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Arabia
Houthis' Red Sea attacks a part of Iranian 'Axis of Resistance' plot to 'defeat US': experts warn
[NYPOST] The intensifying attacks on fat merchantmen in the Red Sea by Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels is a concerted and unsettling effort by 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to "defeat the United States" and "spread the Iranian Islamic revolution," experts caution.

"We are pretending we’re not at war. But the Iranians and the Houthis are at war with us," Bill Roggio, senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Post Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the Iran-backed forces of Evil launched a fresh attack on another vessel in the Red Sea — a critical shipping artery — targeting a container ship en route from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to Pakistain with naval missiles.

The group has launched at least 100 attacks against 14 different commercial and merchant vessels in the Red Sea over the past month, a senior US military official said last week, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported.

But sinking ships is not the higher goal of the attacks, according to Roggio.

"The act of targeting itself is sufficient," the military expert said.

"The Houthis and the Iranians are dictating the transit of maritime vessels on the high seas. This is incredible and the world seems powerless to stop it."
It's a matter of strength and will. We are not powerless
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  I recall the last Axis powers not faring that well.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2023 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Just "accidentally" destroy their water infrastructure.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:16 Comments || Top||

#3  The Iranians will not destroy America just Biden’s feeble chances at reelection. Most Americans couldn’t find Yemen on a globe if you spotted them Oman and Saudi Arabia. Eventually, Iran will get a punch through on one of our ships. Biden will respond with a feeble gesture and not change the ROE because the Iranians own him like they did Obama. At that point the campaign discussion will tie a string from Yemen through Abbey Gate around Benghazi and tie it off on Mogadishu. Someone should point out to the mullahs that this is how you get more Trump.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 12/28/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ IMA going to need a translation on that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  "A beautiful mind, destroyed by syph..."

- T. Southern
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  I respect the Hootie and the Blowfish reference, but it looks like there was some PCP in you last vape cartridge.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought it was just me, the old man thing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2023 10:25 Comments || Top||

#9  I am curious, NY Post.

Is that like an Axis of Evil?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Nope. The resistance here is to common sense and basic human decency.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 14:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Did I see something about Iraq kicking out foreign troops and moving away from US$ as acceptable in-country currency?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2023 17:36 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ Dunno but I give everything from Iraq a 48 hr 4 week smoke and bullshit clearance window
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2023 19:03 Comments || Top||

#13  The Boosh Plan™ was for Iraq to be Nantuquet now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2023 19:05 Comments || Top||

#14  A million old men of Nantucket:
"Democracy desert! Let's muck it!"
[manure on sand
in a faraway land]
"And the bucket, Iraq? Iran took it."
Posted by: Spike Ghibelline2133 || 12/28/2023 21:15 Comments || Top||

#15  Did I see something about Iraq kicking out foreign troops and moving away from US$ as acceptable in-country currency?

Lots of big talk from the conquered, swksvolFF, encouraged by their Mad Mullah masters in Iran.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 22:01 Comments || Top||


Britain
Khan's London: 43 Knife Crime Incidents Recorded Per Day Amid Gang Violence Surge in British Capital
[Breitbart] Gang violence in London has seen knife crime reportedly surge at its fastest rate in five years, with over 40 incidents logged with police per day, according to an analysis conducted by a top British broadsheet.

A report from The Telegraph newspaper has claimed that over 200 gangs are operating in the British capital, with around 46,000 members at their disposal, some of whom are as young as ten years old.

The prevalence of criminal gangs and inevitable turf wars and other disputes have contributed to increasing violence on the streets of London, with knife crime rising at its quickest pace in five years and gun crime rising by six per cent over last year. So far this year, there have been over 90 homicides recorded in the city, 20 of whom were minors.

The paper revealed that the Metropolitan Police are currently receiving an average of 43 reports of knife crime incidents every single day.

It comes amid a bloody Christmas holiday period in London, with a 49-year-old man being stabbed to death in Hackney in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Four men have been arrested in connection to the killing. Separately, a 16-year-old has been arrested after a 22-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Bermondsey on Christmas Eve.

An officer who serves on the Met’s murder investigation unit said: “It really does feel like things are getting out of control… The volume and the ferocity of the violence that we are seeing is off the charts. I have been on the job for almost 25 years and I have never known it as bad as this.

“Ultimately it is all about money, but violence can explode for the smallest of reasons and before you know it you have gang members, many of them very young, carrying out tit-for-tat attacks. Drill music and the use of social media have made things so much worse. You have online squabbles that escalate so quickly into violence.”

Knife crime and gang violence is set to be a major political issue in next year’s London mayoral election, in which leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan is seeking a historic third term in office.

Khan’s opponent, Conservative Assembly Member Susan Hall said: “Crime has absolutely spiralled since Sadiq Khan came in but there are also structural issues within the Met that need addressing.

“For the police to get on top of this problem we need to have proper neighbourhood teams embedded in the community. Far too often these officers are being abstracted from their neighbourhood role and dragged onto response teams to fill gaps there.”

While Hall has laid out plans to increase the effectiveness of the police, she argued that the problem is a broader issue within society, saying: “How have we got to this situation where kids are running through the streets with machetes? It’s an absolute disgrace. The most difficult job in the world is to be a parent, but it is also the most rewarding. You have to teach your kids right from wrong.”

During Khan’s reign in London, there has been a sharp increase in knife crime, with 9,086 knife-related offences being recorded in London during the year leading up to March of 2016 before he came to power, compared to 12,786 knife crimes during the same period in 2023, representing a 40 per cent increase since Khan took office.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Pakistan in the West.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Gun Control
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
More than 140 people have challenged the arrest in the case of riots at Makhachkala airport
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Dagestan received a total of 143 complaints about arrest in a criminal case regarding mass riots in Makhachkala. Three people are also accused of using violence against a law enforcement officer.

The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that by December 13, it became known that about 150 people had been arrested in a criminal case regarding mass unrest at the airport, one of them was also accused of attacking a security officer, and another was accused of attempting to kill a security officer . Most of those accused in criminal cases for participation in mass riots at the Makhachkala airport have had their arrest period extended until the end of March, while almost no investigative actions are being carried out, and a number of those arrested are prohibited from visiting. One of those arrested, Gerey Dzhamalutdinov, claims that he was not at the airport, and security forces forced him to incriminate himself, but the investigation has not verified his alibi, said lawyers and a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan.

On October 29, mass riots occurred at Makhachkala airport due to reports of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured, including nine police officers.

By November 25, the district courts of Dagestan had received administrative cases of 515 people, on which  protocols were drawn up  on offenses during the anti-Semitic action and riots in Makhachkala; by December 1, 242 decisions on these cases were known. What happened at Uytash airport and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the Caucasian Knot report “ The Case of the Pogrom at Makhachkala Airport.”

The Supreme Court of Dagestan continues to receive complaints challenging the arrest in the case of mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Russia provides for three to eight years in prison); since mid-November, the court has received 143 complaints, the Kavkaz.Realii publication reported today.

As follows from the information on the website of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, until December 15, the court received only individual complaints from the accused, but from that day on, collective complaints began to be received by the court. Thus, in some of the complaints, four or five applicants are indicated. Among those accused of participating in mass riots, three people are accused of using non-life-threatening violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of Russia provides for up to five years in prison), another one is accused of encroaching on the life of a security official (Article 317 The Russian Criminal Code provides for 12 to 20 years of imprisonment or life imprisonment). 

The court partially satisfied some of the complaints. Thus, lawyer Pirmagomedov appealed the extension of the arrest of the father of three young children, Gadzhi Akhmedulaev, for three months, until March 29. In the appeal, he indicated that in the investigation materials there is no evidence that Akhmedulayev committed a crime, the accusation was not specified, and since then “not a single investigative action has been carried out.”

He also noted that the conclusions of the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala, which extended the arrest of his client, “are based on assumptions.” The court noted that the investigator’s petitions do not mention “the impossibility of completing the planned investigative actions within a two-month period,” and therefore reduced the arrest period for Akhmedulaev and the other three defendants who are involved in the same case by a month, to February 29, but did not appeal their arrest, as indicated in the case file.
Posted by: badanov || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Laski Diffusion/Getty Images
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:34 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘No difference between the actions of Netanyahu and Hitler’; Bibi responds sharply
Once again displaying exactly how much the subtle Byzantine mind of the Ottoman Turk has degenerated, the head of the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood bursts out in his usual mode in support of his Gazan Muslim Brotherhood brothers.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions over 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 an 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...
are "no different" from those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
, the official Anadolu Agency reports.

It is not the first time Erdogan has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, and in July 2014, the Ottoman Turkish president accused Israel of "keeping Hitler’s spirit alive" during a war with Gaza.

Erdogan has massively stepped up his criticism of Israel during the current war. He has also asserted that Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
is not a terrorist organization.

Israel recalled its diplomats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in October after Erdogan accused Israel of committing war crimes. Turkey later also recalled its ambassador from Israel.

Israel was a long-time regional ally of Turkey before Erdogan came to power, but ties imploded after a 2010 Israeli commando raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship, part of a blockade-busting flotilla, that left dead 10 Ottoman Turkish activists who attacked IDF soldiers aboard the ship.

Relations between the two nations have been up and down since then.

In late September, Erdogan met with Netanyahu in New York for their first known sit-down and the two enthusiastically discussed avenues of cooperation. At the same time, Turkey maintains deep ties with Hamas, the terror group that carried out the devastating October 7 assault in which some 1,200 people were massacred in southern Israel and around 240 kidnapped to Gaza and held hostage.

PM hits back at Erdogan over Hitler comparison; Gantz slams ‘desecration of the Holocaust’s memory’

[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claps back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for claiming Israel’s actions against Hamas terrorists in Gaza are “no different” from those of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler.

“Erdogan, who is carrying out a genocide of Kurds and holds a world record number of journalists opposed to his rule in jail, is the last to preach morality to us,” Netanyahu says in a statement, repeating a phrase he used in previous spats with Turkey’s leader.

“The IDF is the most moral army in the world, which is fighting and eliminating the most despicable and brutal terror organization in the world, Hamas-Daesh, which committed crimes against humanity and Erdogan praises it and hosts its senior officials,” the premier adds.

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz also slams Erdogan, saying his remarks “are blatant distortions of reality and a desecration of the Holocaust’s memory.”

“Hamas was the organization that perpetrated a despicable massacre. Removing the threat of Hamas from the citizens of Israel is an existential necessity and an unparalleled moral imperative,” Gantz says in a statement issued in both Hebrew and English.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Turks know a lot about Hitler and genocide. They wrote his template.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Islamists like Hitler, so this is praise, right?
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/28/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  ..yeah, there were mutual understandings.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2023 13:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
NYPD ramps up security for New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square with THOUSANDS of cops, robots and drones as Pro-Palestine protestors are set to disrupt the event
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The New York City Police Department is ramping up security for the New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square over fears Pro-Palestine protestors are set to disrupt it.

It is deploying thousands of officers to the area and could use a combination of robots, drones and detection dogs to prevent any interruption to the event, which annually attracts an estimated one million people.

Mayor Eric Adams said he is 'sure' Pro-Palestine protestors will try to cause disruption at the famous New Year's Eve ball drop.

'We’re sure there’s gonna be some type of attempt this year,' he said at a news conference on Tuesday. 'Everyone looks for events like this if they want to do bad things, and the police department is on top of it.'

It comes after the protestors, who are calling for a ceasefire as 21,000 Palestinians have been killed in the fight between Israel and Hamas, disrupted the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Let me guess - that kind of force is going to be there to protect the pro-Palestine goons and arrest everybody else, amirite?
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2023 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  An excellent place to avoid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2023 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Anytime.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Crime Square

Slime Square
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2023 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  There will be bozos that go to witness the riot. The bozos will get what they deserve. It won’t be NYE without a drunken Don Lemon, regardless.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Times Square was a cesspool when Koch and Dinkins were the mayors. Giuliani cleaned it up big time, and it was pretty safe.

Then Bloomberg and de Blasio let it go to hell.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2023 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  broken windows. shoot rock-salt at legs.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/28/2023 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  So they don't want anyone anywhere to have a fun, enjoyable time? Good to know.
Posted by: Tom || 12/28/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Just keep it in NYC.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2023 11:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Can't wait for a robot beatdown video.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  DM also parroting paleo numbers KIA without sourcing.

So they don't want anyone anywhere to have a fun, enjoyable time?

Something the commies and jihadis have in common. Having fun outside the approved political system requires a degree of spare time and resources, shorthanded as prosperity. Prosperity diminishes reliance on the approved political system.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||


Arizona border rancher who saw MS-13 on his ranch has dire warning: 'We have cartel scouts on our mountains'
[FoxNews] Arizona rancher says border crisis is 'still outrageous' as illegal migrant crossings surge.

A fifth-generation Arizona rancher who said his wife saw MS-13 on his ranch last year told Fox News the border crisis hasn't gotten better as illegal migrant entries surge.

A fifth-generation Arizona rancher said an influx of illegal migrants crossing his land in recent years has increased his fear that terrorists are successfully sneaking into America.

"It's really a serious issue," Jim Chilton, owner of the Chilton Ranch, told Fox News. "We have no security on our ranch nor in most places along the border anymore. It's not good. It's not better in any sense. It's still outrageous."

The ongoing crisis at the southern border is breaking records as illegal migrant entries skyrocket, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The first week of December saw a record-setting 18,900 migrant apprehensions in Arizona's Tucson Sector alone, the section's Chief Border Patrol Agent John Modlin said.

By comparison, that's about 2,000 more encounters than all of December 2021 for that sector, according to CBP data. Daily encounters also reached a new record-high across the southern border earlier this month, with more than 12,000 migrants flooding in on Dec. 4.

"It's a national security issue," Chilton said. "I'm very concerned that terrorists are coming across the border."

CBP encountered 169 people on the FBI terror watch lists between ports of entry at the southern border in fiscal 2023, data show. That total exceeded not only the previous year's record-setting 98 encounters, but the last six fiscal years combined.

"When are they going to strike, and are they walking through my ranch?" Chilton said.

The border rancher previously told Fox News his wife, while home alone, opened the door to MS-13 members carrying guns.

"It’s kind of scary," Chilton said. "That’s just life on the border."

Chilton fears more cartel members crossed his property without his knowledge this year. He said cartels fight for control of the trails through his ranch, and he's occasionally seen coyotes smuggling migrants across his land.

"We have cartel scouts on our mountains," he said. They "really have control of everything."

The fifth-generation rancher is frightened that cartels flood certain areas with migrants to divert Border Patrol agents, creating undermanned sections where smugglers can bring in terrorists and drugs. The port of entry in Lukeville, Arizona, for example, closed Dec. 4 so agents could address an illegal migrant surge nearby.

"It's a method of controlling where everybody goes. It's a method for opening up other routes for crossing really bad guys, drug packers," Chilton previously told Fox News. "The cartel is running drugs and bad people across other areas."

Chilton partially blames the migrant influx on President Biden's decision to halt construction on the border wall, which protects only part of his property. The administration approved $950 million for repairs and upgrades in November, but Chilton still urged Biden to finish construction and hire more Border Patrol agents to protect Americans.

"You shouldn't give a message to the world that the border is open and all you have to do is come through, and you'll get processed, captured and released into the United States," Chilton said. "It's a national security issue."
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Evidently all the MS13 have learned that claiming asylum in the US takes you off our expulsion list for 7 years until there is a court date. This needs to be changed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  too bad there arent any ex mil guys hanging out in AZ...
Posted by: 746 || 12/28/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  1. Find 'em.

2. Kill 'em.

3. Drop the bodies at the Messican DC Embassy and their various consulates and blue city welcoming centers.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/28/2023 20:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
ECP moved against Shah Mahmood Qureshi's 'unlawful abduction'
[GEO.TV] A petition was filed in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the “unlawful abduction” of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
, who was re-arrested just minutes after coming out on bail.

The senior politician was taken into custody earlier in the day by Rawalpindi police from Adiala jail in connection with a case related to May 9 violent protests, a day after being detained under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (3-MPO) following approval of his bail in the cipher case last week.

In response to the former foreign minister's arrest, his daughter demanded the electoral body to fulfil its constitutional responsibilities and ensure the safety and release of Qureshi, who is a candidate standing the upcoming elections from multiple constituencies of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh.

Meherbano stated in the petition that Qureshi had been granted bail by the Supreme Court, and referred to the remark of Justice Athar Minallah, who stated: “The incarceration of the petitioners will not serve any useful purpose. Moreover, their release on bail during the period of elections would ensure ‘genuine elections and thus enable the people to exercise the right to express their will effectively and meaningfully.”
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
War with Hamas to cost Israel at least NIS 50 billion in 2024, says Treasury
[IsraelTimes] Finance Ministry forecasts that defense spending will have to increase by NIS 30 billion and another NIS 20 billion will need to be spent on civilian and other expenditure.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 2023-12-28 02:03 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Beats dying.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 2:16 Comments || Top||



Poll finds high support among Arab Israelis for volunteering during war
[IsraelTimes] 86.5% say they are in favor of activities to help evacuees or provide medical assistance; survey confirms trend of greater kinship with Israel among Arab citizens after Oct. 7.

A new poll among Arab Israelis found that an overwhelming majority support assisting with civilian volunteering efforts during the war — such as helping evacuees, and providing medical assistance — amid a strong sense of kinship with the country in the wake of the October 7 massacres.

Asked if they feel "a part of the State of Israel and its problems," about two thirds of respondents (65 percent) answered affirmatively, reinforcing a trend that had been observed in a similar survey in November, when the figure stood at 70% — a 20-year high.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 2023-12-28 02:02 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  58% of interviewees said both Hamas and the State of Israel/IDF bear equal responsibility; 16% say only Hamas is responsible; and 14.5% say only Israel is responsible.

Progress!!! (or "Happy, happy, Joy, joy")
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 7:41 Comments || Top||


Israeli TV publishes purportedly recent photo of Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif
Photo can be seen at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 news publishes a purportedly recent photograph of Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terror group’s military wing.

The network says the photo was obtained by Israeli forces amid 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 an 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...
but doesn’t specify when it was taken.

The authenticity of the photo cannot be verified independently.

The release of the photo comes a report last week said videos apparently found by troops in Gaza showed Deif walking under his own power with what appear to be his own legs, albeit with a slight limp.

Little is known of Deif, but oft-repeated reports in Israel for over a decade have described him as missing both his legs and an arm, the result of an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, one of at least five failed Israeli attempts on his life.

In the photo published by Channel 12, the man purported to be Deif appears to be missing an eye, which reports have previously said the arch-terrorist lost in an liquidation attempt. The TV report also asserts Deif is missing a leg and therefore limps, but doesn’t provide any evidence for this.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 2023-12-28 01:51 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  None of these goys have time to shave.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 7:43 Comments || Top||



Shin Bet received intel on timing of major Hamas attack but cast it as unimportant — TV
[IsraelTimes] Now is not the time for repercussions, but certain idiots simply can’t restrain themselves.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 2023-12-28 01:14 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Ah'l try to do better.

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember - anything you don't want to hear is "disinformation."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2023 8:32 Comments || Top||


Iran: Oct. 7 attack was revenge for killing of Soleimani in 2020; Hamas: No it wasn’t
Translation: Hamas loudly denies being Iranian sockpuppet even though Iranian hand can be seen underneath.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that the Hamas terror group’s devastating attack on Israel was in revenge for the 2020 assassination of IRGC Quds Force head Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike.

IRGC front man Ramazan Sharif tied the October 7 massacres to Soleimani in remarks he made about the killing of another top officer earlier this week in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has blamed on Israel. Brig. Gen. Razi Mousavi, who was close to Soleimani, was killed in a strike on his home in Damascus on Monday.

He also said the IRGC is "well aware" of the reasons Israel killed Mousavi in Damascus but asserted that the liquidation would not hinder its campaign "against the Zionist entity."

"We will respond accordingly, directly or indirectly through the resistance axis," he threatened.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
swiftly denied the Iranian claim and reiterated that it attacked Israel over what it described as "the dangers threatening the al-Aqsa Mosque," referring to the key Islamic site on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In a statement, the terror group said that "all Paleostinian resistance actions" are a response to what it called the "occupation and its ongoing aggression against our people and the holy places."

On the day of the attack, which Hamas dubbed ""Operation al-Aqsa Deluge," the terror group’s military commander Muhammad Deif said in a recorded message it was launched in retaliation for Israel’s "desecration" of the al-Aqsa Mosque and was a follow-up of previous warnings by the group.

While Israel’s military does not, as a rule, comment on specific strikes in Syria, it has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed terror groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country, over the last decade.

Israel has accused Iran of being a key force behind the coordinated Hamas attack on Israel, in which the terror group succeeded in blasting through the high-tech 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 an 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...
border fence to carry out its devastating assault on nearby communities.

The Wall Street Journal reported in October that some 500 member of Hamas and the allied terror group Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
trained in Iran ahead of the assault on Israel.

A US airstrike killed Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020. Tehran responded to the killing of Soleimani by launching a barrage of missiles at US bases in Iraq, causing dozens of brain concussion injuries but no deaths among US soldiers stationed there.

But Iranian officials have repeatedly vowed to take further steps and imposed sanctions on individuals accused of taking part in the liquidation operation.

Soleimani, who led the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was credited with helping to arm, train, and lead gangs across the region, including the Shiite militias in Iraq, fighters in Syria and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, and terror groups in the West Bank and Gaza.

The US held him responsible for the deaths of many of its soldiers in Iraq. He is hailed as a national icon among supporters of Iran’s theocracy.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Everything Muslims do is a revenge for something.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  There will be a point next year where all the punks in Iran come to the understanding that Americans intend to put Trump back in office. I remember that point in 1980.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Latching onto a movement like a true dingle berry.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2023 14:55 Comments || Top||


Israel gives initial approval for Cyprus-Gaza sea corridor: Report
[GEO.TV] Israel has agreed “in principle” to allow Cyprus, with the support of Britain, to open up a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza, Al Jazeera reported citing reports from Israel’s Hayom newspaper.

More supplies and equipment would enter the beleaguered Palestinian enclave through the corridor.

Up until now, it has only been able to do so through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and, more recently, the Israeli border crossing at Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom).

Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen relayed the initial approval for the corridor to his counterparts in Cyprus and the UK on Tuesday, saying it could likely begin operating “upon completion of the required preparations”, according to Hayom.
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I would say these "humanitarian corridors" are the dumbest thing I ever heard off - but, then, there's USA border policy.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Just waiting for the horrified Lebanon to protest target vessels passing over their gas fields.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  What is keeping Egypt from opening a "humanitarian corridor" to/from Gaza? Besides common sense, anyway?
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 12/28/2023 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Grom the Reflective, the U.S. has a border policy? Who knew?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/28/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, there's a policy:

"Everyone is now welcome here."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2023 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I suspect the day will come where the "huddled masses" plaque is ripped down and melted on the spot, and the same people who rubbed their hands together with glee while confederate statues were pulled down will wail and rend their garments.

Pay per view, please...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2023 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  "Of course, the aid transports will have to stay 12 miles off the coast, and the Gazooks will have to swim to them"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2023 10:35 Comments || Top||


Jordan, Egypt to reject any Israel move to expel Palestinians
[GEO.TV] Jordan's King Abdullah and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al- Sisi said after a summit in Cairo on Wednesday that they rejected any Israeli move to expel Paleostinians 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 an 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 the West Bank, state media reported.

In a statement, both leaders also said the international community should pressure Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire and allow enough aid into war-torn Gaza to ease the "tragic plight" of over 2 million people under siege there.
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  There's an obvious solution to this.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  they rejected any Israeli move to expel Paleostinians in Gazoo

Be like trying to expel gangsters from Chicago.
"Which ones first?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Pumpkin Chuck the bad ones over the border.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/28/2023 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  they really don't want them!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/28/2023 10:32 Comments || Top||


Netanyahu urged for lasting ceasefire in Gaza
[GEO.TV] French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for a "lasting ceasefire" 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 an 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...
as the Paleostinian territory is suffering from aggravated humanitarian crisis as a result of continuous bombardment from Israel.

"La Belle France will work in the coming days in cooperation with Jordan to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza," the French presidency added in a statement.

Macron, an ally of Netanyahu since the start of the war triggered by the unprecedented Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
attack on Israel on October 7, told the Israeli premier of his "deepest concern" about civilian deaths and the humanitarian emergency in Gaza.

He also insisted on the importance of measures to end violence by Israeli settlers against Paleostinian civilians in the occupied West Bank and prevent new planned settlements.
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Only one way to make it lasting, Emmanuel(e).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/28/2023 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Emmanuele
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2023 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Like every other 'ceasefire' over the last 50 or so years, it will be broken by one side.

And that isn't Israel.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  no more gaza = no more shooting.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/28/2023 10:34 Comments || Top||



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