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In an impassioned speech before the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled out to the world that Israel is done with international efforts to placate or excuse Hamas and Hezbollah. He declared there would be no peace until the terrorist organizations dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the eradication of Israel are themselves eradicated.
Netanyahu started his speech by stating he originally had zero interest in attending the UN meeting this year, but felt compelled to do so in order to combat the lies of those claiming Israel was unjustifiably aggressive in combating terror. //
Netanyahu stated to those gathered that Iran was and is a threat to not only Israel but the civilized world as a whole.
And that is the choice we face today: the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew. In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
Netanyahu reminded the UN that before the Hamas-committed obscene atrocities of October 7, 2023, the Middle East was close to enjoying genuine peace as it has ever been since Israel’s formation in 1948. //
I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East. //
This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
He next displayed a map of the present reality.It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
It cuts off trade, it destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions. On the one hand, a bright blessing—a future of hope. On the other hand, a dark future of despair. And if you think this dark map is only a curse for Israel, then you should think again.
Because Iran’s aggression, if it’s not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.
That’s why it funds terror networks on five continents. That’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. It turned a blind eye to its internal repression. It turned a blind eye to its external aggression. Well, that appeasement must end. And that appeasement must end now. //
And now I have a question, and I pose that question to you: What choice will you make? Will your nation stand with Israel? Will you stand with democracy and peace? Or will you stand with Iran, a brutal dictatorship that subjugates its own people and exports terrorism across the globe //
I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.
After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.
As the book of Samuel says in the Bible:
“נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר”
“The eternity of Israel will not falter”.
In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time.
To borrow a great poet’s phrase: Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright.
To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say: Be strong and of good courage.
“חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֥וּ וְאַל־תַּעַרְצ֖וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ה’ אֱלֹקיךָ ה֚וּא הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֥א יַעַזְבֶֽךּ”
עם ישראל חי
The people of Israel live now, tomorrow, forever”.
Israel reportedly intercepted a missile launched at Tel Aviv by Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah early on Wednesday morning.
This marks a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which intensified when Israel launched a preemptive strike on the Lebanon-based terrorist group to stop a planned October 7-style attack. //
The terrorist group claims its attack was directed at the Mossad, claiming retaliation for the assassinations of several key Hezbollah leaders. //
Laocoön of Troy
9 hours ago
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
RAF Air Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris (Jun 1942)
Panetta was and has always been a political hack. A “yes man” who ended up heading the CIA, not because of years of experience at Langley or bringing some unique skills to the Agency, Panetta was appointed to head the CIA because of politics. Barack Obama put him in that position because he helped Democrats get elected, and he was the chief of staff for Clinton.
In 2011, after the Bin Laden raid, Panetta reveled in the success of the mission. Panetta addressed a throng of people at a CIA Headquarters event – which was to honor the people connected to the raid. At that event, Panetta disclosed classified information — in fact, "Secret" and "Top Secret" information regarding the personnel who found Bin Laden and who conducted it. He fingered the SEAL team (DevGru) and fingered the ground commander. Panetta also revealed more Top Secret information during the speech that was attended by 1,300, many of whom had NO clearance at all. //
In October 2020, Panetta and a group of 50 other former senior intelligence officials signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop controversy had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation" because it contained potentially damaging information to the Biden campaign.
We knew then — and even the New York Times has admitted now — that Hunter's laptop being "Russian disinfo" was utter nonsense propagated by unserious political hacks, not the least of whom was Leon Panetta. //
Mark A
17 hours ago
He can call it whatever he wants. I call it a supremely superb tactical move in a war that Israel didn’t create.
NavyVet Mark A
17 hours ago
So what if it was terrorism? It did more than scare the pants off the terrorists.
Since when is fighting fire with fire a bad thing? What goes around, comes around.
It seems to me it was effective at taking out bad guys with little or no collateral damage.
Mildred's Oldest Son
3 hours ago
Of course he's incommunicado, he's probably afraid to turn on a table lamp, much less use any electronic devices. Tin cans and string have a limited range.
anon-eoij Mildred's Oldest Son
39 minutes ago
No more free hotel ball point pens… //
Noggindog
an hour ago
Oh, they shouldn't be talking about this! They should have just generated some deep-fakes of Sinwar saying and doing things Israeli's would like to see, things that discredit HAMAS. If he is still alive, he would have to surface! (giving Israel another shot at him!) And if he's dead, Israel could keep generating deep-fakes for quite a while!
Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal
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Israel didn’t just tamper with the pagers, they manufactured them and used a shell company to sell them to Hezbollah. It’s unclear how much Hezbollah paid for their own humiliation, but they certainly got a lot of bang for their buck.
11:19 AM · Sep 20, 2024 //
Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid
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🚨 Breaking: According to a leaked document from Hezbollah intelligence, 879 died in pager explosions, out of which 291 senior commanders. 509 were blinded, and 1735 “injured in their reproductive organs”, out of which 906 “total damage” and 613 “permanent function damage” 👇
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I guarantee you this episode will be in every spy thriller novel for 20 years forever.
Reports have since emerged that Hezbollah was planning an "October 7-like" attack on Israel codenamed "Conquer the Galilee." October 7, 2023, was, of course, the day that Hamas terrorists from Gaza conducted a merciless assault on Israel, resulting in the barbarous murders of thousands of Israelis and the kidnappings of hundreds more — many of whom are still being held hostage nearly a year later.
Following the latest action by Israel, the IDF revealed what they believe Hezbollah was planning:
'Hezbollah intended to infiltrate Israeli communities and kidnap and murder innocent civilians in a similar manner to the October 7 Massacre,' the IDF said.
'The IDF will continue to remove the threat of Hezbollah's capabilities and will continue to operate in all arenas to protect Israeli civilians.' //
Alpinealan
8 hours ago edited
If the Israelis "crossed all lines", why is the Iranian Embassy in Beirut still standing??
I applaud what the Israelis are now doing. With the feckless BribeMe Administration rendered even more impotent now that it is lame duck, it is a good time for settling scores.
However, the Israelis really need to come to terms with human nature and reality. The death penalty for heinous murderers such as Yahwa Sinwar would have prevented him being used as a pawn in ridiculous "hostage negotiations" trading a single soldier for approximately two infantry battalions of hardened criminals who certainly have added themselves to Hamas' order of battle. How many IDF soldiers have died in the past year because the feckless Israeli state put the life of that one hostage above that of soldiers who have to confront them once again on the battlefield? While loudmouthed hostage families pressure Bibi into committing national suicide to save their hostage son (who ended up with a bullet to the back of his head regardless...), Israelis soldiers are bleeding and dying fighting this criminal enterprise. Being serious about the death penalty...broadly supported in the Hebrew scriptures...would do much to staunch the dumbassery that is going on with hostages.
And if every citizen has mandatory military service, how the hell did the citizens face the Oct. 7th terrorists unarmed...discovering that when seconds count, the IDF is hours away? It isn't like citizens don't know how to safely handle weapons, is it? How incredibly stupid.
Liberal lunacy always gets mugged by reality. But then again, how many American Jews will vote for the Laughingstock?
Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom
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40 years ago to the day, Ibrahim Aqil helped direct a Hezbollah suicide bombing that targeted the American embassy in Beirut.
Today, Israel eliminated him with a surgical airstrike in Beirut.
Justice is served.
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10:43 AM · Sep 20, 2024
anon-62kn
8 hours ago
Honestly, I would rather there not be an inside story of how Israel pulled this off. Yes it was stunning and brilliant, but better to have remained mysterious. But of course, the NYT knows this hence the story.
UpChuck.Liberals anon-62kn
5 hours ago
It's to so called 'intelligence' idiots that had to open their mouths, OR it's part of the plan to make the terrorist even more paranoid and of course their masters in Iran. //
Texas Zombie
9 hours ago
It’s disgusting that all these anonymous sources are leaking sensitive information. Israel would be wise to not share anything sensitive with US intelligence officials who obviously can’t be trusted to keep their mouths shut.
DonH-Texas Texas Zombie
9 hours ago
I think it's all part of the plan. The psychological impact of this information "leak" on every terrorist group in the middle east is going to be huge and long-lasting. Fear and paranoia are potent weapons. //
stickdude90 Texas Zombie
8 hours ago
Until Mossad confirms it (and they won't), this could just be another cover story designed to make Hezbollah even more paranoid.
“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” IDF Chief of Staff Halevi warns Hezbollah. //
While Lebanon reported only 32 deaths from two days of pager and walkie-talkie explosions, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group was hiding the actual death toll, media reports suggest.
Consecutive waves of exploding devices have incurred heavy losses on Hezbollah’s leadership and terrorist fighting forces. The command structure of Hezbollah’s elite terrorist Radwan force has been ‘decimated’ by the well-coordinate strike, Israeli sources confirm.
Officially, around 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded in Tuesday’s pager explosions. The walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday reportedly injured 450 terror operatives. The actual figures are much higher, reports suggest.
“According to Israeli reports, the pager attack alone would have caused “dozens of deaths, if not more” among Hezbollah members,” Israel’s i24NEWS TV reported. “Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force is reported to have suffered significant losses, losing “a large part of its command structure” that was either killed or maimed.”
The coordinated strike on Hezbollah is perhaps the most precise counter-terrorist operation in military history. The Israeli government and armed forces did not comment on the incident.
The Israeli news website YNET reported the actual damage caused by the apparent anti-terror strike:
According to the official updates from Lebanon, 12 people were killed when thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday and 20 in the walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday, but in Israel officials believe that the announced dead and injured from the pager explosions is significantly lower than reality. It is estimated that there are many dozens of dead, if not more.
Significant damage was inflicted on Hezbollah’s special operation forces unit Radwan force, which lost large parts of its command structure. At least 450 were injured in the explosion of the hand-held walkie-talkie radios throughout Lebanon, and these join the more than 3,000 Hezbollah operatives who were injured by the pager blasts. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday, in his first public remarks since the series of explosions in Lebanon.
The Iran-backed terrorist group is in disarray following the strike. Twice bitten, the Hezbollah terrorists were now scared of touching electronic devices and electric switches, social media posts show.
The Lebanese terrorist group apparently paid an Israeli shell company to acquire explosive-laden communication devices.
Israel did not intercept the Hezbollah shipment or tamper with the devices but exclusively manufactured them after securing an order from the terrorist group. “The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. //
By all appearances, B.A.C. Consulting was a Hungary-based company that was under contract to produce the devices on behalf of a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo. In fact, it was part of an Israeli front, according to three intelligence officers briefed on the operation. They said at least two other shell companies were created as well to mask the real identities of the people creating the pagers: Israeli intelligence officers. //
B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the three intelligence officers.//
“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” Lt. Gen. Halevi assured Wednesday. “Every time we work on a certain stage, the next two stages are already ready to advance. At each stage, the price for Hezbollah must be high,” he warned.
It's important to note that while this was an operation intended to kill or injure some Hezbollah operatives, it also yielded fringe benefits. First, it's interesting that Iran's ambassador to Lebanon had one of these pagers. That (as if we didn't already know it) nails down the fact that Hezbollah is a proxy for Iran — there's no other reason for the Iranian ambassador to have one of these devices. Second, it was a very effective psychological operation; as noted above, Hezbollah goblins now no longer trust their technology.
All in all, a successful operation.
The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post.
About 2,800 people were injured and nine others — including a child — were killed Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria — with the vast majority of victims appearing to be military-age men. //
An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.
“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.
A second wave of blasts rocked Hezbollah on Wednesday as thousands of radios and other devices used by the terror group were detonated across Lebanon, security sources and witnesses said. //
The AR-924 pagers that were detonated on Tuesday were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah five months ago and allegedly manufactured in Budapest, according to a statement released by Gold Apollo — a Taiwanese firm that authorized the use of its brand on the pagers. //
Hungarian officials however, deny the allegations, saying it has no such manufacturing facility in the country.
“Authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said in a statement.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.
Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.
The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added.
On the sixth day, God made man and made man male and female. In one day, in 2024, Israel made a lot of men eunuchs.
It was amazing operation.
We now know more than we did as this was happening yesterday. Israel, months ago, made clear that it had access to Hezbollah’s cell phone system. The head of Hezbollah ordered the terrorists to ditch their cell phones. They switched to pagers.
Israel got access to a large supply of the pagers, injected them with a heat sensitive explosive, and at 3:30 p.m. Beirut time yesterday Israel triggered the batteries in the pagers to overheat, which activated the explosives.
Thousands of Hezbollah operatives were wounded. A dozen or so died.
In the mean time, Israel now can trace each terrorist, source their location, their families, their ties, etc. And many of them are now sterilized.
There are a few very notable things that must be pointed out.
First, this was an amazing and amazingly successful operation.
Second, it is very notable that no one in Israel told the Biden Administration. I must admit I am somewhat shocked no members of the Biden Administration lost their testicles in explosions yesterday, though given the caliber of men in the Biden Administration, it’d be hard to lose what they do not have.
This really highlights the lack of trust. It also highlights just how compromised the Biden Administration is. Remember, Iran has absolutely penetrated the Administration and there is a deep, deep strain of antisemitism in the Biden Administration. Any advanced information more likely than not would have been leaked to Iran and/or Hezbollah.
The American press corps may be unwilling to go there, but the Biden National Security team is 100% compromised.
Third, Israel has carried out the most precisely targeted mass military operation in world history. They managed to generate mass casualties of enemies with very minimal civilian casualties. Targeted bombings and air strikes would have killed and wounded far more civilians.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.
Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.
The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added. //
This once again proves the old maxim: There is no problem that cannot be solved with the suitable application of high explosives.
In one of the most unbelievable developments of 2024, Israel somehow hacked into the pagers and cell phones of Hezbollah fighters and caused them to explode. News of hundreds of injuries, including dismemberments broke on Tuesday morning. Shortly after, videos of devices blowing up began to circulate.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar
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BREAKING via Reuters
Hundreds of members of Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded.
Here is one video of one of the pager explosions.
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DKnight
an hour ago
I'm thinking this is not some secret code that makes a phone or pager battery blow up.
My best guess is that Israeli intel penetrated the supply chains of phones and pagers shipped to the Middle East and loaded a lot of them with a small explosive. Then they traced the buyers to keep a list of phones and pagers tied to known or suspected Hezbollah members. A call with a certain code causes that small explosive to go off.
German newspaper BILD: “The Israeli political and military apparatus is to be “exhausted” and international pressure on Israel is to be “increased”.’ //
A newly leaked top-secret Hamas document exposes the terrorist group’s negotiation strategy and its ongoing phycological warfare against Israel. The document, described as Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar’s “secret war paper,” was published by the German newspaper BILD on Friday. //
The aim of the ceasefire talks is to further Hamas terrorist aims — “ending the war is not a priority for Hamas,” the BILD added.
The secret strategy paper was found on a computer belonging to Hamas chief Sinwar and was personally approved by him, the newspaper noted. //
“Continue to exert psychological pressure on the families of the prisoners, both now and in the first phase [of the ceasefire], so that public pressure on the enemy government increases.”
For nine months, Biden and Harris have claimed a ceasefire deal was just around the corner. Every single time, though, Sinwar does the same thing. Israel agrees to pretty horrific terms to get its hostages back, and Hamas drops in with a new demand, usually to release even more murderous terrorists. All the while, Democrats continue to blame Netanyahu for not somehow doing enough to get the psychopaths he's negotiating with to follow through. //
What we are seeing is a perfect illustration of the Biden-Harris foreign policy. There's no undergirding principle. There's no ability to wield soft or hard power to ensure the world's worst actors stay in line. It's just a free-for-all of lightweights pursuing "diplomacy," a word that has lost all legitimate meaning under the current administration.
Diplomacy is not a strategy, it is a tactic. It goes hand in hand with leverage garnered through force or the threat of force. When America's enemies do not respect it, then diplomacy is not only ineffective, but it exacerbates dangerous situations. Biden and Harris are weak, and dictators and terrorists know it. They believe they demand outcomes by sheer hubris. That's not how the real world works, something that has become painfully clear over the last four years of continual abject failure on the global stage.
Further, Biden and Harris have shown themselves to be morally bankrupt. They have thrown their lot in with literal terrorist supporters to try to hold together their fragile political coalition. Meanwhile, real consequences have followed.
TW: Well, I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly, and the vice president said it, I've said it, have the right to defend themselves and the United States will always stand by that, but we can't allow what's happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue, I think to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two state solution. I think we're at a critical point right now. We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It's a humanitarian crisis. It can't stand the way it is. And we need to find a way that people can live together in this and we’ve said it and continue to say it, getting a ceasefire with the return of the hostages and then moving towards a sustainable two state solution is the only way forward.
Now keep in mind, he knows he's talking to a Michigan audience, so he may be tailoring his response. But whatever his reason, what he said was bad.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not give up the Philadelphi Corridor. On Tuesday, the U.S. says it will.
The White House has announced that its new ceasefire proposal is backed by Israel and would include withdrawing from densely populated areas along the Philadelphi corridor. . //
The fine print, of course, is from "parts" of the Philadelphi corridor. //
It's just a little odd that, again, the news isn't coming from Israel itself, and it actually directly contradicts what Prime Minister Netanyahu said only yesterday.
"...Netanyahu declared that Israel’s war goals are “to destroy Hamas, to bring back all of our hostages, to ensure that Gaza will no longer present a threat to Israel, and to safely return the residents of the northern border,” and asserted that “three of those war goals go through one place: the Philadelphi Corridor. That is Hamas’s pipeline for oxygen and rearmament.” //
While Netanyahu is accused of abandoning the hostages, he has actually been quite stoic in his efforts since Oct. 7th. It was when Biden started to buckle and flip that Hamas became emboldened. We will never know now how many live hostages could have been returned and how early this war could have ended had we stayed firm and unified.