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The eliminated Iranian commander was identified as Seyed Razi Mousavi, Iranian state media confirmed. Mousavi was considered one of the closest IRGC commanders to Qassem Soleimani and the commander of Iranian forces in Syria.
How to win friends and influence people: Pro-Hamas protesters terrorize SecDef Lloyd Austin's neighborhood, along with the neighborhoods of other administration officials.Poor baby, now he knows how some SC justices felt. maybe time to quit tolerating and pampering these folks and lock their asses up :pondering: or send them to all the other Biden stooges homes.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1739353969594409444
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1739324808892965259
Poor baby, now he knows how some SC justices felt. maybe time to quit tolerating and pampering these folks and lock their asses up :pondering: or send them to all the other Biden stooges homes.
StopAntisemitismNow that they've been found out, they're backtracking:
@StopAntisemites
Sickening - the newly formed “Doctors Against Genocide” plans to infiltrate the U.S. Holocaust Museum this Thursday (12/28) to demand Israel stop defending itself against Hamas terrorism.
Who exactly is this group?
👉🏼 According to Roll Call, one of the founding members of DAG is Nidal Jboor a physician from Dearborn, MI.
👉🏼 Nidal Jboor is seen here speaking next to antisemites Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush, at an organized press conference from 12/7, demanding Israel stop attacking Hamas.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCR4EIaXMAEFOIO?format=jpg&name=small)
👉🏼 They were formed last month and focus solely on Israel
👉🏼 According to its website, DAG is a program of "Jetpac," a 501c3 who “seeks to build a strong American Muslim political infrastructure and increase our community’s influence”
Hamas has one goal - to murder Jews. For this physicians’ group to desecrate the Holocaust museum with their calls of a ceasefire (ie - for the Jewish nation to stop defending itself) is stomach churning.
9:00 AM · Dec 26, 2023
Yehuda Teitelbaum
@chalavyishmael
Maybe this is just me but I don't want to be treated by someone who thinks that killing me is resistance.
Or by someone who has such a loose grip on reality that they think Israel is commiting genocide.
9:19 AM · Dec 26, 2023
The attack was carried out by a one-way attack drone, according to the statement, which said the three locations were “focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities.”
The statement said Biden ordered the retaliatory strikes after learning of the attack that wounded the U.S. service members.
“President Biden was immediately briefed on the attack this morning, and he ordered the Department of Defense to prepare response options against those responsible. Those options were then presented to the President during a call this afternoon with Secretary of Defense Austin and members of the President’s national security team,” the statement read.
“During that call, the President directed strikes against three locations utilized by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups focused specifically on unmanned aerial drone activities,” the statement continued.
“The President places no higher priority than the protection of American personnel serving in harm’s way. The United States will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing should these attacks continue.”
Israel is going to need some long-range heavy bombers to finish this.
And Lebanon had better pick a side in this war. They have gotten away with harboring Hezbollah for far too long.
...exactly the situation in Gaza, with Hamas.
Damascus is the capital of Lebanon.
Damascus is the capital of Lebanon.
Al Jazeera reporting false information! Hard to imagine. **nononono*
Al Jazeera English
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The US has rejected Israel’s request to obtain Apache helicopters as it continues its war on Gaza, reports Israeli news outlet Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet). 🔴 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/xx4z8
3:21 AM · Dec 26, 2023
Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
A U.S. official told me the story is false and claimed Israel didn't request Apache helicopters
12:02 PM · Dec 26, 2023
Does that make Tehran the capital of Syria?
Does that make Tehran the capital of Syria?
LOL! The Israelis could probably start building them tomorrow, as they surely have all the specs/schemactics.
LOL! The Israelis could probably start building them tomorrow, as they surely have all the specs/schemactics.Possibly, but why bother? They can buy dozens or hundreds of them from Afghanistan on the cheap. Biden gifted Afghanistan who knows how many Apaches and the Muzzies can't even fly them. I'm sure they would be glad to sell them to a third party broker who would then sell them to Israel.
And Lebanon had better pick a side in this war. They have gotten away with harboring Hezbollah for far too long.
...exactly the situation in Gaza, with Hamas.
Netanyahu’s 3 Peace Conditions: Destroy Hamas, Demilitarize Gaza, Deprogram Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Christmas Day laying out his three basic conditions for peace in post-war Gaza: destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza, and de-radicalize the Palestinian population.
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https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/12/25/netanyahus-3-peace-conditions-destroy-hamas-demilitarize-gaza-deprogram-palestinians/
Third, Gaza will have to be deradicalized. Schools must teach children to cherish life rather than death, and imams must cease to preach for the murder of Jews. Palestinian civil society needs to be transformed so that its people support fighting terrorism rather than funding it.
'Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state.
NY Times, Dec 10, 2023
Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Mr. Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting
In interviews with more than two dozen current and former Israeli, American and Qatari officials, and officials from other Middle Eastern governments, The New York Times unearthed new details about the origins of the policy, the controversies that erupted inside the Israeli government and the lengths that Mr. Netanyahu went to in order to shield the Qataris from criticism and keep the money flowing.
The payments were part of a string of decisions by Israeli political leaders, military officers and intelligence officials — all based on the fundamentally flawed assessment that Hamas was neither interested in nor capable of a large-scale attack
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
FTA: Netanyahu quote:
Not even remotely similar.
As our resident Jew hater, you have an issue with what the NY Times said he said.
I only hate the damage the quintessential liar, Benjamin Netanyahu, has done to the Israeli people, their safety and security and faith in who they are.
The payments from Qatar to Hamas are well documented, as are the facilitation by Mossad and approval of Netanyahu.
Retiring Netanyahu will save Israel @Wingnut
When the shooting is over. Not until.
@Right_in_Virginia
Are you suggesting that Israe should l have turned that money over to the PA instead?
But before peace negotiations......
Not even remotely similar.
I only hate the damage the quintessential liar, Benjamin Netanyahu, has done to the Israeli people, their safety and security and faith in who they are.
The payments from Qatar to Hamas are well documented, as are the facilitation by Mossad and approval of Netanyahu.
Retiring Netanyahu will save Israel @Wingnut
What does "Retiring Netanyahu" mean? Do you mean retiring him in the mafia sense of the term? Or ... what do you mean by that?
I only hate the damage the quintessential liar, Benjamin Netanyahu, has done to the Israeli people, their safety and security and faith in who they are.
The payments from Qatar to Hamas are well documented, as are the facilitation by Mossad and approval of Netanyahu.
Retiring Netanyahu will save Israel @Wingnut
@Right_in_Virginia
Are you suggesting that Israe should l have turned that money over to the PA instead?
No.
Nah. You are running a game on us. But those of us who stand with Israel see you as a pro Hamas stooge.
Israel is more than and better than Benjamin Netanyahu --- and her future security depends on ending his 16 year run as prime minister @Wingnut
I'm happy to discuss this with you, in whatever detail you like. If, however, you won't engage in a rational discussion, at least stop reacting like an ignorant baboon.
What does "Retiring Netanyahu" mean? Do you mean retiring him in the mafia sense of the term? Or ... what do you mean by that?
I only hate the damage the quintessential liar, Benjamin Netanyahu, has done to the Israeli people
You have never engaged in rational a discussion on TBR in your life. You're a hot mess of menopausal hormones gone wild.
Israel is more than and better than Benjamin Netanyahu --- and her future security depends on ending his 16 year run as prime minister @Wingnut
When I reach menopause, odds are you'll be a memory @Wingnut 88devil
Retire as in vote him out of office and the Likud to the comfort and security of his mansion in Caesarea @240B
Retire as in vote him out of office and the Likud to the comfort and security of his mansion in Caesarea @240B
Netanyahu became prime minister just under a year ago. Maybe you're thinking of Mahmoud Abbas. He's been in power almost 19 years.
At this stage of Israel's existence, they need Legends.
@Hoodat
Netanyahu has been a power fixture in Israel since becoming Israel's ambassador to the UN in 1984, followed by James Baker barring him from the State Department.
Without itemizing his stints as UN Ambassador, Foreign Affairs Minister, Finance Minister, Science and Technology Minister, Housing and Construction Minister and Leader of Likud, here's the guy's resume for the last 27 years --
1996–99: Prime Minister
2009--21: Prime Minister
2021--22: Knesset Opposition Leader (like McConnell in the Senate)
2022 -- : Prime Minister
@Right_in_Virginia
I know his resume. You specifically stated that "[Israel's] future security depends on ending [Netanjahu's] 16 year run as prime minister". Yet his current run began less than a year ago. Please stop posting lies on this forum.
@Right_in_Virginia
Again, you specifically stated that "[Israel's] future security depends on ending [Netanjahu's] 16 year run as prime minister". Yet his current run began less than a year ago. Please stop posting lies on this forum.
Also, you criticize Netanyahu for holding the exact same position as your self. Please stop being a hypocrite, too.
@Hoodat
Netanyahu is the Prime Minister who set Oct 7 in motion and then ignored the massive attack
Netanyahu is the Prime Minister who set Oct 7 in motion and then ignored the massive attack as it became the reality he predicted in 2017.
Again, please stop posting lies on this forum.
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our face
Times of Israel, Oct 8, 2023
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.
[...]
Additionally, since 2014, Netanyahu-led governments have practically turned a blind eye to the incendiary balloons and rocket fire from Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip.
Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015.
According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
While Netanyahu does not make these kind of statements publicly or officially, his words are in line with the policy that he implemented.
The same messaging was repeated by right-wing commentators, who may have received briefings on the matter or talked to Likud higher-ups and understood the message.
Bolstered by this policy, Hamas grew stronger and stronger until Saturday, Israel’s “Pearl Harbor,” the bloodiest day in its history — when terrorists crossed the border, slaughtered hundreds of Israelis and kidnapped an unknown number under the cover of thousands of rockets fired at towns throughout the country’s south and center.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
'Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state.
NY Times, Dec 10, 2023
Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Mr. Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting
In interviews with more than two dozen current and former Israeli, American and Qatari officials, and officials from other Middle Eastern governments, The New York Times unearthed new details about the origins of the policy, the controversies that erupted inside the Israeli government and the lengths that Mr. Netanyahu went to in order to shield the Qataris from criticism and keep the money flowing.
The payments were part of a string of decisions by Israeli political leaders, military officers and intelligence officials — all based on the fundamentally flawed assessment that Hamas was neither interested in nor capable of a large-scale attack
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
'Frogmen, hang gliders, kidnapped Israelis’: Netanyahu described Hamas’s plans in 2017
Times of Israel, Dec 22, 2023
Footage of Knesset hearing on 2014 Gaza war shows PM claiming he’d deterred terror group; premier lays out Hamas’s murderous plans, which came to fruition on Oct. 7, in eerie detail
In 2017, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described an onslaught by the Hamas terror group that would prove to be a prescient description of the horrifying events of October 7, but said at the time that his policies had deterred the terror group.
Hebrew-language media published footage on Thursday from a 2017 Knesset meeting in which Netanyahu described the terror group’s plans in eerie detail.
“Hamas has an operational plan for a multi-pronged attack, including thousands of missiles on Israeli cities, naval commando raids, hang gliders and incursions from dozens of tunnels, some of which come up in [Israeli] territory,” Netanyahu said during a hearing held by the parliament’s State Control Committee to discuss a report on the 2014 Gaza war against Hamas.
During the emotionally fraught three-and-a-half hour discussion, Netanyahu described the “special forces” that Hamas was training in order to murder and kidnap Israelis, a reference to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
“They’ve assessed that if they can surprise us, they can put the plan into action,” Netanyahu said.
The scenario the prime minister described was similar to the events some six years later on October 7, when some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 240 hostages of all ages — mostly civilians — under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.
In 2017, Netanyahu said that the Hamas leadership had begun planning a massive onslaught years earlier.
“At any given moment they could have put that plan into action, but contrary to popular opinion, we don’t control our opponent’s decisions — at most, we can influence their ability to carry them out,” he said.
While he claimed that Hamas was “deterred,” Netanyahu made it clear that he was under “no illusions .. that the terror group would abandon its plan.”
“When I thought about an infiltration of thousands of gunmen or more, seizing a town, capturing hostages, what a blow that would be, I flagged it,” Netanyahu added.
“We tried to avoid war in any way possible. We’re facing a hard and cruel enemy. To avoid escalation against an enemy like that is no mean feat. There are 30,000 [Hamas fighters in Gaza], wishing for our destruction and preparing all the time and building the means with which to kill us, to infiltrate, to attack us. People who are committed to the annihilation of Israel; it’s what they live for,” he said.
Netanyahu also highlighted his role in the policy of containment: “One of the reasons that [Hamas] is deterred is because I have a policy, that I’m not willing to tolerate droplets [of violence], and there’s always a strong reaction, usually very fast, on every such droplet.”
One of the most damning allegations in the 2017 report contended that better decision-making practices could have obviated the need for a military operation entirely.
The state comptroller report debated by the committee in 2017 was centered around the management of the security cabinet by Netanyahu and then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, specifically the cabinet’s alleged failure to set concrete, strategic goals for the military in the campaign. It also noted intelligence gaps and tactical mistakes by the Israel Defense Forces, then led by Lt. Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz, notably its unpreparedness for the threat of Hamas tunnels.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/frogmen-hang-gliders-kidnapped-israelis-netanyahu-described-hamass-plans-in-2017/
US Navy Destroyer and Fighters Engage 17 Houthi Missiles and Drones
By streiff | 9:22 PM on December 26, 2023
A US Navy destroyer and several F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters shot down a total of 17 Houthi drones and missiles during a tense 10-hour engagement over the southern Red Sea.
Details of the engagement are sparse, but the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58), a member of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group (CSG), as well as several F/A-18 launched from the Eisenhower shot down 12 attack drones, three-antiship missiles and two land attack missiles. The engagement began at 6:30 a.m. local time Tuesday and continued for 10 hours. None of the attacking weapons hit a target.
This is the general location of the engagement. The USS Laboon is the blue dot to the left of the USNS Supply icon...next to the two Iranian ships.
I would guess that our friend @Right_in_Virginia is employed at the Department of State.
@Bigun @Right_in_Virginia
Once again, I have to stick my nose in here and ask, "why would you even post that?".
Many of the NT Briefers apparently haven't learned their lesson when they suggested she work for the DeSantis Campaign.
Is it because she never loses her cool? Is it because she's obviously a well-educated, well-traveled and can speak in paragraphs?
LOL...like suggesting @Hoodat is an arms dealer because he's a "war groupie".
Or, a direct descendant of the Salem Witch Hunt trial judges, stalking RIV around the forum compulsively 'screaming'... "LIAR!!!"
:patriot:
Mowing the grass in Gaza while authorizing and facilitating transfers of US dollars in payments estimated in the billions from Qatar to Hamas was a recipe for disaster from the start.
LOL...like suggesting @Hoodat is an arms dealer because he's a "war groupie".
I would guess that our friend Right_in_Virginia is employed at the Department of State.Or may as well be.
Or may as well be.
I would guess that our friend @Right_in_Virginia is employed at the Department of State.
@Hoodat
1996–99: Prime Minister
2009--21: Prime Minister
2021--22: Knesset Opposition Leader (like McConnell in the Senate)
2022 -- : Prime Minister
For Mr. Security, a bit of war was a political asset ---- perhaps his greatest. Mowing the grass in Gaza while authorizing and facilitating transfers of US dollars in payments estimated in the billions from Qatar to Hamas was a recipe for disaster from the start.
Netanyahu knew about the tunnels, his governments, his security agencies knew and he was forced to admit they knew when the tunnels became common knowledge during the war in 2014. Not only didn't Netanyahu destroy them then, he didn't attempt to stop their expansion in the years since.
Neither did Netanyahu question where the money from Qatar was going.
Netanyahu ignored warnings of an imminent and massive attack from the IDF, as well as from Egypt. Just days before the Oct 7 attack two IDF commando companies were diverted from the Gaza region to the West Bank to help with unrest there ---- leaving Israelis in the South unprotected for 20 hours. FWIW, the settlers in the West Bank are part of the political glue holding Netanyahu's tenuous government together.
Yet, by his own admission, Netanyahu knew an attack of this scale was coming since 2017.
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our face
Times of Israel, Oct 8, 2023
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state.
NY Times, Dec 10, 2023
Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the Hamas government there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them.
During his meetings in September with the Qatari officials, according to several people familiar with the secret discussions, the Mossad chief, David Barnea, was asked a question that had not been on the agenda: Did Israel want the payments to continue?
Mr. Netanyahu’s government had recently decided to continue the policy, so Mr. Barnea said yes. The Israeli government still welcomed the money from Doha.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html
Frogmen, hang gliders, kidnapped Israelis’: Netanyahu described Hamas’s plans in 2017
Times of Israel, Dec 22, 2023
Footage of Knesset hearing on 2014 Gaza war shows PM claiming he’d deterred terror group; premier lays out Hamas’s murderous plans, which came to fruition on Oct. 7, in eerie detail
In 2017, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described an onslaught by the Hamas terror group that would prove to be a prescient description of the horrifying events of October 7, but said at the time that his policies had deterred the terror group.
Hebrew-language media published footage on Thursday from a 2017 Knesset meeting in which Netanyahu described the terror group’s plans in eerie detail.
“Hamas has an operational plan for a multi-pronged attack, including thousands of missiles on Israeli cities, naval commando raids, hang gliders and incursions from dozens of tunnels, some of which come up in [Israeli] territory,” Netanyahu said during a hearing held by the parliament’s State Control Committee to discuss a report on the 2014 Gaza war against Hamas.
More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/frogmen-hang-gliders-kidnapped-israelis-netanyahu-described-hamass-plans-in-2017
Putting aside your uncharacteristic snark @Bigun ----- what part do you disagree with?
U.S. Navy Shoots Down 12 Houthi Drones and Five Missiles in One Day
The Houthis are members of a jihadi movement that calls itself “Ansar Allah,” the Army of Allah. Its slogan is “Allahu Akbar, Death to the United States, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory for Islam.” President Joe Biden lifted Ansar Allah’s classification as a terrorist organization in February 2021.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/12/27/u-s-navy-shoots-down-12-houthi-drones-five-missiles-one-day/
No snark intended or posted. Let's just say that I know how the folks at Foggy Bottom operate and your posts say that you fit the MO. @Right_in_Virginia
You seem to forget that Netanyahu has always had to operate under many of the same conditions that Trump had to face during his presidency.
What's your disagreement with what I posted @Bigun ?
I never said I disagreed with any of it @Right_in_Virginia but, unlike you, I recognize the conditions he has been forced to deal with. (Liberals are not unique to the USA.)
Putting aside your uncharacteristic snark @Bigun ----- what part do you disagree with?
U.S. Navy Shoots Down 12 Houthi Drones and Five Missiles in One Day
Article 3 shows that the Oct 7 attack was a confirmation that Netanyahu was right all along.
Exclusive: Caroline Glick Warns Israel Perilously Dependent on U.S. Munitions, Biden’s 2-State Plan Would ‘Annihilate’ Israel
Israel has become dangerously dependent on American munitions, according to conservative Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick, who is calling for Israeli self-sufficiency, while slamming the Biden administration’s push for a “hideously anti-Israel” two-state solution policy, declaring it a “plan to annihilate Israel, piece by piece.”
Speaking with Breitbart News on Wednesday, Glick lamented Israel’s current state of reliance on America in terms of military production capacity.
“Right now, we’re pretty much dependent on the United States,” she said. “We have some independent production capabilities, but it’s far from sufficient for our needs during war.”
Glick addressed former President Barack Obama’s $38 billion 10-year aid package to Israel, which includes strict terms and limitations, while mandating all funds be spent on U.S. suppliers by the end of the deal.
“Israel managed to put itself into a position in recent years, clearly since the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) went into force, which essentially and deliberately required her to spend about 95% of the U.S. military assistance in the United States,” she said.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/28/exclusive-caroline-glick-warns-israel-perilously-dependent-munitions-bidens-2-state-plan-would-annihilate-israel/
Guardian Updates
5h ago
10.00 EST
Summary of the day so far …
It is 5pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are the latest headlines …
Egypt said on Thursday that it had put forward a framework proposal to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip that includes three stages ending with a ceasefire, and said it was awaiting responses on the plan. Egyptian security sources had previously said the proposal included a multi-stage ceasefire involving prisoner releases by Israel and Hamas.
The main focus of fighting is now in central areas, where Israeli forces have ordered civilians out over the past several days as their tanks advance. Tens of thousands of people fleeing the huge Nusseirat, Bureij and Maghazi districts were heading south or west on Thursday into the already overwhelmed city of Deir al-Balah along the Mediterranean coast, crowding into hastily built camps of makeshift tents. Israel’s military campaign and its repeated orders for civilians to evacuate to the south of the Gaza Strip have led to the displacement of 85% of the Palestinian population.
A total of 21,320 Palestinians have been killed and 55,603 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said on Thursday. Qidra said 210 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours. The health ministry in Gaza is run by Hamas.
The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has said 40% of Gaza’s population was now at risk of famine. The agency said it was distributing flour to families in southern Gaza but there was “simply not enough food”. The schools that it has converted into shelters are four times over capacity.
A UN report published on Thursday deplored what it said was a “rapid deterioration” of human rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged Israeli authorities to end violence against the Palestinian population there. The office of the UN high commissioner for human rights (OHCHR) said it had recorded mass arbitrary detentions, unlawful detentions, and cases of reported torture and other forms of ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees. It said about 4,785 Palestinians had been detained and 300 killed in the occupied West Bank since 7 October.
One Palestinian has been killed and at least 15 injured in overnight raids by the Israeli military targeting money exchange shops in cities in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s national security minister published an image that he claimed showed items confiscated by Israel. In his message, Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed that “tens of millions of shekels, safes, documents, recording systems and telephones that were intended to finance Hamas terrorism were confiscated”.
The number of Israeli service personnel injured during the war against Hamas has now reached roughly 3,000. That figure includes nearly 900 soldiers wounded since Israel began its ground offensive inside Gaza in late October. More than 160 soldiers have been killed since the ground operation began. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
A drone has crashed near a village in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, Israel’s army has said, after an Iraqi armed group with links to Hamas militants claimed responsibility for an attack in the area. Israeli media reported that a drone probably carrying explosives launched from Syria was shot down late Wednesday evening south of the settlement of Eliad, causing no injuries but some material damage. On Thursday Israel said it had shot down a drone that crossed into its territory from Lebanon.
Israel’s military chief, Herzi Halevi, has said his forces were “at a very high level of readiness” amid escalating Hezbollah attacks from Lebanon.The Israeli war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, separately said the situation on the country’s northern border “demands change” and the time for diplomacy was running out.
Germany and its EU partners are examining whether they could mount a new maritime mission to protect commercial vessels under threat of attack in the Red Sea, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. Yemen’s rebel Houthis have been targeting vessels using the Red Sea and Suez canal route in order, they say, to target shipping with links to Israel
Improper munition said cause of high death toll in strike on Gaza’s Maghazi
Times of Israel, Dec 28, 2023
An Israel Defense Forces strike that killed dozens of people in the Maghazi camp in the center of the Gaza Strip earlier this week was carried out using improper ordnance, a military official told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday.
“The type of munition did not match the nature of the attack, causing extensive collateral damage that could have been avoided,” the official said.
The army said later Thursday that it “regretted the harm” to noncombatants in the incident, saying the strike had targeted Hamas operatives but caused unexpected harm to Gazans who were not involved.
According to Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza, 68 people were killed in the strike in the Maghazi camp, east of Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Strip, late Sunday. The toll cannot be verified and could include Hamas fighters. Associated Press journalists at a nearby hospital said they watched frantic Palestinians carry the dead, including a baby, and the wounded following the strike.
In response to the Kan report on Thursday, an IDF spokesperson said the air force attacked “several Hamas operatives” at two adjacent locations. It said “steps were taken” ahead of the attack to minimize the harm to noncombatants.” Its initial investigation showed that “additional buildings were struck… in a way that apparently led to the unexpected harming of noncombatants.” The IDF said the incident was being investigated further.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/improper-munition-said-cause-of-high-death-toll-in-strike-on-gazas-maghazi/
KEY UPDATE
57 min ago
Washington Post
Victoria Bisset and Lior Soroka
Human rights situation rapidly deteriorating in West Bank, U.N. agency says
Israel launched more raids Thursday inside the West Bank, where a new U.N. report finds that the human rights situation there has “deteriorated rapidly” since Oct. 7.
The Israel Defense Forces said that authorities launched operations in the West Bank against people suspected of financing Hamas, arresting 21 people and confiscating money and documents. The IDF also said it attacked a group of militants in Jenin who “fired at our forces.” The Palestinian Monetary Authority condemned the raids, saying in a statement that they undermined the Palestinian banking sector and violated international law.
Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said that one person was killed and 14 others injured in confrontations with Israeli forces in the center of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied territory. The day before, Palestinian health authorities said six people were shot dead in Tulkarm.
The escalation in violence since Oct. 7 brings the total number of those killed in the West Bank to at least 300, including 79 children, according to a report published by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday.
In that period, Israeli forces killed at least 292 Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, it found; Israeli settlers killed eight people, while a further two were killed either by forces or settlers. Three Israeli service members and one civilian have been killed in the West Bank since Oct. 7, it added. The report said that violence in the West Bank was at its highest levels since the United Nations began keeping records in 2005.
At a news conference Thursday, Tal Heinrich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli prime minister’s office, said the report “belittles the major security threats to Israelis” and said Israeli operations in the West Bank were targeting militants intent on destroying Israel.
"Our forces are operating in [the West Bank] to keep that front as quiet as possible despite the many challenges that we have there,” she said.
UN report calls on Israel to ‘end unlawful killings’ in West Bank
The Hill, Dec 28, 2023
A United Nations report published Thursday details the “rapidly deteriorating human rights situation” in the West Bank and called on Israel to end the “unlawful killings” against Palestinians.
The report, published by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), called for an “immediate end to the use of military weapons and means during law enforcement operations” and an end to the “arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Palestinians.”
The report found that from Oct. 7 — when Hamas invaded Israel in a surprise attack — until Wednesday, there were 291 Palestinian deaths in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, by the Israel security forces. A majority of the deaths were men, but at least 79 children have been killed in the West Bank.
At least 105 deaths were recorded during Israeli law enforcement operations using airstrikes or other military tactics, and 201 were recorded during law enforcement operations or confrontations not involving an exchange of fire, the report said.
There were nearly 5,000 arrests that were “regularly accompanied” by physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
According to The Associated Press, more than 500,00 Israelis live in settlements built in the occupied West Bank. The U.N. report found settlers “took advantage of the permissive environment” after Oct. 7 “to accelerate displacement” and violence against Palestinian communities and expand Israeli control.
More:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4379981-un-report-israel-unlawful-killings-west-bank/
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a difficult phone conversation last weekIf true, it was because Joe had no clue why he was on the phone or to whom he was speaking.
Israel is about to get Ukraine'd by our pro-Hamas President Poopy Pants. With friends like the US you don't need enemies.
QuoteUN report calls on Israel to ‘end unlawful killings’ in West Bank
The Hill, Dec 28, 2023
Biden Has ‘Frustrating’ Call With Netanyahu Over Withheld Palestinian Authority Funds
Tense phone call comes amid reports of growing rift between the two leaders as calls for a ceasefire mount
Published 12/28/23 11:55 PM ET|Updated 2 hr ago
Aneeta Mathur-Ashton
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a difficult phone conversation last week over Israel’s decision to withhold part of the tax revenue it collects for the Palestinian Authority.
A Hamas tunnel shaft was found inside a mosque in Gaza.
https://twitter.com/VividProwess/status/1740357876231598324
Report: Biden Pushes Netanyahu to Give Palestinians Money, Mid-war
President Joe Biden is reportedly putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to transfer tax money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) that Israel collects on its behalf, but which it has suspended since the terror attacks of October 7.
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https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/12/29/report-biden-pushes-netanyahu-to-give-palestinians-money-mid-war/
According to the officials, Biden asked Netanyahu to accept a proposal that the Israeli prime minister raised himself several weeks ago: to transfer the withheld tax revenues to Norway for safekeeping until an arrangement can be found that will assuage Israel's concerns that the funds could reach Hamas.
A U.S. official said Netanyahu backtracked and said he doesn't think this is a good idea anymore. He told Biden he doesn't trust the Norwegians,
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/biden-netanyahu-call-palestinian-authority-tax-revenue
The only surprise is Netanyahu and his security forces have looked the other way since 2009.
About 30 tunnels were destroyed during the 2014 conflict. At the time, Israeli officials said Hamas had built more than 1,300 tunnels since 2007 at a cost of $1.25 billion, diverting funds that could have been spent on public infrastructure in Gaza.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/14/gaza-tunnels-hamas-israel/QuoteAbout 30 tunnels were destroyed during the 2014 conflict. At the time, Israeli officials said Hamas had built more than 1,300 tunnels since 2007 at a cost of $1.25 billion, diverting funds that could have been spent on public infrastructure in Gaza.
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
Now we learn from "unnamed sources" that the two had a call last Saturday in which Biden was basically trying to tell Netanyahu what to do, and when he wasn't going for it, Biden hung up on him. U.S. officials are now dinging Bibi, terming it one of the most difficult and "frustrating" conversations the two have had.Can you imagine how Bibi reacted after the old coot hung up on him? Probably just looked at the phone handset and said, "What the hell was that bunch of insanity?" And everyone just shrugged.
Can you imagine how Bibi reacted after the old coot hung up on him? Probably just looked at the phone handset and said, "What the hell was that bunch of insanity?" And everyone just shrugged.Personally I think it was probably Joe's keepers that hung up to keep him from saying something really stupid(I know) or threatening to kick Bibi's ass just like he did that bad dude Corn Pop!
Can you imagine how Bibi reacted after the old coot hung up on him? Probably just looked at the phone handset and said, "What the hell was that bunch of insanity?" And everyone just shrugged.
ICYMI @Hoodat
Either it's that you missed it, or it's your complete lack of integrity that blocks you from seeing what is plainly clear to the rest of us.
Can you imagine how Bibi reacted after the old coot hung up on him? Probably just looked at the phone handset and said, "What the hell was that bunch of insanity?" And everyone just shrugged.
Israel seeks full control of Gaza-Egypt border, Netanyahu says
Reuters, Dec 30, 2023
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Israel must take full control of the Gaza Strip border corridor with Egypt to ensure a "demilitarisation" of the area, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, as Israel's military pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza.
Speaking at a press conference, Netanyahu said: "The Philadelphi Corridor - or to put it more correctly, the southern closing point (of Gaza) - must be in our hands. It must be shut. It is clear that any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarisation that we seek."
He did not elaborate. If accomplished, such a move would mark a de facto reversal of Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, placing the enclave under exclusive Israeli control after years being run by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Netanyahu's comments about the buffer zone came as Israeli military forces pressed ahead with an offensive that the prime minister reiterated will last "for many more months."
More:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fighting-between-israeli-forces-hamas-rages-after-nearly-200-killed-gaza-2023-12-30/
Netanyahu warns Iran, Hezbollah of 'blows it never dreamed of'
Jerusalem Post Updates, Dec 30, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning to Iran and Hezbollah and confirmed that the Gaza war could continue for months, amid a push to bring to fruition a Qatari proposal to secure the release of additional hostages.
“On the northern border - we are landing heavy blows against Hezbollah, eliminating many terrorists and destroying the enemy's capabilities,” Netanyahu said in a press conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.
“We approved operational plans for the continuation of the fighting. If Hezbollah expands the war - it will receive blows it never dreamed of, and so will Iran. We will act in any way until we restore security to the residents of the north,” Netanyahu stated.
“Iran leads the axis of evil and aggression against us on the various fronts,” Netanyahu stated.
Israel investigates reports of tunneling in West Bank as locals fear imminent Oct. 7 style attack
By Anders Hagstrom , Fox News
Published Dec. 30, 2023, 5:17 p.m. ET
The Jerusalem Post
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The IDF has killed Hamas operative Abd el-Fatah Maali, the right-hand man of Yahya Ayash, the Hamas bomb-maker known as the "Engineer," according to reports in Palestinian media on Saturday.
Ruling out resigning, PM says he’s made Israel stronger; is cautious on hostage deal
Times of Israel, Dec 30, 2023
Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said he has no plans to resign and indicated he intends to remain in power once the war is over, to ensure Gaza is demilitarized and no new terror threat can emerge from there following Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel.
Asked about his plans for the day after the war in the face of calls for him to resign, Netanyahu replied: “The only thing I’m going to resign from is Hamas.”
"In the years I’ve led the State of Israel, it got much stronger,” he asserted, despite the country having sustained the worst one-day losses in its history on October 7, with most of the 1,200 victims of the Hamas slaughter being civilians. He cited the fact that “we can manage a multi-front campaign” that will soon have lasted 90 days, with a “wonderful army,” a strong economy and “international backing.”
"To achieve absolute victory, to fulfill all our goals, more time is needed. We act all the time with determination and strength, and I would like to emphasize — we do this while protecting the lives of our fighters as much as possible,” he said, adding that Israel was now “deepening the fight against Hamas.”
He stressed that he was also committed to restoring security along the border with Lebanon in the north amid escalating Hezbollah attacks, so the residents who were evacuated from there can return home.
Some critics of Netanyahu linked the failure to stop the shock incursion to the prime minister’s policy of passing along funds from Qatari to appease Hamas and the now-debunked concept that the terror group had been deterred by previous rounds of fighting.
According to a Channel 13 news survey published earlier this month, 70 percent of Israelis believe Netanyahu should resign as prime minister.
During Saturday’s press conference, Netanyahu also stressed his government’s actions in the West Bank, declaring that under his leadership “we work around the clock: arresting terrorists, eliminating terrorists, thwarting many terrorist attacks.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ruling-out-resigning-pm-says-hes-made-israel-stronger-is-cautious-on-hostage-deal/
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1741490989313704183:pondering: A joint statement, eh? Are we making sure that the Houthi are given enough time to clear out from their positions before we attack?
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
An Joint-Statement is reportedly expected to be made in the coming hours by the United States, Britain, and an Unknown European Country, announcing that they are in Final Preparations for a Large-Scale Military Operation against the Houthi Terrorist Group in Yemen which will include the launch of Hundreds of Missiles and Airstrikes against Pre-Planned Targets in Western Yemen and the Red Sea.
Hamas using Chinese weaponry:
Israel Radar
@IsraelRadar_com
Reports from Gaza: IDF cuts off western & eastern areas of Khan Younis, numerous terrorists killed in Israeli ops
In other words, Bibi told Biden to pound sand.
Iran Warship Enters Increasingly Contested Red Sea Shipping Lanes
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/01/iran-warship-enters-increasingly-contested-red-sea-shipping-lanes/
Sink it.Yes, may it experience a sudden buoyancy deprivation along the lines of
Adil Mismah, the Nukhba Company Commander of the city of Deir al-Balah, was “eliminated,” Israeli Defense Forces wrote on X Monday.
Since Iran prefers to spend money on spreading terror, and not humanitarian needs, Iran needs to be isolated from world financial networks, and there needs to be a ban on the transportation or import of Iranian oil.
GoPro footage recovered from a Hamas member killed by the IDF shows the group's operational methods in the Gaza Strip.:
They missed the tank.It did appear that way, but they claimed they took out three vehicles. :shrug:
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1741963746266784049
Are their Laser Pointers all burnt out?Forgot to buy fresh batteries.
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Reports from Lebanon: Senior Palestinian terror leader killed in Beirut; some witnesses say aircraft launched strike near Hamas offices, other sources say car bomb. via @sapirlipkin
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NEW: A large explosion was reported in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. I'll update as we get more information.
When do bombs start falling on Iran?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U
That song got heavy air play when I was a DJ....
I had forgotten about it, but, yes, I do recall hearing that played a few times.
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2 points about Beirut assassination:
- Israel has VERY GOOD intel capabilities; Hamas chiefs knew they must be extra-careful. Israel still got them.
- Israel is not afraid to take extreme action in Lebanon, even at risk of escalating fight vs. Hezbollah.
The Guardian Updates
30m ago
18.00 EST
Summary of the day...
This is Richard Luscombe in the US, handing over our blog coverage to colleagues in Australia. Thanks for joining me.
It’s 1am on Wednesday in Gaza City, Jerusalem and Beirut. Here are the main developments we’ve been following in the Israel-Hamas war:
Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an explosion in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, reportedly caused by a targeted Israeli drone strike. Israel has not accepted responsibility, but says “whoever did this… [it was] a surgical strike against the Hamas leadership”.
Six people were killed in the explosion, reports say, including al-Arouri, a founder of Hamas’s military wing long targeted by Israel, and two leaders of Hamas’s elite military al-Qassam Brigades. Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned a “new Israeli crime” and said the country was filing a complaint to the United Nations security council.
Israel’s military forces are in a state of “high readiness” following the assassination, a senior spokesman without acknowledging his country’s involvement in the incident. Rear Adm Daniel Hagari told reporters “We are focused and remain focused on fighting against Hamas. We are on high readiness for any scenario”.
Hezbollah said its finger “is on the trigger” as it promised vengeance for Arouri’s death, and later claimed it had launched a so-far unconfirmed missile attack on Israeli troops. The group said the attack in Beirut was “a serious assault on Lebanon… that will not go without a response or punishment” in a statement posted to Telegram.
Hamas said it won’t release any more hostages it took during the 7 October attacks on Israel, except under its own terms. The group’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, told Reuters he laid out the Hamas position to officials of Egypt and Qatar, countries trying to broker a ceasefire similar to the one in November that saw more than 100 hostages freed. Haniyeh is demanding “a complete cessation of the aggression” by Israel.
Turkey arrested 34 people on suspicion of spying for Mossad on behalf of Israel. “The Israeli intelligence service is recruiting personnel to be used in acts against Palestinians residing in our country and their families.,” a government official said. Without providing evidence, the official said the suspects were also spreading fake news and disinformation, carrying out robberies and blackmail for Israeli intelligence.
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said military operations in the south of the Gaza Strip around Khan Younis were focused on areas above what he said was a tunnel network where Hamas leaders were believed to be hiding. “We are reaching them all ways. There already is engagement and there are hostages there too sadly,” he told Israeli troops in footage shown on Israeli television, Reuters said.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported “several fatalities and wounded” at its headquarters in Khan Younis as a result of Israeli missile. “The occupation renews its bombardment of the PRCS headquarters in Khan Younis for the second time, resulting in several fatalities and wounded among the 14,000 displaced individuals housed in the PRCS’s premises and the adjacent Al-Amal hospital,” the group said in a statement.
At least 22,185 Palestinians have been killed and more than 57,000 wounded by Israel’s military action in Gaza, according to updated figures from the health ministry. It says that 207 Palestinians were killed and 338 were wounded in the past 24 hours. The Gaza health ministry is run by Hamas. The figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Separately, the Israeli military has claimed to have killed about 8,000 fighters in the Gaza Strip during its campaign. Additionally, since 7 October, at least 321 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli troops or settlers. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
Israel Defense Forces have killed four alleged Palestinian militants during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Azzun, the IDF has said. In addition it said it had arrested seven others. More than 2,550 people have been arrested in the occupied territory since the Israel-Hamas war began.
Israel will defend its actions in Gaza at the international court of justice in The Hague after South Africa launched a case against the state accusing it of genocide last week, Israeli media has reported. “Israel, a longstanding signatory to the Genocide Convention, will not boycott the proceedings. We will participate and refute the absurd accusation that amounts to blood libel,” national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi told the news site Ynet.
The first UK maritime shipment of aid for Gaza has arrived in Egypt, carrying almost 90 tonnes of thermal blankets and other essential items. The shipment was delivered from Cyprus by royal fleet auxiliary ship Lyme Bay, and the aid will be distributed within the Gaza Strip by UNRWA.
The Guardian Updates
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French president calls on Israel to avoid escalation
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon”, after a strike in Beirut that killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the Élysée Palace said on Tuesday.
Israel has so far not admitted or denied responsibility for the attack. Government adviser Mark Regev has told MSNBC that “whoever did this … [it was] a surgical strike against the Hamas leadership”.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is reporting that Macron spoke by telephone with Israeli minister and war cabinet member Benny Gantz. The presidency said:
"It was essential to avoid any escalatory attitude, particularly in Lebanon, and that France would continue to pass on these messages to all players directly or indirectly involved in the area."
Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri was killed in a strike in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday evening, the Palestinian militant group and Lebanese security officials said.
The Guardian Updates
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The United States has reached a deal to extend its military presence at a base in Qatar for another 10 years, a source familiar with the matter told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
It’s believed to be the Al Udeid airbase, which is located in the desert southwest of Doha and hosts the largest US military facility in the Middle East, the source said, asking Reuters not to be identified. The development was reported first by CNN.
The US Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. The tiny Gulf state has played a key role in mediation talks with Hamas and Israeli officials in relation to the war in Gaza.
US President Joe Biden has regularly spoken with the emir of Qatar since the 7 October attacks on securing the release of hostages held by Hamas and on boosting aid to Gaza.
There has also been criticism of Qatar by some in the US Congress over Hamas’ presence in the country.
Bernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israel
Jan 2, 2023
Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator of Vermont, issued a statement Tuesday calling on Congress to block additional funding to Israel amid the war in Gaza, where more than 22,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks after Hamas killed 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October.
“While we recognize that Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack began this war, we must also recognize that Israel’s military response has been grossly disproportionate, immoral and in violation of international law,” Sanders said.
“Enough is enough. Congress must reject that funding. The taxpayers of the United States must no longer be complicit in destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.”
Sanders’ statement came as Congress considers Joe Biden’s request for $10bn in aid to Israel as part of a larger funding package meant to assist US allies, including Ukraine, and address border security. Last month, Sanders notably opposed a $111bn funding proposal backed by Democrats because of his concerns about the money for Israel included in the bill.
“Israel has the absolute right to defend itself against the Hamas terrorists who attacked them on October 7,” Sanders said in a statement explaining his vote. “They do not have the legal or moral right to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza".
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/02/bernie-sanders-reject-aid-to-israel
Far-right ministers call to ‘resettle’ Gaza’s Palestinians, build settlements in Strip
Times of Israel, Jan 1, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two senior far-right partners endorsed the rebuilding of settlements in the Gaza Strip and the encouraging of “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians on Monday, while hawkish opposition MK Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon.
Speaking during their parties’ respective faction meetings in the Knesset, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich presented the migration of Palestinian civilians as a solution to the long-running conflict and as a prerequisite for securing the stability necessary to allow residents of southern Israel to return to their homes.
The war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza,” Ben Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, calling such a policy “a correct, just, moral and humane solution.”
“We cannot withdraw from any territory we are in in the Gaza Strip. Not only do I not rule out Jewish settlement there, I believe it is also an important thing,” he said.
The “correct solution” to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “to encourage the voluntary migration of Gaza’s residents to countries that will agree to take in the refugees,” Smotrich told members of his Religious Zionism party, predicting that “Israel will permanently control the territory of the Gaza Strip,” including through the establishment of settlements.
The idea of population transfer, once considered a fringe view held by members of the ultranationalist Kahane movement, was given renewed prominence in mainstream Israeli political discourse this November when MKs Danny Danon (Likud) and Ram Ben-Barak (Yesh Atid) published an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal, calling for “countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate.”
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Separately on Monday, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon, saying the country must “pay in territory” for damage caused by Hezbollah strikes on Israel’s northern towns.
The former defense minister, a member of the opposition, said Israel’s military must “close off” a swath of southern Lebanon and push the terror group north of the Litani River, even if it means occupying the area for 50 years
“We will not annex anything, and we will not build settlements, but we will release the territory only when there is a government in Beirut that knows how to exercise its sovereignty,” he said.
“Everything between the Litani and Israel must be under the control of the IDF,” added Liberman, likening it to the post-World War II military occupation of Germany. “If Lebanon won’t pay in territory, we haven’t done anything,” he said.
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-call-for-resettling-gazas-palestinians-building-settlements-in-strip/
Blue Oyster Cult did an Iran/Ayatollah song...
QuoteThe Guardian Updates
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French president calls on Israel to avoid escalation
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon”, after a strike in Beirut that killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the Élysée Palace said on Tuesday.
QuoteFar-right ministers call to ‘resettle’ Gaza’s Palestinians, build settlements in Strip
Times of Israel, Jan 1, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two senior far-right partners endorsed the rebuilding of settlements in the Gaza Strip and the encouraging of “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians on Monday, while hawkish opposition MK Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon.
Let me know when Macron calls on Hamas/Hezzbollah/Islamic Jihad to avoid escalation. Israel wouldn't have had to bomb Beruit had not Hamas first escalated.:amen:
The only problem with this is that there isn't a single muslim country on the planet that will take in Palestinian refugees.
The “correct solution” to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “to encourage the voluntary migration of Gaza’s residents to countries that will agree to take in the refugees,” Smotrich told members of his Religious Zionism party, predicting that “Israel will permanently control the territory of the Gaza Strip,” including through the establishment of settlements.
Let me know when Macron calls on Hamas/Hezzbollah/Islamic Jihad to avoid escalation. Israel wouldn't have had to bomb Beruit had not Hamas first escalated.
Separately on Monday, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon, saying the country must “pay in territory” for damage caused by Hezbollah strikes on Israel’s northern towns.
The former defense minister, a member of the opposition, said Israel’s military must “close off” a swath of southern Lebanon and push the terror group north of the Litani River, even if it means occupying the area for 50 years
“We will not annex anything, and we will not build settlements, but we will release the territory only when there is a government in Beirut that knows how to exercise its sovereignty,” he said.
“Everything between the Litani and Israel must be under the control of the IDF,” added Liberman, likening it to the post-World War II military occupation of Germany. “If Lebanon won’t pay in territory, we haven’t done anything,” he said.
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-call-for-resettling-gazas-palestinians-building-settlements-in-strip/
But, this is a new level of escalation ---- heading for a war with the state of Lebanon:
Maybe Lebanon should start acting like a state and stop letting Hezzbollah/Hamas/Islamic Jihad use it as a base to launch attacks against Israel. As I recall, it was Israel that was first attacked from Lebanon. That was the escalation. Mess around with Israel and find out.
Separately on Monday, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon, saying the country must “pay in territory” for damage caused by Hezbollah strikes on Israel’s northern towns.
The former defense minister, a member of the opposition, said Israel’s military must “close off” a swath of southern Lebanon and push the terror group north of the Litani River, even if it means occupying the area for 50 years
“We will not annex anything, and we will not build settlements, but we will release the territory only when there is a government in Beirut that knows how to exercise its sovereignty,” he said.
“Everything between the Litani and Israel must be under the control of the IDF,” added Liberman, likening it to the post-World War II military occupation of Germany. “If Lebanon won’t pay in territory, we haven’t done anything,” he said.
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-call-for-resettling-gazas-palestinians-building-settlements-in-strip/
Macron is likely trying to placate his own Muslim immigrant population, unwisely let in, and now a problem right there in France. Likely, if he advocated the elimination of Hamas, relentlessly and without mercy, he would be tied up with uprisings and terror events at home. If he succeeds in placating them, all he has done is delayed what will occur anyway without some serious changes in policy.
Let me know when Macron calls on Hamas/Hezzbollah/Islamic Jihad to avoid escalation. Israel wouldn't have had to bomb Beruit had not Hamas first escalated.
Hard to believe Sanders is Jewish.Yeah, well it's hard to believe the Pope is Catholic nowadays.
Heard (Sky News) that more than 100 were killed in Iran with TWO explosions timed to garner the most fatalities.
People were demonstrating the anniversary of the death of Sulemani [sic]
Smotrich doubles down on resettlement of Gazans, rejecting US criticism
Times of Israel, Jan 3, 2024
Rejecting the US State Department’s condemnation of calls for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday reiterated his support for encouraging “voluntary emigration” of the Strip’s population to other countries as part of his postwar vision.
The leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party claimed in a statement that “more than 70 percent of the Israeli public today supports” encouraging emigration as “a humanitarian solution,” but did not provide a source for this statistic.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, another senior far-right coalition partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hit back at Washington shortly after it aired its criticism Tuesday.
“The United States is our best friend, but first of all we will do what is best for the State of Israel: the migration of hundreds of thousands from Gaza will allow the residents of the [Gaza] envelope to return home and live in security and will protect the IDF soldiers,” Ben Gvir posted on X. “I really admire the United States of America but with all due respect, we are not another star in the American flag.”
While he has issued statements insisting they do not represent government policy, Netanyahu himself gave the go-ahead for government members to support the plan to encourage Palestinians to leave the enclave.
Last Monday, he told a Likud faction meeting that he is working to facilitate the voluntary migration of Gazans to other countries. “Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it,” he said.
The prime minister was responding to Likud MK Danny Danon, who claimed that “the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” though the idea has been roundly rejected by the international community.
The war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza,” Ben Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, calling such a policy “a correct, just, moral and humane solution.”
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-doubles-down-on-resettlement-of-gazans-rejecting-us-criticism/
Smotrich doubles down on resettlement of Gazans, rejecting US criticism
Times of Israel, Jan 3, 2024
[...]
While he has issued statements insisting they do not represent government policy, Netanyahu himself gave the go-ahead for government members to support the plan to encourage Palestinians to leave the enclave.
Last Monday, he told a Likud faction meeting that he is working to facilitate the voluntary migration of Gazans to other countries. “Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it,” he said.
The prime minister was responding to Likud MK Danny Danon, who claimed that “the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” though the idea has been roundly rejected by the international community.
The war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza,” Ben Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, calling such a policy “a correct, just, moral and humane solution.”
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-doubles-down-on-resettlement-of-gazans-rejecting-us-criticism/
I wasn't going to go there out of respect for you. :patriot::beer:
The Jewish State of Israel is arguing ethnic cleansing is "a correct, just, moral and humane solution". Interesting times.
That is not at all what the 'Jewish State' is arguing. Please stop posting lies on this forum.Exactly. Their argument is simple. They are not going to tolerate terrorists on their doorstep any more.
That is not at all what the 'Jewish State' is arguing. Please stop posting lies on this forum.
Ethnic cleansing: Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group, which is contrary to international law.
Rejecting the US State Department’s condemnation of calls for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday reiterated his support for encouraging “voluntary emigration” of the Strip’s population to other countries as part of his postwar vision.
The prime minister was responding to Likud MK Danny Danon, who claimed that “the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” though the idea has been roundly rejected by the international community.
The war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza,” Ben Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, calling such a policy “a correct, just, moral and humane solution.”
More:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-doubles-down-on-resettlement-of-gazans-rejecting-us-criticism/
Exactly. Their argument is simple. They are not going to tolerate terrorists on their doorstep any more.
Ethnic cleansing: Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group, which is contrary to international law.
Haaretz Updates
12:24 AM
U.K. joins condemnation of far-right Israeli ministers' calls for displacement of Palestinians from Gaza
A senior British minister has joined condemnation of calls by far-right Israeli ministers for the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. The United States, Germany and France have all taken issue with comments by extremist members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
"Gaza is occupied Palestinian Territory and will be part of the future Palestinian state. No Palestinian should be threatened with forcible displacement or relocation. Alongside our international partners, we deplore inflammatory remarks by Israeli Ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir.
— Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of Wimbledon (@tariqahmadbt) January 3, 2024"
QuoteEthnic cleansing: Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group, which is contrary to international law.
FTA:QuoteRejecting the US State Department’s condemnation of calls for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday reiterated his support for encouraging “voluntary emigration” of the Strip’s population to other countries as part of his postwar vision.
The prime minister was responding to Likud MK Danny Danon, who claimed that “the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” though the idea has been roundly rejected by the international community.
The war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza,” Ben Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, calling such a policy “a correct, just, moral and humane solution.”
Interesting times .......
Okay. Understandable ---- you agree with the reasons for calling for it, but does your agreement change the definition of "ethnic cleansing?QuoteEthnic cleansing: Rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group, which is contrary to international law.
"Voluntary immigration" is completely different from "using force or intimidation to remove". Again, please stop posting lies on this forum.
Okay. Understandable ---- you agree with the reasons for calling for it, but does your agreement change the definition of "ethnic cleansing?Does getting rid of Hamas necessitate that no one but Israelis live in Gaza? Does it preclude Arabs or Muslims living there?
Does getting rid of Hamas necessitate that no one but Israelis live in Gaza? Does it preclude Arabs or Muslims living there?
No. It gets rid of Hamas.
What percentage of seed stock of Hamas would you preserve and turn loose to regrow the organization?
Terrorist behaviour does not constitute an ethnicity.
Israeli resettlement would take care of this @Smokin Joe And, this, too, is part of the relocation proposal. Take a peek at the West Bank.
Enough with the lies already. Israel isn't forcing Palestinians off their land.
Repeating a lie does not make it true. Especially a 75-year-old lie.
Enough with your fantasies. Israel is forcing Palestinians off their land. And the battles are escalating, which is why the Netanyahu regime moved two commando companies from the Gaza border to the West Bank just days before the Oct 7 attack.
One more time with vigor!
There is no such thing as a Palestinian!
Fox News
Nov 12, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed that Israeli forces must "destroy Hamas" in order to secure the future of Palestinians as well as the Jewish state.
"If you want peace, destroy Hamas. If you want security, destroy Hamas. If you want a future for Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East, destroy Hamas," Netanyahu told "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker during an appearance on the NBC Sunday program.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/netanyahu-says-israel-must-destroy-hamas-secure-palestinian-future
'Ethnic Cleansing'
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1405730226961823 (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1405730226961823)
Maybe you should go back to the UKRAINE map for your avatar? /s
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How is this silly talking point still relevant or helpful when the world, including Israel, acknowledges the Palestinian people @Bigun ?
@DCPatriot
So you agree with RiV that Israel is guilty of Ethnic Cleansing?
Times of Israel
Jan 3, 2024
The “voluntary” resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the government, with a senior official saying that Israel has held talks with several countries for their potential absorption.
Zman Israel, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew sister site, has learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is conducting secret contacts for accepting thousands of immigrants from Gaza with Congo, in addition to other nations.
“Congo will be willing to take in migrants, and we’re in talks with others,” a senior source in the security cabinet said.
Last Monday, Netanyahu told a Likud faction meeting that he is working to facilitate the voluntary migration of Gazans to other countries.
“Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it,” he said.
The prime minister was responding to Likud MK Danny Danon, who claimed that “the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,” though the idea has been roundly rejected by the international community.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-in-talks-with-congo-and-other-countries-on-gaza-voluntary-migration-plan/
What you call a "silly talking point" I call a fact @Right_in_Virginia
Hopefully, we can agree to disagree on this. happy77 @Bigun
Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy 2024.
Right_in_Virginia,Was it ethnic cleansing when the USA during WWII fire bombed a dozen cities in Japan, killing 100,000 in one day in Tokyo? Hell no! It was f***ing war.
To be clear, I have not claimed Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing. I am warning Israel to stop and think ---- to fight the emotions of this moment and not follow in the wrong footsteps.
Can't we just agree that everyone in the Middle East want to kill each other?
The "Palestinians" in Gaza already have been involuntarly re-located from their families' original homes elsewhere in territory now controlled by Israel.
The Israeli conservative discussion about "voluntary relocation" sounds like duplicitous branding for Ethnic Cleansing.
(Radical) Zionsism and "a two state solution" are incompatible.
(Radical) Zionism would require the removal of Arabs, and maybe other non-Jews, from all of Palestine; or, the implementation of an Apartheid System that makes non-Jews 2nd class ciitizens, or non-citizens, of Israel.
(Radical) Zionism is an exclusionary ethno-religious doctrine that reserves Palestine exlusively for a Jewish state/homeland.
Arabs cannot be equal within an Israeli state because, demographically, the Arab population of Israel would grow to exceed the Jewish population. (Radical) Zionism does not allow room for an Arab/Mulsim majority Israeli state in Palestine.
So, (radical) Zionism and a 2-state Palestinian solution are incompatible. Radical Zionists want to clear Gaza and the West Bank of Arab/Muslim residents/occupants/settlers. Radical Zionist settlers are using an asymteric strategy to gradually ethnicly cleanse the West Bank by re-occupying territory.
All sides will continue to kill each other to fulfill prophecies / promises / vandettas of the past. It's been that way since the Old Testament.
A workable solution will only emerge when all sides are sick and tired of the killing and the mourning.
The only corollary I can think of is Northern Ireland. Ireland had to remove re-uniifcation of Ulster with the Republic from its Constitution; and the British and Protestants provide (more) equal civil rights to Catholics.
Good luck with all of this, especially now that ISIS is launching terrorist attacks against Iran.
Was it ethnic cleansing when the USA during WWII fire bombed a dozen cities in Japan, killing 100,000 in one day in Tokyo? Hell no! It was f***ing war.
And the notion of Israel displacing mussies from their land is another nonsense notion. Jews have been in those lands for thousands of years, LONG BEFORE MUSSIES EVER EXISTED!!! UGGH!!!
I say Israel has a clear right to kill every last one of them.
Was it ethnic cleansing when the USA during WWII fire bombed a dozen cities in Japan, killing 100,000 in one day in Tokyo? Hell no! It was f***ing war.
SAME FOR THE CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL AND HAMAS! IT IS WAR, AND ISRAEL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO COMPLETELY DESTROY AND LEVEL GAZA. PERIOD!
Ethnic cleansing is such liberal nonsense.
When the mussies make it their mission in life to killevery Jew, destroy Israel, etc, Israel has every right to do s the USA did in WWII.
I say levelling Gaza in its entirety, and declaring that it remain in ruins permanently is well within their right. The evil of the mussies living in Gaza is not a mystery.
And the notion of Israel displacing mussies from their land is another nonsense notion. Jews have been in those lands for thousands of years, LONG BEFORE MUSSIES EVER EXISTED!!! UGGH!!!
To destroy an enemy that repeatedly kills your citizens and makes war on your nation with each passing day is Israel's right! I say Israel has a clear right to kill every last one of them.
Instant News AlertsISIS? :pondering:
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What you call a "silly talking point" I call a fact @Right_in_Virginia and facts are always relevant.Didn't you get the memo? Facts are a threat to 'our democracy'.
Was it ethnic cleansing when the USA during WWII fire bombed a dozen cities in Japan, killing 100,000 in one day in Tokyo? Hell no! It was f***ing war.Deuteronomy 20:16-18 (KJV)
SAME FOR THE CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL AND HAMAS! IT IS WAR, AND ISRAEL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO COMPLETELY DESTROY AND LEVEL GAZA. PERIOD!
Ethnic cleansing is such liberal nonsense.
When the mussies make it their mission in life to killevery Jew, destroy Israel, etc, Israel has every right to do s the USA did in WWII.
I say levelling Gaza in its entirety, and declaring that it remain in ruins permanently is well within their right. The evil of the mussies living in Gaza is not a mystery.
And the notion of Israel displacing mussies from their land is another nonsense notion. Jews have been in those lands for thousands of years, LONG BEFORE MUSSIES EVER EXISTED!!! UGGH!!!
To destroy an enemy that repeatedly kills your citizens and makes war on your nation with each passing day is Israel's right! I say Israel has a clear right to kill every last one of them.
16 But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
Right_in_Virginia,The complete destruction of an enemy has become taboo with the idiocy that is pervasive, which you obviously embrace.
Just to be clear, and I ask because you post this pointing-up opinion frequently ----- are you saying "Never again!" unless the the attempted extermination is from Israel?
@jafo2010If history is correct, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were on the A-bomb list because they were among a very few cities in Japan that hadn't been fire-bombed into ashes. Parts of Germany did not fare much better. Tokyo was so burned out from incendiaries that not only would it have been a waste to nuke it, there would have been no one left to surrender. The objective was to hamper weapons and materiel production and demoralize the population. The Nazis started it with raids on London and Coventry, the Japanese with their rapacious conquest of China and Manchuria, and acts committed by both were far beyond what Israel is doing in Gaza.
It was two bombings in a long, hot war --- a war we finally ended with those bombs.
If history is correct, we did not return when the smoke cleared and sweep the remaining Japanese from their homes and lives for the real estate. In fact, we allowed the Emperor to remain a unity figurehead for the Japanese people --- helping to pave the way for the alliance with Japan we have to this day.
You're aware there is quite a bit of scholarly debate on this --- especially the linear aspects of your claim, are you not?
Just to be clear, and I ask because you post variations of this pointing-up opinion frequently ----- are you saying "Never again!" unless the the attempted extermination is from Israel?
@Hoodat, @DCPatriot
Ethnic cleansing is not new.
The modern world has witnessed it in Eastern Europe, including Serbia, for decades. In Nazi Germany the proposal before the final solution was the Madagascar Plan.
To be clear, I have not claimed Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing.
Ethnic cleansing is *always* presented as "voluntary". Withholding movement, safety, housing, water, medical supplies, electricity, food and employment are the provable and reliable ways of rendering "voluntary" a political sham.
I am warning Israel to stop and think ---- to fight the emotions of this moment and not follow in the wrong footsteps.
If Israel moves forward with the plans below, the charge of ethnic cleansing will gain global credibility at precisely the time they need the support of the global community.
The complete destruction of an enemy has become taboo with the idiocy that is pervasive, which you obviously embrace.
What we are forcing Israel to do is very self destructive, and will leave the enemy stronger for the NEXT TIME they decide to kill large numbers of Jews.
So tell me RIV, how many Jews would need to be murdered for you to justify the complete vanquishing of an evil culture? Give me a number?
Israel Radar
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Israel to start local production of Air Force munitions & explosives, expand assembly lines of tanks & armored vehicles to reduce dependence on America. via @MaarivOnline
Did you mean to say Russia's, Iran's, and China's calculations?
Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthies, etc, are puppets; Russia, Iran, and China are the puppet masters pulling the strings.
We are in the midst of Cold War v2.0, and the West is losing and on the defensive.
If history is correct, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were on the A-bomb list because they were among a very few cities in Japan that hadn't been fire-bombed into ashes. Parts of Germany did not fare much better. Tokyo was so burned out from incendiaries that not only would it have been a waste to nuke it, there would have been no one left to surrender. The objective was to hamper weapons and materiel production and demoralize the population. The Nazis started it with raids on London and Coventry, the Japanese with their rapacious conquest of China and Manchuria, and acts committed by both were far beyond what Israel is doing in Gaza.
Can the civilians who harbored Hamas be any more innocent than the Nazis who looked the other way when millions were rounded up and sent to the death camps?
But, this is not WWII @Smokin Joe This is a 56 year old regional conflict over a sliver of territory the size of Newark ---- in a part of the world renowned for centuries-old layers of blood grudges on all sides. Please fight the urge to conflate this with WWII. Please also fight the urge to trigger WWIII over it.Well, that was unconvincing.
Your question is as incendiary as you asking if Israeli civilians bear responsibility for the condition of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and its contribution to war after war after war. And, as unhelpful.
Have a nice day.
Well, that was unconvincing.
IF we cannot learn from the parallels in this millennia old conflict with other conflicts, then we cannot apply history to learn a damned thing.
But then, the one lesson History gives us is that people consistently DO NOT learn from History.
Have a nice day.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
:yowsa:
Aldous Huxley
Is there ever a point where we try to fit current conflicts into history like a square peg into a round hole?You mean like comparing 1/6 to 9/11?
@Bigun
You mean like comparing 1/6 to 9/11?
It all depends on whether you are looking at History, or some Fable people have been selling.
Those who bought into the Fable aren't learning from History, because the Fable is not what happened. Fairy Tales do not teach the lessons of History, but that doesn't stop the peg pounding.
You mean like comparing 1/6 to 9/11?
It all depends on whether you are looking at History, or some Fable people have been selling.
You mean like comparing 1/6 to 9/11?
It all depends on whether you are looking at History, or some Fable people have been selling.
Hamas command in north Gaza destroyed, Israel says
The Israeli army says it has "completed the dismantling" of Hamas's command structure in the northern Gaza Strip.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters that Palestinian militants are now operating in the area only sporadically and "without commanders".
He said Israel had killed around 8,000 militants in north Gaza. The BBC cannot independently verify this number.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are now focused on dismantling Hamas in south and central Gaza, he said.
Israel has killed more than 22,000 people since the war began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. On Saturday it said it had recorded more than 120 deaths over the past 24 hours.
The territory has been devastated and most of the population of 2.3 million has been displaced.
Israel's offensive started after Hamas gunmen launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking about 240 people hostage.
More than 120 remain, following agreed releases.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Saturday that Israel would continue its campaign to "eliminate Hamas, return our hostages and ensure that Gaza will no longer be a threat to Israel"..............
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67904259
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U.S. Defense Officials and Members of the Biden Administration have reportedly begun to understand in recent weeks that Negotiations have almost Totally Failed and that a Major Regional War in the Middle East may soon be Imminent, with several “Battle Plans” and Contingencies being Drawn-Up if this does occur; Secretary of State, Antony Blinken’s Visit to the Region this week is seen as a possible Final Attempt towards Peace.
IDF brass said to warn political leaders that West Bank on brink of violent eruption
Times of Israel, Jan 9, 2024
Security chiefs have warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several times in recent days that the West Bank is on the brink of a major eruption in violence, Israeli television reported Monday.
According to Channel 12 news, the warnings were relayed by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and other senior military commanders, who said Israel risked a new front in the West Bank amid the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and ongoing clashes on the northern border with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Besides Netanyahu, the report said the other members of the war cabinet — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister Benny Gantz — were also warned of the prospect of major unrest in the West Bank.
The heightened concern comes on the heels of Israel’s withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues that belong to the PA in addition to refusing to allow some 150,000 Palestinian workers return to their jobs in Israel and the settlements, the report said, noting Netanyahu’s refusal to hold security cabinet votes to reverse both decisions, given pressure from his far-right coalition partners.
The network added that the military’s assessment was shared by the Shin Bet security service.
"Ask Zelensky for money,” bin Zayed reportedly told Netanyahu, sarcastically suggesting that the Ukrainian president could foot the bill with all of the international support Kyiv has been getting since Russia’s invasion
"The notion that Arab countries will come in to rebuild and pay the bill for what’s currently happening is wishful thinking,” an Emirati official told Axios.
MBZ couldn’t believe Netanyahu thought the UAE would be willing to pay for a problem that was created due to Israel’s decision not to allow the workers in, a source familiar with the matter told the news site.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-brass-said-to-warn-political-leaders-that-west-bank-on-brink-of-violent-eruption/
I don't understand why Israel apparently wants to expand this war to include Lebanon.Hizb'allah has been attacking from there.
Hizb'allah has been attacking from there.
Either the Lebanese control their rabid elements on their soil, or the Israelis will. That simple.
Trying not to :crying: too much: The commander of Hezbollah’s aerial forces in southern Lebanon, Ali Hussien Barji, was killed in an Israeli drone strike. He was killed on his way to the funeral of another senior Hezbollah commander, Wissam al-Tawil, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday.The smirk was wiped off his face when he met his virgins. (https://i.imgur.com/ffVdxyu.jpg)
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1744757285942092086
Israel is not fighting Hamas, Hezzbollah, and Houthies; Israel is in a fight against Iran.
Iran expanded the war into Gaza. Iran is expadning the war in Lebanon. Iran is expanding the war into Yemen. Iran is expanding the war to Iraq.
Israel is defending itself from Iran.
If Israel's leadership decides the best move is now war with Lebanon @Smokin Joe I certainly won't try to talk them out of it.
U.S. Central CommandWas Sec. Austin aware? (Forget about the president, we know the answer to that).
@CENTCOM
Houthi Attack on International Shipping
On Jan. 9, at approximately 9:15 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthis launched a complex attack of Iranian designed one-way attack UAVs (OWA UAVs), anti-ship cruise missiles, and an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen into the Southern Red Sea, towards international shipping lanes where dozens of merchant vessels were transiting.
Eighteen OWA UAVs, two anti-ship cruise missiles, and one anti-ship ballistic missile were shot down by a combined effort of F/A-18s from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Gravely (DDG 107), USS Laboon (DDG 58), USS Mason (DDG 87), and the United Kingdom’s HMS Diamond (D34). This is the 26th Houthi attack on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea since Nov. 19. There were no injuries or damage reported.
On Jan. 3, 14 countries, including the U.S, issued a joint statement stating, "The Houthis will bear the responsibility for the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, or the free flow of commerce in the region's critical waterways."
8:46 PM · Jan 9, 2024
Many Americans still believe the purpose of the Israeli war in Gaza is to "destroy Hamas": because that's what US media repeated from Israel.
But in Hebrew, Israeli officials every day admit the real goal: to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians so Israel can take the land: (Video)
An alternative and unpopular POV:QuoteMany Americans still believe the purpose of the Israeli war in Gaza is to "destroy Hamas": because that's what US media repeated from Israel.
But in Hebrew, Israeli officials every day admit the real goal: to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians so Israel can take the land: (Video)
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
An alternate and unpopular POV:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1745137795738312733
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
We need to hear it, lest we become an echo chamber.
We need to hear it, lest we become an echo chamber.
Please ping the bass turd so we all know he sees it. :beer:What the heck does that mean?
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
What the heck does that mean?
Get lost, you farking cork soaker. :seeya:
Well at least we're not making you vomit @DCPatriot happy77
Please stop posting lies on this forum.
@Cyber Liberty
Please ping the bass turd so we all know he sees it. :beer:
An alternate and unpopular POV:QuoteMany Americans still believe the purpose of the Israeli war in Gaza is to "destroy Hamas": because that's what US media repeated from Israel.
But in Hebrew, Israeli officials every day admit the real goal: to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians so Israel can take the land: (Video)
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1745137795738312733
The Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in its original party platform in 1977 that “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform-of-the-likud-party
During a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map that shows Israel stretching “from the river to the sea".
(https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-1695454763.jpg)
Heck if I know. :shrug:
Wouldn’t that be nice.
Hey!! Great to see you!
She is free to post her Jew hate here.
What part of "alternate" POV and video documentation confuses you?
Again, stop posting lies on this forum.
Where's "the hate" @Wingnut
- Israel's goal is not to ethnically cleanse Gaza
- Israel does not want to take the land
Again, stop posting lies on this forum.
So Blinken is tightening the thumbscrews again? Israel is in no mood to cave to this chickenshit.
Blinken is following Obama's orders. As always.So, then Soros and Schwab pulling Barry's strings who then pulls Brandon's?
An alternate and unpopular POV:If one has to choose between the savages that are the so-called "palestinians" and Israelis, I choose the latter...the palestinians made their bed, let them lie in their own dog $h!t.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1745137795738312733
This 56 year old conflict has always been about taking the land without the Palestinians who would threaten the Jewish majority in Israel.
Hence, the decades long Israeli control, occupation, settlements, wars and refusal of a two state peace treaty.
It's always been about securing Palestinian free land.
Yet here you are posting lies. Again.
You've been very clear that your POV is no question raised, no alternative presented can be rationally considered because Oct 7 proved the Israeli political status quo is a rip-roaring success and will continue to keep Israel and her citizens safe and prosperous ---- and anything else has got to be a lie.The palis, by their own admission, will absolutely, unequivocally NOT permit Israel to exist/survive. So what are the alternatives? Allow Israel to be exterminated? Sorry, not sorry, the vermin that are the pali's go. I simply cannot see where equivocating on this topic is any kind of debate. The vermin that are the palis have plainly and clearly made their goals/intentions known. They are not "peaceable" beings. No question, no discussion, no debate needed. A done deal, wipe them out. (I refuse to grant them any sense of "humanity" because they aren't human. No soul, no mercy, no compassion, no humanity within them.) Eff 'em. A civilized society cannot co-exist with such trash on its borders or within its confines.
You've been very clear that your POV is no question raised, no alternative presented can be rationally considered because Oct 7 proved the Israeli political status quo is a rip-roaring success and will continue to keep Israel and her citizens safe and prosperous ---- so anything else has got to be a lie. :shrug:
Rachel Maddow calls Glenn Greenwald "the American left’s most fearless political commentator". And now we see these left-wing lies posted here on this forum.
Right_in_Virginia...
Hence, the decades long Israeli control, occupation, settlements, wars and refusal of a two state peace treaty.
Simply no idea of what you are talking about. The two state solution emerged from the Balfour Declaration of 1917. From DAY ONE, Israel fully supported the agreement proposed, and from DAY ONE, the Palestinians said their only goal was the elimination of Israel and the death of every Jew. The Palestinians have NOT moved from this position in all the years since.
The fact that Israel has greatly tempered their response to each war STARTED by muslim states, and endless and repeated attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, etc and all the other lesser known terrorist groups hellbent on genocide for all Jews has come to a point of absurdity.
If Netanyahu is not going to destroy Gaza, and leave it in ruins on such that it is never to be inhabited until such time the people of Gaza surrender and disarm, then I say leave it in ruins for a century. Enough is enough.
What would be the USA response if a cartel came across the Mexican border and killed 1,400 Americans in their homes, men, women, and children. Raped and mutilated whoever they chose. You think the USA would have a tempered response? Fat chance. And the occupation that would result would not end any time soon either!!!
Not matter what Israel does in Gaza, the majority of the world would never approve, so get it done. Eliminate the enemy, and either they surrender or they die. PERIOD!!!
So says the man quoting Rachel Maddow. :laugh:
So what are the alternatives? Allow Israel to be exterminated? Sorry, not sorry, the vermin that are the pali's go.
I simply cannot see where equivocating on this topic is any kind of debate.
The palis, by their own admission, will absolutely, unequivocally NOT permit Israel to exist/survive. So what are the alternatives? Allow Israel to be exterminated? Sorry, not sorry, the vermin that are the pali's go. I simply cannot see where equivocating on this topic is any kind of debate. The vermin that are the palis have plainly and clearly made their goals/intentions known. They are not "peaceable" beings. No question, no discussion, no debate needed. A done deal, wipe them out. (I refuse to grant them any sense of "humanity" because they aren't human. No soul, no mercy, no compassion, no humanity within them.) Eff 'em. A civilized society cannot co-exist with such trash on its borders or within its confines.
@Right_in_Virginia
LOL! The jokes write themselves around here, don't they? :beer:
Israeli hostages who still remain held captive by Hamas "will not be returned alive" unless Israeli forces pull out of the war-torn Gaza Strip, a Hamas spokesperson said Wednesday.
The palis, by their own admission, will absolutely, unequivocally NOT permit Israel to exist/survive. So what are the alternatives? Allow Israel to be exterminated? Sorry, not sorry, the vermin that are the pali's go. I simply cannot see where equivocating on this topic is any kind of debate. The vermin that are the palis have plainly and clearly made their goals/intentions known. They are not "peaceable" beings. No question, no discussion, no debate needed. A done deal, wipe them out. (I refuse to grant them any sense of "humanity" because they aren't human. No soul, no mercy, no compassion, no humanity within them.) Eff 'em. A civilized society cannot co-exist with such trash on its borders or within its confines.
Because Netanyahu's lifelong political strategy has been an abject failure.
Under his stewardship, the Palestinians have metastisized into a formidable military from north to south;
. . .knocking him, his strategy and the State of Israel flat on their ........
Thanks to turning a blind eye to the tunnels being built even after the 2014 war
authorizing the transfer of US dollars estimated in the billions to Hamas
and concentrating on taking over the West Bank
Oct 7 became Netanyahu's chickens coming home to roost.
I'm aware of the drumbeat, but the reality is no one, not even Israel, is going to kill all of Hamas and every Palestinian man, woman and child.
Israel needs a forward-looking Plan B --- and it's worth discussing.
Does anyone truly believe that Hamas will release these hostages if Israel pulls out of Gaza?Not any rational, thinking human being, no.
So according to the @DCPatriot defend-RiV-at-all-costs standard, posting false left-wing propaganda is OK, but pointing out where a left-winger openly acknowledges the source as a left-wing propagandist is somehow an egregious crime. How's that working for you?
Not to mention that you two are on opposite sides on this issue, yet you defend her position at the same time you support the opposing view. Talk about insanity.
Biden Admin Gives $100,000 for Palestinian Girls’ Running and Wellnesshttps://foreigndesknews.com/middle-east/biden-admin-gives-100000-for-palestinian-girls-running-and-wellness/
byRealClearWire
January 11, 2024
By: Adam Andrzejewski
As Israel fights a war against the terrorist group Hamas, the Biden administration has funded $100,000 for 200 adolescent Palestinian girls and young women to participate in weekly running and wellness sessions.
Federal funding records show that the U.S. Department of State awarded the funding in September for a roughly two-year initiative to Free to Run, a Connecticut-based nonprofit seeking “to increase the opportunities for women and girls to engage in public life, using sport as a tool of empowerment and education,” the Washington Examiner reported.
According to federal records, the program is being administered in the West Bank. ...
I very much disagree with @Right_in_Virginia 's stance on Israel.
And we've been disagreeing on Israel since you were merely a gleam in @mystery-ak 's eye.
But at least I recognize the difference between a difference of opinion and what you define as "lying".
But at least I recognize the difference between a difference of opinion and what you define as "lying".
Remember to look both ways before you GFY!
This is absolutely true @DCPatriot Years before the great influx we would actually discuss events, including Israel and the Middle East.
Birds of a feather.... happy77
If this bickering doesn't stop I will lock it so no one can post on it...I will just do updates on the news...some people here along with guests want to see what's happening not several members bickering all the time.
Then clean it up, Nancy!
Pat recognizes the need for differences of opinion here...why don't you stop this bullshit claims of "LIES" being posted by some of your FOUNDING ...and supposedly "Cherished" members?
Go back an read the damned thread instead of just posting updates..."WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE!"
WOW...how condescending...You and RIV seem to always be in the middle of instigating all the turmoil on threads.
"Cherished Members"....damn right they are!
Like I've told you many times...if you don't like it here no one is keeping you here...
Hamas Chief Calls to ‘Build Upon’ Oct. 7 ‘Victory,’ Praises Gaza Donations as ‘Financial Jihad’
Muslim leaders worldwide must “hold on” to the October 7 “victory” and “build upon it,” according to Hamas terror organization senior leader Ismail Haniyeh who appealed for monetary support for Gaza, which he described as “financial Jihad,” while declaring “the time has come for the Jihad of the swords.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/11/hamas-chief-calls-build-upon-oct-7-victory-praises-gaza-donations-financial-jihad/
You have no idea what Mike thinks of Trump as he never posts here.
I do see what you think of the members here though...I think it's time you moved on from TBR.
You've posted what Mike thinks of President Trump.
And I'm not going anywhere.
Yet we both voted for him...and will again if we have to.
I speak TRUTH.
@Right_in_Virginia
PS: And "Cherished" members meant RIV and myself...not the hoard that washed up shipwrecked on our front porch.
Yet we both voted for him...and will again if we have to.
This is beyond concerning-- calling for 'worldwide jihad'. Watch your backs folks ... they're already here.
@DCPatriot Make yourself a Metamucil martini and relax. It will keep you regular.
One last point for you to ponder...
Then by idiots such as @Hoodat ... you just 'LIED' about not hating President Trump.
See how that works?? /s :beer:
One last point for you to ponder...
Then by idiots such as @Hoodat ... you just 'LIED' about not hating President Trump.
Enough ...I want this thread back on topic
I do hate Trump...never said I didn't.
Enough ...I want this thread back on topic
The overwhelming majority of muslims clearly don't believe in jihad. Every time there is a worldwide call for jihad, no one answers. If they really believe in that 72-virgins BS, then all their leaders would have already sacrificed their own lives for jihad instead of pleading for others to do it.
US intelligence reportedly fears Hezbollah could attack America: ‘It is something to be worried about’
By Social Links for Melissa Koenig
Published Jan. 11, 2024, 10:17 a.m. ET
US intelligence officials reportedly fear Hezbollah could launch an attack in America as tensions spill over from the terrorist group’s assault on Israel.
The Lebanese group will likely first target American military or diplomatic personnel in the Middle East — but could also have sights on American soil, four unidentified intelligence officials told Politico.
“Hezbollah could draw on the capability they have … to put people [in] places to do something,” warned one of the officials.
“It is something to be worried about.”
The four officials did not offer specifics on what type of attacks are feared. However, they warned that Hezbollah has an expansive international network — greater than those of either ISIS or al Qaeda.
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https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/us-intelligence-fears-hezbollah-could-attack-america-report/
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The President of the United States, Joe Biden is expected to make a Address to the Nation tonight following the start of Missile and Airstrikes against the Houthi Terrorist Group in Yemen.
One last point for you to ponder...
Then by idiots such as @Hoodat ... you just 'LIED' about not hating President Trump.
See how that works?? /s :beer:
How much is this going to cost..Apparently he was in no shape to deliver any sort of address:
Apparently he was in no shape to deliver any sort of address:
Jennifer Jacobs
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White House lid for the night—no more appearances from @POTUS tonight.
5:56 PM · Jan 11, 2024
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The White House has announced a Press Lid for the remainder of tonight meaning that President Biden will no longer be Addressing the Nation like was Initially Reported.
6:03 PM · Jan 11, 2024
Apparently he was in no shape to deliver any sort of address:
Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
White House lid for the night—no more appearances from @POTUS tonight.
5:56 PM · Jan 11, 2024
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The White House has announced a Press Lid for the remainder of tonight meaning that President Biden will no longer be Addressing the Nation like was Initially Reported.
6:03 PM · Jan 11, 2024
Way to go Joe you evil ***** of ****! Nope, he' in no shape to give a speech. :drunk:
So....still waiting for the excuse as to why he can't deliver the State of the Union address coming up shortly. Can Chuckles give it instead?
The State of the Union was not meant to be a speech, it was done in writing for years. I favor this approach, because it does away with all the Pomp and Circumstance we see every year. Especially when we have a certified retard as President.Nah. Anyone can write it. I want to see him stumble and mutter and bluster his way through it.
Nah. Anyone can write it. I want to see him stumble and mutter and bluster his way through it.
Prayers up for our military personnel.
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Initially Reports of Houthi Forces in Western Yemen launching a Barrage of Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles towards U.S. Naval Ships in the Red Sea.
Apparently he was in no shape to deliver any sort of address:I guess so soon after the last time the drugs were ineffective :silly: :silly: or maybe it should really be 8888crybaby because the rat bastard and his handlers are driving us into WWIII at warp speed!
Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
White House lid for the night—no more appearances from @POTUS tonight.
5:56 PM · Jan 11, 2024
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The White House has announced a Press Lid for the remainder of tonight meaning that President Biden will no longer be Addressing the Nation like was Initially Reported.
6:03 PM · Jan 11, 2024
I guess so soon after the last time the drugs were ineffective :silly: :silly: or maybe it should really be 8888crybaby because the rat bastard and his handlers are driving us into WWIII at warp speed!I think Democrat election handlers and Biden's controllers would not mind a larger war before the election. Wag the Dog.
So we just bombed another soverign nation (of course justified), and CIC calls it a night without any comment?
Really makes you wonder who really is running the show.
@catfish1957
We ALL know who's running the show!
THIS IS A TIME OF WAR PEOPLE! WE CANNOT RISK A PRESIDENTIAL CHANGE DURING THESE DANGEROUS TIMES!
(of course they will forget to mention that they themselves caused the dangerous times)
We're at war with East Asia, and we've always been at war with East Asia.If they will fake a 'deadly global pandemic' to change an election, starting a war somewhere (another war) is not out of bounds.
I think Democrat election handlers and Biden's controllers would not mind a larger war before the election. Wag the Dog.Considering the whole Afghanistan thingy, we cannnot NOT risk a change of President if there's a war on.
Then they can blame all of their intentional mismanagement and sabotage of everything American on the war.
THIS IS A TIME OF WAR PEOPLE! WE CANNOT RISK A PRESIDENTIAL CHANGE DURING THESE DANGEROUS TIMES!
(of course they will forget to mention that they themselves caused the dangerous times)
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Multiple Airstrikes now Targeting the Yemeni Capital City of Sana'a in the West of the Country.
Israel started its defense against the charge that it has committed genocide against civilians in Gaza Friday, a day after South Africa brought the case to the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
Considering the whole Afghanistan thingy, we cannnot NOT risk a change of President if there's a war on.
I think Democrat election handlers and Biden's controllers would not mind a larger war before the election. Wag the Dog.
Then they can blame all of their intentional mismanagement and sabotage of everything American on the war.
THIS IS A TIME OF WAR PEOPLE! WE CANNOT RISK A PRESIDENTIAL CHANGE DURING THESE DANGEROUS TIMES!
(of course they will forget to mention that they themselves caused the dangerous times)
That's rich. This from a country that publicly states they want to kill every White South African and take their land.
WOW...how condescending...You and RIV seem to always be in the middle of instigating all the turmoil on threads.
I don't think Demo-rats will buy that this time around. Joe's too old and they can see it. Besides, there no telling what button he's liable to push!!Well, after bolstering Ukraine's defenses, and the Afghanistan withdrawal, we just can't afford to rearm a bunch of Muslim nations.
And if thousands of missiles were flying into our cities over our southern border just exactly what would our response be???Maybe then, civilians would stop waiting for the government to get off its fat corrupt asses and do something.
And if a thousand Americans were violently raped, murdered and mutilated over the course a few hours by an armed mob crossing our southern border what would our response be???
The one big difference is there would be actual civilians beyond our southern border. Not so much over the border into Gaza.
FJB.
And if a thousand Americans were violently raped, murdered and mutilated over the course a few hours by an armed mob crossing our southern border what would our response be???
And if thousands of missiles were flying into our cities over our southern border just exactly what would our response be???
And if a thousand Americans were violently raped, murdered and mutilated over the course a few hours by an armed mob crossing our southern border what would our response be???
The one big difference is there would be actual civilians beyond our southern border. Not so much over the border into Gaza.
FJB.
BidenHussein Obama ‘running out’ of patience with Netanyahu while Israeli civilians are killed by Lebanese missiles on 100th day of Hamas war
PresidentBiden’s Hussein Obama patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is extremely close to “running out,’’ it was revealed Sunday — as Israel marked the 100th day of its war with Hamas.
DespiteBiden’s Hussein's public support of Israel at the cost of political points at home, he is faced with “immense frustration” over the Israeli PM’s handling of the war — with tensions between the pair reaching a boiling point late last month, when Biden abruptly hung up the phone during a conversation with Netanyahu, sources told Axios.
libertybelle...
I think too many Americans feel that an attack from Hamas can't possibly happen here and our gov't would defend us. IMHO they are so, so, wrong. Evil Joe is NOT pro-American nor are his puppet handlers.
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Hamas Releases Ominous Propaganda Video of Noa Argamani, 2 Other Hostages
The Palestinian Hamas terror organization released a 37-second video on Sunday that was the first sign that hostage Noa Argamani, 26, is still alive, along with two other Israeli hostages. ...
Hamas reveals two of the three hostages from terror group’s latest sickening propaganda video have been killedhttps://nypost.com/2024/01/15/news/hamas-reveals-two-of-the-three-hostages-from-terror-groups-latest-sickening-propaganda-video-have-been-killed/
By Social Links for Ronny Reyes
Published Jan. 15, 2024, 1:16 p.m. ET
Hamas revealed Monday that Israeli hostages Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky have been killed in captivity, while Noa Argamani is still alive.
The grim update was given in the terror group’s latest propaganda video featuring Argamani, 26, who reported on the two men’s deaths.
Argamani – who was previously caught on video being abducted from the Nova music fest Oct. 7 screaming, “Don’t kill me!” from the back of a motorcycle — said in the new footage that she had been held in a building with her fellow two hostages by Hamas’ military wing when the site was hit by an Israeli airstrike. ...
Freed Israeli Hostage: Israel Women are Being Raped in Captivity
Freed Israeli hostage Agam Goldstein-Almog told Israel’s Channel 13 on Tuesday that fellow female hostages were raped repeatedly by their Hamas captors in Gaza, and that her own captors threatened to forcibly “marry” her as well.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/16/freed-israeli-hostage-israel-women-are-being-raped-in-captivity/
Israel prepares for possibility that raped hostages could be impregnated by Hamas
By Social Links for Olivia Land
Published Jan. 16, 2024, 12:47 p.m. ET
Israeli physicians are preparing for the devastating possibility that some women being held hostage by Hamas may have been raped and impregnated by their captors.
Specialists and medical centers across Israel are holding internal discussions on how to approach the physical and emotional condition of female hostages who could be several weeks pregnant following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, the Hebrew publication Maariv reported
“I am uncertain how they will cope, but we must prepare now for this terrible theoretical possibility of a woman conceiving or raising such a child. Thus, we must stop this atrocity, not allow the captives to perish there, bring them back, and provide them with care,” Prof. Tal Biron-Shental, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, told the outlet.
Depending on the circumstances of conception and the age of the mother, pregnant women in Israel can apply to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment of birth, according to the Ministry of Health.
While early-stage abortions involve expelling the pregnancy using oral medications, a later-term termination requires a higher-risk procedure to stop the fetus’ heart activity with a syringe, Maariv said.
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https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/israel-prepares-for-possibility-that-raped-hostages-could-be-impregnated-by-hamas/
Maybe FoxNews, OAN, NewsMax, etc., should start couting the number of days Americans have been held hostage by Hamas.
This is what help sink Jimmy Carter during the Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981).
ABC Nightline was started during the Iranian Hostage Crisis to intially provide extra covergage in the days before 24 hour news networks.
Remind Americans and question Biden Admin about Americans held hostage by Hamas.
It's best to presume the hostages are dead, or are better off dead than being in continued Hamas captivity, and chase Hamas out of Gaza, all the way to Tehran.
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US Central Command: At approximately 8:30pm Jan. 17, an assessed one-way attack UAS was launched from Houthi controlled areas in Yemen and struck M/V Genco Picardy in the Gulf of Aden. M/V Genco Picardy is a Marshall Islands flagged, U.S. owned and operated bulk carrier ship.
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#BREAKING: The U.S. conducted its fourth round of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen in just under a week a short time ago after the Houthis continued targeting commercial vessels. The strikes targeted several sites that were prepared to launch attacks. (CBS)
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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.What a jackass.
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
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.
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Gabby Deutch
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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?" ...
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/
Complete victory is firebombing Tehran and eliminating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
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.”
Biden Finally Talks to Netanyahu Again. It Doesn't Go WellI just can't picture this.
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.
Biden Admin, Qatar, Egypt Propose Hostage Deal Where Israel Loses War9999hair out0000
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/
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.
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.
Israel should presume that the hostages are already lost, and rain fire and brimstone down upon Gaza. Once that flank is more secure, they can go after Hezbollah and Iran with full gusto.I truly understand these families anguish over their loved ones but as you say they are probably already dead and the leadership needs to think about the safety of all the people of Israel, not just the hostages. I doubt I could be that rational though if it were my loved ones held by the scum.
Others reportedly had added that Hamas terrorists were also dressing female hostages as dolls in order to abuse them in sadistic ways. And they said that male hostages were also being sexually abused and raped.This is why the entirely of Gaza should be carpet bombed. No survivors.
Though Biden supports a two-state solution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls to open a path for a Palestinian state.
Israeli hostages impregnated by Hamas rapists will decide whether to keep babies upon release
By Social Links for Snejana Farberov
Published Jan. 24, 2024, 3:54 p.m. ET
Any Israeli hostages who have gotten pregnant from being raped by their Hamas captors in Gaza will have to decide whether to keep their baby or terminate the pregnancy upon their release, according to a new report.
Officials with Israel’s Ministries of Welfare and Health are drawing up detailed plans to deal with the possibility of unwanted pregnancies in women who were kidnapped by terrorists after the deadly Oct. 7 attacks, reported the local news outlet Walla!.
In Israel, a pregnancy termination committee typically determines whether to grant an abortion request — but officials are considering bypassing that step to reduce the red tape in the cases of any pregnant former captives.
More than 130 Israelis still remain in the clutches of Hamas after nearly four months, including young women and teenage girls, with preliminary information suggesting that some have been subjected to sexual abuse, both during the initial onslaught — as seen in gruesome videos circulating online — and in captivity.
Civilian authorities, assisted by the Israel Defense Forces, are creating a program that will coordinate all available resources for treating sexually abused hostages — including women at different stages of pregnancy — who will receive medical and psychological help.
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https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/news/pregnant-hamas-hostages-will-be-offered-abortion/
Medical and psychological help -- being repeatedly raped and abused and impregnated -- how absolutely horrific. The child would be 1/2Hamas/Paligenetic monster. These women would be dealing with the aftermath forever; both psychologically and physically.
White House: Israel Has ‘to Be More Careful’ to Ensure Civilian Areas Hamas Hides in Aren’t ‘Scenes of Battle’
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President Biden last week pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale down the Israeli military operation in Gaza, stressing he is not in it for a year of war, two U.S. officials told Axios.
Why it matters: Biden's comments during the two leaders' call last Friday reflect the growing U.S. concern about the continuation of the war and the president's desire to see it end long before the November elections.
A Biden adviser told Axios the White House is very concerned about losing young voters, many of whom are opposed to the president's policy on the Gaza war.
UNRWA fires 12 staffers who allegedly took part in October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, US cuts funding
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Israeli authorities handed over the information alleging that 12 United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees were involved in the murderous rampage in southern Israel, the agency’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, said.
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The US immediately cut funding to the agency in the wake of the allegations surfacing, the State Department said – marking a significant reversal from the Biden administration’s strong support for UNRWA.Well, color me shocked.
UNRWA fires 12 staffers who allegedly took part in October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, US cuts funding
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The US immediately cut funding to the agency in the wake of the allegations surfacing, the State Department said – marking a significant reversal from the Biden administration’s strong support for UNRWA.
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Gee, maybe Trump was right when he cut UNRWA funding back in 2018, and LIEden should not have reversed Trump's action! https://www.brookings.edu/articles/in-one-move-trump-eliminated-us-funding-for-unrwa-and-the-us-role-as-mideast-peacemaker/
George Soros has given the UNRWA over $2 million since 2018.George Soros, helping to kill Jews since WWII 8888crybaby
https://twitter.com/ParkerThayer/status/1750933820063269037
UNRWA fires 12 staffers who allegedly took part in October 7
Only 12?
WASHINGTON — U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement under which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to two senior administration officials.
a potential agreement under which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two monthsAnd Hamas will keep lobbing missiles, I assume.
Biden loves him some Hamas terrorists. He is pushing this deal to save the US Muzzie vote in Nov.Why should he different than any other democrat president since LBJ? Carter, Clinton, Obama, Biden(maybe should be Obama again) all muzzie terrorist appeasers 9999hair out0000
Biden Administration Weighs Slowing Israel Arms Sales to Push Netanyahu for Scaled-Back Gaza War: ReportThe more precise the weapons, the fewer 'civilians' will be collateral damage in relation to the number of Hamas operatives. While that ratio is no doubt blurred by the number of Hamas operatives dressed as or presented as civilian deaths, that precision is a limiting factor.
The White House has reportedly directed the Pentagon to determine which of Israel's weapons requests could be used as leverage
Published 01/28/24 09:11 AM ET|Updated 23 min ago
Aaron Feis
The Biden administration is considering slowing down or pausing weaponry sales to Israel in an attempt to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into scaling back the assault on Hamas in Gaza, according to a report.
The White House has directed the Pentagon to determine which of Israel's weapons requests could be used as leverage, NBC News reported Sunday, citing four current or former U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
The proposed tactic reportedly comes after President Biden and members of his administration have repeatedly ask Israel to scale back its assault and reduce civilian casualties in Gaza, only to see the requests go largely unheeded.
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https://themessenger.com/news/us-biden-weapons-arms-sales-israel-netanyahu-hamas-war-gaza
The more precise the weapons, the fewer 'civilians' will be collateral damage in relation to the number of Hamas operatives. While that ratio is no doubt blurred by the number of Hamas operatives dressed as or presented as civilian deaths, that precision is a limiting factor."...and reduce civilian casualties in Gaza" "Facts not in evidence." No evidence produced to support this demented claim. So kindly EFF off! Israel needs to eradicate those vermin once and for all. So give them all the weaponry required to do so.
To deny the Israelis the most surgical means of elimination an existential threat only means the threat will be eliminated by less precise methods: the threat still must be eliminated.
For all ts posturing, limiting more precise munitions supplies to the Israelis will only force them to use less precise methods, which would not achieve the stated desired result of reducing 'civilian' casualties, but the exact opposite of the stated goal.
So long as they are in the crosshairs, Hamas will not release all the living hostages they have. Giving Hamas time to regroup and rearm is folly. Get the job done.
Undercover Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinian terrorists in West Bank hospital raid
IDF says it neutralized a Hamas terrorist cell hiding inside the 'Ibn Sina' Hospital in Jenin
By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published January 30, 2024 9:00am EST
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The Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization reportedly rejected an Israeli offer Monday for a deal to free the remaining 132 or so hostages still in captivity in Gaza because the proposed agreement did not include a permanent end to Israel’s counteroffensive.
Note how it says a permanent end to "Israel’s counteroffensive", not a permanent end to 'the war'."Counteroffensive" alone implies that the Israeli action is a response to an "offensive".
Has the UN condemned this raid yet?
Blinken Offers Hamas Host Qatar U.S. ‘Commitment’ to a ‘Palestinian State’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, on Tuesday that the administration of leftist President Joe Biden rejects “any forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza” and has made a “commitment” to the “establishment of a Palestinian state,” the State Department said in a readout.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/06/blinken-offers-hamas-host-qatar-u-s-commitment-palestinian-state/
IDF Releases Evidence of Payments Directly from Iran to HamasThe $$ courtesy of Evil Joe & Company?
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released evidence Tuesday that it said showed direct payments from Iran to the Hamas terrorist organization and its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/06/idf-releases-evidence-of-payments-directly-from-iran-to-hamas/
So when did this become OUR BATTLE? This is Israel's to divide and conquer, not ours. Leave them the $%^& alone!
What's the difference in living down in Brownsville by the border, very similar, but thousands do.@Jack Russell
The United States Department of State is the enemy within and has been for more than one hundred years now.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The Israel Defense Force conducted a Raid recently on the Headquarters for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) within Gaza City in the Northern Strip, leading to the Discovery of a Large Server and Data Farm operated by Hamas and other Palestinian Terror Groups for Communication and Intelligence Capabilities beneath the Building; this Discovery alongside the recent Announcement that multiple Members of UNRWA had Participated in the October 7th Massacre against Southern Israel mean only one thing…
UNRWA needs to be Dismantled and all of its Leadership Arrested for Collusion with Hamas.
Biden Warns Netanyahu in Phone Call Against Attack in Rafah Without Civilian Plan
President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a 45-minute telephone call Sunday not to attack Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah without a credible plan to evacuate the roughly one million Palestinian civilians there.
A White House readout of the call said:
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke this morning with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. The President reaffirmed our shared goal to see Hamas defeated and to ensure the long-term security of Israel and its people. The President and the Prime Minister discussed ongoing efforts to secure the release of all remaining hostages held by Hamas. The President emphasized the need to capitalize on progress made in the negotiations to secure the release of all hostages as soon as possible. He also called for urgent and specific steps to increase the throughput and consistency of humanitarian assistance to innocent Palestinian civilians. And he reaffirmed his view that a military operation in Rafah should not proceed without a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there. The two leaders agreed to remain in close contact.
Rafah is a town in Gaza on the Egyptian border. It is the one part of Gaza where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet attacked Hamas. Hamas leaders are thought to be hiding there. The area is also important to cross-border smuggling.
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https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/11/biden-warns-netanyahu-in-phone-call-against-attack-in-rafah-without-civilian-plan/
President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a 45-minute telephone call Sunday not to attack Hamas’s last stronghold in Rafah without a credible plan to evacuate the roughly one million Palestinian civilians there.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The Israel Defense Force has announced in a Joint-Statement with Shin Bet that they conducted a Ground Operation tonight within the City of Rafah in Southern Gaza in order to Rescue the Israeli Hostages, Fernando Marman and Louis Har who were both Kidnapped by Hamas from the Town of Nir Yitzhak on October 7th; the Operation was conducted by Shin Bet Agents with the Support of the 7th Brigade as well as the “Shayetet 13” Special Forces Unit of the Israeli Navy while the Israeli Air Force launched Airstrikes on several Hamas Targets as a Distraction; the Abductees have since been Airlifted to Sheba Hospital where they will undergo Medical Check-Ups before their Release to their Families.
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Biden called Netanyahu today to tell him not to go into Rafah to avoid a collapse of hostage negotiations.
Israel just rescued two hostages in Rafah.
This is the moment for Biden and his team - and every mainstream media outlet carrying their water - to take a big step back.
Richard Goldberg
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Biden called Netanyahu today to tell him not to go into Rafah to avoid a collapse of hostage negotiations.
Israel just rescued two hostages in Rafah.
This is the moment for Biden and his team - and every mainstream media outlet carrying their water - to take a big step back.
I thought I heard on TND this morning that there was a Hamas Communication Center under a U.N. facilty at Rafah.
Blow 'em out of the sky like quail Bibi.
I have to agree. Why don't all of these "From the river to the Sea" people go to Gaza?
Why not one of them? Why not any of them?
I mean that earnestly. Why don't some of them go there? Why not one of them go there?
If you really believe all that stuff you are saying, then you would join us!
Come! Come to gaza. We love you ... and together we will finally defeat the evil monster from Transylvania!
I wonder whether this is something LIEden feared would happen. That not only would Netanyahu "disobey" LIEden, but that there would be some result that proved Israel was right to "disobey" LIEden.
LIEden should have known in early 2021 that Israel would notice that he was filling his malAdministration with Israel-Haters and be prepared to respond accordingly.
As the Israeli armed forces gear up to capture the last major terrorist stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza with the aim of annihilating Hamas’ Gaza-based leadership and liberating the hostages, the Biden administration, European governments, and Arab regimes are exerting enormous pressure on Israel to halt the military operation.
Some Americans do go over there, FA and FO. Remember Rachel "Pancake" Corrie?Ok ... so 20 years ago some tattooed green hair lesbian went to the West Bank. So what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie)
Cairo threatens to suspend the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty signed in Camp David.They are just panicked that the peaceful Palestinians will start flooding into their countries, well I hope they do!
F**cking Hell YES!! Jimmy Carter was a FOOL who set the world on fire with Islam!
Take back Gaza, take back Sanai and piss on Jimmuah Carter's grave!
Ok ... so 20 years ago some tattooed green hair lesbian went to the West Bank. So what?
I want all of the Hamas supporters ... to support Hamas. Hamas needs you now! You should come now!
Cairo threatens to suspend the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty signed in Camp David.
F**cking Hell YES!! Jimmy Carter was a FOOL who set the world on fire with Islam!
Take back Gaza, take back Sanai and piss on Jimmuah Carter's grave!
Yes, one would think that negating the deal should involve the return of the Sinai to Israel.
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Carter is alive on because HISTORY want him to feel and to experience just how STUPID liberals and liberalism is.
I'd wager the 'hurt' is on the guy who said that his favorite sound was the Muslim call to prayer.
If he didn't know then, he does now (or not?). Biden has to have a little hurt that he gave wrong advise. Or should.
Israel is not going to give up control of Gaza so Biden can have his way.
U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state — whether Israel agrees or not.Am I wrong here, couldn't the Palis have had their independent state decades ago, if they had simply agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist? **nononono* Once again it's all the JOOOOOS fault.
Ok ... well ... wait a minute. That is not an 'agreement'. That is an imposition.
So this Islamic America (run by gay Obama) is saying, "We will do whatever the hell we want to do! and F**k you! by the way."
Biden Admin Set to Reward Palestinians For October 7 Massacre With a State and East Jerusalem as CapitalIsrael owes all of these scum nothing...these bastards set Oct 7th in motion due to their complicity with hamas...smoke 'em all Israel, smoke 'em!
Legal Insurrection by Vijeta Uniyal Thursday, February 15, 2024
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Office: “Now is not the time to be speaking about gifts for the Palestinian people.”
The Biden administration is planning to reward the Palestinians for the October 7 massacre by enabling them to create a state with its capital in East Jerusalem, a report published by The Washington Post on Wednesday indicates.
Barely four months after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1200 Israelis as they raped and pillaged their way through Jewish communities in southern Israel, the Biden White House has reportedly joined hands with Arab states and the European Union to clear the path for statehood for Palestinians — who overwhelmingly support Hamas and other terrorist groups.
Rep. Brian Mast
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The Biden Administration wants to create a Palestinian state, but REFUSES to say who would run it or whether they would be considered our ally.
Here's the obvious truth: Hamas is the popularly elected government, and as a result, a Palestinian state would be run by terrorists.
https://twitter.com/RepBrianMast/status/1758140401771307349 (https://twitter.com/RepBrianMast/status/1758140401771307349)
The roadmap for the establishment of a Palestinian state could be announced in the coming weeks, the article suggests. “The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state, that could be announced as early as the next several weeks,” the WaPo noted.
Under the proposed plan, President Joe Biden is likely to penalize Israelis while rewarding Palestinians. The deal being worked out by the White House would involve the “withdrawal of many, if not all, settler communities on the West Bank” as well as “a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem; the reconstruction of Gaza; and security and governance arrangements for a combined West Bank and Gaza,” the newspaper added.
The Washington Post reported:
The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state, that could be announced as early as the next several weeks.
The urgency of the effort is tied directly to a proposed pause in the fighting and release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas that is being negotiated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
An initial cease-fire, projected to be at least six weeks, would provide time to make the plan public, recruit additional support and take the initial steps toward its implementation, including the formation of an interim Palestinian government, according to U.S. and Arab officials. Planners hope a hostage agreement can be reached before the beginning of Ramadan, the month of Muslim fasting that begins March 10, lest it compound the deprivation and pressure-cooker atmosphere in Gaza.
“The key is the hostage deal,” said one U.S. official among several American and Arab diplomats who discussed the subject on the condition of anonymity to avoid derailing the plan before it is completed.
But even as planning participants — including Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Palestinian representatives, in addition to the United States — work to reach agreement among themselves, there are new fears that a looming Israeli attack on Rafah will throw the Gaza crisis into overdrive and bury both the hostage deal and long-term peace efforts. (…)
More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/biden-admin-set-to-reward-palestinians-for-october-7-massacre-with-a-state-with-east-jerusalem-as-capital-washington-post-report-suggests/ (https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/biden-admin-set-to-reward-palestinians-for-october-7-massacre-with-a-state-with-east-jerusalem-as-capital-washington-post-report-suggests/)
Munich, how appropriate.
Other than in Trump's Presidency, Foggy Bottom and US Presidents following their mislead have been pushing the "Two State Solution" fantasy for 4 or 5 decades. It hasn't and won't work, because the Arab Palis want a single state - theirs - and millions of dead Jews.
Munich, how appropriate.
Other than in Trump's Presidency, Foggy Bottom and US Presidents following their mislead have been pushing the "Two State Solution" fantasy for 4 or 5 decades. It hasn't and won't work, because the Arab Palis want a single state - theirs - and millions of dead Jews.
Israel-Gaza war: Latest ceasefire talks not very promising - Qatar"I believe in this agreement we are talking at a bigger scale and we still see some difficulties on the humanitarian part of these negotiations," he added.
Talks to agree a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza were "not very promising" in recent days, mediator Qatar has said.
Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said he remained optimistic, but added "time is not in our favour".
It comes as Israel's prime minister said he would press ahead with plans for a Rafah ground invasion, despite growing international pressure.
Hamas has blamed Israel for a lack of progress in achieving a ceasefire deal.
Talks have been taking place in Cairo as senior officials from the US, Israel, Egypt and Qatar meet to try to broker a pause in fighting.
"The pattern in the last few days [is] not really very promising but, as I always repeat, we will always remain optimistic and will always remain pushing," said Sheik Mohammed, speaking at a meeting of world leaders at the Munich Security Conference.
"I believe in this agreement we are talking at a bigger scale and we still see some difficulties on the humanitarian part of these negotiations," he added.
But he said a truce should not be dependent on a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas.
"This is the dilemma that we've been in and unfortunately that's been misused by a lot of countries - that in order to get a ceasefire, it's conditional to have the hostage deal," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he sent negotiators following a request from US President Joe Biden, but added they did not return for further discussions because Hamas's demands were "delusional"................
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68326788
Netanyahu Defies Biden with Unanimous Vote Against Imposed Palestinian State
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday by submitting a version of Biden’s peace plan to his government, including a Palestinian state imposed from outside, to a vote — and having it rejected unanimously.
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https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/02/18/netanyahu-defies-biden-with-unanimous-vote-against-imposed-palestinian-state/
The Prime Minister’s Office released the following statement:QuoteThe Israeli Government has unanimously approved a declaratory decision regarding Israel’s opposition to international diktats.
The text of the final statement:
1. Israel utterly rejects international diktats regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians. A settlement, if it is to be reached, will come about solely through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions.
2. Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Such recognition in the wake of the October 7th massacre would be a massive and unprecedented reward to terrorism and would prevent any future peace settlement.
From the article:
Israel obstinately refuses to obey LIEden and the antisemites of his maladministration. Or at least that's how LIEden views Israel's actions.
Israel has issued a stern ultimatum to Hamas: Release the hostages or spend Ramadan dodging Israeli rockets.
I can't even let my mind go there.
President Joe Biden plans to introduce a resolution at the United Nations Security Council calling for a temporary “ceasefire” and demanding Israel refrain from conducting an attack on the last Hamas battalions in Gaza that are the key to winning the war.Words are insufficient to describe his idiocy.
Gary Weiss
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No mention of hostages in the report, indicating that Team Biden is no longer exploiting the hostages to demand a Hamas victory. It's simply abandoned the hostages---including the American ones. Kabul all over again. And make no mistake. This is ALL about placating the far left.
2:47 PM · Feb 19, 2024
Words are insufficient to describe his idiocy.
The U.S. is officially transferring its support from Israel to Hamas in the single greatest gift to genocidal terrorists in history.
https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1759712970961989862
Caroline Glick
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The U.S. is officially transferring its support from Israel to Hamas in the single greatest gift to genocidal terrorists in history.
The End Times must be drawing nigh. And the US will go out as a goat nation.
That is heart breaking. Stand tall BiBi.
Betrayed: Biden Proposes Anti-Israel Temporary ‘Ceasefire’ Resolution at United Nations Security Council
President Joe Biden plans to introduce a resolution at the United Nations Security Council calling for a temporary “ceasefire” and demanding Israel refrain from conducting an attack on the last Hamas battalions in Gaza that are the key to winning the war.
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Hamas' 10/7 invasion proved Hamas is an existential threat. In the face of that Israel has shown it is willing to tell LIEden to F off. Israel will probably find telling UN anti-Semites to F off even easier.
Gonna be hard to produce hostages when most are likely dead.
If the Biden/Obama regime is elected again, I have no doubt we will see American forces attacking Israeli positions in Gaza and the West Bank.Recall Obama's favorite sound...
The only thing stopping Bobama from attack NOW ... TODAY is the election. If they manage to get that behind them, then nothing will hold them back from fighting on the side of Hamas/PLO/Hezbollah and Iran.
It is clearly obvious that is what they want to do.
Hamas supporters claim Israeli forces fired on desperate "Palestinians" simply trying to get stuff from aid trucks.
Hamas will only release hostages to buy time to re-arm and recruit.
Hamas has money for rockets, tunnels, and miltary training, but no money for baby formula? Tsk tsk tsk
Hamas steals aid shiments? Tsk tsk tsk
Hamas makes poor choices for the Gazans that "elected" them.
OSINTdefender**nononono*
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Initial Reports of a Mass Casualty Incident in Gaza City following an Explosion and the Collapse of a Building being used by the Israel Defense Force as Temporary Military Housing, with at least 15 Soldiers being Killed and many Dozen Injured.
OSINTdefender
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Initial Reports of a Mass Casualty Incident in Gaza City following an Explosion and the Collapse of a Building being used by the Israel Defense Force as Temporary Military Housing, with at least 15 Soldiers being Killed and many Dozen Injured.
Israel agrees to framework of proposed 6-week cease-fire in Gaza: Report
by Filip Timotija
03/02/24 4:01 PM ET
Israel has reportedly agreed to the framework of a proposed temporary cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza that comes after weeks of negotiations by international mediators.
The Israelis “have more or less accepted” the framework and now the ball is in Hamas’ court to agree to the terms, a senior U.S. administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the The Associated Press Saturday, a day before talks will continue in Egypt.
The deal, if accepted by all sides, will reportedly include a six-week cease-fire and Hamas would release hostages considered at risk, according to the U.S. official. The framework would also include a larger influx of humanitarian aid into Gaza as thousands of Palestinians, around one-quarter of Gaza’s residents, are a step away from famine, according to a senior U.N. official.
The response from Hamas about the proposed deal is expected on Sunday, a senior Egyptian official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the AP.
Scrutiny of Israel has intensified as more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of thousands are battling for survival in northern Gaza following retaliation by Israel after Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that left over 1,200 Israelis dead.
The U.S. Air Forces Central began air dropping aid into Gaza on Saturday. President Biden announced the plan on Friday, reiterating that he believes the U.S. and others need to do more to help Palestinians.
This comes as one in six children in Gaza under the age of two suffer from malnutrition, according to the U.N. official, per the AP.
The proposed cease-fire comes as more than 100 Palestinians died in Gaza City when trying to access humanitarian aid from the convoy delivering food. Palestinians have accused Israel of firing at civilians while Israeli officials said their forces only shot those who were a threat.
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/4503940-israel-agrees-to-framework-of-proposed-ceasefire-gaza/
Hamas will "accept" the deal, and resume replenishing their missile stocks and rebuilding tunnels. Then, in the near future, they will slaughter Israelis again and start new missile barrages.
It's obvious.
Israel agrees to framework of proposed 6-week cease-fire in Gaza: Report"Scrutiny of Israel has intensified as more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of thousands are battling for survival in northern Gaza"
by Filip Timotija
03/02/24 4:01 PM ET
Israel has reportedly agreed to the framework of a proposed temporary cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza that comes after weeks of negotiations by international mediators.
The Israelis “have more or less accepted” the framework and now the ball is in Hamas’ court to agree to the terms, a senior U.S. administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the The Associated Press Saturday, a day before talks will continue in Egypt.
The deal, if accepted by all sides, will reportedly include a six-week cease-fire and Hamas would release hostages considered at risk, according to the U.S. official. The framework would also include a larger influx of humanitarian aid into Gaza as thousands of Palestinians, around one-quarter of Gaza’s residents, are a step away from famine, according to a senior U.N. official.
The response from Hamas about the proposed deal is expected on Sunday, a senior Egyptian official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the AP.
Scrutiny of Israel has intensified as more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of thousands are battling for survival in northern Gaza following retaliation by Israel after Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that left over 1,200 Israelis dead.
The U.S. Air Forces Central began air dropping aid into Gaza on Saturday. President Biden announced the plan on Friday, reiterating that he believes the U.S. and others need to do more to help Palestinians.
This comes as one in six children in Gaza under the age of two suffer from malnutrition, according to the U.N. official, per the AP.
The proposed cease-fire comes as more than 100 Palestinians died in Gaza City when trying to access humanitarian aid from the convoy delivering food. Palestinians have accused Israel of firing at civilians while Israeli officials said their forces only shot those who were a threat.
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/4503940-israel-agrees-to-framework-of-proposed-ceasefire-gaza/
The U.S. Air Forces Central began air dropping aid into Gaza on Saturday. President Biden announced the plan on Friday, reiterating that he believes the U.S. and others need to do more to help Palestinians.
Hamas will "accept" the deal, and resume replenishing their missile stocks and rebuilding tunnels. Then, in the near future, they will slaughter Israelis again and start new missile barrages.Yep...unfortunately Israel once again finds itself "at odds" with the rest of the world. Now she must compromise her people and sacrifice them, again. What an insane world we live in that supports and defends sub-human savages over a country that just wants to live in peace.
It's obvious.
OSINTdefender
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Senior U.S. Official are reporting that Israel has Agreed to a 6-Week Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip which will include a Release of Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners, but that they are awaiting a Response to the Ceasefire from Hamas.
Seems Bibi caved. This Hamas thing just got further perpetuated. Rather, Rinse, Spin, repeat.The global propaganda machine turned on him. When your last supposed ally starts dropping aid packages to your enemies, what can you do?
OSINTdefenderI'd be surprised if any of the hostages are alive. Bibi's playing the cards he has, I get it. I just pray that other Israelis don't pay the price. And I can't help but say FU to the US state dept @blinken and other simps., WH and all others who sympathize with the palis...EFF you!
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Senior U.S. Official are reporting that Israel has Agreed to a 6-Week Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip which will include a Release of Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners, but that they are awaiting a Response to the Ceasefire from Hamas.
But...but....but...Biden said there would be a cease fire come Monday. *****rollingeyes*****
And Kammie commanded Israel to cease fireHard to believe no one takes her seriously. I can't imagine why.
Our tax dollars at work. Gazan man throws food in the garbage because it was parachuted into Gaza by the US Air Force.And then after he made his propaganda video he took it right back out and gobbled it up.......he's an Arab, they and the truth are like ships that pass in the night, or a virgin camel at a Bedouin camp.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1764805073031331896
And then after he made his propaganda video he took it right back out and gobbled it up.......he's an Arab, they and the truth are like ships that pass in the night, or a virgin camel at a Bedouin camp.
:yowsa: pointing-up
It's perfectly OK for Muslims to lie to infidels when it suits their purpose. Says so right there in the Koran.
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When finished Israel should bomb it.It will never get that far. Whatever Biden is actually building in Gaza? It will never be completed. This would constitute an actual factual annexation of Israeli littoral territory by the American military.
It will never get that far. Whatever Biden is actually building in Gaza? It will never be completed. This would constitute an actual factual annexation of Israeli littoral territory by the American military.
Ok? That is fine with me. But let us stir up the scenario just a bit. What if Biden decided to build a new port on Turkey or Egypt or Lebanon? He says in his isolated idiotic stupor, "I'm going to build a new port in Turkey ... to aid the Kurds."
Shortbus Joe is only trying to placate the anti-Jew base, which is rather robust as it turns out. Nothing more, nothing less.
The KKK has not changed it's sheets.
He also made clear that an Israeli attack on Rafah would be unacceptable.Why? Can Clueless Joe offer an explanation?
He also made clear that an Israeli attack on Rafah would be unacceptable.
How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty NumbersTablet Mag (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers?fbclid=IwAR0j0_BdZ8a6aFpOJ3CGnbDhUmEQKwSdpV9sKp0LR1Ytbe6nDFbVMZvprP8_aem_AVhk7w4ShN1v642ci6o6XibCH9TtdikrTCRqO0lKkPwoNZjAG_VztW7fSCwqge4pV_4)
The evidence is in their own poorly fabricated figures
by Abraham Wyner
March 06, 2024
The number of civilian casualties in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. The main source for the data has been the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, which now claims more than 30,000 dead, the majority of which it says are children and women. Recently, the Biden administration lent legitimacy to Hamas’ figure. When asked at a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week how many Palestinian women and children have been killed since Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was “over 25,000.” The Pentagon quickly clarified that the secretary “was citing an estimate from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.” President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that “too many, too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children, including thousands of children.” The White House also explained that the president “was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties.”
Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters. ...
This lack of correlation is the second circumstantial piece of evidence suggesting the numbers are not real. But there is more. The daily number of women casualties should be highly correlated with the number of non-women and non-children (i.e., men) reported. Again, this is expected because of the nature of battle. The ebbs and flows of the bombings and attacks by Israel should cause the daily count to move together. But that is not what the data show. Not only is there not a positive correlation, there is a strong negative correlation, which makes no sense at all and establishes the third piece of evidence that the numbers are not real.
Consider some further anomalies in the data: First, the death count reported on Oct. 29 contradicts the numbers reported on the 28th, insofar as they imply that 26 men came back to life. This can happen because of misattribution or just reporting error. ...
Netanyahu: "Hold my beer."
Sounds like a "come to Jesus" moment.
unusual_whales
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BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that he will defy Joe Biden's "red line" and invade Rafah to prevent another attack like Oct 7, per Politco
Biden draws ‘red line’ for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No Israeli attack on Rafah"...30,000 more Palestinians dead" Again, there's that number, made up out of whole cloth by the lying palis and most likely includes the thousands of terrorists whacked by Israel. I don't doubt there are collaterals, but after watching the post Oct 7th videos, I can't generate much, if any sympathy for what they're encountering. They messed with the bull and are whining about getting the horns.
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Updated: 3:11 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, 2024
President Biden drew a “red line” for Israel over the weekend, warning against an attack on the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
In a Saturday interview with MSNBC, the president offered his harshest criticism to date of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He said the leadership’s conduct of the war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel.” Mr. Biden said Israel must take greater care to protect civilians in Gaza.
He also made clear that an Israeli attack on Rafah would be unacceptable.
“It is a red line,” Mr. Biden said when asked about a potential Israeli military assault on the city. More than 1 million Palestinians have sought shelter in southern Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.
“But I’m never going to leave Israel,” the president quickly added. “The defense of Israel is still critical. There’s no red line [where] I’m going to cut off all weapons so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them.
“But there’s red lines that if he crosses them — you cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead as a consequence of going after” Hamas, Mr. Biden said. “There’s other ways to deal with, to get to, to deal with the trauma caused by Hamas.”
The comments will likely deepen the rift between the Biden administration and Mr. Netanyahu’s government.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/10/biden-draws-red-line-for-prime-minister-benjamin-n/
Ok? That is fine with me. But let us stir up the scenario just a bit. What if Biden decided to build a new port on Turkey or Egypt or Lebanon? He says in his isolated idiotic stupor, "I'm going to build a new port in Turkey ... to aid the Kurds."Watchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?
How does anyone think this is normal? or acceptable?
The world does not work like that.
Biden seems to think, by word and by actions, that the stupid Jews in Israel are somehow his inferiors. He seems to think that Israel is some servant who must 'obey' him <- him as the superior Christian overlord.
He may be surprised to find out that Jews do as they please and think on their own. They do not need or want some uber-White uber-old KKK man from the 1940s to guide and direct them.
All comes down to catering to the Muslim vote.
I gotz this feelin' that the IDF is gonna roll right over biden's "red line" the same way that the Israeli bulldozer rolled over Ms. Corrie...
I gotz this feelin' that the IDF is gonna roll right over biden's "red line" the same way that the Israeli bulldozer rolled over Ms. Corrie...
I gotz this feelin' that the IDF is gonna roll right over biden's "red line" the same way that the Israeli bulldozer rolled over Ms. Corrie...
Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
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Mar 13
Joe Biden, AOC and the rest of the Hamas caucus should be forced to watch the video with their eyes taped open like Clockwork Orange.
So, Israel announces it will invade Rafa, and Hamas offers cease fire and hostage release. Coincidence? Maybe, but, it's confirmation Israel is on the right track.At the very least, they 'negotiate' to buy time to set up for the next offensive.
Agressors (Hamas) only sue for peace when they are losing. They use the false promise of peace, cease fire, or armistice to buy time to recruit and re-arm.
Reduce Rafa to ash.
Unconditional surrender of Hamas is the only acceptable, long-term outcome. Anything short of Hamas' unconditional surrender is a guarantee of another future war in Gaza.
Gazans need to turn against Hamas like the Italian populace turned against Mussolini towards the end of World War II.
Israel Radar
@IsraelRadar_com
Netanyahu's plan: Turn Gaza into demilitarized Singapore-style entity; fully detached from Israel, linked to world via sea route to Cyprus, land passage to Egypt under Israeli monitoring; massive UAE investment in tourism & tech; local government supervised by international body led by US, Arab states. via @ynetalerts
Israel Radar
@IsraelRadar_com
Netanyahu's plan: Turn Gaza into demilitarized Singapore-style entity; fully detached from Israel, linked to world via sea route to Cyprus, land passage to Egypt under Israeli monitoring; massive UAE investment in tourism & tech; local government supervised by international body led by US, Arab states. via @ynetalerts
The White House has yet to review Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s plans to invade Rafah but “would welcome” seeing the specifics.'Eff off, White House.
'Eff off, White House.Absolutely! The second those bastard in the White House or the Senate or the House saw what the plans were they would tell Hamas and the Iranians...so the smart move by Netanyahu would be to lie to them and then do something completely different.
The White House has yet to review Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s plans to invade Rafah but “would welcome” seeing the specifics.
White House wants to see Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah
Jake Sullivan Makes Antisemitic Claim Israel Interferes in American Politics
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made the antisemitic claim Monday in a White House press briefing that Israel interferes in U.S. politics.
Jake Sullivan Makes Antisemitic Claim Israel Interferes in American Politics
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made the antisemitic claim Monday in a White House press briefing that Israel interferes in U.S. politics.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/18/jake-sullivan-makes-antisemitic-claim-israel-interferes-in-american-politics/
As a general rule, any time Democrats falsely accuse someone of wrongdoing, it is because they are already doing it themselves.:yowsa:
One can love what Netanyahu did --- AND admit in good conscience that the PM flying 6,000 miles for the sole purpose of personally telling the whole of the elected US Congress --- from the well of the House of Representatives --- to vote against the sitting President's proposed policy initiative is the *quintessential* example of Israeli interference in US politics. And, it's not the only one.
Netanyahu to Biden, Sullivan: ‘There Is No Way’ Other than Rafah Invasion
Netanyahu: “I made it as clear as possible to the President that we are determined to complete the elimination of these battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground incursion.”
Netanyahu to Biden, Sullivan: ‘There Is No Way’ Other than Rafah Invasion
Netanyahu: “I made it as clear as possible to the President that we are determined to complete the elimination of these battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground incursion.”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/19/netanyahu-to-biden-sullivan-there-is-no-way-rafah-invasion/
State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. shares the goal of “degrading” Hamas — avoiding the use of the word “defeating,” in an apparent shift of U.S. policy on the Gaza war.
Jake Sullivan: And from the U.S. perspective, this is not a question of defeating Hamas. And anytime I hear an argument that says, “If you don’t smash into Rafah, you can’t defeat Hamas,” I say, “That is a strawman.”
Jake Sullivan: [T]he President is not focused on what’s popular, what’s not popular, how do you shape public opinion.
Jake Sullivan: [Biden]’s interested in how do we get to the right result, and the right result is the enduring defeat of Hamas, a two-state solution that has a secure Israel and a Palestinian state that vindicates the aspirations of the Palestinian people, and a broader normalization of relations so that Israel also has peace with all of its Arab neighbors.
On Tuesday, as Breitbart News reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his view that while he was happy to talk to the Biden Administration about it, there was no way to defeat Hamas without entering Rafah.
This is identical to his Ukraine policy, Houthi policy, etc.The DOD and State Department concept seems to be one of 'managed conflict' which keeps defense money flowing, golden parachutes for anyone of flag rank, and who knows? the potential for abundant cumshaw and baksheesh abounds. They did this in Afghanistan, and it has cost American Soldiers and their families dearly, not to mention the king's ransom in materiel (and even Americans) abandoned in one of the most ill-conceived withdrawals in history.
That is not at all a "strawman". Not even close. Sullivan is an idiot.
Biden changed his position the day after 13.2% of Michigan Democrats voted for "Uncommitted" in their primary.
The Palestinians don't want a two-state solution. And Israel can't have peace with its neighbors when those neighbors continue to attack Israel. Sullivan is parroting Iranian rhetoric.
Bibi is correct.
Biden Co-Chair, Dem Sen. Coons: ‘Almost Impossible’ for Israel to Do Rafah Operation the Way We Want"...will result in thousands and thousands more civilian casualties." That's a damned lie. The only way there are that many "civilian casualties" is to be counting the exterminated vermin.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that it would be “almost impossible” for Israel to go into Rafah “and conduct an operation in a way that isn’t unreasonably dangerous and unsafe and will result in thousands and thousands more civilian casualties.” And the operation definitely can’t “be safely done in the coming weeks.”
Coons said, “Israel has the right, even the obligation, to defend its civilians against Hamas and to continue pursuing Hamas terrorists. But they have to balance that with their obligation to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid going into Gaza. So, a delegation from Israel is now on its way to Washington to meet with our military leadership to consult on how they could possibly conduct a ground invasion into Rafah, where there are still four battalions of Hamas fighters, and allow for civilians to get out of Rafah and conduct an operation in a way that isn’t unreasonably dangerous and unsafe and will result in thousands and thousands more civilian casualties. It’s exceptionally difficult to do, almost impossible, frankly.”
more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/20/biden-co-chair-dem-sen-coons-almost-impossible-for-israel-to-do-rafah-operation-the-way-we-want/
Biden Co-Chair, Dem Sen. Coons: ‘Almost Impossible’ for Israel to Do Rafah Operation the Way We Want
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that it would be “almost impossible” for Israel to go into Rafah “and conduct an operation in a way that isn’t unreasonably dangerous and unsafe and will result in thousands and thousands more civilian casualties.” And the operation definitely can’t “be safely done in the coming weeks.”
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Making the conditions impossible was Foggy Bottom's and LIEden's anti-Semites' purpose.
"...will result in thousands and thousands more civilian casualties." That's a damned lie. The only way there are that many "civilian casualties" is to be counting the exterminated vermin.It's war. It isn't safe. People get killed. As for "thousands and thousands" more civilian casualties, maybe Hamas should throw up a white flag, send out the remaining hostages, dead or alive, and come out of their holes.
It's war. It isn't safe. People get killed. As for "thousands and thousands" more civilian casualties, maybe Hamas should throw up a white flag, send out the remaining hostages, dead or alive, and come out of their holes.
Otherwise, it will be done the hard way.
And how many of those "civilians" are actively helping Hamas?By the jubilation in their streets after the massacre, most all of them.
Exactly!
They never plan for victory, only stalemates. All wars are now forever wars.
This is a great example of 'First World' thinking being imposed on primitive barbarians. There are no factual meaningful "polls" in any Islamic country. People simply respond in whatever way which will not get them arrested, tortured, and killed.
A majority of Palestinians want Hamas to retain control of the Gaza Strip after its war against Israel ends, according to a new poll.
Netanyahu to Blinken on Rafah: We’d Prefer Your Support, But We’ll Do It Alone
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that there was no alternative to an attack in Rafah, and that Israel was prepared to do so without U.S. support.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/03/22/netanyahu-to-blinken-on-rafah-wed-prefer-your-support-but-well-do-it-alone/
The fact that no Arab / Muslim Middle East country wants to take in Palestinian / Gaza refugees tells you a lot.:yowsa:
A majority of Palestinians want Hamas to retain control of the Gaza Strip after its war against Israel ends, according to a new poll.
Hamas is demanding Israel pull out of Gaza 100%. That's not going to happen.
How can you live with, or next to, a political entity that kidnaps babies to be human shields, and expect them to abide by any security agreements?
Israel would rather restore its reputation of "F with us at your own risk".
The clock on this is ticking.
Oli London
@OliLondonTV
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At least 18 Palestinians reportedly killed after a massive humanitarian aid drop.
6 died in a stampede as they rushed to obtain the aid packages whilst 12 drowned in the sea trying to obtain packages that had fallen in the water.
For whom?
"As God is my witness"...
Jon Levine
@LevineJonathan
Israelis are literally fighting for their right to live —
1:22 PM · Mar 25, 2024
"Oh the humanity!"If you invoke on than you must (https://i.imgur.com/YAcBZ4t.jpg)
Mr. Levine, at what point do we consider that 57 years of a superior military power playing whack a Palestinian does not represent an existential threat or a fight for anyone's right to live --- that's it's actually a debilitating political addiction?Let's ask the 1200+ Israelis who were denied their right to live by the palis on Oct 7th...oh wait. Maybe we can ask their surviving loved ones?
Mr. Levine, at what point do we consider that 57 years of a superior military power playing whack a Palestinian does not represent an existential threat or a fight for anyone's right to live --- that's it's actually a debilitating political addiction?
It's been 57 years of fighting with half measures. The US is probably the main reason they never fight to a definitive conclusion. We never do.
It's been 57 years of fighting with half measures. The US is probably the main reason they never fight to a definitive conclusion. We never do.
The US demanding Israel pull it's punches dates at least to the Reagan Administration (and EuroLanders) saving Arafat's @#$ when he was cornered by the IDF in Beirut in 1982.
It's been 57 years of fighting with half measures. The US is probably the main reason they never fight to a definitive conclusion. We never do.
The fact that no Arab / Muslim Middle East country wants to take in Palestinian / Gaza refugees tells you a lot.
Netanyahu has been spoiling for a fight with the US. He may not survive this one
The Guardian, Mar 26, 2024
How do you gaslight an entire nation about a war and then try to do the same to a superpower that is your ally? And how do you turn a just war into global isolation and widespread condemnation? Just ask Benjamin Netanyahu. He has the patent.
Netanyahu has been deliberately and intently seeking a confrontation with the US ever since late October. The UN security council resolution 2728, demanding an “immediate ceasefire”, is just the latest pretext for this premeditated showdown. This may sound counterintuitive and imprudent to you, given that the two countries are close allies, given Israel’s heavy reliance on US military aid and its diplomatic umbrella, and particularly given President Biden’s sweeping and unwavering support for Israel since the 7 October catastrophe.
But Netanyahu has two reasons to instigate such a confrontation. The first is pure gaslighting on a grand scale. He concocted a narrative that supposedly explains the war’s context and consequently absolves him from the responsibility and accountability he persistently refuses to assume. It also distracts from his stated policy of imploring Qatar to funnel more funds to Gaza to strengthen Hamas, all in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority and render any political negotiations impossible.
[...]
The second reason is more current and practical: the confrontation is about setting up Biden as the scapegoat for Netanyahu’s failure to achieve “total victory” or “the eradication of Hamas”, two fortune cookie-type slogans that he spews regularly.
The security council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, adopted by 14 members with the US abstaining, puts Israel on a double collision course: with the UN security council but more critically, with the US. Netanyahu’s sanctimonious tantrums about how “surprised” he was and how the US abstention is a departure from policy that would prevent victory is mendacious. He was warned repeatedly by the Biden administration that this would be an inevitable outcome if he persisted with his endless recalcitrance, defiance and effective refusal to engage with the US, ostensibly Israel’s staunch ally and protector.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/26/benjamin-netanyahu-joe-biden-un-security-council-resolution-ceasefire-gaza
'Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote
The Guardian, Mar 26, 2024
The Israeli prime minister’s handling of relations with the Biden administration, which led the US on Monday to decline to veto a ceasefire resolution at the UN security council, has been greeted by sharp criticism by Israeli commentators.
After the US abstention, prominent columnists across the Israeli media condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s growing friction with the US president, Joe Biden.
While Netanyahu, who has faced plummeting public approval ratings since Hamas’s surprise 7 October attack on southern Israel, has long been a target for a large section of Israel’s commentariat, the tone in some quarters after the rare US abstention in the security council bordered on derision and contempt.
Driving the sentiment is the vivid awareness within Israeli society of the huge importance of the US-Israeli relationship in terms of financial aid, arms sales and Washington’s diplomatic support, including its frequently used veto on Israel’s behalf on the security council.
The security council vote is a significant moment – but the US says its Gaza policy is unchanged.
Washington’s decision not to use its veto came after a weekend in which US officials say they spoke non-stop to Israeli counterparts warning them in advance, suggesting that Netanyahu’s decision to cancel a visit by a delegation to the US in the aftermath of the vote was more calculated theatre than the result of surprise.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/26/benjamin-netanyahu-handling-us-relations-un-israel-gaza-ceasefire-vote
Two dramatic things happened on Monday, neither quite unprecedented by itself but uniquely striking in their back-to-back timing.
First, the United States did not veto but rather abstained from—and thus allowed to pass—a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the war on Gaza.
It wasn’t the first time the United States has turned away from its usual practice of protecting Israel by vetoing resolutions that criticized the country. In fact, every president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama abstained at least once on resolutions condemning Israel—Ronald Reagan did so seven times—for expanding settlements, invading Lebanon, permitting the murder of Palestinians, or other crimes and malfeasances.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/why-netanyahu-really-canceled-his-visit-to-washington.html
The fact that no Arab / Muslim Middle East country wants to take in Palestinian / Gaza refugees tells you a lot.
Israel was 100% out of Gaza on October 6th.
If Hamas didn't want Israel in Gaza, they shouldn't have launched their October 7th terrorist attack against the Israeli civilian population.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9tM1CXa4AAsAhP.jpg)
What does it tell us? @DefiantMassRINO
What does it tell us? @DefiantMassRINO
If it is explained to you, obviously you will deny and disagree, so what IS the point, really, WrongInVirginia?
Little 9-year-old Middle Eastern girl in hajib, crying: "I have to marry a fifty year old man!"
Friend next to her in hajib, same age: "Please, bitch. I have to blow myself up tomorrow morning."
What does it tell us? @DefiantMassRINO
It tells us that other Arab Muslim nations view Palestinians as a politically destablizing presence in their countries.
I agree with this. It's not a judgement of the worth of the people, but the chaos they could bring, especially to other regional relationships. This sentiment is not unlike Western governments turning away Jewish refugees in the late 1930s --- nothing more, nothing less.Y'all seem to be forgetting that the governments there are inherently tribal.
Further proof, if we need it, that war is hell.
Similar reasoning why I wouldn't want to live in a cul-de-sac filled with all radical, militant Never Trumpers.
I mean how much fun would it be to have @roamer_1 on one side and @Hoodat on the other.
First of all, I am not a #NeverTrumper. I'm #NeverLiberal. Been telling you this for eight years now, and you still get it wrong.
Secondly, @roamer_1 and I do disagree from time to time. Take the Eagles, for example. I rightly know that they suck, while Roamer mistakenly believes their music to be pleasing to the ear.
I mean how much fun would it be to have @roamer_1 on one side and @Hoodat on the other.
One would have goats and chickens running loose and the other would have giant Ukrainian flags flying.
What does it tell us? @DefiantMassRINO
a Palestinian peacekeeping teamIsn't that like cognitive dissonance? Or maybe just plain stupid?
Isn't that like cognitive dissonance? Or maybe just plain stupid?This is Biden/Obama/UN making sure that no matter what happens, Hamas will keep Gaza.
send about [one hundred thousand] Indian construction workers to Israel to replace Palestinian nationals working there,”
BREAKING: Israel agrees to reschedule delegation visit to the White House after last minute cancelation - ABC— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 27, 2024
Report: In ‘difficult’ video call, US tells Israel its Rafah evacuation plan not viable
Virtual meeting between Blinken, Sullivan, Dermer and Hanegbi underlines sides are on ‘completely different pages’ regarding potential IDF op in southernmost Gaza city
Times of Israel, Apr 3, 2024
A virtual meeting on Monday between US and Israeli officials to discuss a potential IDF ground operation in Rafah was reportedly marked by tensions and accusations as Washington expressed deep skepticism over Israeli plans to operate in the southernmost Gaza city.
The two-hour video call between US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the American side and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi on the Israeli side was extremely “difficult,” a Tuesday Channel 12 report claimed, stating that it showed the US and Israel are on “completely different pages” when it comes to Israel’s planned operation in Rafah where Jerusalem says four Hamas battalions remain.
The US representatives expressed deep concern about the threat of famine in Gaza and were highly critical of the IDF’s plans for Rafah, saying its evacuation proposal for the million-plus noncombatants in the city was unimpressive and not implementable.
Offering Hebrew translations of the alleged English conversation, Channel 12 reported that Sullivan told the group: “You’re going to be responsible for the third famine crisis of the 21st century. That is not something we can accept as partners.
Blinken was said to tell Dermer and Hanegbi that “according to the pace of your operations, it will take you four months to evacuate Rafah.”
The Israeli officials were quoted as not having anything to say regarding the US critiques other than reiterating their belief that Hamas cannot be dismantled without the IDF going into Rafah.
Essentially, Channel 12 summed up, the US representatives on the call made clear that if Israel wants any kind of American green light for an operation in Rafah, it needs to provide a viable “day after” plan for the post-war management of Gaza along with a credible evacuation plan for Rafah.
More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-us-tells-israel-its-rafah-evacuation-plan-not-viable-in-harsh-video-call/
Israel acknowledges killing 7 aid charity workers in ‘tragic, unintentional’ airstrike
Times of Israel, Apr 2, 2024
Facing searing criticism on Tuesday, Israel acknowledged mistakenly carrying out an airstrike that killed seven staff members of a US-based charity group who were unloading food brought by sea to the war-torn Gaza Strip.
The group World Central Kitchen said it was pausing operations after a “targeted Israeli strike” at around midnight between Monday and Tuesday killed three British and four other staffers — an Australian, a Palestinian, a Pole and a US-Canadian.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged a “tragic” and “unintentional” incident and vowed to “do everything” to prevent a recurrence.
A Haaretz report on Tuesday afternoon said the IAF had fired three missiles in quick succession at three vehicles.
The aid group said the team had been traveling in a “de-conflicted” area in a convoy of “two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle” at the time of the strike.
“Despite coordinating movements with the (Israeli army), the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route,” it said.
The three vehicles were targeted over a distance of around 2 kilometers.
According to a report by the Haaretz daily, a Hermes 450 UAV fired three missiles at the convoy in quick succession despite the vehicles being clearly marked on their roof as being part of WCK. The decision was made by a unit guarding the aid transport route after troops earlier spotted what appeared to be an armed figure riding on a truck that entered an aid storage area with three WCK cars. The attack occurred moments after the three cars left the storage area, leaving the truck and the armed figure behind, according to the report.
After a missile hit one car, those inside evacuated to the other two cars, and managed to report they had been attacked before a second missile hit another car. As the last unharmed car approached to evacuate the wounded, a third missile hit. All seven people who had been in the vehicles were killed, Haaretz reported.
An initial IDF probe into the incident was expected to be released to the public in the coming days, as the General Staff Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism carries out a more in-depth investigation.
More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-promises-probe-as-slain-aid-workers-home-countries-demand-explanation/
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
According to Syrian Officials which have spoken to Reuters, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi the Top Commander of the IRGC’s Quds Forces in Syria and Lebanon is Confirmed to have been Killed as a result of the Israeli Airstrike this morning against the Iranian Embassy Compound in the Syrian Capital of Damascus.
U.S. tells Iran it “had no involvement” in Israel strike
Axios, Apr 1, 2024
The U.S. told Iran that it “had no involvement” or advanced knowledge of an Israeli strike on a diplomatic compound in Syria that killed a senior Iranian general, according to a U.S. official.
The rare message shows the Biden administration is deeply concerned that the Israeli strike could lead to a regional escalation and the resumption of attacks by pro-Iranian militias against U.S. forces.
Israel notified the Biden administration a few minutes before its air force conducted the strike but didn’t ask for a U.S. green light, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
A U.S. official said the Israeli heads-up wasn’t detailed and arrived when the military jets were already in the air. The Israelis didn’t tell the U.S., for example, that they were planning to bomb a building in the Iranian embassy compound.
The strike took place shortly before White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Blinken started a secure video conference call with top Israeli officials to discuss alternatives to an Israeli ground invasion in Rafah.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/iran-embassy-syria-israel-strike-biden
From the NY Times Updates
Apr 1, 2024
“Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said in a post on the social media site X that Iran had summoned the Swiss ambassador after midnight local time and asked that an important message be delivered to Washington: That as Israel’s ally, the “U.S. must answer” for Israel’s actions. Switzerland acts as the United States’ representative in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington.
In Washington, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, Adrienne Watson, said that “the United States had no involvement in the strike” and “did not know about it ahead of time.”
A U.S. official, who requested anonymity to discuss private communication, said that the statement had been communicated directly to Iran.”
Saw a video on FOXNEWS showing the vehicle in which some of the aid charity workers were killed.
The vehicle was completely destroyed by the explosion/fire. The tires disintegrated...the interior seats...he dashboard.
...all except TWO completely white signs with the logo of the World Central Kitchen were inside with charred edges. and another unscathed in the burnt out to-a-crisp trunk interior.
Not denying they were killed, but the photos were definitely STAGED.
An internal Israeli military inquiry found that the drone team who killed them made an "operational misjudgment of the situation."
It said the team had spotted a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks they were escorting. The brigade officers who ordered the strikes, a colonel and a major, were dismissed, while senior commanders were also formally reprimanded.
"The strike on the aid vehicles is a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification, errors in decision-making, and an attack contrary to the Standard Operating Procedures," the military said in a statement on Friday.
The three aid workers' vehicles had been emblazoned with large WCK logos. However, retired Israeli general Yoav Har-Even, who is leading the investigation, said the drone's camera could not see them because it was dark. "This was a key factor in the chain of events," he said.
When dealing with Muslims, nothing can be trusted. Muslims routinely mark their troops/weapons transports as 'medical' or humanitarian relief. They have done this so often as to render the markings irrelevant in determining a target.And it's not like members of aid groups, including UN haven't worked with or facilitated Hamas.
And it's not like members of aid groups, including UN haven't worked with or facilitated Hamas.The terrorists count on Israel (and any Western country) behaving like civilized people. Even though Muslims have no problem bombing, they even specifically target, churches, kindergartens, refugees, and hospitals, the terrorist know that Israel will avoid these kinds of targets. They use Western humanitarianism to their advantage.
BREAKING: Israel Fires Two Senior Officers in Wake of Drone Attack on World Central Kitchen Volunteers
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https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/04/05/breaking-israel-fires-two-senior-officers-in-wake-of-drone-attack-on-world-central-kitchen-volunteers-n2172341
Gaza is a war zone. Anyone in Gaza aiding Israel's enemy should be told to get out or die with Hamas. PERIOD!!!
Israel is not responsible for the death of anyone there aiding their enemy. Israel should kill everyone in their path. PERIOD!!
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
@academic_la
Tragic news: According to Amichai Stein on Channel 12 Israel news, Hamas has told the mediators that it does not have 40 hostages in the humanitarian category that are still alive. That is a category of women, children, the elderly, and the sick. The number that they say is alive, which is significantly lower, has not been made public. This, of course, is a serious obstacle for the ceasefire talks that seem to be progressing.
Israel should respond with renewed fury. Wipe them out.Hamas should not get anything they want, but all that they deserve.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
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Hamas Negotiators have reportedly told International Meditators in Cairo that it has No Ability to Release the 40 Hostages that are included in yesterday’s Ceasefire Proposal because out of the 136 Hostages that remain in the Gaza Strip, at least 100 are now believed to be Dead.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
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Hamas Negotiators have reportedly told International Meditators in Cairo that it has No Ability to Release the 40 Hostages that are included in yesterday’s Ceasefire Proposal because out of the 136 Hostages that remain in the Gaza Strip, at least 100 are now believed to be Dead.
Ezekiel 25: 16-17
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
'The purpose of this case is to scare not only Germany, but all European countries and all countries in the world from supplying arms to Israel' @danielspeaksup saysThe goal may be to 'scare' Europe, but come on. Who the hell is 'afraid' of Nicaragua?
The goal may be to 'scare' Europe, but come on. Who the hell is 'afraid' of Nicaragua?The mouse that roared.
Netanyahu warns that ‘no force in the world’ will stop IDF’s looming Rafah incursion: ‘Will complete the elimination’
By Social Links for Ronny Reyes
Published April 9, 2024
Updated April 9, 2024, 5:20 p.m. ET
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “no force in the world” will stop the IDF’s looming advancement into Rafah, the Gaza Strip’s most populous city harboring more than 1 million Palestinian refugees.
Netanyahu was addressing new IDF recruits on Tuesday when he assured the soldiers that Israel will eradicate Hamas over the Oct. 7 massacre despite mounting pressure from the US and other world leaders to hold off on an invasion in Rafah until a robust civilian evacuation plan is secured.
“We will complete the elimination of the Hamas battalions, including in Rafah,” Netanyahu said of the city believed to be the operating site of four of the remaining six battalions.
“There is no force in the world that will stop us,” he added. “Many forces are trying to do this, but it will not help, because this enemy, after what it has done, will not do it again. It will cease to exist.”
more
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/world-news/netanyahu-warns-that-no-force-in-the-world-will-stop-rafah-incursion/
I have yet to hear a single Netanyahu critic come up with an alternative way to eliminate the Hamas threat.
I have yet to hear a single Netanyahu critic come up with an alternative way to eliminate the Hamas threat.
Don't be holding your breath. They won't. To them the problem is Israel's obstinate continuing to exist.
Israel threatens to launch direct attack on Iran - further escalating conflict in the Middle East
Writing in both his native Hebrew and Farsi, Israel Katz said on X: 'If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran.'
https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1778085390378741987
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh learns that three of his sons were killed and responds: "I thank Allah for the honor that my children and grandchildren have been martyred."
Indonesia ready to normalize ties with Israel as part of bid to join OECD – official
Did Hamas merely want to kick-start the statehood process with its barbaric rapes and murders on 1200-plus unarmed men, women, and children on October 7? Not according to a report from Haaretz last week. Hamas leaders had launched the attack expecting to trigger a calamitous and overwhelming conquest of Israel. In fact, they had such confidence in their war strategy that they had already divided Israel into cantons, assigned leadership to them, and made plans for its population under a new Islamist regime.
And those plans will sound very, very familiar to scholars of the last regime that set out to conquer the Jews.
Haaretz' Shlomi Eldar got the story from the wealthy Gazans that managed to flee from the war Hamas started. Gazans call them "the new Jews" because of their wealth in the midst of their poverty, a rather telling anti-Semitic trope. These elites still make money off of remote black-market sales of staples in the Strip, but the anger must always be turned to the Jews rather than the exploitation created by the Palestinian elite.
But these elites have apparently had enough of Hamas. They told Eldar that their leadership had succumbed to "messianic insanity" to such an extent that they had drawn up new political maps of Israel to distribute political power after the conquest. That was bad enough, but Hamas' plans for the Israelis that survived might just as well have come from the pages of Mein Kampf:
Is it wise to put an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea? Isn't that just a large lake of bathtub? Not much room to navigate and maneuver.
Is it wise to put an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea? Isn't that just a large lake of bathtub? Not much room to navigate and maneuver.
Nor where the U.S. Navy could conceivably intervene, considering the geopgraphy.
Mossad: Hamas Rejects Hostage Deal with Israel
Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, said Sunday that Hamas had rejected Israel’s offer for a deal to release some of the 133 remaining hostages being held in Gaza.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/13/mossad-hamas-rejects-hostage-deal-with-israel/
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🔴 Hamas offers to release only 20 hostages, demands more Palestinian prisoners in new ceasefire proposal - report
https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1779931105048907934 (https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1779931105048907934)
I think the possibility of a deal expired Saturday night.
Does Israel have "Ginsu" Hellfire-style missiles?Nah, they have the "Mohel" missile and it circumcises the terrorists....from the neck up.
Rafah has begun?
Mossad: Hamas Rejects Hostage Deal with Israel
Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, said Sunday that Hamas had rejected Israel’s offer for a deal to release some of the 133 remaining hostages being held in Gaza.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/13/mossad-hamas-rejects-hostage-deal-with-israel/
Nearly 50 attendees of Israel’s Nova festival died by suicide since Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, survivor says
By Social Links for Yaron Steinbuch
Published April 16, 2024
Updated April 16, 2024, 12:39 p.m. ET
Nearly 50 traumatized revelers who survived the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival in Israel have died by suicide in the last six months because they were unable to cope with the tragedy, a survivor revealed Tuesday.
“Few people know, but there have been almost 50 suicides among the Nova survivors. This number, which was true two months ago, may have increased since,” Nova festival survivor Guy Ben Shimon told a parliamentary hearing for a State Audit Commission on the treatment of the Oct. 7 survivors.
He said many of his friends who escaped the massacre could not recover from what they had witnessed, I24NEWS reported.
“There are many survivors who had to be forcibly hospitalized due to their psychological state. My friends are not getting out of bed, neither am I,” he said in Hebrew.
“I am practically unable to do anything. I had to get a dog to help me survive in my daily life. The goal for all of us is to return to work and function normally, but we cannot do it without adequate help,” Ben Shimon added.
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/16/world-news/nearly-50-attendees-of-israels-nova-festival-died-by-suicide-since-oct-7-hamas-terrorist-attack-survivor-says/
Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package
The House of Representatives approved a $26 billion aid package on Saturday.
ABC News, Apr 21, 2024
RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally.
Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere. It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group to the city on the border with Egypt despite international calls for restraint, including from the U.S.
“In the coming days, we will increase the political and military pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to bring back our hostages and achieve victory. We will land more and painful blows on Hamas – soon," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. He didn't give details.
The first Israeli strike in Rafah killed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old child, according to the nearby Kuwaiti Hospital, which received the bodies. The woman was pregnant and the doctors saved the baby, the hospital said. The second strike killed 17 children and two women from an extended family.
“These children were sleeping. What did they do? What was their fault?” asked one relative, Umm Kareem. Another relative, Umm Mohammad, said the oldest killed, an 80-year-old aunt, was taken out “in pieces.” Small children were zipped into body bags.
Mohammed al-Beheiri said his daughter, Rasha, and her six children, the youngest 18 months old, were among those killed. A woman and three children were still under the rubble.
The Israel-Hamas war has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, at least two-thirds of them children and women. It has devastated Gaza's two largest cities and left a swath of destruction. Around 80% of the territory's population have fled to other parts of the besieged coastal enclave.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-strikes-southern-gaza-city-rafah-kill-13-109471596
Such an absolute tragedy. 8888crybaby
And I believe ABC.....
"Mostly children..." is like "Women and children hardest hit."
And I believe ABC....."Mostly children..." is like "Women and children hardest hit."
Massive Israeli airstrike against Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. :laugh:
That's Rafah, Joe Biden - not Haifa.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1782086084132040918
there is a slow motion global seismic shift from pro to anti Israeli support ---- if this shift matters to anyone, at all.Let's see, who is anti-Israel. Communists, Antifa, Islamic terrorists, the Democrat party, Q Anon ...
Let's see, who is anti-Israel. Communists, Antifa, Islamic terrorists, the Democrat party, Q Anon ...
No, it doesn't matter to me.
Let's see, who is anti-Israel. Communists, Antifa, Islamic terrorists, the Democrat party, Q Anon ...
No, it doesn't matter to me.
And I believe ABC.....
"Mostly children..." is like "Women and children hardest hit."
Look beyond your comfort zone .....
@Right_in_VirginiaThere will never be peace, it's not even possible until the moslems leave the Medieval ages and come into modern times...and not even then because they will never evolve past the religious war mentality and they are at war with every religion, including the different flavors of moslem. So I say kill them all(moslems) and let GOD sort it out.
Maybe you've said it before and I missed it, but I'm wondering why you think that, after so many failed attempts at Middle East peace, there's actually a workable solution?
Look beyond your comfort zone .....
@Right_in_Virginia
Maybe you've said it before and I missed it, but I'm wondering why you think that, after so many failed attempts at Middle East peace, there's actually a workable solution?
This is part of the reason there is a slow motion global seismic shift from pro to anti Israeli support ---- if this shift matters to anyone, at all. :shrug:
Look beyond your comfort zone .....Your comfort zone is Jew hate.
The only thing that matters is you posting a completely fictitious account of world events.
@Right_in_Virginia
Maybe you've said it before and I missed it, but I'm wondering why you think that, after so many failed attempts at Middle East peace, there's actually a workable solution?
Oy vavoy :facepalm2:
You must peek outside this bubble from time to time. Read the European news outlets, Middle Eastern reports, news from Asia, India, Africa and Israel itself.
Educate yourself, at least know what is actually being said and where public opinion is moving.
Because there really haven't been honest attempts at peace.
Because there really haven't been honest attempts at peace. The one time Israel had a patriot leader with courage to move toward peace and stability, he was assassinated.
So how do you make peace with a dishonest, bad faith terrorist government, that is demanding your annihilation as its ultimate goal?
Are you not aware how stale this pointing-up mantra has become? Few, if any, governments buy it anymore.
Two states ---- negotiated by tribes in the neighborhood, only --- and passed by the UN. Let's bring the Palestinian existence out from under Israel and both under the umbrella of international law. Let's not be afraid to see where this goes. happy77
It goes straight to where it is now...war.
Are you seriously that naive or just dumb?
Because there really haven't been honest attempts at peace.
So how do you make peace with a dishonest, bad faith terrorist government, that is demanding your annihilation as its ultimate goal?
Two states ---- negotiated by tribes in the neighborhood, only --- and passed by the UN. Let's bring the Palestinian existence out from under Israel and both under the umbrella of international law. Let's not be afraid to see where this goes. happy77
You mean like back when Egypt occupied Gaza and the West Bank was part of Jordan?
No. I mean two states, one Israeli, one Palestinian.
Get past your fear.
Already tried. 1948. How did that turn out?
Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday ...
Are you not aware how stale this pointing-up mantra has become? Few, if any, governments buy it anymore.
Two states ---- negotiated by tribes in the neighborhood, only --- and passed by the UN. Let's bring the Palestinian existence out from under Israel and both under the umbrella of international law. Let's not be afraid to see where this goes. happy77
Once again, I repeat. There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
Are you not aware how stale this pointing-up mantra has become? Few, if any, governments buy it anymore.
Two states ---- negotiated by tribes in the neighborhood, only --- and passed by the UN. Let's bring the Palestinian existence out from under Israel and both under the umbrella of international law. Let's not be afraid to see where this goes. happy77
You know that won't affect the level of terrorism from the Pallies, right? They will still fire rockets at Israeli civilians. What you suggest has been tried by Israel, time and again, yet 10/7 still happened.
I think it's time to do what's not been tried before: Two states ---- negotiated by tribes in the neighborhood, only --- bringing the Palestinian existence out from under Israel and BOTH beneath the umbrella of international law.
@Right_in_Virginia
Bibi has bent over backwards to tolerate people who do NOT belong in that land. The only solution I'm in favor of is allowing Israel to live peacefully in the covenant land that was given to them by God. (https://mesabiblestudy.com/god-made-the-promises-to-israel-god-himself-deeded-the-land-to-abraham-it-wasnt-a-mutual-or-a-conditional-covenant/)
I simply believe the old Covenant has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ and He brought forth the new and everlasting Covenant in fulfillment of the Scriptures and the Israelites' mission.
Still, I appreciate you and respect your beliefs on this @AllThatJazzZ happy77
@Bigun That's a good word! 888high58888 Didn't know about those new additions to the White House. So many things make my blood run cold these days. It scares the liver out of me to have Biden/Dems in the White House. They have a massive amount of tolerance for Muslims; zero for Christians and even non-believing Americans who are conservative. I can't believe I'm watching an administration completely destroy our country. There aren't enough tears. 8888crybaby
I absolutely agree with you @AllThatJazzZ -- there aren't enough tears and yes, I am in absolutely disgusted at what is happening as well.
As long as we insist on maintaining the "moral high ground", we will NEVER win the war on terrorism! We're in a conflict which we absolutely INSIST on playing by the rules - against a maniacal group who have NO rules!
Rattlesnake Logic in dealing with terrorists.
After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us.
They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible.
The media is in a tizzy about this new era of home-grown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.
A Texan explained it:
Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us.
I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch.
I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway.
In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don't stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me;
I know it WILL bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do.
I don't try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a "meaningful dialogue" with it. I just kill it.
I don't try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me.. I just kill them.
I don't quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won't tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.
I don't look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake. I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time.
Also, I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes.
Do I fear them? Not really. Do I respect what they can do to me and my family? Yes!
And because of that respect, I give them the fair justice they deserve. I kill them. As a country, we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists' are telling the world their goal is to kill Americans and destroy our way of life.
They have posted graphic videos on the Internet showing them beheading Americans. They are serious. They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!
I love this country. It's the damn government I'm afraid of! Why?
Look who's new in the White House!
Arif Alikhan, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Elibiary, Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Salam al-Marayati, Obama adviser and founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and is its current executive director
Imam Mohamed Magid, Obama's Sharia Czar from the Islamic Society of North America
Eboo Patel, Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
This is flat-out scary! The foxes are now officially living in the hen house... Now ask me why I am very concerned! Do you feel OK with this? How can this happen? - and when will we wake up?
The attack occurred before U.S. personnel began constructing the floating pier, the official said, noting that “there will be no U.S. forces on the ground in Gaza.”
So will they be walking and working on the water?
Cyber postulates:
"Sounds like we're building a few miles out to sea, so the Pallies can destroy it the moment it touches land. I don't know if Americans are going to be present when that happens"
Sounds good to me.
I despise the palis, but will cheer if and when they destroy that thing.
Actually, I don't care WHO destroys it. Just blast it out of existence.
Blinken says, "too many civilian casualties" - "civilian causalities needs to be zero"
@240B goopo
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So, the US military is building a pier in Gaza (that no one asked for) to ensure supplies reach the Palestinians (whom Hamas is depriving of food) and needs the Israeli military to protect them from Palestinians attacking them who, again, don't want the pier in the first place.
And who's paying for this leftist idiocy posing as a foreign policy that is only enriching corrupt US politicians and defense contractors?
American taxpayers.
4:00 PM · Apr 26, 2024
https://twitter.com/easternvoices/status/1783764598895657444
Dumisani Washington
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So, the US military is building a pier in Gaza (that no one asked for) to ensure supplies reach the Palestinians (whom Hamas is depriving of food) and needs the Israeli military to protect them from Palestinians attacking them who, again, don't want the pier in the first place.
And who's paying for this leftist idiocy posing as a foreign policy that is only enriching corrupt US politicians and defense contractors?
American taxpayers.
4:00 PM · Apr 26, 2024
https://twitter.com/easternvoices/status/1783764598895657444