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[REGNUM] On July 8, 1709, five kilometers from Poltava, besieged by the Swedes, the renewed army of Peter I met an old enemy - the army of the Swedish king Charles XII. Being in the minority, the Swedish command underestimated the capabilities of the Russian army and expected a repeat of the quick victory, as happened at the beginning of the Northern War, near Narva.
As the reader is well aware, the hopes of the Swedish command were not justified. On the Poltava field, Russia won the main victory in the Northern War. This war made an empire out of Russia, and Sweden lost its historical chance for geopolitical power.
There are many myths surrounding this event. Some of them are born of current politics, others appeared due to attempts to simplify historical events. IA Regnum selected the most popular and harmful for historical self-awareness.
Myth one. The Russian army was not capable of victories before Peter the Great's reforms
In popular science sources, the pre-Petrine army is often presented as deeply archaic and incapable of victory. There are regularly colorful comparisons between the Russian army at Narva and the Russian army after the reforms - at Poltava: riflemen in multi-colored caftans with thick beards are replaced by orderly ranks of line infantry recruited from recruits.
The feudal militia of local cavalry was replaced by dragoon and hussar regiments; instead of dozens of calibers of artillery, the Russian army acquired modern guns of standardized calibers.
This extreme comparison is colorful, but far from the historical truth.
Regiments of the new order, linear tactics, dragoons and hussars, one of the best artillery in the world - all this already existed in Russia before the Tsar-reformer. In his reforms, Peter relied on the legacy of his father - Alexei Mikhailovich.
Peter speaks directly about this in the very first lines of his famous military regulations of 1716: "Because everyone knows how Our Father, of blessed and eternally worthy memory, began to use a regular army in 1647, and the Military Regulations were issued." Further, Peter says that his father's army "was established in such a good order" that it successfully fought against Poland and Sweden and only after his death fell into decline. But we should not forget that Peter came to power after the overthrow of his elder sister, Princess Sophia, whose reign, accordingly, was depicted in dark colors.
Be that as it may, weakened by the Streltsy rebellions and the interregnum, the inconsistency of Peter's first reforms, the old army did not disappear overnight and still managed to fight, sometimes quite successfully. Without the victories at Erestfer (1701) and Hummelshof (1702), the capture of Noteburg (1702), Narva and Dorpat (1704) and, of course, the battle of Lesnaya (1708), the Battle of Poltava would not have happened.
Myth two. Mazepa concluded an alliance treaty with Charles on behalf of Ukraine
In the national pantheon of the Kiev regime, the image of the traitor Ivan Mazepa occupies a special place.
The hetman of Little Russia and the tsar's protégé transforms himself into the sovereign ruler of an imaginary Ukrainian state, on whose behalf he allegedly concluded an agreement with Charles XII on assistance in liberating Ukraine from the rule of the Russian tsar and guaranteeing its independence. The fictitious text of this agreement has flooded the Internet.
Why does the myth that Mazepa almost tried on the crown of a sovereign ruler have nothing to do with historical reality?
Firstly, Ivan Mazepa was the leader of a broad Cossack autonomy within the Russian kingdom and was never an independent ruler or sovereign.
Secondly, at the time of Mazepa's betrayal, the Swedish protégé Stanislav Leszczynski had been placed on the Polish throne. Poland traditionally viewed Little Russia as its lost colony, and, of course, the interests of the Polish ally were much more important to Charles than the personal desires of the Little Russian official.
Thirdly, the agreements between Mazepa and Leszczynski, according to which the lands of Little Russia and Smolensk were transferred to Poland, and Mazepa received the princely title, “giving the right to own” Vitebsk and Polotsk, are well documented in historiography and do not raise questions among historians.
Mazepa's betrayal had extremely personal motives: faith in the power of Swedish weapons, a desire to settle in the new post-war world, and to receive a hereditary princely title.
Myth three. Most of the Cossacks and Little Russian gentry followed Mazepa
In Ukrainian historiography, attempts are being made to present Mazepa’s betrayal as a popular uprising against Russia.
The uprising did take place, but it was directed against the Swedish interventionists and the "Mazepa people". By building a national mythology around the figure of a traitor, Ukrainian historians are betraying the real Little Russian Cossacks, who resisted the Swedes en masse and remained loyal to the Russian Tsar.
Having learned of the betrayal, Peter managed to establish a dialogue with the Cossack elders in a short time, bypassing the Hetman's chancery. Legality was restored, and instead of Mazepa, the loyal Ivan Skoropadsky became hetman, leading the Little Russian Cossacks in the Battle of Poltava.
Mazepa's promised "bread and salt" on Little Russian soil turned into a brutal guerrilla war for the Swedes. Instead of fifty thousand Little Russian Cossacks, the disgraced hetman brought to the Swedish camp only three thousand serdyuks (mercenaries from Poland, paid from the hetman's pocket) and from two to eight thousand Zaporozhian Cossacks. Attracted by the opportunity to plunder and pillage in wartime, the "Mazepa men" were not eager to fight for the Swedes. And they modestly stood by while the Russian army beat the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava.
Myth 4. In the Battle of Poltava, Russia "pelted the Swedes with corpses"
This myth is structurally similar to similar myths about the Great Patriotic War. According to such myths, victory in the presence of numerical superiority always goes hand in hand with great losses.
Peter really did strive for confident victories, and for this he sought not only numerical but also qualitative superiority. On the day of the battle, Charles XII relied on select units - seventeen thousand Caroline infantry and royal cavalry.
Early in the morning they were to break through to the Russian camp and force a battle on their own terms. The Swedish officers counted on the passivity of the Russian commanders.
But the Russian lines met the enemy with coordinated fire and furious counterattacks. The Russian army had about a hundred guns on the battlefield, while the Swedes went into the attack with the support of four field guns.
Peter did indeed concentrate about twice as many soldiers in the Poltava area as the enemy, but most of them never managed to take part in the battle. In the end, the outcome of the battle was decided in a head-on battle, the Russian line infantry withstood the blow of the Swedish veterans and put them to flight.
The losses of the Russian army amounted to one thousand three hundred people killed and about three thousand wounded, with nine thousand Swedes killed. In the Poltava victory there is a place for a strategic plan, tactical maneuver, advantage in artillery, personal bravery and heroism, but no place for "meat assaults".
Myth 5. Peter personally led the troops into battle and was wounded
The fairytale nature of this story is quite obvious, but it stubbornly repeats itself from generation to generation, settles on Internet resources and social networks. Many want to see the first Russian emperor leading soldiers into an attack.
A medieval ruler could afford to give a general order to attack and rush towards the enemy line surrounded by squires. The absence of firearms and quality armor allowed the knight to take moderate risks.
But in the gunpowder era such heroism was impossible for the sovereign.
The complexity of the army's command structure and the dangers at the front had increased greatly compared to previous eras. The appearance of a senior officer at the front of the gunpowder era would almost certainly have deprived the army of leadership.
The story about three bullets is almost entirely a myth. But one bullet did exist. On the day of the Battle of Poltava, Peter's hat was actually pierced by it.
So Peter the Great nevertheless tasted his share of personal risk.
Myth 6. Most of the Swedes were able to retreat and maintain their fighting ability
The best army of Charles XII ceased to exist in three days. Nine thousand dead and three thousand captured Swedish soldiers, including dozens of generals and senior officers, remained on the field of the Battle of Poltava.
The retreating Swedish forces, pursued by Russian cavalry, reached the Dnieper two days later at Perevolochna, in the south of today's Poltava region. The defeated army of invaders was unable to organize a crossing. Only Ivan Mazepa, Charles XII and their closest entourage reached the opposite bank.
On July 11, the once best army in Europe, abandoned by its leaders, numbering seventeen thousand men, surrendered to the Russian nine-thousand-strong corps under the command of Menshikov.
Myth 7. After the Northern War, Sweden became neutral and peaceful
Russia is constantly reproached for remembering its victories. Allegedly, in the civilized world it is not customary to remember military successes. They point out the need to live only in the present and follow the example of such traditionally "neutral" countries as Sweden after the Northern War.
But is Sweden really so neutral? Russia had to fight Sweden three more times. Wanting to regain what was lost under the Peace of Nystad, incited by France and England, Sweden lost control over Finland.
During the Soviet-Finnish War, Sweden sent a volunteer corps of ten thousand people to Finland, declaring that it was not a party to the conflict. In order to provide its territories for the movement of military contingents of the Third Reich during the Second World War and actively supply its military factories with iron ore.
Sweden has finally secured its “neutral status” and “absence of revanchism” by joining the NATO military bloc on March 7, 2024.
[CityJournal] As President Biden’s weak debate performance continues to erode his standing in the polls and the credibility of his reelection campaign, not to mention his presidency, observers may wonder why the Biden team continues to operate as though nothing has happened. Every day brings news of elected Democrats or major donors openly imploring Biden to terminate his campaign. With early voting in some states set to begin in September, time is running short if the party wishes to "swap in" a new candidate at the top of the ticket.
Democratic leaders are in a bind. Biden remains popular with the party’s rank-and-file, who are less concerned about swing-state opinion polls, "electability" questions, or down-ballot considerations than are party insiders, who obsess over these matters. It nevertheless appears obvious to many observers that the president, whose legendary "gaffes" are beginning to look like unambiguous signs of dementia, will eventually have to come up with a dignified way to exit the race. But doing so ahead of his nomination poses significant problems for Democratic Party leadership. After all, the Democrats are fractious by nature—but even more so now. The party includes an extraordinarily broad spectrum of opinion. Some senior members believe that Israel is a pariah state; others are hawkish Zionists. The party includes socialists who seek to end private markets in housing and health care and fiscal centrists who voted against Biden’s economic agenda. The party has built this unlikely coalition on a foundation of minority identitarianism and "inclusion," so representation at the level of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation is a central concern in forming consensus.
...This factionalism is helpful as a means of attracting voters who feel disenfranchised, but much less so when it comes to facing something as contentious as an open convention, which is essentially the proposal being pushed by people calling for Biden to withdraw. An open convention, in which no candidate has secured a majority of votes ahead of time, hasn’t occurred in either party since 1952, when it took multiple ballots before Adlai Stevenson won the Democratic nomination.
If Biden bows out before getting nominated, one can easily imagine a host of candidates emerging to replace him. Even if, as many prominent voices are urging, Biden throws his support to Vice President Kamala Harris, his pledged delegates will be allowed to vote for a candidate of their choosing. Elements in the Democratic Party would prefer other candidates besides Harris, whose own electability is a major question.
...The Biden campaign’s current efforts to tread water, which many find mystifying, may reflect the Democratic leadership’s desire to carry the president over the line to the nomination, only then having him step aside in favor of a new candidate.
Political parties at every level maintain a committee on vacancies to deal with post-nomination absences, which can occur through death, dropouts, or other incapacitating events. According to the Charter and Bylaws of the Democratic Party, vacancies in the national ticket are managed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) itself. The DNC is composed of true party insiders: the heads of all the state parties (and the highest-ranking officer of another gender); 200 other members apportioned by state population; the heads of various labor unions; senior Democrats in Congress; prominent mayors; representatives of "Democrats Abroad"; and so on.
This group, totaling about 500 people, would be called upon by the Executive Committee of the DNC to vote on filling a vacancy on the national ticket. The vote would require a quorum of half the members, who must actually be present to vote. The meeting would, presumably, be held in private, like a papal conclave. The committee members, all party regulars, would be able to pick a new candidate strictly on the question of electability, without regard to fringe opinion.
This scenario is hypothetical, of course, but the Democrats are in uncharted political territory. It is probable that every permutation is being analyzed in the party’s high chambers. Waiting until after the nomination to relieve Biden of his command would sacrifice transparency in favor of apparent harmony, but that may be a trade-off the mandarins are willing to make.
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It's Jill, Hunter, and Obama hanging on. Jill likes the perks of the White House, Hunter doesn't want to give up the money from selling access, and Obama isn't finished fundamentally transforming the country.
#11
Jill Biden is negotiating are pardon deal because as soon as Joe steps down that ship has sailed. A deal would probably include Hunter which is a harder one to swallow because pardoning Joe can be played off as a uniting the country move while Hunter went down for gun charges not for the laptop which is harder.
Perhaps Joe can pardon Hunter on his way out, despite his promises not to do so but assurances must be made.
#12
Joe not only has an outsized ego but also has magical thinking (Trillion$ programs produce lots of jobs but no inflation) and Mitty fantasies (I put together NATO, I put down Corn Pop).
To be sure a lot of politicians have those characteristics (including Trump) but in Biden's case his incompetence and diminishing brain make it way worse.
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What I find funny is a few days ago only Michelle Obama was beating Trump in the polls. Today only Hillary is beating Trump in the polls. The different Democrat factions are all trying to gain the upper hand and I don't think any are getting traction.
A smart politician would wait 4 years until Trump has fixed the country and has been attacked and villified for 4 years and people have 4 years to forget Democrat overreach and horrific economy. That would be a better time for Newsome to run and I think he knows it.
#14
Hunter is leading policy meetings. We can’t have that through January. Joe needs to be canned.
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At least since Obama won in 2008 I've been fascinated by Democrat Party discipline. Pelosi ruled the House with an iron hand. All of the Democrat members always voted the way the leadership told them to vote. I never heard any dissent. Republicans, the Stupid Party, seemed weak and divided. Pelosi, Schumer and Obama always got their way. If indeed there is a "broad spectrum of opinion" in that party, we've seen precious little of it in the past two decades. It would do us all a lot of good if some cracks in this monolith would finally appear.
And I still can't help wondering if the DNC is really the organization calling the shots or if it's Obama or if it is some other shadowy person or organization phoning it in to Kalorama from an even more obscure location. But it would be wonderful if he/she/they finally lost his/her/their grip.
Biden's obstinance is interesting because up until now most of us assumed he was only taking orders from Obama and, if ordered to stand down, he would. The scariest thing was the idea that Biden really was in charge in spite of his cognitive issues. But we still don't know because all of this could be part of some strategy that has yet to unfold. Democrats are full of tricks and this could all just be the latest trick. Let's just hope this is some kind of failure or mistake instead and they have no better options.
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Hunter has become the gatekeeper and openly participating in senior meetings seated next to his father. Already questions are being raised about him receiving possibly classified information. This is a presidency converting to an Imperial kleptocracy because of a feckless political party unwilling to invoke the 25th and lose power. Never was there a clearer justification for immediate Impeachment or removal by the 25th Amendment!
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Ref# 15
Obama was tapped by someone(s). 1st term senators cNt destroy the Clinton machine without powerful backing. That is who is pulling the strings.
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CTH may have hit upon a primary motive behind the massive illegal immigration surge:
"The people behind Joe Biden that used illegal voter registration, subsequent ballot harvesting, and ultimately corrupt ballot counting to install Biden into office, have threatened to veto any legislation that would impede their election fraud operation."
"By now we should all know the essential process being deployed. This is the reason for the open border policies.
The Biden administration (DHS) is not “importing democrat voters.” Instead, DHS is importing people, names, that allows the state fraud process to generate ballots. This is an important distinction.
The migrants will not use the ballots. The DNC harvesters will collect them, fill them out (Team Obama), then the Precinct workers will scan them and count them (Team Clyburn). Illegals don’t need to vote. They only need to exist to create a ballot. "
#19
When the voting returns wildly exceed the 2020 census of adults in key cities/states, that's when they'll force the "what are you going to do about it" moment.
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What they should do is gather up a select group of press and head on out to a vehicle park, have Joe drive up to the crowd, get out, and make some poses in his aviators.
The catch is that the actual driving controls will be for the starboard seat and the actual drive be dressed and situated so as not to be seen from a predetermined camera position.
The Curse of the Helmet was doomed!
A clatter, and suddenly loomed
From out of the sun
Our Great Pilot! As one:
"How articulate, clean, and well-groomed!"
Bicycling. Takes stamina and concentration. Get Joe out to some nice looking bike trails and have him peddle around, smartly dressed, and pull up suave to a group of selected media attendants.
#26
First, Joe still thinks he is full control of his faculties and the only people who could convince him otherwise have no interest in doing so. Second, all the money Biden/Harris has raised can only go toward their election and cannot be used by another nominee. Third, they know Harris would lose against Trump, but they can't replace her without angering the black female vote. The Democrats don't have many options and may choose to run Joe and hope they can squeeze out a victory against Trump.
We just came through Pride Month. Pride parades, celebrations, commercials, and notices were ubiquitous, everywhere, like drag queens. And not just where you might expect them, either.
It seemed nary a crosswalk, sports team, business, or email was unadorned by some form of acknowledgement or touting of the LGBTQ community.
So proud! Couldn’t be any prouder of our gender (whatever it is today) or sexuality!
Because that is what matters, what is really at the very heart of who we are, right? And that’s why they want to make sure youngsters are involved, as well. The younger the better. The younger, the prouder!
Hunter Biden is proud. And therefore defiant. And his dad, the president, claims he is “the smartest man I know.” And who would know better than Old Joe? No wonder Hunter is proud.
Dr. Jill Biden is proud, too. Of her husband. She exclaimed to him (of his recent debate performance) “You answered every question … !”
Well, sort of … and not at all well, but, hey, ice cream and a gold star for the commander-in-chief.
The pro-Hamas students on every campus are also proud. They are in-your-face proud. So proud of supporting the Hamas terrorists that many chanted “We are Hamas!”
NBC was once so proud its slogan was “Proud as a peacock!” It was so proud, in fact, that it spun off a new channel named Peacock. And the Peacock network has shows like “Queer As Folk,” “Queer Planet,” and “TransAmerica.”
All in its “LGBTQIA+ Collection.”
You know who else is proud? Nearly everyone! Muslims, feminists, Native Americans, “educators,” “journalists,” the polyamorous, etc.
Everyone but straight, white, male Christians. And why should they be proud, anyway? The younger ones have been kicked out of the military … and the older ones branded “domestic terrorists.”
No pride for you!
I mean there is only so much pride to go around, right?
I can’t remember, does pride cometh — or goeth — before the fall?
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Pride
Pride (superbia), also known as hubris (from Ancient Greek ὕβρις) or futility. It is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins on almost every list, the most demonic.[39] It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Pride is the opposite of humility.[40][41]
Pride has been labeled the mother of all sins and has been deemed the devil's most essential trait. C. S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."[42] Pride is understood to sever the spirit from God, as well as His life-and-grace-giving Presence.[19]
-wiki
#5
Glad fat people are getting some well deserved respect. Saw some female pop singers on July 4th that would have held their own in a sumo match. I could see one of them tossing salt in the air and catching in a foil bag to season some potato chips.
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Re #3. A bit about pride vs humility...
As a moral virtue, humility keeps a person from reaching beyond himself. It is the virtue that restrains our natural desire for personal greatness and instead, leads us to an orderly, justified love for ourselves based on a true appreciation of our position with respect to God and neighbor. Humility is not only opposed to pride, but is also opposed to inordinate self-abjection. In other words, we are to be humble, but not humble in a sense that we fail to recognize God’s gifts and use them according to His will.
[Jpost] As the war continues into a less intense phase it is worth looking back at the extent of Hamas illegal use of UN facilities, including schools, because it appears systematic and on a large scale.
On Monday, July 8, the IDF said that it had begun an operation in Gaza City targeting terrorists and terrorist infrastructure. UNRWA's headquarters was among the sites targeted. Hamas and other terrorist groups have systematically used UN facilities throughout the war in Gaza. They have hidden in them and used tunnels underneath them, and their armed terrorists have been present at schools, shelters, warehouses, and other UN sites.
It will take time for the full details of how Hamas embedded inside UN institutions to come to light. However, news reports and IDF statements provide a lot of details on recent incidents. It is important to understand this in context.
Hamas has always exploited international organizations and the UN in Gaza. It does this in many ways. It knows that UN compounds and schools are sites that would normally be protected during a war. Therefore, it appears that Hamas views these areas as a priority and has tried to use areas near them, or underneath these sites, as command and control nodes.
After October 7 Israel carried out an intense aerial campaign in Gaza, striking Hamas and other terrorist groups. Israel’s ground operations began on October 27. Then, in February,
…pushed hard by the Biden administration to stop being mean to the poor Gazans…
the ground operations were much reduced in intensity and the IDF withdrew from most of Gaza by April.
This enabled Hamas to return to many areas. It returned in force to Shifa Hospital, for instance, overrunning the hospital with hundreds of terrorists. It also began to operate from within UN schools and sites that had become shelters or even aid distribution warehouses.
At the UNRWA headquarters, it appears that Hamas even took advantage of the rebuilding of the site. Ynet reported that “intelligence reveals that Hamas command and control centers, including UNRWA headquarters, have been rebuilt since December, when forces last operated in parts of the city.” In February, the IDF found a Hamas data center underneath UNRWA's headquarters in Rimal.
Hamas knows that when it hides at schools, any airstrike on the site can be used for propaganda.
On July 6 for example, the BBC reported that “at least 16 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said. Dozens more have been injured.”
The IDF said in response that it had struck a UN-run school in Nuseirat. “Earlier today, based on the IDF’s and the Israel Securities Authority’s (ISA) intelligence, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck several terrorists operating in structures located in the area of UNRWA’s Al-Jaouni school in the central Gaza Strip,” the IDF said.
Hamas knows that in this case, it is likely that it may win the propaganda war because most reports will state that the IDF struck a “school” rather than a Hamas site.
EXAMPLES OF HAMAS USING UN SITES
Let’s look at two months of examples of how Hamas has used UN facilities in Gaza and exploited the UN for cover.
On July 8, the IDF said that it found UNRWA uniforms during searches that it conducted in northern Gaza’s Shejaia.
On July 6, the IDF struck terrorists at the Al-Jaouni school in central Gaza and on July 4, the IDF also said that it “struck terrorists who operated from UNRWA schools in the area of Gaza City – the Alqahirah school in Al-Furqan and the Musa School in Daraj Tuffah.”
In June, the IDF also found that Hamas was using numerous UN facilities. On June 30, the IDF said that a tunnel was found near a UNRWA school. “As part of operational searches of civilian structures converted into terrorist infrastructure, the soldiers raided a UN school that the terrorists of the Shejaia Battalion were using as a hideout and a warehouse,” it stated.
Two days earlier, the IDF said that it targeted “dozens of terrorists who were hiding in UNRWA schools and facilities.”In early June, more terrorists were found at UN sites. On June 7, the IDF said that terrorists were identified at a UNRWA school in Nuseirat the previous day.
Hamas was operating a compound that the IDF said was “embedded” inside the UNRWA school in Nuseirat.Furthermore, the IAF also “targeted Hamas terrorists operating from a container inside the grounds of the Asmaa UNRWA school in Shati.”
Then, on June 4, the IDF also said that it “struck a Hamas compound embedded inside UNRWA’s Abu al-Hilu school in El-Bureij, located in the central Gaza Strip, from which Hamas terrorists operated and planned numerous attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops operating in Gaza.”
Further, in May, the IDF found terrorists in UN facilities. In one case on May 30, the IDF said that a terrorist fired an anti-tank missile from a UNRWA school in Rafah.
“In response to an anti-tank missile fired from a UNRWA school toward IDF troops, the 12th Brigade combat team operated in the school complex,” the army proclaimed.
On May 22, the IAF targeted “a compound located inside a UNRWA school where Hamas terrorists, including an anti-tank missile operative and a Nukhba terrorist, were operating,” the IDF said.
In another incident on May 14, the IDF declared that it carried out a precision strike “on a central Hamas war room commander embedded inside a UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat. The war room was used by terrorist operatives in Hamas’s military wing. The strike was carried out using precise munitions in order to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians.”
This reflects two months of incidents of Hamas hiding in UN facilities, in which the IDF has released statements. These clearly represent only the tip of the iceberg.
Separately, the IDF revealed footage on July 5 showing Hamas attacking civilians who sought “to enter a warehouse where humanitarian aid was stored.”
In another incident, the IDF eliminated Fadi Muhammad Al-Wadiya, a terrorist in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.
Oddly, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), more commonly known as Doctors Without Borders, said that he was a colleague. “Al-Wadiya was executed by an Israeli strike. No proof of any wrongdoing on his part has been shared with MSF,” the group claimed.
In many cases, the UN does not put out statements about how and why Hamas seems to use so many of its sites in Gaza, including numerous schools.
Instead, what UNRWA said on July 8 in a social media post was that “the level of destruction across the Gaza Strip is unfathomable. Houses, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure have been turned to rubble. Around 190 UNRWA facilities have been impacted. At least 520 displaced people sheltering in our buildings have been killed.”
As the war continues into a less intense phase, it is worth looking back at the extent of Hamas’s illegal use of UN facilities, including schools, because its actions in this regard appear to be systematic and on a large scale.
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it appears that Hamas even took advantage of the rebuilding of the site. Ynet reported that “intelligence reveals that Hamas command and control centers, including UNRWA headquarters, have been rebuilt since December, when forces last operated in parts of the city.” In February, the IDF found a Hamas data center underneath UNRWA's headquarters in Rimal.
"We need upgraded wiring, air conditioning, a nice Berber carpet, and some updated 'Death to the Jooos' etchings"
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Pride.
