[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hits out at his British counterpart Keir Starmer, telling the Daily Mail newspaper that his "misguided" government was "sending a horrible message" to Hamas with the recent decision to suspend dozens of arm export licenses to Israel.
"After the October 7 Hamas massacre, the previous British government was clear in its support," says Netanyahu, referring to then-premier Rishi Sunak’s Tory government. "Unfortunately, the current government is sending mixed messages."
Not mixed at all, though Sir Keir’s party likes to pretend for the rubes.
Netanyahu adds: "They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain’s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organization that carried out the October 7 massacre." Just like the good old times of the British mandate!
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A Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan has released a Flyer for a Memorial Service being held Sunday for Fadl Abbas Bazzi, one of the Hezbollah Terrorists that was Eliminated today in Lebanon, with it appearing that some of Bazzi’s Family live in or around Dearborn.
… Why is an International Terrorist Organization which has caused the Death of Hundreds of U.S. Servicemembers, able to holding a Memorial Service within the United States?
[GEO.TV] President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... on Wednesday categorically rejected the elections for the legislative assembly of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK), asserting that these polls were no substitute for the Kashmiri people's right to self-determination.
Provincial elections are being held in the occupied territory for the first time in a decade.
The occupied Moslem-majority region enjoyed a special status of partial autonomy until 2019 which was then revoked by the far-right Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party's government.
IIOJK's special semi-autonomous status — constitutionally enshrined power to control its affairs — had meant that only those who descended from residents of the territory in 1934 could vote and own property.
The polls are being held after the Indian Supreme Court, last year, upheld the government's decision and set a deadline of September 30 this year for local polls.
President Zardari, talking to a delegation of migrants colonists from IIOJK — residing in Pakistain since 1989 — led by Uzair Ahmed Ghazali at Aiwan-e-Sadr, emphasised that such elections were unacceptable to the people of Kashmir and called upon the international community to hold the Modi government accountable for ongoing human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations in IIOJK.
He further urged the need to take concrete steps toward conducting a plebiscite in line with relevant United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council Resolutions.
Welcoming the delegation, the president condemned the legislative assembly elections in IIOJK, terming them as part of India's broader strategy to consolidate its illegal occupation of the region.
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Shit in the tunnels leach fields
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It's supposed to be, so that you will LEAVE. Permanently. Emigrate.
Say, anyone know any immigrant-friendly countries that will take them, and that have navies with massive sealift capabilities that can handle populations at the level of millions? Hey, I've got an idea!
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Citing 2014 numbers, the Israeli military said Hamas spent around $30 to $90 million on their Gaza Tunnels. That's a decade ago. And the building and tunneling has not stopped.
$30M - How many toilets would that have bought? A lot, right? At $90M, they could have bought the whole population bidets.
[GEO.TV] US Senator Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he would file legislation seeking to block the sale of offensive US weapons to Israel, citing the toll on civilians of Israel's campaign against Hamas.
Sanders, an independent Socialist who caucuses with Democrats, said he intended to file Joint Resolutions of Disapproval next week.
He’ll never forgive Israel for not being a Stalinist kibbutz writ large, like the one where he spent a summer vacation back in his youth — not that he made any impression on anyone there at the time
But it wasn't at risk after the October 7th attack...
[GEO.TV] Hamas has accused Israel of orchestrating a new series of electronic device explosions in Lebanon that have resulted in 14 deaths and over 450 injuries today, Al Jazeera reported.
In a statement, Hamas condemned what it described as ongoing "Zionist aggression against the Lebanese people," noting that these attacks, which occurred just a day after explosions from pagers killed 12 people and injured 2,800, "now threaten the security and stability of the region."
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the middle east is unstable because islam demands death of jews. if islam accepted a jews right to life there would be peace. all over a 6000 year old bowl of porridge?
To be fair, the fanatics are not so single-minded. They also demand the deaths of the Christians, the unbelievers of all sorts, and of the wrong kind of Moslems and the insufficiently pious of the right kind of Moslems.
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[REGNUM] On September 17, a mass explosion of pagers occurred in Lebanon. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, more than 4,000 people were injured in different parts of the country, at least 11, including one child, died from their injuries.
Also, according to officially unconfirmed reports, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was wounded, which was considered clear confirmation of the close ties between Lebanese Hezbollah and official Tehran.
Responsibility for the incident was placed on Israel, which had “re-soldered” a batch of pagers delivered to Lebanon in advance, sealing a small explosive charge in the batteries.
At the appointed hour, the detonators went off, triggering a chain of micro-explosions. At the same time, the version of a “high-precision cyber attack” against the devices, which was spread in the first hours after the incident, did not stand up to criticism and fell apart.
The "pager attack" has taken the confrontation between the "Axis of Resistance" and Israel to a new level. Under these conditions, Iran, Hezbollah's main ally, will have to not only restrain the movement from retaliation, but also somehow ensure a "common response" to all previous attacks against the "Axis".
REACHED THE ENEMY
Pagers may seem like a thing of the past, but they remain a backup method of communication: in 2024, there are still more than 2 million devices in use worldwide.
Not long ago, Lebanese Hezbollah also began using pagers as a means of operational communication on a permanent basis.
According to its leader, this was supposed to complicate the work of Israeli intelligence services in “knocking out” high-ranking figures of the movement.
The use of this method became especially relevant after the “Tehran incident,” which resulted in the death of the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh ; the Israelis tracked his exact location via the WhatsApp messenger.
However, the switch to “secure” devices has backfired on Iran’s Lebanese allies.
A batch of Taiwanese pagers, purchased on order from Hezbollah, played the role of a time bomb and allowed the Israelis to simultaneously “reach out” to a significant portion of their opponents at minimal cost.
HEZBOLLAH'S LOSSES ARE MINIMAL
Despite the public outcry that followed the incident, which resonated around the world, Israel managed to achieve its goals only partially, sowing panic in Lebanese society and among the leaders of Hezbollah, who clearly did not expect such a large-scale attack.
At the same time, from the point of view of other objective indicators, the attack was ineffective. In particular, it is known that only one high-ranking functionary of the movement, Deputy Secretary General Naim Kassem, was injured as a result. He received minor injuries.
However, other high-ranking figures, including Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, were not harmed at all.
There are also questions about the damage inflicted on the group's rank-and-file fighters. At the moment, Hezbollah reports only a dozen of its fighters killed "as a result of Israeli aggression." No details are provided about the wounded.
Considering that representatives of the movement's information bloc, as a rule, are not inclined to understate losses - and, moreover, try in every way to emphasize the sacrifice of Hezbollah members - the main damage from the Israeli attack, apparently, was suffered by the civilian population of Lebanon.
Hezbollah security officials also said many fighters were saved by their vigilance: They noticed the batteries of the new Taiwanese pagers were constantly overheating and "got rid of them in advance."
However, given the confusion that reigns in Lebanon after the “pager attack,” this thesis cannot be confirmed or refuted.
HIDDEN MOTIVES
The US, apparently, was not fully informed about the Israeli special operation. Why did Israel need to carry out such an ambiguous "action", which also resulted in criticism from the UN and damaged relations with the US administration?
Perhaps the most obvious goal is to escalate tensions in the Lebanese-Israeli border area. Israeli security officials have made it clear that the “center of gravity” of the Israeli military operation is shifting from the Gaza Strip to Lebanon, and that a full-scale operation against Hezbollah is a matter of time.
However, Tel Aviv still lacks grounds for launching an offensive.
That’s certainly one perspective, though not the correct one.
Not only the Israeli General Staff, but also representatives of the special services and many opposition parties are against the "Lebanese adventure".
Considering that Hezbollah has already promised Israel “unprecedented retaliation” for yesterday’s attack, the Israeli cabinet may well use this as a justification for its “proactive offensive” into Lebanese territory.
Another goal is to disrupt Iranian-American talks on normalizing relations, the prerequisites for which have been visible in recent months. Tel Aviv is interested in Iran and its closest allies remaining in the category of “America’s enemies” for as long as possible.
In a sense, the plan actually worked. Tehran does not believe that Israel escalated without US sanction, and therefore the degree of hostility towards Washington will certainly increase after the "pager attack."
Finally, the Israeli attack has once again put Iran in an awkward position – postponing the repeatedly announced “retaliatory strike” has become even more difficult.
The poor darlings. One carefully doesn’t think about what surprises await the Mad Mullahs and the IRGC should they do more than talk at this juncture.
In addition, official Tehran is increasingly under pressure from the leaders of key proxy groups, demanding that the Israelis be punished “quickly and demonstratively.”
Moreover, Iran will have to increase the power of its strike in proportion to the damage that Israel has inflicted on it during this time. Refusal to escalate is fraught with the loss of authority within the "Axis of Resistance", and agreement - with the breakdown of a peaceful settlement with neighbors in the region.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. How perfectly dreadful for the would-be regional hegemon.
In this sense, the Axis’ response will largely determine the vector of further development of the regional confrontation.
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Now the paranoia begins. Everyone whose pagers did not injure them will be suspected of working for Israeli intelligence. "Ahmed, why was your pager in a bucket of water when it exploded?"
No one can be trusted. Leadership will be paralyzed. Old feuds and resentments will be settled with accusations of betrayal. Blood will flow.
Israelis are the masters of the pre-emptive strike. Those 4000 wounded Hezbollah will not be major participants in any offensive any time soon. And if the Israelis go into S.Lebanon, those wounded will be sidelined as well.
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[Regnum] The Russian Presidential Administration has not seen any reports about the start of joint preparations by the United States and Ukraine to open a second front in Syria against Russia. This was stated at a briefing on September 18 by the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.
"I have not seen such reports. I have no information on this issue, so I cannot say anything specific about it," the Kremlin spokesman said in response to a question on the matter.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 17, a source reported that Kiev is actively training terrorists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) in new drone production technologies. According to him, this work is being carried out in coordination with the United States in order to open a new front against the Russian army in Syria in the coming months.
On September 10, the Turkish newspaper Aydinlik wrote that Ukraine, with the support of the United States, held talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria to involve militants in operations against Russia. It was noted that the delegation of the Kiev regime called on the terrorists to release radical Chechen and Georgian militants from prison, for which it promised the radicals 75 drones.
Later that day, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Kiev regime was maintaining contacts with terrorists, using them to commit terrorist attacks against Russians. According to her, Kiev had already become a new international terrorist group, backed by the United States and Britain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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