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

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Interesting indeed.  Comments?

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How Israel Got Ambushed

 

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-israel-got-ambushed

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BREAKING:  US, Qatar refreeze $6 billion in Iran hostage payment

 

[...] the White House appears to have found enough of a pretext to refreeze access to the funds.  The question will be how long that freeze will continue:  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/12/auto-draft-193-2-n584392

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Egypt:  No way we let Gazans into our country

 

[...] few bother to acknowledge that Egypt has partnered with Israel on that containment strategy, and for the same reasons.  Those reasons are so vital to Cairo that even with an Israeli ground invasion perhaps just hours away, Egypt refuses to open the Rafah gate and let Gazans pass into Egypt, even temporarily, to escape the carnage they started: [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/12/egypt-no-way-we-let-gazans-into-our-country-n584227

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Ron DeSantis Leads, Authorizes Rescue of Floridians Stranded in Israel

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/10/12/ron-desantis-leads-authorizes-rescue-of-floridians-stranded-in-israel-n1734616

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BREAKING:  Israel Bombs Damascus Airport

 

Israeli missiles bombed landing strips at Syria's Damascus Airport and at its second-largest airport in Aleppo.  It is likely no coincidence that a Meraj Airlines passenger jet reportedly carrying Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was on its way to Damascus at the time of the bombing.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/10/12/breaking-israel-bombs-damascus-airport-reportedly-preventing-iranian-foreign-minister-weapons-from-landing-n1734523

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Pro-Palestinian Harvard Students' First Lesson in Job Hunting - CEOs Not Interested in Hamas Supporters

 

One thing that is always noticeable about the actions of the left is that they never seem to comprehend the big picture.  It's like they are virtually incapable of looking beyond next week at the most.  However, if you are a college student, one might think that planning for the future is something that you do regularly, especially at a premier university like Harvard.  You attend that school because you are in the academic elite.  But apparently, many of the current crop of Harvard students have yet to figure out that the internet is forever, and what you post there follows you.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/10/12/pro-palestinian-harvard-students-first-lesson-in-job-hunting-ceos-not-interested-in-hamas-supporters-n2164979

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A teacher has been killed and two people have been seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in France, officials say.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the attack happened at the Gambetta high school in the northern city of Arras at about 11:00 local time.

The attacker has been arrested and is now in custody.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67101089

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12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Interesting indeed.  Comments?

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How Israel Got Ambushed

 

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-israel-got-ambushed

absence of intelligence doesn't mean absence of activity.  pretty much every form of intel gathering has weaknesses.  see
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/deception-d-day-how-fake-armies-false-radio-traffic-and-even-rubber-tanks-helped-fool
for how it worked in ww2.  imo nothing beats really good humint on the ground.

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1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

absence of intelligence doesn't mean absence of activity.  pretty much every form of intel gathering has weaknesses.  see
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/deception-d-day-how-fake-armies-false-radio-traffic-and-even-rubber-tanks-helped-fool
for how it worked in ww2.  imo nothing beats really good humint on the ground.

Great read . Loved Rupert and Oscar move . 
Maybe I watched too much Fauda ,,,.but I am blown away by CNN

report of hamas training camps a mile from crossing …and undetected training videos released by hamas before the attack. 
A Hamas Deception and misinformation operation is the only conclusion I can reason myself into . 
A video purporting to be of a German EU official paragliding on Gaza coast and touting “ tourism “…if real . sure fits the bill

Edited October 13, 2023 by Family

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I think it was a combination of factors, and of course a big chunk of luck, no need for most of the grunts to know much until they reported that morning 

 

The one thing that surprised me is the lack of mines, I had assumed there would be a deep  minefield but I have seen no reference to any. 

 

Now mines do not stop but they sure delay and give more defence in depth,  channel your opponents etc.

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Perhaps one good thing might come out of this hellish situation. The word “debunked” is being bandied about by numerous pro-Hamas demonstrators, regarding the savagery and barbarism inflicted on the Israeli murder victims, in an effort to excuse their support for these inhuman savages. But the pictures don’t lie.

 

Maybe, just maybe, saying something is “debunked”, in this case as a means to justify a worldview wholly divorced from reality, will no longer carry any weight, without conclusive proof.

 

We can only hope.

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There is a a UK forum I very occasionally participate in and some of the stuff I saw there makes me kess than convinced.

A lot of it is ignorance, wrapped up with politics. Plus a lot of is not my issue etc.

 

I did not watch the England game, but listening to the BBC this morning I found it interesting that they did not honour the victims unlike every other tragedy 

 

I have been gone too long I think to have a proper feel, times have changed.

 

 

 

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The unsettling feeling ..there is a trap . 
 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-iran-trap/675628/