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Europe
Scholz called on Germans to show civic courage to protect Jews
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, against the backdrop of the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict, called on the residents of Germany to show civic courage to protect Jews and Jewish organizations.

“Anyone who attacks Jews in Germany is attacking all of us. That’s why we all must work to protect the Jews in Germany, it’s about civic courage,” Scholz said in an interview with Mannheimer Morgen on November 5.

The German Chancellor also called for a merciless fight against anti-Semitism and emphasized that law enforcement agencies have all the necessary tools for this.

Speaking about the situation with hostages in the hands of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Scholz assured that the German government is doing everything possible for their speedy release.

As Regnum reported, on October 22 , a rally in support of Israel took place in Berlin, initiated by the German-Israeli Society, parties from the ruling coalition and the opposition Christian Democratic Union and the Left Party. Several thousand people gathered at the rally, which took place near the Brandenburg Gate.
Posted by: badanov || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On the US side of the pond I suggest Israelis in the US arm up in each home, get conceal carry status and form security groups with self defence plans as "pro-Palestinian" protesters are now calling for intifada.
Posted by: Captain Splat8849 || 11/06/2023 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ CIDG - The Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG, pronounced "sid-gee") was a military program developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, which was intended to develop South Vietnamese irregular military units from indigenous ethnic-minority populations. The main purpose of setting up the CIDG program was to counter the growing influence of Viet Cong (VC) in the Central Highlands by training and arming the villagers for village defense. The program rapidly expanded after the US military transferred its control from CIA to MACV after two years since its inception and changed its focus from village defense to more conventional operations. From June 1967 on wards the CIDG members were made part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) or other government agencie (en)

Be a shame if this ancient, "citizen soldier" military concept were limited to "Israelis" in the US.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2023 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3  On the US side of the pond I suggest Israelis in the US arm up in each home...

Gun purchases by Jewish Americans surging since Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack, says store owner
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 Most Israelis of appropriate age who've beeen in USA are now in Gaza or the North.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/06/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Outside of Israel, those targetting are just as happy to harm those they think are local Jews as they are Israelis. For example:

Moslem Colonist, falling prey to Sudden Jihad Syndrome when angered by Gaza war reporting, deliberately drove car into Black Hebrew Israelite building in Indianapolis.

Recall, the Black Hebrew Israelites are part of the century-old Indigenous Moors/ Moorish Sovereign Citizen movement that also encompasses the Black Muslims, among other cultish groups — and the Black Hebrew Israelites hold a special hatred for actual Jews, as do the rest of them, actually.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "The Village" by Bing West.
Posted by: bman || 11/06/2023 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The vet Micah Xavier Johnson that shot 12 Dallas police officers and 2 civilians was a member of the Black Hebrew "Israelites".

Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 11/06/2023 15:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
White House highlights opposition to ceasefire by Biden allies, amid far-left calls in favor
[IsraelTimes] White House deputy communications director Herbie Ziskind tweets out quotes from Democratic Representative Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
, allies of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’...
who hold opposing views, but have both voiced opposition to a ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The move appears aimed at demonstrating widespread support for Biden’s opposition to a ceasefire, despite growing calls from far-left politicians and groups who are pushing for one.

Biden is instead calling for humanitarian pauses to allow for the safe passage of aid, civilians, and to assist the hostage release effort.
See more on The Bern’s position here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


India-Pakistan
'Muslim Ummah must unite against Israel's atrocities', Hamas chief tells Fazl
[GEO.TV] With Israel continuing its relentless bombing of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty. Fazl seldom misses a meal and is now so large he has his own gravitational pull...
met Paleostinian resistance group Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
's leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
and former chief Khaled Mashal in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
on Sunday.

The JUI-F chief is in Qatar where he is expected to reach out to the Arab world leadership to find a way to provide aid to Gaza which has been facing a dire humanitarian crisis due to the ongoing Israeli bombing of the strip following the October 7 attack by Hamas, sources told Geo News.

"The two sides held detailed discussions over the Paleostine issue", JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri said while shedding light on the meeting between the veteran politician and Hamas leadership.

"[The JUI-F chief] conveyed condolences and expressed solidarity with the people of Paleostine in wake of Israeli atrocities in Gaza," the statement on Fazl's X account read.

During the meeting, Haniyeh called for Moslems to unite in the face of Israeli aggression — which has killed nearly 10,000 Paleostinians since October 7.

"It is the Moslem Ummah's responsibility to unite against Israeli atrocities," Haniyeh said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
Mashal highlighted that the prevalent atrocities in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and Paleostine are a slap in the face of so-called human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
advocates.

The JUI-F chief, while echoing Hamas leadership's views, said that the developed nations have the blood of innocent children and women on their hands.

Mashal appreciated Fazl's efforts for the Paleostine cause saying that the JUI-F chief is playing the role of Paleostine's ambassador in Pakistain.

The sources said Fazl was the first religio-political leader from any Moslem country who has embarked upon the war zone.

The party said that "the movement of Maulana Fazl has been kept secret since he wanted to reach the devastated people quietly and offer them assistance". He is carrying food and medicines with him, the sources had told The News.

The publication said that after addressing a mammoth rally "Toofan al-Aqsa March" in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and "Sindh Aman Conference", Fazl left for "some destination" from where he would reach the oppressed people of Gaza.

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [21 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Muslim Ummah answers: "you have our moral support".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/06/2023 3:14 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Netanyahu tells Red Cross chief to demand release of hostages
Has the Red Cross said anything at all about the hostages Hamas, et al took back with them to Gaza?
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Mirjana Spoljaric, head of the International Committee of the Red Thingy, to demand the organization call for the release of Israelis being held hostage by Paleostinian turbans in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, his office says.

Netanyahu also told Spoljaric that the Red Thingy must demand immediate access to the captives to ensure their well-being.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Can they even prove the hostages are even still alive?

How about a simple demand.
Video each hostage displaying the Front Page of Major Newspapers with today's date and reciting any headline with the page #.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/06/2023 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Has the Red Cross said anything at all

Yes.

Global Red Cross Movement Responds as Israel and Gaza Conflict Continues

"The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has maintained a presence in the area for decades, has helped facilitate the release of some hostages and transported them out of Gaza to be reunited with their families. "
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 6:38 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas shatters 'greater Israel dream', Ismail Haniyeh tells Islamabad solidarity rally
[GEO.TV] Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, the chief of the Paleostinian group Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, has said that the resistance movement shattered Tel Aviv’s dream of "greater Israel".

He remarked on Sunday while virtually addressing a Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) rally held in Islamabad to express solidarity with Paleostinians braving the relentless Israeli bombing of the besieged territory.

He added that Hamas has been fighting the war of the Islamic world and offered sacrifices of thousands of people against Israel.

"The Moslems of the sub-continent resisted the British rule and achieved freedom," he remarked.

According to the health ministry in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, at least 9,770 people, including 4,800 children, had been killed in the Paleostinian territory since the war with Israel erupted on October 7. Israeli officials claimed that over 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Hamas attacks since the beginning of the conflict.

The Hamas chief also said Pakistain’s position in global conflicts is important and thanked Pakistain for expressing solidarity with the Paleostinians. "Paleostinians and Kashmiris are still fighting for freedom today."

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  It shatters Israeli dream of Peace with Palestinians. Now we go to Peace without.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/06/2023 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  The Western concept of "peace" with these Muslim savages has historically been a nocturnal emission. They cannot even achieve peace between themselves.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2023 3:16 Comments || Top||


Gallant warns Nasrallah against committing same 'mistake' as Sinwar
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Emily Hand, 8, Irish-Israeli thought killed on Oct. 7, now believed held hostage in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Emily Hand, an 8-year-old girl from Kibbutz Be’eri, who was reported killed in the Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
assault on October 7, is now believed to be alive and among those held hostage in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. The family was informed of this by Israeli authorities five days ago, Channel 12 reports.

In the Channel 12 studio, Natalie, Emily’s sister, asks to try to speak directly to Emily, and looks directly into the camera: "I want to tell you that we are doing everything to get you home. We know you are being held hostage. We love you so much and miss you."

Natalie says the family had cried for Emily when they were informed she had been murdered. "We were told that she had been murdered. We were in mourning," she says. "On October 31, they told us that it was highly likely that she had been kidnapped."


Natalie Hand (right), interviewed by Channel 12 about her sister, Emily, 8 (pictured left), who is believed held hostage in Gaza, November 5, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
Emily was at a friend’s house on the kibbutz on October 7, Natalie says, and her friend and her friend’s mother were also apparently kidnapped. Their family was also initially told they had been killed, Natalie says.

Natalie notes that Emily also has Irish citizenship. She says the Irish authorities have promised to do whatever they can to help.

Their father Thomas had told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
in an emotional interview on October 12 that he welcomed the news Emily was dead, "because that is the best news of the possibilities that I knew."
There are no words.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Poor baby.
'Married' by now.
Better had she died.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 16:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Likely preganant
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2023 18:49 Comments || Top||


Flashback to 2014: Why Hamas stores its weapons inside hospitals, mosques and schools
Dateline July 31, 2014. Should be easy to read in the Reader view should anyone want to check the text against what is posted here.
[WashingtonPost] Inside a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip mosque in January 2009, nothing at first seemed unusual with the wooden pulpit pushed against the cement wall. Barely taller than a man, it stood beside a microphone stand near an electric fan and some plastic chairs, according to photographs captured by the Israel Defense Forces.

But hidden inside the pulpit, Israel alleged, were a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a bulletproof vest and binoculars. Soldiers soon spread the mosque’s cache on the floor, a haul that included a rifle, grenades and ammunition. Hamas
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



Israel plans to maintain significant security control over Gaza after war — official
[IsraelTimes] Israel intends to maintain significant control over the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip even after the war, an Israeli official says.

"I don’t see any situation in which Israel doesn’t have ultimate security responsibility in Gaza," says the official in a Hebrew-language briefing with Israeli news hounds at the Kirya in Tel Aviv.

The official adds that after Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
is toppled, "it won’t be enough to do just a rehabilitation of Gaza."

"It must go through a process of ’de-Nazification,'" continues the official. "This culture [of seeking to kill Jews] still exists in the Paleostinian Authority."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The Glass Beach

Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||

#2  De-nazification.

Heh...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2023 14:35 Comments || Top||


US national security adviser shares Arab Israeli’s appeal for Jewish-Muslim coexistence
[IsraelTimes] US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who has not tweeted from his personal account in almost three years, shares a video from Arab Israeli influencer Nas Daily calling for Jewish-Moslem coexistence during the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"We are here to show you that Jews and Moslems are more similar than different. When we partner, we can achieve so much," Nas Daily CEO Nuseir Yassin says in a video with the company’s Jewish COO Alex Dwek.

"In reality, many Moslems are against what Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
did and cannot stand behind it," Yassin says.

"And many Jews, like me, want peace and dignity for Paleostinians," Dwek chimes in.

"Don’t let the recent events confuse you. Our cultures are the same. there are so many Arab Jews. There are so many Moslems in Israel," Yassin adds.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden party line?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  "Andmany Jews, like me, want peace and dignity for Paleostinians,"

Dignity nobody can give them, but peace, peace is possible.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/06/2023 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3  In reality, not a single entity and or world body has called for Hamas' unconditional surrender. Lots of talk about an Israeli ceasefire. But no call for a Hamas Surrender. Any type of coexistence, would never be equitable for the jews.

Coexistence with muslims is to look the other way when they occasionally mob and kill a jew or christian.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/06/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Dignity" is a dangerous word because it sounds nice and everyone can support it but there is no universally accepted clear definition.

A narcissist, a chauvinist will subjectively perceive a violation of his dignity if his privileged status is not recognized in a generally egalitarian environment.

The same is true for a narcissistic ideology like mainstream political Islam which dogmatically believes that the Muslim community is the best of all communities.

For another sinister use of the term see "Dignity Battalions."
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2023 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  @3: The German vice chancellor has called for the destruction of Hamas, which IMO would be preferable to surrender.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2023 16:06 Comments || Top||


Ra’am party chief calls on MK to resign for claiming Hamas ‘didn’t slaughter babies’
[IsraelTimes] MK Iman Khatib-Yasin says IDF footage did not show rape of women, but admits she did not view it; Mansour Abbas says there is ’no place in party’ for minimizing Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
atrocities


MK Mansour Abbas, the leader of the Islamist Ra’am party,
...the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel...
demanded on Sunday that party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin resign immediately, following remarks she made earlier in the day casting doubt on some elements of the October 7 massacre by Hamas.

In an interview with the Knesset Channel on Sunday, Khatib-Yasin argued that the videos circulated by the IDF of the atrocities committed by Hamas did not show "rape of women" nor "slaughtering of babies."

"They didn’t slaughter babies and they didn’t rape women, at least not in the footage," she said in the interview. "If it happened, it’s shameful... If it had happened," it would have been included, she suggested.

In response, Abbas said he "was shocked" by her remarks, adding that "there is and will be no space in our ranks for anyone who denies or minimizes the severity of the actions which negate our values and also the Islamic religion."

Khatib-Yassin’s comments related to a compilation of raw footage documenting Hamas’s grisly October 7 rampage through the western Negev, which was screened last week for Knesset members, and last month for groups of foreign journalists. The 43-minute-long video was produced by the IDF Spokesperson’s Office and shows uncensored, difficult-to-watch videos, many taken from terrorists’ bodycams during their murderous rampage.

The Ra’am MK noted, however, that she did not personally see the footage, as watching it would "only cause more pain," but said that several members of her party did so, and later discussed what they had seen.

The footage was aired in a closed-door screening where recording and cellphones were not allowed. More than 50 MKs were in attendance, and some broke down in tears, including Ra’am head Abbas, the Maariv news outlet reported. "That was difficult, I can’t speak," Abbas told journalists as he left the screening last week.

Khatib-Yassin said Sunday that what happened on October 7 "even without this, was difficult, was horrible, without even saying that women were raped... What happened was inhumane — I’m a religious Moslem woman, and this goes against Islam — even in a state of war."

But, she said, "we can’t ignore everything that came before, or what came after," adding quickly that "nothing justifies" the Hamas atrocities.

Khatib-Yassin was elected to the Knesset in 2020, becoming the first woman on the United Arab List, and the first hijab-wearing Knesset politician in Israel’s history.

Abbas, the head of Ra’am, has been walking a careful line in Hebrew media since war erupted, denouncing both Hamas’s kidnapping of mainly civilian hostages from Israel and violence harming Paleostinian citizens, without touching on the war’s stated goal: toppling the Hamas terror group’s rule over Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The massacre saw some 3,000 gunnies burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,400 people and seizing over 240 hostages, including babies and octogenarians, under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast majority of those killed as button men seized border communities were civilians. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 260 people were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [12 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian defense minister threatens U.S.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Courtesy of badanov:
Iran's defense chief threatens US with strike if Washington does not stop conflict in Gaza
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On November 5, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani threatened the United States with a heavy blow if Washington does not stop fighting in the Gaza Strip and establish a ceasefire.

“Our advice to the Americans is to immediately end the war between Israel and Palestine, and also ensure a ceasefire, otherwise you will receive a heavy blow,” Al Arabiya TV channel quoted the general as saying.
One assumes by this they mean some sort of jihadi attack rather than one of the nuke-tipped missiles they have not yet completed. It would be interesting, no doubt — as would be the aftermath. It would also be interesting to see how many Iranian and Hezbollah sleepers would choose not to interrupt their comfortable existence by following orders...
Ashtiani has repeatedly accused the United States of interfering in the conflict between Palestine and Israel and called Washington’s support for Tel Aviv a strategic mistake. The Iranian government supports the Palestinian Hamas movement and threatens Israel with serious consequences in the event of a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

As Regnum reported , Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Amichai Eliyahu on November 5 called the use of nuclear weapons in the Gaza Strip “one of the possibilities” for the development of the conflict. He disagreed with allowing humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave and said that Tel Aviv would not hand over aid to the “Nazis” and that there were supposedly no uninvolved civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Eliyahu is a member of the far-right Itamara Ben-Gvir party and is not a member of the security cabinet.
*shrug* Which means Minister Eliyahu is not in charge of Israel’s nuclear weapons. And in fact he backed away from that statement when his other choice was for PM Netanyahu to fire him, which presumably occurred after this article went to press.

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [19 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  since iran forcefully occupied U.S. territory in 1979 why dont we occupy chah bahar
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/06/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Another example of the dangerous erosion of Western deterrence.

No rational actor needs to fear and respect the West.

BTW I don't think he would have dared threaten the US if Trump was president.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/06/2023 16:50 Comments || Top||


Second U.S. Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Eastern Mediterranean to Deter Iran, also US nuclear sub
[Breitbart] U.S. Central Command said the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Middle East early Sunday making it part of the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

The U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying elements will join the U.S.S. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean to deter Iran from opening a second front against Israel from Lebanon using the Hezbollah terror group and its rocket arsenal, as Breitbart News reported.

The aircraft carrier strike group had moved through the Strait of Gibraltar earlier this week, putting two American carriers in the Mediterranean Sea, a rare sight in recent years, AP reports.

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group is already in the eastern Mediterranean, part of a buildup of forces as the U.S. supports Israel in its war against Hamas terrorists and their backers.

One week ago CNN reported the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Bataan is also being moved closer to Israel.

The moves come some 14-days after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin placed additional U.S. troops on prepare-to-deploy orders to the Middle East after speaking with President Joe Biden.

“I have placed an additional number of forces on prepare to deploy orders as part of prudent contingency planning, to increase their readiness and ability to quickly respond as required,” he said in a statement as reported by Breitbart News.

US military dispatches nuclear submarine to region

[IsraelTimes] The US Central Command says an Ohio-class submarine has arrived in its area of responsibility, which includes the eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman.

Ohio-class subs are both nuclear-powered and carry nuclear warheads.

The army does not say where the submarine has been deployed to, but its arrival in the region is may be part of the same strategy that has seen the US dispatch two carrier strike groups in order to deter Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies from attacking Israel.

The second tweet (X?) was attached to the Ohio sub announcement, so we get them both here instead of in separate posts as they ought to be. Someday I will climb this latest learning curve, but not today.



Related: Twitchy identifies that last as being from Israel’s top-rated comedy television show, Eretz Nehederet (A Wonderful Country), then shares responses in their usual style.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [22 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
Summary:
The LSD's setting the stage for WAR and the 2024 Election.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/06/2023 5:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ...The picture of the Ohio class boat is interesting in that it's not a Trident class - it's an SSGN, whose tubes are loaded with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

154 of 'em, to be precise. She's quite capable of ruining a country's day all on her own, and to quote one of the best lines from The Hunt For Red October...

"...Nobody would know a thing about it until it was all over."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 11/06/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||


#4  Good strategery! Posting a picture of a sub will deter Iran from posting pictures of their fake missiles.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/06/2023 11:11 Comments || Top||

#5  so, after 77 days the sub runs out of food. It will be replaced by another or already has been.
Posted by: Old salty || 11/06/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Or is bunkered by the 2 carrier fleets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  The thing about having the CVA assets in the Med, along with an Ohio missile boat, is they're all useless in events about Gaza.
The carriers aren't able to do much about ground operations, and while the sub is loaded to the gills with cruise missiles, they're no utility on the beach, unless you're going to shoot at it.
Except, Syria and Lebanon. If you were thinking about Iran, the sub would have been better positioned in the Arabian Gulf, where it was to begin with.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/06/2023 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  A big stick is sometimes useful just by its presence. There are actors outside Gaza (iran, hezbollah, russia) who need some encouragement to think and act in a sober fashion.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2023 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Russia is busy building 4 or 5 warships a month, I'm told
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2023 17:22 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ from people you talk to?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2023 22:36 Comments || Top||



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