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Amazon has a good book in their Daily Deals for Kindle for $2.99--"Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States".
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Institute for Study of War Backgrounder 10 April Discussion of Iranian situation in spoiler Click To View Spoiler Bloomberg reported on April 10 that Iran or its proxies may conduct missile or drone strikes targeting military and government facilities in Israel in the coming days in response to the April 1 Israeli airstrike that killed seven IRGC officials in Damascus. Sources familiar with US and Israeli intelligence told Bloomberg that Iran or its proxies might use high-precision missiles in the strikes. One of the sources said that it is “a matter of when, not if” Iran will respond to the April 1 airstrike. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned on April 10 that Israel would attack Iran if “Iran attacks [Israel] from its own territory.” IRGC-affiliated media dismissed Katz’s warning, claiming that Israel seeks to deter Iran from responding to the April 1 airstrike and warning that Iran must respond. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—will not conduct attacks targeting US forces in Iraq as part of Iran’s response to the April 1 airstrike, according to two “knowledgeable sources” who spoke to a UK-based Saudi outlet on April 10. A “Shia source” told the outlet that Iranian-backed Iraqi militia leaders have had “intensive contacts” with Iranian officials since April 1 and that the two sides have agreed to “continue the calm” in Iraq. Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Chief of Staff and senior Kataib Hezbollah official Abdul Aziz (Abu Fadak) al Mohammadawi visited Tehran for Iran's annual, anti-Israel holiday, Quds Day, on April 5. Iranian officials and media previously attributed the April 1 Israeli airstrike to the United States, claiming that the United States gave Israel the “green light” to conduct the strike. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has not claimed an attack targeting US forces in Iraq since early February 2024. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant implicitly warned Iran on April 10 against launching an attack on Israel in response to the April 1 Israeli airstrike that killed seven IRGC officials in Damascus. Gallant said that Israel knows how to respond with “decisive offensive action” targeting any actor in the Middle East that attacks Israel. Gallant’s comments are consistent with warnings from other Israeli officials who have emphasized Israel’s preparation for an Iranian attack and a strong Israeli response to an Iranian attack. Unnamed US, Israeli, and other unspecified Western officials told the Washington Post on April 4 that they expected Iran to retaliate with drones or missile attacks against Israeli targets that would be ”calibrated to avoid an even bigger response from Israel". Key Takeaways: Gaza Strip Palestinian militias conducted several indirect fire attacks targeting Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement conducted a joint mortar attack targeting Israeli forces in southwest Gaza City. The Air Force struck a launch site from which Palestinian fighters had targeted Israeli forces in Shujaiya. Hamas claimed a mortar attack targeting Israeli forces in Shujaiya. The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement claimed that it fired a man-portable air defense system at an Israeli fighter jet in western Gaza City. The Air Force conducted an airstrike on April 10 that killed three sons of Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF reported that Haniyeh’s sons were Hamas fighters en route from al Shati camp to conduct an attack in the central Gaza Strip. The IDF said that one of the sons was a squad leader and the other two sons were fighters in Hamas’ military wing. . It is notable that Haniyeh‘s sons—three Hamas fighters—were using al Shati camp as a rear base to conduct attacks further south, given that Israeli forces re-cleared areas of al Shati in early February 2024. Several regional leaders, including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh to offer their condolences following the Israeli airstrike that targeted three of Haniyeh’s sons. The IDF Nahal Brigade continued clearing operations in the central Gaza Strip. The Nahal Brigade is operating around the border of the central and northern strip to secure the Israeli highway and bases nearby. The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades conducted a mortar attack on an IDF command site near the Netzarim corridor. Israeli Army Radio reported Israel would not open the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip for aid transports. Palestinian fighters did not conduct any indirect fire attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel on April 10. West Bank Israeli forces engaged Palestinian fighters in Tulkarm in the West Bank. Israeli forces detained nine wanted individuals across the West Bank during overnight operations. Israeli forces detained three wanted individuals and confiscated small arms in Qalandiya near Ramallah and detained six other individuals in Tulkarm. Israeli forces also seized weapons and money near Hebron. Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights-Syria Lebanese Hezbollah conducted at least two attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. The IDF struck a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) site operated by Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Syria. Yemen US CENTCOM reported that it intercepted a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden. CENTCOM said the Houthi attack was likely targeting the US-flagged and owned commercial vessel the MV Yorktown. Houthis claimed they conducted two attacks targeting US-flagged vessels, including the Yorktown and an unspecified US warship. The Houthis also claimed two attacks targeting two “Israeli” commercial vessels named the MSC Gina and the MSC Darwin. CENTCOM reported on April 9 that there were no injuries or damage to commercial or military vessels. UK Maritime Trade Operations reported that there were no security alerts from April 9 and 10. (The Houthis are lying to hide the dramatic reduction in missile/drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden). Houthi-affiliated media claimed that the United States conducted airstrikes near Hudaydah on April 10. Iran Bloomberg reported that Iran or its proxies may conduct missile or drone strikes targeting military and government facilities in Israel in the coming days in response to the April 1 Israeli airstrike that killed seven IRGC officials in Damascus. Iran and its Axis of Resistance have been engaged in a coordinated campaign to economically isolate Israel by encouraging Muslim nations to sever economic relations with Israel throughout the Israel-Hamas War. The Washington Post reported Iran is rapidly accumulating enriched uranium at its Fordow enrichment facility outside of Qom. Iraq Asaib Ahl al Haq Secretary General Qais al Khazali hinted that Iranian-backed Iraqi militias could resume attacking US forces if Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al Sudani’s upcoming visit to Washington, DC, fails to facilitate the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Political Negotiations Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh said that Israel would not get more concessions in the negotiations from Hamas after an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip killed three of his children. View Quote |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday |
Houthis had been shooting and flying fewer drones and missiles.
U.S. Central Command. @CENTCOM. April 10 Red Sea Update Between approximately 4:15 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (Sanaa time) on April 10, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully engaged three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. Two UAVs were launched over the Gulf of Aden and one UAV was launched over the Red Sea. There were no injuries or damage reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships. Then between approximately 7:50 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (Sanaa time), USCENTCOM forces successfully engaged and destroyed eight UAVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in self-defense. View Quote |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday |
Remains of Haniyeh brothers car
Netanyahu: We have a new principle – whoever hurts us, we hurt him Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an Israeli air force base in Tel Nof in southern Israel, and received an overview from commanders at the base on their activities throughout the last few months. During his visit, Netanyahu said, "We are in challenging times. We are in the middle of the war in Gaza which continues in full force, and at the same time we continue our non-stop efforts to return the hostage, but we are also preparing for challenging scenarios in other arenas." "We established a simple principle: whoever hurts us, we hurt him. We are preparing to meet the security needs of the State of Israel, both in defense and attack." View Quote IDF: We killed a Hamas financial operative in Rafah The IDF announced that it had killed a key member of Hamas' military wing involved in its financial funding in a joint attack with the Shin Bet in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The military also announced that over the past few days, its forces had been operating in the Shejaiyeh neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. Additionally, they raided a Hamas outpost, killed militants and destroyed the organization's infrastructure in the area. View Quote IDF launches offensive in central Gaza The IDF announced that it began an operation overnight in the center of the Gaza Strip, the goal of which is to kill Hamas members and destroy the organization's infrastructure in the area. Prior to the entry of Israeli forces, the air force reportedly attacked dozens of above and below ground targets in the area. Earlier, Palestinian media reported dead and wounded in attacked on a school and residential building in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. View Quote
Translation--The combat team of the 401st Brigade, Nahal, and other units under the command of the 162nd Division began tonight a targeted operation to eliminate terrorists and destroy terrorist infrastructure in the center of the Gaza Strip View Quote U.S. CENTCOM commander lands in Israel, set to meet IDF chief The commander of U.S. Central Command arrived in Israel and is expected to meet with the IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi and other senior officials. The CENTCOM commander, Gen. Michael Kurilla, is in regular contact with senior Israeli military officials. View Quote Killing of Hamas Leader's Sons Won't Torpedo Deal, but Could Postpone It More As the devastation and killing in Gaza has escalated since the war started, the Hamas leaders who live outside Gaza, especially Haniyeh, have faced growing criticism among Palestinians and around the Arab world about their living in luxury in Qatar while the people of Gaza are left to contend with the Israeli destruction machine. Palestinians, particularly those in Gaza, perceive the killing of three sons of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas politburo, as an Israeli act of revenge and frustration, not an impressive military action that will shake Hamas deeply enough to throw it off balance. Haniyeh's sons were not classified as operatives whose elimination would signal an in-depth intelligence penetration of Hamas – and the strike on them has only strengthened Haniyeh's status among the Hamas leadership and the Palestinian public. Entire article in spoiler--Source article. Analysis piece by long-time military correspondent for Haaretz. Yes, it is a leftist paper, but has some good background information. Click To View Spoiler Killing of Hamas leader's sons won't torpedo deal, but could postpone it more Palestinians, particularly those in Gaza, perceive the killing of three sons of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas politburo, as an Israeli act of revenge and frustration, not an impressive military action that will shake Hamas deeply enough to throw it off balance. Haniyeh's sons were not classified as operatives whose elimination would signal an in-depth intelligence penetration of Hamas – and the strike on them has only strengthened Haniyeh's status among the Hamas leadership and the Palestinian public. As the devastation and killing in Gaza has escalated since the war started, the Hamas leaders who live outside Gaza, especially Haniyeh, have faced growing criticism among Palestinians and around the Arab world about their living in luxury in Qatar while the people of Gaza are left to contend with the Israeli destruction machine. There have been many complaints about how they made sure to get their relatives out of Gaza via the Rafah crossing at the start of the war. Upon learning of the strike on his sons and grandchildren, Haniyeh was quick to describe it as a blessing for them making them martyrs, and proclaimed it proof that his children had not abandoned their people in Gaza. Hamas will likely continue to highlight the personal price paid by its political leader – who hasn't lived in Gaza since being appointed to his current position – to boost his image. The timing of the killing will also be highlighted. It took place on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday while, according to Hamas, the three were visiting family. Israel claims the three were on the way to carry out "terrorist activity," but the Palestinians, including those who oppose Hamas, won't believe that claim, especially since two of the sons had their children with them. Despite the direct hit on Haniyeh's family, the operation won't necessarily impact the negotiations for a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel. If genuine progress is made on the issues in dispute and Israel shows more flexibility, or if a compromise that both sides can accept is reached, Haniyeh and his allies in the Hamas leadership won't be able to veto an agreement solely because of the strike on his sons. Were he to torpedo a deal, he would have to explain why a cease-fire, the entry of humanitarian aid, and the return of displaced persons to their homes would take a back seat to the strike on his family – and why it would be given more weight than the 33,000 killed before them since the start of the war. Haniyeh emphasized the message that his children were part of the Palestinian people and that Hamas is a popular movement – that any targeted killing, including of high-ranking Hamas officials, may be perceived in Israel as an intelligence and tactical achievement, but won't signify any strategic shift or make Hamas retreat from its demands in the negotiations. It could, however, throw another wrench into the negotiations and compel the parties to spend further hours, days, and weeks in talks in which Hamas will demand guarantees that its leaders and their families won't targeted, both in Gaza and abroad. Israel is unlikely to agree to such a demand in the short term, so the deal will be delayed even further. Ultimately, then, while Haniyeh may have lost three sons, he will win more popular sympathy and support thanks to the Israeli operation. Israel may have achieved a bit of temporary revenge but distanced itself even more from its war goals – especially securing the release of the 133 hostages. View Quote Here are the latest updates on day 188 of the war ■ U.S. Central Command chief lands in Israel and is expected to meet senior officials including IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi. ■ The IDF launched a military offensive in central Gaza overnight in which Israeli forces entered the Nuseirat refugee camp after the air force targeted Hamas infrastructure. ■ Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reported that 33,545 have been killed since the beginning of the war. ■ IDF Spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said that he expects the number of aid trucks entering Gaza daily to soon reach 500, noting the average number currently stands at 250. ■ Israeli police and army reopened the Nitzana border crossing after dispersing dozens of protesters blocking the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. ■ Medical sources in Gaza reported six killed in an airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. ■ German and Iranian foreign ministers discuss Middle East tensions over phone call View Quote Source of articles below. The IDF says it carried out a pinpoint operation in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood over the past few days. During the raid carried out by the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, troops killed numerous gunmen and destroyed sites belonging to Hamas, according to the IDF. One of the sites raided by the troops was a Hamas training base. The IDF says that after the raid, the Hamas outpost was destroyed in an airstrike. View Quote US officials tell the Wall Street Journal that there are fears that most of the Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity could be dead. he report comes amid talks to secure a hostage release deal and a truce, with some Hamas sources indicating that they are unable to provide 40 living hostages from the elderly, women and female soldiers that Israel is demanding. It is believed that 129 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza. The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 of those still held by Hamas, citing intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza. However, the WSJ report says that “Israeli and American officials estimate privately that the number of deaths could be much higher.” Some US estimates indicate that most of the hostages are already dead, US officials familiar with the intelligence tell the paper. They stress, however, that US information on the hostages is limited and depends, in part, on Israeli intelligence. The report quotes US officials as saying that some were likely killed during Israeli strikes on Gaza, while others have died from health issues, including injuries suffered during their initial capture. Hamas terrorists took 253 hostages during the October 7 assault in which they also killed some 1,200 people. A hundred and five hostages were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Three hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 12 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military. One more person is listed as missing since October 7, and their fate is still unknown. Hamas is also holding the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014, as well as two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are both thought to be alive after entering the Strip of their own accord in 2014 and 2015 respectively. View Quote |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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The Stars at Night are Big & Bright clap*clap*clap
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Originally Posted By BM1455:
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Thanks Michigan66 and others for keeping this updated.
My other 2 two YouTube sources, War Stream and Raptor News are apparently no longer functioning. Raptor news has been wiped clean except for some old cartoon videos. Anybody know what's going on with that? |
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Originally Posted By 0002s: Originally Posted By BM1455:
no shit I'm surprised, frankly. The hostages are-were-worth their weight in gold to Hamas. If it's true most hostages are dead but negotiations continued as if they were alive, Hamas made Qatar look like a bunch of jackasses. Biting the hand that feeds them. The anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel in could become very interesting. Originally Posted By TugJob: Thanks Michigan66 and others for keeping this updated. YW. Most of the English language channels on Gaza are leftist. At this point in time I'd start looking for sources in Lebanon/Syria. |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday |
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View Quote Joe boy likely sent them a huge sack of money to back off. |
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View Quote Sullivan and Blinken are just smart as whips. |
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View Quote It our people weren't already operating with that as their default assumption then they're idiots. |
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The father of the late female soldier Shir Hajjaj, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem, came to the room where a Hamas terrorist was hospitalized in Hadassah Hospital and cried out his heart.
The IDF says it launched a "targeted operation" against Hamas in the central Gaza Strip overnight, on the outskirts of Nuseirat, an area where ground troops have not yet operated in during the ongoing war. The IDF says fighter jets carried out a strike earlier on a building in southern Lebanon's Ayta ash-Shab, where Hezbollah terrorist were gathered. The IDF's new and extended humanitarian aid measures: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Son of Hamas, with the truth you never heard before: |
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So the chef was in cahoots with Hamas all along and it appears their convoy was being used as cover/decoy when it was hit. War zones are inherently dangerous.
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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The Stars at Night are Big & Bright clap*clap*clap
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Originally Posted By michigan66: I'm surprised, frankly. The hostages are-were-worth their weight in gold to Hamas. If it's true most hostages are dead but negotiations continued as if they were alive, Hamas made Qatar look like a bunch of jackasses. Biting the hand that feeds them. View Quote Hamas and more importantly those that carried this attack out don’t strike me as too smart. They raped woman, killed people indiscriminately, killed elderly and children. The majority of the hostages were dead day 1. The amount of POWs and intelligence the Israelites have lets them know what to expect. -jm2c |
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Originally Posted By michigan66: I'm surprised, frankly. The hostages are-were-worth their weight in gold to Hamas. If it's true most hostages are dead but negotiations continued as if they were alive, Hamas made Qatar look like a bunch of jackasses. Biting the hand that feeds them. View Quote You're aware they've been kicked out of and/or cut off from every single state (except Iran now, but they'll do something there too eventually) that has tried to help them over the years because they ALWAYS do the same shit? Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and even Morocco all kicked them out and told them to go F themselves. It would actually be pretty hilarious if they had just kept it within the arabs. Anyways, I'm not surprised. I posted here a few pages ago that my reliable and good sources were rumoring about a week ago that Israel knew full well that the hostages were dead, and was making exceptionally generous cease-fire offers to only serve to undermine any legitimacy that hamas might have had left. The capacity for an arab, especially a pali, to absolutely go full retard in a fighting situation just can not be underestimated. There is no way, not in a million years, that after the first shot was fired each little group didn't devolve into pure chaos, regardless of whatever their orders were (presumably to take as many hostages as possible). Couple that with the fact that in order to coordinate the whole thing the plans must have been exceptionally simple, probably just "at X time, we're going into Y place to grab Jews and return to point Q." Beyond that, I doubt any of the actual terrorists had much knowledge of any bigger strategic plan. |
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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If the post below seems sarcastic, please overlook that. I'm not trying to be a jerk; if my tone makes it seem that way, I apologize in advance.
Originally Posted By 0002s: Hamas and more importantly those that carried this attack out don’t strike me as too smart. They raped woman, killed people indiscriminately, killed elderly and children. The majority of the hostages were dead day 1. The amount of POWs and intelligence the Israelites have lets them know what to expect. -jm2c View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 0002s: Originally Posted By michigan66: I'm surprised, frankly. The hostages are-were-worth their weight in gold to Hamas. If it's true most hostages are dead but negotiations continued as if they were alive, Hamas made Qatar look like a bunch of jackasses. Biting the hand that feeds them. Hamas and more importantly those that carried this attack out don’t strike me as too smart. They raped woman, killed people indiscriminately, killed elderly and children. The majority of the hostages were dead day 1. The amount of POWs and intelligence the Israelites have lets them know what to expect. -jm2c Nearly 50% of the hostages were released or rescued; counting videos of yet unreleased hostages and the four killed by the IDF or in an unsuccessful rescue attempt, a majority of hostages was demonstrably alive long after 7 Oct. Hostages for prisoners has a long history in Israel's wars, and everyone , even the slowest Gazan, knows that. One of the hostages was a nurse who spoke Arabic; she said the group that kidnapped her and others brought them to Hamas and "sold" them. Sinwar needed a big prisoner release to raise Hamas's standing among Palestinian militant groups. He knew all his mortars, IEDs and rockets wouldn't give him leverage to free anyone; he needed hostages. Using only IDF soldiers as hostages wasn't a sure thing, in the last Gaza war in May 2021 they were unable to capture any, so the planning for al-Aqsa flood incorporated kidnapping civilians along with as many soldiers as they could.. Killing hostages en masse while they still had "trade value" would destroy any chance for a major exchange in this war and any future wars. A far as what they did in Israel, that was planned to incite Israeli rage which then would lead to an extreme reaction designed to make Israel look bad, jeopardize relations with friendly or neutral governments in the region, and drive a wedge between Israel and the US. It seems to be working. Originally Posted By _Nataraja_: You're aware they've been kicked out of and/or cut off from every single state (except Iran now, but they'll do something there too eventually) that has tried to help them over the years because they ALWAYS do the same shit? Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and even Morocco all kicked them out and told them to go F themselves. It would actually be pretty hilarious if they had just kept it within the arabs. Anyways, I'm not surprised. I posted here a few pages ago that my reliable and good sources were rumoring about a week ago that Israel knew full well . Could you post the info on when Morocco kicked the PLO or Palestinians out? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks in advance. I don't buy Netanyahu making big concessions just to make Hamas look bad. If that were case, he should say something now to take the focus off Israel and the bad press they've had this week. Negotiating for dead hostages would also make the Qataris look like fools, which in turn would threaten Hamas's relations with their #1 paymaster and safe haven. There is no way, not in a million years, that after the first shot was fired each little group didn't devolve into pure chaos, regardless of whatever their orders were If what you say is true, it makes the IDF look terrible--they were outthought and outfought by undisciplined morons. It was also the reaction of Southern Command's leaders when they were shown intelligence pointing to a massive attack. They said Hamas wasn't smart enough to carry it out. Combat so far hasn't shown the Arabs in Gaza to be chaotic and stupid at all. Couple that with the fact that in order to coordinate the whole thing the plans must have been exceptionally simple, probably just "at X time, we're going into Y place to grab Jews and return to point Q." Beyond that, I doubt any of the actual terrorists had much knowledge of any bigger strategic plan. Ordinary shitbird Gazans went into Israel to capture hostages who they then sold to bigger groups. They might not understand all the "whys" of the kidnapping, but they did know it was important. In the run up to Oct 7th, an NCO in Unit 8200 intercepted comms during a Hamas exercise where militants simulated taking hostages. Hamas fighters were given papers with commands in Hebrew to allow them to communicate with the hostages. Why go to all that trouble just to immediately kill the hostages in Gaza? But maybe I'm mistaken, maybe Palestinians really took ~200 prisoners back to Gaza, fed them and dedicated "soldiers" to guard them, all so they could murder them at their leisure as they became bored. 50 years of precedent for how they treat and use kidnap victims was ignored because the "Palis" are cretins. You all have posted your opinion on the subject, and I've posted mine. I won't change your minds and you won't change mine. I've enjoyed the discussion, but I've said all I'm going to say on this; no need to drag out the same things I've posted since before Thanksgiving. |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Originally Posted By michigan66: If the post below seems sarcastic, please overlook that. I'm not trying to be a jerk; if my tone makes it seem that way, I apologize in advance. Nearly 50% of the hostages were released or rescued; counting videos of yet unreleased hostages and the four killed by the IDF or in an unsuccessful rescue attempt, a majority of hostages was demonstrably alive long after 7 Oct. Hostages for prisoners has a long history in Israel's wars, and everyone , even the slowest Gazan, knows that. One of the hostages was a nurse who spoke Arabic; she said the group that kidnapped her and others brought them to Hamas and "sold" them. Sinwar needed a big prisoner release to raise Hamas's standing among Palestinian militant groups. He knew all his mortars, IEDs and rockets wouldn't give him leverage to free anyone; he needed hostages. Using only IDF soldiers as hostages wasn't a sure thing, in the last Gaza war in May 2021 they were unable to capture any, so the planning for al-Aqsa flood incorporated kidnapping civilians along with as many soldiers as they could.. Killing hostages en masse while they still had "trade value" would destroy any chance for a major exchange in this war and any future wars. A far as what they did in Israel, that was planned to incite Israeli rage which then would lead to an extreme reaction designed to make Israel look bad, jeopardize relations with friendly or neutral governments in the region, and drive a wedge between Israel and the US. It seems to be working. Could you post the info on when Morocco kicked the PLO out? I can't find it anywhere. I don't buy Netanyahu making big concessions just to make Hamas look bad. If that were case, he should say something now to take the focus off Israel and the bad press they've had this week. Negotiating for dead hostages would also make the Qataris look like fools, which in turn would threaten Hamas's relations with their #1 paymaster and safe haven. Sure didn't look that way the morning of 7 Oct. The first wave into Israel didn't fall apart and degenerate into a mob. That wave managed to tear up the Golani brigade to such a degree that some units in the brigade saw more soldiers killed in 8 hours on Oct 7th than they lost in the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars combined. It makes the IDF look terrible, as they were outthought and outfought by undisciplined morons. It was also the reaction of Southern Command's leaders when they were shown intelligence pointing to a massive attack. They said Hamas wasn't smart enough to carry it out. Combat so far hasn't shown the Arabs in Gaza to be chaotic and stupid at all. Ordinary shitbird Gazans went into Israel to capture hostages who they then sold to bigger groups. They might not understand all the "whys" of the kidnapping, but they did know it was important. In the run up to Oct 7th, an NCO in Unit 8200 intercepted comms during a Hamas exercise where militants simulated taking hostages. Hamas fighters were given papers with commands in Hebrew to communicate with the hostages. Why go to all that trouble just to immediately kill the hostages in Gaza? But maybe I'm mistaken, maybe Palestinians really took ~200 prisoners back to Gaza, fed them and dedicated "soldiers" to guard them, all so they could murder them at their leisure as they became bored. 50 years of precedent for how they treat and use kidnap victims was ignored because the "Palis" are cretins. You all have posted your opinion on the subject, and I've posted mine. I won't change your minds and you won't change mine. I've enjoyed the discussion, but I've said all I'm going to say on this; no need to drag out the same things I've posted since before Thanksgiving. View Quote Yeah, heck of a plan Brownie. Except somebody didn’t count on the Jews saying, ‘fuck it’ let’s burn this motherfucker down. Attempting to make your enemy look bad and negotiate for hostages only works when your enemy gives a shit about their looks and negotiations. Someone read the room wrong. |
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Institute for Study of War Backgrounder 11 April Key Takeaways: Gaza Strip Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant clarified that Israel’s war aim in the Gaza Strip is to prevent Hamas from conducting another October 7-style attack into Israel again. That is what Israeli leaders mean when they say that they seek to destroy Hamas as a military organization. Gallant added that the IDF has already destroyed four of Hamas’ five brigades and that Israeli forces are currently contending with “hotspots” of militia activity across the Gaza Strip. The remaining [Hamas] brigade not yet destroyed is in Rafah. Israel has destroyed a large quantity of Hamas’ military infrastructure and weapons as well as killed thousands of fighters in the Gaza. Hamas fighters are currently operating as small squad- and platoon-sized cells instead of the well-organized structure they had prior to the war. The Israel Defense Forces conducted a raid in Shujaiya in the northern Gaza. The IDF Northern Brigade (Gaza Division) has conducted “targeted activities” in the area recently, including killing Palestinian fighters and destroying military infrastructure, such as a Hamas training base. Palestinian militias conducted several attacks targeting Israeli forces in the northern Gaza. The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades mortared Israeli vehicles south of Gaza City. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) separately said that it conducted a sniper attack in al Taqa, east of Gaza City. The IDF announced it conducted an operation targeting Hamas outside Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. The IDF Nahal Brigade and 401st Brigade led the operation. The Air Force coordinated with the 215th Artillery Brigade (162nd Division) and directed airstrikes targeting dozens of Palestinian fighters and military infrastructure before Israeli ground forces entered the area. The Nahal Brigade identified a fighter emerging from a tunnel, and the IDF Air Force conducted an airstrike targeting the fighter as they approached Israeli forces. The Navy separately conducted several strikes targeting Palestinian fighters along the central Gaza coast. The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC) conducted a combined mortar attack targeting Israeli forces north of Nuseirat refugee camp. This event marks the second known instance of the PFLP-GC attacking the IDF in the Gaza since the war began. The IDF and Shin Bet killed a Hamas fighter who was responsible for financing Hamas military activities in Rafah. The IDF said that the fighter transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hamas in December 2023 for its operations in Rafah. Israeli media reported on April 11 that an IDF Southern Command colonel approved the airstrike that killed three sons of Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh in the northern Gaza. Israeli media reported that senior Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, were not aware of the strike before it occurred. Israeli media reported that the IDF targeted Haniyeh’s sons for their involvement in holding Israeli hostages. Unspecified Palestinian fighters conducted an indirect fire attack from the central Gaza. Israeli Army Radio reported that four munitions fell short inside the Gaza. No Palestinian militia has claimed responsibility for the attack at the time of this writing. West Bank Israeli forces engaged Palestinian fighters in Tulkarm and arrested six wanted individuals and seized small arms. Israeli forces separately arrested an individual in Hebron on suspicion of planning to conduct a stabbing attack. Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights Lebanese Hezbollah has conducted at least three attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Yemen US CENTCOM confirmed that it intercepted three Houthi drones over the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. Houthis claimed they conducted several attacks targeting commercial and military vessels in the Gulf of Aden. US CENTCOM preemptively struck eight Houthi drones in Houthi-controlled Yemen. Houthi-affiliated media separately claimed that the United States conducted airstrikes near Hudaydah on April 10. Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al Sudani wrote an article for Foreign Affairs reiterating his intention to end the US-led international coalition’s presence in Iraq and transition to a “comprehensive” bilateral relationship with the United States. Iran Iran appears to be exploiting the uncertainty surrounding its reported “imminent” attack against Israel to stoke psychological terror in Israel. Western media reported on April 10 that Iran could launch drone and missile strikes into Israel imminently in retaliation for the IDF strike in Damascus. Iranian state media posted on X (Twitter) later on April 10 that the Iranian defense minister announced the closure of the airspace around Tehran for a military exercise. Iranian regime-affiliated channels then began circulating posts suggesting that an Iranian attack into Israel would soon occur. The coincidence of these posts led to extensive public speculation that Iran would launch an attack into Israel while the airspace around Tehran was closed. Iranian state media shortly thereafter retracted the claims of Iranian airspace being closed and denied that the Iranian defense minister made any related announcement. The publication and retraction of these reports is bizarre, Iranian military and political officials have boasted in recent days that the impending nature of their attack is itself damaging to Israel, suggesting that the media reports may have been part of a sophisticated information operation. Stoking terror in Israel is consistent with CTP-ISW’s previous observation that Iranian leaders want the Israel-Hamas war to catalyze migration away from Israel and thereby erode the long-term viability of the Jewish state. View Quote In depth discussion on Israeli war objectives inside spoiler Click To View Spoiler Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant clarified on April 10 that Israel’s war aim in the Gaza Strip is to prevent Hamas from conducting another October 7-style attack into Israel. Gallant said that preventing another October 7-style attack is what Israeli leaders mean when saying that they seek to destroy Hamas as a military organization. Gallant added that the IDF has already destroyed four of Hamas’ five brigades and that Israeli forces are currently contending with “hotspots” of militia activity across the Gaza Strip. The remaining brigade that Israeli leaders say they have not yet destroyed is in Rafah. Israeli operations have likely degraded Hamas in the Gaza Strip severely, rendering Hamas unable to restore its military wing to pre-October 7 levels in the short term. Gallant described Hamas’ military force as comparable to an “organized commando division” prior to the war. Israel has since then destroyed a large quantity of Hamas’ military infrastructure and weapons as well as killed thousands of fighters in the Gaza Strip thus far. Hamas fighters are currently operating as small squad- and platoon-sized cells instead of the well-organized structure they had prior to the war. Hamas will thus require extensive resources and time to rebuild its military force. Hamas remains determined to reconstitute itself militarily and reassert its authority in the Gaza Strip, however. Hamas is already trying to coopt and undermine possible alternatives to its rule, which is evident by the reported Hamas attack targeting the head of a local clan in March 2024. Hamas is also attempting to facilitate trade and rehabilitate local police in the northern Gaza Strip, which are parts of Hamas’ larger effort to restore control over the civilian population. Gallant acknowledged that Israel must empower a local alternative to Hamas in a post-war scenario. |
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Originally Posted By michigan66: Iran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel Interesting discussion on routes Iran uses to get arms to militants in the West Bank. What isn't talked about is the source of the weapons. I know Iran makes M4 clones, but if these are the arms seized in Israel I'd expect to see that publicized. Are they stolen from or sold by the PA, stolen from the Jordanian military, Iraq, Afghanistan? Nobody is saying. Highpoints Entire article in spoiler: Click To View Spoiler Iran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel The covert operation, described by U.S., Iranian and Israeli officials, is heightening concerns that Iran is seeking to turn the West Bank into a flashpoint in its shadow war with Israel. Iran is operating a clandestine smuggling route across the Middle East, employing intelligence operatives, militants and criminal gangs, to deliver weapons to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to officials from the United States, Israel and Iran. The goal, as described by three Iranian officials, is to foment unrest against Israel by flooding the enclave with as many weapons as it can. The covert operation is now heightening concerns that Tehran is seeking to turn the West Bank into the next flashpoint in the long-simmering shadow war between Israel and Iran. That conflict has taken on new urgency this month, risking a broader conflict in the Middle East, as Iran vowed to retaliate for an Israeli strike on an embassy compound that killed seven Iranian armed forces commanders. Many weapons smuggled to the West Bank largely travel along two paths from Iran through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, the officials said. As the arms cross borders, the officials added, they change hands among a multinational cast that can include members of organized criminal gangs, extremist militants, soldiers and intelligence operatives. A key group in the operation, the Iranian officials and analysts said, are Bedouin smugglers who carry the weapons across the border from Jordan into Israel. The New York Times interviewed senior security and government officials with knowledge of Iran’s effort to smuggle weapons to the West Bank, including three from Israel, three from Iran and three from the United States. The officials from all three countries requested anonymity to discuss covert operations for which they were not authorized to speak publicly. “The Iranians wanted to flood the West Bank with weapons, and they were using criminal networks in Jordan, in the West Bank and in Israel, primarily Bedouin, to move and sell the products,” said Matthew Levitt, director of the counterterrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research organization, and the author of a study on the smuggling route. The smuggling to the West Bank, analysts said, began about two years ago when Iran started using routes previously established to smuggle other contraband. It is unclear exactly how many weapons have made it to the territory in that time, though analysts say the majority are small arms. In the months since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel from Gaza, Israeli security forces have conducted a large-scale crackdown across the West Bank. The Israeli military describes the raids as part of its counterterrorism effort against Hamas and other armed factions to root out weapons and militants. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, including those accused of attacking Israelis, according to the United Nations, in one of the deadliest periods in decades. Human rights groups say many Palestinians are being unfairly detained, particularly those held in Israeli prisons without a formal trial. They say that it is unclear how many of the detainees possess genuine militant links. “These arrests include many who are being swept up for reasons that are not clear,” said Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has a long track record of abusive detention, arbitrary arrests and detaining people for exercising their basic rights.” For years, Iran’s leaders have declared the necessity of arming Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank. Iran has long supplied weapons for attacking Israel to militants elsewhere in the region, members of its so-called Axis of Resistance, including its two primary Palestinian allies in Gaza, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both of those groups, which also operate in the West Bank, are designated terrorist organizations by the United States, the European Union, Israel and other countries. A night street scene in Tehran, illuminated by green light. In the background is a large banner of a bearded man wearing a military uniform. Iranians breaking their Ramadan fast on Wednesday in Tehran near a banner of Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who was killed this month in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Credit... Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times The Iranian officials said Tehran had not singled out a particular group for its largess, choosing instead to broadly inundate the territory with guns and ammunition. Afshon Ostovar, an associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and an expert on Iran’s military, said Iran was focusing on the West Bank because it understood that access to Gaza would be curtailed for the foreseeable future. “The West Bank really needs to be the next frontier that Iran will penetrate and proliferate weapons into, because if they are able to do that then the West Bank will become just as big a problem, if not bigger, as Gaza,” he said. Fatah, the Palestinian faction that controls the Palestinian Authority and with it much of the West Bank, accused Iran last week of trying to “exploit” Palestinians for its own means by spreading chaos in the territory. In a statement, Fatah said it would not allow “our sacred cause and the blood of our people to be exploited” by Iran. In a statement, Iran’s U.N. Mission did not comment on the smuggling operation, but emphasized what it said was the importance of Palestinians taking up arms against Israel. “Iran’s assessment posits that the sole effective avenue for resisting the occupation by the Zionist regime is through armed resistance,” said Amir Saeid Iravani, the country’s U.N. ambassador. “Palestinian resistance forces possess the capability to manufacture and procure the necessary armaments for their cause.” Even after Oct. 7, as Iran’s proxies have increasingly launched salvos from Lebanon and Yemen, Tehran and Jerusalem preferred to restrict much of their conflict to the shadows. But that covert war exploded into public view last week with the airstrike against an Iranian Embassy building in Syria. Israeli warplanes on April 1 attacked a meeting of leaders from Iran’s armed forces and members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Damascus, the Iranian officials said. Among those killed was Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, 65, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps general in charge of Iran’s covert operations in Syria and Lebanon through which parts of the weapons smuggling trail wends, the Israeli, Iranian and American officials said. That attack came on the heels of another Israeli airstrike. On March 26, Israeli forces struck a key node of the smuggling route in eastern Syria, according to the American and Iranian officials, and two of the Israeli officials. The majority of the smuggled weapons, analysts said, are small arms like handguns and assault rifles. Iran is also smuggling advanced weapons, according to the American officials and Israeli officials. Those weapons, the Israeli officials said, include antitank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades, which fly fast and low to the ground, creating a challenge for Israel when defending civilian and military targets from close-range fire. Israel’s domestic security agency, Shin Bet, said in a statement that it had recently seized advanced military equipment smuggled into the West Bank. The statement added that Shin Bet “takes very seriously involvement in activities directed by Iran and its affiliates and will continue to carry out active measures at all times to monitor and thwart any activity that endangers the security of the state of Israel.” Working with its militant allies and established criminal networks, Iran is using two main routes to get weapons to the West Bank, the Israeli, Iranian and American officials said. Along one route, Iran-backed militants and Iranian operatives carry the weapons from Syria to Jordan, the officials said. From there, the Iranian officials added, they are transferred at the border to Bedouin smugglers. The nomads take the weapons to the border with Israel, where they are picked up by criminal gangs who then move them to the West Bank. The Iranian effort taps a well-established smuggling route in Jordan, which shares a porous 300-mile border with Israel. Last year, a Jordanian lawmaker was indicted in Amman, Jordan, after being caught in 2022 trying to smuggle more than 200 weapons into the West Bank. The source of the weapons is unclear. One of the Iranian officials said increased security since Oct. 7, by both Israel and Jordan, has raised the risk of getting caught, especially for Bedouins and Arab-Israelis who play critical roles for their ability to cross borders. A second, more challenging route skips Jordan and takes the weapons from Syria to Lebanon, two of the U.S. officials said. From there, many of the weapons are smuggled into Israel, where criminal gangs pick them up and move them to the West Bank. The route through Lebanon, Mr. Levitt said, is more difficult, particularly since the war in Gaza started, because the border on which Hezbollah operates is more heavily patrolled by both the Israeli military and U.N. peacekeepers. Much of the work coordinating the smuggling route is done by Iranian operatives from the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards’ external intelligence agency, according to two of the Iranian officials who are affiliated with the Guards. In addition to killing General Zahedi, the Israeli strike against the Iranian Embassy building in Damascus last week killed two other Quds Force generals and four other officers, Iran said, making it one of the deadliest attacks of the shadow war. The American officials and two of the Israeli officials said a series of strikes in Syria a week earlier were aimed at two Iranian intelligence divisions involved in the smuggling. One unit, known as Division 4000, is overseen directly by the Revolutionary Guards. The other, Division 18840, is operated by the Quds Force. Days before the Israeli strike on the embassy building in Damascus, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave his personal seal of approval to the Palestinian militants who receive many of Iran’s weapons. In Tehran, he met with the leaders of two armed groups: Ziyad al-Nakhalah of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas. Ayatollah Khamenei, who years ago publicly issued an order to arm the West Bank, told both leaders, according to the state media, that Iran would not hesitate to support Palestinians and their cause. “It would not have been easy for the Palestinian people to withstand this battle had it not been for Iran’s continuous and consistent support at all political, military and security levels,” Mr. al-Nakhalah said in a speech in Tehran. View Quote Most likely they are Chinese made, i forget the designation, but iran has been showing them off in parades for decades. The ones I'm familiar with are based off the A1, they had their carry handles cut off and a pic or weaver rail bolted on |
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French Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that due to the risk of military escalation in the Middle East:
- French citizens are advised to avoid all travel to Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories in the coming days. - The families of diplomats are leaving Tehran - French civil servant missions in these same countries are banned. |
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Spain PM: 'Clear signs' Europe is ready to recognize Palestinian state Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday said there were "clear signs" in Europe that countries in the region are prepared to recognize a Palestinian state. Sanchez met earlier with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo amid his diplomatic campaign to garner support for the recognition of Palestinian statehood. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday said there were "clear signs" in Europe that countries in the region are prepared to recognize a Palestinian state. Sanchez met earlier with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo amid his diplomatic campaign to garner support for the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu to conduct security assessment amid preparations for potential Iranian attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will conduct a security situation assessment on Friday amid preparations for a possible Iranian attack. He will be joined by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Minister Benny Gantz and senior members of the defense establishment. IDF and Shin Bet say head of Hamas' internal security in Jabalya killed on Thursday in airstrike The IDF confirmed on Friday reports that it killed the head of Hamas' internal security in the Jabalya area, Radoan Radoan, on Thursday. According to the army, Radoan was responsible for the damage to humanitarian aid trucks in northern Gaza. Wall Street Journal: Israel is preparing for a direct attack from Iran in the next 48 hours The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Israel is preparing for a direct attack from Iran, in southern or northern Israel, in the next 48 hours. According to the report, the leadership in Iran discussed plans for an attack, but has not decided how to proceed. An American official said Thursday night that U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Iran's attack may be on Israeli territory, and not on Israeli targets abroad. Discussion on Iranian "head games" around retaliatory strikes from the ISW Iran appears to be exploiting the uncertainty surrounding its reported “imminent” attack against Israel to stoke psychological terror in Israel. Western media reported on April 10 that Iran could launch drone and missile strikes into Israel imminently in retaliation for the IDF strike in Damascus. Iranian state media posted on X (Twitter) later on April 10 that the Iranian defense minister announced the closure of the airspace around Tehran for a military exercise. Iranian regime-affiliated channels then began circulating posts suggesting that an Iranian attack into Israel would soon occur. The coincidence of these posts led to extensive public speculation that Iran would launch an attack into Israel while the airspace around Tehran was closed. Iranian state media shortly thereafter retracted the claims of Iranian airspace being closed and denied that the Iranian defense minister made any related announcement. The publication and retraction of these reports is bizarre, Iranian military and political officials have boasted in recent days that the impending nature of their attack is itself damaging to Israel, suggesting that the media reports may have been part of a sophisticated information operation. The Red Crescent reported on Friday the death of a 22-year-old Palestinian who was killed in clashes with the Israeli army in the al-Fara refugee camp, near the city of Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank. According to witnesses at the scene, the clashes took place at night, when forces entered the area to arrest wanted persons. Two people were also wounded. One is in serious condition, and a 17-year-old is in moderate condition. Palestinian killed in Tubas |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
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WSJ--Iranian Attack Expected on Israel in Next Two Days
Earlier this week, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard contacted the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with several options to strike Israeli interests, said an adviser to the paramilitary force. The scenarios under consideration include a direct attack on Israel with sophisticated medium-range missiles, he said. In recent hours, social-media accounts close to the Revolutionary Guard have posted videos showing simulated missile attacks on Israel’s Haifa airport and its nuclear facility in Dimona. An Iranian official has also previously said Iran would strike at Israel’s power and desalination plants if attacked. But Khamenei has yet to decide on the plans. He is concerned a direct attack could backfire with the projectiles being intercepted and Israel responding with a massive retaliation on Iran’s strategic infrastructure. “The strike plans are in front of the Supreme Leader and he is still weighing the political risk,” the adviser said. (This isn't a minor concern. PGMs are Iran's main threat for Israel and others in the region. If they launch a strike that Israel intercepts it would be a huge blow). Entire article in quote box Exclusive | Iranian Attack Expected on Israel in Next Two Days TEL AVIV—Israel is preparing for a direct attack from Iran on southern or northern Israel as soon as Friday or Saturday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A person briefed by the Iranian leadership, however, said that while plans to attack are being discussed, no final decision has been made. Iran has publicly threatened to retaliate for an attack last week in Damascus, Syria, that Tehran said was an Israeli airstrike on a diplomatic building. The strike killed top Iranian military officials, including a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force. Earlier this week, U.S. intelligence reports showed that an attack on Israeli assets by Iran or its proxies could be imminent, but a source says it now appears that the attack could be within Israel’s borders. A U.S. official with knowledge of the matter said Thursday that American intelligence reports indicate an Iranian retaliatory strike within days, “possibly on Israeli soil” as opposed to Israeli interests elsewhere. On Thursday, the American Embassy in Israel said U.S. government employees and family members would be restricted from any personal travel outside of central Israel, Jerusalem and Beersheba until further notice. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East, was in Israel on Thursday, defense officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking from an air base in southern Israel, also on Thursday, vowed to respond directly against any attack on Israel. “Whoever harms us, we will harm them. We are prepared to meet all of the security needs of the State of Israel, both defensively and offensively,” he said. Syria also accused Israel of carrying out the attack, which killed Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who managed Iranian paramilitary operations in Syria and Lebanon, according to Iranian state media and U.S. officials. Zahedi was the highest-ranking Iranian military official to be killed since the January 2020 U.S. assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. At least six other Iranian militants were killed in the strike, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said. An Israeli military spokesman said that intelligence showed the building hit in Damascus wasn’t a diplomatic facility but a building that the Quds Force uses and is disguised as a civilian site. Earlier this week, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard contacted the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with several options to strike Israeli interests, said an adviser to the paramilitary force. The scenarios under consideration include a direct attack on Israel with sophisticated medium-range missiles, he said. In recent hours, social-media accounts close to the Revolutionary Guard have posted videos showing simulated missile attacks on Israel’s Haifa airport and its nuclear facility in Dimona. An Iranian official has also previously said Iran would strike at Israel’s power and desalination plants if attacked. But Khamenei has yet to decide on the plans. He is concerned a direct attack could backfire with the projectiles being intercepted and Israel responding with a massive retaliation on Iran’s strategic infrastructure. “The strike plans are in front of the Supreme Leader and he is still weighing the political risk,” the adviser said. The scenarios involve attacks by Tehran’s proxies in Syria and Iraq, for which Iran delivered drones out of warehouses in recent days, according to advisers to the IRGC and the Syrian government. Iran and its allies could also attack the Golan—a disputed territory annexed by Israel from Syria in 1981—or even Gaza, they said, to avoid an attack within Israel’s internationally recognized territory. Another option would be to strike at Israeli Embassies, notably in the Arab world, to show them that friendly ties with Tel Aviv could be costly, these people said. Meanwhile, the international community has been scrambling to avoid an escalation. On Thursday, Annalena Baerbock and David Cameron, respectively the foreign ministers of Germany and the U.K., both called their Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, to ask Tehran not to attack Israel, according to British and Iranian officials. “Calls have been made by several regional and European ministers to Iran’s Foreign Minister,” a spokesman for Iran’s mission at the United Nations in New York told The Wall Street Journal. View Quote |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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The IDF says troops killed the head of a local Hamas infrastructure in the northern West Bank's Tubas this morning. Mohammad Omar Daraghmeh was involved in "advancing significant terror acts against Israel," the IDF says. The IDF says that amid the overnight incident, Daraghmeh shot at troops from a vehicle, who then returned fire, killing him. Several weapons were found in his car. A second Palestinian man, named by Palestinian media as Mohammad Shahmawi, was killed when troops opened fire on Palestinians who were shooting and throwing explosive devices at them, the IDF says. View Quote Weapons seized in West Bank Attached File
The IDF says it is continuing a pinpoint operation against Hamas and other terror groups in the central Gaza Strip, on the outskirts of the Nuseirat camp. The 162nd Division's 401st Armored Brigade, Nahal Infantry Brigade, and other units, killed several gunmen over the past day in the area, in close-quarters combat and by calling in airstrikes, the IDF says. The IDF says the troops located and destroyed an underground rocket launcher, alongside other launchers that were primed. The troops also raided several sites belonging to terror groups in the area, locating equipment belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad at one location, the IDF says. Across the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Air Force struck more than 60 targets over the past day. According to the IDF, the targets included rocket launchers, buildings where gunmen were gathered, and other infrastructure. The IDF says the 215th Artillery Regiment also shelled numerous sites over the past day, as part of support for the ground troops operating in central Gaza. View Quote
The IDF and Shin Bet say the head of Hamas's internal security in northern Gaza's Jabaliya was killed in an airstrike yesterday. In addition to serving as a Hamas police chief in Jabaliya, Radwan Muhammad Abdullah Radwan, according to the IDF and Shin Bet, was an operative in the military wing of the terror group. "Radwan gave orders to Hamas operatives and was responsible for directing armed terrorists to take control of humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza Strip," the IDF says in a statement. It adds that his killing "degrades Hamas’s capabilities to attack and take control of humanitarian aid" in the Jabaliya area. Another strike yesterday killed Hamed Muhammad Ali Ahmed, a commander in the Hamas military wing who was also responsible for internal security in Jabaliya, and another operative in the terror group's Jabaliya Battalion, the IDF adds. View Quote
April 11 Red Sea Update At approximately 1:00 p.m. (Sanaa time) on April 11, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully engaged and destroyed one anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) launched over the Red Sea from Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas in Yemen. There were no injuries or damage reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships. View Quote
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Jerusalem Post article on Iranian threats against Israel
What follows is a list of different types of attacks the Islamic Republic could carry out based on how it has behaved in the past. Entire article in quote box: Iran has several ways to attack Israel; which one will it choose? - analysis Iran has vowed to “punish” Israel for an airstrike in Damascus on April 1 that Tehran blamed on the Jewish state. Over the last week and a half, Iranian leaders have made repeated threats against Israel. This has led to heightened tensions in the region. Iran has a track record of threatening Israel. It also has a track record of using its proxies to threaten and attack Israel. What follows is a list of different types of attacks the Islamic Republic could carry out based on how it has behaved in the past. A ballistic missile strike from Iran Iran has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles of varying types and ranges. Some are solid-fueled, and some are liquid-fueled, which means some can be rushed out to be fired relatively quickly, and others take time to prepare and position. Israel’s mortal enemy has used ballistic missiles frequently in the past. Tehran used ballistic missiles to target the Al-Asad Base in Iraq on January 8, 2020, in retaliation for America’s assassination of IRGC Quds Force head Qasem Soleimani. Iran launched up to 22 missiles, targeting both Asad where US troops are based in western Iraq, and the Kurdistan autonomous region that hosts US forces. The missiles were launched from several locations in Iran, and 11 of them struck Asad base. Iran informed the Iraqis just before they launched the missiles. The missiles were launched beginning at 1:20 a.m., and the attack continued for several hours. It is believed that Iran used the Fateh 313 and Qiam ballistic missiles in the attack, which contain warheads of more than 450 kg. A ballistic missile strike from Iraq Iran has been moving missiles and drones to Iraq for several years. Beginning in around 2018, reports emerged in various media that Iran was basing missiles in Iraq. It was not clear after 2019 what became of these missiles because the reports about them stopped occurring. However, it is clear that during the period 2018-2019, the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq that work closely with Iran had extended their control into Anbar Province and defeated ISIS there. Iran then moved to create a base called Imam Ali in Syria near Albukamal on the Iraqi border. Iran uses this area to smuggle weapons via Syria to Hezbollah. Anbar Province is the closest part of Iraq to Israel. It is also where Saddam Hussein placed Scud missiles that targeted Israel in the 1991 war. A lot of effort was spent at the time by the US-led coalition seeking to “hunt” down the elusive Scud launchers. Iran may seek to place long-range missiles in Iraq and recreate a Saddam scenario. New long-range ballistic missiles Iran recently tested In January 2024, Iran carried out missile attacks on Pakistan and Syria, claiming to be targeting terrorist groups. Tehran used this occasion to test the precision of its missiles. It used long-range and relatively new Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles in Syria. The attack was a “message” for the US and Israel, according to Iranian media. The missile had been unveiled in 2022. Iran claims it has a range of 1,450 km. and is supposed to have high-speed and precision-strike capabilities, which makes it a dangerous strategic weapon. A combination drone and cruise missile attack In September 2019, Iran carried out an attack using drones and cruise missiles that targeted Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil-processing facility. The attacks were carried out at night from Iran. It was initially believed that about a dozen cruise missiles were involved and two dozen drones; the Saudis said seven missiles and 18 drones were used. The drones had a delta-wing configuration, which made them similar to the Iranian Shahed 136 drones, which are now common. The full details of the types of drones used were not clear. Iran was able to avoid Saudi Arabia's air defenses and radar by planning a complex mission and also using an attack vector going through an area that was either undefended or where the systems in place were not being used correctly. The attack, which caused damage but did not kill anyone, was seen at the time as a symbolic curtain-raiser on Iran’s capabilities. Iraqi militias using drones or missiles Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have been increasing their threats to Israel in recent weeks. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which is an Iranian proxy group, frequently claims to have targeted Israel. It has claimed to target Eilat, for instance. A drone struck a hangar in Iraq in the early hours of April 1. Another one was recently intercepted by the C-Dome system aboard a Sa’ar 6 Israeli ship. Iraqi militias could be mobilized by Iran to carry out attacks on Israel. This would give Iran plausible deniability. Tehran used these militias in the past to target Israel with drones in May 2021. The groups in Iraq also targeted US forces and killed three Americans in Jordan in January 2024 in a drone attack. Iranian-backed terrorists in Syria Iran has a plethora of Iranian-backed groups in Syria. These include Hezbollah operatives who work near the Golan as part of the terrorist group’s “Golan File” unit. Hezbollah sought to threaten Israel from an area near the Golan using a “killer drone” unit in the fall of 2019. Israel struck the Hezbollah cell at the time. In recent months, Hezbollah has also sought to use Syrian army facilities near the Golan. Iran also works with the Fetemiyoun, a group of Afghan Shi’ites it recruited, using the group to patrol areas near the Euphrates River in Syria. The group is basically run by the Iranian IRGC. Iran could transfer weapons to this militia or other ones and operationalize them for attacks on Israel. Tehran has used these types of groups to carry out dozens of attacks on US forces in Syria in the last several years. View Quote |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Originally Posted By michigan66: Jerusalem Post article on Iranian threats against Israel What follows is a list of different types of attacks the Islamic Republic could carry out based on how it has behaved in the past. Entire article in quote box: View Quote The world is paying the price for the "Jimmy Carter" presidency half a century later! |
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Another good book on the Middle East on sale for $3.99 as a Kindle Daily DealEnemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017.
Originally Posted By garr:The world is paying the price for the "Jimmy Carter" presidency half a century later! View Quote 1979, the year that keeps on giving. Originally Posted By Jm11513:Most likely they are Chinese made, i forget the designation, but iran has been showing them off in parades for decades. The ones I'm familiar with are based off the A1, they had their carry handles cut off and a pic or weaver rail bolted on View Quote Thanks. |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Is it a bird, a plane, and Iranian missile?
Nope just the Russians deciding to test an ICBM
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Originally Posted By BM1455:
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That's great, the Houthis were getting bored, only shooting at destroyers and cargo ships. Attached File Why bother? Seriously, why fucking bother. We aren't going to attack anyone or anything without 120 hours advance notice, so park the ships and planes in Spain. The SecDef thinks you win wars by not killing people and breaking things. The last time we sent forces into the region we did nothing when they were actively targeted, hundreds of times--that inaction gave our deterrence factor a black eye. Don't forget, Biden's stupid pier that serves no purpose whatsoever is still bravely chugging across the Atlantic. Our 1000 soldiers will arrive just in time. If a ship is hit, an airplane shot down, or a base supporting Inherent Resolve overrun or seriously attacked, do we have plans for an immediate, severe to the point of disproportionate, reaction? No 120 hour bullshit, no principals' meetings days after the fact, no hand wringing. Does the administration have a plan for medium term military and diplomatic actions against the "head of the octopus", Iran? Is there support at home and among our key friends/allies/whatever for our taking serious actions? If the answer is no, keep our people the fuck out. Originally Posted By BM1455:
I'd do the same. They've taken the measure of our national security team and see they are the worst ever. Iran and friends don't see the constant criticism of Israel as being bold, they see it for what it is, weakness. Our "secret" talks asking for their help in getting Houthis to quit being mean to the most powerful navy in history was another contemptible display from Team Biden. It was made worse when we let Iran link attacks on neutral shipping in a key sea lane to Gaza. |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday |
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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Originally Posted By BM1455:
View Quote Past time to annihilate Hamas and Gaza |
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"The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction"
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View Quote The Great Red Sea Turkey Shoot moves north. |
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"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
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Originally Posted By Cypher15: The US is going to have to pull back and commit a traditional invasion isnt it View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Cypher15: Originally Posted By BM1455:
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What is written is my opinion, and my opinion only.
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