Al Manar live feed for prior 20 hours:
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20:06 Two Civilians Martyred in Israeli Aggression Targeting a Car at Al-Mazzeh, Damascus More..
19:39 Israeli media: Sirens sounded in Al-Manara, Galilee Panhandle
17:58 Iraq’s Islamic Resistance Launches New Attack in Support of Lebanon and Palestine More..
17:07 Hezbollah air defenses launch surface-to-air missiles at Israeli war jets carrying out mock raids over Zahrani area, forcing them to leave Lebanese airspace: statement
17:02 Islamic Resistance fires salvos of rockets at gatherings of Israeli occupation soldiers in Zarit and Shomera settlements: statements
16:22 Israeli strike on the southern town of Al-Kharayeb kills four people, injures four others: Al-Manar reporter
16:21 Al-Manar correspondent reports several Israeli strikes on several areas across Bekaa including Shaath, Drous, Tarayya, Shmistar and Boudai
16:04 Berri to Hochstein: No Changes to 1701, No Presidential Elections Under Fire More..
15:19 Israeli Killing Machine Continues on Day 29 of Aggression on Lebanon More..
14:41 Hezbollah fighters prevent Israeli soldiers from evacuating troops injured by previous attack near the Lebanese border town of Markaba
13:31 Israeli media: Casualties as rockets fired from Lebanon land in Ayelet HaShahar
12:56 Sirens sound in Nahariya, Acre, Haifa and Krayot: Israeli media
12:55 Israeli media reports Hezbollah ballistic missile was fired from Lebanon at northern ‘Israel’
12:12 Israeli media: Sirens sound in Ramot Naftali in Upper Galilee
12:11 Sirens sound in Misgav Am and Metula in Galilee Panhandle: Israeli media
11:54 Israeli media: Hezbollah is not on a downward trajectory and we observe its achievements
10:44 Hezbollah Downs Israeli Hermes 900, Repels Hostile Aircraft, Strikes Enemy Gatherings and Sites More..
09:58 Israeli artillery shells towns of Taybe and Khiam: Al-Manar correspondent in south Lebanon
09:52 Ziv Medical Center says received 15 Israeli soldiers who were evacuated from scene of the battles at Lebanon border
08:57 Israeli media: Rocket sirens sound in Galilee

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 17:39 utc | 303

‘Flagrant Violation’ – Israel Demolishes UNIFIL Observation Tower in Southern Lebanon
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/flagrant-violation-israel-demolishes-unifil-observation-tower-in-southern-lebanon/

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 17:46 utc | 305

“I think a full strength IDF armor division has 300 Merkavas. We’ll see how many the 91st loses over the next couple of days.
Barflies – anyone want to make a guess ?”
Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 17:14 utc | 299
So it sounds like they have about 1200 tanks or more up north. I last heard they had four divisions positioned.
My guess is 43 before they reconsider their options.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Oct 21 2024 17:49 utc | 307

‘Flagrant Violation’ – Israel Demolishes UNIFIL Observation Tower in Southern Lebanon
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/flagrant-violation-israel-demolishes-unifil-observation-tower-in-southern-lebanon/
Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 17:46 utc | 306
Rabid dogs that must be shot.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 17:53 utc | 309

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 20 2024 21:09 utc | 112
Isreal is just a proxy of monopoly capital of the west. Death to the Anglo American empire is the correct solution.
Posted by: Badjoke | Oct 20 2024 23:21 utc | 153
I agree that the United States must be destroyed but I think it’s wrong to equate “monopoly Capital” with “Western.” We’re not dealing with Western monopoly Capital here but rather with global Capital.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 18:08 utc | 311

Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 14:09 utc | 258
It was exactly what you say – it was not accidental – meeting Sinwar on the street.. The lie was put out straight away, to deflect from the truth. How they got the info where he was, is still matter of speculation, it is possible or likely that they extracted it through torture.
It keep me awake at night to think of the ways the Israelis inflict pain, to torture and kill others who stand in their way. Of their perfidy. The Heart of Darkness comes to mind “O Horror”.

Posted by: fanto | Oct 21 2024 18:10 utc | 313

Isreal is just a proxy of monopoly capital of the west. Death to the Anglo American empire is the correct solution.
Posted by: Badjoke | Oct 20 2024 23:21 utc | 153
Anyway if we are discussing this then I have to go back to the two excellent articles by Diana Johnstone.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/06/the-myth-of-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier-in-middle-east/
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/12/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 18:21 utc | 315

313 – The Lebanese army was probably the weakest of the Arab state armies in the 1948 war, it was almost non-existent when US Marines (one of them the future actor Hervey Keitel) landed in the country, and it pretty much disintegrated along religious lines in the 1975-6 civil war. Never much of a force.

Posted by: Waldorf | Oct 21 2024 18:35 utc | 317

Zero Hedge article:
Seven Israelis Accused Of Giving Info To Iran On Targeted IDF Bases

Posted by: Carl | Oct 21 2024 18:50 utc | 319

Gaza/Lebanon War Day 380/34 Sitrep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zYYiJsSMd4
“Israeli Air Force vs Lebanon Credit Union…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 21 2024 19:04 utc | 321

Oh and by the way, @Ed, I could have respected you if you didn’t tell me I wasn’t a Marxist, I wasn’t a worker and I was a CIA troll.
Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 18:53 utc | 321
But you are one of the unfortunate who think consuming alcohol is some kind of desirable activity.

Posted by: Ново З | Oct 21 2024 19:22 utc | 323

Who Said Americans Have No Dark Sense of Humor?
https://x.com/marwanbishara/status/1848335311559893053
“Secretary of State Antony J [‘I come as a Jew’] Blinken is expected to depart on Monday in a regional effort to bring calm to the region’. Hilarious.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 21 2024 19:24 utc | 325

But you are one of the unfortunate who think consuming alcohol is some kind of desirable activity.
Posted by: Ново З | Oct 21 2024 19:22 utc | 324
Non sequitur. You are not allowed to judge me for what I choose as medication.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 19:29 utc | 327

It must be bad, media has gone total blackout mode. Already pretending it didn’t happen while it is happening.
I feel like all I can do is wish peace for their souls. This. Is. So. Fucked.

Posted by: Rae | Oct 21 2024 19:42 utc | 329

It is very difficult to ascertain Israel’s actual war front status owing to the exceptional levels of military censorship, to say nothing of the outright murder of journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank and even in Israel itself. Also, a paucity of information on outbound emigration of both people and money, real time financial status and most important state of armaments. Some pundits predict that Israel is rapidly moving to an irremediable situation (with others indicating they are already there). US/UK are essentially bankrupt – US sends billions in aide (not one THAAD but two!) which is not sustainable for a country which now spends one trillion in debt interest alone. With accession of BRICS’ emphasis on use of local, non dollar currencies and replacement of the SWIFT system, dedollarization will accelerate at high speeds. Count on serious blow back from the “deplorables” when hyperinflation ensues, unemployment spirals to double digits and public services such as public safety, health care and education erode to exceptional levels of non service. When the big hegemon and the little hegemon are destroying themselves at break neck speed, none of the Axis of Resistance are going to give both hegemons what they most need – World War III which distracts from the horrific war crimes being committed in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Syria; gives opportunity for financial “reset” under the guise of war time economy and pivots to austerity for all. Finally, under a war time footing, civil liberties can be suspended, never to return. Quoting many wise heads – “Be careful what you wish for.”
Posted by: abierno | Oct 21 2024 14:55 utc | 273
Re Arch Bungle @274; Given the very large divide between the Pentagon and the White House, my bet would be on some very deeply buried back channeling between Pentagon, and various high ranking military players in the Axis of Resistance. The Pentagon has repeatedly announced US weaponry,militia status, and other aspects of war readiness have been significantly eroded by political directives: Massive armaments to Ukraine and Israel, woke/vaccine policies resulted in significant attrition of much needed officers, very real issues with leadership policy. Putin, Xi, Kamenei are all aghast at Netanyahu’s butchery, but also aware that Israel is more and more hollowed out. When all countries have high levels of satellite surveillance, little occurs in secrecy except to the public. All major players know the UN is toothless, leaving only back channeling as a means of managing an ever increasingly explosive situation. Blinken/Hochstein/Sullivan are unwilling and unable to exercise any restraint on Netanyahu. They also are beholden to unseen players. They couch their commentary as “protecting US assets in West Asia.” Pentagon knows that those assets will erode sooner or later, owing to some of the worst foreign policy decisions in the history of the US. Again, US is in an obvious interregnum. This is recognized by all senior players in the game. All of this is just speculation but Putin learned considerably in managing Russia’s issues in Chechnya, Georgia. Note the Russian, Iranian and Chinese restraint in addressing the provocations of the hegemon et. al. Given the exceptional levels of weaponry developed by Russia, they have exercised relatively high levels of restraint in both the Kursk incursion and as regards war efforts in the Ukraine. The majority of the Axis of Resistance have deep respect for civilian lives (remember Gerasimov’s efforts against his own soldiers who committed civilian atrocities in Chechnya) which may explain some part of their restraint.
Posted by: abierno | Oct 21 2024 16:30 utc | 292
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I think your words are worth repeating as I think they are a realistic assessment and a positive representation of the viewpoint of Russia, Iran and China and some others. I think Putin et al have a very deep abhorrence for the killing of the innocent and know it can not be stopped by going down the same extemination path.

Posted by: Ново З | Oct 21 2024 19:50 utc | 331

An RAF Typhoon from Akrotiri just “went dark” near the Syrian border, flying in Turkish airspace ENE of Iskenderun. As chance would have it, a KC2 tanker is flying just north or the Syrian border, heading east.
That’s just gone dark as well.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/zz338#37a58d2d
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 21 2024 19:41 utc | 329
What does this mean? I am not knowledgable.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 19:54 utc | 333

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 19:54 utc | 334
In the link you posted, instead of ‘going dark’, it looks like the tanker landed.

Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 21 2024 20:13 utc | 335

https://www.unz.com/runz/the-total-madness-of-the-state-of-israel/
<< Although those bloodthirsty statements by Smotrich and Sharon were generally directed towards the Muslims and Christians of the Middle East, Europeans have also certainly been the intended targets of such destruction, especially of the nuclear kind. For example, during the Second Intifada of the early 2000s, widespread suicide-bombings by Palestinian militants seeking freedom for their Occupied West Bank placed Israeli society under severe stress, and Prof. Martin van Creveld, one of the country’s most respected military historians, declared that if Israel were on the brink of falling, it would destroy all of Europe’s cities as an act of purely spiteful vengeance: "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under." This doctrine under which a collapsing Israel would use its nuclear arsenal to destroy most of the world is called “the Samson Option,” and was widely publicized in a 1991 bestseller of that title by renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. But although that book received a great deal of attention both at the time it was published and in the decades since then, when I read it a few years ago I discovered that one of its most surprising elements had never been discussed in any of the various reviews and summaries I had read in the media. Like most observers, I had always assumed that Israel had developed its nuclear arsenal as a trump card that it could play against the neighboring Arab states if the latter ever seemed on the verge of gaining the upper hand in conventional military terms. Indeed, during the severe military setbacks of the 1973 war, Israel did exactly that, and its threatened nuclear annihilation of Cairo and Damascus helped coerce the Nixon Administration into providing the unprecedented flow of military equipment that allowed Tel Aviv to turn the tide of battle and emerge victorious. But Hersh’s book devoted nearly twenty pages to the remarkable fact that during the 1980s the primary target of Israel’s nuclear and thermonuclear arsenal was actually the Soviet Union. He explained that the Israelis surreptitiously gained access to the American reconnaissance information that allowed them to effectively target Moscow, Leningrad, and the other most important Soviet cities for annihilation. This nuclear strike capability was intended to powerfully deter the USSR from providing too much support to its Arab allies that were Israel’s immediate adversaries. During those years, the Soviets were at the peak of their military power, possessing the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal, and given that Israel is so small geographically I found it quite shocking that it would have developed a serious battle plan to attack and destroy the largest country in the world. Furthermore, according to Hersh the Israelis were also making great efforts to develop miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be packed into an ordinary suitcase, which Mossad could then easily smuggle into the USSR or any other country deemed potentially hostile, with no possible means of defense against such an unobtrusive method of delivery. Over the years, many agitated commenters across the Internet have often claimed that Israeli embassies all around the world probably contain nuclear weapons that could be detonated in a crisis, thereby destroying the capital cities of every major country, and I’d always dismissed such notions as unreasonable paranoia. But after rereading portions of Hersh’s 1991 book and considering the recent exploding pager attacks, I’m now not so sure about that. These sorts of extremely bold or extremely foolish attitudes still seem to persist among current Israeli leaders. Enraged last year by what he regarded as insufficient Russian support after the Hamas attack, a top Israeli political figure went on RT to declare that after Israel destroyed Hamas, it would then target Russia for severe retaliation, an astonishing threat to make against the country possessing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. >>

Posted by: burak | Oct 21 2024 20:15 utc | 337

teri 325 – The scale of Israeli atrocities against defenseless, harmless, starving Palestinian civilians reminds of shades of the Bataan death march…….go for water get bayoneted, beg for food get shot…..the level of evil displayed by IDF forces in the field in shooting and killing civilians dying of thirst is pathological…………..is the ICC paying attention……..

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 21 2024 20:28 utc | 339

Decided not to post earlier on Hezballah being ‘accused’ of having infrastructure (banking) under a hospital in Beirut, as I thought they would not strike there. Now they struck somewhere off the entrance to a hospital, presumably the one mentioned previously :
Graphic
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/78520
Something Baerbock said.

Posted by: Ornot | Oct 21 2024 20:48 utc | 341

it would then target Russia for severe retaliation, an astonishing threat to make against the country possessing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
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Posted by: burak | Oct 21 2024 20:15 utc | 338
Yeah! after 20 min of a nuclear zionist attack against Russia, some dozens of MIRV with half of megaton each will convert Occupied Palestine in a glass radiative desert; sorry for the Palestines, but Russia will not allow a second strike against them. Try to use Iron Dome against this….
Of course you can be a sadic proto-suicidal maniac when you want, but be very careful with the Bear.

Posted by: Dave | Oct 21 2024 21:18 utc | 343

The Israelis are.starting an invasion of Lebanon in the middle of the night? Does darkness give the attackers any advantage?

Posted by: Lysias | Oct 21 2024 21:33 utc | 345

Yes, the miscalculation of the century. On the part of Iran and its puppets. Or are you saying Iran has no puppets?
Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 21 2024 21:16 utc | 343
The child-murderers that you defend, have made bigger miscalculations and have the biggest puppet in the world, and that is their biggest problem, hybris, and you will see what that bring to them in the future.

Posted by: Dave | Oct 21 2024 21:40 utc | 347

Posted by: Dave | Oct 21 2024 21:40 utc | 348
Yes, I got your point the first time. But Iran has puppets and has miscalculated. So why not blame Iran for a change, just to get the full picture?

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 21 2024 21:44 utc | 349

316 Tichy. Regarding Diana Johnstone article in Consortium New which you referenced:
Her article seems to come down to that the policies of the Wolfowitz gang of neocons now running US foreign policy are in the interest of that clique and not of the United States. Defining the interests of the US as that of the American citizens, the neocon doctrine of world dominance was never in the interest of the majority of US citizens whether or not they were aware of this.
So with all its wordiness, I can’t see that her article is saying anything new
Except that I didn’t know that Israel as a “US aircraft carrier” was started by a military person who meant this literally. I always understood the aircraft carrier as a metaphor — the Israeli state a US military asset. She talks about the fact there are no actual military bases in Israel. But the entire country must be a military base as it receives billions of $ of US money. A very long article saying little imo

Posted by: Lavieja | Oct 21 2024 21:46 utc | 351

Hey all…first post here from a longtime lurker. This whole thing in the Holy Land might be getting a bit worrisome to some of the more frequent commenters here. Seems like after the Sinwar killing that many of the Hamas fighters are just giving up. Surrendering? What’s up with that? I thought this war was going to be Israel’s demise?

Posted by: MikeMikeTango | Oct 21 2024 21:46 utc | 353

israel is a total criminal enterprise, a mafia-terrorist nation-state,
that must be sanctioned, isolated, and then abolished by the International Community
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1848397147130974635
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Picture of the first Israeli tanks in Adyseh on the Lebanese border. Soon, they will be met by the resistance, as any invader should be.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1848424022507229402
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Israel talks about “tunnels under al-Sahel hospital” in #Beirut. Is it preparing to repeat the #Gaza scenario by destroying hospitals under different lies and excuses?
Israel talks about “Hezbollah damaging the Lebanese economy” when Israel has destroyed dozens of villages in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and over +100 buildings in the suburbs of Beirut—an authentical Criminal mind and narrative
https://x.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1848456479335952502
Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @PhilipProudfoot
How are we all supposed to just sit and pretend it’s normal and fine that Israel bombed every hospital in Gaza and is now moving on to bomb hospitals in Lebanon?
I feel insane. How is the world allowing this war on medics? How can we watch this happen again? How?

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 21 2024 21:50 utc | 355

Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 15:59 utc | 282
*** They are, however, not responsible for the murder of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.
Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 15:25 utc | 275
Especially since today’s Jews have no connection to the Jews of Jesus Christ’s era whatsoever.***
Genetically, most do not …. but that doesn’t alter the fact that they totally endorse, follow and implement the theology of the Jewish sect which insisted upon inflicting the aforementioned murder.

Posted by: Cynic | Oct 21 2024 21:57 utc | 357

Jonathan W 350
Iran has not miscalculated. The US has miscalculated that Russia will not protect its ally, Iran , when it has not protected its friend Palestine.
We’ll have change Russian Roulette to American Roulette, a suicidal gambling pastime of Armageddon Chicken.
Whatever blows yer skirts up. I do genuinely believe that a billionaire’s life must be intensely boring.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 21 2024 21:59 utc | 359

these are not idle words by Iran, either
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/34354
🇺🇳🇺🇸 Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeed Iravani, in a letter to the UN Security Council: Biden’s statement about his knowledge of the timing of the Israeli attack on Iran are worrying.
The US will bear full responsibility for its role in inciting and facilitating any Israeli aggression against Iran
https://t.me/ResistanceTrench/34358
Resistance Trench
⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱 We all know that the UN is a useless organization that cannot even protect its own troops. Here, Iran’s Permanent Representative warns America that in any possible Israeli attack on Iran, America will be considered a partner in this attack (because Biden in Germany officially approved the attack on Iran) and American bases in the region will attacked same like Israeli targets in the occupied territories.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11299
Middle East Spectator
— ❗️🇮🇱 NEW: The communications systems at Haifa port have been hacked, broadcasting messages in Arabic warning of an upcoming missile attack on the port – Kann
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1848400910654845044
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#Israel says workers at #Haifa port have received a message on their mobile phones that the port will be bombed and everyone should evacuate.
Reliable or not, it shows the ability to intercept and disrupt the Israeli communications system. If accurate, this is a big deal.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 21 2024 22:08 utc | 361

Canadians’ Demand For Change Could Work To Israel’s Benefit
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/canadians-demand-for-change-could-work-to-israels-benefit
“As Poilievre and his Conservative Opposition continue to rise across the country on domestic issues, they have not stumbled in their support for Israel’s right to security in this ongoing war and the threat that Iran continues to pose to the region and the world.
He should be recognized as the most unconditional supporter of Israel that Canada has seen since former Prime Minister Stephen Harper,* and I would argue right now in the world.”
*Hey Jude! (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUh5RpvvtFo
Canada’s PM Harper serenades Bibi at Jerusalem dinner.
Is political leadership in both US and Canada to be determined by which accomplice can suck Zionist genocide state cock better? Don’t vote for either.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 21 2024 22:16 utc | 363

The Libertarian Institute brought the following article:
https://mailchi.mp/libertarianinstitute/this-week-at-the-libertarian-institute-olhmx6gn9t-5845688
– 51.000 soldiers have deserted in 2014 so far.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/about-51000-ukrainians-have-deserted-armed-forces-this-year
– Details about the Israeli plans to attack Iran:
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-694-leaked-us-docs-give-details-on-israeli-plans-to-attack-iran
– Here are the israeli plans for Gaza:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-21/ty-article-magazine/.premium/at-the-prepare-to-resettle-gaza-conference-wishful-thinking-made-way-to-concrete-plans

Posted by: WMG | Oct 21 2024 22:51 utc | 365

I’m having a hard time following things. The Main Stream Media keeps on telling the world that Israel is winning the war. Yet many of the alternative commenters (like Scott Ritter) go as far as to say that this war will be Israel’s demise. I think many of the commenters here agree with the latter sentiment. But then I see how the Israelis are running all over Gaza, barely opposed. They killed off practically the entire Hamas hierarchy, and did the same to the Hezbollah hierarchy. Now we have reports of Hamas fighters simply surrendering in small groups. What’s giving here? Looks like the Israelis are moving forward to the big win!

Posted by: MikeMikeTango | Oct 21 2024 23:09 utc | 367

to teri, exile, miachael72: thanks for posting facts. I just read in zero hedge that the Izzyhelliess have bombed Beirut again including massive strikes near hospitals. The images of the Gaza refugee families burned alive in their tents are etched in my brain. Izzyhell is a rabid dog pack or a bunch of sharks in a feeding frenzy….blood blood and more blood. Sadists. There aren’t enough words.. Rabid dogs are put down.
To Jane and others. Well some south American countries have pulled their ambassadors and ordered Izzyhell embassy “people” to leave their countries. I will say Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela for sure. I think there are others. These countries also refuse to trade with Izzyhell. If more of the BRICs would do this it might have an effect eventually. Bribem’s plan to gift $20billion from the seized Russian assets to Ukraine is being noticed. But, as has been noted, too many countries play both sides against the middle..Turkey. Brazil…
Can’t write more. Cheers

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Oct 21 2024 23:18 utc | 369

Nobody cared about the official loss, supposedly in exercises, of a growler crew from the Eisenhower?
“The jet that went down belonged to Electronic Attack Squadron 130, or VAQ-130, based out of Whidbey Island.
The squadron, also known as the “Zappers,” had returned from a combat deployment with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower where they saw major action against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.”
So good news for the US on the link below and just karma in exercises or something went slightly different from propag… news?
https://www.twz.com/air/ea-18g-growler-scored-its-first-air-to-air-kill

Posted by: Newbie | Oct 21 2024 23:19 utc | 371

CrazyTrain: no, I think you misunderstand. I’m just really confused. I always take the MMM’s representations with a grain of salt. But Israel is basically running all over Gaza, laying waste to everything, busting up all those massive tunnels; killing all the Hamas hierarchy. From a neutral perspective, it would seem that the Palestinians aren’t doing so well. Looks the same with the Hezbollah organization. I really don’t see anything that tells me that the Israeli’s are taking a beating or are in any jeopardy to loosing this war.

Posted by: MikeMikeTango | Oct 21 2024 23:27 utc | 373

This caught my attention:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-navy-aviators-found-dead-191554176.html
Two navy airmen dead … the “story “ is their plane crashes in a very remote area of mountainous terrain neat Mt. Washington … they just happened to have been back stateside after participating in operation prosperity retardian … yeah, that’s the ticket. How convenient that the crash site just happened to be in some of the most remote and inaccessible country in the US.
Not like there would be an witnesses other than grizzly bears. Just a real tragedy!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 22 2024 0:06 utc | 375

I really don’t see anything that tells me that the Israeli’s are taking a beating or are in any jeopardy to loosing this war.
Posted by: MikeMikeTango | Oct 21 2024 23:27 utc | 374

Let me help you see something.
– Iran managed to hit Tel Aviv with some 200 ballistic missiles, the best answer given by Zionist Apartheid regime to that operation is couple of “leaked documents” demonstrating their “power”
– Netanyahu who promised settlers living in occupied North Palestine, a return to their “homes”, do not dare get back to his “home” in Qeysariya.
– IOF who reported that they are done in Gaza and now turn focus on Lebanon, struggle to get back to Jebaliya for the 3rd time with remarkable casualties
– the legend of Apartheid Regime’s multi-layer defense system and Iron Dome is transformed to, Iron Roof, Iron Canteen and Blind Arrow
– 70% of settlers have left Haifa
– Precision Missiles and Roaming Drones are targeting Tel Aviv
– the birth of a true legend, Yahya Sinwar, by Zionist Media, has provided new blood to Axis of Resistance
hmmm … did I forget to mention the latest rumors?
A 40k multinational quick response force awaiting the order to march in and liberate Palestine.

Posted by: Framarz | Oct 22 2024 0:44 utc | 377

Been a rough day.
Several recent posts have helped.
Thanks for taking the time and making the effort.
Palestine, Soul of Humanity!

Posted by: simon crow | Oct 22 2024 1:01 utc | 379

Regardless of whether October 7 was a trap or not, Hamas walked right into it.
Don’t do that. A miscalculation.
All the splendid victories listed by Framarz sound like so much BS about some Mahdi-led rapid reaction force with 40000 men. It is going to be a long wait, unless you mean how Israel is going to resettle Gaza in the not so distant future.
Just look at what is happening now instead of listing some pinpricks which are inevitable in every conflict and empty promises. Even the Iranian missile strikes were reported to have killed one Palestinian, no-one else. In the fog of war do NOT fall for your own propaganda.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 22 2024 1:07 utc | 381

@368
See US experience in Vietnam from 1965, won every engagement for 8 of 10 years until tossed ignominiously in 1975.
See Afghanistan 20 years to be tossed out with live coverage of people hanging to transport planes!
You need to expand your sources of reality.

Posted by: paddy | Oct 22 2024 1:14 utc | 383

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 22 2024 1:52 utc | 385
^^^ Or at least, that’s what I got from the book “A Bright Shining Lie ” by Neil Sheehan.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 22 2024 1:53 utc | 385

Recommended:
Reading Resistance: First Draft Of A Book
I’ve been ‘editing’ a book of the words of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah, the Ayatollah, et Allah, et cetera. This is for my reference more than anything, as I keep having to find these speeches, interviews, and segments from various censored crevices of the Internet and physical books. So I thought I’d put them into one book. You’re (literally) free to have a look.
Here’s the 250ish page book as either a PDF or an EPUB.
https://indi.ca/reading-resistance-first-draft-of-a-book/

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 22 2024 1:59 utc | 387

@ Tichy
Exactly and my real name is Netanyahu and I am here to help. Anything else?

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 22 2024 2:20 utc | 389

Copium

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 22 2024 2:32 utc | 391

Here’s the 250ish page book as either a PDF or an EPUB.
https://indi.ca/reading-resistance-first-draft-of-a-book/
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 22 2024 1:59 utc | 388
This is brilliant work. Thanks for making it available.
I suspect it has the potential to become a reference for future resistance movements.
god knows there will be many of those to come …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 22 2024 2:55 utc | 393

60,000 people were evacuated in Haifa which has a population of nearly 300,000. The reason was the blazing fire in the surrounding bush areas, which was suspected to have been started by arsonists. Russia and Turkey rushed to help. What didn’t they bomb the city as soon as they had the chance?

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 22 2024 3:07 utc | 395

I really don’t see anything that tells me that the Israeli’s are taking a beating or are in any jeopardy to loosing this war.
Posted by: MikeMikeTango | Oct 21 2024 23:27 utc | 374
So, the fact that Eilat port is a complete wreck and Haifa is in flames doesn’t particularly give you pause for thought?
This is fine.

Two questions for you, my one post wonder, and I’m sure you and your sock-muppets will never, ever get around to answering them:

1. Why is the ‘most powerful army in the middle east’ still playing whack-a-mole in Gaza getting it’s tanks and men BLOWN TO HELL on a DAILY basis ONE YEAR LATER?
2. Why is why is the ‘most powerful army in the middle east’, one year later unable to penetrate significantly into Southern Lebanon despite apparently having taken to “then entire senior leadership of Hezbollah”?

For extra credit:

3. Given the hundreds of casualties already sustained in southern Lebanon: When the IDF/IOF begins to move further towards the Litani, assuming their loss rate remains more or less the same, how much of the IDF will be left by the time they get to Beirut – ASSUMING THEY GET TO BEIRUT AT ALL?
4. Assuming they get to the Litani, and given that in Gaza the resistance fights in and among the occupation forces, and knowing that Hezbollah carries out the same tactics on a bigger scale, how much will be left of the IDF/IOF within a year of occupying South Lebanon?
5. Why has the army with the most interconnected and concentrated network of air defense in the world been totally incapable of stopping a missile swarm sent all the way from Persia? Moreover, why is that same army unable to stop drones and missiles from a poorly funded resistance movement, despite aid from the entire Western Empire?
6. Why is the IDF force-drafting ultra-orthodox Jews into the military if they aren’t taking heavy losses?
7. How has the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea, essentially stopping traffic to Israel via that route harmed israel? To what degree?
8. Has the closure of tens of thousands of izzraeli businesses had no impact on the sustainability of the occupation? To what degree?
9. Has the flight of hundreds of thousands of skilled specialists from Occupied Palestine impacted the occupation economy? To what degree?
10.What impact on the israeli occupation economy has the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of izzraeli settlers had? Is this benefitting the occupation?

And when you’re done answering those I have another page of 20 for you and your doomer friends to level up on.
We’re all inclined to believe the big and strong will simply smash the weak and poor to the ground in a twinkle of an eye and that will be the end of the story.
And yet, why is that not happening in Palestine and Lebanon?
Why is it so difficult for the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire?
What’s the holdup? it should have been over by November 2023.
Something doesn’t add up here. Perhaps the Empire is a paper tiger?

Pay no heed to the man behind the curtain …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 22 2024 3:24 utc | 397

Alastair Crooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6E3eywKk0
“Resistance escalates, Netanyahu degenerates.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 22 2024 3:26 utc | 399