Israel Declares 'Readiness for War' After Hamas Launches Rocket Barrage, Infiltration

[Dashinka 24,493]

11 hours ago, Pooky said:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119394
 

And the body count still rises 🙁

 

I really don’t think the Israeli response is going to pay much heed to the collateral damage caused.

 

After all the resolutions condemning Israel, the upcoming UN vote on a resolution condemning the attack will be most revealing and could cripple the UN’s reputation.

Can the UN's reputation actually get worse?

 

9 hours ago, Boiler said:

Now the UN have put this out today

 

Case-in-point...pathetic.

[Dashinka 24,493]

Ahh, the ineffective governor of the State of Michigan weighed in sort of.  Not sure if she was referring to Israel or Ukraine, or some other hotspot in the world.  On another note, why does the US MSM label Hamas "militants" when they did not attack IDF military installations, but rather locations housing the general population.  Seems to me when you do that, you earn the tag terrorist.  Also wondering how long before ABlinken and the Biden Admin. start calling for restraint?  I give it a week or less depending on how hard Israel responds.

 

Gretchen Whitmer hit for failing to mention Israel in vague call for ‘peace in region’

 

The deadly attack by Hamas has created a messaging dilemma for Democrats as polls show party members increasingly sympathy with the Palestinians over the Israelis in the longstanding territorial and religious conflict, particularly since conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/8/gretchen-whitmer-fails-mention-israel-vague-call-p/

[Pooky 3,784]

5 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Also wondering how long before ABlinken and the Biden Admin. start calling for restraint? 

Didn’t you see?

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-administration-deletes-post-calling-on-israelis-not-to-respond-to-hamas-assault/amp/

 

the administration’s initial response called on Israel to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” before it was unceremoniously deleted.

 

[Boiler 45,486]

When you belatedly start to realise your friends are not your friends, that you are just a pawn in the game and have been used.

 

 

[Dashinka 24,493]

1 hour ago, Pooky said:

Didn’t you see?

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-administration-deletes-post-calling-on-israelis-not-to-respond-to-hamas-assault/amp/

 

the administration’s initial response called on Israel to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” before it was unceremoniously deleted.

 

Yes, I had heard about that now deleted post.  I put that on some low level woke staffer considering how quickly it was deleted.  I expect Old Corrupt Joe and ABlinken will be parroting the same soon.

[Pooky 3,784]

7 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Yes, I had heard about that now deleted post.  I put that on some low level woke staffer considering how quickly it was deleted.  I expect Old Corrupt Joe and ABlinken will be parroting the same soon.

I won’t give them that much leeway. In my opinion, this was to be the official response before 2 things became apparent:

 

1. The number of fatalities was going to rise well beyond the early reports and the realization dawned that this wasn’t a small incursion.

 

2. There were U.S. citizens among the casualties and possibly among the hostages.

 

Once reality hit, the administration knew that restraint was neither warranted, nor advisable in the current geopolitical landscape. A rapid take-down was ordered, but the internet is forever and the original message was out in the wild.

[Boiler 45,486]

Probably got ahead of the focus group reports 

[Dashinka 24,493]

Hmm, so Hamas is saying they will start eliminating hostages, and they are open to truce talks.  Kind of mixed messaging...

 

https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/hamas-threatens-to-start-executing-hostages-194742853892

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-official-says-group-is-open-discussions-over-truce-with-israel-2023-10-09/

[Pooky 3,784]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Hmm, so Hamas is saying they will start eliminating hostages, and they are open to truce talks.  Kind of mixed messaging...

 

https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/hamas-threatens-to-start-executing-hostages-194742853892

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-official-says-group-is-open-discussions-over-truce-with-israel-2023-10-09/

They put that message out there just after the Biden team called a “lid” on the day. Interesting timing 🤔

[Boiler 45,486]

Afternoon nap.

[Dashinka 24,493]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

Afternoon nap.

Sounds like it.

[TBoneTX 45,287]

6 hours ago, Pooky said:

the Biden team called a “lid” on the day

They called the lid at noon.

Sunday night, while Americans were being kidnapped & killed, Bidementia hosted a staff party at the White House.

[TBoneTX 45,287]

Wow.

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Reckoning needed after Biden's failed foreign policy gave Hamas' terror the element of surprise

 

Any postmortem on what went wrong has to include:

• The Biden administration's preoccupation with its diabolical Iran nuclear deal, the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action launched by the Obama administration, scrapped by Trump's, and reanimated by President Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

 

• The recent bust of an Iranian spy ring said to reach into the highest levels of the State Department and the Pentagon.

 

• The crackdown on anti-Iranian dissident group MEK in Albania in June.  [...]

 

https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/failed-foreign-policy-gave-terror-the-element-of-surprise-agencies-blinded-by-joes-fiascos/

[TBoneTX 45,287]

An important read.

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Cheerleaders for Hamas

The woke left's response to the Islamist assault on Israel has exploded their phoney moral superiority for good.  [...]

 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/08/cheerleaders-for-hamas/

[TBoneTX 45,287]

VDH seems to hit yet another home run.  Comments?

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Reflections on Israel's New Existential War
 

There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel.  A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state.  And more often there have been mixtures of both.

Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.

In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.

Note one common theme of these horrific videos of the murdering of young women: the bloodthirst of the Gaza crowd.  There appears a natural desire of everyday Gazans to video the mutilations, an embrace of the spitting on the doomed, a frenzied effort to mutilate the dead—and the absence of a single Gazan objecting to the group murder of a civilian.

Hamas did not act out of the ordinary, but in sync with its people.  In truth,  [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/09/reflections-on-israels-new-existential-war/