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  • in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20647
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    💠@Africa Intel:
    ⚡️Rafah crossing re-opens for limited evacuations from Gaza. Dozens of foreign passport holders and some medical evacuees passed through the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt on Monday after evacuations resumed following a two-day suspension.

    The Gaza border authority had said earlier that Egyptians and foreign citizens already on pre-approved lists issued since last Wednesday would be allowed through the crossing, the only exit from Gaza that does not border Israel. Passage of foreign nationals and dependents, as well as injured Gazans, had ceased on Saturday after an Israeli strike on an ambulance in Gaza.

    The flow of aid trucks, which enter Gaza through the crossing, had slowed to 25 trucks on Sunday from a high of 102 trucks on Thursday. After evacuations resumed on Monday about 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees had left through Rafah, with 48 aid trucks crossing in the other direction.

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️The Empire of Chaos (US) Complicity
    Chay Bowes:
    First, you assist in the creation of an Aparthied State.
    Second, Arm it to the Teeth, with 250 Billion Dollars in “aid”
    Third, Stand back and let it commit Genoicde and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
    Then ask its neighbours not to do anything about it or you’ll bomb them
    [this is widely understood now, even by the retarded in West Asia.. a fact which will make the West unwelcome and untrusted for at least a 100 years, as in Russia too]

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⚡️Zionist forces are destroying the infrastructure of #Tulkarem during their current invasion. Power has gone out in large parts of the camp after the IOF targeted the electricity transformer in the camp, starting a fire. Bulldozers are simultaneously destroying roads. [videos[the systematic nature of what is unfolding in the West Bank indicates it is as measured and preplanned a Final Solution as in Gaza]

    💠@Believe in Syria – Axis of Resistance:
    ⚡️Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Abdollahian:
    🔹Washington informed us 3 days ago that it seeks a ceasefire in Gaza, but in practice it supports genocide
    🔹An Israeli minister’s statements regarding the use of a nuclear bomb in Gaza are evidence of the entity’s failure
    🔹The Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency must immediately disarm Israel’s nuclear weapons

    💠@RNN Prisoners:
    ⚡️After kidnapping nearly 4,000 Gazan workers in the occupied interior and West Bank over the last four weeks, the zionist entity made the decision to return them to #Gaza two days ago. The workers have been tagged with ID numbers around their feet. The workers described their experience of torture and harsh conditions in the occupation prisons, deprived of adequate food, water, and communication with their families for four weeks. [they weren’t returned out of kindness but to permit easier culling en masse alongside the other Gazans, via bombing, starvation, disease, trauma and lack of medical care]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 9/10/2023 … Open Thread #20646
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    Yes, this is the mafia’s kiss on the cheek, just before the hit that has been ordered is delivered. An ancient rite…

    From Brian Berletic’s channel:
    The US always appears most diplomatic just before driving the dagger in deepest.

    Remember US Secretary of State John Kerry dining with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad even as the US prepared to stage protests as cover for launching a proxy war against Syria in 2011? Or President Barack Obama meeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as proxy war was being prepared to destroy his nation?

    Washington’s most recent overtures toward China and now Russia regarding APEC amount to cheap words all while every action the US commits to centers on preparing the ground for wider conflict against both nations.

    The idea is to appear to pursue diplomacy so that when adversaries react to your actual hostility, it appears they are at fault.

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    ❗️The procedure for Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was completed at midnight on November 7, the document ceased to exist for Moscow – Russian Foreign Ministry. No agreements with NATO countries in the field of arms control are possible at the moment, the department said in a statement.

    #source

    So those tank fists and whatnot can be merrily rolled out in whatever numbers and disposition that pleases the Rooskies, no?? And they haven’t been working with the industriousness and frenzy of demons to build ungodly numbers of materiel, armor and capabilities across the board to merely handle eskimos, polar bears, penguins or easily-surrendering Frenchies! A real “iron-wall” will be established to wall off the freakin crazies of our long-tormented planet!

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 9/10/2023 … Open Thread #20644
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    The Red Sky wasn’t just over the arctic — it affected also many parts of southern Russia, such as Rostov-on-Don and around the SMO. Kinda reminds of the beams of light above same cities last year. Maybe new anti-satellite weaponry and gadgetry being rolled out??

    Everything’s going FUBAR for Empire, simultaneously across too many fronts to count. Palestinians just have to hold on a little while longer. Indeed, this partly explains the preternatural patience of the Russia, China and the Resistance Axis. Something’s about to give in a major way….

    Well you can forget about #1 and #3 being done. #2 has been in the works since 1995 per CAF, accelerating with COVID-19’s open culling. So what are the odds the combo of continuing #3 and now ramping up #4 (already at 2020-2021 levels) will result in Weimar-level hyperinflation just around the corner???

    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    ⚡️In 1985, the defecit in the USSR was 2% of GDP. By 1990, it had climbed to 10%, but Soviet bonds were still rated as strongly as Canadian or Italian bonds. In 1991, despite super majorities in nine of the 15 Republics voting to keep the USSR together under the auspices of the New Union Treaty, the defecit increased to 30% of GDP and the Union collapsed under the weight of mass inflation.

    For those wondering where the United States currently is, it’s at about 8% of GDP and that’s without the widely expected Recession hitting yet.

    ⚡️Some in markets are saying China are dumping US Treasuries to firm up the yuan. But Chinese inflation is zero and export growth has been flat this past year. Seems pretty obvious that they’re dumping US dollar assets after Russian reserve seizures. 💵🗑️

    📎 Philip Pilkington

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20643
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    💠 @Syrian Girl:
    ⚡Biden’s right hand man “We will exploit america to defend Israel until America no longer exists“. [The latter admission is most interesting. Intent to use up the useful idiot goy against his own interests to the last drop of blood, “… in search of foreign monsters to slay..” This Host is gonna be killed by the Parasite “for higher purposes.”]

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    There is still fierce resistance and fighting within Gaza, increasing skirmishing in West Bank too. Occupation forces forced to retreat in several places due to losses. Morale, audacity and initiatives of Palestinians remain high. There is something to Hezbollah’s estimation that the combined Palestinians are in a good way at the moment and far from strained. Overwhelming Zionist damage is to civilians and infrastructure, and risible military PsyOps…

    💠 @ejmalrai:
    ⚡️I expect to see new advanced weapons on the front with #Lebanon, a widening of the front and a new era is expected to begin from today onward between #Hezbollah and #Israel.
    ⚡️BreakingNews: #Haifa was bombed
    ⚡️If #Israel bombs civilians in #Lebanon & ask all settlers to evacuate all the settlements along the Lebanese borders, a much heavier missiles will be fired a longer distance to retaliate & impose the Rule of Engagement on Israel. If the Israeli retaliate escalation is expected

    💠 @MedManTG:
    ⚡️U.S Consulate in Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq, is under attack as of writing this post.

    PS – Drone attack, and apparently besides the consulate, an air force base housing U.S troops was also attacked with drones.

    💠 @Strategika51:
    ⚡️US forces in Jordan intercepted a missile coming from Iraq towards Israel.
    ⚡️Gaza Strip: Israeli forces are retreating in the north of the Gaza Strip. Other reports claim that Israeli armored forces are fleeing towards the Southeast.
    ⚡️News on the loss of 30 Israeli battle tanks and armored vehicles today alone in Gaza.
    ⚡️Converging news on a secret meeting in Geneva on the post-Hamas era in Gaza.

    Arab delegations are participating in this meeting as well as the Palestinian authority. The Palestinien authority really believes in it and wants to recover the Gaza Strip at all costs.
    ⚡️Facing Blinken, officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan affirmed, not without barely concealed pride, that their countries were and still are Israel’s first line of defense (Intel+ed)

    A famous Palestinian columnist called these countries the “Trinity of Vileness and Baseness”
    ⚡️An Israeli journalist arrested by the army for reporting seeing dozens of corpses of Israeli soldiers in a Tel Aviv hospital morgue and specifying that the army sequesters these corpses to keep the casualty record to a minimum. [video]

    💠 @Resistance News Network:
    ⚡️⚫ Saraya Al-Quds – Tulkarem Brigade:

    As part of Al-Aqsa Flood battle:

    – Targeting the occupation’s vehicles that penetrated the Bala’a axis with heavy barrages of bullets and explosive devices.

    – Thwarting a number of invasion attempts into the depth of Tulkarem camp, as our fighters observed disabling several vehicles and causing damage to them during the clashes. [Tulkarem = West Bank]
    ⚡️🚨 The IOF targeted an area in #Tulkarem using a suicide drone.
    ⚡️🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades – Tulkarem Brigade – (Rapid Response Groups):

    We swear that if the armies of the Earth gather against our camp, you will not break our resolve, and we will not deviate from our revenge, and we will expel you in defeat, God willing.
    ⚡️⚫ Saraya Al-Quds – Tulkarem Brigade:

    Our fighters are engaged in violent clashes with the occupation forces and vehicles penetrating into the camp with heavy barrages of bullets.
    ⚡️⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds – Tulkarem Brigade:

    Within Al-Aqsa Flood Battle:

    A torrent of fire towards the occupation vehicles and forces and their positions on the clash axes with a series of explosive devices inside the camp, causing direct casualties.
    ⚡️⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds – Tulkarem Brigade:

    As part of the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood:

    Our fighters continue to attack and target the positions of the occupation forces and their vehicles with concentrated barrages of bullets and explosive devices in a direct manner. They are achieving confirmed casualties among the enemy’s ranks.

    💠 @Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⚡️EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell : We must not allow a global war of religion and civilization

    What is happening now is a war between religions or civilizations. Yesterday, I listened to the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and he addressed the West: “Do you want a new crescent-crusader war?” said. This question is very important. We must do everything possible to prevent conflict ,” Borrell said.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20623
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    Yemeni drones found a way in… Now the maddened Hegemon WILL need to land a blow in Yemen, futile as is, if only “to show resolve.” Then it is gets really interesting for those hosting US bases and air defense complexes..

    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️”In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful

    The Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, launched a batch of drones during the past hours at various sensitive targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories. 

    As a result of the operation, movement at the targeted bases and airports stopped for several hours. The Yemeni Armed Forces, relying on God Almighty, continue to carry out more qualitative military operations in support of and victory for the oppression of the Palestinian people and in response to the calls of our great Yemeni people and all the peoples of the nation and until the brutal Israeli aggression against our brothers in Gaza stops.”

    💠@Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⚡️Due to the lack of fuel and the destruction of ambulances by the Israelis, the wounded in Gaza are transported by rickshaws, a cart pulled by a person. [video]
    ⚡️Israeli newspaper Times of Israel : With Erdogan impossible to deal with, but Fahrettin Altun must be dealt with immediately! He is the most dangerous and effective in Erdogan’s team.

    The effectiveness of Turkey’s role in the media sphere leads to strong hatred from the Zionist regime government. They believe that Turkey is one of the main culprits, which has created an effective information force throughout the world: Africa, Europe, the CIS, the Muslim world and even Latin America.

    ✅ Here are theses from a pro-Zionist newspaper in Israel:
    🔹Turkey is trying a new strategy in its relations with Israel, different from past diplomatic crises.
    🔹Turkey is waging a serious campaign against Israel on an international scale, supporting the Palestinians. And in different countries at a time.
    🔹While Turkey has refrained from imposing any specific sanctions against Israel, there has been a relentless national and international smear campaign through both social and conservative media.
    🔹At the forefront of this strategy is communications director Altun, a key mastermind who not only attends the most secret meetings with Erdogan, but also occupies a position closest to the Turkish president.
    🔹In fact, Professor Altun runs the Turkish Communications Directorate, a well-organized propaganda office with government resources, a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of employees and an international network. And he does it very skillfully.
    🔹Altun initiated all Turkish campaigns based on a message claiming that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and systematically killed civilians.
    🔹Turkish, English and Arabic broadcasts from TRT and Anadolu Agency, affiliated with the Communications Directorate, are drawing attention to the massacres carried out by the Israeli army and raising people in different parts of the world against Israel.
    🔹One of Erdogan’s main shortcomings in the past was the anti-Semitic subtext in his rhetoric. Altun, however, successfully steered Erdoğan’s discourse away from anti-Semitic statements and into a wholly anti-Israel trajectory.
    🔹The most significant asset of the Office of Communications under Altun’s leadership is undoubtedly the conservative media.
    🔹In a strategic move, Altun is positioning Turkey as a focal point, using Turkey’s largest news network, Anadolu Agency, the country’s main television network TRT (Turkish Radio Television Corporation) and the regional channels TRT Arab and TRT World, which are under its control.
    🔹Turkish reporters associated with the Anadolu Agency (AA) and the Turkish Television and Radio Corporation (TRT) constantly pay negative attention to Israeli soldiers (who commit the massacre ed.) and all this is disseminated in the media in Turkish, English and Arabic.
    🔹The Altoona Center for Countering Disinformation strategically uses publications in English, Turkish and Arabic to conduct psychological operations against Israel on social networks.
    🔹It is impossible to overthrow President Erdogan, but Fahrettin Altun and his team must be stopped immediately. [Turk media has a global presence. It even started a French broadcast in the African Sahel…]

    ⚡️The UAE-based Al Arabiya channel conveys Israel’s agenda: ” The area I circled is where the Hamas command center is located, as well as Shifa Hospital .” Let us remind you that Shifa Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the Gaza Strip where thousands of wounded patients are being treated.. Based on: Daily Islamist [video]

    ⚡️Islamic Resistance in Iraq: Within the context of responding to the crimes of the zionist occupation and its aggression on Gaza under American leadership and management, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq reveals today, Monday, for the first time the entry into service of a medium-range missile of the “Aqsa 1” model. It was launched to target the American occupation bases in Iraq and Syria in some of the resistance’s operations, and Allah prevails over His affair.
    🔹@Middle East Spectator: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces that they have started using an SRBM named ‘Al-Aqsa 1’ in attacks against U.S. bases. This ballistic missile seems to be a derivative of the Iranian Fath 360, with a shorter range of about 120km as well as a reduced payload.
    ⚡️🚨 As a result the blockage of roads due to the intense zionist aggression, Al-Quds Hospital in Tal Al-Hawa, #Gaza City has been brought out of service completely. Earlier today, the IOF bombed Al-Shifa Hospital’s top floor and the vicinity of Indonesian Hospital. Al-Quds Hospital is the 17th hospital in #Gaza to be taken out of service since October 7th, out of a total of 35 hospitals. 51 out of 72 health centers have also been taken out of service.
    ⚡️Islamic Resistance in Iraq: The fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted four bases of the American occupation in six attacks. Three of these targeted the “Ain Al-Assad” base in western Iraq, one for the occupation base near Erbil airport in northern Iraq, and one each for the bases of “Tal al-Baydar” in northern Syria and “Al-Tanf” in southern Syria since dawn today and at different times, using appropriate weapons that directly hit their targets.
    ⚡️🚨 The Pentagon announces that 45 US soldiers sustained injuries during resistance attacks carried out in Iraq and Syria. [Headaches again? Note there must be so many casualties and KIA if admitting to anything at all! So many more than could be “bodywashed” by a random “vehicle or training accident” in Timbuktu or Mongolian steppes]

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20606
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    Hezbollah has started to permit Hammas to unleash longer missiles, walking it down to outskirts of occupied Haifa..

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⚡️BREAKING: Rockets from Lebanon towards Nahariya, Shlomi, Acre, and the outskirts of Haifa
    ⚡️Al-Qassam in Lebanon takes responsibility for the rocket barrage on Nahariya, Acre and Haifa area, says they launched 16 rockets

    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️Israeli media:  The bombing of the northern regions from Lebanon was the furthest since the start of the war. For the first time, missiles have reached Karyut and Acre
    ⚡️The Israeli Army:  The Israeli army said it had recorded about 30 launches from Lebanon in the last hour and was returning fire.

    “…There is reason to believe that the Biden Administration is dissimulating and creating false narratives in the media — feigning differences with Netanyahu, etc. —  while in reality, the Israeli plan is very much in Blinken’s talking points in the diplomatic engagements behind closed doors, especially with the wealthy Gulf countries who would be called upon to” bankroll the settlement of Gaza’s displaced population in Sinai.” 

    The fix is in. Blinken tours leisurely to buy time for more genocide and efficiency of ethnic cleansing.. But can they force the population to leave??? And do they the time before the war expands to thoroughly neutralize Hamas?? And the Palestinians and Yemenis haven’t shown their cards yet. All that has been achieved to date is thorough exposure of local Quislings, fellow-traveller supranationalists and Zionists in arab garb, without fealty to faith, kin or neighborliness. And this was well known to the discerning since at least WW1

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 06 Nov 2023 #20605
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    💠@ejmalrai:
    ⚡️When I see/hear the bombs falling on #Gaza, I really feel for the people living in such a horrible situation. I have lived under Israeli bombing in many wars. It cannot be described. You are full of anger towards those who are inflicting pain and causing so much destruction
    ⚡️In fact, you think of those bombarding the area where you are that they can’t be human because human beings cannot be so dehumanised and love so much destruction and killing. This is what #Israel is doing in #Gaza against its 2.3 million people.
    ⚡️You see images of children suffering or being killed. Have you ever held a child who has been hit by a bomb? Have you ever picked up a child’s limbs, put them in a plastic bag and had their blood all over you? Have you ever held a child burnt by a bomb?
    ⚡️Have you heard a child ask you What did I do to lose my brothers and sisters? Where are my parents to look after me? Why were they killed?
    What must I do now? I did. You can stop the bombing of #Israel now.
    ⚡️The @UN said 88 of its personnel were killed by #Israel’s indiscriminate bombing. This is the highest UN killed in one single conflict, and the bombing is still at its beginning. The Israeli killing doesn’t spare UN employees, Journalists, civilians or medical personnel.

    💠 @Strategika51:
    ⚡️A US B-1B strategic bomber with a special Pod photographed over Saudi Arabia with a line of sight for planned strikes on Yemen.
    ⚡️South Africa recalls all its diplomats from Israel. (Media)
    ⚡️The Gaza government holds responsible all countries that allowed their mercenaries to come and fight in Gaza. The Palestinian statement suggests that foreign mercenaries were killed in Gaza.
    ⚡️Haaretz and Maariv: “Israel is on the verge of turning into a failed state. The systems of government and management are in a state of collapse. Apart from aviation and immense American support, there is no nothing left.”
    ⚡️Russian military analysts, including those who support Israel: “We were fooled for decades by Hollywood propaganda that presented Israel as a military power. We all believed it like simple-minded people. In the end, Israel has never had an army. Israel is the United States. Without the support of the United States, there is very little chance that Israel could survive more than a week.”

    This is almost the same conclusion that the Iranians came to: “We were frightened with a fiction. Behind this fiction was hidden the most hideous face of the true warlike power of Washington, this face that only the victims of American bombs in the world could see before they die”
    ⚡️Gaza’s only psychiatric hospital bombed. Dozens of patients were killed. The videos are far too horrific to be published.

    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: Hamas cannot be allowed to continue ruling Gaza, and the introduction of UN forces into the Strip is not unlikely. [LOL. keep barking]
    ⚡️Iranian Foreign Minister: The Americans have sent us messages in the past three days stating that they are seeking a ceasefire in Gaza. [not gonna happen. Iranians know it too.. this is psychologic pressure. For it to work, the target has to have shame, morality and sanity..]

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⚡️In the past few moments, occupation forces have launched air strikes on the fifth floor of Al-Shifa hospital, as well as the Indonesian hospital in #Gaza, both of which house thousands of displaced Palestinians.
    ⚡️♦️ The representative of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Yemen, Khaled Khalifa, during a meeting with “Yemen Today” channel:  There is a great consensus between the leadership in Yemen and the people towards the Palestinian cause.

    Yemen has moved beyond the stage of condemnation and denouncement to an advanced stage by directly entering the war with the zionist entity.

    The zionist intelligence agency classifies Yemen as the most dangerous among the Axis of Resistance countries, more than Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces.

    The composition of the Yemeni person is characterized by nobility, dignity, and the rejection of the occupier, and indeed Yemen is a graveyard for invaders, and Yemen’s participation with Palestine is proof of that.

    During the past three weeks, the number of Palestinian prisoners in zionist jails has doubled, and it is doing so to secure itself even if a prisoner exchange operation occurs.

    The green light given to the zionist entity for bombing, killing, and destruction has never been given to anyone before.

    The financial amounts provided by Yemen to Palestine, whether large or small, have a significant impact on the Palestinians because they are taken from the sustenance of their children.

    All Palestinian factions participated in all confrontations with the zionist enemy. [remember that when you keep hearing “Hamas, Hamas, Hamas” by the demented..]

    Within hours of the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Western countries moved and provided all support to the zionist entity.

    The ruling Arab regimes were created by the occupation, and this is a fact that must be acknowledged.

    Hezbollah plays a significant role in confronting the zionist entity and has delivered many painful strikes to the enemy.

    Societies that preserve their values and principles have interacted with the Palestinian cause and are affected by what happens, unlike the normalizing states that have changed the thoughts and orientations of their people, and therefore they no longer care about what happens in Gaza.

    The Palestinians are the ones who decide the success of any operation against the zionist entity, and all hope for victory lies with them. [listen carefully to this last statement, those of you who keep holding out hope for the GCC, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, etc.. It is Greater Shaam (Greater Syria, consisting of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordanian non-elites) in coordination with Yemen and Iraqi militias, which will be decisive. And they can wage wars of successful attrition, forcing out the Zionists, being sufficient to the task. Only AFTER the West is purged from West Asia and loses the petrodollar, will the other compradore arabs implode and see regime changes…] 

    💠 https://ejmagnier.com/2023/11/05/from-siege-to-exodus-the-looming-threat-of-a-second-palestinian-nakba/

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    💠 @Strategika51:
    ⚡️The Israeli Air Force briefly released a photograph of an Apache attack helicopter armed with thermobaric air-to-ground missiles before removing it.
    The Apaches fire thermobaric missiles outside the Gaza Strip to avoid surprises.
    ⚡️Total cut of telecommunications with the Gaza Strip.
    Israeli hysterical bombing and shelling by air, land and sea.
    Intensive use of HIMARS and 155 artillery.
    Intensive use of anti-Bunker bombs
    Use of prohibited incendiary munitions.
    ⚡️Roughly speaking, Israel is waging war on the civilian population.
    ⚡️Bombing of Al-Rantissi children’s hospital. The third floor is on fire. This is not only a clear war crime but a crime against humanity.
    ⚡️Violent night clashes on several axes. It seems that Israeli forces (and those hiding under Israeli colors) are trying to exploit their abilities to see in the dark (night vision systems, light amplifiers, etc.) to flush out Hamas fighters and their local allies. so far, the Israelis have fled as soon as they were hooked before returning under a deluge of bombs and shells.
    ⚡️An official of a special Golani unit called on the Israeli government to use tactical nuclear weapons in Gaza.
    He is the second Israeli official to call for the use of atomic weapons against Gaza in less than two days.
    ⚡️Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister for the Diaspora, also declared himself in favor of the use of nuclear weapons in the Gaza Strip.
    ⚡️Plans in this direction were established by the Israeli general staff but refused by the US mentor. This involves the use of atomic bombs with a power of between 5 and 20 kilotons.

    There remains the horrible image that Israel gives to the rest of the world and this is what worries Washington the most.

    💠 @Middle East Spectator:
    ⚡️Current military situation in the Gaza strip

    1. This swath of IDF-controlled land in the north-west extends from As-Siafa to Al-Shati camp.

    2. On the north-eastern outskirts of Beit Hanoun, Israel is trying to enter the urban area.

    3. Just north of Wadi Gaza, the IDF has advanced past Juhor Al-Dik, cutting off Salah Al-Deen road and advancing past Al-Mughraqah, reaching Al-Rashid street on the coast.

    💠 @Arab_Africa:  
    ⚡️Hamas called on Egypt to urgently open roaming services on Egyptian networks, fully open the Rafah crossing and save the lives of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

    The Israeli government’s shutdown of communications and the Internet in the Gaza Strip means that massacres may be hidden from public opinion and the media.

    💠@Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⚡️Miscarriage and preterm birth rates have increased in the Gaza Strip

    Psychological and physiological problems due to incessant Israeli attacks lead to premature births and miscarriages among Palestinian women, among others.

    📣 The health system in Gaza, where hospitals are also being bombed, has collapsed. Women are forced to give birth in unsuitable settings such as schools and nursing homes.

    ❕ It is impossible to provide the necessary treatment and medical care to a newborn child.
    [There were an estimated 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza on October 07…]
    ⚡️Hanzala – a symbol of oppression in Palestine

    Naji al-Ali’s cartoons reflect the struggle and resistance against the Israeli state, which has occupied Palestine since 1948. He said that his cartoons were: ” an expression of the oppressed who pay dearly for their lives by bearing the burden of power on their shoulders .”

    ✍️ Hanzala is the eternal star of Naji al-Ali. With the help of Hanzala, al-Ali criticized and ridiculed Arab leaders, society, Israel, and US interference in the affairs of the Arab world. [video]
    ⚡️UN structures on the difficult situation in Palestine

    🗣 UN spokesman Thomas White :

    ▪️ Residents of Gaza can only eat 2 slices of bread a day. People were helpless when it came to water. Now people are in survival mode.

    ▪️ We believe that the Palestinian people are in grave danger of genocide. It’s time to take precautions.

    ▪️ Israel’s allies must take responsibility. We call on them to take immediate action to prevent disastrous Israeli actions.

    🗣 Director General of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Catherine Russell :

    ▪️More than 500 children are killed or injured every day as a result of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

    ▪️ Almost half the population of the region, home to more than 2 million people in Gaza, are children.

    ▪️ We implore world leaders to act at least for the sake of children. Provide immediate ceasefire conditions.

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    Thanks so much for this Siljan. The spirit inside a human being is beyond our understanding and amazing. Transformative phase changes occur during the most inhumane oppression..

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    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️ The former prime ministers of Britain and Australia flew to Israel on a solidarity visit. Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon organized a tour of southern communities for Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, as well as meetings with British and Australians serving in the IDF. [Yep. Carrion fowl have landed.. where’s Be Well?? I miss “morriscum..”]
    ⚡️Israeli media: Putin hopes to see Israel weak and thus reflect the West’s weakness [LOL. Projection!]
    ⚡️100 Israeli doctors call for bombing of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The Israeli doctors see that Palestinian hospitals have become a legitimate target for the Israeli occupation forces, upholding the narrative that Palestinian Resistance groups are using hospitals for protection.
    ⚡️Iron Dome in Central Israel Struggles with Latest Gaza Rocket Salvo [several channels show bizarre behavior with interceptor missiles behaving like in Ukieland and hitting their own cities..]
    ⚡️Israeli media: Iron Dome is ineffective against Hezbollah missiles. The missiles arrive quickly from southern Lebanon and fall in Kiryat Shmona settlement
    ⚡️Israeli media: Israel’s primary goal is still to prevent war in the north, but it seems that Nasrallah’s hand is superior, not ours.
    ⚡️Israeli media: Hezbollah has the initiative in the north, and the Israeli army is frustrated and in the position of responding all the time
    ⚡️Reuters: The Iranian Defense Minister warns Washington that it “may suffer serious harm” if the shooting in Gaza does not stop. [keep in mind the “Reuters” part. This may be an imperial meme this day]
    ⚡️Video shows two Iron Dome missiles malfunctioning and hitting streets in Tel Aviv [video]
    ⚡️Al Arabi TV: Israeli confusion… A soldier shoots a senior general in the Israeli army [confusion?? Or interesting portends? Maybe they need to import the Brit mercs, Azov and Right Sektor to patrol the rear…]
    ⚡️The Israeli Air Force is carrying out massive strikes on Gaza, Haaretz newspaper reports. Turkish media are posting footage of the aftermath of the strikes.

    💠@Strategika51:
    ⚡️The last American aircraft carrier [USS Bismarck] was sunk on the night of February 21 to 22, 1945 by a Japanese kamikaze plane during the Battle of Iwo Jima. It seems that almost 80 years later, this scenario is likely to repeat itself.
    ⚡️Washington unusually revealed the arrival of an OHIO-class attack submarine in the CentCom area of responsibility. It is an 18,750-ton SSGN cruise missile-launching nuclear-powered submarine. When a country reveals this type of information, it is a threatening message. It is a direct threat from Washington to Tehran.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 9/10/2023 … Open Thread #20567
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    💠@DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️🇦🇫 Afghanistan opium poppy supply plummets 95% after Taliban ban, U.N. says

    Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report said on Sunday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said opium cultivation fell throughout the country to just 10,800 hectares (26,700 acres) in 2023 from 233,000 hectares the previous year, slashing supply by 95% to 333 tons.

    🐻 Who was in charge before the Taliban took over? A drug lord? Oh wait… nevermind… 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

    The two periods of highest US-influence in Afghan show remarkable positive correlation with highest opium production! Just like the two humps on that Bactrian camel…

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 01 Nov 2023 #20566
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    💠@PressTV:
    ⚡️Iran FM urges BRICS members to actively, constructively, responsibly intervene to stop attacks on Gaza Strip [How? 4.5 of the 11 are zionist allies if not zionist themselves… including 3 of the 4 “muslim” states]

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⚡️ Hezbollah S.G. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will give another speech on Saturday the 11th of November [at 3pm Beirut time — so roughly same 4p as two days ago]

    Is there a revolt within the gauleiter Fatah in the West Bank?

    💠@Yeni Şafak in Russian:
    ⚡️Uprising in the Palestinian Authority? A group of security forces affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (ruled by Fatah), calling themselves the “Sons of Abu Jandal”, rebelled against the administration of Mahmoud Abbas and issued a 24-hour ultimatum:
    🗣 “ We are giving President Abbas 24 hours to take concrete steps against Israel. Otherwise, the security forces will not obey orders .”

    💠@Dugin:
    ⚡️The main figures – Putin, Nasrallah, Iran and others – blame for genocide in Gaza not so much Israel itself but rather US. This is the sign of clear geopoliticsl global vision beyond regional limits. Biden and his globalist clique trying at any price to save unipolar world order are really responsible for all catastrophes and disasters of humanity. They usurped US itself first, subjugated EU and are ready to destroy humanity. Now it is a hour to stop them.

    💠@Resistance News Network:
    ⚡️Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades: [transl]: “We softened the iron for him.”
    ⚡️Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza: 9,770 martyrs since the start of the war on Gaza, including 4,800 children. 24 massacres during the past 24 hours, resulting in 243 martyrs.
    We confirm that for the third consecutive day, we have been unable to evacuate the wounded to hospitals in Egypt.
    ⚡️🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

    The enemy’s perpetration of a new massacre in Al-Maghazi and the continuation of the war of extermination is evidence of bankruptcy, incapacity and confusion.

    The zionist enemy has committed a new horrific massacre at the Maghazi camp at dawn today, which resulted in the martyrdom of more than 40 citizens and injured dozens, most of them children and women. The continuation of the genocidal crimes against defenseless civilians, especially children and women in their homes, and the wide war of destruction, is an attempt by the occupation to compensate for its crushing defeat at the hands of the valiant resistance on the Gaza borders.

    The occupation’s recent perpetration of more massacres, the expansion of targeting civilians, the destruction of fishermen’s boats, water tanks, the continuation of the starvation war against our people, the targeting of journalists, medical crews, civil defense personnel, and ambulances, is evidence of its incapacity and bankruptcy in achieving any field accomplishment, or any real progress on the battleground in Gaza. Hence, it tries to compensate as usual by directing its treacherous hatred at civilians, while its forces, armor, and vehicles are struck blow after blow and destroyed by the heroes of the resistance from point blank.

    The legendary epic scenes embodied by our resisting heroes from the various military wings clearly show that we are on the threshold of achieving a historic victory over this criminal enemy who is floundering in its incapacity, failure, and historic defeat, and the fall of the myth of its invincible army in the face of the will and steadfastness of the heroic resistance in the battlefield, who fulfilled their promise to turn the sands of Gaza into a graveyard for the zionist invaders.

    The American, French, and British enemies, with their fleets and warships and their unlimited support for the entity and their false, pro-zionist media machine, will not be able to protect this defeated zionist entity and its cowardly leaders from its impending defeat, nor erase the disgrace that befell it due to the magnitude of the blows it suffered, and the abject failure it experienced over the days of the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.

    The Front calls on the sons of our Arab nation and the free people of the world to continue the unprecedented mass mobilization in the capitals and cities of the world, especially in the United States, Britain, France, and Berlin. These have proven their effectiveness and strong impact, and what we are witnessing of changes in the official Western discourse indicates the strength and impact of this pressure, and confirms that we are facing important transformations in public opinion, which has begun to uncover the reality of the zionist entity and its bloody criminal nature that has transcended Nazism.

    The Front renews its call to the Arab states to use their capabilities, especially the oil weapon, to pressure for a halt to the aggression on Gaza, confirming that we are facing a historic opportunity to unify the Arab nation and redirect the compass toward the real enemies, the zionists and the colonial West.

    The resistance is in good condition and is fighting the battle with unparalleled heroism and high capability, and victory will inevitably be its ally in the end, no matter how much the tyranny of this zionist enemy and the evil forces of the world persist, or the collusion and complicity of some zionist Arab regimes.

    Glory to the martyrs…
    Freedom for the prisoners…
    Speedy recovery for the wounded.
    We will surely be victorious.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
    Central Media Office
    5-11-2023
    ⚡️🚨 Ministry of Interior spokesman in Gaza:
    🔹The media has become unable to report the crimes of the occupation in the Strip due to the difficulty of journalists performing their duties.
    🔹The occupation targets shelter centers and hospitals to displace the residents of Gaza City.
    🔹The occupation deliberately kills citizens as they move towards areas it claims are safe.
    🔹The occupation has intensified the use of internationally banned white phosphorus bombs in the past two days.
    ⚡️🚨 BREAKING – Palestinian Telecommunications Company, Paltel: Complete interruption of all communications and Internet services in the Gaza Strip, because the main paths were exposed to separation again from the “israeli” side.
    ⚡️Following the complete shutdown of communications within the #Gaza Strip, US-funded occupation forces are launching successive and violent air strikes north and west of Gaza City.
    ⚡️🚨 Hundreds of IOF raids have targeted the #Gaza Strip in the last half hour [video]
    ⚡️The unprecedented zionist aggression on #Gaza continues amid a loss of communication and internet. Hundreds of raids are being carried out, many close to hospitals. [video]
    ⚡️Palestinians have begun marching in Abu Dis, eastern occupied #AlQuds [Jerusalem], in response to the ongoing violent bombing of #Gaza.

    💠@Strategika51:
    ⚡️Blinken in bulletproof vest and trembling with fear in Baghdad delivered to Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Soudani a message for Tehran. The Iraqi Prime Minister will fly to Tehran tomorrow morning to pass it on to those concerned. However, Iran seems to have already responded even before receiving the message by insisting that Washington must immediately cease fire in Gaza or risk being hit hard.
    ⚡️All US military bases in Iraq are targeted tonight by rocket and missile attacks.
    ⚡️Odds of airstrikes on Yemen from USS Dwight Eisenhower aircraft carrier are 90% (Intel)
    ⚡️The problem of possible strikes on Yemen remains possible targets since the country has been ravaged by an international coalition under Saudi cover for years.
    [“Commentator: Incidentally, the Yemeni ballistic missile intercepted from the Arabian Peninsula, or as it is called supposedly “Saudi” territory, was most certainly made by American or Western technicians. And I have doubts that the clown on duty called MBS was even consulted. The Yemenis sensing the matter, sent a missile, whereas they usually send a salvo. The next act of the Yemeni missiles will focus on the US presence in the Arabian Peninsula.”]

    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    ⚡️Almost 1 month of war and despite the ongoing IDF Ground incursion into Gaza, Palestinian factions have fired a massive amount of rockets towards Tel Aviv and Gush Dam (Central Israel/Tel Aviv metropolitan Zone)

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 01 Nov 2023 #20565
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    Grieved, Larch — I think you miss the point about Hamas. They don’t need to win any tunnel fights or even survive. Indeed Death is now the best portal for their Victory. And uneven skirmishes with the zionists are incidental to this eschatological battle, a MAJOR trap the zionists plunged into. They just need to prolong it sufficiently for their people to bite the bit.. and the genocidal zionists help their cause of convincing their people of “a good intentionality” with each atrocity, each bomb, each merciless cruel blow..

    The despair and rage of the permanently imprisoned and abandoned (foremost by the sea of hypocrite arabs surrounding them) is beyond our ken. They appear to have chosen to immolate themselves at the hands of the occupiers and the combined West. The fatalism and severe spirituality of such oppressed communities has been noted here and there through recorded history. I recounted one to Mr P in the old Cafe (repost below). The People of the Trench or Ditch, also driven by a maddened Jewish king in Yemen, chose to march en masse into the Fire rather than submit to tyranny…

    I think Magnier begins to sense the absolute horror of what comes next (“What happens next depends on the resistance.“) This may be paradigm changing. The tormented Zionists and their western patrons are 100% committed to removing the Palestinians and bombing everything in the way — it is now existential for their global/local hegemony. And the oppressed are 100% committed to staying on their land and resisting to the end. All Gaza is now the Resistance — including Christians thronged and praising in their churches and marxists screaming for blood. And they may be killed in the millions….. Even Larry anticipates this now, in last video with Ray and Judge, where he gave a number of 1M. Imagine the consequences for the future of the West in the civilized world, and the life span of all their regional compradores……..

    ZZzzzzzzzz……………

    Mr P: “It would simplify matters considerably if the 404nazifinks would follow the established pattern and make for themselves their cherished “Masada” by killing themselves…oh! Wait! They are…..”

    AHH:  “I was in Yemen recently. I learned two interesting stories which confirms the trend in Jewish history. When a fatalistic splinter group enters the zealot stage, they are capable of extraordinary deeds. And they are often egged-on by treacherous allies to suicide themselves too, in the pursuit of fighting a common enemy.

    (1) the first story was several centuries after Masada. A Jewish king in Yemen had an apprentice magician (a boy really) who became a Christian believer and did miracles.. the king who passionately hated Christians tried to kill him but could not. The boy told him to gather the people and gave him the means to kill him (by invoking the name of the Lord). He was martyred but at the cost to the king that most of the people entered the faith of the enemy. He was enraged and built a ditch for them in which to be burned, like the Babylonians had tried to burn the Patriarch Abraham. The condemned people remained resolute and entered the ditch. One lactating woman hesitated, for her infant. A miracle occurred then, only repeated two other times in human history: the babe in her arms spoke and enjoined her to enter the fire and not to lose the waiting reward.

    The story has relevance to this day for two reasons: first, it is recorded in the 85th chapter of the Qur’an. Second, a Yemeni man complained to his coreligionist Roman Emperor in Constantinople. The outraged Roman sent a letter to the nearest Christian kingdom, which happened to be in Abyssinia. The Negus (king) of Abyssinia then sent an army into Yemen to expunge the evil king who had dug the trench. However Yemenis of all creeds to this day regret the entire episode for more prosaic reasons. This issue opened the door to their long occupation and vassalage to Abyssinia. I forget the exact words, but that man who complained to the Roman emperor has as little wider regard as certain men in Greek history, such as the Spartan traitor Ephialtes.

    (2) the second story concerns another Jewish tribe at the time of the Islamic Prophet in his own city. This is rough outline of the story, although wiki lies of the reason for their expulsion. (whoever has authentic version, pl share) They broke their covenant, tried to assassinate the leader, etc… They lived in some of the best lands and strongholds which could survive long siege. Yet their hearts quailed and crumbled and they gave up and ended up dismantling their amazing fortresses, brick by brick with their own hands, rather than surrender them. Didn’t Azov surrender at the bitter end too, and after causing the leveling of the entire city? Banu Nadir was allowed to flee with only what they could carry on their many beasts of burden. This story is captured in the 59th Chapter of the Qur’an.

    So yes, the scenes of Mariupol should repeat and are repeating on even larger canvasses, and often by the spiritual inheritors of the same end-stage madness. Yet not all this madness is evil – some is clearly divinely inspired with good intentions, such as the believers making the ultimate sacrifice in the Ditch. And we remember Russians calling airstrikes on themselves, generals entering fire-pockets to lead, etc. What appears to differ is intentionality. The good have hopes of a long feast afterwards and accept what comes in this fallen and ephemeral world. The evil are carried on by false hopes, rumour, drugs, delirium and rank hatreds. And when they see they have utterly lost they tend to quit and wish to take all down with them if they can.”

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 01 Nov 2023 #20563
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    Hezbollah fighting inside occupied Palestine. As Magnier anticipated, major escalation was brought.. after they predictably killed civilians inside Lebanon, not only were settlements rocketed, most areas in north sent to the bunkers and there now appears a sabotage group fighting inside Israel proper…

    💠@Middle East Spectator:
    ⚡️Four civilians were killed in Lebanon by an Israeli strike earlier tonight, including 3 young children. In Nasrallah’s speech last Friday, one of the clear red lines he drew was the killing of civilians in Lebanon, which would lead to escalation.
    ⚡️Israeli reports that Kiryat Shmona was targeted by heavy Hezbollah missiles
    ⚡️If true, it would mark the first time that Hezbollah officially struck ‘non-military’ targets in the Galilee. Nasrallah said that the targeting of Lebanese civilians would be met with the targeting of civilians in Israel.
    ⚡️Iranian President Ibrahim Raesi held a phone conversation with Pope Francis. The president criticized the silence of the international community regarding the crimes of the Zionist entity in Gaza, saying it is against the teachings of the Abrahamic religions. The president expressed his appreciation towards the position of the Catholic Church, and emphasized the need for religious unity in the face of Zionist agression against Muslims and Christians.
    ⚡️Kiryat Shmona, iron dome failed to intercept most of the missiles
    ⚡️The Israeli air force is bombing Gaza with unprecedented severity. These airstrikes are without a shred of doubt the harshest we’ve seen during the entirety of the war.
    ⚡️Hezbollah confirms it targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with 112mm Grad (Katyusha) rockets, as a response to the Israeli killing of civilians in Lebanon. Note: This is the first time Hezbollah officially targeted a non-military target in Israel, and also the first time they used rockets instead of mortars or ATGMs.
    ⚡️This is an escalation
    ⚡️Security incident on the Lebanese border near Kiryat Shmona, machine gun fire can be heard in the distance
    ⚡️New rocket attack against the settlement of Kiryat Shmona near Lebanon

    💠@Strategika51:
    ⚡️Yair Lapid, Israeli opposition leader and chairman of the Yesh Atid party: “Israel is no longer a safe place, no longer a country and even less a regional power. We have failed”

    💠@Arab_Africa:
    ⚡️Algeria, which took the initiative to hold a meeting of military departments from North African countries on the situation in the Gaza Strip, has already received approval from Tunisia, Libya and Western Sahara, local sources report. Egypt “did not refuse” and expressed “initial approval” for the meeting, but asked to postpone it until after the Arab League summit, which will take place on November 11 in Riyadh. Meetings of the so-called “Power of the North African Region” group, which brings together representatives of the military departments of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Western Sahara, are held regularly. The group last met on May 6, 2023.
    ⚡️Photos of the Rafah border crossing, where concrete barriers are being installed, have appeared on Egyptian social networks
    Instead of opening…

    💠@Intel Slava Z:
    ⚡️Situation in the Gaza Strip: The Israeli army has cut the enclave in half and is trying to clear the northern part.
    ⚡️❗❗A Hezbollah sabotage group infiltrated Israeli territory in the Kiryat Shmona area. There is a battle going on. ❗❗

    💠@Slavyangrad:
    ⚡️The Jewish Autonomous Region is ready to accept refugees from both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This was announced by the governor of the region, Slava Goldstein. Note: It will be interesting if they start living in peace on our territory. This is such a blow to the West.
    ⚡️A doctor in Gaza is risking his life while attempting to reach patients. His car ran out of fuel, forcing him to use a bicycle for transportation. [video]
    ⚡️Hell of Fire: Arab media report unprecedented bombing of the Gaza Strip. Numerous Israeli Air Force planes, along with ships and artillery, have been delivering powerful attacks on the Palestinian enclave for more than an hour. [video]

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