Low level mock raids over Beirut now, sonic booms.
Just 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 | Sep 19 2024 14:41 utc | 3

I see Nasrallah is giving speeches in response to the pager attacks, so glad he was not hurt, condolences to the families of the dead and all who were injured. Thoughts and prayers for them and their families.
Honest question, what restraint does one show after such an attack…..with so many here praising restraint as a form of strength….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 19 2024 14:43 utc | 5

No matter how strong or unprecedented the strike is, the enemy will never force us to the ground, our resistance will only become more determined.
Since the 7th of October until today, almost an entire year, we have supported the Palestinian front.
If we stop our operations now, which the enemy insists upon, then everything we did in the past year would go to waste – they will never be able to seperate the Lebanese front from the Palestinian front – this is our religious and humanitarian duty.
We say to the enemy, and to Gallant who was about to be fired; we will NEVER stop our war against Israel until they stop the war on Gaza.
I repeat again, no matter what circumstances, no matter what sacrifices, we will never give up our duty.
–Nasrallah

Posted by: Apollyon | Sep 19 2024 14:45 utc | 7

@Bernhard
you can change the Thread to Middle Eastern War…

Posted by: Macpott | Sep 19 2024 14:56 utc | 9

Israel wins?
A trap they have been setting up for years (?), supposed to be used at the initiation of a ground action, prematurely ejaculated due to security concerns (Hezbollah cottoned on) or political reasons (keep Bibi out of gaol) for limited/no military value.
The sirens are ringing in Nahariya, the kids were kept home from school, the residents of the north live in hotels.
How is this a win?

Posted by: Polli | Sep 19 2024 15:00 utc | 11

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/9640
Nasrallah: ‘This act was a terrorist act, a massacre – this is another massacre added to the list of this despicable enemy and cancerous tumor’….
‘We say to the enemy, and to Gallant who was about to be fired; we will NEVER stop our war against Israel until they stop the war on Gaza’
‘The enemy wanted to create division between Hezbollah and the Lebanese people and government, but the opposite happened’
‘Our command structure and operational readiness has not been affected’
‘Only the days will reveal what Israel’s real plan is, whether they simply will increase their attacks, or go to war, or even go to an all-our war’
‘This stupid, idiotic IDF Commander of the North wants to enter Lebanon to create a ‘security zone’ in the South – In fact, we HOPE Israel enters Lebanon, we are waiting for their tanks day and night, we say “welcome!”
‘The Israeli attack was secretive and unexpected; let me today say that ours will be in a similar nature, I won’t mention a time, a place or a manner – you won’t hear the response, you will SEE it’
‘Smotrich, Netanyahu and Gallant are leading their entity into a destructive abyss, and into a third historic humiliation’
end of speech

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 19 2024 15:19 utc | 13

Will Israel use nukes?
If Israel is going full throttle against Hezbollah
how quickly will the psychopathic entity’s major offensive
expand to include Syria, Yemen and Iran?
Russian Doctrine:
“nuclear deterrence is aimed to provide comprehension by a potential adversary of the inevitability of retaliation in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies.”
Has Russia made it clear to the psychopaths that they are to never use nukes?

Posted by: librul | Sep 19 2024 15:23 utc | 15

“There has been more seething and raging around here than usual from the anti-semites…I love it when Israel wins!!!”
Posted by: Bye Bye Palestine! | Sep 19 2024 14:43 utc | 6
Piss off, troll

Posted by: canuck | Sep 19 2024 15:28 utc | 17

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says pager and walkie-talkie explosions by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday which killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon were a declaration of war.

https://t.me/presstv/110371

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 19 2024 15:30 utc | 19

MoA: “Israel’s Pager Attack – A Sophisticated One-Times Shot With Little Effect”
Nasrallah: “Hezbollah received ‘severe blow’ but will be stronger”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-israel-war-palestine-west-bank-lebanon-strike-updates
For those with a strong stomach and/or lacking imagination, here is a snippet of what a dozen Hzb members in hospital with injuries ranging from blown hands, eyes and anything around the midsection looks like:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eLRdLWctQ03F – !!! STRONG WARNING
now multiply that by 3-4,000 and see what Hzb would have to do to even start to restore its operations, let alone catch up in order to retaliate and restore deterrence along their now wishful eye-for-an-eye doctrine.
I could be way off here, but if one presumes Hzb has ±100,000 fighters and it was primarily lieutenants and not soldiers operating these ill fated ‘secure’ pagers, on a 5-1 officer to soldier ratio, we could be talking potentially up to 1/4 of its officers were affected and/or maimed by this operation.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Sep 19 2024 15:31 utc | 21

Ruby-Con@1531
Your hopes for a degraded Hezbollah will soon be dashed.

Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 19 2024 15:43 utc | 23

Inka Stinka@1530
Betcha you are still butt-hurt about that missile strike which took out much of the major command structure within Unit 8200. Thus, the $hekels are still enhancing your account balance and you dutifully soldier on.

Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 19 2024 15:45 utc | 25

@Rubiconned 21
That is a lot of assumptions. When you hear Hezbollah you automatically assume soldiers and military. There are a whole host of civilians working for them that had these pagers. And most of them are not in their army.

Posted by: Alpi | Sep 19 2024 15:58 utc | 27

@ Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 19 2024 15:43 utc | 23
Hopes??? since when does accurately reporting facts indicate one’s hopes? I simply quoted Nasrallah’s words that run counter to the analysis being put on this here blog and briefly speculated on the why. what is your insightful analysis beyond wishful thinking?
Can’t say that is exactly what ones ‘hopes’ for, but at the very least one can expect all future concentrations of IDF officers (graduations etc) will be fair game and high value targets and since Houthis have now used hypersonic missiles, one can presume that is what Hzb will be aiming to use any they have now or will have in future. That would seem only a fair place to start, at a minimum..

Posted by: Rubiconned | Sep 19 2024 16:00 utc | 29

Posted by: Bye Bye Palestine! | Sep 19 2024 14:43 utc | 6

There has been more seething and raging around here than usual from the anti-semites…I love it when Israel wins!!!

Blowback be a baetch.
Difficult to impossible to assess how Israel’s latest adolescent stunt influenced United Nations voters around the world, but as Ben Norton discusses in this 18 min video, more than 60% of the “rest of the world” voted WITH the declaration that Israel MUST cease settlement activity immediately; MUST evacuate settlement on Palestinian lands within 12 months; MUST return immovable as well as other properties to Palestinians; MUST make reparations . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK9dmK8p0n0
Well #6 @14:43 UTC, I raise my glass, and hope other barflies join me, in wishing Israel many more such “wins.”
Salut!

Posted by: ChasMark | Sep 19 2024 16:10 utc | 31

Honest question, what restraint does one show after such an attack…..with so many here praising restraint as a form of strength….
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 19 2024 14:43 utc | 5
The greatest restraint here is not responding to trolls and their ‘honest questions’.
***************
All strength to the oppressed, who given no other option by their oppressors have to rise up and use force to free themselves.
Are you ready Jesus? (uh huh)
Buddha? (yeah)
Mohammed? (okay)
Well alright fellas, let’s go!

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Sep 19 2024 16:13 utc | 33

michaelj72@1519
Little wonder that Nasrallah is double-daring the Izzies to mount an attack on South Lebanon. Unlike most of Occupied Palestine, most of Lebanon is hilly, mountainous and fairly well forested. Utterly horrible tank and general armored country. The resistance in Gaza has already destroyed or degraded more than a third of the Izzy’s touted Merkaba tanks. Thus, their role will mainly be to fire from stand-off positions as mobile artillery units.
Possibly yet another nasty surprise for the Izzy Airforce may be the appearances of A.A. missilry which may well be carefully sequestered for serious situations. If Hezbollah does indeed possess more than man-pads (effective against helicopters) then the primary arm of the IOF may be sufficiently compromised that their American fighter jets will be limited of off-coast stand-off missilry employments.
The Izzy ground-pounders may become as naked as the proverbial jay-birds and will soon be messing their “depends” , much as they did in ’06 when they previously tried to make a drive up to the Litany River.
Those exploding devices will have the net effect of uniting the vast majority of the Lebanese people, even in #1 civilian target, Beirut. Hopefully, the civil defense folks will be handing out large numbers of picks and spades. Apartment towers would be death-traps. Evacs essential.

Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 19 2024 16:18 utc | 35

Are you ready Jesus? (uh huh)
Buddha? (yeah)
Mohammed? (okay)
Well alright fellas, let’s go!
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Sep 19 2024 16:13 utc | 33
I see no representative of that other major world religion in your list …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Sep 19 2024 16:20 utc | 37

ByeByePissant@1443
Question is…will you “love it” when those hapless Izzy ground-pounders dreet their “Depends” when one of their buddies gets a round right between his eyes.

Posted by: aristodemos | Sep 19 2024 16:23 utc | 39

Lets see what Hezbollah does next – no doubt the Zionists will be on high-alert – though a few well placed hyper-sonic missiles, might wipe the snigger of their faces.
“Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says pager and walkie-talkie explosions by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday which killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon are a declaration of war.
“The enemy has crossed all red lines and all laws in this attack. This is a massive terrorist attack.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 19 2024 16:36 utc | 41

I could be way off here, but if one presumes Hzb has ±100,000 fighters and it was primarily lieutenants and not soldiers operating these ill fated ‘secure’ pagers, on a 5-1 officer to soldier ratio, we could be talking potentially up to 1/4 of its officers were affected and/or maimed by this operation.
Posted by: Rubiconned | Sep 19 2024 15:31 utc | 21
This point is not relevant. By all indications and by many military analyst, Hzb has a well trained, well run military organization – which means “sergeants” , ‘corporals’ are trained to take over for a junior officer. Most officers can take over for others.
Will it hurt in the short run? Of course. On the intermediate ( 3 to 4 weeks) to long run? Not a chance. They will be ready to react to defend themselves ( which is the default fall back plan when faced with an unexpected attack), then regroup and be ready to go on the offensive when asked.
This will also increase (likely) already high levels of people to join and sign up to the military and social services orgs of hzb. Of course they will continue to lose people; but they have more to lose because it’s just not them, it is the Palastieians, Yemeni , Iran, plus supporters from all over the Mideast. Israel is literally surrounded in three sides.
Israel hadn’t caught on yet, and like Ukraine, even if they have they can’t do anything about it. The issue is that modern high tech armies cannot win a war of attrition. Hzb has more people to draw from, the have more guns, rockets, and bullets – wars of attrition are not won with tanks or fighter plans. I’m sure the Israeli military is really freaking out about trying to fight three front war of attrition, but politicians have taken over and leading them right into a trap,

Posted by: drsmith | Sep 19 2024 16:44 utc | 43

@ Sean 5
https://listudy.org/en/play-stockfish
Go right ahead, you have all the pieces you need there… and an answer to your question.
Real world is slightly more complex, the person you are playing might not only wipe the board off the table if he/she loses, but your whole country.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 19 2024 16:48 utc | 45

WJ | Sep 19 2024 16:31 utc | 40
With the hit on 8200 they might have already nailed the people behind it, and that is why instead of having the invasion ready they are just now having their tanks, still on trucks, being hauled to the border. It appears the targets are coming to them, not coordinated with their terrorist attack.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 19 2024 16:51 utc | 47

Exile | Sep 19 2024 16:00 utc | 28
Lebanese Ground Forces? Please do tell, what on earth are you talking about?

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Sep 19 2024 17:02 utc | 49

All the hezb fighters in the South Front are praying now for the IDF come to them soon, they are now the more determined, the more motivated, the more ready to fight group of fighters in the whole World, as you will be if you are waiting to crush henious child-murdering people, cowards sending bombs indiscriminately on civilians that intent to wound and kill your brothers, sisters, sons, wifes, mothers…
The hezb fighters and civilians are living in a faith, they now they will suffer many many blows and defeats, they now, as the vietnamese, they are fighting the more powerful war machine that has existed in the world (the US military weapons and systems), but, as the vietnamese or Hamas, they don’t count the defeats or the losses, they rise up again, clean the sand from their clothes and start to fight again; especially if you are born in a faith around martyrdom.
The Israeli population is a western-minded society, fully entitled to have all they want, not ready to accept mass casualties, defeats, living under continous threats of been wounded or killed, and at the same time entitled to kill as many arabs, especially Palestinians, as they want as “untermensch” they thing they are.
In the longterm is clear who will survive the struggle as always has happened.

Posted by: Dave | Sep 19 2024 17:05 utc | 51

…. just now having their tanks, still on trucks, being hauled to the border.…..
Note – the IDF needs to stage its invasion forces at least 50km south of the Lebanese border. For the last 11 months, the Lebanese have created a clear zone 30-50km south of the border.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 19 2024 17:05 utc | 53

neither are in any way military spec equipment, but civilian.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 19 2024 17:07 utc | 55

Does anyone have a source for full English text of Nasrallah’s speech?

Posted by: bolangi | Sep 19 2024 17:12 utc | 57

Netanyahu yesterday : “We will return the Residents of the North safely to their Homes”
They will NEVER “return the “Residents” of the North safely to their Homes” by murdering Palestinians or Lebanese people, au contraire, there will be a mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of “Residents” from Israel to other western countries, mainly USA, if this aggression continues.
The lies and hubris of Netanyahu are unprecedented, and the problem the “Residents” (evil) believe in them.
The blowback will be huge

Posted by: Dave | Sep 19 2024 17:25 utc | 59

librul 15
The West uses the threat of ” terror “, meaning civilisational breakdown using highly trained and also drugged proxies.
It also has nukes. Weaklings fear nukes because they love life too much.
Israel has no proxies in this war, except the depleted resources of Uncle Sam. Russia has many proxies in this war , but cannot enter it directly.
Israel’s toy box is empty. Or, as Smotrich once said, ” We desperately need to get some legitimacy for this war”.
If you don’t have legitimacy for genocide, how can you get legitimacy for a nuclear attack on Beirut?
Yehudis fuctati sunt. Alas! Poor Yorick.

Posted by: Giyane | Sep 19 2024 17:29 utc | 61

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 19 2024 14:41 utc | 3
CNN reporter caught one live, it was also dropping flares.
Seems like the IaF is worried about some MANPADS that “fell off the back of the truck” in Ukraine and made their way into Lebanon. Hence the anti-anti-aircraft measures.
I think Russia should provide some of those IRIS-T systems they captured in Kursk to Assad. It wouldn’t be a game-changer, but it would make the IAF think twice about their next bombing run into Syria.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 19 2024 17:31 utc | 63

No offence ment Doc btw, I needed a doctor and you were closest. You are licenced? Just the troll OCD of the ATT is getting tiresome, to the point of being childish.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 19 2024 17:38 utc | 65

From Tel Aviv….
[J]ackie the Sullivan, meets the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza to discuss efforts to secure the release of the 101 ‘suspected’ remaining captives. Hard to believe they are all still alive.
This was Sullivan’s 13th in-person meeting with hostages’ families.

Posted by: AI | Sep 19 2024 17:41 utc | 67

Posted by: stranger | Sep 19 2024 17:41 utc | 66
Agree; one possible solution would be for B to cap comments on any thread to 100, minus the obvious name-calling and pathetic trolls.
A comment holiday is another option. Naked Capitalism has had to resort to that, at times.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 19 2024 17:49 utc | 69

Hezbollah is basically saying “Come on in the water is just fine” to the IDF.
IDF armor and infantry already has taken about 2,000 KIA’s and 6,000 WIA’s since October 7th. Hamas continues to stage daily attacks on IDF armor and infantry with deadly regularity in Gaza.
Gaza and Hamas are no where near as capable as Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. The area is a very mountainous, heavily fortified fire cauldron, not only armed with ballistic missiles but also over flowing with RF Kornet ATGM’s and Lancet drones. This will be a very different nut to crack for the IDF.
But just like Gaza the IDF solution will be to kill every single soldier and civilian they encounter and lay waste to their hospitals, aid stations, food warehouses, UN distribution centers, and most ominously UN peacekeeping troopers from Ireland and China. Israeli war insanity continues…..as Biden napes on the beach….
IDF blood lust is continuing……….but so far the Hezbollah leadership has not taken the bait, they are waiting and preparing for the IDF incursion…….and the water is fine !!

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 19 2024 17:55 utc | 71

Posted by: stranger | Sep 19 2024 17:41 utc | 66
Agree; one possible solution would be for B to cap comments on any thread to 100, minus the obvious name-calling and pathetic trolls.
A comment holiday is another option. Naked Capitalism has had to resort to that, at times.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 19 2024 17:49 utc | 69
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Sure, let’s let the Trolls win. 1Cap comments to one hundred per thread, the trolls will eat 90% of that in an hour without saying anything outrageous or contributing to anything new.
I am not sure how a “comment holiday” works? But it sounds like NO comments.

Posted by: Ed | Sep 19 2024 18:01 utc | 73

Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 19 2024 17:03 utc | 50–
I commented yesterday that Iran’s new radar setup provided by Russia would enable Hezbollah to be informed of any Zionist sorties so Hezbollah wouldn’t need to illuminate their AD radars, which is what the Zionists are trying to accomplish with their childish game. Hezbollah will reserve its AD capacity for use when the Zionists try to employ their AF in direct support of the ground operation when it might actually make a difference. Same with exposing their missile launch apertures within the mountains. I also expect Hezbollah to target the Zionist energy production infrastructure as part of their attrition drive. Hezbollah also has many remote ATGM & HMG firing positions and channelizing obstacles for funneling Zionist troops into kill zones.
Those and more are the reasons why Gallant didn’t want to attack Hezbollah.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2024 18:03 utc | 75

Its amazing how little blow back there has been in the western MSM about the massive civilian casualties in Lebanon, especially among school children and medical professionals. Thousands dead or maimed for life and yet the MSM basically ignores the story…..even the left wing press like the Guardian (the great defender of Ukrainian fascists) refused to deal with the civilian deaths and injuries.
American PBS was fairly balanced giving good coverage to the civilian toll, especially the school children.
But can you imagine the press outrage if cell phones and pagers had been exploding all over Tel Aviv in the every hospital and school……….every single news show would be wall to wall………..cowards all….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Sep 19 2024 18:11 utc | 77

How is it psychologically possible that the sophisticated Europe see no terrorism in the recent Putin’s act?
vargas @ 70
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If you want to see what real terrorism is like, go to the Palestinian thread and read about what Israelis and the US is doing to the Palestinian people. Then tell me if you psychologically support it.

Posted by: Ed | Sep 19 2024 18:13 utc | 79

Posted by: stranger | Sep 19 2024 17:41 utc | 66
Agree; one possible solution would be for B to cap comments on any thread to 100, minus the obvious name-calling and pathetic trolls.
A comment holiday is another option. Naked Capitalism has had to resort to that, at times.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 19 2024 17:49 utc | 69
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Stop grousing.
You and other grousers, control freaks, and snowflakes are part of the problem, with your insulting, self-congratulatory epithets and insults aimed at other commenters. If you don’t like it, get lost.
B is still recuperating from serious surgery.
Commenters here provide plenty of excellent information and amplification.
I am grateful for MoA in these very trying times.

Posted by: Jane | Sep 19 2024 18:18 utc | 81

Just announced, President Macron to visit Sept 25-26. They’re going to talk about Ukraine, apparently, Russian aggression. And about the upcoming summit of the Francophonie.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Sep 19 2024 18:30 utc | 83

Macron to visit Canada. Oops. ( my post above)

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Sep 19 2024 18:32 utc | 85

A buddy of mine just bought a little“dingbat” apartment building in the poor part of Beverly Hills. His investment thesis ? Rents are bound to skyrocket when all the ex-Israelis arrive.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 19 2024 18:33 utc | 87

From live feed:
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Occupation soldiers mutilated the bodies of three slain Palestinians in Qabatiya and threw them from the roof of the house in which they were killed.

Posted by: Exile | Sep 19 2024 18:47 utc | 89

The British FO calls on their nationals to leave the Lebanon as soon as possible while commercial options remain.
Posted by: AI | Sep 19 2024 18:36 utc | 88
They’ve all stopped flights into Beirut (and mostly into Tel Aviv). Who wants their plane blown up by another Israeli push of a button. The Brits will have to take a ferry to Cyprus.

Posted by: laguerre | Sep 19 2024 19:03 utc | 91

karlof1 | Sep 19 2024 18:03 utc | 75
Hezbollah neither has noteworthy radar capabilities nor noteworthy anti-aircraft capabilities. I think this should be pretty obvious.
And as for Gallant not wanting to attack Hezbollah, that’s an odd statement, too. Israel is attacking Hezbollah and Lebanon every day, and nobody’s stopping them. It’s just that a ground offensive is out of the question. Which is not entirely a Hezbollah accomplishment. There’s also the tiny issue of the UNIFIL zone, where IOF ground forces would first have to plow through UN troops to engage Hezbollah.

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Sep 19 2024 19:15 utc | 93

Vanessa Beeley makes the assumption that Russia did not see this wider Lebanon-Israel war coming. But, consider the possibility that the Russian armaments, defense and communication systems shipped to Iran in anticipation of Israel/US predations on that country, were also intended in some part of Hezbollah and possibly for Hamas et al in Gaza. Expertise, intelligence and equipment are moved around the Axis of Resistance in ways not readily observable to western intelligence sources. Suspicions are raised regarding exactly how well equipped all of the non state actors slicing (as in 1,000+ cuts) at Israel are, and in case of predicted escalations what is their defined role. Difficult to believe that high level coordination is not in place and that all of these actors are more than ready for the escalation. Most certainly Shoigu is not going to appear in downtown Beirut!
On the other hand, Israel has been long showing battle fatigue from the war in Gaza – exceptionally high number of deaths and even greater disabilities – both mental and physicial, in a country whose hubris is so great that they have long presented the IOF/IDF as invincible. Which is accurate if you are only slaughtering civilians who are caged, have no weapons and are routinely physicially and sexually abused in the prison system. On the other hand, facing Hezbollah fighters (exponentially increasing in the past two days), Hamas et. al., Ansar allah has been a vastly different experience. Even with a full cadre of US warships lurking offshore, a physical invasion of Lebanon is poorly advised.
If the Axis of Resistance has one well established and defined characteristic, it is their disciplined, well considered actions. On the other hand, Israeli responses – as with the exploding comms systems targeting more civilians than terrorists, babe, child, youth, and elder without regard – are impulsive, disinhibited actions,driven by rage and fury, psychopathically destructive, insofar as many of the cruelest actions have no strategic import, do not further the poorly developed strategic goals of the state.

Posted by: abierno | Sep 19 2024 19:40 utc | 95

94 Dave
When has bibi ever followed through with his statements? I can see where one would assume he’d be held accountable for his promises but that’s not reality. He’s also promised to defeat hamas for decades, return hostages, maintain control of border crossings, defeat iran, defeat hez for good back in 2006, the list goes on. He like all western politicians can speak whatever their public wants to hear with zero regard.

Posted by: NJH | Sep 19 2024 19:41 utc | 97

In this video, an eagle-eyed netizen mentioned the pagers were imported in mid-April 2024, which corresponds to what Taiwanese Ministry of Economy initially said that these pagers were exported in “early this year”.
According to the official info On April 15, President Tsai Ing-wen met with a delegation from the Israeli Knesset (parliament) .
In remarks, President Tsai stated that bilateral interactions between Taiwan and Israel have recently been very close. …… President Tsai stated that she looks forward to Taiwan and Israel leveraging our industrial strengths and continuing to deepen our partnership, based on our shared values of freedom and democracy, to jointly build more resilient global supply chains. In their discussion, President Tsai expressed her sincere concern and sympathy to the delegation following the recent attack on Israel by Iran, and condemned the use of violence to undermine global peace and stability.

Posted by: lulu | Sep 19 2024 19:45 utc | 99