For Doubters - Hizbullah Reports That It Is Back
The Zionists had hoped that their terror tactics of exploding pagers and the bombing of Hizbullah's leadership in Lebanon would hinder or decrease its enemy's ability to fight.
That hope however was in vane. Hizbullah, like its Hamas ally in Gaza, was build to sustain its efforts despite such incidents.
Today, Naim Qassem, the deputy leader of Hizbullah appeared in a broadcast and declared that Hizbullah remained fully operational:
In his address, Qassem stated, “We are firing hundreds of rockets and dozens of drones. A large number of settlements and cities are under the fire of the resistance.” He emphasised that Hezbollah's top leadership remains active and that the posts of the slain commanders have been filled, asserting, “We have no vacant posts.”
How useless it is to kill an enemy's leadership was also shown in Gaza:
[A]n insight into what is actually going on in Gaza was offered by Israel's latest announcement that it had killed three senior Hamas officials - Rawhi Mushtaha, the head of government and de facto prime minister; Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio on Hamas’s political bureau; and Sami Oudeh, commander of Hamas’s General Security Mechanism.The air strike happened three months ago, and no one had noticed their absence. This is because Hamas continued to function regardless of which leaders were alive or dead.
In the past, assassinations had led to a period of uncertainty for Hamas. This happened after the killing of Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004. But it does not work today and nor does it work with this generation of fighters.
Yesterday Hizbullah fired five missiles on the harbor city of Haifa. Today 100 more missiles followed.
These are in response to Israel's bombing of Beirut's suburbs.
Israel has committed several division to invading the south of Lebanon. The distance they have managed to intrude from the border is still measured in mere meter.
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai - 16:07 UTC · Oct 8, 2024#Hezbollah's media warfare department is back: command and control is fully operational. Missiles and drones are filmed as they are launched. This means that the Ridwan ops will be filmed as it confronts the Israelis, in order to restore the morale of resistance supporters against the invaders.
Yesterday missiles from Gaza, Iraq and Yemen were aiming at Tel Aviv. Today Hizbullah also sent missiles towards it. Each such attack will cause an air alarm. People will interrupt their work and go into bunkers. Israel's air defense will exhausts it supplies while at least some missiles get through and hit their targets.
How long will the Israeli society sustain such stress?
The IDF Home Front Command is issuing stricter guidelines in several cities near Haifa, which prevent schools from operating.Schools will not be able to open in Kiryat Ata, Kiryat Bialik, Kiryat Yam and Kiryat Motzkin, under the latest guidelines. Schools will stay open in Haifa itself, provided that a bomb shelter can be reached quickly enough.
The change comes after Hezbollah fired 105 rockets at the Haifa area this morning.
The Zionist prime minister Benjamin Natanyhoo urged the people of Lebanon to raise against Hizbullah. For him to do so must mean that the war is not going the way he hoped. There is zero chance that such an uprising will happen.
On October 1 some 200 missiles from Iran hit military targets in Israel. The publicly available videos show dozens of hits on an air base with hangers and planes affected. Damage at the other targets is still kept under censorship. But is is obvious that most of the Iranian missiles passed through Israeli air defenses and hit their intended targets.
While Israel has said that it will hit back in revenge for the strike is has yet to do so. It is likely that it fears the response that Iran would unleash on it.
There are thousands of missiles hidden in well protected Iranian sites that are aimed at elements Israel needs to function. Its electricity networks, refineries, harbors and airports are all targeted and would be hit.
This will be a long war and Israel, which had expanded and escalated it whenever possible, is not prepared for it.
Posted by b on October 8, 2024 at 17:07 UTC | Permalink
next page »Did you know that the narrative being pushed on that same day, October 7th, 2023, is still the one
being pushed today?
If Israel was going to L I H O P (Let It Happen On Purpose), or even Make I H O P, they
wouldn't go into it without first creating a plan, certainly.
They had to think ahead about how they would cover up and sell their false flag, without a doubt.
They could count on their news media to be mocking birds.
Their news media is heavily controlled and censored and must get approval first from government censors before they publish.
But what script would the censors be following? Government censors would need
to know what is allowed, what is permitted, what narrative is promoted.
Israel didn't invent their script on October 8th, 2023, certainly.
On October 7th, 2023 Israeli news publications did what they could to cover a developing story.
The telling of October 7th could have followed a natural evolution as more became known.
But read this October 7th, 2023 article, this narrative was already fully cooked on Oct 7th, it was
the final and long lasting product.
Did the censors already have a script prepared for them in advance of October 7th?
Remember, to produce such an article the author would have had to interview Unit 8200,
Unit 504, Mossad, IDF headquarters, the Gaza border watchers and so many more.
Read this October 7th, 2023 article, how has the narrative changed?
October 7th, 2023
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israels-failure-of-imagination-on-hamas/
Title: Israel's failure of imagination on Hamas
Hamas planned this attack meticulously. For many months, perhaps years, they created a false impression as if they were deterred and refrained from responding to the operations
carried out by the IDF against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and events in the West Bank and Jerusalem. In Israel, they bought into this calm and embraced a paradigm that Hamas would refrain from launching an all-out attack.Meanwhile, the organization planned its Simchat Torah attack. A planned, integrated attack with ground, air, maritime, and subterranean elements.
Infiltrators crossed the border in simultaneously at multiple points, knowing exactly where to go. The cities, kibbutzim, moshavim, and IDF bases that were attacked found themselves
in the same situation facing Israeli troops on October 6, 1973, when the Egyptian forces breached the Bar Lev Line by crossing the Suez Canal.
Cries for help, just like those heard over the radios from the fortifications back then, were broadcast live on Israeli channels in 2023.Hamas, of course, knew that it was a holiday, meaning that the IDF was relatively lowering its guard and a significant portion of the forces were at home, with a complacent atmosphere in the settlements.
Such an operation requires early preparation with many collaborators. All of this escaped the view of the Israeli intelligence, which knew nothing.
That last sentence should catch your attention, it did mine. Jeepers. A strong declaration coming from a reporter
trying to make sense of October 7th **on** October 7th. Shooting was still taking place, smoke was still rising,
the fires still burning, as he gathered information.
And his sources? They would be rather busy on such a day.
"All of this escaped the view of the Israeli intelligence, which knew nothing."
Also, look at the sentence before the highlighted one. It seems like a Freudian Slip,
"Such an operation requires early preparation with many collaborators."
Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:19 utc | 2
It’s death by a thousand cuts. The axis of tyranny may pass it off as mere pinpricks; the reality is that the Israeli public is, and remain so, in a state of constant fear and despair. So much for Israelis a “safe” place to languish in peace and serenity!
Posted by: Brock MacLachlan | Oct 8 2024 17:27 utc | 3
If Jewrael really believes that the IOF is the "most moral army in the world" they should prod jew-trash Caroline Glick onto centre stage to revisit her post-Mavi Marmara Musical masterpiece We Con The World. She could spice it up by brandishing a dead Palestinian infant in each hand - and cackle like an Hyena as an encore.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 8 2024 17:28 utc | 4
The real exercise was to teach the World and especially the Iranian supporters that they will pay the price for Iranian attacks on Israel.
Now Israel have another bigger bigger longer conflict to exhaust them.
Where to next?
Posted by: jpc | Oct 8 2024 17:33 utc | 5
If the Israeli desalinization plants are also targetted for destruction, with it's ports essentially closed/blockaded ? 3 mins without oxygen, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food ...
The tragedy is that around me there are 99.99% cowardly creatures that believe all the genocidal entity,s lies, and are unwilling to listen to the truth, it is too uncomfortable for their little worldview, which is going to be shaken pretty soon.
Posted by: stranger | Oct 7 2024 19:24 utc | 98
why/how is their worldview going to be shaken and how soon?
Posted by: finder | Oct 8 2024 3:30 utc | 259
posting this again because no one answered last time
Posted by: finder | Oct 8 2024 17:43 utc | 7
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺
@ejmalrai
#Israel suspends all schools starting tomorrow: the pain on the home front has begun, much like in #Lebanon and #Gaza. Israel is now experiencing the same suffering it is inflicting on its enemies, all because @netanyahu fails to understand the true meaning of peace.
This reminds of back in 2014 when Poroshenko said something along the lines of - 'Our children will go to school, their children will live in basements'. And like Ukraine, I doubt Israel will exist, certainly not in its current form once this is over.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 8 2024 17:45 utc | 8
@Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:19 utc | 2
There has been one major change.
The pre-written script hadn't counted on the exposure of the fact that the IDF had been in possession of Hamas' detailed plan for October 7th.
According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals.
When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public,
they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and
damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks
to pursue the matter further."[1][2]
While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political
- Wikipedia
That the NYT would publish a Limited Hangout for the benefit of Israel & CIA should surprise no one.
US readers likely learned for the first time from the NYT that Israel had been in possession of
Hamas' jail break plan for over a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
Archived: https://archive[dot]ph/7C0id
Conspicuously missing from the NYT Limited Hangout is that there is no mention of the planned timing for the jail break.
It would take place on a holiday or the Sabbath or, in the case of Oct 7th, both.
The NYT Limited Hangout conveniently left this out.
In a completely different article the NYT wrote this:
NYT: "But October 7th was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, and the Sabbath.
A senior military officer estimated that about half the 1,500 soldiers in the area were away."
The written, detailed, Hamas plan spelled out the use of holidays or Sabbath in clear terms.
Israeli media did not avoid the subject the way the NYT did but they didn't spell it out in clear terms either.
Six days before the NYT revelation:
The manual also described a strategy to lull Israel into complacency by holding negotiations for some form of long-term arrangement with Hamas,
while at the same time staging frequent drills and carrying out small security incidents on the border on Saturdays and Jewish holidays to
lull the IDF into a false sense of security when Hamas forces turned up en masse at the border fence.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/reports-senior-idf-officer-dismissed-pre-oct-7-intel-on-hamas-invasion-as-fantasy/
They knew! They knew the creation of complaceny was a written part of Hamas' plan. They knew!
But they tried -- have been trying -- to tell us that Hamas *tricked* them into complacency.
If they knew how could it be a trick?
Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:45 utc | 9
Ok so whats the argument for not hitting tele avivi hard and fast right now and not just the military.
Are we so subordanated and submisive that we dare not discuss the rights and wrongs of this openly.
Should the population be given two hour's notice to move out before hand or not ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 8 2024 17:46 utc | 10
@Posted by: finder | Oct 8 2024 17:43 utc | 7
I'll respond.
My own brother buys into all of the status quo narrative.
Recently I lost my patience with him and was unrestrained in my criticism.
We are now not on speaking terms.
Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:48 utc | 11
While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political
- Wikipedia
Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:45 utc | 9
As if there is a difference between the CIA and the corporate and political realms.
Posted by: Honzo | Oct 8 2024 18:03 utc | 12
Liberating southern Lebanon? Pushing Hezbollah back so the people in northern Israel can return? Or annexing south Lebanon? When you blow up all the buildings including mosques and then plant the flag, you are conquering not liberating. Planting flags isn't too clever if you are hoping some part of Lebanon will revolt against Hezbollah, but that's not really the plan, just a side benefit if it happens, the plan is to annex southern Lebanon. Think about, it's not like Israel is going to get another chance if they miss this opportunity at the prelude to WW3 or WW3 itself.
The Israeli flag is raised over the village of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 8 2024 18:05 utc | 13
b, one minor issue, on wording and shaping the narrative. Let's call Hamas, Hizbollah and the other factions fighting in Occupied Palestine The Axis of Resistance or just The Resistance rather than 'the enemy.' The "enemy" are the illegal squatters currently occupying Palestine and shitting all over the neighborhood.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 8 2024 18:06 utc | 14
Repost from a prior thread: from 5.Oct A Twitter account;
I have just received the operational SITREP for Lebanese border offensive and things are not looking good 😔😢Debating whether I should reveal it or not cos I have not read anything like it in my 22 years at IDF
💔🇮🇱
#LebanonUnderAttack #AmYisraelChai
Ok here goes nothingA 🧵 of Lebanese offensive SITREP
1/n
• Operational effectiveness is extremely low due to high casualty rates, unprecedented cases of disobedience of officers' orders, attempts of desertion and extremely low morale2/n
•Hezbollah operatives on the other hand are, in some cases, even better equipped compared to our special forces. Using new, never seen before IEDs. Organised and impossible to detect. In one case, they were using loudspeaker to mock our special forces holed in their position
3/n• Over 300 confirmed dead and injured IDF soldiers sustained over the past 48 hours. Hezb has launched several successful ambushes resulting in high fatalities, particularly within our Special Forces.
4/n
• Morale has hit rock bottom with combat troops questioning and doubting command decisions and the viability of their mission. Around 1,400 soldiers unaccounted for (presumed to have fled the area).
5/n
• Wounded evacuation is extremely challenging due to Hezb controlling the entire area. Command structure is devastated due to numerous officer fatalities, desertion, soldiers' unwillingness to follow orders and disillusionment among the soldiers re mission viability6/n
• One particular incident caught my eye where a special services unit refused to obey command orders to launch a counter offensive, after witnessing massive fatalities suffered by the lead unit. *This I have never heard in 22 years of IDF service*7/n
• Hezb has taken the initiative and stepped up their attacks, sensing low morale, fragmentation and internal chaos amongst our soldiers. At one point, some commanders believed that the Russian Spetsnaz were fighting alongside Hezb soldiers but it was later dispelled.8/n
• The operation is in critical state and without decisive correctional measures (or a miracle), the probability of a total collapse is extremely high.
Comment : this seems more truth than psywar. The IDF conscripts and weekend warriors have proven hopeless at war fighting in Gaza. Why would it be any different along the Lebanon-Palestine border ?
Posted by: Exile | Oct 8 2024 18:14 utc | 15
Sean @ 14 (8 Oct 18:06)
I couldn't agree more. Clarity of language is crucial when we're inundated with deliberately misleading propaganda from other sources. The parties who comprise the Enemy and those who comprise the Resistance have very much earned those labels and should be recognized accordingly and consistently.
Posted by: Eritreus | Oct 8 2024 18:18 utc | 16
The Zionists are upping their genocide in Northern Gaza.
"Jabalia in northern Gaza “is being wiped out,” residents say, as Israeli tanks push deeper to ramp up attacks on the historic Palestinian refugee camp.
Palestinian health officials said dozens had been killed in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
Palestinian medics said they were unable to reach areas under fire.
“Jabalia is being bombed as if the war has just begun and the world is blind about it,” said Salah, 60, a father of five who is a resident of Gaza City.
“We live at least seven kilometers away, but the sounds of Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling deprive us of sleep. The world must stop Israeli crimes.”"
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 8 2024 18:18 utc | 17
Two things:
1. The narrative saturation is suffocating and frankly now completely unhinged. PeterAU will confirm the hysteria in Oz where our pro-Zionist government is being accused of being anti-Zionist by an opposition that is openly asking for Australian sovereignty to be put at Israel's service. They now just say the quiet part aloud. It is scary here now and I'm being very cautious who I speak to and about what. Desperation is escalating. I'm worried the world is being softened up to accept a nuclear option. I see no one in the western sphere prepared to talk this lunacy down off the roof.
2. The S-400s will down any IDF/US planes that attempt to strike Iran. We now have a unprecedented situation where Israel is vulnerable and incapable of retaliation without losing face. The bullies are only intimidating so long as they're never put to a real test. You'll always 'win' if the war is waged from the air against women and children, schools and hospitals. Once those F-35s vanish over Iran the smiles will too.
Posted by: Patroklos | Oct 8 2024 18:21 utc | 18
The talmud says that one jew fingernail clipping is worth more than a hundred goys. So why don't 50 jews just send their fingernail and toenail clippings against 100,000 Hezbollah fighters?
Posted by: Michael A | Oct 8 2024 18:23 utc | 19
Re: Fighting Entreched Positions
(Johnny Hortons Battle of New Orleans Song )
The highly professional English lost 2,000 out of 10,000 attackers. The low tech amatuer Americans lost 71 out pf 5,700 defenders
…. We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of MexicoYeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWkOeK5AmI8&pp=ygUjYmF0dGxlIG9mIG5ldyBvcmxlYW5zIGpvaG5ueSBob3J0b24%3D
Posted by: Exile | Oct 8 2024 18:24 utc | 20
RSH presents some interesting thoughts on his substack channel, which imo are quite realistic. He also explains why all the chatter about the possibility that Iran set off a nuclear bomb test last week is a pile of hokum.
Posted by: krypton | Oct 8 2024 18:26 utc | 21
Outraged | Oct 8 2024 17:39 utc | 6--
The siege is working as predicted.
LightYearsFromHome | Oct 8 2024 18:05 utc | 13--
Crooke commented on how that photo-op was arranged. Zionist forces left immediately just like their Ukie brothers.
librul | Oct 8 2024 17:45 utc | 9--
Your dogged persistence on that major issue seems to have unearthed that event's version of Nano-thermite. Too bad about your brother. He probably dismisses 911's Dancing Israelis too.
Shocking - its around an hour for the names to come to an end.
"This is a list of names of murdered Palestinians whose identities have been CONFIRMED.
It does NOT include the unidentifiable or those still under the rubble.
You have to watch for well over a minute to get to the end of the babies who were aged ZERO!"
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 8 2024 18:31 utc | 23
karlof1 @ 22
Crooke commented on how that photo-op was arranged. Zionist forces left immediately just like their Ukie brothers.
If they are resorting to staged events then it's certainly not going well, the prelude to WW3 is turning into a real shit show, doesn't bode well for what's to come. The flag message even if idiotic and contrived is still clear, "this is our land". The situation is different that a show of victory like the soviet flag on the Reichstag, the right in Israel those that are pushing the war have never hid their expansionist ambitions. How ever it was done it's stupid and arrogant early in the battle, it'll turn ever more Lebanese against them. Isn't the USA/zionist plan to factionalize Lebanon by weakening the strongest faction and incite civil war? The grotesque insulting excess is just going to unify the people like it did with Russia. Like it's doing across the planet.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 8 2024 18:54 utc | 25
Thanks b.
I have no doubt the attacks by the Zionists have been painful and diminished the full fighting potential of Hezbollah. But the resistance is still in better shape than it was in 2006.
My opinion is considerable damage was done to the Zionists airforce. US assets are being used as immediate replacement. The abundance of refueling planes means the Zionists are not taking chances of prepping the aircrafts on the ground and getting caught.
Very likely these planes are rotating via Cyprus.
This has been the longest period of sustained hostility for the Entity.
The burn rate for men, machines and munitions must surely be at breaking point.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 8 2024 18:56 utc | 26
I worry that on this topic the inestimable b is somewhat clouded by what he hopes is the case. Here is how I see things at the moment.
1. Israel is continuing its extermination of the Gazan Palestinians at a leisurely pace, with no press coverage, and will continue to do so until they are all gone.
2. Israel is freely bombing Lebanon and Syria, increasingly hitting civilian targets, hospitals, schools, neighborhoods, and causing massive civilian casualties with no real consequence.
3. Israel's aim is to continue this project of bombing until either (A) the Gazans are completely exterminated, after which Israel will declare a cease-fire in Gaza, Hezbollah will restrain its rockets, the two settle into another uneasy detente, the settlers return, and Israel moves more settlers into the now vacated Gaza strip...OR (B) Iran is finally provoked enough to respond forcefully against the Zionist entity--either because of direct attacks upon Iran itself or because of the total decimation of Hezbollah (and the entire civilian population) in south Lebanon and Beirut--after which Israel will call the U.S. to its side, and Netanyahu's big war happens. Netanyahu thinks he can win that war with the U.S. Maybe he is right; maybe he is wrong.
The gambit that Hezbollah is playing, and which b echoes, is that Lebanon will be able to withstand Israel's bombing longer than Israel can withstand the internal domestic pressures created by Hezbollah's rocket attacks upon Haifa and Tel Aviv. A lot of people in the anti-Zionist mediascape are confident that this is so, but I am not sure that it is. Look at how quickly Israel was able to decimate Gaza from the air. Israel is likely eventually do the same to Beirut--and indeed its attacks upon Lebanon are increasing in frequency and ferocity. The U.S. meanwhile has all its agents at work in Lebanon trying to foment civil unrest, calling for new elections, etc. I would not underestimate what the U.S. is still capable of when it comes to these kinds of operations.
As I see it, either Israel continues its genocide of the Palestinians until it is complete, meanwhile bombing Lebanon and Syria with increasing ferocity, OR Iran intervenes and some point and we have the big regional war Netanyahu wanted. Israel is getting what it wants in either option.
I hope I am wrong about this, but this is how I see things at the moment.
Posted by: WJ | Oct 8 2024 18:58 utc | 27
Posted by: Cavery | Oct 8 2024 18:32 utc | 24
The Madagascar option is looking good these days
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What did the poor present inhabitants of Madagascar ever do to you?
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 18:58 utc | 28
@21
RSH?
Israel is a fire ant a time zone away from a tarantula called Iran. US is a shiny armored fuss pot 8 times zones away with ground fleet oilers..
What can the ant and its big puppet do?
Terror
Posted by: paddy | Oct 8 2024 19:05 utc | 29
My opinion is considerable damage was done to the Zionists airforce. US assets are being used as immediate replacement. The abundance of refueling planes means the Zionists are not taking chances of prepping the aircrafts on the ground and getting caught.
Very likely these planes are rotating via Cyprus.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 8 2024 18:56 utc | 26
A good point. There was some thought the other day that the influx of tankers was for an impending attack on Iran, but refueling for planes running sorties from Cyprus and other places is more likely. If correct, the longer distances would also reduce the sortie rate.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 8 2024 19:15 utc | 30
WJ,
The struggle will be decided on the military fronts. The IDF is defeated. The Likud refuses to accept this harsh reality.,
Regarding Gaza, the underground fortress in intact with all its barracks, storerooms, workshops, and more. The Al-Qassem, Al-Quds, and other brigades remain at full strength. A rush of volunteers are churning out weapons from captured and unexplored IDF munitions.
The Likud keeps sending IDF conscripts and weekend warriors in for lawn mowing and all that happens is the hapless IDF get ambushed.
Blind Rage atrocities are a sure sign of a defeated military. That’s all the IDF seems capable of.
Don’t confuse bombing rubble for the 42nd time as a sign of success.
Posted by: Exile | Oct 8 2024 19:17 utc | 31
WJ | Oct 8 2024 18:58 utc | 27
Israel is a colony of immigrants, many of them first gen. Israels economy is going down fast. The border with Lebanon has been depopulated so there are many internally displaced that cannot continue their livelihood. The major port on the arm of the Red sea declared bankruptcy the other day.
People are starting to leave already.
S p r i n t e r
@SprinterFamily
BBC reporter in Tel Aviv: No one has hope for the future hereMany professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day.
https://x.com/SprinterFamily/status/1843635806357078064
BBC news video at the link.
I doubt Israel has the concept of Martyrdom. The Muslims whose land it is do. Over the next year or two, a big portion of the settler colony will run back to where ever they came from.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 8 2024 19:28 utc | 32
⚠️‼️🚨Israeli media quoting Reuters: Iran warns the Gulf states that it is forbidden for them to let Israeli warplanes traverse their airspace to attack the Islamic Republic.”.https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/125844
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 8 2024 19:31 utc | 33
BBC reporter in Tel Aviv: No one has hope for the future hereMany professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day.
Everything is proceeding exactly to the Resistance's plan.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 19:31 utc | 34
@Exile | Oct 8 2024 19:17 utc | 31
Blind Rage atrocities are a sure sign of a defeated military.That is a very good point...
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 8 2024 19:33 utc | 35
Outraged | Oct 8 2024 17:39 utc | 6
If you are the same guy that we all know from years gone by, I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised to see you around. Last I knew you had to take a break and it seemed as if it would be a permanent one.
I do hope you can offer more of your unique insight into what is going on around us. these are very interesting times.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 8 2024 19:38 utc | 36
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai:
#Hezbollah's media warfare department is back: command and control is fully operational. Missiles and drones are filmed as they are launched. This means that the Ridwan ops will be filmed as it confronts the Israelis, in order to restore the morale of resistance supporters against the invaders.
Video shows Zionist casualties (Tanks) as they initiate their invasion from behind the UN Irish outpost. Almeyadeen camera was in the right place at the right time as promised by Martyr Hassan Nasrollah.
https://t.me/kriyaassess/25315
Posted by: Framarz | Oct 8 2024 19:43 utc | 37
When will US constitution be amended to deny any dual citizenship Americans (specifically those having the Israeli citizenship) any access to high level responsibility in government administrations?
It seems that some dual citizens do not act for the US interests but for those of their other citizenship…
Posted by: scc | Oct 8 2024 19:47 utc | 38
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 8 2024 18:56 utc | 26
"I have no doubt the attacks by the Zionists have been painful and diminished the full fighting potential of Hezbollah. But the resistance is still in better shape than it was in 2006."
Who is running Hezbollah? That was not something in question in 2006.
"The abundance of refueling planes means the Zionists are not taking chances of prepping the aircrafts on the ground and getting caught."
How do the planes re-arm?
"Very likely these planes are rotating via Cyprus."
I would think someone would see, at least from a distance at least a few of these aircraft taking off and landing in Cyprus if that was so.
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 8 2024 19:48 utc | 39
Thanks, scc I've been wondering that for years now. I understand the need for translators and such but no one with dual citizenship should be granted security clearance or allowed on any congressional or senate committees.
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 19:49 utc | 40
With reference to UNIFIL peacekeepers at the Lebanon boarder, Matthew Brodsky, policy wonk directly under Blinken says the quiet part outloud:
"Israel should just carpet bomb the Irish area and then drop napalm on it."
(Aletho news)
Summarizes the Blinken ,Biden, Bibi foreign policy in just a few words.
Posted by: abierno | Oct 8 2024 19:52 utc | 41
It is important to understand that the violence Israel is inflicting across the region is US policy. All the hand-wringing from Biden and Harris, the discourse about "ceasefires" and "too many innocent lives lost", is just theatre to diffuse your anger and buy them more time.
-Jason Hickel (Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE)
I said this same thing before Gilbert Doctorow did and several in the bar insisted that it was all the "evil Zionists" not American policy.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 19:54 utc | 42
🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️Hezbollah issued a statement threatening to increase attacks against Haifa and other areas in Israel. The group adds that it can carry out attacks in Israel by means that don't involve rockets or drones.https://t.me/intelslava/68068
What does the last sentence refer to? Ground forces?
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 8 2024 19:54 utc | 43
@ Exile | Oct 8 2024 19:17 utc | 31
Quite so.
@ dan of steele | Oct 8 2024 19:38 utc | 36
Nailed it. Am an impostor, a name stealing sockpuppet. Though ... if you were to offer up a Guiness with a muscle (Don't let Bevin know!) dropped in it, would willingly recant.
Well met mon ami. :)
Still Steel - Peace Salaam Shalom
Re: Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 8 2024 17:46 utc | 10
If you look at a map, there’s no strategic value in “hitting Tel Aviv” outside of a terror tactic, they did hit Mossad & a base there.
Only saying, strategically Haifa makes the most sense to use your missiles & rockets on.
If I were planning an invasion… especially a coordinated one, where Syrian militia were going to over run and take the Golan, and Hezbollah came from South & met up
(See map) … I’d want fire control, and every other control, of Haifa.
That would give you clearing from South Lebanon, Golan Heights & West Bank convergence.
This will be a long war. If the aim is a Free Palestine. I’m not saying this is resistance plan, but all the “softening” strikes over the last year lends me to believe they will at some point, (maybe after? During?) this Israeli So. invasion.
Think they have their own invasion in mind.
Tel Aviv can be hit by Yemen/Iraq.. Hezbollah has their own plans…
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:05 utc | 45
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:05 utc | 45 "they did hit Mossad"
Any pictures of hits on the Mossad headquarters that Iran said was targeted? Plenty of hits at that one airbase have been seen.
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 8 2024 20:10 utc | 46
RE: “Summarizes the Blinken ,Biden, Bibi foreign policy in just a few words.”
Posted by: abierno | Oct 8 2024 19:52 utc | 41
Wow… quiet part out loud shocked even me on this one. Was wondering how UNIFIL deadlock was going.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:11 utc | 47
No Christian, Muslim or Druze in their right mind would trust one single word coming out of the Bibi government and War Cabinet.........they are notorious back stabbers.
In 1982-83 period the IDF promised one faction of the Christian community unwavering support in a fight against Amal..........and guess what happened?
The other Christian faction allied with the Syrians, and the Israeli allied faction was crushed (Tigers). The IDF basically said sorry you screwed up you trusted us.
It was a very painful lesson for the Christians. The Christians have lived in relative peace since, because they learned the lesson - Israel can never be trusted, make your own deals.........
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 8 2024 20:12 utc | 48
@ trubin1
I thought I had read that one of the prime targets for Iran is also the nuclear storage/research bunkers in Ashdod and Dimona
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 20:13 utc | 49
Re: “Any pictures of hits on the Mossad headquarters that Iran said was targeted? Plenty of hits at that one airbase have been seen.”
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 8 2024 20:10 utc | 46
Agreed on Mossad, just reports, no pics, and some reports stated an “area next to Mossad”.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:18 utc | 50
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 8 2024 19:54 utc | 43 "What does the last sentence refer to? Ground forces?"
Likely yes, among other possiblities. The Radwan Force's purpose in regard to Israel was to actually enter and fight in Israel.
There are now a few videos of tunnels along the border that are alleged to cross under the border into Israel and others that stopped at the border, allegedly to be opened at a later time.
There is also a branch of Hezbollah that is responsible for overseas operations (ESO?) that could be what is being referred to.
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 8 2024 20:21 utc | 51
@Ed4 | Oct 8 2024 20:21 utc | 51
Thank you, that is useful.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 8 2024 20:23 utc | 52
Posted by: librul | Oct 8 2024 17:19 utc | 2
To me it's blatantly obvious that the Israeli leadership knew it would happen and thus decided to let it happen (they may even be in control of Hamas and made it happen)
But to me it's equally obvious that governments cheerfully sacrifice the lives of their citizens to further their goals. People will usually agree - if sometimes reluctantly - that "leaders" are happy to send soldiers off to die in pointless wars, but balk at the idea that "their" representatives would sacrifice the lives of civilians with exactly the same lack of concern.
The vast majority of people see the government as a kind of parent. This is why the state is so keen to provide "free" education: to start getting the Stockholm Syndrome going early.
Posted by: observer | Oct 8 2024 20:24 utc | 53
Isnt this bizarre? Yesterday there were reports of millions of Israeli in shelters because of a Yemeni missile but that did not reach the MSM headlines.
Posted by: Minaa | Oct 8 2024 20:25 utc | 54
RE: Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 20:13 utc | 49
As I understood Iran, it was a response to the idea of Israel’s (US) threat to hit Irans nuclear sites. Makes sense to put it in the table, let Israel know, they’ll be no “hit and run” and nothing happens to Israel of equal measure.
No nation state wants a nuclear crisis, contained at the facility or not, they’re still a nightmare to deal with.
And why would Iran need to go full bore like that when they can do more damage hitting infrastructure & causing lights & water outage across Israel without contaminating Palestinian peoples & lands?
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:25 utc | 55
My guess would be not to trigger or attack with nukes but to render theirs non-useable and obliterate the production capacity.
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 20:29 utc | 56
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 19:54 utc | 42
insisted that it was all the "evil Zionists" not American policy.
There's a difference?
Posted by: observer | Oct 8 2024 20:36 utc | 57
[email protected] area next to Mossad..... hopefully the CIA building.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 8 2024 20:36 utc | 58
'According to the cabbala, the universe is ruled not by one god but by several deities, of various characters and influences, emanated by a dim, distant First Cause.
Omitting many details, one can summarize the system as follows. From the First Cause, first a male god called 'Wisdom' or 'Father' and then a female goddess called Jewish History, Jewish Religion — 'Knowledge' or 'Mother' were emanated or born. From the marriage of these two, a pair of younger gods were born: Son, also called by many other names such as 'Small Face' or 'The Holy Blessed One'; and Daughter, also called 'Lady' (or 'Matronit', a
word derived from Latin), 'Shekhinah', 'Queen' and so on.'
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 8 2024 20:36 utc | 59
'Satan has managed to come very close to the divine Daughter and even to rape her (either seemingly or in fact)'
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 8 2024 20:38 utc | 60
'Daughter falls closely into the power of Satan, while Son takes various female satanic personages to his bed, instead of his proper wife.'
Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Israel Shahak, A Jewish concentration camp survivor (Belsen)
Posted by: south | Oct 8 2024 20:39 utc | 61
Posted by: Patroklos | Oct 8 2024 18:21 utc | 18 and anyone who might know more about the Iranian S-400s.
1. Regarding planned Israeli military aviation led strikes on Iran, isn't it possible to get permission to use the airspace of Iran's neighbors and launch ASMs from far enough away to avoid Iranian AD systems?
2. What is the situation in Syria, which TMK has had Russian S-400 AD for some time now. Is there some sort of implied or mandated 'stand-down' placed on the Syrian defense forces that preclude them from using S-400s to take down Israeli fighter jets which seem to operate with impunity in Syrian airspace? What is the current Syrian AD capability, inclusive of Russian systems, and why aren't Israeli planes being downed daily?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 8 2024 20:40 utc | 62
RE: “My guess would be not to trigger or attack with nukes but to render theirs non-useable and obliterate the production capacity.”
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 20:29 utc | 56
The difference is, US would just restock them. Those are US nuclear weapons, and US controlled. It’s called plausible deniability. They were placed there as a mechanism of control of ME.
Even if they were “Israel’s”… US could remove them anytime they wanted. US & Israel are one and the same. And the 2 headed coin has once again, been called out. The dangling of the Damocles sword days are over, either blow up the world or STFU and get out says Russia & Iran.
Suppose West thought have better luck if they trotted over to ME with that nonsense since they failed to move the dial with their “threat” in Ukraine. Time will tell.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 20:40 utc | 63
Thanks, scc I've been wondering that for years now. I understand the need for translators and such but no one with dual citizenship should be granted security clearance or allowed on any congressional or senate committees.
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 19:49 utc | 40
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Many people have been wondering this for years.
It seems like a no-brainer.
But the Zionists are too well embedded and AIPAC is on the alert to prevent any such legislation ever to see the light of day: even to occur to a Congress critter, not to mention actually to be written into a bill that is sponsored and brought to Congress.
Any idea of sponsoring such a bill would soon land the person who had the idea out of a job.
Posted by: Jane | Oct 8 2024 20:43 utc | 64
The first ammendment is 233 years old. Eight years into the US existence. What right have these medlers?
Posted by: south | Oct 8 2024 21:01 utc | 65
@LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 19:54 utc, who said:
several in the bar insisted that it was all the "evil Zionists" not American policy.
LoveDonbass: I am one of those people that think Zionists are responsible for our abominable foreign policy. I equate Zionists with NeoCons; they are almost all the same people, and Zionists behavior is entirely consonant with NeoCon's behavior at the U.S. national level.
U.S. foreign policy is made at Dept of State and by the Administration.
With respect to Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia please identify for me a single instance wherein:
a. Zionist policy was not consonant with NeoCon policy, and
b. Zionist-NeoCon policy did not manifest as actual, executed American policy
This discussion about tail .vs. dog - "who's in control?" is entirely specious.
American foreign policy is Zionist-Neocon policy.
The U.S. and Israel are in lock-step, and the "steps" are dictated by the Zionist-NeoCon cabal which entirely infests the Executive branch _and_ controls the Congress of the U.S. ... and Israel itself (of course).
Please rebut those points.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 8 2024 21:15 utc | 66
I urge the people of Lebanon to rise against Likud. Likud is the party in power whose ideology informs Israel's military to bomb any Lebanese civilians. This assault should encourage Lebanese to abandon their sectarianism and unite to defeat and bring down Likud.
Posted by: Keme | Oct 8 2024 21:17 utc | 67
RE: Posted by: WJ | Oct 8 2024 18:58 utc | 27
Just know the Israelis aren’t “freely” doing anything. It’s all exacting a cost. The bill is increasing, and they’ll be a pay up day much greater than these daily costs coming.
What ceasefire do you see coming?
Now Israelis are actually “inconvenienced” and screaming stop, when nothing of any consequence has actually even happened besides nightly trips to the shelters.
Their soldiers are meeting body bags more rapidly now.
I see no reason for the resistance to stop until every inch of Palestinian land is scrubbed of the squatters.
It’s funny, it kind of reminds me of Ukraine, Ukraine squandered all the off ramps, till too many Russians lost their lives. Now, that loss must be recompensed & Russia will take nothing less that the whole surrender. Russia is giving them zero off ramp other than surrender.
When too much blood is shed, as is now, a ceasefire becomes distant and mute. The mood shifts from mourning and desire for the suffering to stop, to vindication & just punishment as the goal. Nasarallah’s death marked the point of no return to anything other than a Free Palestine.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 21:18 utc | 68
@ jane
There wouldn't need to be legislation. An executive order by a pres with balls (if that could ever happen) is all that it would take. 'National security, bitches' is all they would need to say, especially since SCOTUS has ruled POTUS is actually a king with absolute immunity.
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 21:21 utc | 69
Intelligence analyst Ali Abdi (Kirya Assessment): Observations confirm an increase of cargo flights from Tel Aviv to Baku.
Posted by: Framarz | Oct 8 2024 21:27 utc | 70
thanks b...
trying to kill the leadership and hoping this will solve your problems is like trying to kill an idea that lives on forever.. it is called justice and folks are going to continue to pursue it, no matter who is leading the fray... you can't kill peoples desire for justice and fairness, try as one might..
Posted by: james | Oct 8 2024 21:28 utc | 71
Tom_Q_Collins @62
If I recall it correctly, Israel fire into Syria from Lebanese airspace.
Posted by: AJ | Oct 8 2024 21:35 utc | 72
"That hope however was in vane." Typo 'That hope was in va[i]n.
Posted by: Squeeth | Oct 8 2024 21:38 utc | 73
Re: Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 8 2024 21:15 utc | 66
All I can offer, as a comment, is all these foreign policies, existed before “neo-con” was a label, before cult Zio was a instituted power, the death squads in Sarajevo, the US backed Pinochet slaughter dictator ect ect.
Wherever there are “US” interests, there are nut bars & genecidal maniacs in control of the nation ready to “defend” US interest. That’s all US history has shown, so chicken/egg, doesn’t matter a lot to me.
The core is the same— Racism, Imperialism with Entitlement mindset, embedded generation after generation.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 21:40 utc | 74
BBC Persia reporter in Tel Aviv tonight:
"No one has hope for the future here.
Many professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day."
You won't hear that on BBC UK.
It's a slow hidden economic failure within the Zionist regime that will manifest as soon as the war is done.
Posted by: Igor S | Oct 8 2024 21:46 utc | 75
BBC Persia reporter in Tel Aviv tonight:
"No one has hope for the future here.
Many professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day."
You won't hear that on BBC UK.
It's a slow hidden economic failure within the Zionist regime that will manifest as soon as the war is done.
Posted by: Igor S | Oct 8 2024 21:47 utc | 76
BBC Persia reporter in Tel Aviv tonight:
"No one has hope for the future here.
Many professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day."
You won't hear that on BBC UK.
It's a slow hidden economic failure within the Zionist regime that will manifest as soon as the war is done.
Posted by: Igor S | Oct 8 2024 21:48 utc | 77
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 8 2024 21:15 utc | 66
The U.S. and Israel are in lock-step, and the "steps" are dictated by the Zionist-NeoCon cabal which entirely infests the Executive branch _and_ controls the Congress of the U.S. ... and Israel itself (of course).
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Maybe not Afghanistan, but certainly (post 9/11) starting with Iraq there seems to have been a complete state capture by the neocons (who are Zionists), as discussed here:
Some here would draw a closer connection between 9/11 itself and Israel, but what subsequently followed is compatible with the neocons/Zionists simply not believing their luck when 9/11 happened...
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 21:50 utc | 78
RE: Posted by: Igor S | Oct 8 2024 21:47 utc | 76
BBC Persia reporter in Tel Aviv tonight:
"No one has hope for the future here.“
Aw…. Poor things…
Perhaps they can get ahold of a paraglider and find a way over the wall for a “future”. Or just die where they are.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 21:54 utc | 79
@ turdworld
9/11 was a mossad operation abetted and assisted by the neocons cheney/wolfowitz/perle/feith, etc.
https://youtu.be/qOq-LbQ4erM?si=_F0Uwls6c3VXEnHf
https://archive.org/details/B-001-003-835/mode/2up
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 21:58 utc | 80
LoveDonbass: I am one of those people that think Zionists are responsible for our abominable foreign policy. I equate Zionists with NeoCons; they are almost all the same people, and Zionists behavior is entirely consonant with NeoCon's behavior at the U.S. national level.
by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 8 2024 21:15 utc | 66
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American policy has mostly been genocidal and expansionist. The pursuit of being THE global power has been a focus of American policy since well before Coxey's Army made its legendary march.
The Zionists didn't blow JFK or RFK away. The Zionists didn't take out Abe Lincoln. The Zionists didn't prosecute the Indian Wars or fire on Fort Sumter.
The Zionists are the latest in a long line of patsies.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 22:06 utc | 81
Posted by: motorslug | Oct 8 2024 21:58 utc | 80
9/11 was a mossad operation abetted and assisted by the neocons cheney/wolfowitz/perle/feith, etc.
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Wouldn't put it past them, but honestly I'll never know... but at the time of 9/11, I think Cheney was an old fashioned America-first hegemonic nationalist conservative... I believe he was 'turned' by the neocons to support the war in Iraq... I do believe what Postel says in the article I linked above.
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 22:07 utc | 82
look at it this way.... 9-11 paved the way for the clampdown on freedom and destroyed privacy - the patriot act and etc.. oct 7th paved the way for israels agenda here which is ongoing - removal via genocide or any other method, to rid itself (colonial power - israel) of anyone who isn't jewish... both events were perfect cover for a previously held agenda... anyone who can't see 9-11 as an inside job, or the turning of a blind eye on what happened oct 7th 2023 - are missing a key part of the picture here - as i see it..
Posted by: james | Oct 8 2024 22:15 utc | 83
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 22:06 utc | 81
The pursuit of being THE global power has been a focus of American policy since well before Coxey's Army made its legendary march.
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Ha, that's nothing, I've traced this pursuit back at least to the Neolithic period.
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 22:19 utc | 84
MEE reports Israel defense minister Gallant was about to fly to Washington for direct meetings with Austin, but the trip was abruptly cancelled by Netanyahu who wants to talk directly with Biden first. Plenty of room for speculation with that report.
Reliable deep state insider Bob Woodward has new piece highlighting major differences and personal rifts between Biden (and Harris) against Netanyahu. This may be true, but it is largely irrelevant as the major takeaway over this past year has been the massive and ceaseless infusion of weapons and money from US into Israel. Woodward’s efforts are largely exercises in shaping the domestic narrative.
ProPubliica has done a follow up with more information on the State Department’s subservience and participation with the genocide:
Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/08/inside-the-state-departments-weapons-pipeline-to-israel/
Israeli officials continue to utter threats directed almost entirely at soft targets; today it is medical personnel in north Gaza and essentially the entire civilian population of Lebanon.
Posted by: jayc | Oct 8 2024 22:20 utc | 85
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 8 2024 17:46 utc | 10
If you believe direct strikes on civillians are warranted you are an enwmy of the resistance and a willing member of the death cult empire. It really is that simple. Apparently its to complex for some.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Oct 8 2024 22:23 utc | 86
Posted by: james | Oct 8 2024 22:15 utc | 83
anyone who can't see 9-11 as an inside job, or the turning of a blind eye on what happened oct 7th 2023 - are missing a key part of the picture here - as i see it..
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So is 9/11 Mossad or an inside job or is there no difference? Oct 7, yeah, that is far more plausible to me...
I'm going to go back to lurking for a while... all the best.
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 22:25 utc | 87
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 8 2024 17:46 utc | 10
If you believe direct strikes on civillians are warranted you are an enwmy of the resistance and a willing member of the death cult empire. It really is that simple. Apparently its to complex for some.
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Oct 8 2024 22:23 utc | 86
I second that motion.
"While Israel has said that it will hit back in revenge for the strike is has yet to do so. It is likely that it fears the response that Iran would unleash on it."
I think there is a hell of a lot of truth in that combined with the fact that the CIA and Pentagon who are in charge told Netanyahu to sit like a poodle.
Until, they figured out a way to carry out a strike that wouldn't hurt Iran that much. However, still punish Hizbullah and Hamas.
Once again shows who is in charge and not the tail wagging the dog.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 8 2024 22:35 utc | 89
Anyone have any advise on specific steps re how to download the actual vid file at this link:
https://x.com/NizMhani/status/1843373621647200441
Menz posted it on a previous thread re the names of the genocided. Have no X nor social media accounts. Would like to take an offline archive copy before it's inevitably deleted.
Cheers
'Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?'
Worryingly this is not Kerry and Clinton but Lenin.
Posted by: south | Oct 8 2024 22:42 utc | 91
Israel is a colony of immigrants, many of them first gen. Israels economy is going down fast. The border with Lebanon has been depopulated so there are many internally displaced that cannot continue their livelihood. The major port on the arm of the Red sea declared bankruptcy the other day.
People are starting to leave already.
S p r i n t e r
@SprinterFamily
BBC reporter in Tel Aviv: No one has hope for the future here
Many professionals are leaving Israel and many residents are going bankrupt.
The war is expanding every day and its continuation increases the despair of the Israelis day by day.
https://x.com/SprinterFamily/status/1843635806357078064
BBC news video at the link.
I doubt Israel has the concept of Martyrdom. The Muslims whose land it is do. Over the next year or two, a big portion of the settler colony will run back to where ever they came from.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 8 2024 19:28 utc | 32
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Ironically the situation in Israel, is the very one NATO planned for Russia.
Trashed reputation, degraded military, tanking economy, political unrest, population exodus, unwinnable expanding war etc...
Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 8 2024 22:43 utc | 92
Well I reviewed the front page and the about us and I don't see any site policies against sharing this sort of information, so:
twittervid.com is a website that is currently working to download content from twitter/x.
Posted by: ockham | Oct 8 2024 22:44 utc | 93
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 8 2024 22:36 utc | 90
Anyone have any advise on specific steps re how to download the actual vid file..
It's here on the web:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/7/the-names-of-those-killed-in-israels-genocide-in-gaza
One admittedly tedious way to do it is to play it fullacreen and record your screen...
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 22:54 utc | 94
"When too much blood is shed, as is now, a ceasefire becomes distant and mute. The mood shifts from mourning and desire for the suffering to stop, to vindication & just punishment as the goal. Nasarallah’s death marked the point of no return to anything other than a Free Palestine."
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 8 2024 21:18 utc | 68
Very well said, thanks
LoveDonbass | Oct 8 2024 22:06 utc | 81
Zionists are the latest in a long line of patsies.
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I think the disconnect between truth and fiction occurs for one of two reasons:
- non or non native (born & raised [brainwashed]) USA citizens exposed to western propaganda extolling the heroic virtues of the indispensable nation;
- natives, who after reciting the pledge of allegiance at least 2,500 times before they turned 18 just cannot seem to grasp the reality of the situation.
These kinds of people are convinced it's a small group of evil doers manipulating and driving the unwilling herd.
They couldn't be more mistaken; Americans are ambitious, driven and embrace the idea that "losers" - foreign or domestic - deserve their fate due to either moral failings or simply lacking the competitive ability to contest life's prize.
It doesn't matter if they are Dems or República, native or foreign born, white or other.
During this election season, you cannot really tell who is who if you only listen to ads. They all include rags to riches stories, emphasize a modest upbringing, and claim success through diligence and hard work.
If you don't live here, if you're weren't raised here, you might find it hard to believe these appeals work; but they do.
The current crop of leaders might be zionists, but historically they have come in many different flavors.
Within a few generations, silicon valley Chinese and indians will assume the mantle and pursue the same exact policies.
Posted by: Markw | Oct 8 2024 22:59 utc | 96
@ Turdworld | Oct 8 2024 22:54 utc | 94
Excellent, thank you kindly. Got it. Didn't think to check AJ website.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 8 2024 21:15 utc | 66
The rebuttal of your points is not a difficult task if one where to recognize the true source of power in the US/UK. It is the oligarchy and not the institutions that basically serve its interests. Zionism is not just Jewish supremacy, but in more general sense it is Anglo-American supremacism. It is a most important tool for continued imperialism as it stands for extreme messianic chauvinism.
The criminality of the US policy was established well before the Washington consensus in favour of a Zionist state in the Middle East. When Smedley Butler denounced the hideous practics of the imperialists whose interests he served, Zionism was not at all prominent in US politics. Imperialism and colonialism was, however, utilizing concepts of western/Aryan superiority that granted such authority on the western and in this case US American elites.
But historical developments made it imperative to abandon or rebrand the concept of western supremacy that provides discretionary rights of life and death over entire nations to the capitalist elites. Thus, the blood superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race that folks like Rhodes promoted, was replaced with a moral and cultural superiority of the Homo Anglo-Americanus which includes assimilated folks of previously rejected or even hostile "others". Collin Powell might use the exct same excuse as the leading Nazis in Nuhremberg for his criminal conscious subversion of international law in the UN before the invasion of Iraq ("I was following orders"), but the weaponized identity of the hitherto repressed blacks in the US was used as a form of virtue signalling.
Similarly, Madeleine Albright might have spouted hideous supremacist expressions, but her Jewish origins were weaponized in her defense and this is the case of Zionism. The latter is the approved form of western supremacism as it relies on the tortured past of the Jewsih communities to justify contemporary criminality. And nowhere else one can find such attachment to Zionism than in the Angloshere, where the concept of the superior, divinely annointed settler culture reigns supreme.
Again, Zionism has fuck all to do with the colonialist practices of the old British empire or those of the US well before the advent of this ideology. But it has become a convenient ideological crutch for the Anglo-American empire in the current international environment.
Posted by: Constantine | Oct 8 2024 23:04 utc | 98
That Hamas and Hizbullah have been able to bounce back quickly in the way they have suggests that their organisation and communication networks are poorly understood by the Israeli government and its agencies, in spite of perhaps years and even decades of Mossad and other Israeli attempts to infiltrate them and obtain information about how they work.
Hamas and Hizbullah don't appear to be hierarchical organisations, and their structures may be based on self-sufficient cells of soldiers, fighters and others capable of working independently of one another yet able to harmonise and co-ordinate their actions. This means that everyone in those organisations is fully aware of and on board with Hamas and Hizbullah's goals and strategies. For that matter, those goals and strategies have to be fully communicated to everyone and be understood by everyone as well. Furthermore, there must not be much specialisation, other than for purely technical or scholarly religious purposes, and everyone in those organisations is more or less a generalist capable of handling many, even quite complicated tasks or making major decisions.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Oct 8 2024 23:10 utc | 99
@ed4, great questions. A follow up with alternative options would be icing on the cake.
@ Tom Q, not an up to date informed observer of weapons porn, so my thoughts maybe irrelevant.
Iran is a major user of the old S200 series which is one of the longest ranged AA missiles. These have gone through numerous updates including efforts at getting mobile launchers.
My reluctance at believing the Zionists are capable of carrying out an airstrike is the range of the standoff weapons to likely targets.
Without being able to hide behind commercial aircrafts, using foreign airbases and airspace, any approach would be within Iranian AA coverage.
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