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?

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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.

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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.

“The Justice Department has charged Yahya Sinwar and other senior leaders of Hamas for financing, directing, and overseeing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the United States,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “On October 7th, Hamas terrorists, led by these defendants, murdered nearly 1200 people, including over 40 Americans, and kidnapped hundreds of civilians. This weekend, we learned that Hamas murdered an additional six people they had kidnapped and held captive for nearly a year, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23 year old Israeli American. We are investigating Hersh’s murder, and each and every one of Hamas’ brutal murders of Americans, as an act of terrorism. The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.” //

Hamas raises money to fund its terrorist activities through a variety of methods, including by soliciting and receiving cryptocurrency payments, advertising the ostensible anonymity of such transactions. //

While that may be true, it leaves out a key detail that UNWRA, the UN refugee organization meant to help stabilize the area, became embedded with Hamas with even its staff perpetrating crimes on Oct. 7. The U.S. has been the largest contributor of UNWRA, giving it $7.3 billion since 1950. //

Dieter Schultz Jim frm Palo Alto
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Political theater. The U.S. has no jurisdiction over what happens in Israel and Gaza.

It's more than just political theater!

Like the saying in the movie that "the Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan", the Dems don't make a move like this without an ulterior motive.

mopani Dieter Schultz
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Yep. This is the beginning of making anonymous cryptocurrency illegal because it funds terrorism.

But here's our shiny new government approved crypto currency, you can use this, it will be great! //

Dieter Schultz
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The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.
If I were the suspicious type I'd think that this action was taken to preempt or provide leverage over Netanyahu to stop him from ending Sinwar's life...

They are trying to force Netanyahu to stop and turn it over to the US' court system. Then, if I had to guess, the plan, on the off-chance that they would be able to capture him or have him turn himself over to the US, would be to turn him over to be tried in... oh, I don't know, a federal court in Dearborn?

But... I'm not the suspicious type... nope, I'm not!

Thousands of pro-Hamas protesters marched in Manhattan on Monday to demonstrate against Israeli military action against terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Video footage circulating on social media shows the protesters walking through the street waving flags representing terrorist entities while shouting antisemitic slogans. This development comes amid ongoing demonstrations against the Jewish state for its effort to eliminate Hamas after it carried out a surprise attack on October 7, slaughtering civilians.

Israel did what it had to do if it didn’t want to see repeats of this almost inhuman perversion—it went on the offensive, declared war, and took on the dark forces of Hamas. Civilians have died in the process, and that’s a sad reality of most warfare, but remember that none of them would have died had Hamas not savagely murdered over 1,200 Israelis. Remember also that many of the civilian casualties in Gaza—notoriously overstated by the utterly mendacious Gaza Health Ministry—would be alive today if the terrorist group didn’t use them as human shields and hide their military operations in hospitals and schools.

And yet, did we see worldwide protests decrying the sick actions of Hamas? Did campuses in the United States erupt in outrage over the barbaric carnage inflicted upon innocent Israelis (and some Americans)? Did thousands congregate In Manhattan’s Union Square Park, as they did Monday, to demand that Hamas embrace peace, lay down their arms, and release the remaining hostages—at least, the ones who they hadn’t murdered in cold blood?

No.

Instead, what we’ve seen is an almost universal response against Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. How dare they prosecute a war against the forces that assaulted them so viciously? //

What is Netanyahu supposed to do? As we reported, Hamas executed six hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, on Saturday, just as IDF forces were closing in and coming to rescue them.

Even more disgustingly, the terror group took videos of their victims before killing them, and are now threatening to send them to the families to further torture their souls. //

What kind of agreement could possibly be reached with people like this? //

anon-y9rt
6 hours ago
we are embedded in spiritual warfare across our planet

Three years ago I would have laughed at this explanation but not now. //

TexasVeteran
6 hours ago edited
The Jews may as well have tried to strike a "deal" with Hitler. I don’t think there’s any question how that would have turned out! The thing that disgusts me is how many Israeli "Quislings" Netanyahu has to deal with, pressing him to make a deal at any price.

The price to return the hostages is the survival of Hamas. That price will cost the future deaths of untold Israeli. It must not be paid. Hamas has publicly stated they intend to repeat the atrocities of 10/7 again and again until Israel is destroyed. To their credit, some of the hostage families realize that Hamas is an existential threat to Israel and despite their grief, stand with Netanyahu. Perhaps not intentionally, but the "Bring Them Home" (at any price) crowd are acting as Hamas collaborators.🤦‍♂️

Ed in North Texas TexasVeteran
5 hours ago
Various Jewish "councils" in cities in Poland and other countries (including Germany) actually tried negotiating with the SS local leadership. They turned over lists of Jews, encouraged Jews to submit to whatever demands from the SS, arranged for "governing" Ghettos and eventually did nothing more than make the SS "job" to get the Jews to the camps easier and give their people the illusion of survival for a little longer. //

anon-608f
6 hours ago
The question isn't "how" but "why". Why would one negotiate with evil?

I have to believe that so many Christians and Jews choose to believe they can negotiate with the Muslims because the other alternatives, subjugation or war, are simply inconceivable. Far too many of these kind-hearted empty heads want so badly to believe that the barbaric descendants of a thieving, murdering, pedophile want the same things in the same manner as those of the West.

They are wrong.

We share almost nothing in common. Nothing. What little we may share is skewed by their religion and worldview. We also have no need of negotiating with them. Were it not for oil they'd yet be riding camels and slitting each other's throats in the desert.

Well, we can't negotiate and I won't be subjugated. That doesn't leave many options. So be it.

KJSpeed anon-608f
5 hours ago
Many Westerners can’t comprehend the Moslem desire for worldwide conquest to bring about their caliphate. Sadly, many won’t concede that Islam is a threat until the knife is at their throat and then it will be too late for them. //

Just an old soldier...
3 hours ago
I don't get it either Bob. Clearly a significant portion of our population has given itself over to evil. Absolutely shocking to see people supporting a completely dedicated to evil terrorist organization.

These are the same people who demand unlimited abortion up to the moment of birth. The same people who want to groom children in elementary schools in deviant sexual lifestyles. Who want pornography in their small children's classrooms. These are the same people who push transgenders and men in women's sports. These same people support open borders. They support defunding the police and no cash bail.

I don't know how we reached such a place in America, but I suspect it has a lot to do with rejection of Christianity and Christian principles. Our education system has been weaponized against Christian principles and our wonderful western heritage is despised.

These are today's Democrats. To save America, they must be defeated.

ah252 Just an old soldier...
3 hours ago
The fool says in his heart, "there is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. Psalm 14;1
These terrorists and protestors have turned to the father of lies. There is no negotiating with them.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58.
To stand fast is to be faithful, devoted, and unmoving. Stand with Israel, pray for Bibi.

Within Our Lifetime once again calling for everyone to globalize the intifada. //

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Thousands met up at Union Square in Manhattan and marched to Washington Square Park.

They had flares and smoke bombs as some assaulted cops who tried to halt the march.

They also carried Hezbollah, Iranian, Palestinian, and Syrian flags. I’m shocked no one brought a Hamas or ISIS flag.

He went on to remind the world that the Hamas murderers executed the hostages in the midst of negotiation talks, and pressure needs to be put on them, not Israel:

"These murderers executed 6 of our hostages. They shot them in the back of the head. That's what's changed. And now after this, we're asked to show seriousness. We're asked to make concessions.What message does this send Hamas? It says, kill more hostages, murder more hostages. You'll get more concessions. The pressure internationally must be directed at these killers, at Hamas, not at Israel. We say yes. They say no all the time, but they also murdered these people. And now we need maximum pressure on Hamas."