BREAKING....Thread 9...Israel At War...OPERATION SWORDS OF IRON

[PeteS in CA]

Surrender: Blinken Tells Netanyahu Israel Can’t Defeat Hamas

Joel B. Pollak 17 Jan 2024

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution,” and that Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state.
...

Netanyahu: "Hold my bagel and watch!"

[PeteS in CA]

Gabby Deutch
@GSDeutch
Blinken today said that other times a 2-state solution was almost reached, the Palestinians weren't ready for peace. He seemed to say that now, they are. At Davos, he suggested that the Israelis aren't ready. "Is [Israel] prepared to have that mindset?" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIBdVkJ9L-k

[mystery-ak]

Netanyahu Issues Veiled Rebuke to Blinken: Israel Will Achieve ‘Complete Victory’

Joel B. Pollak 18 Jan 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday night, pushing back against Blinken’s claim that Israel could not defeat Hamas in Gaza, and that it should accept a Palestinian state.

Without naming Blinken specifically, Netanyahu criticized those who, he said wanted to tie Israel’s hands and said that Israel could not win.

On Wednesday, reports emerged that Blinken had told Netanyahu last week that Israel would not succeed in destroying Hamas’s military capabilities — an assertion at odds with Israel’s ongoing military success, and strong Israeli public support for the war. Blinken and the Biden administration also want Israel to accept a Palestinian state as a condition of peace.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blinken told New York Times columnist Tom Friedman — a rabidly anti-Netanyahu opinion writer — that Israeli society, not the Arab nations, was the current obstacle to peace in the Middle East.

The reaction from the prime minister’s office was defiant.

more w/video
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/18/netanyahu-blinken-israel-victory/

[mystery-ak]

CNN airs Oct. 7 clip from Nir Oz showing ‘evidence of beheadings’ by Hamas

Wednesday, January 17, 2024
CNN airs Oct. 7 clip from Nir Oz showing ‘evidence of beheadings’ by Hamas
Today, 12:00 am

CNN airs footage from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, saying it shows a terrorist “sawing at the necks of dead Israelis, evidence of beheadings.”

The US network says an unnamed Israeli source provided the CCTV footage from Kibbutz Nir Oz, which is censored and edited to highlight the use of the knife.

WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE

more w/video
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/cnn-airs-oct-7-clip-from-nir-oz-showing-evidence-of-beheadings-by-hamas/

[libertybele]

CNN airs Oct. 7 clip from Nir Oz showing ‘evidence of beheadings’ by Hamas

Wednesday, January 17, 2024
CNN airs Oct. 7 clip from Nir Oz showing ‘evidence of beheadings’ by Hamas
Today, 12:00 am

CNN airs footage from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, saying it shows a terrorist “sawing at the necks of dead Israelis, evidence of beheadings.”

The US network says an unnamed Israeli source provided the CCTV footage from Kibbutz Nir Oz, which is censored and edited to highlight the use of the knife.

WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE

more w/video
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/cnn-airs-oct-7-clip-from-nir-oz-showing-evidence-of-beheadings-by-hamas/

I haven't watched it; I don't think I can handle it without it being etched in my mind for a long time. It sickens me just reading about it.  I am very, very glad though that the horrific atrocities are being exposed. Perhaps it will shed some light in the eyes of the pro-Hamas individuals and groups.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Complete victory is firebombing Tehran and eliminating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

[Cyber Liberty]

Complete victory is firebombing Tehran and eliminating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Yup.  This has been the case since 1979.

[Elderberry]

Israel Destroys Hamas’s Main Weapons Manufacturing Site, Uncovers New Vast Tunnel Network

Legal Insurrection by Vijeta Uniyal Thursday, January 18, 2024

The IDF: Destroyed Hamas weapons factories were “connected to a tunnel route hundreds of kilometers long.”

The Israeli military dealt a major blow on Thursday to the terror group Hamas by destroying its main weapons manufacturing site in Gaza.

This vast web of rocket and weapons manufacturing factories, hidden inside civilian buildings in central Gaza, was connected through a massive network of underground tunnels. The dozens of terrorist-run factories were “connected to a tunnel route hundreds of kilometers long,” the Israel Defense Forces revealed Thursday.

These tunnels were being used to supply weapons and ammunition to Hamas’s terrorist fighting force across Gaza. “Using the tunnel network, weapons were transported throughout the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military said.

The IDF revealed the details of the operation in a statement on Thursday evening:

The 36th Division, in cooperation with soldiers of the Yahalom and Shaldag units, exposed and destroyed the heart of Hamas’ weapons manufacturing industry near the Salah Al-Din Road in the Gaza Strip. The area consists of weapons factories and lathes, both above and below ground, that were used to produce ammunition and weapons for Hamas operatives.

The soldiers located dozens of tunnel shafts connected to a tunnel route hundreds of kilometers long, including a tunnel shaft in the residence of a senior official in Hamas’ weapons production unit. The tunnels were divided into areas used for the production of rockets and weapons. Using the tunnel network, weapons were transported throughout the Gaza Strip.

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/01/israel-destroys-hamass-main-weapons-manufacturing-site-uncovers-new-vast-tunnel-network/

Aviva Klompas
@AvivaKlompas
The IDF says it has completed demolishing Hamas’s main rocket and weapons manufacturing  zone in central Gaza.

It also located a tunnel route stretching hundreds of kilometers. Using the tunnel network, weapons were transported throughout the Gaza Strip.

https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1748015445662159346

[jafo2010]

Biden has surrounded himself with folks dumber than himself.  Blinken could not be dumber if he tried.  Utterly clueless.

The Biden Idiocracy continues in its terror of destroying the USA in every way possible, while causing global chaos.  Biden is such a weak POS that all the bad players think they have the freedom to do as they please, and they are.

Biden has funded terror in the Middle East, and thousands have died because of his incompetence.

The thought he might get another four more years is almost incomprehensible. 

Netanyahu must stay focused on destroying HAMAS and ideally leave Gaza in complete ruins, and leave it uninhabitable.  Listening to Blinken or Biden is pure folly for Israel.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1748438910080795103

[mountaineer]

“There is a not an UNRWA site, school, mosque, or kindergarten in which we didn’t find weapons. None.”

https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1748351416098304370

[mystery-ak]

 Biden: Netanyahu could change mind on opposition to two-state solution
by Steff Danielle Thomas - 01/19/24 7:34 PM ET

President Biden suggested Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could come around to a two-state solution with Palestine if given the “right” terms.

Asked by NBC News if he believed Netanyahu would change his mind on a pathway for Palestine to gain autonomy, he said, “Yes, given the right one.”

His comments come after the Israeli prime minister rejected the U.S. and Arab nations in the region to consider establishing a Palestinian state after the war between Israel and the militant group Hamas ends.

“In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control over all territory west of the Jordan,” Netanyahu said Thursday. “This collides with the idea of sovereignty. What can you do?”

In response, White House national security spokesman John Kirby claimed it wasn’t a new comment from the prime minister, but “we obviously see it differently.”

“We believe that the Palestinians have every right to live in an independent state with peace and security,” Kirby said. “And the president and his team is going to continue to work on that.”

more
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4418837-biden-netanyahu-opposition-two-state-solution-israel-palestine/

[Hoodat]

Biden: Netanyahu could change mind on opposition to two-state solution
by Steff Danielle Thomas - 01/19/24 7:34 PM ET

President Biden suggested Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could come around to a two-state solution with Palestine if given the “right” terms.

Asked by NBC News if he believed Netanyahu would change his mind on a pathway for Palestine to gain autonomy, he said, “Yes, given the right one.”

Where in the hell has this dumb-ass been for the last fifty years?  Talk about clueless.  A political career spanning half a century, and not a single time he was right about foreign policy.  Not a single time.

Joe, do us all a favor and STFU.  And the same goes for that idiot Blinken.

[mountaineer]

AG
@AGHamilton29
Washington Post: No evidence Hamas was using Gaza hospitals as bases for military activity.
Almost every hostage released by Hamas: We were held at gunpoint at a hospital for weeks at a time.
Acting like stenographers for a terrorist organization is not journalism.
8:44 AM · Jan 20, 2024

[mystery-ak]

Biden Finally Talks to Netanyahu Again. It Doesn't Go Well
Jazz Shaw 5:30 PM on January 20, 2024

Yesterday, Joe Biden had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu. In more normal times, such a call between the leaders of closely allied nations would be nothing unusual, particularly when one of them is in the midst of a brutal war against a terrorist regime. But believe it or not, despite all of the visits to Israel by Tony Blinken and others, it had been four weeks since Biden and Netanyahu had spoken directly. We don’t have a transcript of the call, but based on the reporting of the Associated Press, there is a lot more “strain” in the relationship at the moment so it wasn’t all sunshine and roses.

    President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends.

    Biden and his top aides have all but smothered Netanyahu with robust support, even in the face of global condemnation over the mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian suffering in Gaza as the Israelis have carried out military operations in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

    But the leaders’ relationship has increasingly shown signs of strain as Netanyahu has repeatedly rebuffed Biden’s calls for Palestinian sovereignty, gumming up what the U.S. president believes is the key to unlocking a durable peace in the Middle East — the oft-cited, elusive two-state solution.

At least for the moment, Joe Biden continues to support Israel publicly in their war against Hamas, though he has been urging more “restraint” in terms of minimizing Palestinian casualties and ensuring a steady flow of aid into Gaza. But now the disagreement between the two leaders is reportedly centered not on the war itself, but what comes after. Joe Biden has jumped on the bandwagon of people calling for an independent Palestinian state.

more
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/01/20/biden-finally-talks-to-netanyahu-again-it-doesnt-go-well-n606261

[mountaineer]

Biden Finally Talks to Netanyahu Again. It Doesn't Go Well

I just can't picture this.

Joe (holding phone upside down): Who is this?

B.N.: Mr. President, are you there? It's Benjamin Netanyahu.

Joe: Yahoo? What? Who?

B.N.: Prime Minister of Israel.

Joe: Israel? That's Jewish, right? I spent my entire childhood back in Delaware in a synagogue. Every day, right after school. Did you know I like bagels?

B.N.: We have to talk about Hamas.

Joe: No, not hummus. Too tangy. I just put peanut butter on them, and hope it doesn't pull out my dentures.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

      @mountaineer

[Cyber Liberty]

The last time they spoke on the phone, Slo Joe hung up on Bibi.

[Wingnut]

I just can't picture this.

Joe (holding phone upside down): Who is this?

B.N.: Mr. President, are you there? It's Benjamin Netanyahu.

Joe: Yahoo? What? Who?

B.N.: Prime Minister of Israel.

Joe: Israel? That's Jewish, right? I spent my entire childhood back in Delaware in a synagogue. Every day, right after school. Did you know I like bagels?

B.N.: We have to talk about Hamas.

Joe: No, not hummus. Too tangy. I just put peanut butter on them, and hope it doesn't pull out my dentures.

Top Notch!

[mystery-ak]

Biden Admin, Qatar, Egypt Propose Hostage Deal Where Israel Loses War

The U.S., Qatar, and Egypt have reportedly proposed a deal in which Hamas would free the remaining 136 Israeli hostages (or their bodies) in exchange for Israel withdrawing from Gaza and ending the war without destroying the terrorist organization.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/21/biden-admin-qatar-egypt-propose-hostage-deal-where-israel-loses-war/

[mountaineer]

Biden Admin, Qatar, Egypt Propose Hostage Deal Where Israel Loses War

[mystery-ak]

Netanyahu Rejects Biden Surrender Plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected a Biden administration-backed plan Sunday to end the war in Gaza, with Hamas still holding onto its weapons and power, in exchange for the staged release of the remaining 136 Israeli hostages.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/21/netanyahu-rejects-biden-surrender-plan/

[Cyber Liberty]

Netanyahu Rejects Biden Surrender Plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected a Biden administration-backed plan Sunday to end the war in Gaza, with Hamas still holding onto its weapons and power, in exchange for the staged release of the remaining 136 Israeli hostages.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/21/netanyahu-rejects-biden-surrender-plan/

As well he should.  He never trusted Biden, hasn't for many years, if at all.  I don't think Bebe trusts much of anyone.

[mystery-ak]

 Israeli airstrike takes out Hezbollah member in Lebanon in apparent shift to targeted killings
By Associated Press   
Published Jan. 21, 2024
Updated Jan. 21, 2024, 4:13 p.m. ET

SIDON, Lebanon — An Israeli airstrike hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon on Sunday, killing a Hezbollah member and wounding several other people, including civilians, Lebanese state media and health officials reported.

The strike appeared to be part of a shift in Israeli strategy toward targeted killings in Lebanon after more than three months of near-daily clashes with Hezbollah militants on the border against the backdrop of the war in Gaza.

Hezbollah announced that one of its members, identified as Fadel Shaar, had been killed in the strike in the town of Kafra. Local civil defense and hospital officials said seven people were wounded, including two women, one of whom was in critical condition.

Video from the scene showed a passenger sedan in flames next to a small truck stopped in the middle of the road.

The Israeli military did not comment on the strike.

more
https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/israeli-airstrike-takes-out-hezbollah-member-in-lebanon-in-apparent-shift-to-targeted-killings/

[libertybele]

I just can't picture this.

Joe (holding phone upside down): Who is this?

B.N.: Mr. President, are you there? It's Benjamin Netanyahu.

Joe: Yahoo? What? Who?

B.N.: Prime Minister of Israel.

Joe: Israel? That's Jewish, right? I spent my entire childhood back in Delaware in a synagogue. Every day, right after school. Did you know I like bagels?

B.N.: We have to talk about Hamas.

Joe: No, not hummus. Too tangy. I just put peanut butter on them, and hope it doesn't pull out my dentures.