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Mohammad Reza Zahadi, deputy commander of the Quds Force was eliminated .
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden said to call Netanyahu ‘a f**king liar’ after Israeli troops entered Rafah
[IsraelTimes] According to new book from journalist Bob Woodward, the US president yelled at Israeli PM for having ‘no strategy’ for operation, said Israel was perceived as a ‘rogue state’.
Senile, yes, and he may have no idea what’s going on, but he still remembers everyone he hates.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 2024-10-09 01:20 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Irish Alzheimers. You forget everything but the grudges.
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/09/2024 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  If he forgets, he has a PhD to remind him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2024 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  A doctorate in Education is the equivalent of the A.A. granted graduates of a junior college.
Posted by: S MAI || 10/09/2024 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  he still remembers everyone he hates.

Justice Clarence Thomas to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2024 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Why we pay Bibi the big bucks: Netanyahu and Biden, joined by Harris, talk for 50 minutes
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/09/2024 14:59 Comments || Top||

#6  ^^^
That must have been excruciating for Bibi!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/09/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ probably lowered his !Q by 5 points.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2024 16:09 Comments || Top||

#8  A doctorate in Education is the equivalent of the A.A. granted graduates of a junior college.

Surely, S, that is not always true.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 16:22 Comments || Top||

#9  According to the Times of Israel, the White House wishes to point out:

White House ‘can’t confirm’ report Biden called Netanyahu a ‘f**king liar’
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 17:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Woodward's "stories" are always Regime-driven dick-swinging propaganda, never verifiable
Posted by: Frank G || 10/09/2024 18:23 Comments || Top||

#11  “Bibi, you’ve got no strategy,” responded Biden, according to Woodward,

if that had followed with something like 'and I know you do because you people are always scheming' and with his convenience store accent:
I'd go with Verified.

wrote that the US president said Netanyahu “doesn’t give a damn” about Hamas and “only about himself.”

Ummmmm...thanks for that massive weight off my mind, Brandon. Did he just use Hamas in the Royal We?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/09/2024 18:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Just remember the Biden State Dept has been funding Bibi's opposition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2024 19:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Since Joe was incapable of determining falsehood in his own affairs for year before relegation to the basement, , this dog don’t hunt.
Posted by: Alpha2c || 10/09/2024 21:01 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Tunisia’s President Saied wins second term in landslide victory
[IsraelTimes] Incumbent Kais Saied gets 90.7% of votes, but only 28.8% of eligible voters cast ballots in election critics say was tainted by crackdown on opponents, with rival Ayachi Zammel in prison.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 2024-10-09 01:19 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  DONK election tactics
Posted by: Craise Whelet4935 || 10/09/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't give them ideas.

Oh, wait....
Posted by: Bobby || 10/09/2024 14:15 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
No elections before reforms in Bangladesh: Muhammad Yunus
[GEO.TV] In a major development, Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has refused to give a timeframe for elections before electoral reforms in the country.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner was appointed the country's "chief advisor" after the student-led uprising that toppled ex-premier the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated...
in August.

The 84-year-old microfinance pioneer is helming a temporary administration, to tackle what he has called the "extremely tough" challenge of restoring democratic institutions.

"None of us are aiming at staying for a prolonged time," Yunus said of his caretaker government, in an interview published by the Prothom Alo newspaper.

"Reforms are pivotal," he added. "If you say, hold the election, we are ready to hold the election. But it would be wrong to hold the election first."

Hasina's 15-year rule saw widespread human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killings of her political opponents.

More than 600 people were killed in the weeks leading up to her ouster, according to a preliminary United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
report which said the figure was likely an underestimate.

Her government was also accused of politicising courts and the civil service, as well as staging lopsided elections, to dismantle democratic checks on its power.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No elections before reforms?

So, never?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/09/2024 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  And likely not after, either.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/09/2024 14:10 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sweden prepares to ban cousin marriages
[X] Good. That’ll reduce the frequency and severity of birth defects. Britain should do the same.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  it is so gross
they will just ignore it mostly
the sharia courts will let them
Posted by: Anon1 || 10/09/2024 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I get the strange feeling that there's going to be a religious revival in the Norse countries....and it won't be Christianity but a return to the Norse gods. Norwegian troops have already started that with their "Til Vahalla!"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/09/2024 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  "Til Valhall!"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/09/2024 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  What did people do before railroads and most people lived and died within 20 miles of where they were born?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/09/2024 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't keep them from graping the locals, how they going to keep them from diddling their cousin?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/09/2024 12:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Happens every time a country wants to be ‘pure’, unfiltered, and left alone!
Posted by: Kofi Stalin2068 || 10/09/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  That still won't make the native swedes any smarter.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/09/2024 21:16 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
UN chief warns Netanyahu that blocking UNRWA would be 'catastrophe'
[GEO.TV] United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
said on Tuesday he has written to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him that draft Israeli legislation to prevent the UN Paleostinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from working in the occupied Paleostinian territory would be a "catastrophe."
Oh well. Guess we’ll all suffer. Or not, as the case may be.
"Such a measure would suffocate efforts to ease human suffering and tensions in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, and indeed, the entire Occupied Paleostinian Territory. It would be a catastrophe in what is already an unmitigated disaster," he told news hounds.

In July the Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that declares Unrwa a terrorist organization and proposes to sever relations with the body. Israeli leaders have accused Unrwa of collaborating with Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Lions of Islam in Gaza.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  UN chief warns Netanyahu that blocking UNRWA would be 'catastrophe'

For the globalists' plans against the Jewish state.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/09/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Guterres is not a friend of Israel, the West, or anyone that doesn't agree with his worldview promoting authoritarianism.

Russia and China are okay, however.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/09/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, it will likely cut out the graft being paid to the UN, so he will loose his cut.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/09/2024 14:09 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq to repatriate 700 nationals from Rojava camp
[Rudaw] The Iraqi government plans to return nearly 700 nationals from the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) which houses the families of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) fighters, a spokesperson for Iraq’s migration ministry said on Tuesday.

Ali Abbas told Rudaw that these Iraqi nationals will be brought back to their country in the coming two days.

Iraq has repatriated around 10,000 nationals from the camp; however, 18,000 remain, according to the spokesperson.
A good time for a generational cleansing.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at the camp in Hasaka province since the military defeat of ISIS in 2019. The camp has been described as a humanitarian disaster and a breeding ground for terrorism by security experts.

In July, Iraq repatriated 150 families from the camp. Most of the repatriates live in al-Jada rehabilitation camp in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. al-Jada prepares the individuals for reintegration into their communities and then return to their places of origin.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 2024-10-09 01:55 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas recruiting new fighters: group’s leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal
You stand ‘em up, the IDF’ll kill ‘em. Teamwork cleaning out the shallow end the gene pool.
[GEO.TV] Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said the Paleostinian group would rise "like a phoenix" from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war with Israel, and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons.

"Paleostinian history is made of cycles," Meshaal, 68, a senior Hamas figure under overall leader Yahya Sinwar, told Rooters in an interview.

"We go through phases where we lose deaders (victims) and we lose part of our military capabilities, but then the Paleostinian spirit rises again, like the phoenix, thanks to God."

Meshaal, who survived an Israeli liquidation attempt in 1997 after he was injected with poison and was overall Hamas leader from 1996-2017, said the group was still able to mount ambushes against Israeli troops.

"We lost part of our ammunition and weapons, but Hamas is still recruiting young men and continues to manufacture a significant portion of its ammunition and weapons," said Meshaal, without providing details.

Meshaal said he saw no prospects for peace while Netanyahu's government is in power.

"As long as the (Israeli) occupation exists, the region remains a ticking time bomb," Meshaal said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11144 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  then the Paleostinian spirit rises again, like the phoenixlemming
Posted by: Craise Whelet4935 || 10/09/2024 9:52 Comments || Top||


Hamas's armed wing says Al-Aqsa Flood operation last year 'preemptive strike' against Israel
[GEO.TV] Hamas's armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades said that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 last year was a "preemptive strike" against Israel.
And how did that work out for you?
"The strike of the (Palestinian) resistance (on Oct 7) was preemptive as the (Israeli) occupation aggression reached a dangerous level," said Abu Obaida, the Hamas military spokesperson, in a televised speech on the first anniversary of the Hamas attack against Israel, reported Anadolu.

He also emphasised that Al-Qassam Brigades will continue to confront Israel "in a long, extended and painful war" as long as the Israeli aggression continues.

"A year has passed and we are still fighting in an asymmetrical battle a criminal enemy that doesn't hesitate to commit all crimes," Abu Obaida added.
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Oct. 7 Anniversary: Hamas Leader Wants ‘New Fronts’ of Jihad
[X]

[PJMedia] To all those delusional individuals who still think that Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and its Gazook supporters will ever agree to peaceful arbitration, think again. In characteristic form, a Hamas leader just called for an expansion of Jihad at the international level.

Hamas, with the financial incentivizing of the Paleostinian Authority and the support of the majority of Gazooks, plans to wage terrorism on Israel until it is completely wiped off the map. Oct. 7, as horrific and deadly as it was, presents a preview of what Hamas would like to do to all Israelis. As the latest refutation of idiotic Westerners’ claims that giving Paleostinians more land and money will make them stop fighting, Memri reported that a Hamas leader has ambitious plans for expanding jihad ("holy war" in Islam) on the international level as the "duty of Jihad."

Khaled Mashal,
…also in our archives spelt Khaled Mashaal
leader of Hamas abroad, delivered an Oct. 7, 2024, address aired on the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i state media al-Jazeera Network. Memri provided a translation, and as usual Hamas is entirely open about its genocidal goals. Mashal said, "Our losses are tactical, whereas our enemy's losses are strategic. This is a fact. Our losses are tactical — pain and death, which is martyrdom." Moslems refer to eliminated faceless myrmidons as deaders.

"We are suffering, but it is all for the sake of Allah," bragged Mashal. "Today, we are making tremendous and painful sacrifices, but they will lead to great horizons, inshallah." Islamic holy texts encourage the killing of non-Moslems, especially Jews. "The enemy is losing its strategic path, and is accelerating its certain annihilation. It has lost on all levels. In addition, all Moslem and non-Moslem nations, throughout history, had to pay steep prices," Mashal added.

This is an interesting point, because Islam has been spreading for centuries by weaponizing war, rape, torture, and terrorism. In fact, Oct. 7 is the anniversary of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto, a great victory for Christian forces against invading Moslems, now commemorated in the Catholic Church as the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (to whom the Christians prayed). Thanks to Lepanto’s fighters, Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
was saved. Islam has been the same for over a thousand years; always trying to take over Christian and Jewish nations by violence.

Mashal eagerly declared, "The resistance axis has joined us, and we are thankful for that, but today, the rest of the forces of our nation need to do two things: They should open new fronts for the resistance. This is the duty of Jihad. The second thing is that we need to open new political and legal fronts. We should persecute this entity on the international level." So much for the pro-Hamas United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
’ assertions that if Israel would give Gazooks much of their land, including Jerusalem, peace would prevail.

And as for the "two-state solution," so touted by the Biden-Harris administration and others, that was tried. Jordan was arbitrarily created as an Arab state out of land that rightfully should belong to Israel, and Jordanians promptly launched war on Israel in 1948. Giving Arabs the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip also just provided yet another base for terrorist operations. As a different Hamas leader said last year, the faceless myrmidons are prepared to commit the Oct. 7 atrocities "again and again" to annihilate Israel.

Mashal said, "Jihad by money is great, but it is no longer enough. We want Jihad with weapons and the [sacrifice] of lives. We should open additional fronts. The enemy is fighting us everywhere, and we should fight it the way it fights us." When faceless myrmidons state genocidal goals, believe them.

Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Chevron suspends work on expansion of Leviathan gas field due to the escalating war
[IsraelTimes] Operator of Israel’s offshore reservoir halts infrastructure plans until April 2025; construction was intended to boost production for export and domestic supply.
I guess all those eager European customers will have to go without, while Israel meets home needs — and war fighting needs — first.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11147 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now is the Lebanon beach assault start of a preemptive capture of Lebanon's maritime gas region?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2024 9:47 Comments || Top||




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Wed 2024-10-09
  Mohammad Reza Zahadi, deputy commander of the Quds Force was eliminated .
Tue 2024-10-08
  Ahed Almaqid, head of @UNRWA 🇺🇳 Operations in Gaza and a senior H×mas member, was eliminated
Mon 2024-10-07
  Iran grounds all flights through Monday morning for ''operational restrictions'', but nothing happened
Sun 2024-10-06
  IDF Targets Hezbollah Facilities in Southern Beirut
Sat 2024-10-05
  Hezbollah's Head of Communications, Muhammad Rashid Sakafi, was eliminated
Fri 2024-10-04
  Hashem Safieddine and his Family and Senior Hezbollah Officials Targeted in heavy IAF airstrikes on Dahieh
Thu 2024-10-03
  IDF says it struck Hamas command centers embedded in disused Gaza schools
Wed 2024-10-02
  Elimination of Muhammad Ja’far Qasir, the Head of Unit 4400, which Oversees the transfer of Weaponry from Iran to Hezbollah.
Tue 2024-10-01
  Iran launches missiles at Israel
Mon 2024-09-30
  New Hezbollah Chief likely will be Hashem Safieddine - kin to Nasrallah
Sun 2024-09-29
  Israel eliminated Hassan Khalil Yassin, who replaced Hassan Nasrallah hours ago, and others - the list keeps growing
Sat 2024-09-28
  Nasrallah titzzup!
Fri 2024-09-27
  Israel kills Hezbollah drone chief in Beirut, rockets fly at north as truce rebuffed
Thu 2024-09-26
  Hezbollah targets Mossad headquarters with longer-range missile
Wed 2024-09-25
  Now the chain of command is left with Hassan Nasrallah only who fled to Karbala in Iraq


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