. The investigation itself must be “sensitive to the needs of survivors, families and loved ones. Efforts must be made to avoid a long, drawn-out and legal process”
The inquiry must address various points of view and must hear from as many people and organizations as possible
A “broad approach to [the inquiry’s] analysis of the issues” is important. The inquiry must take into consideration — and recommend solutions to — all of the socio-economic, cultural and political causes of violence against Indigenous women, girls, trans and two-spirited people. (See also Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada)
The inquiry must provide various forms of support to families and their allies. This includes ceremonies, spiritual support, mental health counselling and community support
Based on these findings, the government appointed five commissioners to lead the inquiry: Marion Buller (chief commissioner, member of the Mistawasis First Nation and first Indigenous woman appointed to British Columbia’s provincial court bench); Michèle Audette (former president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada); Brian Eyolfson (human rights lawyer); Marilyn Poitras (constitutional law expert); and Qajaq Robinson (lawyer raised in Nunavut). The inquiry also includes other staff and will likely not hear formal testimony from the families until spring 2017. Marilyn Poitras resigned as a commissioner in July 2017, stating that she is "unable to perform [her] duties as a commissioner with the process designed in its current structure.”National Inquiry Findings-The National Inquiry officially began on 1 September 2016. It was expected to release an interim report by 1 November 2017 and a final report by 1 November 2018.Criticisms of the Inquiry-There have been some critiques of the commission from various Indigenous groups, who say it lacks transparency, communication and inclusivity. In December 2016, the Native Women’s Association of Canada    stated that the commission failed to keep families informed of its progress. In February 2017, the inquiry fired its communications director, Michael Hutchinson (of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), causing concern that the hearing of testimony might be further delayed. While Hutchinson’s interim replacement, Sue Montgomery (of the Montreal Gazette) has said that this would not delay the inquiry, the families of the missing and murdered continued to press the commissioners for more clarity and better communication.Some activists have also criticized the commission for failing to include missing and murdered Indigenous men, boys, trans and two-spirited people in the inquiry. In February 2017, Susan Vella, the commission’s lead counsel, said that while the inquiry is open to hearing testimony from Indigenous men and boys, its focus will remain on Indigenous women and girls. The commission also indicated that its inquiry will include groups such as two-spirited and trans people.Prevailing Attitudes toward Indigenous Women-During an opening address at an international conference on MMIWG, writer Maria Campbell stated that “patriarchy and misogyny are so ingrained in our society that they are normal, and our silence makes them normal.” Other Indigenous    women activists have referred to the lack of awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women as a “deafening silence.” The following examples demonstrate the ways stereotypes that may lead to violence against Indigenous women and girls are perpetuated and accepted within different venues throughout society. In the two cases below, Indigenous women spoke out to raise awareness about such violence.In 2012, Mi’kmaq lawyer, activist and professor Pamela Palmater spoke out against offensive names of menu items at the Holy Chuck Restaurant. The “Half-Breed” and “Dirty Drunken Half-Breed” were the names of two hamburgers on the menu. These terms are racial slurs that have been used to perpetuate violence against Indigenous peoples.In July 2015, two paintings appeared on a storefront window — including one depicting bound and gagged Indigenous women — during the Hospitality Days cultural festival in Bathurst, New Brunswick. Patty Musgrave, Aboriginal advisor for New Brunswick Community College, wrote to city council, expressing her outrage at the painting, which trivialized, and perhaps even glorified, violence against Indigenous women and the history of colonialism. Musgrave stated that “the building that housed these art pieces was a building in which two human beings were murdered. One a woman. These murders were never solved and … it is quite offensive that you would allow paintings to be hung in the windows of this building while still-grieving families must see this as part of your ‘Hospitality Days.’”Activists and the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women continue to persevere against these prevailing attitudes, seeking justice, accountability, reconciliation and better public education (See also Indigenous Peoples: Political Organization and Activism).Support and Awareness-In recent years, with the launch of the national public inquiry and more awareness about MMIWG, there has been a tremendous amount of support for Indigenous families and communities. Indigenous associations have provided political, emotional and legal support and have also been instrumental in pushing for an inquiry. Annual marches, vigils, the making of documentaries, and other awareness campaigns have brought people together with a common goal of seeking justice. The annual Women’s Memorial March, also called Their Spirits Live Within Us, has taken place every 14 February since the early 1990s. The first one was held in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, in unceded Coast Salish territories (see Indigenous Territory). The Memorial March now takes place in cities across Canada to raise awareness, promote empathy and compassion, and bring healing to families that have lost a loved one.In 2017, the Government of Manitoba officially recognized 4 October as a day to honour MMIWG. The fourth of October is also marked by Sisters in Spirit vigils that bring awareness and honour the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Events that take place on this day are supported through the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and take place in cities across Canada. Other grassroots initiatives to raise awareness include the Walking with Our Sisters Campaign and the REDress Campaign (two separate art installation projects) and the Faceless Dolls Project (an initiative of the NWAC).Support has also come from non-Indigenous allies who have participated in vigils and awareness campaigns, as well as mainstream media, which has begun documenting and providing public education about violence against Indigenous women and girls, such as the CBC. In June 2016, it was announced that actress Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) was working on a documentary called “Gone Missing” to help raise awareness about MMIWG.The National Inquiry’s Final Report-On 3 June 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its Final Report titled Reclaiming Power and Place. After more than two years of testimony from Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, experts, and 1,484 survivors and family members of the missing and murdered, in addition to cross-Canada public hearings and evidence-gathering from many Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups and individuals, the Final Report was unveiled at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec. Chief Commissioner Marion Buller, Commissioners Michèle Audette, Qajaq Robinson, and Brian Eyolfson, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, family and friends of the missing and murdered, as well as national and provincial Indigenous leaders gathered to release the findings of the National Inquiry to the public.The two-volume report spanned more than 1,000 pages and contained 231 individual “Calls for Justice.” These were “legal imperatives,” not merely “recommendations,” to immediate action on behalf of Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments, institutions, social service providers, industries, and individual Canadians of all walks of life. Chief Commissioner Marion Buller declared that “Despite their different circumstances and backgrounds, all of the missing and murdered are connected by economic, social and political marginalization, racism, and misogyny woven into the fabric of Canadian society.”In unequivocal terms, Buller condemned Canadian society for its indifference and inaction in the face of the tragedy confronting Indigenous women and girls for the past several decades: “The hard truth is that we live in a country whose laws and institutions perpetuate violations of fundamental rights, amounting to a genocide against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA [two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual] people.”The Final Report declared that the violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people is “a national tragedy of epic proportion.” The commissioners called for a new era in relations between Indigenous women, girls, 2SLGBTQQIA, and the Canadian people, a relationship centred on the empowerment of Indigenous women and girls: “To put an end to this tragedy, the rightful power and place of women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people must be reinstated, which requires dismantling the structures of colonialism within Canadian society.”Despite hundreds of pages of heartbreaking testimonials and studies revealing thousands of lives lost and families destroyed, Commissioner Qajaq Robinson wrote in a spirit of hopefulness that “Ending this genocide and rebuilding Canada into a decolonized nation requires a new relationship and an equal partnership between all Canadians and Indigenous Peoples. I hope that the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls can be a tool to do just that.” This spirit of hopefulness was echoed by Jeremiah Bosse, widower of Daleen Bosse, a woman from Onion Lake Cree Nation murdered in May 2004: “Today I feel hopeful for the first time that as victims of violence our words will be heard. The words of our lost ones are spoken! We will be there to represent them; they may be lost, but they are not forgotten!”
National Inquiry Facts-2,386—Total number of participants in the Truth Gathering Process:
1,484 family members and survivors provided testimony
819 individuals shared through artistic expressions
83 experts, Knowledge Keepers and officials provided testimony
15 community hearings were held across Canada
9 Knowledge Keeper, expert and institutional hearings were held across Canada

PROSTITUTION.
A third example of prostitution of indigenous women is seen in a description of today’s globalized labor practices in Africa. Congo has been described, like women, as “too well endowed with natural resources” (Harden, 2001, authors’ italics).The colonist cannot be expected to resist the opportunity to rape the land or the women. The nations of people in what is now called Congo have been devastated by centuries of colonial assault primarily by Belgium and the United States, but recently joined in by Rwanda. (1) Coltran, a metal used for superconductor chips in cell phones and pagers, is found abundantly in Ituri peoples’ lands (eastern Congo). When the price of Coltran crashed (from $80. to $8. a kilo) as a result of environmentalists’protests, the prostitution that had been instituted to provide Coltran miners with “temporary wives” continued, even though the mines were closed down (Harden, 2001).Prostitution requires a devalued class of women (Barry, 1995) which Canada produced by means of the combined forces of the military, the state, the church, and market capitalism. During Canada’s first 100 years, the Hudson’s Bay Company prohibited European women from emigrating to Canada. British brothels were established around military bases and trading posts. Just as men today purchase “mail order brides” in servile marriage, British military officers in colonial Canada acquired “country brides” in marriage-like prostitution that provided men with exclusive sexual access to First Nations women. Children were often born from this prostitution, although European common law did not recognize these relationships. When European women were later permitted to emigrate to Canada, European men often abandoned their First Nations families (Bourgeault,1989).Prostitution is colonization of women, generally. It is also one specific legacy of colonization, although it is infrequently analyzed as such. (Lynne, 1998; Scully, 2001). Prostitution of Aboriginal women occurs globally, in epidemic numbers, with indigenous women at the bo ttom of a brutal race and class hierarchy in prostitution itself (in addition to being at the bottom of race and class hierarchies in other walks of life)(UNICEF, 2004). Scully described “universal racialized sexual hierarchies” in sex businesses, the most visible of which involved colonists supplying their indigenous, indentured laborers with sexual access to women of their own ethnicity. Thus one aspect of Canadian prostitution was colonists’ intention to keep European women off-limits to indigenous men. (Scully, 2001).Pimps and traffickers take advantage of the subordinate status of women and girls by exploiting sexist and racist stereotypes of women as servants and commodities. The economic dependence of countries on multinational corporations creates conditions for women to sell their own sexual exploitation at far better rates of pay than other forms of labor, thereby promoting prostitution and trafficking (Hernandez, 2001). Global economic policies seamlessly weave together sexism, racism, and colonialism via invasions of peoples’ lands, causing agricultural and community dislocation and environmental destruction.These events then result in poverty and rural-to-urban migration which produces a huge urban labor pool available for labor exploitation generally as well as for prostitution of women and children. Promoting prostitution as a reasonable job for poor women, the International Labor Organization euphemistically declared: “Mobile populations tend to have greater motivation and opportunities for commercial sex” (Lim, 1998, p 34).On the other hand, Yakama Elder Russell Jim described prostitution as “self-cannibalization” (Jim, 1997). Jim’s characterization suggests the demolition of the self that occurs in prostitution, which paradoxically appears to be a result of the victim’s own choices. One woman in the Netherlands described prostitution as "volunteer slavery," articulating both the appearance of choice and the overwhelming coercion behind that choice (Vanwesenbeeck, 1994, page 149).Most people in prostitution entered prostitution as adolescents. Nadon and colleagues (1998) found that 89% of her interviewees had begun prostitution before the age of 16. In Canada, as elsewhere, the average age of entry into prostitution is adolescence (cited as between thirteen and nineteen in Lowman, 1993). (3) Children enter prostitution because of abusive treatment by caregivers (Lowman, 1993 p 72) and because they run away from dangerous home environments (Federal/Provincial Territorial Working Group on Prostitution, 1998). Boyer and colleagues (1993) interviewed 60 women prostituting in escort, street, strip club, phone sex, and massage parlors in Seattle. All began prostituting between the ages of 12 and 14. Fifty two percent of 183 Vancouver women turned their first trick when they were younger than age 16, and 70% turned the first trick before age 18 (Cunningham & Christensen, 2001).The vast majority of those in prostitution have been sexually abused as children, usually by several predators. Currie (1994) reported a 73% incidence of childhood sexual abuse of women who were prostituting in Vancouver. One girl prostituting in Seattle said:We’ve all been molested. Over and over, and raped. We were all molested and sexually abused as children, don’t you know that? We ran to get away. They didn’t want us in the house anymore. We were thrown out, thrown away. We’ve been on the street since we were 12, 13, 14. (Boyer, Chapman & Marshall, 1993) Cunningham & Christensen (2001) found that 68% of women prostituting in the Downtown Eastside had been recently raped, and 72% had been kidnapped. 89% of the women interviewed by Cunningham & Christensen reported that customers refused condoms in the previous year, another type of violence.First Nations gay men, like First Nations women, are in double jeopardy. Comparing Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal gay men, researchers found that the Aboriginal gay men were significantly more likely to be poor, unstably housed, more depressed, to have been sexually abused as children, to have had nonconsensual sex, and to have been prostituted (Heath et al, 1999).In order to find out about women's experiences in prostitution, what preceded their entry into prostitution, and what their current needs were, we interviewed women prostituting in Vancouver, Canada. This was a part of a multi-country study of prostitution (Farley et al., 2003). We knew that First Nations women were overrepresented in prostitution, with an especially high number of Canadian youth in prostitution from First Nations. Estimates of First Nations prostituted youth range from 14% -60% across various regions in Canada (Assistant Deputy Minister’s Committee, 2001, p 26).

Method
Brief structured interviews of 100 prostituting women and children were conducted in Vancouver, B.C. We contacted agencies working with prostitutes and set up collaborative efforts where possible. The second author was a board member of a Vancouver agency that provided services to prostitutes and was familiar with locations where prostitution commonly occurred in Vancouver. She was known to some of our interviewees in her capacity as a social worker. Interviewers, two of whom were First Nations and one of whom was white European-American, were screened for the ability to establish an easygoing rapport on the street and in occasionally dangerous locations.The women we interviewed were from the Downtown Eastside, Franklin, and Broadway/Fraser prostitution strolls in Vancouver, B.C. We attempted to contact any woman known to be prostituting, whether indoor or outdoors. Using a snowball recruitment technique, we asked women to let their friends who were prostituting elsewhere (e.g. in other areas or indoors) know that we would return to a specific location at a specific time the next day.Informed consent included a summary of research goals and participants’ rights. Respondents’ copies of the consent form included names and phone numbers of local agencies that could be contacted for support and assistance and included the authors’ phone numbers and email addresses. In all cases we offered to read the items to respondents. Most were able to complete the questionnaire without assistance; however, a few were illiterate.If respondents indicated that they were prostituting we asked them to fill out the questionnaire. We paid a small stipend ($10 Canadian) to those who responded. The Prostitution Questionnaire (PQ), used in similar research in South Africa, Thailand,Turkey, USA, and Zambia, Germany, Colombia, and Mexico consists of 32 items asking about physical and sexual assault in prostitution, lifetime history of physical and sexual violence, and the use of or making of pornography during prostitution (Farley et al., 2003). It takes about 15 minutes to complete. The questionnaire asked whether respondents wished to leave prostitution and what they needed in order to leave. We asked if they had been homeless, if they had physical health problems, and if they used drugs or alcohol or both. Because of item heterogeneity, psychometrics on the PQ are not available. Sample items include:2. Since you’ve been in prostitution, have you been physically assaulted? 14a. When you were a child, were you ever hit or beaten by a parent or caregiver until you had bruises on your body or were injured in some other way by them? 16. Did you ever have pictures taken of you while you were working in prostitution? 19. Have you ever been homeless? (4) Results 52% of our interviewees were women from Canada’s First Nations, a significant overrepresentation of this group of people, compared to their representation in Vancouver generally (1.7-7%). 52% were First Nations, 38% were white European-Canadian, 5% were African Canadian, and 5% left the question blank. In response to “race/ethnic group,” the majority of the 52 First Nations women described themselves as Native. Next most often, they described themselves as Metis, a French word that translates to English as "mixed blood" and is used by those we interviewed to describe themselves as having both First Nations and European ancestries. Historically, the two major colonizers of First Nations of Canada were the British and the French,therefore the majority of those called Metis were First Nations/French or First Nations/British. The First Nations women also described themselves as Native Indian, Cree, Cree Native, First Nations, Cree Metis, Ojibwa, Blackfoot/Cree, Aboriginal, and Interior Salish. Unfortunately, fewer than 10 women identified themselves by specific tribal ancestry, so we were unable to compare tribes in our analyses.82% of our respondents reported a history of childhood sexual abuse, by an average of 4 perpetrators. This statistic (those assaulted by an average of four perpetrators) did not include those who responded to the question “If there was unwanted sexual touching or sexual contact between you and an adult, how many people in all?” with “tons” or “I can’t count that high” or “I was too young to remember.” 72% reported that as children, they had been hit or beaten by a caregiver until they had bruises or were injured.90% of these women had been physically assaulted in prostitution. Of those who had been physically assaulted, 82% had been assaulted by customers. 78% of these respondents had been raped in prostitution.67% of our interviewees reported that pornography was made of them in prostitution; and 64% had been upset by an attempt to force them to perform an act that customers had seen in pornography.75% of the women we interviewed in Vancouver reported physical injuries from violence in prostitution. Many reported stabbings and beatings, concussions and broken bones (broken jaws, ribs, collar bones, fingers, spinal injuries, and a fractured skull), as well as cuts, black eyes, and “fat lips.” (5) 50% of these women suffered head injuries as a result of violent assaults with, for example, baseball bats, crowbars, and having their heads slammed against walls and against car dashboards. Women were regularly subjected to extreme violence when they refused to perform a specific sex act.Verbal abuse in prostitution tends to be socially invisible just as other sexual harassment in prostitution is normalized and invisible. Yet it is pervasive. 88% of our respondents described verbal abuse as intrinsic to prostitution. One woman in Vancouver commented: “Lots of johns are super-nice at first. Then when the sex act starts, they get real verbally abusive.”Johns’ verbal assaults in all types of prostitution are likely to cause acute and long-term psychological symptoms. One woman said that over time, “It is internally damaging. You become in your own mind what these people do and say with you. You wonder how could you let yourself do this and why do these people want to do this to you?” (Farley, 03b).We compared First Nations women with European -Canadian women in a number of analyses. Childhood sexual abuse was reported significantly more often by interviewees identifying as First Nations than by those describing themselves as European-Canadian. Significantly more First Nations women than European-Canadian women reported childhood physical abuse.We asked all participants what their current needs were. 95% of these respondents stated that they wanted to leave prostitution. 82% expressed a need for drug or alcohol addiction treatment. They also told us that they needed job training (67%), a home or safe place (66%), individual counseling (58%), self-defense training (49%), health care (41%), and peer support (41%). 33% needed legal assistance and 32% wanted legalized prostitution, and 12% needed childcare.There were also ethnic differences in response to the needs assessment. First Nations women indicated a significantly greater need for self defense training, a greater need for peer support, a greater need for job training, and for individual counseling.Discussion and Recommendations-Prostitution is intimately associated with sex inequality, poverty, racism and colonialism. Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,one of the poorest areas in North America, is referred to as the “urban reserve” by its First Nations residents. Life expectancy is short: a neighborhood center in the Downtown Eastside categorizes anyone over age 40 as a senior. The women we interviewed were survivors of conditions that many do not survive. Many were hungry, drug-sick, and almost all had a palpable look of fear in their eyes. Violence seemed to be in the very air they breathed. Our findings document this horrific level of physical and sexual violence.One woman told us that she was continually raped in prostitution, explaining: “what rape is to others, is normal to us.”Another woman, 36 years old, described a rape as the “defining experience” of her life. At age sixteen, she was raped at knifepoint, after which the rapist gave her a gold hain, in effect, paying her for the rape, and defining her as a prostitute. A fear of men was pervasive among these women, one of whom told us that being hit and bruised was “just your common aggressiveness from men.”The violence against these women while in prostitution was one aspect of a lifetime continuum of violence. The normalcy of living with violence began, for many, in childhood. 82% of the women we interviewed had been sexually abused as children.Previous research has linked childhood sexual abuse with prostitution. One young woman told Silbert & Pines (1982, p 488), “I started turning tricks to show my father what he made me.” Dworkin (1997) described sexual abuse of children as “boot camp”for prostitution. (6) West et al (2000) found that women were most likely to prostitute if they had experienced sexual abuse as children and were later revictimized by rape in adulthood. Our respondents were in a state of almost constant revictimization.In Canada the triple force of race, class and sex discrimination disparately impact First Nations women. With 52% of our respondents being First Nations women, their overrepresentation in prostitution reflects their poverty and their marginalized status within Canada (7). Although almost all of our respondents (including non-First Nations women) had migrated, given the brutal poverty that has been documented on Canadian reserves, migration is often critical for First Nations women’s economic survival. Many women told us that they urgently needed safe housing. Prostitution is intimately related to homelessness, with 86% of our respondents currently or previously homeless. First Nations youth who leave their home communities for urban areas are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation in that they are both homeless and in an unfamiliar cultural environment (Federal/Provincial Working Group, 1998 p. 14). One young woman commented “The prostitutes in [Canada] are very young and have no place to sleep. They sleep on the streets and this is when the men take advantage of them and rape them” (Youth Delegates of Out from the Shadows, 1998. P 6).A recent study in New Zealand found similar housing crises among the Maori. Maori in prostitution were significantly more likely than European-ancestry New Zealanders to have been homeless and to have entered prostitution as children (Farley,2003a). Similar findings with respect to high rates of childhood abuse and entry of Maori women into prostitution at a young age have been reported by others (Plumridge & Abel, 2000, Saphira & Herbert, 2004).Race, class and gender are multiplicative risk factors for prostitution. In order to understand prostitution, the effects of racism in addition to sexism and poverty must be addressed. Traumatic stress includes the historical trauma of colonization.Racism and cultural stereotyping can be understood as chronic, insidious trauma that wear away at peoples’ self esteem and well being (Root, 1996). In a series of studies, Kirmayer (1994, 2000) documented the pervasive negative effects of racism and cultural alienation among First Nations youth: high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide.Imposing a sexist and racist regime on First Nations women, colonization simultaneously elevated male power within the colonized community (Fiske, 2002). Freire described the colonial destruction of positive roles for men as resulting in “adhesion to the oppressor” (1994, p 27). Dworkin also discussed the harm inflicted on women by colonized men:The stigma of the prostitute allows the violent, the angry, the socially and politically impoverished male to nurse a grudge against all women, including prostituted women; this is aggressive bias, made rawer and more dangerous by the need to counter one’s own presumed inferiority. (Dworkin, 2000, p 325) A recent study in New Zealand found similar housing crises among the Maori. Maori in prostitution were significantly more likely than European-ancestry New Zealanders to have been homeless and to have entered prostitution as children (Farley,2003a). Similar findings with respect to high rates of childhood abuse and entry of Maori women into prostitution at a young age have been reported by others (Plumridge & Abel, 2000, Saphira & Herbert, 2004).Race, class and gender are multiplicative risk factors for prostitution. In order to understand prostitution, the effects of racism in addition to sexism and poverty must be addressed. Traumatic stress includes the historical trauma of colonization.Racism and cultural stereotyping can be understood as chronic, insidious trauma that wear away at peoples’ self esteem and well being (Root, 1996). In a series of studies, Kirmayer (1994, 2000) documented the pervasive negative effects of racism and cultural alienation among First Nations youth: high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide.Imposing a sexist and racist regime on First Nations women, colonization simultaneously elevated male power within the colonized community (Fiske, 2002). Freire described the colonial destruction of positive roles for men as resulting in “adhesion to the oppressor” (1994, p 27). Dworkin also discussed the harm inflicted on women by colonized men:The stigma of the prostitute allows the violent, the angry, the socially and politically impoverished male to nurse a grudge against all women, including prostituted women; this is aggressive bias, made rawer and more dangerous by the need to counter one’s own presumed inferiority. (Dworkin, 2000, p 325) The cultural destruction of positive roles for First Nations men and their subsequent identification with supremacist attitudes have had disastrous consequences for First Nations women, with astronomical rates of incest, rape, and husband violence. Nahanee wrote of "the almost total victimization of [Aboriginal] women and children” and noted that violence against Aboriginal women has reached epidemic proportions according to many studies. “This violence includes the victimization of women and their children, both of whom are seen as property of their men (husbands, lovers, fathers), or of the community in which they live" (Nahanee, 1993). 80% of Indian women seeking care at one U.S. clinic reported having been raped (Old Dog Cross, 1982).

 (8)-First Nations women in this study almost always reported childhood physical and sexual abuse. A Dene woman interviewed by the second author spoke of communities in which the entire female population had been sexually assaulted by men. She had been threatened with further violence if she attempted to speak out against this (Lynne, 1998, p 43).The number one issue we have to deal with is violence against women and children, because as long as we destroy ourselves from within, we don’t have to worry about anyone else. Sexual violence…. causes so much shame for survivors and communities… Nevertheless, because sexual violence has been one of the most successful avenues of colonization, Native communities cannot prosper until we find a way to eradicate sexual violence and heal from the shame and self-hatred it has instilled in us… (INCITE, 2001) In order to address the harm of prostitution it is necessary to use education, prevention and intervention strategies similar to those dedicated to other forms of gender-based abuse such as rape and intimate partner violence. This understanding of prostitution as violence against women must then become a part of public policy and it must be structurally implemented in public health care, mental health services, homeless shelters, rape crisis centers and battered women's shelters (Stark & Hodgson, 2003). Any intervention for those in prostitution must first acknowledge prostitution as a form of violence. As with battered women, physical safety is a critical concern.Culturally appropriate treatment for those escaping prostitution is also a necessity. The Royal Commission Report suggested that a general health strategy for First Nations should include 1) equitable access to health services, 2) holistic approaches to treatment, 3) Aboriginal control of services, and 4) diverse approaches which respond to cultural priorities and community needs (RCAP, 1996 p 110). These four basic strategies are applicable to the healing of those in prostitution.Western medical treatment must be combined with traditional healing practices for urban First Nations women who want to exit prostitution.An approach that addresses prostitution from a public health perspective only (how can we make sure she does not have STD/HIV so she does not transmit STD/HIV to the customer to take home to his wife/girlfriend) or from a legal perspective only (how can we keep prostitution out of my neighborhood) but that fails to address the psychological and spiritual damage to the person in prostitution - will not be effective.The Peguis First Nation community in Manitoba found that a combination of traditional and western healing approaches was especially effective for those who suffer from emotional problems, including those related to alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and suicide. (Cohen, cited in RCAP,1996, p 213). Strickland explained use of Maori philosophy to address the harm of prostitution:I am a Maori community worker addressing the problems of my people who are caught up in this colonised system that has uprooted them from their land, rivers, mountains, forests, their language, and their gods and beliefs. When a nation of people has been stripped of their heritage one can easily become a lost soul - vulnerable and open to manipulation and exploitation. In this instance our women and children have been forced into paid rape (prostitution). Healing from prostitution involves healing of the four cornerstones for my people: Tinana (body), Hinengaro (mind), Wairua (spirit), and Whanau (family).(Strickland, 2003) The health provider must become culturally competent regarding tribal differences in culture and language and also acquainted with community services and tribal anti-violence resources (Polacca, 2003, Walters, Simoni, & Evans-Campbell, 2002). In the United States there is the additional complexity of jurisdictional confusion. Tribal courts may lack the means or the will for prosecution of perpetrators of violence. Tribal jurisdiction sometimes conflicts with federal law enforcement, and perpetrators may be well aware that there are minimal consequences for violence against women (National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2000, Polacca, 2003).The most relevant paradigm currently available for understanding and treating the immediate harm of prostitution is that of domestic violence. Physical coercion, rape, and violence by husband/partner/pimp and john are perpetrated against women in prostitution (Currie, 1994; Lowman, 199; Lowman & Fraser, 1995; Miller, 1995; Stark & Hodgson, 2003). Of 854 people in prostitution, 73% reported that they had been physically assaulted in prostitution (Farley et al., 2003). Prostitution can be lethal (Potterat et al., 2004). A Canadian commission found that the death rate of women in prostitution was 40 times higher than that of the general population (Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, 1985). A study of Vancouver prostitution reported a 36% incidence of attempted murder (Cler-Cunningham & Christenson, 2001). In most instances, women in prostitution are battered women. Giobbe (1993) compared pimps and batterers and found similarities in their use of minimization and denial,attitude of ownership, enforced social isolation, threats, intimidation, verbal and sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence to control women.Alcohol and drug abuse claim the lives of countless First Nations women and men. Traumatic events have been recognized as powerful contributors to drug and alcohol addictions. Substance abuse is commonly used as a means to numb the physical and emotional pain of prostitution. Observing that addictions among First Nations originate from cultural assaults and poverty,Summit leader Bill Wilson stated:When you look at the conditions that [First Nations people] are in, it would be a surprise to me if they did quit drugs and alcohol and stopped committing suicide. We are not dealing with the core problem in all of this. If we had healthy communities that were thriving and had an economy, in all probability, we wouldn't be as interested in doing drugs and alcohol. (Rees, 2001) And yet a colonizing attitude regarding drug prescription continues. In 2001, one in three First Nations women over age 40 was prescribed benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Xanax, Ativan), drugs that are highly addictive. Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, described this practice as tantamount to "sedating poverty." (Rees, 2001). Wayne Christian, director of the First Nations Round Lake Treatment Centre in Armstrong noted that most of his clients used drugs and alcohol to deaden the pain of emotional and physical trauma. "Up to 95% of clients at Round Lake reported a history of some kind of trauma, personal trauma,whether it was residential school, sexual abuse, physical violence, abandonment -- those types of issues…" (Rees, 2001).82% of the women we interviewed voiced an urgent need for treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. Like combat veterans, women in prostitution self-medicate for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with drugs and alcohol. An integrated approach to treating substance abuse and PTSD has proven more effective than treatment that addresses only substance abuse and fails to treat PTSD. (Epstein et al., 1998, Najavits, 1998, Ouimette et al., 2000). In order to treat addiction, one must also address the reasons for relapse. These include childhood sexual and physical abuse, prostitution, and generally, the harms of colonialism mentioned above.Women in prostitution need special groups that simultaneously address addiction, prostitution, and other sexual exploitation. Since men regularly proposition survivors of prostitution as soon as the women are known to have prostituted, a mixed-gender 12-step setting is not appropriate. Furthermore, confidentiality is a concern in small communities where everyone is either related or knows one another.First Nations women may need special supports in escaping prostitution and addictions. First Nations women in our study were finely attuned to the violence that surrounds them and expressed a need for self defense training as well as peer support,individual counseling and job training. Stating that “the Canadian sex trade is grim evidence of the ongoing struggles of Aboriginal peoples in Canada,” (Rabinovitch, 2003) PEERS, a Victoria BC agency serving women in prostitution, has recognized the unique challenges of serving Aboriginal youth and women in prostitution:An Indigenous Community Empowerment Vision workshop attempts to overcome resistance within the Aboriginal community to acknowledging the over-representation of Aboriginal women in the sex trade. The goals of the workshop are to generate a sense of awareness of and responsibility for community members in the sex trade.Workshop leaders Tallefer and Moore stated: ‘We owe it to our ancestors, Nations, children and selves to work together and reclaim our lost community members.’ (Tallefer & Moore, 2002, p 1) The needs assessment in our study points to possibilities for program development and public health policy. Programs for those in prostitution should include culturally relevant programming, job training, individual counseling, self-defense training,health care focused specifically on sequelae of chronic poverty and sexual and physical violence-related health concerns, and peer support (Rabinovitch, 2003; Hotaling, Burris et al., 2003).It is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss what should be done to attempt to ameliorate the violence perpetrated by states (such as Canada) against nations (such as Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Salish). A lack of coexistence between nations and states is at the root of social and political crises and these ultimately impact First Nations women in prostitution (Ryser, 1995). Prostituted women are displaced women, in the most profound and pervasive meaning of what displacement is – they are displaced physically,emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Trafficked from reserve to city, the internally displaced in North America are poor, rural, and indigenous (Lynne, 1998, Cohen & Sanchez-Garzoli,01). This displacement makes them extremely vulnerable to the sexual exploitation and violence intrinsic to all types of prostitution.

Prostitution is a sexually exploitative, often violent economic option most often entered into by those with a lengthy history of sexual, racial and economic victimization. Prostitution is only now beginning to be understood as violence against women and girls. Prostitution has rarely been included in discussions of sexual violence against First Nations. Just as wife beating was historically viewed as having been provoked by the victim, prostitution is still viewed by some as a job choice to which the victim “consents.”Ninety-five percent of our interviewees said that they wanted to escape prostitution, while also telling us that they did not feel that they had other options for survival. Another Canadian study found that a comparable 90% of women in prostitution wanted to leave prostitution but could not (Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto, 1987). If consent implies a range of options to choose from then these women in Vancouver certainly did not consent as most of us understand that term. There was no suggestion from these women that they desired to continue in prostitution. Many expressed a resigned hopelessness regarding the possibility of escape from prostitution.In March 2005, Canadian legislators considered decriminalizing prostitution in Canada. While some well-intentioned people might assume that decriminalization will reduce the harm of prostitution by not arresting women – in fact, decriminalization removes legal sanctions against pimps and tricks as well, thereby normalizing prostitution as equivalent to any other sale of a product (Sullivan & Jeffreys, 2001). Despite some descriptions of prostitution as a reasonable job for poor women, the realities of prostitution,including the findings reported in this paper, better describe multiple violations of human rights (MacKinnon, 1993, Leidholdt,1993). Decriminalization of prostitution mainstreams and expands prostitution, and it would have devastating effects on the lives of First Nations women (Farley, 2004). Once prostitution is socially and legally considered a job like any other, it is possible that welfare offices might recommend prostitution as an employment option. Recent reports indicated that women in Germany (which has legalized prostitution) felt threatened with loss of welfare benefits if they refused to consider work in prostitution (Hall, 2005).Decriminalized or legalized prostitution would solidify the human rights abuses in these women’s lives while at the same time doing nothing to provide them what they told us they most needed: treatment for addictions, vocational training (for jobs outside the sex industry), and stable housing.Harm reduction strategies however, must address men’s demand for prostitution as well as the supply. Viewing prostitution as a social phenomenon that should be abolished, the Swedish government in 1999 criminalized the buying of sex acts but not the selling of sex acts. Understanding that without the demand for purchased sexual access to women and children, prostitution and trafficking would not flourish; the Swedish law criminalized the customer of prostitution, the pimp, the procurer, and the trafficker,but not the prostituted person. The Swedish law recognized that “in the majority of cases… [the woman in prostitution] is a weaker partner who is exploited” and allocated funding for social services to “motivate prostitutes to seek help to leave their way of life”(Ministry of Labour, 1998). The effects of the law thus far seem beneficial. Two years after the law’s passage, a Stockholm taskforce reported that there was a 50% decrease in women prostituting and a 75% decrease in men buying sex. Since the law was implemented, trafficking of women into Sweden has decreased as well, with pimps and traffickers apparently transporting women to nearby states that tolerate or legalize prostitution, such as the Netherlands, Germany, and Estonia (Ekberg, 2001, 2004).We hope to see prostitution prevention programs for First Nations and non-First Nations women – programs that address the root causes of prostitution: sex inequality, colonialism, and poverty. We hope to see programs for healing those who have escaped prostitution and other sexual violence, including programs that are culturally relevant for those to whom services are offered.Notes-
1. The World Health Organization estimated that 2001’s monthly toll of avoidable deaths in Congo was 72,800 (Harden, 2001).
2. Similar health consequences of colonialism on Aboriginal people are seen in health data from the United States. American Indians and Alaska Natives have the second highest infant mortality rate in USA, and the suicide rate of American Indians is 50% higher than the national rate. (US Dept of Health and Human Services, 2001 p82; US Dept of Health and Human Services 2001a p 17).
3. Victoria and British Colombia surveys found the average age of entry into prostitution to be 14-15.5 years, and a Vancouversurvey found average age of entry into prostitution to be 16.3 for girls and 15.6 for boys. (Lowman and Fraser, 1989).
4. The Prostitution Questionnaire may be obtained from the first author.
5. Other descriptions of violence included:
a)“[I have a] long history of physical abuse. I was beaten by my mother’s boyfriend, ran away from home to a pimp who beat
me, I left him for a man who beat me up, and so on….”
b) A 13 year-old told us she had: “disaligment in my neck, cuts, and scratches, bruises caused by bad dates. Also deafness.”
c)“A stalker hit me with his car on purpose.”
d)“Date tried to assault me with steel-toed boots because I wouldn’t do something he wanted.”
e)“A bad date hit my head on a wall.”
f)“I was beaten with stones by a couple of women.”
g) A pimp locked her in a room and beat her 30 times with baseball bat.
h)“My boyfriend pushed me downstairs and broke my arm, [I’ve had] multiple beatings by various boyfriends, broken kneecaps,broken limbs. I’m scared of men.”
i)“Two years ago, I was beat and raped for 45 minutes.
6. Use of a child for sex by adults, with or without payment, is prostitution of the child. When a child is incestuously assaulted,the perpetrator’s objectification of the child, his rationalization and denial are the same as those of the john in prostitution. Incest and prostitution result in similar physical and psychological symptoms in the victim.

MY MOHAWK RACEWAY PREDICTIONS 2025 RD 118 TUE JUL 22, 2025

    MOHAWK STANDARDBREAD HARNESS RACEWAY 2025 - RESULTS AS OF TUE JUL-22, 2025 - DAY-118

MOHAWK PICKS
01-4-5-1-6 4TH (5.2 )
02-6-4-3-1 W-2.80, 4TH WBP (12-1) - 2.80
03-3-4-2-6 4TH WBP (8-1), MEX-7.40, MSUP-21.20 - 31.40
04-5-8-2-6 S-3.90, 4TH WBP (6-1) - 35.30 
05-2-3-10-5 W-5.20, P-2.90, 4TH (7.2), SEX-11.70 - 55.10
06-5-1-4-3 W-2.90, MTRI-43.35, DD-10.40 - 111.75
07-2-4-8-9 W-14.40, S-6.60, DD-12.70, P3-32.40 - 177.85
08-1-3-7-4 W-6.20, 4TH WBP (9.2), DD-62.80, P3-30.75 - 277.60
09-2-6-5-3 W-2.10, 4TH WBP (49-1), DD-5.80, P3-33.30 - 318.80
10-6-5-1-2 4TH (14-1)
11-3-6-7-9-4
MOHAWKS TONIGHTS TOTAL $318.80 OVERALL TOTAL $38,466.10

STANS PICKS
01-5-1-4-9-2 W-6.10, S-2.50, 4TH WBP (8-1) - 8.60
02-6-4-5-3-2 W-2.80, DD-8.30 - 19.70
03-6-1-2-4-5 4TH WBP (6.5)
04-1-4-3-2-5 P-18.00, 4TH WBP (6-1) - 37.70
05-3-2-5-9-4 MEX-11.70 - 49.40
06-5-2-4-6-3 W-2.90 - 52.30
07-2-8-1-3-4 W-14.40, MTRI-210.95, DD-12.70 - 290.35 
08-1-3-4-7-8 W-6.20, 4TH (5.2), DD-62.80, P3-30.75 - 390.10
09-5-2-6-3-4 4TH WBP (49-1), MEX-5.10 - 395.20
10-6-2-1-3-7
11-6-3-2-5-9 P-6.70, 4TH WBP (31-1) - 401.90
HI-5 MONEY BEFORE TONIGHT = $137,988.01
STANS TONIGHTS TOTAL $401.90 OVERALL TOTAL $29,256.30

ACTUAL RACE RESULTS
01-5 (2-1)-9 (8-1)-4 (2-1)-6 (5.2 ) (7-SCR)
02-6 (2.5)-1 (12-1)-4 (5.2)-5 (11-1)
03-4 (6.5)-3 (1-1)-6 (8-1)-2 (7-1)
04-6 (6-1)-4 (17-1)-2 (6-1)-1 (9-1 )
05-2 (8.5)-3 (5.2)-7 (14-1)-5 (7.2)
06-5 (2.5)-4 (14-1)-1 (6-1)-2 (9.2)
07-2 (6-1)-1 (7-1)-8 (11-1)-7 (16-1)
08-1 (2-1)-4 (9.2)-2 (23-1)-7 (5.2) (3-3P8 FOR 4 PYLONS)
09-2 (1.9)-5 (19-1)-3 (49-1)-4 (58-1) ( NO SHOW BETTING)
10-5 (1.2)-1 (5-1)-7 (28-1)-2 (14-1)
11-7 (9.2)-5 (31-1)DH-3 (7.5)DH-1 (46-1)-2 (28-1) (8-SCR)

MOHAWK PREDICTIONS)-RECORD 2025
01-452-BIG-$22.00 (FEB 21-6TH) (10-1), $17.50 (JUL 08-9TH) (7-1), $14.40 (JUL 22-7TH) (6-1)
02-259-BIG-$20.90 (APR 11-1ST) (14-1), $11.20 (FEB 24-10TH (17-1), $09.50 (APR 12-4TH) (12-1)
03-173-BIG-$12.70 (JAN 24-1ST) (20-1), $08.60 (MAY 02-12TH) (15-1), $07.00 (JUN 23-4TH) (7-1)
04-168-BIG-55-1 (FEB 22-10TH), 42-1 (JUN 05-10TH), 41-1 (FEB 14-10TH), 39-1 (JUN 30-9TH)
04-422-W B P-BIG-57-1 (MAY 26-5TH), 49-1 (JUL 22-9TH), 43-1 (JUN 07-2ND), 41-1 (JUL 15-9TH)
S EX-146-BIG-$61.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
M EX-069-BIG-$116.60 (MAY 17-7TH)
S TRI-043-BIG-$87.35 (MAY 10-10TH)
M TRI-103-BIG-$166.95 (JUN 05-1ST)
S SUP-013-BIG-$246.65 (MAY 10-10TH)
M SUP-096-BIG-$2,393.10 (APR 10-8TH)
DD-1,2-15-BIG-$45.50 (FEB 14-2ND)
DD-2,3-25-BIG-$29.10 (FEB 01-3RD)
DD-3,4-17-BIG-$61.10 (JAN 20-4TH)
DD-4,5-09-BIG-$10.20 (APR 21-5TH)
DD-5,6-18-BIG-$29.40 (FEB 07-6TH)
DD-6,7-16-BIG-$75.10 (FEB 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-20-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-13-BIG-$28.40 (JUL 08-9TH)
DD-9,10-12-BIG-$60.10 (MAR 10-10TH)
DD-10,11-06-BIG-$25.60 (MAY 10-11TH)
DD-11,12-01-BIG-$08.10 (JUN 14-12TH)
DD-12,13-01-BIG-$03.80 (JUN 14-13TH)
P3 (1-3)-07-BIG-$23.50 (FEB 01-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-08-BIG-$32.00 (FEB 01-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-04-BIG-$09.45 (JUL 11-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-05-BIG-$12.15 (JUL 03-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-09-BIG-$41.90 (FEB 07-7TH)
P3 (6-8)-06-BIG-$68.50 (FEB 07-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-09-BIG-$33.30 (JUL 22-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-04-BIG-$30.10 (MAY 10-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-01-BIG-$03.45 (JUN 14-12TH)
P3 (11-13)-01-BIG-$06.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P4 (3-6)-02-BIG-$20.20 (JUL 03-6TH)
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-01-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P4 (9-12)-00-BIG-$
P4 (10-13)-01-BIG-$05.65 (JUN 14-13TH)
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P5 (9-13)-01-BIG-$11.50 (JUN 14-13TH)
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-06-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-02-BIG-$737.60 (JUL 15-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(07)-442
5-1+ LONG TOT-(18)-1,659-26.6% 
PICK 4 PLACINGS-31-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-3,077-4,876-63.1%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-1,219
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-03,03-04,04-02,05-03,06-03,07-02,08-03,09-03,10-03,11-02,12-00,13-00=31-44-OATOT 3,077-4,876-63.1%


(STANS PREDICTIONS)-RECORD AT MOHAWK 2025
01-320-BIG-$45.30 (APR 17-9TH) (21-1), $40.00 (APR 10-4TH) (19-1), $39.70 (FEB 03-1ST) (18-1)  
02-207-BIG-$31.40 (JUN 14-6TH) (42-1), $28.70 (JUN 14-2ND) (49-1), $27.90 (MAR 06-8TH) (44-1)
03-155-BIG-$14.90 (MAR 17-7TH) (22-1), $13.60 (APR 03-10TH) (34-1), $13.00 (MAY 31-6TH) (44-1)
04-161-BIG-118-1 (MAY 17-8TH), 105-1 (MAY 08-4TH), 63-1 (MAY 17-3RD), 56-1 (MAY 03-5TH)
04-467-W B P-BIG-93-1 (JAN 25-3RD), 84-1 (MAY 17-6TH), 73-1 (APR 05-6TH), 54-1 (APR 17-8TH)
S EX-074-BIG-$307.5 (JUL 14-11TH)
M EX-059-BIG-$94.90 (APR 19-6TH)
S TRI-017-BIG-$427.40 (FEB 14-2ND)
M TRI-066-BIG-$498.30 (MAR 22-8TH)
S SUP-004-BIG-$207.55 (MAY 03-5TH)
M SUP-062-BIG-$1,797.25 (JUN 30-4TH)
DD-1,2-11-BIG-$29.70 (MAR 21-2ND)
DD-2,3-12-BIG-$24.00 (FEB 24-3RD)
DD-3,4-08-BIG-$40.00 (JAN 09-4TH)
DD-4,5-05-BIG-$187.90 (JUN 12-5TH)
DD-5,6-05-BIG-$83.70 (JUN 12-6TH)
DD-6,7-09-BIG-$67.50 (MAR 07-7TH)
DD-7,8-08-BIG-$62.80 (JUL 22-8TH)
DD-8,9-07-BIG-$78.10 (APR 17-9TH)
DD-9,10-07-BIG-$79.30 (APR 12-10TH)
DD-10,11-05-BIG-$88.60 (MAY 26-11TH)
DD-11,12-00-BIG-$
DD-12,13-00-BIG-$
P3 (1-3)-02-BIG-$13.30 (APR 17-3RD)
P3 (2-4)-02-BIG-$12.75 (FEB 10-4TH)
P3 (3-5)-02-BIG-$14.60 (JAN 03-5TH)
P3 (4-6)-01-BIG-$344.90 (JUN 12-6TH)
P3 (5-7)-00-BIG-$
P3 (6-8)-01-BIG-$30.75 (JUL 22-8TH)
P3 (7-9)-02-BIG-$28.95 (JUL 11-9TH)
P3 (8-10)-01-BIG-$07.10 (JUN 14-10TH)
P3 (9-11)-01-BIG-$03.65 (JUN 14-11TH)
P3 (10-12)-00-BIG-$
P3 (11-13)-00-BIG-$
P4 (3-6)-00-BIG-$
P4 (4-7)-00-BIG-$
P4 (7-10)-00-BIG-$
P4 (8-11)-00-BIG-$
P5 (1-5)-00-BIG-$
P5 (6-10)-00-BIG-$
P6 (4-9)-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
10TH -P5 (HF)-M-04-BIG-$1,660.20 (JAN 13-10TH)
11TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
11TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$323.15 (APR 14-11TH)
12TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
12TH -P5 (HF)-M-01-BIG-$100.05 (APR 21-12TH)
13TH -P5 (HF)-S-00-BIG-$
13TH -P5 (HF)-M-00-BIG-$
5-1+ LONG-(08)-564
5-1+ LONG TOT-(18)-1,659-34.0%
PICK 4 PLACINGS-31-44
OA PICK 4 PLAC TOT-2,856-4,876-58.6%
TOTAL RACES-(11)-1,219
TOP 4 PICKS EACH RACE-01-03,02-03,03-03,04-03,05-03,06-03,07-03,08-03,09-03,10-02,11-02,12-00,13-00=31-44-OATOT 2,856-4,876-58.6%

ISRAEL HAMMERS THE LEECH DEATH CULT ARABS REAL GOOD. WAY TO GO BENJAMIN.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

ISRAEL HAMMERS THE LEECH DEATH CULT ARABS REAL GOOD. WAY TO GO BENJAMIN.

RUSSIA,GERMANY, ARAB MUSLIMS COME AGAINST ISRAEL.

EZEKIEL 38:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA-ARAB-MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17  Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18  And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19  For in my jealousy and in the fire (atomic bomb) of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20  So that the fishes of the    sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22  And I will plead against him with pestilence (biological,chemical,nuclear) and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.(NUKED,THEN MIGRATING BIRDS EAT RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS FLESH)
23  Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

EZEKIEL 39:1-29
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
22  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
24  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
26  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
27  When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29  Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

CHINA AND KINGS O  F THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

I AM SUDDENLY ON AN ALLIGATOR KICK. NOW I BELIEVE ISRAEL SHOULD POUR PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER GAZA AND THE WESTBANK. AND ALSO IN EVERY TUNNELL. NOW WHY WOULD PIGS BLOOD BE GREAT ALL OVER GAZA, WESTBANK AND IN EVERY TUNNEL. WELL HERE COMES THE KICKER. THE ARABS WANNA DIE FOR THEIR NON EXISTANT MUHAMMAD SO CALLED LEADER. WHO DIED BEFORE MECCA WAS EVEN IN EXISTANCE. AND THEIR SO CALLED GOD THAT IS GREATER (SATAN) THEY CLAIME. BUT SINCE THEY WANNA DIE FOR A NON EXISTANT GOD BUT AN IMMITATER SATAN. WELL LET THEM. SO POUR TONS OF PIGS BLOOD ALL OVER GAZA, WESTBANK AND EVERY TUNNEL. GET READY THAT BLOOD WILL BE GREAT TO ATTRACT ALLIGATORS AT LEAST 3 TO EACH TUNNEL. THE DROP IN 50,000 ALLIGATORS ALL OVER GAZA. AND ANOTHER 50,000 ALLIGATORS DROPPED IN THE WEST BANK. THESE ARABS CAN GET A TASTE OF BEING EATIN BEFORE THE FINAL FEAST OF 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS EAT THEM  FOR 7 MONTHS IN EXEKIEL 38 & 39. THIS WILL GET THOSE OCCUPYING ARABS OFF YOUR GOD GIVIN LAND ISRAEL. ONCE AND FOR ALL. 

Displaced Palestinians seek protection or outpost demolition from High Court-Several dozen Palestinian Bedouin families fled Wadi as-Seeq in October 2023 in the face of persistent settler harassment and violence By Jeremy Sharon-21 July 2025, 9:38 pm

Former residents of the displaced Palestinian Bedouin community of Wadi as-Seeq are requesting ongoing protection from security services to enable them to return to their dwellings — or that the High Court of Justice order the destruction of an illegal settler outpost located just 100 meters (328 feet) from their hamlet.The residents made their demands Sunday in response to a proposal by the High Court in May that the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police physically enable the residents to return. But the court refused to order that the outpost be removed or that security services provide protection to the hamlet after the residents’ return.Several dozen Palestinian Bedouin families fled Wadi as-Seeq in October 2023, in the face of persistent settler harassment and violence after radical activists established an illegal outpost right next to the hamlet.The judges said during court hearing in May that if the residents suffered further violence after returning, they would have a better case to demand the demolition of the outpost.Filing a response to the court proposal on behalf of the Wadi as-Seeq residents, attorney Tamir Blank of the Torat Tzedek organization had tough words for the justices, saying it was “unjust” to expect the residents to endanger their own lives and property “just in order to prove with their own flesh that the violence continues.”The attorney argued that the court should not lend a hand to “the farce” of having the residents return without proper security arrangements for the future, since they would just be displaced again by extremist settlers, as has happened to numerous other Bedouin communities in other parts of the West Bank.The Wadi as-Seeq case is significant because it showcases one of the earliest examples of the tactic now increasingly used by extremist settlers of establishing an outpost as close as possible to a Bedouin hamlet, in order to harass, intimidate, and attack the residents, and ultimately drive them from their homes.The residents of Muarrajat were displaced in this manner earlier this month, as were the residents of Mughayyir al-Deir, 13 kilometers north of Muarrajat, in May this year.The residents of Wadi as-Seeq pointed to those examples of displacement as a result of settler harassment in their request to the court on Sunday, and said that without demolishing the outposts, it would be pointless for them to return.They also alleged that the refusal of the IDF and the Civil Administration, a department of the Defense Ministry responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank, to give any guarantees for the residents’ safety demonstrated that they were “at ease” with the fact that the residents would not return. They further charged that this was actually “in accordance with their policies and actions in different places as well.”Blank wrote that the residents would, however, be willing to return without the destruction of the illegal outpost, if at least several conditions were met.These included that security services set up a special emergency hotline for residents to call in the event of harassment or violence by the settlers, and the IDF declaring the boundaries of Wadi as-Seeq to be a closed military zone to prevent settlers from entering.They also asked that the IDF or the Civil Administration pay for a private security company to secure the hamlet, if security services themselves are unwilling or unable to do so. They noted that the state has paid for private security companies to provide security for Jewish residents of East Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Silwan.“It’s not possible that the state protects only Jews and not Palestinians, and will restrict private security to Jews only, without even considering the issue,” Blank wrote in the court filing.

THESE COWARDS THAT SUCK HOLE UP TO THESE ARAB LEECHES.LET THESE 25 REPROBATE COUNTRYS TAKE ALL THE DEATH CULT ARABS INTO THEIR COUNTRIES. SO THEY GET THE HELL OFF ISRAELS LAND. THEN USE WILL NOT HAVE TO COMPLAIN OF THE POOR DEAD AHAB THE ARABS DEATH WORSHIPPERS..

British FM: Israeli aid system in Gaza a ‘grotesque spectacle’-25 Western nations say Gaza war ‘must end now,’ suffering has ‘reached new depths’Foreign ministers from UK, Canada, across EU say Israel-backed aid scheme ‘dangerous,’ ‘deprives Gazans of human dignity’; call ‘humanitarian city’ plan ‘completely unacceptable’By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg-21 July 2025, 7:36 pm

Britain and 24 Western allies, including Australia, Canada, France, and Italy, said in a joint statement Monday that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza “must end now,” arguing civilians’ suffering has “reached new depths.”The statement — which also denounced Israel’s plan to create a “humanitarian city” in Gaza’s south, as well as settler activity in the West Bank, while calling for the release of the hostages — came at a time of continued reports of mass casualty events in the vicinity of aid distribution sites, and of rising malnutrition that UNRWA has said affects some one-tenth of Gaza’s children. It also came as hostage-truce negotiations with Hamas have ground on, without any apparent breakthrough, despite expanded military operations.Israel rejected the statement, saying it “sends the wrong message to Hamas.”In the statement, the nations’ foreign ministers wrote that “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability, and deprives Gazans of human dignity.”Near-daily mass-casualty events have been reported in the vicinity of the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution sites, as Israeli troops have used live fire in attempts to control the crowds. The GHF has blamed Hamas for some of the violence, and similar scenes have been reported at sites that are run by other aid organizations.“We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food,” said Monday’s statement, calling it “horrifying” that “over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.”Israel has acknowledged deaths near aid sites and has confirmed that troops have fired warning shots when crowds have gotten too close, but has said the death tolls, which mostly come from Hamas-run authorities, are exaggerated.“The Israeli government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,” said the statement, calling on Israel to “immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life-saving work safely and effectively.”Israel has criticized the UN’s aid mechanisms as vulnerable to exploitation by Hamas, saying the terror group seizes aid and uses it to sustain itself and consolidate its control over parts of the Strip. The GHF said Monday that it has repeatedly offered to work together with the UN, but the UN has refused, saying that to do so would violate humanitarian principles.The Monday communiqué was signed by the foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, as well as the EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management.It also called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of the “hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 [who] continue to suffer terribly,” and asserted: “A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.”FMs: ‘Humanitarian city’ plan is ‘unacceptable’The statement also condemned Israel’s proposal to build a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of southern Gaza’s Rafah.“Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a ‘humanitarian city’ are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law,” it said.Defense Minister Israel Katz floated a plan earlier this month to build a “city” on the ruins of Rafah that would eventually contain all of the Strip’s residents; they would not be allowed to leave during ongoing fighting, as the IDF would operate against Hamas throughout the rest of the enclave.The military reportedly opposes the plan as “unworkable,” and it has been panned by Israeli opposition figures as “crazy, even by this government’s standards.”The diplomats also objected to “any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” singling out plans for the controversial E1 area in the West Bank as a “flagrant breach of international law,” and denouncing the surge of attacks on Palestinians by violent West Bank settlers, who have gone mostly unpunished.“We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” the statement said, affirming support for the US, Qatar, and Egypt, which have served as mediators in ongoing hostage-ceasefire negotiations.“We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians, and the entire region,” the foreign ministers concluded, without elaborating.Israel rejected the statement, with the Foreign Ministry writing in a statement that it “is disconnected from reality and sends the wrong message to Hamas.” It also asserted that “all statements and all claims should be directed at the only party responsible for the lack of a deal for the release of hostages and a ceasefire: Hamas, which started this war and is prolonging it.”The terror group has “stubbornly” refused the latest ceasefire proposal, which Israel agreed to, is “running a campaign to spread lies about Israel” and “deliberately acting to increase friction and harm to civilians who come to receive humanitarian aid,” the ministry added.“The statement fails to focus the pressure on Hamas … At these sensitive moments in the ongoing negotiations, it is better to avoid statements of this kind,” it said.US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also slammed the statement.“Disgusting! 25 nations put pressure on Israel instead of savages of Hamas!” Huckabee said in post on X.“Gaza suffers for 1 reason: Hamas rejects EVERY proposal. Blaming Israel is irrational,” he added.While several European allies — including Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia did not sign the document — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Monday that he had spoken on the phone with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and expressed his “greatest concern about the catastrophic humanitarian situation, especially in light of the expansion of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.”In addition to the joint letter, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Monday strongly criticized Israel over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation while addressing Parliament, saying the “new Israeli aid system is inhumane, it’s dangerous, and it deprives Gazans of human dignity.”“It’s a grotesque spectacle, wreaking a terrible human cost,” he said.Lammy boasted that the current Labour government has sanctioned violent settlers and Israeli ministers, suspended trade negotiations with Israel, and signed an major agreement with the Palestinian Authority.The remarks came after Lammy spoke by phone with Sa’ar, who said he told his British counterpart that “Hamas is solely responsible for the suffering of the population and the continuation of the war.”In his Westminster speech, Lammy detailed attacks by Israeli forces that have killed Gazan civilians seeking aid, and added that “Hamas is contributing to the chaos and taking advantage of it.”“The Israeli government must answer: What possible military justification can there be for strikes that have killed desperate, starving children?” Lammy continued. “What immediate actions are they taking to stop this litany of horrors? What will they do to hold those responsible to account?”“I firmly believe the Israeli government’s actions are doing untold damage to Israel’s standing in the world and undermining Israel’s long-term security,” said Lammy, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should listen to “82 percent” of the Israeli public that wants a ceasefire.“This offensive puts them in grave danger,” he said. “But still Netanyahu persists.”He called Katz’s plan to move Gaza’s civilians to Rafah “a cruel vision which must never come to pass.”“The war in Gaza must end now,” said the top British diplomat. “There is no military solution. Negotiations will secure the hostages. Further bloodshed serves no purpose. Hamas and Israel must both commit to a ceasefire now.”“And the next ceasefire must be the last ceasefire.”Hamas, he said, can have “no role in the governance of Gaza nor use it as a launchpad for terrorism.”The war in Gaza started on October 7, 2023, when some 5,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.Some 20 living hostages remain in terror groups’ captivity in Gaza, alongside the bodies of 28 who are confirmed dead, and two about whom there are grave concerns. One of the slain hostages is an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014. The rest are civilians and soldiers abducted during the October 7 invasion.The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 58,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

PA and UAE condemn transfer of authority-Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work-Civil Administration says move temporary, authority will be returned to Palestinian Hebron municipality when work is finished, but settler council claims it’s now in charge at holy site By Jeremy Sharon-21 July 2025, 12:35 am

Israeli authorities have said they are taking control of the management of the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site in Hebron, in order to carry out construction work at the flashpoint West Bank shrine.According to the Civil Administration, a branch of the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator for Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) liaison to the Palestinians, the government has authorized a process whereby Israeli authorities will be able to build a canopy over a courtyard in the Tomb of the Patriarchs complex to provide shade to worshipers.The Civil Administration has said that the bureaucratic process for enabling this work to go ahead is in its “advanced stages,” and will be for the benefit of “all population groups who pray at the site.”The Tomb of the Patriarchs is revered in Judaism as the burial site of the Biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. It is also a holy site for Muslims, and a large section of the compound serves as the Ibrahimi Mosque. The site features different times and spaces for Jewish and Muslim prayer, and any change to the arrangements typically attracts condemnation.Israeli authorities have accused the Islamic Waqf — a religious trust that, together with the municipal authority of the Palestinian city of Hebron, has administered the Tomb of the Patriarchs thus far — of failing to cooperate regarding necessary renovations to the site.In light of this position, a process for transferring the management authority from the Hebron Municipal Authority to the Civil Administration has been initiated, Israeli officials said.Officials connected to the religious council of the Hebron-adjacent Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, however, have claimed that the council will be in charge of carrying out the construction work at the contested site.The Civil Administration denied this was the case, saying authority for site management would remain in its hands.It also said that management authority would be restored to the Hebron Municipal Council once the construction work is finished.Amitai Cohen, an official with the Tomb of the Patriarchs Administration, which runs the Jewish part of the shared holy site, nevertheless stated that the religious council was now in charge of daily operations at the site.He said he was unaware of any arrangement whereby the management authority would be restored to the Palestinian Hebron Municipal Council.In a similar process in 2020, the Defense Ministry approved plans to install a controversial elevator for disabled access at the site, which was carried out by the Civil Administration.The elevator was inaugurated in June 2023.Defense Minister Israel Katz’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Times of Israel regarding the contradictory accounts over the management of the holy site.“The idea is to make order at the Tomb of the Patriarchs for everyone who prays there,” said Cohen.“We need to develop it and take it forward as a holy site, it’s something healthy that there will be an organization with authority and responsibility to deal with the issues there.”The Palestinian Authority and the United Arab Emirates both condemned the transfer of authority, however.Ramallah said that it would constitute “an unprecedented step in the occupation’s measures to impose its sovereignty over the mosque, Judaize it, and completely alter its identity and features.”The UAE’s foreign ministry said it had “expressed its strong condemnation” over the plans, and called it “a grave violation of the historical and legal status quo at the Ibrahimi Mosque.”The ministry added that it was calling for “an immediate halt to all unilateral and provocative actions that risk destabilizing the occupied Palestinian territories and undermining international efforts toward de-escalation.”

Source: Hamas negotiators unable to reach group’s Gaza leaders, slowing hostage talks-Sign-off needed from Hamas chiefs in Strip, who source warns may become even harder to reach as IDF expands offensive into Deir al-Balah; progress made in aid talks with Egypt By Jacob Magid-Today, 3:16 am-JUL 21,25

Hamas’s negotiators in Doha have been unable to reach the terror group’s leaders in Gaza since late last week, preventing talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal from moving forward, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Monday.Last week, Israel submitted updated maps showing its proposed redeployment of troops during the 60-day truce under discussion. The maps had mediators bullish about the chances for an agreement as they envisioned Israel coming down from previous demands to remain in control over larger swaths of Gaza territory, Arab diplomats told The Times of Israel at the time, adding that they expected Hamas to approve the Israeli maps.But Hamas deliberations on the updated Israeli proposal have continued since Thursday without a response, the source said Monday, lamenting the daily loss of Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip that have taken place in the interim.The source added that Israel’s decision to enter the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah for the first time since the start of the war may further harm efforts to reach Hamas leaders when seeking a response to developments in the Doha negotiations.With frustration growing from mediators over the perceived foot-dragging by Hamas, the source indicated that Hamas would likely issue a statement declaring that it is still conducting internal deliberations on the Israeli proposal in a positive manner.While talks in Doha have stalled, a separate track of negotiations has been taking place in Cairo between Israeli negotiators and Egyptian officials that have focused on advancing a new mechanism for aid distribution during the ceasefire under discussion.The source said Monday that those talks have been progressing well and that a meeting was being planned for Tuesday between Egyptian, Israeli and UN officials to discuss the new mechanism.The goal is to move away from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, while still satisfying Israel, which argues that Hamas has exploited existing UN distribution mechanisms to divert aid, the source said.The US- and Israeli-backed GHF has been heavily criticized for forcing Gazans to walk long distances, often coming under deadly fire as they cross IDF lines in order to pick up aid.An Arab diplomat separately told The Times of Israel on Monday that despite the delay in Hamas’s response, mediators are still optimistic about the chances to reach an agreement in the coming days, given the softened Israeli stance on its troop redeployment and Hamas’s willingness to forgo its demand for an upfront Israeli commitment for a permanent ceasefire.However, Channel 12 cited unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations who were less optimistic, saying that another week or possibly two may be needed due to the delays.The network said Israel was threatening to pull its negotiating team from Doha if talks did not advance.With the talks failing to yield a breakthrough, Israeli troops on Monday began ground operations in the Deir al-Balah area, one of the few places in the Strip where the IDF has, until now, not operated with ground forces because it believed Hamas to be holding hostages there, though it has conducted airstrikes in the city. Hamas has vowed to execute captives if the IDF approaches.Amid the IDF advance, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said it was “shocked and alarmed” at the decision and demanded the government explain the rationale behind it.The IDF has long said it doesn’t operate in areas in which it knows that hostages are located, though, former captives have testified to having come under Israeli fire that nearly lost them their lives. Six hostages were executed last year in Rafah after troops unknowingly approached an area near where they were being held.

Pro-Palestinian activist in New York charged by feds for torching 11 police vehicles-Jakhi McCray faces up to 20 years for alleged arson; separately, anti-Israel protesters vandalize Bronx office of US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez By Luke Tress-Today, 12:36 am-JUL 22,25

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a pro-Palestinian activist, Jakhi McCray, with torching 11 NYPD vehicles last month.McCray allegedly climbed a fence to access a parking lot for police vehicles on June 12 in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, according to the federal Eastern District of New York court.Once inside the lot, McCray allegedly ignited 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer, the US attorney’s office said.The cost to replace the vehicles was around $800,000, the statement said.McCray, 21, was charged in federal court with arson and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment.The NYPD identified McCray as a suspect last month. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at the time that McCray was “very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”Kenny also said McCray damaged a statue at Columbia University during protests on the campus last year.Court filings said that surveillance video and fingerprints found on a pair of sunglasses at the scene of the arson implicated McCray in the fires.Ahead of his arrest, police had offered up to $30,000 for information on McCray.NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Monday that McCray had turned himself in, accompanied by his lawyer, in Brooklyn earlier in the day. He was being held in federal custody.“Setting police vehicles ablaze is not a form of protest — it is a federal crime. Our office will not tolerate violence or destruction that undermines law enforcement efforts to ensure public safety and will prosecute this individual to the fullest extent of the law,” said US Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr.Anti-Israel activist groups, including at Columbia, rallied behind McCray ahead of his initial court appearance on Monday.“The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jakhi McCray,” said Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus alliance leading anti-Israel protests at the university. The group has backed other violent offenders in the past, including Tarek Bazrouk, an anti-Israel activist who pleaded guilty last month to assaulting Jews.Separately, anti-Israel activists in New York said on Monday that they had vandalized the Bronx office of Democratic US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of Israel’s leading critics in Congress.The anti-Israel protest group Decolonize This Place posted photos showing red paint, reminiscent of blood, splattered on Ocasio-Cortez’s office, and a sign that said, “AOC funds genocide in Gaza.”Decolonize This Place said the vandalism was an “anonymous submission” from a group called the Boogie Down Liberation Front. The group did not appear to have any previous history or online presence.Anti-Israel protesters have repeatedly vandalized the offices of elected representatives in New York, including US Representatives Adriano Espaillat, Mike Lawler, Ritchie Torres, and Daniel Goldman.The vandalism appeared to be a response to Ocasio-Cortez voting against a Congressional amendment, sponsored by US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, to cut funding for Israel’s air defense.“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on X last week. “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.”

Harvard, Trump admin fight in court over funds axed due to antisemitism allegations-Hearing ends without ruling in case that marks key moment in White House’s conflict with university-By Agencies 21 July 2025, 11:06 pm

Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order US President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.The administration canceled hundreds of grants awarded to researchers on the grounds that Harvard failed to do enough to address harassment of Jewish students on its campus. A lawyer for the Trump administration told the judge that the canceled grants reflect a government priority not to send money to institutions that practice antisemitism.“Harvard prioritized campus protesters over cancer research,” said Michael Velchik, a senior lawyer at the US Justice Department. He told the judge she should not be hearing the case in the first place, arguing the matter belonged in the US Court of Federal Claims, which handles monetary disputes.The court hearing before US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston lasted more than two hours, but ended without a ruling. The case marks a critical moment in the White House’s escalating conflict with Harvard, which is being widely watched across higher education and beyond.The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university, the US’s oldest and richest, has become a central focus of the administration’s broad campaign to leverage federal funding to force change on campuses, which Trump says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies. Harvard has been in the administration’s crosshairs particularly since it rejected a list of demands to make changes to its governance, hiring, and admissions practices in April.The administration’s effort comes in the wake of widespread anti-Israel — and in some cases antisemitic — protests on campuses across the US that saw frequent expressions of support for Hamas and its October 7, 2023, attack, as well as violations of school rules and local laws. It also echoes decades of criticism by conservatives who point to a lack of “viewpoint diversity” at colleges and universities.Harvard says it has taken steps to ensure its campus is welcoming to Jewish and Israeli students, who it acknowledges experienced “vicious and reprehensible” treatment following the October 7 attack and the onset of the war in Gaza.But Harvard President Alan Garber has said the administration’s demands have gone far beyond addressing antisemitism, and unlawfully seek to regulate the “intellectual conditions” on its campus by controlling who it hires and who it teaches.Those demands, which came in an April 11 letter from an administration task force, included calls for the private university to restructure its governance, alter its hiring and admissions practices to ensure an ideological balance of viewpoints, and end certain academic programs.After Harvard rejected those demands, it said the administration began retaliating against it in violation of the free speech protections of the US Constitution’s First Amendment by abruptly cutting funding the school says is vital to supporting scientific and medical research.Harvard says hundreds of research projects, including ones concerning cancer treatments, infectious diseases, and Parkinson’s disease, will be in jeopardy, unless the judge declares the grant cancellations unlawful.Steven Lehotsky, a lawyer for Harvard, said the government has made wholesale cuts to research under the guise of combating antisemitism, but has not identified any connection between the two.“The administration has given no consideration to patients, the public at large, and the harm of all this research being cut off,” Lehotsky told the court.In addition to the grant cancellations, the Trump administration sought to bar international students from attending the school; threatened Harvard’s accreditation status; and opened the door to cutting off more funds by finding it violated federal civil rights law.Velchik said the government has authority to cancel research grants when an institution is out of compliance with the president’s directives. He said episodes at Harvard violated Trump’s order combating antisemitism.Burroughs questioned how the government could make “ad hoc” decisions to cancel grants and do so across Harvard without offering evidence that any of the research is antisemitic.She also argued the government had provided “no documentation, no procedure” to “suss out” whether Harvard administrators “have taken enough steps or haven’t” to combat antisemitism.“The consequences of that in terms of constitutional law are staggering,” she said during Monday’s hearing. “I don’t think you can justify a contract action based on impermissible suppression of speech. Where do I have that wrong?”Velchik said the case comes down to the government’s choosing how best to spend billions of dollars in research funding.“Harvard claims the government is anti-Harvard. I reject that,” Velchik said. “The government is pro-Jewish students at Harvard. The government is pro-Jewish faculty at Harvard.”Meanwhile, as part of Trump’s spending and tax bill, the Republican-led US Congress increased the federal excise tax on Harvard’s income from its $53 billion endowment to eight percent from 1.4%. Income from the endowment covers 40% of Harvard’s operating budget.Garber said last week that the various federal actions since Trump returned to office in January could strip the school of nearly $1 billion annually, forcing it to lay off staff and freeze hiring. The amount includes the impact of the multi-year federal grants canceled by the Trump administration.Burroughs, an appointee of Democratic former president Barack Obama, in a separate case has already barred the administration from halting Harvard’s ability to host international students. She is expected to issue a written ruling in the funding case in the coming weeks.Following the hearing, Trump took aim at Burroughs in a post on his Truth Social platform. The president called her a “TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling.”“She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic ‘loss’ for the People of our Country! Harvard has $52 Billion Dollars sitting in the Bank, and yet they are anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-America,” Trump wrote.Luke Tress and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report. 
 
US, Israel resolve issue of visas for visiting Christians, after row went public-US Ambassador Huckabee says Israel will ‘completely restore the long-standing process’; last week, he threatened to declare Israel no longer welcomes Christians By Lazar Berman-21 July 2025, 11:54 pm

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said Monday that a solution had been reached on the issue of visas for visiting Christian groups, after a furious letter from him leaked to the press last week.In the letter, Huckabee threatened to declare that Israel no longer welcomes Christians, over what he said was Jerusalem’s failure since January to approve tourist visas for evangelical missions, after launching investigations into several Christian groups at the start of 2025.On Monday, Huckabee posted on X: “I am delighted to report that the issue has been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction and the strong support that Israel enjoys from American evangelicals will continue.“I’m convinced the Interior Minister was not fully aware of the change being imposed and I’m grateful he has personally intervened to completely restore the long-standing process,” he continued.“Attorney Calev Myers, an Israeli attorney who represents some 150 Christian groups in Israel, was instrumental in outlining the request and the Prime Minister’s Office was supportive and involved in the resolution, along with the Minister of the Interior,” Huckabee said.The Prime Minister’s Office has been silent regarding the visa affair.After meetings with the Minister of the Interior and with the help of @IsraeliPM , I’m happy to report that the issue concerning visas for American Evangelical organizations has been fully resolved.Starting in January, a change in the manner which visas for Christian…— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 21, 2025Prior to Huckabee’s announcement, Myers told The Times of Israel that a solution had been reached, and credited “the hard work and fruitful cooperation between the US ambassador, the Ministry of Interior, and the Prime Minister’s Office.”“The Evangelical Christian organizations active in Israel, which represent the vast majority of Zionists in the world today, will receive all of the visas they need through a streamlined and efficient application process,” Myers said.The US ambassador fired off a seething letter to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel last Wednesday, in which he asserted that at the start of 2025, the Interior Ministry launched investigations into several evangelical Christian organizations with long ties to Israel, including the Baptist Conference in Israel and the Christian Missionary Alliance.In the letter, Huckabee informed Arbel that these organizations were required to complete lengthy questionnaires and that they had still not received new visas for religious leaders to travel to Israel, despite submitting their applications at the beginning of the year.Copies of Huckabee’s letter were also sent to Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana.The private exchange that quickly turned public was followed by an apparent Israeli strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic church on Thursday that killed three people and injured several, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, drawing international condemnation and expression of “deep sorrow” from Israel. The military said the church was struck by accident, and that it was investigating what happened, and Netanyahu’s office issued a statement expressing regret.Earlier last week week, Huckabee weighed in on unchecked settler violence in the West Bank for the first time, calling on the Israeli government to investigate the “terrorist killing” of a 20-year-old Palestinian-American in the village of Sinjil last week.On Saturday, Huckabee visited the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, which has been the scene of several attacks by settlers in recent weeks.

Soldier killed in blast, as IDF pushes into central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah for 1st time-Staff Sgt. Amit Cohen killed in Khan Younis; hostage families alarmed by new ground offensive; undercover troops said to nab Hamas health official in Rafah By Emanuel Fabian,Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid-21 July 2025, 10:42 pmUpdated at 2:30 am

An Israeli soldier was killed by an explosion in southern Gaza on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces announced, as troops began ground operations in the Deir al-Balah area in the Strip’s center for the first time since the beginning of the war.The soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Amit Cohen, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Holon.According to a preliminary IDF investigation, Cohen was killed by a blast from Israeli military munitions that detonated inside a building in Khan Younis.The explosion also seriously wounded an officer in the 13th Battalion, the IDF said.The military said it was further investigating the cause of the explosion, including the possibility that it was an “operational accident.”Cohen’s death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 455.Earlier Monday, media in Gaza reported that IDF tanks had pushed into the southern and eastern districts of Deir al-Balah.It is one of the few places in the Strip where the IDF has, until now, not operated with ground troops because it believed Hamas to be holding hostages there, though it has conducted airstrikes in the city. Hamas has vowed to execute captives if the IDF approaches.As a matter of policy, the IDF has said it avoids ground operations in areas of Gaza where it believes Hamas to be holding hostages or cannot rule out the presence of captives, in order not to endanger them.The push into the southeast of Deir al-Balah was being led by troops of the Golani Infantry Brigade, along with tanks and combat engineers, according to military sources. The ground operations came after Palestinian reports of artillery shelling and airstrikes overnight and on Monday morning in the area.A day earlier, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for several zones in the southwest of Deir al-Balah, where many Palestinians had sought refuge. According to United Nations figures, between 50,000 and 80,000 people were in the area when Sunday’s evacuation order was issued.Sunday’s announcement told civilians to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast, where at least 600,000 Palestinians were already massed.During a briefing on Monday, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric warned that the southern Gaza desalination plant and other vital water infrastructure are located within the Deir al-Balah areas from which the IDF has ordered Palestinians to evacuate.The plant is a main source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in the coastal Mawasi zone, producing 660,430 gallons of water per day.“The loss of this facility would be catastrophic for the people who depend on it for access to fresh water,” Dujarric said.As of early July, 80 percent of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities fall within Israeli-militarized zones or in areas that have been placed under evacuation orders, said the UN spokesperson, adding that 93% of households in Gaza had no access to water as of last month.Over 87% of Gaza is currently under Israeli evacuation order, which has squeezed about 2.1 million people into fragmented areas of the Strip where hardly any services are available, Dujarric said.He noted that UN humanitarian staff will remain in Deir al-Balah areas that the IDF has ordered to evacuate and has shared its coordinates with all parties of the conflict.According to the World Health Organization, its staff residence and main warehouse in Deir al-Balah were attacked three times on Monday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the IDF entered the UN agency’s staff residence, forced women and children to evacuate on foot, and handcuffed, stripped and interrogated male staff at gunpoint.Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, three of whom were later released while the other remains in detention, according to Tedros.“WHO demands the immediate release of the detained staff and protection of all its staff,” he said.Tedros also said “the latest evacuation order in Deir al-Balah has affected several WHO premises, compromising our ability to operate in Gaza and pushing the health system further towards collapse.”“WHO’s main warehouse located in Deir al-Balah is within the evacuation zone, and was damaged yesterday when an attack caused explosions and a fire inside,” he added.Earlier, following reports of the IDF’s push toward the city, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said it was “shocked and alarmed” at the decision, and the mother of one of the hostages thought to be alive said she was perplexed by it.The expanded military operation commenced as global criticism mounted over the war and the US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution mechanism in Gaza. At the same time, negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage release deal were ongoing in Qatar. Should those talks prove fruitless, the IDF is proposing a further intensification of the fighting, even as it acknowledges burnout among troops after more than 21 months of war.Deir al-Balah resident Abdullah Abu Saleem, 48, told AFP that “during the night, we heard huge and powerful explosions shaking the area, as if it were an earthquake,” which he attributed to “artillery shelling in the south-central part of Deir al-Balah and the southeastern area.”“We are extremely worried and fearful that the army is planning a ground operation in Deir al-Balah and the central camps where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering,” he said.Local medics said tank shelling in the area hit houses and mosques, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding several others. At least 130 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,000 wounded by Israeli gunfire and military strikes across the territory in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Monday.The ministry’s figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.Also on Monday, Marwan al-Hams, an official in the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, was reportedly detained by an undercover Israeli force outside the field hospital of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip.Hams is the director of Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, and also serves as the head of all field hospitals in the Gaza Strip.The Hamas health ministry said that Hams was on his way to visit the ICRC hospital in Rafah when an Israeli force “abducted” him after opening fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian nearby.Medics said the person killed was a local journalist who was filming an interview with Hams when the incident happened.An ICRC spokesperson said the ICRC hospital had admitted and treated patients injured in the incident but would not comment further on their status in order to protect their privacy. It said it was “very concerned about safety and security” around the field hospital.The IDF did not immediately comment on the incident.Also in southern Gaza, footage showed several dozen people, including children, protesting in the Khan Younis area against Hamas and in support of ending the war.In the footage published by Gaza-based media outlets, protesters can be heard chanting “Hamas out.”One demonstrator is seen holding a sign reading “Stop the war,” while another sign says “Stop exploiting the blood.”The demonstration appeared to be the first in Gaza against the terror group, since it violently suppressed a series of protests in March and in April.Meanwhile, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the relatives of many of the 50 remaining hostages, at least 20 of whom are believed to be alive, asked the government to explain the move into Deir al-Balah.“The families demand that the prime minister, defense minister, chief of staff, and IDF spokesperson appear before them and the Israeli public this evening to clearly explain why the offensive in the Deir al-Balah area does not put the hostages at serious risk,” said the group. “The people of Israel will not forgive anyone who knowingly endangered the hostages — both the living and the deceased.”Ruhama Bohbot, whose son Elkana Bohbot is held captive by Hamas and thought to be alive, told a gathering of supporters Monday that she felt “a little tense” over the military’s entry into the city.“The IDF have begun operating in Gaza in the place where Elkana is being held, and I’m a little worried and suspicious like the other families,” Bohbot said. “I don’t have any idea why they started doing this now — now, when there’s supposed to be a deal.”“I hope that the army will know what to do and how to do it,” she said. “And God forbid not touch the hostages. The government said it wouldn’t be the worst thing if some hostages were harmed, an unbelievably terrible thing to say.”It was an apparent reference to Orit Strock, the minister of national missions and settlements, who said in an interview Monday that while the IDF should make a “great effort” to avoid harming hostages, “it’s not right to refrain from vanquishing Hamas” in areas where they might be held.“That also risks lives,” said Strock, a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party, adding that she “cannot make calculations about whether this person’s life is more important than that person’s life.”Negotiations over a 60-day ceasefire that would see the release of about half the hostages are continuing in Qatar, though difficulties reaching Hamas’s Gaza leadership are reportedly slowing the process. Should those talks fail, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir was drawing up plans for an expansion of the fighting.A Channel 12 news report that quoted sources familiar with the proposal described it as “the plan for taking over Gaza,” and said it was an alternative to the controversial “humanitarian city” in Rafah pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, which Zamir opposes.Global criticism of the war, and reports of a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, mounted on Monday. In a call for the war to end, 25 countries zeroed in on criticism of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began operating aid distribution sites in May under American and Israeli backing.Hundreds of people have been reported killed around the sites, according to Hamas officials. Israel has acknowledged deaths near aid sites and has confirmed that troops have fired warning shots when crowds have gotten too close, but says the death tolls, which mostly come from Hamas-run authorities, are exaggerated.The UN’s World Food Program, in a rare condemnation, said a crowd surrounding its aid convoy in northern Gaza on Sunday “came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire.” It said “countless lives” were lost. Hamas authorities reported nearly 80 dead from Israeli gunfire in the area of the convoy, which is unrelated to the GHF aid distribution sites.Responding to the reports, the IDF said it had fired “warning shots to remove an immediate threat posed to the troops” in northern Gaza, but denied the steep death toll, insisting that the “reported number of casualties does not align with the existing information.”An Israeli reservist told the Wall Street Journal that soldiers fired at aid-seeking Palestinians who veered off approved paths even though some of them were carrying white flags. The report, published Monday, said that Israeli soldiers fired on Palestinians who strayed from the paths or came too close to the troops.“We have an unwritten rule that if you are worried and they get too close and you see that it could be something that puts you and your team at risk, you don’t take that risk,” the reservist said.A spokesman for the GHF, Chapin Fay, said Monday that it was willing to deliver food to Palestinians for the UN, which he says “has given up distribution altogether.” He added that “desperation levels” in Gaza are rising.“We can get their aid into Gaza safely and securely and have offered to help repeatedly, but they continue to reject our offers,” Fay said in a media briefing.The UN has argued that it will not cooperate with the GHF, as its distribution mechanism has placed Palestinians at risk.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza.“The last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” his spokesman said in a statement. The United Nations chief “deplores the growing reports of children and adults suffering from malnutrition.”Jessica Steinberg, agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Knesset approves compensation package for businesses hurt by Iran conflict-With summer recess looming, coalition and opposition race to complete plan that focuses on maintaining economic ‘continuity’ for small- and medium-sized businesses By Sam Sokol-21 July 2025, 8:43 pm

Lawmakers voted 55-2 to approve the government’s plan to compensate those affected financially by last month’s conflict with Iran, in its third and final Knesset reading on Monday afternoon, including grants for businesses whose income streams were reduced and workers who were furloughed.“Our message to businesses is clear: the state is with you. The approval of the compensation outline today in the Knesset is an important step in ensuring business continuity and economic recovery following Operation Rising Lion,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.“We will act quickly, efficiently and sensitively, so that every business owner, in every part in the country, receives the assistance they deserve.”The outline, whose aim is to create “as broad a safety net as possible for the working public,” was first presented at a joint press conference last month by officials including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, then-Knesset Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafni, Business Sector Presidium chair Dubi Amitai, and Histadrut Labor Federation chief Arnon Bar-David.According to the Finance Ministry, the outline is focused on maintaining economic “continuity,” with an emphasis on small- and medium-sized businesses. Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 12,000 ($3,450) to NIS 400 million ($114 million) that has decreased by more than 25 percent month over month will be compensated from the Property Tax Compensation Fund.Businesses bringing in less than NIS 300,000 ($86,000) a year will be eligible for a fixed business continuity grant “depending on the level of damage to the business,” while businesses earning NIS 300,000 to NIS 400 million will be eligible for the reimbursement of 7% – 22% of their expenses, “depending on the rate of damage to business turnover, as well as a refund of 75% of salary expenses in relation to the level of damage.”Businesses with an annual turnover of NIS 300,000 to NIS 100 million ($28 million) will have compensation capped at NIS 600,000 ($172,000).Employees placed on unpaid leave due to the cessation of economic activity during the war will receive payments from the National Insurance Institute and will not be forced to use any of their accrued vacation days.According to officials, an online system for claims under the new compensation plan will be opened by the Tax Authority “in the coming days.”Aside from assisting businesses and employees, the government will also offer compensation to landlords of residential apartments or commercial properties damaged as a result of the war.Overall, the war caused economic damage of at least NIS 4.5 billion ($1.2 billion), officials said last month.Progress on the compensation law was temporarily halted last week when the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party’s quit the coalition to protest its failure to pass legislation exempting yeshiva students from military service.In the wake of his resignation, UTJ lawmaker and then-committee chairman Moshe Gafni failed to show up for a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on the compensation bill, taking participants in the scheduled discussion by surprise.Without Gafni, the parliamentary panel had no chairman, and the discussion of the bill could not move forward, causing what committee member MK Vladimir Beliak (Yesh Atid) called “an absurd and unprecedented situation.”“Representatives from government ministries, the business sector, and opposition members arrived this morning for a discussion on the compensation outline for businesses. But here’s the thing: committee chairman Gafni resigned overnight, didn’t cancel the meeting, and currently, no one has the authority to lead the committee,” Beliak tweeted at the time.Within a day, the committee had approved a Knesset House Committee recommendation to appoint Likud MK Ofir Katz as chairman of the influential panel and announced that it would hold a meeting to advance the compensation outline prior to the upcoming Knesset recess.The Knesset is set to enter a nearly three-month-long recess on July 27. It will reconvene on October 19 for the winter session.“There is an urgency to finish with the compensation outline, on which most of the work has already been done,” Katz said at the time, adding that he intended to “finish the work in the committee, and bring the legislation up in the plenum next week.”

Romania, on edge over Russia, to buy Israeli anti-aircraft system for $2.3 billion-NATO member state signs 7-year framework agreement with Iron Dome maker Rafael for six short-range air defense systems-By Reuters and Emanuel Fabian-21 July 2025, 8:10 pm

Romania has signed a framework agreement to buy Israeli-made short-range and very-short-range anti-aircraft systems for more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), the Romanian defense ministry said on Monday.Under pressure from US President Donald Trump, Romania and other European countries have been looking to increase their defense spending since Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022.The European Union and NATO member state, which shares a 650-kilometer (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall in its territory repeatedly over the past two years, as Moscow attacks Ukrainian port infrastructure.The framework agreement with the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems — the maker, with US backing, of the Iron Dome defense system — provides for the signing of three further contracts, through which six integrated anti-aircraft systems will be acquired.The contracts will also cover training, ammunition, and logistical support.The framework agreement will run for seven years, with the first two Vshorad systems to be delivered within three years of the signing of the first of the three further contracts, the ministry said.Defense Ministry figures released in June showed that Israeli arms sales reached a new record in 2024, for the fourth consecutive year, totaling nearly $14.8 billion, amounting to double the value of exports of five years ago.Europe was the largest purchaser of Israeli defense goods, buying 54 percent of the total exports in 2024, and ministry officials attributed the increase in demand from European countries to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.At the same time, ministry officials said they were increasingly concerned by some governments, especially in Western Europe, who have canceled weapon deals with Israel or otherwise sanctioned Israeli defense firms over the war.