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

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11 hours ago, Boiler said:

Ahh well

We're all bleeding in empathy for her grief.

"From the liver to the knee!"   💥

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This is wonderful and even better than expected.  Hizb'allah is being left to twist in the wind.  A fun article!

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Lebanese army making moves regarding invasion, IDF says

 

Following extensive strikes in Beirut and Lebanon, the IDF believes Hezbollah is even more damaged than expected. 

 

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-822624

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OUTRAGE:  Hamas Leader Killed in Israeli Air Strike Was United Nations Employee

 

Fateh Sherif was, supposedly, an educator — the principal of Deir Yassin Secondary School.  He was also an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).  Sherif also moonlighted as a Hamas leader, responsible for coordinating Hamas actions with Hezbollah, including recruiting and logistics operations.

Now he's been shuffled off the mortal coil by the Israeli Air Force after an air strike eliminated him, and the UNRWA is finally admitting he was one of theirs.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/30/outrage-hamas-leader-killed-in-israeli-air-strike-was-unrwa-employee-n2179987

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Hezbollah Reaches Out To U.S. For Advice On How To Govern With A Dead Leader

 

BEIRUT — Following the death of their leader Hassan Nasrallah, members of the militant group Hezbollah asked the U.S. for advice on how to govern with a dead leader.

"Following the demise of our great ruler Nasrallah at the hands of those Israeli pigs, we here at Hezbollah need to know how to run our organization with a dead leader," Omar Ibadi told the press.  "We have reached out to leaders in the United States to ask how they can govern their own people with a dead president still in office."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/hezbollah-reaches-out-to-us-for-advice-on-how-to-govern-with-a-dead-leader

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Iran launches missile attack on Israel

WASHINGTON — Iran launched missiles toward Israel, Israel's Defense Forces said in a short statement Tuesday as it urged Israelis to enter bomb shelters.

The move was the latest escalation in a weeks-long skirmish between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, and comes days before the the one-year anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel. It also comes just as the Jewish high holiday Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Wednesday.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/10/01/iran-missile-attack-israel/75465364007/

 

Reports say that Hezbollah has not managed to retaliate for the death of it’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, so Iran has taken that responsibility upon itself.

 

I doubt the IDF response will be a single air defence missile site this time. ☠️

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5 hours ago, Pooky said:

I doubt the IDF response will be a single air defence missile site this time.

Either Israel is on borrowed time, or it's bye-bye Ayatollah.

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Report with several updates.

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BREAKING:  Iran Launches Over 100 Ballistic Missiles At Israel;  UPDATE: 500?  UPDATE: Over?

 

[...] There is no word yet as to whether this is the first wave or the only wave.  Earlier reports suggested that Iran would only launch ballistic missiles, which have a much shorter flight time to targets in Israel than cruise missiles and drones.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/10/01/breaking-iran-launches-over-100-ballistic-missiles-at-israel-n3795250

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This is epic!

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Speaker of Israel's Knesset Sends Blunt Message to Ayatollah Khamenei About What Is Coming Next

 

[...] Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a message for the Iranian people on Monday: "Israel stands with you."  But within that message, if you read between the lines, was a message to the Iranian leadership:  Your time is coming; we can "reach anywhere" in the Middle East.

 

"When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than you think, everything will be different," he said.  He seemed to be urging them to stand up to their oppressive leadership and cluing them in that something is coming.

 

If that wasn't clear enough from Netanyahu there was a fascinating interchange between the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana on X.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/01/message-to-ayatollah-n2180023

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Young Hezbollah Recruit Can't Believe He's Already Made Regional Manager

 

BEIRUT — Young Hezbollah recruit Muhammed Amin was surprised to learn this week that he's already been promoted to the position of Regional Manager.

Amin recently joined the ranks of the prestigious terror organization and expected to spend the next several years proving himself before rising through the ranks but was given the unexpected news that he was now in an important leadership role.

"I can't believe I'm moving up the ladder so quickly!" Amin said.  "I was only recruited last week and all of a sudden they're telling me I am a manager — and not just manager [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/young-hezbollah-recruit-cant-believe-hes-already-made-regional-manager

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Ayatollah Frantically Googles 'How To Build Iron Dome Thingy FAST'

 

TEHRAN — After watching his missile bombardment of Israel fail to yield the results he had hoped for, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei frantically googled "how to build iron dome thingy FAST."

Israel's much-publicized "Iron Dome" missile defense system was placed under tremendous strain during Iran's attack but was able to prevent mass casualties despite a barrage of well over 100 ballistic missiles.

"Okay, so we didn't wipe out the Jews and now they're going to retaliate," Khamenei reportedly told high-ranking members of the Iranian government.  "But don't worry, I have a plan."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/ayatollah-frantically-googles-how-to-build-iron-dome-thingy-fast

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Nice explanation here of why Israel quit doing the same-old.

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Israel's New Rules of War

 

October 7, nearly a year ago, changed Israeli calculations in ways that are still being revealed.  The very bestiality of the event, with its torture, murder, mass rapes, and the like, was an expression of both Palestinian blood hatred and Iranian grand strategy.  Soon after the event, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, described October 7 as "great," "blessed," "heroic," and "courageous," even as his Shiite group rained down missiles on northern Israel, forcing 60,000 civilians to flee south.

Repelling such a war of annihilation is not pretty, especially for a democracy governed by the consent of the governed, which is therefore charged by its citizenry with protecting their physical and material well-being.  Indeed, democracy entails obligations that are not always benign.  This naturally leads to adjustments in the military rules of engagement.  Remember, there is a profound difference between imagining the worst that your enemy might do to you and then palpably experiencing it.  October 7 left nothing to the imagination.  It would have been both immoral and irresponsible if Israeli military thinking had not evolved as a consequence.  [...]

 

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/israels-new-rules-war-213044

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Better, and better, and better!

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Diabolical!  As More Details of Israel's Pager Attack Emerge, Tweeps are Impressed by the Planning

 

More information is being released on that awesome 'blowing terrorists up with their own pagers' plot and it is epic.  [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/10/05/pagers-more-information-israel-n2401822

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16 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Better, and better, and better!

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Diabolical!  As More Details of Israel's Pager Attack Emerge, Tweeps are Impressed by the Planning

 

More information is being released on that awesome 'blowing terrorists up with their own pagers' plot and it is epic.  [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/10/05/pagers-more-information-israel-n2401822

if you out this out as fiction no-one would believe you because the whole thing is so far-fetched and fantastical. 

 

Absolutely epic

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Here, FINALLY, are some truths and details about what actually happened.  Read it if you can handle it, and watch the 4-minute video of one of the mildest actions by those 7th-century savages.

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'Not one girl could be shown to her parents':  The horrors of Oct 7 – as told by the survivors

 

[...] an awkward question: how can a country so smart, so Q from James Bond it can set up a factory to manufacture pagers, fit them with mini explosives, have Hezbollah distribute those pagers to all its members and get them to blow up at the same time, have failed to prevent thousands of barbarians breaching its border security and raping, burning and butchering 1,200 of its citizens?

 

So many questions still unanswered from October 7.  I put those queries to scores of Israelis – survivors, soldiers, politicians, bereaved parents, mothers of hostages and just regular people who had to step up for their nation on that dark day.

Some of what follows is horrifying and hard to bear, I know.  I am warning you in case you'd rather not read on.  But it is important to write it down.  We know how important it is because on the BBC news on Thursday, Hamas's deputy leader told international editor Jeremy Bowen that Hamas didn't set out to kill any Israeli women or children on October 7.  Hamas "resistance fighters" were ordered only to kill "occupation fighters", although he did concede that "there were certainly personal mistakes" and the fighters, who just popped into family homes on kibbutzim to have a chat and a bite to eat, "may have felt they were in danger".
 

The accounts told to me by the individuals below, and many others who shared their insights, paint a very different picture.  As always, the Devil is in the detail.  [...]

 

https://news.yahoo.com/news/saw-holocaust-many-dead-bodies-070000915.html