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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kots: There is no escaping these questions after the terrorist attack in Dagestan: Who is behind the militants
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Aleksandr Kots
[KP] WHAT HAPPENED?

Two Dagestan cities were attacked simultaneously. In Derbent, terrorists set fire to the local synagogue (the oldest community of Mountain Jews in the North Caucasus lives in this city) and came with weapons to the Orthodox church. Here they first killed a guard and then cut the throat of the rector of the church, 66-year-old Archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov.

At this time, in Makhachkala, militants first attacked a traffic police post and then moved towards the church, but they failed to get inside. Parishioners and clergy managed to barricade the entrances and waited for the end of the counter-terrorism operation within the walls of the temple.

Social networks were quickly flooded with footage taken by random passers-by on the streets of Derbent and Makhachkala. At first, the terrorists behaved very freely. In one of the videos, two militants search a traffic police car, shooting at someone with an American AR-15 automatic rifle. Later it turns out that these are the sons of the head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov, Osman and Adil. The first one worked at the Derbent Cognac Factory for a time and owned a cafe in Izberbash. The second is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Dagestan, a freestyle wrestler. The security forces will eliminate both of them first. And when they go to see their father in Sergokaly, they will be ambushed.

In another video filmed by security forces, one of the fighters receives a shrapnel wound as a result of a grenade explosion. After ten o'clock in the evening there was footage of the liquidation of terrorists. In total, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, five, and according to the head of the republic Sergei Melikov, six militants were killed. Among them, according to unofficial data, is Magomed Omarov’s nephew, 32-year-old Abdusamad Amadziev, and 28-year-old Gadzhimurad Kagirov, a master of sports in freestyle wrestling, a graduate of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov’s school and a fighter in his son Khabib’s Eagles MMA club.

A total of 15 security forces were killed and about 25 more people were injured. The search for all members of the sleeper cells continues.

WHY DID IT EXPLODE IN DAGESTAN?
Dagestan has historically been a difficult region, home to dozens of nationalities. This is what our sworn “partners” have always tried to play on. I remember it in the early 2000s, when terrorist attacks took place literally every day on the streets of Makhachkala, Kaspiysk, and Khasavyurt. The rampant terrorism, mixed with a cocktail of religion and banditry, turned the republic into an outpost of radical Islam in the North Caucasus, where law enforcement officers were killed almost every day.

Then Syria began, and home-grown Wahhabis flocked to the Middle East for a “better life.” Professional recruiters invited people to the Caliphate so skillfully that families and children went there. For some time, Dagestan finally took a deep breath. Investments and even tourists have flowed here, which I could not imagine 15 years ago. Vacationers from all over Russia went to the local mountains and the local sea.

But gradually pseudo-Islam in its cave manifestations began to return to the republic. This time it was brought not by Arab emissaries, but by “opinion leaders”, idols of youth. Bloggers with millions of audiences, wrestling stars, MMA fighters. On social networks they flaunted their religiosity, infecting their fans with it. But this hobby had little in common with traditional Islam. It has turned into something subcultural, in opposition to the traditional age-old way of life of this region.

In the early 2000s, people were recruited into radical Islam at “gateway” mosques. Today - in Telegram groups, where “preachers” mold new “warriors of Allah” from plastic material consisting of poor education and a blinkered view of the world. Remember the provocations during mobilization? Or the pogroms at the Makhachkala airport, when a brutal crowd searched the air harbor for Jews who were supposed to fly in from Tel Aviv? This is all a test of the pen, experiments in mass control, which, unfortunately, showed a positive result for their masters. And they moved on.

WHO COULD BE THE ORGANIZER?
In fact, in the North Caucasus they are trying to open a second front for us. Traditionally, the ears of British intelligence stick out behind the unrest in this region. Having failed to achieve a turning point on the Ukrainian front, the collective West will continue to try to rip apart our resources. Opening a second front in Central Asia or Kazakhstan today is risky - they may not be able to do so. Especially against the backdrop of recent statements by Israel, which is already ready to invade Lebanon. The West cannot help but support him, and two second fronts are too expensive. Therefore, they will blow us up from the inside.

It is no coincidence that the terrorist attack in Dagestan was carried out on Trinity Day, an Orthodox holiday celebrated throughout Russia. Another attempt to rock the North Caucasus on a religious topic, driving a wedge into the recently strengthened interfaith harmony in the region.

Of course, no attempts by Western intelligence services would have been successful if there had not been soil for this in Dagestan itself, which I wrote about above.

How could the sons and nephew of the district head turn out to be the backbone of the terrorists?

There is nothing surprising here. Firstly, these are already adults, the youngest of whom is 31 years old. Experience shows that terrorism has no social restrictions. I remember how I arrived at the house of suicide bomber Maryam Sharipova, who blew herself up in the Moscow metro. Higher education, teaching career, position as a history teacher in a school in the village of Balakhani, Untsukul district of Dagestan...

But, again, as practice shows, parents cannot help but know about their children’s “hobbies.” Or at least guess. I visited about a dozen families of suicide bombers, there were no exceptions. And Sharipova’s father, also a teacher, knew everything very well. And then he himself went “into the forest,” where he was killed by the security forces.

The investigation will determine whether Omarov Sr. is involved in the terrorist attack. Searches were carried out in his house, and the presidium of the regional political council of United Russia in Dagestan expelled him from the party “for discreditable actions.”

WHY ARE THE DAGESTAN “YOUTH IDOLS” - FIGHTERS WITHOUT RULES AND BLOGGERS - SILENT?
They can present a united front. For example, when you need to unanimously feel sorry for the Palestinians. What did fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, who never raised the Russian flag in the ring, ask Trump to do? So that he stops Israel, not Ukraine. They can weep bitterly about the victims of Gaza (this is also, of course, a great tragedy), but do not notice the victims of Donbass, Belgorod or Crocus. None of these Dagestani idols condemned the pogroms at the Makhachkala airport. Moreover, some called the arrests of the rebels almost repression. And they demanded that the “guys” be forgiven.

“Please, there is no need to ruin the fates of young guys and punish them exemplary, so that others are supposedly afraid. It doesn’t work like that here, and it’s time to understand and enter into an open dialogue with the people. On the contrary, show a gesture of kindness - that you are meeting halfway and are giving amnesty,” wrote European freestyle wrestling champion Makhmud Magomedov then.

For them, to publicly condemn the actions of terrorists in Dagestan today is to alienate part of the audience. The same religious-subcultural youth who provide statistics to blogs and telegram channels. And this will also hit your wallet.

SHOULD THE BLAME BE PLACED ON ALL RESIDENTS OF THE REPUBLIC?
Of course not. This is exactly what those behind the terrorist attack are trying to achieve. The majority of residents of the republic are categorically against terrorism - it brought too many troubles and deaths to Dagestan in the 90s and 2000s. And manifestations of “cave Islamism” are viewed with condemnation. In the end, the Dagestani people are in reality represented not by fighters and bloggers living in the United Arab Emirates, but by tens of thousands of North Military District fighters who are now defending our statehood with arms in hand. Without sparing your life. Here are just a few.

Yunus Zhamalov is a native of the Kazbekovsky district, a senior sergeant of the Russian Guard in the reserve, a participant in combat operations against terrorists in the North Caucasus. He died heroically in the Northern Military District.

Rasul Idrisov is a sergeant of the Russian Guard, holder of the Order of Courage. He died a heroic death in the Zaporozhye region last May.

Akhmed Davurbegov. A professional military officer, he went through Syria. In June 2022, Davurbegov died during tank shelling.

Sultan-Mazhit Esenbaev, father of eight children. Volunteered for the Northern Military District at the age of 55. Killed in battles on the Zaporozhye Front.

Ibragim Manapov. He left as a volunteer at the age of 38, in 2022. Died a hero's death at the end of September 2022. In February 2023, he was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.

Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [112 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Always the Western Intelligence Boogyman
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2024 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Yea, no chance it's jihadis turned jihadis due to their homeland being ruled against their will by Russian atheists, no chance of that. I mean, who would not want Russia to rule them? Russians are such a kind and enlightened people group.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Whinerong3201 || 06/24/2024 10:50 Comments || Top||


Strike on Sevastopol. On Trinity Day, the USA and Ukraine killed our children
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Kirill Velesov

[REGNUM] People relaxing on the beach with umbrellas, books, air mattresses and other attributes of a peaceful beach holiday throw their things and try to shield their children - such footage from Sevastopol on June 23 was published by local residents and the media.

The governor of the region, Mikhail Razvozhaev, confirmed the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sevastopol: first it became known about the work of air defense, 12 wounded in the Uchkuevka area, two wounded in Lyubimovka and two dead, including a two-year-old child.

Later it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike took the lives of two children and one adult. A total of 124 people were injured.

“The criminal Kiev regime, which has renounced its faith, launched a ballistic missile attack on Sevastopol with cluster munitions in broad daylight. The number of wounded increased to almost 100 people. The entire healthcare system has been mobilized, doctors and medical staff are at work. The operating rooms are deployed. The victims are provided with all necessary medical care.

Today, on the bright holiday of Trinity, we have great grief. The enemy struck on the sly, at a time when civilians were returning from service, or had already gone to the sea with their children,” Razvozhaev wrote in his Telegram channel.

Rescuers and doctors, as well as Sevastopol prosecutor Andrey Shevtsov, quickly arrived at the scene of the tragedy. The governor went to the hospital to see the victims.

By this time, according to the Ministry of Health, the number of victims exceeded 120 people.

The Russian Ministry of Defense commented on the strike:

“At around 12.15, the Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on the civilian infrastructure of the city of Sevastopol with US-supplied ATACMS operational-tactical missiles equipped with cluster warheads.

While repelling a terrorist attack by air defense forces on duty, four American ATACMS missiles were shot down. Another missile, as a result of the impact of air defense systems at the final stage, deviated from the flight path with the warhead exploding in the air over the city territory,” the military department reported.

The American publication Associated Press wrote about the use of ATACMS missiles on Russian territory the day before. AP journalists argued that allowing the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use American weapons on Russian territory “to carry out limited strikes” had already yielded results on the northeastern front and improved the position of the Ukrainian army.

However, Ukrainian military commanders, according to the AP, are demanding the lifting of restrictions on the use of long-range missiles such as ATACMS.

“Commanders say that without the ability to use long-range guided missiles such as ATACMS, their hands are tied,” the author of the material noted.

Despite the fact that back on June 21, Pentagon press secretary Patrick Ryder confirmed that Washington still had not given such permission, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces could use ATACMS exclusively in areas bordering the Kharkov region, the attack on Crimea was dealt by this type of weapon.

“A 3-year-old and a 9-year-old girl died today in Sevastopol on the beach. There is one elderly woman with them. They were killed by American ATACMS missiles. American hands fired. Today America killed our children again,” writes Marina Akhmedova, editor-in-chief of IA Regnum, in her telegram channel.

In early June, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot launch attacks with ATACMS missiles on their own. Attacks, he said, occur exclusively in close cooperation with the United States, since they require American satellite reconnaissance, on the basis of which a flight mission is formed, introduced into the missile system, and only after that a strike is delivered.

Putin also stated that in response to the supply of high-precision weapons to Ukraine for attacks on Russian territory, the Russian Federation may begin to supply weapons of the same class to those regions of the world “where attacks will be carried out on sensitive targets of those countries that do this against Russia.”

According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, June 23 - the day of the Orthodox Trinity - was not chosen by chance for the attack on Sevastopol.

“We understand perfectly well what lies within the essence of the Kyiv regime, this is a deep-seated hatred of everything connected with Russia, with Russian, Russian culture. And, of course, Orthodoxy and Christianity in general. These are literally ritual, and I think that’s what they should be called, the crimes they commit coincide with major holidays,” Zakharova said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

In Kyiv, they did not comment on the shelling of Sevastopol, but the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the attack on the Belgorod region. In the border town of Grayvoron, according to information from Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, a person also died today.

The strikes on the Belgorod region were carried out by three kamikaze drones: a civilian died at the scene of the tragedy from his wounds before the ambulance arrived, and three more people were injured.

Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [92 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gonna be a whole lot more Russians dying in Ukraine and in Russia before the siloviki murder Putin.

It's just getting started.

Ukraine is going to devastate Russia's infrastructure and as time moves forward, Russia is going to lose the ability to do that to Ukraine.
Ukraine is flying old fashioned easily observable drones to attack inside Russia and they rarely get shot down which tells anyone how much of all the tax rubles went to the oligarchs and Putin instead of the military.

Below is one of 1000 exposes of how the Putinists see Russian soldiers. His day is coming just like his friend Netanyahu's is coming:

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1805197698879902099

Posted by: Flags of Phil || 06/24/2024 11:31 Comments || Top||


Belousov urgently changes western plans in the Black Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RUSonline] Dancing with tambourines in the West began in 2022, when widespread sanctions were introduced that limited Russia everywhere and in everything. Thus, Western politicians sought to throw a noose over the Russian economy. One of the areas of the sanctions fight has become the seas and oceans.

Western politicians have surrounded us with a dense ring of hostile states. This created certain difficulties in using ships for maritime transport. And then came an insidious blow - a ban on the charter of ships that have jurisdiction in Western countries. Those who attempted to disobey were subject to sanctions and virtually lost the opportunity to continue working. Special efforts were aimed at limiting the transport of our oil and petroleum products by sea.

Here, according to Western analysts, Russia could not bypass the sanctions. Embargo of supplies by sea from Russia to the European Union. Price ceiling from G7. A ban on insurance and banking services for operations involving maritime transportation of Russian oil and other... It seemed that the plans of the West were truly terrible. Therefore, our companies, which expected such a development of events, responded simply and effectively - they bought the number of various merchant ships necessary for normal operation, creating an entire fleet. The Western community subsequently called him “shadow”.

Nooo, we didn't walk in the shadows, we just became inaccessible to Western observers to determine our location. The jurisdiction of ship owners began to change at such a speed that it became impossible for them to estimate the volume of Russian transportation. Where and when we load and reload is also now a mystery.

So the statistical agencies howled that they are now unable to keep records and control. This is where the leadership of the American regional committee in Russian cargo transportation ended. Thus, the issues with the delivery of goods were resolved. Another problem that the West decided to scare us with two years ago is a ban on the entry and maintenance of our ships in their ports.

The usual logistics direction was broken. Naturally, this caused great inconvenience. Especially at first. But a way out was found here too. Moreover, this decision of the Russian owners of sea vessels once again hit the owners of port facilities and deprived them of yet another Russian money. In particular, the ports of the Baltic Chihuahuas, which always squeal with or without reason, lost up to 25% of their volumes and simply lost their jobs and income.

Our oil tankers pump their contents directly into the sea, without going anywhere, and without paying anyone any money. With trading companies, everything has more or less become clear. It was not possible to rein us in here. Russia continues to sell its products all over the world and the West did not have enough electrical tape, and the one that was used turned out to be of very low quality.

Torn! Western companies lost not only a very fat chunk of the shipping market, but also all the fat chunks of their services - insurance, reinsurance, bank loans, orders, transfers and other intermediary services for which the British monopoly was so famous. Now this is done by a whole network of Russian companies and banks, which during this time have entered the world market and are already obtaining licenses in the largest purchasing countries. Saudi Arabia, China, India, UAE, etc. began to actively play in this field. Finance in the West is singing romances again...

But. There is one more problem! What about the navy? Previously, our sailors also used Western ports to carry out their tasks of long-term stay at sea. Now they have been denied this. Moscow's geopolitical position was under threat. The changes that followed in response were not just a shock, but a SHOCK-SHOCK! The main base that our warships began to use was the port of Tartus in Syria.

In 2020, a ship repair complex was launched there. Warships are constantly present here and carry out one operation after another. During the use of this outpost, Russian ships delivered more than 4.5 thousand pieces of equipment and weapons there! Made more than 400 flights. 1.5 million tons of cargo were delivered. Captain of the first rank, head of the Tartus base M. Titov says that in Tartus “a real functioning system has been created.

Let's call it a base point, which includes, respectively, residential modules for personnel and places for holding cultural events. Here they are provided with everything, all types of allowances. Starting from food intake, ending with clothing. That is, they have everything here, in principle, everything is in abundance. But again, residential modules are very comfortable, and they are applicable to hot climates. A lot of work has really been done here.”

This is wonderful. What's next? And then came the brilliant answer of A. Belousov, who knocked the comfortable stool out from under... Western curators. He stated that Russia has identified 12 sites in different parts of the world for the construction of its own ports! We will be present where we need it.

Oh, how! Can you imagine the howl that arose again in the swamps? This does not fit into any Western framework. Now feel the difference between the peaceful excursions of our warships to Cuba and Egypt with the picture that opens up if we consider these trips from the point of view of conducting reconnaissance on the ground to determine specific locations for the construction of our ports.

Why such a hysterical reaction from the Americans to the presence of the Russian Navy off its coast. The surprises for the States and their minions clearly do not end there. We are waiting for our ships to arrive on courtesy visits to Venezuela, Nicaragua and African countries. Sudan is somewhere around the corner.

The implementation of A. Belousov’s plans has already begun there. An intergovernmental agreement was signed on the construction of the base. Both parties have committed themselves to this project.

The Houthis are now in control of the Red Sea. They are destroying all transport sea routes in this region for Western companies. One after another, the ships are attacked. Cargo deliveries from America and Britain are being seriously blocked.

Coalition warships are not being rescued. They themselves became a target. In such a situation, Russia’s presence in the Red Sea is just a bone in the throat for the entire West. I love it when we cut off their oxygen. Two years ago, such a situation was simply unthinkable. And today it is a fact! The confident steps of the New Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation do not leave anyone indifferent. The West is trembling. We rejoice! Thanks for reading. Love God-protected Russia. Be bright and happy.

Posted by: badanov || 06/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [57 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Trump has stepped out of an Ayn Rand novel, fully formed
[American Thinker] Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, published in 1943, has been read by millions of people over the years (37 million books sold). The truncated film version, released in 1949, has been seen by millions of people as well.

Of course, the left has always hated Rand, her books and the films based on them. Her philosophy is a celebration of individualism, a testament to gifted and talented men and women who are able to remain true to themselves in a world that reveres and celebrates mediocrity. Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905, and educated there; she was twelve years old during the Bolshevik Revolution. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1926.

Her play of 1935, The Night of January 16th, was produced in Hollywood first, then on Broadway. It was a courtroom drama in which members of the audience were chosen as jurors. The play’s intent was to demonstrate the conflict between individualism and conformity, which seems to be the primary conflict between and among Americans today. The left always comes down on the side of submission and conformity -- to their agenda.

Donald Trump is a larger-than-life individual. Rand might have created him for a novel, or based a novel on him had she known him. She profoundly respected people who remained true to themselves when all around them are those striving only for approval for being conventional. Her books and plays were about the tension between individualism and the collectivist mindset of the left.

No wonder the left hates Trump with a blinding obsession to destroy him; his success, his essential happiness and personal fulfillment and his failure to capitulate to their demands enrages them beyond all reason.

Rand’s heroes are engineers, mathematicians, builders and businessmen, not journalists, writers and the professors who believe themselves far superior to the likes of men such as Trump.

The Fountainhead is particularly famous for its representation of newspapermen who relish in creating mob actions, especially against anything new and creative.

Just as when Stravinsky debuted his The Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913, riots ensued, fights in the aisles of the theater; it was new and different. People were stunned by its departure from what they were used to hearing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/24/2024 03:10 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [235 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump will not rebuild America or do anything you want
Where is that wall? Oh.

The only man who will deliver is RFK jr
He will actually end the foreign wars and rebuild america, end the open border madness and stop the Big Pharma cartel corruption
Posted by: Anon1 || 06/24/2024 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Trump is a symbol of America's resistance to Globalists - kinda like their Joan of Arc.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 3:52 Comments || Top||

#3  FWIW
RFK Jr. is a globalist.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 06/24/2024 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Kennedy Supporters Protest Outside CNN Office In Burbank After He Is Excluded From Debate

Dozens! A veritable groundswell!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I really detest the folks who demand 100% conformity to their view and then call themselves individualists.

Never Trumpers are good at that. He didn't finish building the wall he's no good etc. etc. Sorry he's not God and can do everything all at once despite any opposition. Deal with it.
Posted by: alanc || 06/24/2024 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Bravo!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#7  #1 - It's a good thing you can't vote here. He might get 0.02% of the vote and NO electoral votes then.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2024 8:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Jack Smith is pushing for a gag order on Trump to prevent him from talking about the Mar A Lago raid.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 06/24/2024 9:29 Comments || Top||

#9  It's always so sweet when furriners pose at having America's best interests at heart.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 9:38 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ John Cleese ( or whatever minion he's tapped) being a current poster boy. From Monty Python to slovenly mean girl tweets is quite a fall.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/24/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#11  RFK Jr. isn't going anywhere. He isn't doing anything. He's a crackpot. He's a Kennedy and we had enough of them decades ago. He talks like Katherine Hepburn when she got old. Nobody can listen to that. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/24/2024 11:24 Comments || Top||

#12  It amuses me to watch dems toss their once worshipped Camelot under the bus.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  I have a distrust at the absolute evel of my marrow for hereditary politicians. The Kennedies especially have never done much for me. A father who will let part of his daughter's brain be scooped out because she was slow is a monster. John Adams was a great man, John Quincy Adams not so much. Nancy Pelosi's daddy was Mayor of Baltimore. When I lived in Maryland we had Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend) as lieutenant governor, who had she worn a suit it would have been empty.

This is kinda a hot button issue with me. We rebelled against the Brits and became a country to get away from a hereditary system. The Constitution specifically demands citizens renounces hereditary titles and that sort of nonsense. (Of course, it also prohibits a head tax///) Our seediest cities (coincidentally run by Democrats) are rife with nepotism.

The Brits have a system of hereditary monarchs. How many were Alfred the Greats and how many were Spares? How many were Charles I and how many were Elizabeth I?
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2024 18:05 Comments || Top||

#14  We need an anti dynasty amendment to the constitution. And state constitutions as well. And city and county charters.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 18:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Why is Israel unable to defeat Hamas? - opinion
[JPost]
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [314 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Because to destroy Hamas, one needs to eliminate their political branch - starting with Nony Guterres.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Because the Muslim Brotherhood controls several large wealthy countries like Qatar, is active in many nations and owns al jazeera
In addition the Islamic dollar dictates policy at western universities through direct funding and media through purchasing expensive packages from wire services.

The MB has a well-organised lobby in all western countries which it uses to wage lawfare on media pushing reporters and media houses to be ultra sensitive about offending the Master Religion

And most importantly the blame falls on Israeli leadership

Why?

Because for decades they pretended that Islam is not the problem

When islam is the problem

So all that interfaith crap just enabled Islamist propaganda to grow sympathy and lobby networks in the west, in student movements where it appealed to the Left and to indigenous de-colonial movements

They spread fake history painting the arab muslims of gaza as “pakestinians” a displaced ethnic minority, britain stole their land and gave it to the jews

Nothing much was done to counter this
It is still going on now
Israel has been delegitimised by fake history spreaders

And secondly - Israel botched the Oct 7 response

Should have given up on the hostages for dead on October 8 and carpet bombed then driven all survivors into Egypt
Orphaned kids under 12 taken and raised as Jews in loving jewish families.

That had to be done within 7 days to prevent the propaganda industry getting into full swing. It would be over now, with gaza part of israel and the muslims never to return
Posted by: Anon1 || 06/24/2024 3:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Because Hamas = Muslim Brotherhood = literal Islam
Posted by: Anon1 || 06/24/2024 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  This opinion writer still doesn’t get it. Thinks Israel is losing because of the tunnels

NO you stupid!

There are no civilians in Gaza. Every Muslim in Gaza (and worldwide) thinks Israel has no right to exist even on land the size of a postage stamp

If there are “civilians” in Gaza then there are Hamas in Gaza

The only option is to resettle ALLthe muslims of gaza into Egypt and remove their UN “refugee” status of palestinians resettled
Posted by: Anon1 || 06/24/2024 3:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Yemen is in full swing helping Hamas. Iran is in full swing helping Hamas. Its not Israel against Hamas, its Israel against the muslim world...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/24/2024 4:10 Comments || Top||

#6  ^UN in full swing helping Hamas, EU in full swing helping Hamas.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 4:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: US likely unable to assist Israel in war with Hezbollah

Why am I glad?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 7:38 Comments || Top||

#8  muslims adhere to sharia. sharia says a female opinion is less valued than a male opinion. sharia / muslims are not civilized. obliterate gaza and west-bank. no sharia/muslims in any civilized country. problem defined --> problem solved.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 06/24/2024 7:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Simple their is no money to be made in a complete victory for any side duh!
Posted by: Jack+Creanter7508 || 06/24/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Agree with #4 above During the war in Viet Nam the US sent "tunnel rats" throughout a III Corps region that was long controlled by the Viet Cong and honeycombed with tunnels. I believe that the TR not only booby-trapped the tunnels, but when found engineers clouded tunnels with a kind of itching compound that made their continued use untenable. Finally, although the extent of tunnels surprised the Israelis they are mapping what they have found. To render the entire complex 'safe' will take time. But it can be done. It will succeed when it has forced Hamas above ground.
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 || 06/24/2024 9:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, why clear the tunnels?
Block the access and egress, venting.

Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza

Use something bigger.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/24/2024 11:04 Comments || Top||

#12  The MOP needs field testing.

GBU-57A/B MOP

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/24/2024 11:11 Comments || Top||

#13  ^That's what Lebanon is for.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 11:13 Comments || Top||


#15  IDF just ain't what it used to be apparently. This should have been a month long enterprise.
Posted by: Flags of Phil || 06/24/2024 11:25 Comments || Top||

#16  Cut off the head of the snake. Iran is the real issue. We should have attacked them long ago.
Even Iran is small potatoes compared to Russia. It all starts there. That's why we've invested so wisely in attritting Russian capability in Ukraine. So that when the big war comes, they'll be weak and all we have to do is collapse the whole rotten structure.
Posted by: Pearl Hapsburg1419 || 06/24/2024 14:00 Comments || Top||

#17  Occupy Bar Cheddar!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/24/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#18  A cheese bar?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/24/2024 14:53 Comments || Top||

#19 
Posted by: Optioned Rice || 06/24/2024 15:07 Comments || Top||

#20  The IDF would have pretty much cleared 98% of Hamas by now if not for the Biden Admin which at first delayed the ground attack and since has been preventing larger offensives.

Of course still about 80% of Hamas has been destroyed.

Also, there will still need to be a day of reckoning for intel and ops failures leading up to Oct 7.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/24/2024 19:56 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Misunderstanding Islam
[IsraelNationalNews] Perhaps more than any other academic besides Edward Said, French philosopher Michel Foucault is responsible for today's alliance between Leftists and Islamists. He died in 1984, but his misunderstanding of Islam lives on, influencing the way the West views Islam. Op-ed,
In my view it's more a case of psychopaths sticking together.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 06/24/2024 08:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [119 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  The Left and Islam both demand submission.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/24/2024 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "Given Islam's violent history and the unfavorable contrast that its oppressive practices have against 21st century values, Muslim evangelists are hard-pressed to repackage their faith in the modern age. Apologists have come to rely on tricks involving semantics and half-truths. This propaganda is, in turn, repeated verbatim by other unsuspecting (yet sincere) Muslims and well-meaning progressives outside the faith.

Here we try to expose some of these games, and help truth-seekers find their way through the maze of disingenuous and false claims about Islam and its history."

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/games/index.aspx
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/24/2024 12:58 Comments || Top||



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