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Hezbollah: We launched more than 320 Katyusha rockets at Israeli bases and barracks this morning, in an initial stage of the retaliation
This was the first stage of our attack, which had as its goal to open up the way for our attack drones, which hit their intended targets thanks to God.
We targeted the following sites:
1. ‘Miron’ Air Command & Control Base
2. Nephi Ziv Base
3. Zatoun Base
4. Zaoura’s Barracks
5. Al-Sahl Base
6. Keila Barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan
7. Yoav Barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan
8. Nafah base in the occupied Syrian Golan
9. Yardin base in the occupied Syrian Golan
10. Ain Zay Taym base
11. Ramot Naftali Barracks
Middle East Spectator
Posted by: Apollyon | Aug 25 2024 15:01 utc | 1
“The Israeli army announces … an Iron Dome interceptor missile that accidentally fell on a naval boat in the Nahariya Sea.” (Per occupation media)
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/66298
‘Negotiations’ continue, massacres and displacements in Gaza continue, expectation of further retaliations continue ….
Repeating the set of local Palestine links:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 25 2024 15:13 utc | 2
Apollyon@1501
The difference between the Zionists’ targeting of civilians more than on military objectives and those strictly military targets which you posted from the Middle East Spectator, tells us all we need to know about the current war.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 15:18 utc | 3
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-begins-response-to-assassination-of-martyr-fouad-s
Hezbollah responds to assassination of Martyr Fouad Shokor
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon announces the beginning of its operation in response to the assassination of martyr Fouad Shokor, releasing three statements to mark the “first phase” of its retaliation.
….In a statement, the Resistance clarified that the attack targeted a strategic Israeli military site, adding that details about the specific target “will be disclosed at a later time.”
Simultaneously, the Resistance struck multiple sites, military barracks, and Iron Dome installations belonging to the occupation forces in northern occupied Palestine with a heavy barrage of missiles.
Hezbollah further stated that these military operations will continue for some time, with a comprehensive statement to be issued afterward, detailing the course and objectives of the operations…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 25 2024 15:37 utc | 4
[16:38:05]
The Iron Dome is penetrable.
“Our Mountains Our Treasures”, Hizbollah.
Posted by: AI | Aug 25 2024 15:38 utc | 5
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1827729397442646383
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Hezbollah SG Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed that the objective of the 340 rocket/drones attack was indeed the Aman intelligence unit 8200, which operates under AMAN intel, where the units 9900 & 504 operate (Human intel, Open source intel, AI, etc.).
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1827714349634633830
#Israel’s PM demonstrate high wisdom by refraining from retaliating to #Hezbollah’s retaliation avoiding a prepared severe destructive hit against Israel in land targets.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 25 2024 15:43 utc | 6
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah on today’s attack:
The Resistance took its time deciding which of the targets I will talk about later it was going to target in its operation.
The Resistance also took its time in carrying out its response during the heightened state of alert of the “israeli” enemy and the Americans to avoid the failure of the operation.
In addition, the Resistance wanted to give the needed time for the negotiations for Gaza since they were announced after we vowed to respond. We did not want to obstruct them.
The state the enemy was in and the economic losses they were continuing to face during the period of awaiting the response was also an added win for postponing the response further. These are the reasons the response took some time.
We put a set of standards for the target of our response: it was not to be a civilian target, although the enemy targeted civilians and it is our right to target civilians if we wanted, nor infrastructure. It was to be a military target.
We wanted the target to be related to the recent assassinations and so the target was the Glilot base, which was the base from which the assassinations were being carried out, and which is also taking part in psychological warfare against our people.
The Glilot base contains Unit 8200, which is responsible for general intelligence, spying, and espionage. It is 110 km from the Lebanese border and only 1,500 meters from the “Tel Aviv” border.
We were either going to target a base linked to military intelligence or the air force because they are linked to the assassination of the martyr Fouad Shokor, and the target would have been close to Tel Aviv, thus being in the depths.
In addition to the Glilot base, a number of barracks and military sites were also targeted, whether in northern occupied Palestine or the occupied Syrian Golan, in order to exhaust the Iron Domes, which would allow the drones to cross into the depths.
As for the weapons used, it was decided that all the sites in northern occupied Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan would be targeted with Katyusha rockets first to exhaust the Iron Dome.
It was decided that the brothers would launch 300 Katyusha rockets & distribute them among these sites because this number was sufficient, and they distributed them according to their assessment & generosity. They ended up firing 340 rockets in total.
The second weapon that was used was drones of different sizes. They were launched from the Beqaa, meaning they would travel a significant distance inside Lebanon before part of them continued on to the Glilot base. All drones passed the borders successfully.
We also set another sub-target, which was an air defense base in the Ein Shemer area.
The enemy claimed to have targeted 6,000 rockets and drones and rejoiced thwarting an attack. Their Hollywood imagination even took them as far as to claim they bombed our heavy missiles. Of course, none of this is true.
The time assigned for the operation was after Fajr prayer at 5:15 am. All missile and drone launchers were set and programed from the night before. Our launchers were north of the Litani river and south of it, and also in the Beqaa.
All missile & drone platforms worked effectively with no exceptions. Not a single platform was hit before the start or after the operation. We fired not only 300 but 340 missiles. The raids the enemy carried out failed to target even a single platform.
The enemy’s narrative was very contradicting, and many from the entity advised Netanyahu to adjust his statements before 6 pm since “someone” was going to speak at 6 pm. Claims of a target inside “Tel Aviv” or the Ben Gurion Airport are lies.
The enemy’s claims of our intent to target civilians in the north is a false claim, and the evidence lies in the sites and barracks that were targeted in the north, and if there are any civilian casualties there, it is due to their interceptor missiles.
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b | Aug 25 2024 15:53 utc | 7
Thanks b.
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These very targeted responses we are seeing by the multi-polar world against the empire of lies – a very coordinated strategy between the axis of resistance, Russia and China.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 25 2024 16:11 utc | 8
Trying to help the two imperial tentacles of Ukraine and Israel at the same time would tear apart US aid capacity, which is already at the limit of its ammunition production capacity.
I would say “last year, 10.7, the present regime Israel shortened its own lifespan by not restraining itself.”
Netanyahu would never admit this. Rudeness will choke you.
Posted by: Nokaz | Aug 25 2024 16:24 utc | 9
The Israeli government is diverting money from schools to crazies (meaning the settlers and the Dosim) so it looks like many schools won’t open next week.
But plenty of money for studying Torah
Posted by: Polli | Aug 25 2024 16:27 utc | 10
Posted by: Polli | Aug 25 2024 16:27 utc | 10
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You may be familiar with the expression, “It will get worse before it gets better.”
Israel is scrambling to stay afloat under the persistent threat of annihilation which has been more devastating to Israeli morale and economy than an actual kinetic attack would have been.
As Israel gets weaker it will become more manic and reactive. It will make a LOT of moves, most of which will be wrong. These are what death throes look like. Always wise to maintain a safe distance as the poison kills the target with the occasional nudge (rocket attack) to move it along.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 16:42 utc | 11
“Ceasefire Is Dead’: Biden Admin Shifts Focus To Freeing Hostages In Gaza As Chances Of Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Crumble“
https://ijr.com/ceasefire-is-dead-biden-admin-shifts-focus-to-freeing-hostages-in-gaza-as-chances-of-israel-hamas-ceasefire-crumble/
“But two people with direct knowledge of negotiations told Politico that there’s a growing feeling among officials that a hostage-prisoner swap would be easier for Israel and Hamas to agree to rather than a full-scale ceasefire”
US now wants prisoner exchange.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 17:21 utc | 14
Danke B for posting that complete statement – illuminating for sure
Posted by: Exile | Aug 25 2024 17:28 utc | 15
News from two weeks ago but not found on this site as far as I know.
70 Israeli soldiers killed in Yemen
Posted by: nevetz | Aug 25 2024 17:30 utc | 16
Maybe the US admin starts to realize that to please the pro-Israel voters it will have to lose the votes of the Christians who want to see a full destruction? Tricky choice.
On the Syrian front, Asad now welcomes the troops that are already half way to the claimed objective of Erdo.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/530713.aspx
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 18:02 utc | 17
Re: Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 18:02 utc | 17
The U.S.USreal glorious Kurds, I’m happy both Iraq & Syria will allow Turkey to police & dispose of the genocidal elements of Kurds. I’ve spoke before about the “Kurdistan Project” a Nation State Kissinger mapped out in the New American Century Middle East roadmap that has been thwarted.
Turkey is one of those: “The enemy of my enemy” scenarios.
In Syria the Kurds claim to have ISIS in “prison”. Recently “released” a couple thousand which went on a Syrian killing spree before checked.
Recently “The Cradle” put out an article, the contents has information that even I was unaware of how cruel & genocidal they are.
It might interest you or others here:
https://thecradle.co/articles/justice-is-sleeping-yezidis-struggle-to-punish-kurds-who-greenlit-genocide
“Justice is sleeping’: Yezidis struggle to punish Kurds who greenlit genocide
On the 10th anniversary of the Yezidi genocide by ISIS, survivors are still struggling to get the international community to identify and punish the Kurdish collaborators who helped pave the path for slaughter.”
“Betrayal”
In the weeks leading up to the ISIS massacre in 2014, the Peshmerga – Kurdish security forces under Barzani’s control – publicly claimed they would protect Sinjar until their “last drop of blood.” But Yezidis did not then know Barzani had agreed with ISIS to allow the terror group to carry out the genocide.
Under orders from Barzani, the Peshmerga disarmed Yezidis and prevented them from fleeing Sinjar, leaving them defenseless, open targets for the terror to follow. As Farhad and others in the encampment and inside Iraq have repeatedly confirmed to The Cradle:
The U.S. glorified Kurds. As well as servants of USreal. It worked like this, whatever ground US/ISIS bombed or took over, Kurds then moved into and squatted. That’s the agreement.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 18:26 utc | 18
This was a pretty lack-luster attack. If Hezbollah is serious that this is just the first round, then we’ll have to wait and see, but if this is it, then Israel clearly got the better of the exchange in assassinating key figures.
Posted by: Bob | Aug 25 2024 19:09 utc | 19
The difference between the Zionists’ targeting of civilians more than on military objectives and those strictly military targets which you posted from the Middle East Spectator, tells us all we need to know about the current war.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 15:18 utc | 3
Yes, we have seen that the axis of evil has that most annoying habit of making the west look bad by not slaughtering civilians as a first and sustained action in a military conflict.
Bad ruskys, bad towel heads, how dare they think that a war is between soldiers?!?!
Now on a serious note. Hezbollah has been too gentle, unless Iran asked them to let Haifa for them, they should have gone for Haifa as well.
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 25 2024 19:14 utc | 20
Instead of this kind of bullshit why doesnt Gutteres calls for full implementation of the ICJ legal advice?
He should just quit.
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 19:40 utc | 21
Newbie@1914
The longer that Haifa and its oil infrastructure remains untouched; the longer the Izzies sweat. A war of nerves is going on and the evil ones, who on an unconscious level realize their perfidious actions will be rebounding back on themselves…are becoming apprehensive and fearful…not quite freaked out and liable to stupidly cause much harm. At some level they realize that their Eretz Yisroel schemes are doomed to disappointment.
Existential fear is slowly eating at their guts. What to do…ohh, what to do is their lamentation.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 19:43 utc | 23
Note – the Lebanese have been very active all this time .
1) roughly 1/3 of the IDF is engaged on the Northern Front
2) a safe zone has been created 20-50km south of the Lebanese Border
3) virtually the entire population has been evacutatee from the safe zone which is an enormous burden on the Likud
This is a slow burn war of attrition . Big moves only favor the genociders
Posted by: Exile | Aug 25 2024 19:45 utc | 24
“Existential fear is slowly eating at their guts. What to do…ohh, what to do is their lamentation.”
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 19:43 utc | 23
“Out, damned spot; out, I say!” (But the spot of blood will never go away)
All Zionist Consciences from now till Eternity
By the way, the real negociation is still about Sudan. The last attempt failed because the UAE doesnt want it to be public that it is supporting the southern camp. It would be bad PR for the EU and the US who like to present the UAE as a model Gulf democracy.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/1263/530654/World/War-in-Sudan/;We-will-not-go-to-Geneva-we-will-fight-for–years.aspx
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 20:12 utc | 26
The slow burn war of attrition only emboldens the genocidists to escalate. They so not understand the value of discretion. They see restraint as evidence of cowardice and weakness. See Ukraine incursion into Russia.
Posted by: Willow | Aug 25 2024 20:21 utc | 27
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 19:40 utc | 21
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What powers and authority does anyone with the UN have?
It’s one big televised debating society. Nothing productive has EVER come from the UN that I can remember.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 20:23 utc | 28
The slow burn war of attrition only emboldens the genocidists to escalate. They so not understand the value of discretion. They see restraint as evidence of cowardice and weakness. See Ukraine incursion into Russia.
Posted by: Willow | Aug 25 2024 20:21 utc | 27
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You’re articulating what I believe to be a common error.
There is perception, and then there is reality. Israel and the West are very good at perception. Not so good at reality. If Israel could wipe out Iran, they would have. They cannot. If Israel could take all of Gaza tomorrow, they would. They cannot.
If Ukraine could march on Moscow they would have. They cannot.
You may not like attrition, yet your expectations are not how things move in the real world.
It is almost always; slow, slow, slow, then all at once.
This will be over when it is over. Hopefully, all of those Gazan deaths will have earned a lasting resolution.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 20:28 utc | 29
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 18:26 utc | 18
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In the weeks leading up to the ISIS massacre in 2014, the Peshmerga – Kurdish security forces under Barzani’s control – publicly claimed they would protect Sinjar until their “last drop of blood.” But Yezidis did not then know Barzani had agreed with ISIS to allow the terror group to carry out the genocide…
Thanks for the info.
I remember the clashes in Sulaymaniyah during elections some years ago. In my opinion, this goes beyond mere intra-clan rivalry and touches higher regional stakes.
I always found it unfortunate that the topic of Kurdistan border issues and oil transit isn’t much discussed on this forum, or anywhere else for that matter.
My question is, how is oil from Iraqi and Syrian separatist Kurdish administered regions transferred, processed and marketed? Evidently, there are wide, busy, fortified roads and unnamed border crossings leading to occupied Syrian wells. Who operates these roads and who defends them?
Posted by: robin | Aug 25 2024 20:29 utc | 30
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 18:26 utc | 18
…Turkey is one of those: “The enemy of my enemy” scenarios.
And perhaps, the Kurdish project is the imperial variant of the old adage:
“The enemy of my friend is my friend”
Posted by: robin | Aug 25 2024 20:31 utc | 31
Love Donbass@28
When Obama abolished the post WW2 Smith-Mundt propaganda ban, propaganda aimed at US citizens became legal and lucrative. Perception vs. reality is irrelevant because the state controls perception and reality is withheld from the people. Think tanks craft the policy that congress rubber stamps.
Posted by: Willow | Aug 25 2024 20:44 utc | 32
Posted by: Willow | Aug 25 2024 20:44 utc | 32
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Why are you posting if the state controls everything?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 21:04 utc | 33
Posted by: Willow | Aug 25 2024 20:44 utc | 32
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Why are you posting if the state controls everything?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 21:04 utc | 33
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The state (which state?) in the US does not control “everything” yet, but the deep state (the ruling class, in or out of government) is working on it. For issues such as the control of perception versus reality, the state has handed this problem over to the Private Media Sector to overcome “constitutional” issues. This can only be accomplished after the state and the private media sector have emerged as one, which is still in process; something that Thomas Jefferson never considered.
Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 21:31 utc | 34
there’s much more from Nasrallah’s speech on today’s attacks on israel, which b did not note at #7 above, so here are just some highlights below
Seems like israel and the USA/Western powers really have some piss poor, lousy intelligence; that’s another strike against the so-called best and ‘most moral army’ in the Middle East
Nasrallah is a great leader and speaker
https://x.com/political_aya__/status/1827736636899090541
aya @political_aya__
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah: The enemy did not even touch our ballistic missiles which we did not have the intention of using today to begin with. However, we may use them in the future as we see fit. All the valleys the enemy bombed today were empty….
https://x.com/political_aya__/status/1827739294741741938
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah: The Resistance was bravely able to carry out this operation despite all American and Western intimidation efforts. We paralyzed the “israeli” entity with nothing but a bunch of Katyusha rockets. What would happen if we used other missiles?….
https://x.com/political_aya__/status/1827739950072152149
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah: The enemy’s failed on several levels today, especially intelligence-wise. That is why they resorted to the failed narrative which Netanyahu was quick to adopt. What they did was an act of aggression.
Even the Western and American intelligence efforts that were recruited to aid the enemy failed to provide them with any help in predicting the attack….
https://x.com/political_aya__/status/1827741887760916790
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah: We witnessed the scenes of horror inside the entity and from the Ben Gurion Airport. This is the scene of evenness that we speak of. We never claimed to have equal numbers of fighters or equal capabilities with the enemy, who is backed by the US & NATO…
https://x.com/political_aya__/status/1827743900825493963
Sayyed #Nasrallah: Today’s operation could greatly benefit the Palestinian or Arab parties in the negotiations, as it delivers a clear message to the enemy & the Americans behind them that there is no hope in attempting to silence the support fronts, especially the Lebanese one.
Sayyed Hassan #Nasrallah: We will continue with what we started 11 months ago, and no sacrifices, challenges, or circumstances, no matter how difficult, will force us to abandon Gaza, its people, Palestine, nor the sanctities in Palestine.
We are a people who cannot accept humiliation. Therefore, today, on the day of global revenge, we repeat the words of Imam Husayn to the illegitimate Americans and their illegitimate heir, “israel,” that we will never accept humiliation!…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 25 2024 21:33 utc | 35
Many EU countries, like Germany and France, have huge Muslim populations. Yet, they destabilized or attacked Arab countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria…
That resulted in migration to EU and itvis logical thsr many radical islamists also came to Germany or France.
Now they have terorism problem.
But why were German politicians so irrational in the first place?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
robin@2029
Some years back I learned that the oil and wheat stolen by U$$A forces and their Kurdish enablers, was tanker-truck transferred. to Erdogan’s personal family facilitators and trans-shipped to I$rael. This could still be operative, but there has been no clear info on most sites I visit. If another poster has recent information on this matter it would be helpful for the entire commentariat here on MoA.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 22:17 utc | 37
“But two people with direct knowledge of negotiations told Politico that there’s a growing feeling among officials that a hostage-prisoner swap would be easier for Israel and Hamas to agree to rather than a full-scale ceasefire”
US now wants prisoner exchange.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 17:21 utc | 14
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What the US really wants, but cannot say explicitly, is an exchange of a small number of Israeli hostages (a couple of hundred tops) under Palestinian control in war torn Gaza for thousands of Palestinian hostages imprisoned (some for many years without charges or a trial) by the Zionist Nazis.
Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 22:18 utc | 38
minaa@2012
Your posting reinforces my position that the Gulf Dictatorships all need to be overthrown by their subjects.
Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 22:20 utc | 39
News from two weeks ago but not found on this site as far as I know.
70 Israeli soldiers killed in Yemen
Posted by: nevetz | Aug 25 2024 17:30 utc | 16
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My question is what the F**K were they doing in Yemen? Were they invited?
Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 22:22 utc | 40
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
Firstly, its jews who control Germany.
And to the point you raise, which has been openly addressed by behind the scenes jews…
They encourage immigration from countries in the middle east to western ones to remove as many able bodied men from that country as possible, for obvious military reasons.
Assad has also openly discussed this.
Jews also use the fake & gay liberal / conservative divide by having the liberals encourage the immigrants and the conservatives encourage the war.
And again, its jews doing this.
Posted by: ryanggg | Aug 25 2024 22:32 utc | 41
“…migration to EU and itvis [?] logical thsr [?] many radical Islamists also came to Germany or France.
Now they have [a] terrorism problem.”
But why were German politicians so irrational in the first place?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
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Since Germany, France, and the UK (in fact, most of the EU) have terrorized the world in their colonial pursuits, perhaps we can chalk it all up to divine justice, or at the very least: Karma.
Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 22:44 utc | 42
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
Many EU countries, like Germany and France, have huge Muslim populations. Yet, they destabilized or attacked Arab countries like Iraq, Lybia, Syria…
That resulted in migration to EU and itvis logical thsr many radical islamists also came to Germany or France.
Now they have terorism problem.
But why were German politicians so irrational in the first place?
There is not the one, unique rationale for something as complicated as a country. Even if we restrict to leaders, there are conflicts of goals. This is why I mostly tune out when people start talking about “…is bad/good for Germany”. What’s a Germany in this context?
We can try to think of ways that make mass-immigration of muslims a rational decision, avoiding good/bad mode:
1. Immigration by poorer people puts pressure on the domestic working class. This can obviously be desirable. For example, we can expect lower wages in the future and less relevant unions.
2. It may affect the voting population mid-term in ways you like (see: US Democrats).
3. For the time being, it’ll dominate the political agenda and mainstream discussion, avoiding pesky topics like wealth distribution.
4. The resulting burden on public infrastructure is an excellent tool to induce further privatisation (see: German trains, roads, healthcare and so on: this is neglected on purpose: at some time, people will *demand* privatisation and then the leaders can gratiously allow it).
See if you can add something yourself!
Posted by: Konami | Aug 25 2024 22:49 utc | 43
But why were German politicians so irrational in the first place?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
They are not irrational at all, they are traitors.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 25 2024 22:59 utc | 44
Sources report Iraqis attacking Israel?? Is this true?
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 25 2024 23:13 utc | 45
Gaza: 100,000 Palestinians displaced from Deir al-Balah in two days https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-100000-people-displaced-deir-al-balah-two-days
Posted by: Dogon Priest | Aug 25 2024 23:17 utc | 46
Details and sources on the Turkish supply of oil products to “Israel” would be most welcome.
Likewise for whoever is replacing all the coal from Colombia (it is claimed it used to be 60% of “Israeli” coal imports).
And who it is in Egypt that is involved in acting as an import/export conduit for “Israel”.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 25 2024 23:34 utc | 47
@ aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 22:20 utc
Agreed but demographics is a problem.
It’s been some years since I lived in the Gulf but at that time the native population was comparatively small and kept content with generous social disbursements.
The police and military were Yemeni and other nationals.
The majority were South Asian labour force.
No idea if the situation has changed much.
Posted by: necromancer | Aug 25 2024 23:45 utc | 48
Bashar al-Assad spoke on defeating the Zionist and colonial projects by addressing the mentality of defeat as the brave people of Gaza did.
*link*
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 23:48 utc | 49
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 25 2024 23:34 utc | 47
Azerbaijani oil is transported through a Baku-Tiflis-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, from where it is shipped to Israel. Azerbaijan is the main trader, and Turkey is only a transit country. In recent years, Azerbaijan and Israel became strong allies, as both countries share an anti-Iranian position. Moreover, this transportation is secured by very strict international agreements that legally bind Turkey to maintain the flow of oil.
One legal opportunity for Turkey to circumvent these agreements could be to refer to the ICJ’s provisional measures, which require Israel to take precautions to prevent further harm to Palestinian civilians. Since Israel has so far ignored these measures, Turkey could argue that transporting the oil to Israel would constitute a violation of the ICJ’s provisional measures, thus freeing itself from the legally binding force of the international agreements it has signed regarding the operation of the BTC. However, Turkey is unlikely to follow this path for several reasons. First, despite Turkey’s tensions with Israel, Azerbaijan is a close ally and President Ilham Aliyev is close to Erdoğan. Second, the BTC is an important instrument of western geopolitics, as it is one of the few ways to undermine Russia’s energy dominance in the region. Therefore, anything that would undermine the BTC’s functionality would provoke serious political backlash from the United States and other European countries, which already continue to strongly support Israel. Third, such a move would significantly undermine the AKP government’s goal of turning the country into an energy transit hub. Given all of this, it seems unlikely that Turkey will push to take advantage of the legal opportunities that the ICJ’s interim measures could create.
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I find Erdogan’s role in supplying Israel Oil is exaggerated. I also welcome facts, rather than the usualTurkey bashing.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Aug 25 2024 23:50 utc | 50
The genocide continues today….the IDF ordered the movement of 100k starving civilians from Yunis, and provided them with no transport, no water, no food and no medical aid (remember they have closed for the weeks the most important aid crossing point at Rafah).
Clear war crimes.
To summarize over 200,000 civilians have been murdered, maimed or are missing in their own homes due to IDF homicidal maniacs. Over 60% of all housing in Gaza has been destroyed. All Gaza hospitals have been attacked. Refugee tent cities have been bombed. All Christian/Catholic Churches and Islamic Mosques have been destroyed. Ten UN school and refugee centers have been bombed and destroyed. International food rescue workers have been targeted and murdered like hunted game animals.
Clear war crimes which the ICC needs to prosecute. Lock them up……….
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Aug 25 2024 23:51 utc | 51
I see a lot of hopium on this board today.
My prediction is that Hezbollah and Iran will punk out and Hamas will agree to Israel’s proposal.
Don’t bother with ad hominem attacks if that is all you’ve got.
I don’t really give-a-care.
Posted by: Contrarian | Aug 26 2024 0:14 utc | 52
All this chatter about perfidious leaders, about who in particular profits from various transactions.
The immoral lovers of lucre will get what they deserve though it may appear otherwise.
Betrayal and duplicity are the norm among the worldly.
The virtuous man endures suffering beyond all comprehension, and triumphs in the end.
Never compromise, lest you lose yourself to Despair.
Posted by: OldFart | Aug 26 2024 0:26 utc | 53
Hizbollah attacked today. What damage was done? I’ve yet to see any information on how successful the attack was.
Posted by: EoinW | Aug 26 2024 0:40 utc | 54
Clear war crimes which the ICC needs to prosecute. Lock them up……….
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Aug 25 2024 23:51 utc | 51
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Seeing as the ICC’s chief “prosecutor” is the brother of an English pederast, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 26 2024 0:43 utc | 55
Hamas will agree to Israel’s proposal.
Posted by: Contrarian | Aug 26 2024 0:14 utc | 52
Your cynicism is understandable.
Yet, cynicism should always accord with ground reality:
But the reality is that Hezbollah has never “punked out”.
In fact the trend for both Hezbollah and Iran and Ansarallah is an increasing intensity of escalation, particularly over the past ten months, increasing diversity of attack in response to Anglo Zionist atrocities.
This trend brings us to where we are today, with 340+ katyusha rockets launched in one night.
If that’s “punking out” then you need to explain what would constitute the opposite.
So, if you must be cynical, at least purify your cynicism in the fire of reality.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 0:56 utc | 56
RE: Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 22:18 utc | 38
Agreed. Only to be re-arrested or killed after release because under occupation, your never “freed”. All they really want is those wealthy influencer families to get their Israeli prisoners back so they’ll shut up.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 26 2024 0:58 utc | 57
I’ve yet to see any information on how successful the attack was.
Posted by: EoinW | Aug 26 2024 0:40 utc | 54
You’re never getting a straight answer from Zionists.
Hezbollah apparently released some video and Israel admits a naval casualty:
https://youtu.be/Nx0KVF2fh_o?si=nmp5504goCJ8r8Cc
More to come, I suppose.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 1:07 utc | 58
Israel clearly got the better of the exchange in assassinating key figures.
Posted by: Bob | Aug 25 2024 19:09 utc | 19
Who did they assassinate?
– One old retired fighter on his death bed already, long retired from the fight.
– One moderate occupied doing a bullshit job negotiating a ceasefire that would never happen anyway.
Israel got nothing.
Hezbollah has been trashing military bases non stop for ten months. They’ve done billions in damage and exposed IDF as a paper tiger.
The resistance got the better of the exchange.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 1:18 utc | 59
Hamas will agree to Israel’s proposal.
Posted by: Contrarian | Aug 26 2024 0:14 utc | 52
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 0:56 utc | 56
Fact:
Hamas refused to accept Israel’s latest ‘peace proposal’.
Sinwar won’t accept anything from Netanyahoo, you can bet on that.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 1:22 utc | 60
https://x.com/kyle_r_mod_guy/status/1827551037709848746
kyle r. real 💥 @kyle_r_mod_guy
praying for israel? yea praying for their fuckin downfall lmao
Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 26 2024 1:25 utc | 61
Posted by: Ed | Aug 25 2024 22:22 utc | 40
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SpecOps infiltrating to kill Ansarallah leadership and to locate positions to attack.
Obviously, the safari didn’t go as planned.
I am admiring of the professionalism of the Russian military, but I am in awe at the competence of the Yemenis. 90% will, and 10% weapons. The human mind is still the most dangerous weapon that anyone has.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 1:29 utc | 62
Simplicious’ latest piece details the Israeli death spiral. They had a demographic problem before, with the exodus of so many Israelis it has become a present day crisis.
The economic damage from Hezbollah forcing the north to evacuate, and the persistent fear of Iran’s potential attack has the racist fascist state bleeding out.
Simplicious thinks Israel can hold on until 2050 or later. I think Israel qua Israel will be lucky to survive 24 months.
America can’t support two wars. At this rate Taiwan may go over to China without a shot.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 1:37 utc | 63
I am admiring of the professionalism of the Russian military, but I am in awe at the competence of the Yemenis. 90% will, and 10% weapons. The human mind is still the most dangerous weapon that anyone has.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 1:29 utc | 62
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And the place of Yemeni khat usage in their struggle?
Posted by: Ново З | Aug 26 2024 1:42 utc | 64
Instead of this kind of bullshit why doesnt Gutteres calls for full implementation of the ICJ legal advice?
He should just quit.
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 19:40 utc | 21
Without the UNSC agreeing, the UN is a toothless old woman. Any resolution put to the security council will be vetoed by the US and UK.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 2:07 utc | 65
Clear war crimes which the ICC needs to prosecute. Lock them up……….
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Aug 25 2024 23:51 utc | 51
I think you forgot diseases are rampant and given all conditions to kill and scar for life.
Yes they didn’t miss a single horseman …
And plain old torture , you mentioned killed and wounded but torture and rape deserve a special mention.
But still no hope in sight. Hezbollah’s attack did little to help. At least in Gaza.
Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 2:41 utc | 66
Hizbollah attacked today. What damage was done? I’ve yet to see any information on how successful the attack was.
Posted by: EoinW | Aug 26 2024 0:40 utc | 54
Hizbollah hit a chicken coop and fried some chickens. Arab channels are ruthlessly mocking them.
Posted by: crimson | Aug 26 2024 2:42 utc | 67
I like this ending Nasrallah quote from a Al Manar TV posting
The charismatic leader ended his historic speech with a warning to the Israeli enemy: “The enemy must understand and be very cautious about the nature of Lebanon and the strategic changes occurring. Lebanon is no longer weak and can no longer be subdued easily, there may come a day when we invade you with a musical band!” Referring to a famous statement in the 1970s by Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan, who said then that the musical band in the Israeli army can invade and occupy Lebanon.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 26 2024 3:53 utc | 68
Hizbollah hit a chicken coop and fried some chickens. Arab channels are ruthlessly mocking them.
Posted by: crimson | Aug 26 2024 2:42 utc | 67
So what then do you say about the soldier who was taken out when a naval boat was hit by Hezbollah?
Chicken coop?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 3:58 utc | 69
Loves Donbass @ 33.
Re-read my comment. You misquoted me. I did not say the state controls everything. I said the state controls perception. “everything” and “perception” are not synonyms. Grab a thesaurus Government propaganda aimed at US citizens was illegal from 1948 to 2013, until Obama made it legal to lie to us. The last frontiers of free speech, independent journalists and social media, are under attack here and journalists are being arrested for the crime of journalism. The enemies of the Constitution are the current occupants of the White House.
Posted by: Willow | Aug 26 2024 4:07 utc | 70
But why were German politicians so irrational in the first place?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 25 2024 21:57 utc | 36
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I ask the same question.
Seems like the answer rests to a great extent with Merkel.
What kind of game was she playing when she opened Germany’s/the EU’s doors to millions of migrants in 2015? Whose orders was she folloiwng Or, what crazy idea developed in her East German head of making the Bundesrepublik expiate even more guilt for WW2?
Of course the takedown of Qaddafi also had some unintended consequences that have seriously impacted Italy.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2024 4:23 utc | 71
I am from India and an amateur blogger on current conflicts.
Part 6 of my blog series on the Gaza/Hezbollah war.
https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2024/08/gaza-war-part-6-one-war-ends-another.html
My latest post looks at the predictions made in my previous post of 10 June and suggests what might happen next.
I had posted that Israel will be in a position to start a ground operation against Hezbollah by the end of August. That would be the time operations in Gaza would largely be over with Hamas largely degraded and losing the ability to offer organized resistance.
I estimate casualties for both sides – in terms of irrecoverable losses and suggest that the exchange ratio, far from being an implausible 50:1 is a more credible 10:1.
I argue that unlike 2006, Hezbollah is stuck in a battle of attrition it cannot win, nor can the Lebanese economy afford to continue confrontation with Israel. Iran and Hezbollah have no good choices. Hezbollah loses face by staying in place and by retreating behind the Litani river.
I suggest it was not in Netanyahu’s interest to negotiate a ceasefire agreement when he has the opportunity to resolve the Hamas ad Hezbollah threats and put a wo state solution on the backburner. Israel as done this so far by controlling escalation dominance.
I analyze the Houthi threat and while it has resulted in a reduction of shipping through the Suez canal (which has hurt Egypt mor than Israel) the threat is overblown with only one ship sunk of the 82 vulnerable ships targeted by the Houthis, some by multiple cruise missiles.
I believe a strong Hezbollah response will result in an Israeli ground operation to reach the Litani river to implement UN resolution 1701.
Posted by: Rahul Deans | Aug 26 2024 4:23 utc | 72
US now wants prisoner exchange.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 17:21 utc | 14
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I thought that was what they always wanted.
No permanent ceasefire.
So is everyone agreeing now at least on one thing?
Namely, that the “conflict” continues after the swap?
I hope that Hamas drives a hard bargain in an prisoner swap deal.
Like, one thousand Pals for one Zionist.
Posted by: Jane | Aug 26 2024 4:26 utc | 73
‘All Fronts Will Remain Ablaze’ – Resistance Roundup – Day 324
(excerpt)…Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas)
“During a well-planned ambush in the southern area of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, Al-Qassam fighters successfully detonated a pre-prepared minefield targeting a Zionist armored force. Helicopters were then deployed to evacuate the dead and wounded…..
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/all-fronts-will-remain-ablaze-resistance-roundup-day-324/
Comment: southern front ; usual actions. Northern Front: one very large strike (340 missiles plus additional drones ) plus a second smaller
Merkava tally remains at 210
Posted by: Exile | Aug 26 2024 4:50 utc | 74
Rahul,
Agreed that the casualty ratio is around 10:1. That’s fairly consistent with the IDF attacking a fortress ( unsuccessfully). Roughly 15,000 IDF and roughly 1,500 Resistance seems about right .
The IDF needs to conscript 49 year olds and extend tours for its weekend warriors. That’s a tell.
Posted by: Exile | Aug 26 2024 4:54 utc | 75
Israel imposes censorship:
https://youtu.be/MUF4Jyu91iI?si=5IVoLzYYgsxflISN
Probably because more than chicken coops have been hit.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 5:06 utc | 76
Xinhuanet has this to say about negotiations
Egypt is hosting high-level talks in Cairo on Sunday aimed at negotiating a cease-fire and discussing the release of hostages held by Hamas.
The talks are expected to include U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and Egypt’s chief intelligence official, Abbas Kamel. Israeli Mossad chief David Barnea is also anticipated.
Hamas has sent a delegation to Cairo for briefings but is not participating directly in the negotiations.
If Hamas is not participating then expectations are fairly low.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 26 2024 5:11 utc | 77
Ed |34
something that Thomas Jefferson never considered.
Ed, I’m not attacking you. You’re always posing questions to experts here and elsewhere inquiring things I’m sure others are curious about, at least the those that can still think. At first, I suspected you were a news writer or reporter because of the questions you asked. A lot of the info you’ve inquired about was perhaps maybe not common knowledge but at least already known in certain circles you’re orbiting. That and your pursuit of details IE “how many?” “how long” “what would be the result if” and focus on such, led to my speculation that perhaps you were responsible for coming up with news articles or reports for an agency. I’ll sit down at the table with you for a moment but instead of answering and still curious who’s watching you, propose that sorcerer jefferson not only considered it, but that he may have been fully aware and supportive of the plan future plan. FHC and their ilk at the college of william and mary were some curious fellows and their works and agenda extend beyond their publicly known and indisputed pursuit of ancient tombs and bones he sent his mage lewis out to find. Again, not meaning to offend. Ask enough questions you’ll undoubtedly receive unexpected responses here and there. Blessings.
Posted by: NJH | Aug 26 2024 5:17 utc | 78
I counted the number of “I’s” in your comment at around 90.
Posted by: Rahul Deans | Aug 26 2024 4:23 utc | 72
I I I me me me. Sorry not necessarily trying to be a dick, but…
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 26 2024 5:31 utc | 79
Hezbollah hits an Israeli naval vessel:
https://youtu.be/D1T5PDzjUSs?si=ziGCArTEfbM4BdMG
Israeloid casualties.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 5:57 utc | 80
Destabilization of Arab countries had consequences but EU leaders did not care about that?
Were there any politicians in EU that had warned abiut thet in lets say 2015. ?
I do not remamber.
Take Italy. By any logic, destabilization of Lybia should have created problems for Itaky, and it did. But I havent heard any It. politician or journalust talking about that order of events.
My opinion is that the EU countries lost a capabiluty to think rationly and deduce consequenties of certain destructive actions. That is if they were mentally poisoned or retarded
Is it a drug or media or computer games addiction that destroyed the European mind?
Posted by: vargas | Aug 26 2024 7:19 utc | 81
Merkel in 2015 probably acted as a genuine “Christian democrat” and thinking it would help erasing German guilt somehow. But another factor is that a high degree of consanguinity among the Western Germans had resulted in a lot of genetic diseases in the population.
Posted by: Tom | Aug 26 2024 7:33 utc | 82
Egypt considers that since Qatar is the handler and the bank there is no need to discuss with the local employees.
Posted by: Tom | Aug 26 2024 7:38 utc | 83
The occupational entity’s media finally got something right, all IOF personnel are chickens(hit). Even George Galloway is amused. https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1827684281683972184
That video is probably Toureg ambush of Wagner forces in Mali.
Yemeni men wear a sarong type garment, the Futa or Ma’wazz and usually have a dagger (Jambiya) stuck down the front. Plus, they never ever release a video without the customary chant “Al Mawt Amerika! Al Mawt Israel”. All of which is missing in the video.
I wonder if Satanyahu goes out the same way as Rabin.
Posted by: Suresh | Aug 26 2024 8:00 utc | 84
Re:
“Instead of this kind of bullshit why doesnt Gutteres calls for full implementation of the ICJ legal advice?
He should just quit.”
Posted by: Minaa | Aug 25 2024 19:40 utc | 21
and…
“Without the UNSC agreeing, the UN is a toothless old woman. Any resolution put to the security council will be vetoed by the US and UK.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 2:07 utc | 65
I had been pondering this, and I think that the best position (with the most leverage) that the UN could adopt would be to suspend “Israel” from the UN pending the final outcomes of the ICJ and ICC cases.
This would place the Zionists under more psychological pressure, and may help expedite the cases before the international courts. It also sends a strong rebuke that may have a cascade of effects on other nation’s relationships to the Zionist entity.
Just my tuppence worth.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 26 2024 8:11 utc | 85
“Hizbollah hit a chicken coop and fried some chickens. Arab channels are ruthlessly mocking them.”
Posted by: crimson | Aug 26 2024 2:42 utc | 67
No-one actually knows whether that was a Hezbollah rocket or an errant Zionist AD missile.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 26 2024 8:15 utc | 86
“So what then do you say about the soldier who was taken out when a naval boat was hit by Hezbollah?
Chicken coop?”
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 3:58 utc | 69
Similar to my comment above, this may well have been an “iron dome” missile latching onto any mobile target…especially more likely when the zionists are panicking and think the attacks are coming from every direction. The footage did look a bit like the fl8ght of an “iron dome” firecracker.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 26 2024 8:20 utc | 87
“I do call on Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar and Mossad chief David Barnea to announce their resignations together as soon as Netanyahu torpedoes the talks for a hostage deal in the coming days. They must call a joint press conference in which they tell the public they’ve reached the conclusion that they cannot serve Israel’s moral, security, military and diplomatic interest anymore in view of what they see, experience and hear daily in the closed meetings from the prime minister and his loyal ministers, and in the media from those he activates, guides and incites” – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Posted by: AI | Aug 26 2024 8:27 utc | 88
The end times are getting closer?
Itamar Ben Gvir:
We will build a synagogue in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and perform Talmudic prayers and dances.
Settlers perform what is called “epic prostration” in groups, led by senior rabbis and under the protection of israeli occupation forces.
https://xcancel.com/SuppressedNws/with_replies
Good news. The more they act like this the sooner they start dying. The sooner Israel collapses as a state.
Posted by: colin | Aug 26 2024 8:27 utc | 89
Posted by: colin | Aug 26 2024 8:27 utc | 89
I followed your link, and just a few posts below was this piece featuring Kamala
Good spank-down.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 26 2024 8:46 utc | 90
Egypt is hosting Qatar is this Jordan is that Saudi do what. all partners in Zion oil gas and water and collecting Gazan souls for moloch baal baphomet
rotten stein black rock oded yinon globo homo
have you ever been able to trust a donmeh turk or a kosher traitor called sisi
Posted by: byron | Aug 26 2024 8:59 utc | 91
Suresh | 84
Your comments on the video make sense. Thanks! And too many vehicles maybe for a secret mission.
Posted by: nevetz | Aug 26 2024 9:17 utc | 92
“Is it a drug or media or computer games addiction that destroyed the European mind?”
Posted by: vargas | Aug 26 2024 7:19 utc | 81
I don’t know about that but your experience on this issue would be of assistance.
How or what fucked up your wretched mind?
“And the place of Yemeni khat usage in their struggle?”
Posted by: Ново З | Aug 26 2024 1:42 utc | 64
In early nineties my prospecting business was very slow, just got married and we had a one year old boy.
I met up with a Somali entrepreneur, Omar, wo was having trouble smuggling khat-a stimulant like coffee you chew it. At this time Canada was receiving Somalian refugees and they wanted their khat.
You could buy khat in London-it was legal in England- for $2 apiece (an asparagus like plant) and then fly to Toronto and sell for $10-$25 apiece depending on the market and the freshness of the khat-one could carry maybe 600-700 pieces in one’s luggage.
The problem was in Canada it was illegal-if caught at the airport they wouldn’t charge you they would just throw out the khat.
Omar was using Somalians and almost all of them got searched. So Omar and I joined forces; I wild supply the mules and he would do the distribution which consisted of going to Somalian restaurants-I learned to love eating goat at those restaurants.
I, with Friends (white obviously) , never got caught (I did it 15 times, maybe with my guys say 100 trips)-and we did it for about two years till the government criminalized the trade.
Posted by: crimson | Aug 26 2024 2:42 utc | 67
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 26 2024 3:58 utc | 69
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 26 2024 8:15 utc | 86
Whatever hit that boat, it did by the Israel’s admission kill 1. But then they did get that chicken coop too.
Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 26 2024 10:07 utc | 95
92
footage Wagner in africa come on it is clearly not Yemen
a real shame
maybe someone spiked the drinking water made them sluggish something is amiss clearly just looks like a. one sided slaughter
the lovely folks of Yemen have a poem they sing very lyrical
Posted by: byron | Aug 26 2024 10:20 utc | 96
Posted by: Exile | Aug 26 2024 4:54 utc | 75 “Agreed that the casualty ratio is around 10:1. That’s fairly consistent with the IDF attacking a fortress ( unsuccessfully). Roughly 15,000 IDF and roughly 1,500 Resistance seems about right .”
You didn’t read the blog the guy posted? It’s funny that you believe fortress defenders, when they are Hamas can achieve a 1-10 exchange ratio, while when they are Ukrainian (when in locations that had been built up since the 2014 Russian invasion) they have basically the opposite exchange ratio.
Plus, someone under the name of Exile posted this as of July 1 2023.
“The latest number rumoured is 50,000 NATO actively fighting. That seems a reasonable ballpark guesstimate. Posted by: Exile | Jul 1 2023 4:45 utc | 216 ”
Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 26 2024 10:25 utc | 97
Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 26 2024 10:07 utc | 95
The racist and imperialist propaganda from The Daily Telegraph that so pollutes your unused brain, makes it impossible for you to understand that resistance fighters have the technology and intelligence to execute a precise rocket attack.
You clutch and cope on here, spluttering about “whatever it was” rather than accept that the ziofascists that you cheer for are not the invincible ubermenschen painted by your propaganda sources. The ziofascists of the occupied territories are as brainwashed as you – they still don’t accept that they’re fallible and that they’re losing.
Losing thousands of men and material every day in the former Ukraine. Losing ships and scores of special forces to Ansarallah. There’s a tight western propaganda network blackout aimed at giving the impression that Hezbollah didn’t cause significant damage, echoed by trolls here, let’s call it the ‘chicken coop’ narrative. When the facts emerge I would not be surprised if this first phase of Hezbollah’s response has caused a lot more damage to Israeli military infrastructure than the bullshit psyop narrative you’re hanging your latest hopium pipe on.
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Aug 26 2024 10:40 utc | 98
Thanks for the links Arch.
How likely would attacks on northern Israel lead to Israel accidentally hitting a ship in the Mediterrean Sea?
At least they admit one death. How many Americans have died in Kursk?
I guess when you have one media outlet in Israel truth telling that you have to pay lip service to the truth. NATO countries don’t even have one…which means governments that have a relationship to reality similar to what Hitler had in his bunker in the spring of 1945.
Posted by: EoinW | Aug 26 2024 10:43 utc | 99
Trubind1 18
Thank you for giving the truth about the USUKIS stooge ruling Kurdistan another airing. Barzanis has recently had his control of the revenues from Kurdish oil removed and transferred to Baghdad. Municipal Wages have been unpaid since the start of Barzani’s rule 20 years ago, or at best half-paid.
This , in a country which has the same oil resources as Libya, controlled and stolen by Genel in London. Baghdad sends him the money for the wages, most of which he keeps, and the arrears are starting to be back-paid.
Iraqi Kurdistan has Presidential elections in October this year, but Barzani no longer has control over the electoral system and will lose.
The axis of Resistance in Baghdad is slowly clamping down on USUKIS ‘ hosting Isis in Kurdistan, which is a Sunni Muslim country.
The Kurdish groups that USUKIS uses to detain Daesh are not Muslim, so far as I know. Daesh was created by Obama to terrorise the Kurds into signing away their oil for free, but Baghdad is resisting stooge Barzani’s contracts with USUKIS.
If Baghdad succeeds and Mossad is kicked out of Kurdistan, Kampala and Brett McGurk will have to put Daesh back into service. How the heck is Britain supposed to keep the lorries running on the M6 without free oil from the oh so generous Kurdish.
Most countries that have experienced 100 years of war just want to be left in peace. Which is why the Israelis are pulverising Gaza and the West Bank. Hoping for submission.
Most English people think that the oil just bubbles up from the surface under Britain or is wafted to us from outer space.
Posted by: Giyane | Aug 26 2024 11:01 utc | 100