#4
From AoS a moment ago:
"If you fill in the bubble for Trump, the computer might -- probably will -- also detect a vote for Harris, and discard your ballot as an "overvote."
Look for a tiny mark in the Harris bubble. If you see one, lodge a complaint and demand a clean ballot.
Kathy Barnette @Kathy4Truth
This just happened.
ALERT: Check your ballot *BEFORE* you vote.
Zoom in on the picture below👇🏾
Do you see the tiny DOT next to Harris/Walz's name? 😳
I walked into my voting location this morning like "Norm" on Cheers - everybody knows my name❤️
As I'm chating to the official poll workers who sit right outside the door where you cast your vote, they tap on the desk and show me the attached photo.👇🏾
She says, "When you get your ballot and if you see that little dot," as she pointed to the tiny little "dot" next to Harris/Walz's name, "ask for a new ballot."
"WHAT!?" I gasped.
I said, "Are you telling everyone this as they walk in?"
She said, "We're trying to."
Cynthia Yockey @conservativelez
The way this ballot scam works is that the dot in the box for Harris is covered up if you vote for her, but if you vote for Trump it counts as an over-voted ballot so it be marked as spoiled and won't count
Obviously you can't vote for Harris and Trump for president, so if a ballot already has a little dot marked for Harris, your vote gets tossed."
#2
I am heading to the polls now. I am old school and do not trust empty boxes on street corners, US Postal Service or door knocking ballot harvesters….
#13
Good lord. Thank you thrice, 3dc. That song in NYC is really, really awful! If they were here, Pappy would send them to their rooms as a matter of principle, even though no puns are involved.
#14
I'm working nights atm, so it's going to be a long night and a restless day of sleep tomorrow. Doubt there will be anything untoward on my route to work as I circle around Houston, not go through it. But it is Texas so any truly stupid people are probably going to get shot, except for maybe very central downtown Houston. I really hope this goes well. My job ends in December, one last hurricane is heading our way, we don't need a proto-civil war on top of that.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A homegrown terrorist allegedly tried to blow up a Nashville power plant using what federal prosecutors have referred to as a weapon of mass destruction.
Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee has been arrested for allegedly plotting to destroy the power plant using explosives attached to a drone, prosecutors announced on Monday.
They say Philippi was trying to further his white supremacist goals and believed that blowing up the power plant would usher in a 'New Age.'
'As charged, Skyler Philippi believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent mostly peaceful white supremacist ideology - but the FBI [had] already compromised his plot,' Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
'This case serves as yet another warning to those seeking to sow violence and chaos in the name of hatred by attacking our country's critical infrastructure: the Justice Department will find you, we will disrupt your plot and we will hold you accountable.'
According to a criminal complaint, Philippi told an informant in June about his desire to commit a mass shooting at a YMCA facility located in his hometown.
The following month, he allegedly told another person about the impact of attacking large interstate substations, saying it would 'shock the system' and cause other substations to malfunction.
Later, prosecutors say, Philippi told the informant and an undercover agent he had written a manifesto about his desire to attack 'high tax cities or industrial areas to let the k***s lose money,' using a derogatory word for Jewish people.
In that conversation, he also reportedly spoke about getting into a shooting with a black person from Louisville, Kentucky, and argued that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks 'were an inside job organized by a Jewish person.'
Philippi went on to tell the informants he was previously affiliated with white supremacist and neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... groups: the Atomwaffen Division and the National Alliance.
The two groups have previously targeted racial minorities, the Jewish community, the LGBTQ+ community, government, journalists and infrastructure.
#1
WMD are nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
But Merrick Garland knows this. Remember when the US intelligence community aked the evidence of Iraq having WMD?
Show of hands? Who thinks the FBI created this plot itself, as is its practice?
#2
i really despise the conspiracy theorists that blame 9/11 on "da joos".
it makes me wild with anger
It wasn't an "inside job", it was done by Islamists for their stated intent, and was celebrated by them - it's not like they deny it, it was their greatest victory.
It's such an obvious Muslim Brotherhood propaganda diversion, to blame the victim
That's what they do. That way they can increase Muslim migration and pretend you're all Islamophobic.
it disgusts me that young americans are taken in by this, because it lets the attackers ideology off the hook so it can continue the colonisation project
and btw - building 7? ohhh building 7 fell down no plane crashed into it... well dummies, what is more likely - that secret operatives plugged it all with explosives weeks before in a complex operation?
Or that it caught fire, and had to be brought down, and that firefighters on the ground most likely did that (they do this all the time for unsound burnt structures to prevent them falling on other buildings/people) -- and because comms went down that day it wasn't clearly communicated. I think that is way more likely
#4
Sky8ler looks like the guy that gets beaten by his younger sister, Buffy. He's a blowhard, mostly harmless. Look at how many scenarios are being reported. Doesn't seem realistic to me.
[ShabelleMedia] Two African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... soldiers were killed and a third one injured by an al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... mortar attack Sunday on their base inside the perimeters of Mogadishu’s international airport.
A statement by the head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Mohammed El-Amine Souef condemned the attack on the facility known as the Halane Base Camp.
It’s believed that a 107mm rocket was used for the attack. At least four mortar rounds were reportedly fired during the attack.
"The heinous attack will not deter us and the Somali security forces from pursuing lasting peace and in Somalia," Souef said in the statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. "We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to combat terrorism and build a peaceful and prosperous Somalia."
The statement did not specify the nationality of the soldiers killed, but an AU official told VOA’s Horn of Africa that the soldiers who were killed and the one soldier injured are Ugandans.
"ATMIS extends its deepest sympathies and condolences to the families, friends, and relatives of those who bit the dust and wishes a quick recovery to those injured during the attack," Souef said.
The AU big shotship team later visited the site of the blasts.
The al-Shabaab turban group grabbed credit for the attack.
In a statement posted on one of its websites, the group claimed the mortars killed "white and black officers."
Despite being driven out of Mogadishu in 2011, the group, from time to time, manages to carry out mortar attacks that hit Mogadishu’s airport, which is a base for the AU as well as some foreign embassies.
Al-Shabaab mortars have also targeted residential areas in Mogadishu and have claimed the lives of civilians.
[IsraelTimes] National team set to play France next week in Paris, sparking protests calling for cancellation; local media says demonstrators calmly evacuated by police
Anti-Israel protesters staged a sit-in Monday at the French soccer federation to call for the cancellation of a Nations League game between La Belle France and Israel later this month.
Video footage posted on social media and circulating in French media showed protesters inside the federation’s headquarters in Gay Paree lying on the floor or holding placards with political slogans and Paleostinian flags.
Some protesters also chanted: "No, no, no to the La Belle France-Israel game at the Stade de La Belle France." Really? What a stupid chant. Make it rhyme, at least
The French soccer federation did not immediately respond to a request for comments from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
According to local media, the demonstrators were calmly evacuated by police.
French authorities confirmed last month that the match would go ahead with fans allowed in the stadium after Italia hosted Israel in the same competition without incident despite security concerns.
The November 14 match at the Stade de La Belle France will be played against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which was sparked on October 7 of last year, when thousands of Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led bandidossnuffies stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Since the war began last year, Israel has played all home games and some away games in Budapest’s Boszik Arena after UEFA said playing in Israel was too dangerous.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has close ties with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has long promoted Hungary as the safest country in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... for Jews. Orbán has banned Paleostinian solidarity protests, arguing they present a threat to public safety.
Israel’s match against Italia last month was the first match the country has played outside Hungary this year, including a game against Belgium in the Nations League after the Belgian Football Association refused to host the game for security reasons.
[IsraelTimes] Besiktas says seeking suitable location for match, considered high-risk given Erdogan’s attacks on Israel and its leaders since Hamas massacre in Israel and start of Gaza war.
[Breitbart] A protester tried to take the sidearm of a Berlin police officer as they attempted to shut down a violent pro-Palestine march through Berlin on Saturday, with police now saying they have launched dozens of criminal investigations into the rally.
A pro-Palestine march through the Kreuzberg district of Berlin on Saturday may have been small with an estimated 720 attendees, but its attendees apparently had an outsized dedication to their cause, with police attacked and 36 criminal investigations launched.
Local newspaper Berliner Kurier states police officers at the demonstration were attacked, had glass bottles thrown at them, with eight injured through the night. It is stated “forbidden slogans” were chanted several times — Germany has strict speech control laws compared to many western states, a legacy of its 20th century experience — prompting police to exclude 95 from the march altogether for antisemitic statements.
In cases where police arrested protest participants, other marchers attempted to free their compatriots from police custody, Die Welt reports, creating another flashpoint. Eventually, police attempted to shut down the march altogether in the early evening, before its originally stated end time, with many refusing to comply and having to be “pushed and shoved” by officers to get the point across.
Later that evening, around 35 participants of the original protest gathered again and attacked police when told to disperse. One attempted to snatch “an officer’s service weapon”.
Police said in a press conference about the violence on Sunday that they had launched 36 criminal investigations, including “attempted aggravated theft of firearms” — for the would-be pistol snatcher — as well as physical harm, attacks on law officers, aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner, the use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations, and incitement to hatred.
Relatively extreme expressions of pro-Palestine sentiment have been an emerging phenomenon in the Germany in the year since the October terrorist attacks in Israel. As previously reported earlier this year one such demonstration in Leipzig attended by Greta Thunberg saw a local journalist dispatched to cover the event followed and beaten, it was claimed, by one of the stewards of the event.
Also this year was an attempt to disrupt an annual remembrance event at German death camp Auschwitz, in what was then occupied Poland, by pro-Palestine activists.
A major pro-Palestine protest in Berlin just days after the Israel attack in 2023 which authorities attempted to ban but which saw hundreds take to the streets and riot in defiance of the order led to dozens of officers being injured. The riot followed the firebombing of a synagogue in Berlin the same day and saw 174 arrests were made and 65 police officers injured, with several vehicles burnt out.
#1
a violent hamas support march. Not "pro-palestine". Supporting Hamas.
You could accurately call it "pro-Palestine" if they also called for Hamas to surrender in order to save the civilians. But they don't. Therefore they support hamas.
#2
You understand, Anon1. But they don’t care what figleaf they use for their Jew-hate. Next week or month or year the excuse will be different, but the hatred will be the same.
Sorry Anon1, but those rioters have already received their down payments from Soros and the DNC and are expected to perform their duties.
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Here in Butler County, Ohio, in the exurbs of Cincinnati — former Speaker of the House John Boehner’s old stomping grounds — the poll workers say it has been absolutely calm, with a steady flow of voters. While I was there, filling out a provisional vote because my driver’s license expired last month, four first time voters were cheered by all present. Interestingly, all four were young men.
It was very comforting to me that only an Ohio photo ID, a passport, or a US military photo ID are acceptable in Ohio for voting. It used to be that a birth certificate and a proof of residence were accepted, but clearly they’ve tightened up.
[IsraelTimes] Progressive movements mix anti-capitalist and anti-police messages with antisemitic tropes while diverse far-left causes band together under the anti-Israel banner.
As the ongoing war 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... fuels a wave of demonstrations across American cities and college campuses, protesters are taking advantage of this moment to sound off against Israel, the police, and more.
A field of signage protesting the training complex illustrates the confluence of opposition: "End Genocide in Gaza"; "Cut Ties with Israel" and "Stop Police Brutality." In a show of unity, the signs culminate with "Killer Cops, KKK, Zionists — all the same."
One of the hot spots where the recent protests have met and merged is Atlanta, where opposition to a new police and fire training complex — dubbed "Cop City" by its detractors — has been joined by anti-Israel protesters, who say there’s a deep link between Atlanta’s new Public Safety Training Center and the Israel-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war.
A field of signage protesting the training complex illustrates the confluence of opposition: "End Genocide in Gaza"; "Cut Ties with Israel" and "Stop Police Brutality." In a show of unity, the signs culminate with "Killer Cops, KKK, Zionists — all the same."
The anti-capitalist, anti-police, anti-Israel, and antisemitic agenda, language, and style of the US protest movements are taken out of an enduring political playbook, says Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University near Boston.
"If you are in favor of one progressive cause, you have to be in favor of them all," Sarna says. "The price of admission to extreme progressive circles often is a statement against Israel, against Zionism." The anti-police movement, he adds, has linked itself up with all the other progressive causes.
The phenomenon has spread across the country. "The fight against Cop City and for Paleostinian liberation are both frontiers in the same struggle against the mechanisms of state-sanctioned violence and oppression," reads a statement by student protest organizers at Emory University in Atlanta.
The ongoing military conflict in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led Death Eaters stormed over the border and slaughtered 1,200 men, women, and children in southern Israel and kidnapped 251 to the Gaza Strip. Almost immediately after the Hamas massacre, anti-Israel protest movements sprouted across the globe, including in Atlanta.
US-ISRAELI LAW ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM UNDER ATTACK
The Atlanta activists’ prime target is the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), a center at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Based in Atlanta, the center has organized global law enforcement exchanges for over 30 years. The signature program is in cooperation with Israel.
GILEE has become the connective piece between the anti-Israel and anti-police protests.
Today, signs saying "Stop GILEE," "Abolish GILEE," and "Shut GILEE down" are a familiar sight at anti-Israel and Stop Cop City rallies in Atlanta and beyond. In the eyes of the protesters, GILEE serves as a perfect conduit for Atlanta police to carry out their "subversive" mission — importing militarized policing and urban warfare tactics from Israel into the US and vice versa to control the oppressed of the world.
"US military and coppers train with military and coppers globally in a colossal network of force and violence," reads an essay published by Security in Context, a self-described research network.
A number of Stop Cop City activists barricaded themselves in tree houses, set police cars on fire, attacked officers with Molotov cocktails, and vandalized construction equipment. During a January 2023 raid to clear protesters off the land, one of them was shot by a Georgia state trooper under circumstances that have become the topic of debate.
To date, the state has indicted 61 protesters with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Some face additional charges including vandalism and arson. Several dozen have also been arrested for domestic terrorism. Some human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations, like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have called the charges draconian, disproportionate and overreaching.
The human rights orgs are wrong. Though the proper punishment following conviction of these crimes is a public horsewhipping.
Protest organizers contacted for this article did not return requests for comment. Representatives for GILEE declined to be interviewed.
Opposition against GILEE isn’t new. In 2018, the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace
I would dearly love to know what small percent of that particular population has either Jewish DNA or a Jewish upbringing, and what considerably larger percentage are just cosplaying juices for public consumption…
published a report called "Deadly Exchange." It claims that exchange programs for senior coppers — including GILEE and another program organized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — "promote and extend discriminatory and repressive policing practices that already exist in both countries."
GILEE was founded in 1992 by Robert Friedmann, a professor emeritus of criminal justice at Georgia State. To date, more than 1,300 senior coppers from 25 countries have participated in over 300 exchanges. According to its website, GILEE provides "leadership development programs to law enforcement executives," where participants share best practices in policing and innovative ideas on public safety and homeland security.
"There is no hands-on tactical training" at any GILEE program, Friedmann said in a 2022 interview with The Times of Israel. The GILEE website is clear that the program is not a police academy or a law enforcement agency, and GILEE doesn’t train with the military in the US, Israel, or any other country.
GILEE and the new Atlanta Public Safety Training Center are both focused on increasing police professionalism. The new training campus, as well as global exchange programs like GILEE, are critical investments in public safety, says Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, a GILEE graduate.
Being exposed to different law enforcement agencies in Israel and around the world has helped his department’s leadership "to focus on recruiting diversity into the police ranks, remain apolitical within the organization, and develop a training infrastructure that reflects ethical, community-based policing," Schierbaum says.
Police leaders participating in GILEE exchanges often glean ideas that, directly or indirectly, inspire, inform, or shape their own policies. In 2021, when calls for police reform grew louder, the police department in the Georgia town of LaGrange rolled out a new use-of-force training policy called "Shoot to Incapacitate," which focused on de-escalation and was inspired by a GILEE program in Israel. The policy sparked a nationwide discussion.
Sometimes, the takeaways are less tangible but still powerful. Andrew Senzer traveled to Israel twice with GILEE. The recently retired deputy chief of the Atlanta Police Department particularly remembers his visit in 2021 when he spent a week shadowing an Israeli police district commander in the predominantly Arab village of Abu Ghosh.
"Community policing is critically important for the Israel Police, and it happens under tough circumstances," says Senzer. After all, he adds, "Israel faces existential threats every day, and it has a very multi-ethnic population."
When opposition over the new public safety training center erupted in 2021, and anti-Israel activists joined the fight in late 2023, Senzer didn’t allow himself to get too involved in the protesters’ radical messaging. Putting on his professional veneer as a cop worked for the most part, he says.
"But personally, I was incredulous," adds Senzer, who is Jewish. He says he never thought that blatant antisemitism would be possible and accepted in the United States. He was mostly concerned for the safety of his three college-aged kids.
"It was unsettling. It was frightening," he says.
A HATE AS OLD AS TIME
Much of the language, arguments, and tactics of the anti-Israel and anti-police protest movements are taken "stock and barrel out of the old Soviet Union manuals," says Sarna.
Fascinating.
The rhetoric used by activists and their supporters includes slogans like "the ruling class forces behind Cop City," "the police-military continuum," or "an international system of repression that functions to secure US imperial interests."
Mixed in are centuries-old antisemitic tropes — like the one of Jews being agents and benefactors of international finance. An article in the left-wing media outlet Truthout argues that GILEE and the Atlanta Public Safety Center, through the nonprofit Atlanta Police Foundation, "have an overlapping network of wealthy and corporate backers, some of whom are outspoken in defending Israel" — donors like Jewish philanthropist Bernie Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, an Atlanta-based home improvement retail chain.
As opposed the Antifa/black bloc anarcho-syndicalists, who are funded by an overlapping network of extremely wealthy backers, some of whom are outspoken about attacking Israel.
There’s misinformation and disinformation, and often, the framing justifies the narrative. For example, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) writes in an undated report titled "Bigotry and Brutality in Foreign Police Training" that "[a]mong other things, GILEE has taught that officers should inspire fear by ’racking’ their firearms when they unholster them, which is a common tactic that Israeli officers use against unarmed Paleostinian protesters."
To those unfamiliar with Israeli firearms policy, this may seem like intimidation tactics. Yet it is a fact that police in Israel carry their handguns with a loaded magazine and an empty chamber, requiring them to rack the slide as they draw and point the weapon. The reason behind the practice, known as "Israeli carry," is safety — to prevent an accidental discharge.
BAD ACTORS
The story doesn’t stop in Atlanta, and it doesn’t stop with GILEE. It has gone national and global. "Free Paleostine" and "Stop Cop City" have become synchronized battle cries at rallies from New York to Los Angeles and wherever police plan to build new major training facilities.
According to Sarna, there’s increasing evidence that the money for the protests comes from governments or individuals "who are looking to stir up dissent in the US, undermine American society and implement a system change."
In Atlanta, most of the protesters charged with domestic terrorism were from out of state, and some from other countries such as Canada and La Belle France, according to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.
Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Commentary detail how an opaque network of activist groups and shell organizations is used by bad actors in China, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and some Arab countries to fund and control antisemitic and anti-police protests in the US.
In July, Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence in the US, issued a statement saying that "Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of the ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza... posing as activists, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters."
JEWISH INSTITUTIONS HUNKERING DOWN
The long-term effects of the connected protests are unknown, but the current impact is real.
In Atlanta, Jewish and Israeli institutions — from synagogues to schools to diplomatic missions — are on increased alert. Many have "hardened the security of their facilities, hired more security personnel and requested active threat training," says Brian Davis, director of the Secure Community Network (SCN) in Atlanta. SCN is the official safety and security organization for the Jewish community in North America.
The number of events where Jewish institutions had to engage with local, state, or federal police has more than tripled since 2022, says Davis, in Atlanta and nationwide.
According to city officials, the costs for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center have increased by $19 million due to heightened security measures, litigation, and a spike in insurance rates. Protesters have destroyed about $10 million worth of construction equipment and other property across metro Atlanta.
Atlanta Police Chief Schierbaum says most of the protests have been peaceful and legal.
Define most in this context, please. Ditto peaceful and legal.
But the joint response to those that weren’t peaceful helped his department hone its collaboration with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies as well as corporate security, he says. "I’ve seen us coordinate at a very high level," says Schierbaum.
Over the next few weeks, a smooth-running security cooperation may be crucial. The city is preparing for another wave of protests as the war in Gaza continues, the outcome of the highly charged presidential elections could lead to unrest, and construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center comes to completion.
Schierbaum remains undeterred. "We will cut the ribbon in December and make sure the center’s operations are in no way stopped or detoured."
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says an explosive device planted by terror operatives exploded near a humanitarian aid convoy in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, wounding six children at a nearby hospital.
According to the IDF, the convoy was enabling the evacuation of patients and staff from the Kamal Adwan and al-Awda hospitals to other hospitals in northern Gaza. It was also bringing humanitarian aid to the hospitals.
“As the convoy passed by the Kamal Adwan Hospital, a report was received from the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the detonation of an explosive device, only a few hundred meters away from the hospital. As a result of the explosion, the convoy was hit by shrapnel,” the IDF says.
There were no injuries among the convoy’s personnel, but the IDF says that “following an assessment by COGAT with hospital officials, six children in the hospital were injured by the explosion.”
Damage was also caused to the roof and courtyard of the hospital by the blast, according to the military.
“The terrorist organizations continue to exploit civilian infrastructure, medical facilities and international aid organizations for their terror activities,” the IDF says.
“The IDF and COGAT will continue to operate in accordance with international law to transfer humanitarian and medical aid to the Gaza Strip,” it adds.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli airstrike has taken out a Palestinian Islamic Jihad military intelligence official who took part in the October 7, 2023, massacre in the Israeli community of Kfar Aza, the IDF says.
The military says Ahmed Al-Dalu has additionally been involved in the planning and carrying out of terror actions against Israeli citizens throughout the war.
He was killed in an Air Force strike along with another terror operative, the army says.
Meanwhile, the 162nd and 252nd divisions are continuing to operate throughout the Strip and have killed many terror operatives in close-quarters combat and by directing airstrikes, the IDF says, adding that forces have also destroyed terror infrastructure.
Troops from the Nahal Brigade are operating in Rafah in Gaza’s south and eliminating many operatives, the army adds. In the past day, they directed an airstrike on a terror cell that was hiding in a military building housing mines meant to harm Israeli soldiers. The strike killed the cell and destroyed the mines.
[IsraelTimes] Several Defense Ministry contractors who won tenders to carry out infrastructure work at army bases and other sensitive facilities were detained for allegedly hiring unauthorized laborers, including Palestinians who illegally entered Israel.
The Defense Ministry and Israel Police in a joint statement say that the contractors were likely aware that they were hiring unauthorized workers, including the Palestinians.
Authorities say that they suspect bribes were given to officials who participated or knew of document forgery, which allowed the unauthorized workers to enter IDF bases and sensitive facilities.
Five West Bank Palestinians were arrested last week, and fake documents, including IDs and car licenses, used to enter the IDF bases were seized, the ministry and police say.
This morning, four Israeli suspects were arrested in the case.
[GEO.TV] Israeli airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday and residents said they feared new air and ground attacks and forced evacuations were aimed at emptying areas in the enclave's north to create buffer zones against Hamas.
[KhaamaPress] Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ground forces in Iran, has attributed the rise in insecurity in the country to "foreign nationals," claiming that " citizens of Tajikistan and Afghanistan jacket wallahs disguised as fuel carriers" are entering Iran.
According to a report from Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, Pakpour made these statements during a gathering of tribal leaders in Sistan and Baluchestan province.
He emphasized that enemy intelligence services are conducting meetings in certain regional countries, delegating terrorist groups to destabilize the area.
Pakpour further asserted that "the mercenary gunnies operating in the region are not Iranians" and are committing acts of terrorism against Iranian citizens using falsified identification documents.
He claimed that "enemies’ mercenaries, by their own admissions, cross the border disguised as fuel carriers; 18 citizens of Tajikistan and Afghanistan nationals killed in Rasak, Chabahar, and Parud operations were suicide bombers."
This comes amid ongoing unrest in eastern Iran, where predominantly Sunni and Baluch minorities reside, exacerbated since the onset of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement.
The "Bloody Friday" incident in Zahedan was one of the most violent mostly peaceful events, resulting in the deaths and injuries of over 100 protesters, mostly from the Sunni community.
The eastern regions of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... share borders with Afghanistan and Pakistain, both considered among the most insecure countries in the region. Several recent security incidents in this area have been claimed by the Jaish al-Adl group, which organizes its attacks from Pakistain.
The Iranian government’s narrative surrounding foreign involvement in domestic insecurity reflects a broader strategy to divert attention from internal issues and social unrest.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said on Monday it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit area in southern Lebanon, was "eliminated" in an air strike, the military said, without specifying when he was killed.
[GEO.TV] Explosion heard around Damascus, initial reports indicate Israeli strike targeted Sayyida Zeinab area south of the city, says Syrian state media.
[IsraelTimes] Attack said to kill 2 members of terror group, as 3 more commanders killed in Lebanon; 5 drones, some 60 rockets fired at north, most intercepted, while troops in Lebanon press on
In a rare acknowledgment, the IDF confirmed launching Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria on Monday, targeting what it said were infrastructure and assets of Hezbollah’s intelligence division, as strikes on Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... killed at least three of the terror group’s commanders, according to the military.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon at the north, and the army said it shot down several drones, including two apparently launched from Iraq.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the strikes in Syria killed two Hezbollah members. According to the monitor, the strikes hit a house "used by members of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard" south of Damascus, in Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... ah Zaynab — home to an important Shiite sanctuary and guarded by pro-Iranian groups.
Syrian state media also reported the strikes, saying they targeted civilian sites, but caused only "material damage."
The IDF said its strikes "significantly" harmed Hezbollah’s intelligence unit in Syria, which operates as an independent arm of the terror group’s headquarters in Lebanon.
According to the army, the Syrian unit had already taken a hit when its commander, Mahmoud Muhammad Shahin, was killed in an October 4 airstrike in Beirut, along with Hussein Ali Hazima, head of Hezbollah’s intelligence division.
That strike also killed top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, the heir-apparent to the terror group’s longtime leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , whom Israel killed in late September.
Shahin was a veteran member of Hezbollah, especially in the terror group’s intelligence division, and had headed the division’s Syria branch since 2007, the military said.
According to the IDF, Shahin maintained contact with the Syrian regime and Iranian officials, and as part of his role "he led the development and deployment of intelligence and air defense capabilities in coordination with various parts of the Iranian axis."
Israel has been carrying out airstrikes inside Syria since the civil war there began in 2011, mainly targeting attempts to transfer weapons to the Iran-backed Hezbollah or to keep Iranian fighters themselves from gaining a foothold near Israel’s border. Since Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s brutal October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw some 1,200 people killed in southern Israel and 251 kidnapped, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed terror targets in Syria and has also struck Syrian army air defenses and some Syrian forces.
ROCKETS, DRONES TARGET NORTH
Two barrages of some 30 rockets each were fired from Lebanon at the Galilee on Monday.
According to the IDF, some of the rockets launched in the attacks were intercepted and the rest hit open areas. The military said it struck a Hezbollah launcher used to fire the first of the two barrages.
The IDF also said Monday that it downed five drones, including two in the morning that had crossed into Israeli airspace "from the east" — usually code for aircraft launched from Iraq. The military later published footage of some of the interceptions.
In Lebanon, combat engineers with the 188th Armored Brigade, operating in forested areas near the border, discovered and demolished a Hezbollah tunnel slated for a planned invasion of Israel, the IDF said, publishing footage of the tunnel.
The troops also located weapon bunkers hidden in the forested areas, the IDF added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... forces from the 91st Division continued to destroy terror infrastructure and confront button men in southern Lebanon, the military said.
It said that forces from the 228th Brigade spotted a gunman in a building near the border with Israel, and shot up the building.
Three Hezbollah commanders, including a member of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, were also killed in separate airstrikes on southern Lebanon, the IDF said.
Israeli Air Force jets struck and killed Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit area, the IDF said, adding that he was responsible for planning and carrying out rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on Israeli troops, and had commanded terror activities by Hezbollah operatives in that area.
Another strike in as-Sultaniyah killed Riyad Reda Ghazzawi, whom the IDF identified as a commander in the Radwan Force’s anti-tank missile unit. The IDF said he was behind numerous anti-tank attacks on Israel and troops operating in southern Lebanon.
Additional strikes targeted several buildings in Safad al-Battikh, where the IDF said Hezbollah members were operating. A commander at Hezbollah’s headquarters was killed in the strikes, the IDF said, adding that he had been responsible for recruitment and transferring weapons to Hezbollah cells.
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Wiki: The shrine has been managed by Mourtada's family (Arabic: آلُ مُرْتَضَى, romanized: Āl Murtaḍā) since the fourteenth century. Financially, the shrine has been funded mainly by the Iranian government following 1979. Given their financial investment, the ideological direction of the shrine and the prayer hall follow Ayatollah Khamanei. The Lebanese Hezbollah displays several posters and sets at the shrine.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 3,002 people and injured 13,492 since Oct. 2023, Lebanon's health ministry said on Monday. Ooh1 Oooh1 Another grim milestone!
[Rudaw] 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) button men on Monday killed the head of a local council in an ambush in an area controlled by Kurdish forces in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported.
"The head of al-Azba and Marat local council in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor was killed after being directly targeted by unknown button men believed to be affiliated with ISIS cells on the main street of al-Azba," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
The ambush, which also injured a woman and a child, took place in northern Deir ez-Zor, controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
It is the latest in a spate of ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly from the desert regions where jihadist cells maintain a presence.
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
[IsraelTimes] Watchdog reports Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani hanged at Kermanshah Central Prison; stabbing victim’s family reportedly refused to accept financial settlement to prevent execution
A Jewish Iranian man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, was executed Monday morning in Iran, a rights watchdog reported, after a two-year battle by his family and the local Jewish community to save his life. The Mizan Online website of the Iranian judiciary confirmed he was put to death.
Ghahremani 20, was hanged at the central prison in the western city of Kermanshah after being convicted of a murder during a street fight, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group.
“In the midst of the threats of war with Israel, the Islamic Republic executed Arvin Ghahremani, an Iranian Jewish citizen,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, adding the legal case had “significant flaws.”
“However, in addition to this, Arvin was a Jew, and the institutionalized antisemitism in the Islamic Republic undoubtedly played a crucial role in the execution of his sentence,” Amiry-Moghaddam added.
Ghahremani was allegedly defending himself against a knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in a 2022 brawl.
Ghahremani’s mother, Sonia Saadati, had asked for his life to be spared.
His family urged Shokri’s relatives to accept blood money under Iran’s Islamic law of retribution, which permits this alternative to execution.
Mizan said the victim’s family had “refused to give consent” to such a deal.
Under Iranian law, once a person is found guilty of intentional murder, the only way that the death sentence can be commuted is if the family of the deceased says it forgives the perpetrator.
Earlier this year it was reported that Shokri’s family had come under pressure from a close aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the intelligence division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to not accept the financial settlement, the Ynet outlet reported. The motive for the objection was reportedly his Jewish ethnicity.
Ghahremani was previously scheduled to have been executed in May but was granted a last-minute stay of the sentence at the time.
Ghahremani was sentenced to death under the Iranian penal code for retributive justice, know as “Qisas” in the Quran.
His defense claimed he was working out at a gym, as was Shokri who owed him money, Ynet reported. Shokri stabbed Ghahremani with a knife but the latter was able to wrestle the weapon from Shokri and stab him back, fatally injuring him.
His family has said that the trial ignored key aspects of the defense’s claims including his efforts to get Shokri to a hospital and to save his life, details of which were missing from court papers, Ynet said.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Iranian law states that if a non-Muslim kills a Muslim, Qisas can be applied and the perpetrator can be sentenced to death. However, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim in Iran, Qisas does not apply and no punishment is handed down, leading human rights experts to argue that the law discriminates unfairly against minority groups in Iran.
Before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.
While Jewish Iranians were executed in the immediate aftermath of the revolution, the execution of a Jewish Iranian is unprecedented in recent years.
Iran is openly sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state and financially supports terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas that are also committed to this aim.
Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime’s agenda.
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