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    Gaza Oct 12

    The slow grind on Gaza continues unabated. There’s some movement in relief and humanitarian convoys — other nations joining. Rafah border crossing is open. Syrian airports are being bombed by Cancer to prevent arrival of voentorg to the Resistance.

    💠 @MedManTG:
    ⚡️🇪🇬 Egypt has rejected the US-Israeli proposal to make safe passage and open the exit paths for civilians to leave Gaza. Egypt states that the moment that Civilians leave Gaza, they will be ethnically cleansed and massively displaced from Gaza, a second Nakba would ensue which would ensure that no Palestinian would ever return to Gaza. Simply put, if the Gazans leave, they are never coming back, the Israelis will simply never allow them. Egypt instead demands that its humanitarian convoys, medical personnel, and a truce is enacted to allow the Egyptian Field Hospital in Rafah to receive the most severe cases, and at least hundreds of tons of aid to enter Gaza.
    [The stance is as widely shared among all Palestinians, haunted by first expulsions in 1948]:⚡️🇪🇬 Important to note that the PA, Hamas, and the Palestinian Administration since
    the 1950s totally rejected the concept of Palestinians ever being forced out of their homes, they simply wish to fight and die on where they live, the lessons of the 1948 of willingly leaving their homes has shown (a good chunk, not a majority of cases in 1948 were because Palestinians left their own homes on orders of their tribes and sheikhs, but the majority were due to ethnic cleansing and deportation) that it is a bad prerogative and will never be repeated
    ⚡️🇩🇪 The German government authorizes “the usage of drones by the IAF against terror targets in Gaza.” According to German Law, because they are so morally high, the German government has to gain certain concessions and it has the power to allow or not allow the usage of its military equipment. For example, Germany only gave Leopards to Turkey on the promise that Turkey will not use it on targeting the Kurds (Look how well that panned up), Germany had to give permission for the Netherlands, Denmark, and so on, in giving their Leopards to Ukraine. [this will not be forgotten. The cumulative stupidity and grim future of the West!! They will be isolated pariahs]
    ⚡️🇯🇴🇪🇬 Jordan sends transport planes to Egypt, carrying aid to Gaza. Iran is most likely to follow soon since both Jordan and Iran entered discussions with Egypt to send humanitarian aid to Gaza. This also probably means that the corridor will be opened – Jordan will not send aid if the corridor would not open in the near future.


    ⚡️🇵🇸 The Israeli government is pushing the Psyop and Narrative that it is totally O.K for the Gazans to be ethnically cleansed from their home and be sent to Egypt.
    ⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸 The Israeli enemy is once again bombing Palestinian Rafah border, ensuring that the roads are completely destroyed and therefore making the delivery of aid hard, or to be honest, impossible. It is also not a coincidence that it came after the Egyptian Foreign Ministers statement around 15 minutes ago that Egypt intends to send aid through Rafah.

    ⚡️🇪🇬❗️ The Egyptian Foreign Minister publishes an extremely important statement.
    All Aid organizations, charities, and countries who are willing to send their aid to Gaza, are therefore ordered to deliver it to Al-Arish International Airport. Al-Arish is 75kms away from Gaza. The Aid WILL go through, regardless what Israel states, their threats of bombing the aid convoys and the medics and the doctors will fall on deaf ears.
    ⚡️🇪🇬❗️ This is actually a very smart decision. The Egyptian convoy may get bombed, and Egyptian lives to the Europeans and Americans are not worth that alot, and thus no one would care, and Israel would probably be seen as “defending” its own International territory. But what if it is also an International convoy? of various nationalities, countries, organizations, and so on, will Israel also kill Brazilian drivers? Russian medics? Jordanian crewmen?
    They will anger the whole world if they do this, and they will lose public opinion. They will be forced to either allow it to pass it through or will simply ignore the fact that the convoy is making its way to the other side and there is nothing they can do about it, that is, hopefully, that the aid is sent soon and as quick as it can when it gets here.
    ⚡️🇪🇬❗️Egypt demands Israel to cease its shelling and airstrikes of the Palestinian side of Rafah.
    ⚡️🇪🇬❗️Egypt states that the Rafah Crossing is open.
    ⚡️🇸🇾❗️Syria is being bombed!
    ⚡️🇸🇾 Aleppo and Damascus airport have been assaulted by Israeli aviation, initial reports state that both airports are taken out of service as of now.
    ⚡️🇵🇸 Israeli media claim that there are strong indicators that Hezbollah, Hamas, and Pro-Iranian factions from Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon are going to open several fronts. Israeli media has also stated and commented on the recent attacks on Syrian airports, stating that the attacks were most likely to prevent aid reaching allies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    💠 Intel Slava Z:
    ⚡️❗️Egypt does not want to open corridors for refugees from the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post newspaper writes, citing sources in the Egyptian security services. Earlier, as reported by CNN, Israel said that negotiations were underway to allow US citizens and Palestinian civilians to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt through the Rafah checkpoint before the start of a likely Israeli ground operation. [I told you CNN was lying and trying to push a risible plan. And Egypt appears to be holding firm.]
    ⚡️ 🇬🇧🇵🇸 The Guardian: “Waving the Palestinian flag or singing songs calling for freedom for Arabs in the region could be a crime,” UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said. We’ve already seen this. First in Ukraine, then in the Baltic states, now in the South Caucasus. Everything is Orwellian.

    💠 Sputnik Africa:
    ⚡️❗️ Russia hopes that after the end of the hot phase of the conflict in the Middle East, everyone will take seriously the obligation to create a Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Lavrov says
    ⚡️❗️ Israel reportedly attacks Syrian airports of Damascus, Aleppo, both air harbors suspend operations, according to preliminary data

    💠 @DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️ Gaza will remain under blockade until Israelis abducted by Hamas are released, Israeli Energy Minister says
    ⚡️🇩🇪 The German Interior Ministry will ban the activities of Hamas in Germany, as well as organizations that glorify its attacks, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He said an attack on Israel by third parties, including Hezbollah, would be an “unforgivable mistake.”
    ⚡️Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi: The Resistance Front has achieved great victories in recent days. We will continue to support the Palestinian resistance with full force and we are proud of that
    ⚡️Director of the Middle East at the International Red Cross: Gaza is in a catastrophic state, and if humanitarian aid does not enter soon, the situation will be beyond disaster.
    ⚡️🇵🇸Spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health: The health sector in Gaza is on the verge of collapse
    ⚡️🇮🇱🇩🇪 Germany will support Israel by sending two Israeli-made Heron reconnaissance drones. This was reported by Der Spiegel magazine, citing its own sources. Thus, Israel sent Germany a corresponding request over the weekend. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius later authorized the supply. No official information has been published in this regard. [We should see the same kind of continuous begging for supplies as the 404 Clown.. another black hole for the dying West yawned open!]
    ⚡️Antony Blinken: I arrived in Israel not only as an US Secretary of State, but as a Jew whose ancestors fled murder
    ⚡️Iranian Foreign Minister:
    ➡️ I will begin a regional tour starting from Iraq, passing through Syria and then Lebanon, to hold consultative meetings with officials.
    ➡️ The painful scenes in Gaza reflect the Zionist enemy’s efforts to carry out a mass massacre of innocent civilians in Gaza, and the world is witnessing that.
    ➡️ Everyone realizes that the main cause of the crises in West Asia is the Zionist entity’s occupation of Palestine
    ➡️ The siege, cutting off water and electricity, and preventing the entry of medicines and foodstuffs indicate the enemy’s intentions to carry out a massacre against the residents of Gaza.
    ➡️ This war that we are witnessing today in Gaza is not a war of the Zionists with one faction, but rather a war with all Palestinians.
    ⚡️🇸🇾🇮🇷 According to preliminary reports, Israel is striking the runways of Damascus and Aleppo airports, Al Watan newspaper reported. All flights in and out of Syria are canceled.

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    sorry Mr P, forgot to respond. Hella day. Last I recounted the Russian muslim pop is about 15-20%, likely even less now with 10+ millions from new regions and elsewhere added. And at least five more oblasts soon. I very rarely read MoA, just too much to follow – today I took a look, the threads on Palestine had 600-700 comments and the one on the SMO had about 60, lol. THE WORD WENT OUT. I see why someone complained recently it became useless, i think it was on karlof substack. He’s a patient historian and replied it was opportunity to educate the spammers. They really are out in force. This Palestine issue is a third rail issue in combined west, they will sell their mothers to please the zionists and the trolls are out.

    Yes, 1973 almost resulted in a 1962-like standoff, that is how heated it became… I think it was prudent of Russkies to back off. The US was in deep agony, being eviscerated and evicted from Vietnam, off the gold standard and in free fall (before they pulled the petrodollar out of the hat), and could not handle more defeats… A strategic patience was at play then, as now. How they defeated fate then!

    Helmer is golden. The Zionists are screwed. The moderate balancer VVP is finally going to lean towards the Stavka and General Staff and Russia’s natural allies.

    If what Hal is saying is not the usual agitprop, Qatar (!), a gaseous oasis once termed “300 men and their camels who can fit into a single tent” may crash the US economy if they carry out the threat. And they might! They and Turkey are truly desperate. The MB and legions of terrorists are not only foot soldiers, they are their physical protection. They cannot allow the Zionists to cull them in Gaza. It is a matter of honor. Geopolitics is beyond wierd at the moment

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    Yes thanks Grieved, I saw the debunking of the “innocently butchered ravers” on many channels, but I am only one human and chose to focus on other key points and skip most debunking.. this is usually easy and rapidly done by our compañeros on many sites, esp Smoothie and many TG channels.. it is VIP work and I do not minimize it, but we each have our tolerance levels.

    I despise and ignore western MSM or Zionist bloviations most of the time, literally getting sick if read too much. Like Russians in 1970s reading Pravda articles between the lines the shameless lies becomes a nauseating game after a while.. even the sharpest are being trained in double-think! If you’ve already been “immunized” and learned to recognize a man as a liar, it is usually a waste of time to indulge your precious time even listening to his next lies. I had good mentors in my youth in USA: “if the government speaks, it’s a Lie until proven otherwise.” A friend who was a Sicilian dope addict veteran taught me a lot.. And all presstitutes are CIA [gov] organs at this point, so.. I just choose to focus on other aspects.

    What did stand out about the entire rave PR event, and interested from the first moment was its location right next to Gaza! And this while expecting a breakout of insurgents… a much easier and cleaner process than mining elevator shafts and building supports, no? Some always need their flashy false flags.

    In fact I am starting to suspect some of the top cadre of Hamas may be part of the plot, or gave the impression to still have been assets. Just hours ago, for first time in decades, Israel killed some of Hamas’ top political leaders, having focused on the military wing to date, so the latter theory is quite possible. Retribution for bitter betrayal? Hamas may have played along as to timing and the initial directions of the breakout, but their new advanced training and capabilities and far bigger mission and sustained effort indicates the con-artists were conned, lol. The golem broke loose.

    Also see Erdogan’s lackadaisical movement to help his MB cadre. In 2013, their co-cult member Morsi, the deposed MB Egyptian Prez (a US dual-citizen and engineer brought in by the Obama team) started to prepare the ethnic cleansing of Gazans to the Sinai, giving some citizenship, allocating funds for housing, etc.. directly leading to his coup by his then Defense Minister and the incumbent Prez Sisi. Only now, after realizing it is not a simple 1-2 day event and beyond a local MB “friendly-event,” are Turkey and Qatar starting to make noise! As sponsors and backers of MB they cannot afford to sit on sidelines with this unexpected turn. Maybe they signed onto expulsion to Sinai, and now see their shocking wholesale delegitimization unfolding through this unexpected genocide.

    So the catastrophe is truly total and toxic for the West, at risk of losing their primary global proxy! All allies of the MB are apoplectic. Terrorist Jihadis in the Ukraine, especially Chechens, are at the moment in uproar, leaving 404 due to Zelensky siding with Israel and condemning Hamas! If Egypt does NOT lift its blockade and the zionists continue genocidal leveling, their own proxies will flow to them from the four corners of earth and will dismantle the Cancer. The pressure on Egypt is total, as marked by media hysteria I have been highlighting. Their currency is cratering and inflationary surge eye-watering, under severe western pressure.

    Egypt is the key player, not only in terms of heft and most potent army in the region, but the required will to keep the border closed. If they do so, the zionists will fold. They’re out of worthwhile men, ammo and cannot afford to alienate 7B humans any further. How can they make Egypt an offer it cannot refuse, mafia-style, without resorting to war??

    Note the close BRICS+ coordination with Egypt, counseling it extensively. The two most senior diplomats in Egypt both were in Moscow in last days, consulting with Lavrov. One is the current FM, and the other a former FM and the current head of the Arab League. The Iranians have been calling Cairo. China is building Egypt a new capital, and crucially voiced support for long-overdue implementation of sovereign Palestinian state. All this should bolster Egypt to remain firm against the zionists and combined west pressure.

    The issue has now blown out of their control. The Zionists sought to engineer a Final Solution to the intractable Gazan problem, and now find THEMSELVES in real existential bind, being the useful idiots (1) to unify all disparate muslims, (2) humiliate US and speed up implosion even more, and (3) bring Russia back as honest arbiter since the US took sole prerogative after 1973.

    Putin hinted during his session yesterday at the Energy conference with both the Iraqi PM and Saudi Oil Minister listening next to him that (1) US cannot be trusted as an impartial arbiter and is responsible for most problems, (2) Palestine needs its own state per ancient UN agreements never honored by combined West, and (3) collective punishment and genocide of civilians on either side is unacceptable. So we can expect serious expansion of Russia’s role in West Asia, earned through consummate professionalism, universal goodwill in Global South, and through blood and defeat of the perfidious West in the fast collapsing SMO. Even the Saudis and Iranian rulers talked yesterday over this Gaza catastrophe! What is unfolding is truly mind-boggling and unlivable for hegemony.

    btw, Al Assad saw this approaching denouement: “Why did the Syrian president and his wife choose to keep their children in China when they returned home?” — in their trip last month to China, ahead of these storms, they left three children behind them, not looking back…

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    The ironies of History: the Arch of Triumph of Titus. “The Italians illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag the Arch of Triumph of Titus, erected to commemorate the Roman legions’ brutal suppression of the Jewish revolt in 70 AD.”

    [This was at the time Romans destroyed their Second Temple… now they encourage the Conflagration leading to the erection of the Third Temple… NATO is unsurvivable and will trigger it! This appears to support Israel, but is in reality the opposite: just as the first Triumph celebrated jewish culling, this second one, if heeded, encourages steps inevitably leading to another culling]

    “The orcs are coming”
    https://youtu.be/P_DxT29RTDo

    The effective mindwashing spans centuries and precedes creation of Hollywood.. I look forward to the explication of the video creator’s theory: “Interestingly, wether he is aware or not, he has propaganda based reasoning behind the mention of Tolkien fantasy creatures. The whole overlay script is lifted from his work, especially Peter Jackson’s movie versions which are embedded with symbolic imagery, theological undertones and contemporary Middle East political characterisations. In many ways Middle Earth is portrayed as the Middle East. Tolkien was also a devout Christian however he was also tasked by British Intel to pave the way for British Israelism via massaging the minds of the masses through the greatest work of fantasy fiction ever written. The Lord of the Rings will be covered at great length when we commence live-streams.”

    💠 Misc.
    ⚡️HOW IT IS DONE: Filming the next atrocity event.

    @MedManTG:
    ⚡️🇪🇬 Regarding the Aid Convoy. It has arrived in the border of Gaza, to the best of my understanding, and Egypt has asked for a 6 hour truce of the war to allow the dozens of trucks, ambulances, and medical crews to go into Gaza. In 2021, Egypt provided Gaza with 2,500 Tons of Food, Medical Aid, Baby Supplies, and other humanitarian aid, however, that was when the Palestinian side of Rafah was not having its roads and buildings turned into rubble, and its citizens turned into skulls and bones.

    The Israeli apparently has come to the realization that if he targets the convoy, he will be involved in a fight he does not want to fight at the moment, Egypt alone has more Rocket artillery than most active factions and countries against Israel, and so, he has come to bomb Rafah severely, even after the Egyptian declaration that it will gather supplies that came after the warning, as a way to simply force a situation on reality, you can not drive dozens of trucks and ambulances through such streets.

    Meanwhile, a Field hospital is being established right across the border, and the Americans are negotiating to allow safe and unrestricted passage of Palestinians to said Field Hospital and a right to access aid.
    ⚡️🇵🇸 Israeli Journalist and “International Relations Analyst” Eli Cohen says, “Settlement of Palestinians in Sinai in exchange for eliminating Egypt’s foreign debt, think about it!”

    In 2019, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Leader stated that the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt in 2013, Morsi, bluntly offered to resettle Gazans into Sinai along a strip of land with Israel, and gave citizenship to 25,000 Palestinians, however, the change of rule that occurred in 2013 prevented this.

    Ever since the days of Nasser, no Palestinian, or even anyone who is interested in the Arab cause, gave any genuine support to the idea of resettling Gazans into Sinai, because living on Palestine is the one, permanent thing that is keeping the Palestinian cause alive, only Jews and their Allies would want an Exodus of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai or elsewhere.

    Palestinians have lived on this land, and they will either liberate it, or die on it, there is no third option. [Big Picture: it appears heartless to usually keep the border shut on Egyptian/Jordanian sides, but this is the approach the region chose to safeguard them, and prevent “the wandering Palestinian” for the next 2,000 years…]

    @DDGeopolitics:
    ⚡️🇪🇬🇮🇱🇵🇸 Egypt will negotiate with Hamas on the release of foreign hostages and dual citizens it holds, Al Arabiya TV channel reports. Hamas promised Egypt not to use violence against foreign hostages and dual citizens held by it – Al Arabiya
    ⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 The White House has confirmed that the second American aircraft carrier, the Dwight Eisenhower, is being deployed to the Mediterranean.


    ☝️☝️☝️A reminder of a key source of this bottomless horror
    @irishmaninrussia:
    ⚡️”It was British dishonesty and double dealing during WW1 that led us to todays terrifying conflict in Israel and Palestine. Promising both Arabs and Jews a homeland, and exploiting divisions in return for loyalty, led us to this bloodbath, as it did in Ireland, India and Africa.” [he forgot China, Afghan, heck most of Asia, US Civil War, moon landers, and whatnot. They probably created division amongst the Principalities and lesser devils too]

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 9/10/2023 … Open Thread #19395
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    EXTREMELY disturbing developments are taking place at the hands of the Brits. Sabotage groups are sent to attack nuclear power plants (NPP) in Russia proper, leading to emergency shut-down of one of them — the Kursk NPP, some 80km from Ukie border. The FSB Director says multiple NPPs were attacked. Some really ache to start Armageddon.

    🇷🇺 Statements by the Director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, at the meeting of the Council of Security and Special Service Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Baku:

    ➡️Nearly 800 mercenaries from 35 countries are involved in combat actions on the side of Ukraine. Ukrainian intelligence and British advisors planned sabotage against nuclear power plants in Russia.

    ➡️In August, the FSB detained members of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group that had received training involving British Special Forces. The group was planning sabotage operations against military facilities, infrastructure, and nuclear power plants, including the Smolensk and Kursk Nuclear Power Plants. These actions are classified as nuclear terrorism.

    ➡️Western intelligence agencies are establishing training camps under the patronage of NATO, where militants are prepared for use in Ukraine.

    ➡️The USA and NATO are actively engaged in military activities in the CIS and are considering the return of US military bases to Afghanistan.

    ➡️The terrorists’ main goal is to seize power in Central Asia, including Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and integrate them into a “worldwide caliphate.” The USA and the UK are involved in this process.

    ➡️Ukrainian saboteurs conducted attacks on the Kursk NPP, leading to its emergency shutdown.

    ➡️The USA and the UK are increasing their intelligence activities in Afghanistan and intend to return to this country.

    ➡️The USA and NATO seek to gain control of the CIS through military means, and Ukraine has become a training ground for preparing militants and mercenaries for use in the region. There are 17 training centers in these camps for militant preparation.

    ➡️US and UK agencies actively recruit international terrorists and mercenaries in the interests of the Ukrainian armed forces.

    ➡️In the Donbass region, employees of 13 European private military companies and 9 militarized proxy groups are participating in combat actions against Russia.

    Via: @Rybar

    🔴 @DDGeopolitics

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    RT:  “However, according to Bortnikov, one such attack by Ukrainian saboteurs did require that the second block of the Kursk Nuclear power plant perform an emergency stop, adding that “such actions by the Ukrainian military intelligence and its British mentors can’t be classified as anything but nuclear terrorism.”

    “The question arises: does London realize the reckless nature of the actions of its intelligence services? And what, ultimately, do these madmen hope to achieve? After all, through their actions they are taking the terrorist threat to a higher level,” the FSB director said, suggesting that the international community must now develop a new approach to fighting terrorism, its ideological inspirers, sponsors and leaders.”

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 9/10/2023 … Open Thread #19394
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    Yes it is an evocative paean to Che. Sung with feeling. He earned it the hard way.

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    “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” — Nelson Mandela

    Til this day, even Africans who are quite desperate themselves are astonished and enraged at the open barbarity and bestiality on global display in occupied Palestine. It is the foundational issue of anti-imperialism and bedrock of international discord. No fair and free multipolar world can be birthed while this nazi outpost of the combined West exists.

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    🕊️🇨🇳🇵🇸 Chinese public support for Palestine is extremely popular domestically.


    A ripe Lemon is squeezed, stirred (and shaken) by Zion: Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer and now leader of the British Labor Party

    💠 on Hezbollah invasion red-alerts:
    @MedManTG: ⚡️I would like to, obviously state, that the Lebanese thing turned out to be a false alarm, my admins thought Israeli sources were reputable, and now that they were easily scared. Ghost of Beirut strikes again lmao. The reports concerning the alarms in Northern Israel were real. People were directed to shelters as well. My apologies and I will do better next time.
    @Strategika51: ⚡️Israeli Channel 13 based on information provided by military officials: “Hezbollah sent dozens of drones and brought them back to probe and trigger our warning systems”

    💠 @Intel Slava Z:⚡️Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long harbored plans to annex the Gaza Strip and move Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Iraqi TV channel Al Sumariao reports, citing an audio recording of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in which he spoke about a conversation with Netanyahu. “Netanyahu once said… that there is a map showing the Gaza Strip and the territory near our borders, and began to consult if the population of the Gaza Strip moved to the Sinai Peninsula,” the TV channel quotes Mubarak as saying. It is reported that the ex-president of Egypt refused Netanyahu’s offer. “Forget it. Neither I nor the one who comes after me will be able to give up our territory,” Mubarak said.


    [They claim plan is to evac to Sinai. TAKE WITH BUCKET OF SALT. Egypt unlikely to budge — except to allow out the wounded, hostages, westerners, and other individuals. Zionists are in zugzwang. If they continue butchery to a fully blockaded concentration camp, they will have the wider war they can ill afford atm.]
    ⚡️Putin’s live comments (with a smirk) about the US aircraft carriers, with the Iraqi Prime Minister sitting next to him… [Got air defense against Zircons and Kalibrs, laddies?] 
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    💠@Slavyangrad:
    ⚡️Israel has declared a closed military zone around the perimeter of the Gaza Strip, making all infiltrations prohibited. As a result, the only means of leaving Gaza is through Egypt. However, the border has been closed for the past 24 hours following an Israeli army shelling of the Rafah crossing.


    ⚡️[RIP Lula @Brazil]: Brazilian President Lula da Silva: I want to appeal to UN Secretary General António Guterres and the international community to use all resources together and as a matter of urgency to put an end to the most serious violation of human rights in the conflict in the Middle East. International humanitarian intervention is urgently needed. A ceasefire is essential to protect Israeli and Palestinian children. Children must never be taken hostage, no matter where they are. Hamas must release Israeli children abducted from their families, and Israel must stop bombing so that Palestinian children and their mothers can leave the Gaza Strip through the border with Egypt. Even in the madness of war, one must show humanity. [this is better. He now acknowledges the Palestinians are human too, and should be protected. But the Zion wind is still strong at his back..]
    ⚡️More than 1 thousand houses have already been destroyed in Gaza, 560 are badly damaged – UN


    ⚡️Israel faces war on five fronts: Hamas, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, and with Palestinian groups on the West Bank – Bild, citing experts from the Middle East center Le Beck. “Iran and its allies have made the Palestinian issue a pillar of their ideology and therefore cannot simply stand by. […] Attacks from Syria or even Iraq and Yemen should not be written off. Israel (whether it believes it or not) refrains from blaming Iran, knowing that this will drive it further into a corner and lead to a multilateral war,” experts say.

    Israel is a state whose government has failed to establish sustainable peace with any country in the Middle East. It is also worth considering that the main sponsor of the IDF and the beneficiary of the bloodshed throughout the region – the United States is also unpopular, which puts Israel in a very dangerous position.

    [It is really at least seven fronts, EXCLUDING Egypt, which may also be drawn in due to the ongoing genocide and aggression of trying to drive Gazans onto its sovereign land of Sinai against its explicit and repeated refusal over six decades..]

    ⚡️According to Israeli sources, Ukrainian President Zelensky is considering the possibility of a “solidarity visit” to Israel
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    Correlation of Forces: why NATO is urgently dumping the Clown and 404 and rushes to bolster their outpost in the Holy Land

    Decent Jews on the straight and skinny: “They want nationalism. They hate God. They hate religion… I told you: you cut yourself off from Judaism by joining the Zionists. – So the Jews are Zionists, not the people of Israel? – That’s right. I’d be much happier if they went to Uganda or Patagonia rather than Palestine.

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    💠 @Strategika51:
    ⚡️What we remember from this collective hysteria experienced by Israel today: failure of intelligence, inability to detect threats, amateurism and irrational fear… How has this state been able to survive until now? It is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.
    ⚡️From bad to worse: Lebanese media claim that the Israeli red alert (invasion) was caused by…birds 🤣! Birds ! Hitchcock’s film! [OK. my apologies. I will slow down. Zionists are freakin out and infecting us all. Will wait a couple hours from now on before posting. Events are so fast, including debunking of fake news. Telegram is a front of this war]
    ⚡️SMS/text alerts ordering people to shelter in bunkers are being received by all the populations of Israel, Palestinians included. It could be a cyberattack. [psywar active on both sides]
    ⚡️Israeli military high command: “We have no idea what happened.” It is scary…
    ⚡️Radar, observation satellite, observation airship, drones…and they can’t tell the difference between birds and flying objects! We might as well go back to 1914!
    ⚡️Almost the entire media has fallen for it and is apologizing. How can you live in a territory while being terrified? This is not a life. And it seems that they have won wars? 😆
    ⚡️Okay, enough adrenaline for today. A break is necessary!
    ⚡️Israeli Radar Screens: error 404. Israeli media are starting to accuse Hezbollah of launching a PsyOp! If that’s the case, it’s really successful.

    ⚡️An underwater cable bringing Internet to the Chukotka region (extreme northeast of Russia, opposite Alaska) has been cut…The Russians suspect sabotage. [this is day or so after another gas pipe in Baltic, between Estonia and Finland, was sabotaged too]

    💠 @Africa Intel: ⚡️Egypt moves to prevent exodus of Palestinians from besieged Gaza

    Egypt is moving to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula, as Israeli bombardment halted crossings at the main exit point from the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday, Gaza and Egyptian officials said. Israel’s assault on Gaza has caused alarm in Egypt, which has urged Israel to provide safe passage for civilians from the enclave rather than encouraging them to flee southwest towards Sinai.

    The Rafah border crossing remained shut on Wednesday morning, after Egyptian military planes conducted flights nearby overnight. The military has also taken up new positions close to the border, running patrols to monitor the area. “Egypt would not allow the issue to be settled at the expense of others,” [Egyptian President] Sisi said, an apparent reference to the risk that Palestinians could be pushed into Sinai.

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    💠 on Hezbollah (@ejmalrai)
    ⚡️According to my information, there will be more escalation from #Lebanon today and every day until @netanyahu accepts what has happened and negotiates. Otherwise, we are going towards an all-out war. Will explain further in my forthcoming article how #Israel fell into a trap
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    ⚡️If #Israel uses drones over #Lebanon, #Hezbollah will use the same over the settlements and the military barracks. How deep Israel will hit (empty) targets inside the south of Lebanon, Hezbollah will hit deeper. The Israeli military command needs to think carefully how to react.
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    ⚡️#Israel is incapable of fighting on multiple fronts, even with the #US carrier. @Netanyahu should negotiate now orals #Hezbollah’s precision missiles targets hitting Tel Aviv and the zone around it will cripple #Israel’s infrastructure for very long.
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    ⚡️#BreakingNews: #Haifa is under missiles [from Hamas]. The Palestinians are gradually showing their missiles capabilities and telling #Israel that its indiscriminate bombing of #Gaza won’t limit #Hamas and the Jihad capabilities
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    💠 @Strategika51:
    ⚡️Urgent: the United States evacuates its embassy in Beirut as a matter of absolute urgency
    ⚡️Fog of war but it seems that Hezbollah has just launched an offensive on the Galilee and northern Israel. Information on Syria’s imminent entry into war. Reminder: technically Syria and Israel have still been at war since 1973. [God Bless the remaining honorable, the three members of Greater Shaam (Greater Syria of Palestine, Hezbollah, Syria) and some of Iraq. All other neighboring official arab states are parasited zombies]
    ⚡️Southern Front: Palestinian Hamas fighters managed to make a new sortie and attack the colony of Sufa. [they have gone to the same location of 101st Airborne!]
    ⚡️Offensive on the Golan and in the Galilee, violent fighting in progress. Millions of Israelis are running for shelter.
    ⚡️To all subscribers of the channel: we are living in historic times and it is probably the beginning of the “hot” world war. Some of you have been following us since 2011. We knew this moment had to come.
    ⚡️More than a million Israelis are currently holed up in underground bunkers. The Israeli army in a state of war. US and NATO warplanes in Iraq and Jordan on red alert. British fighter jets in Cyprus on high alert.
    ⚡️Israeli terror hysteria was triggered by a few dozen drones. There are no microlights or motorized paragliders. These were hallucinations of the operators of Israeli air defense systems. On the other hand, missiles fired from Gaza landed in Haifa in the north. For the Golan, no information available. There were many injured in the stampedes of Israeli civilians to return to the bunkers. Hezbollah official: ‘We haven’t gone to war yet and half of Israel has almost melted and raised the white flag’

    💠 @MedManTG:
    ⚡️🇵🇸 Al-Qassam storms an occupation checkpoint in occupied Jerusalem [this is far from Gaza, edge of West Bank] 

    ⚡️🇱🇧  There is currently no evidence of infiltrations that are ongoing from Lebanon. [fog of war claims paragliders and troops coming over in waves into northern Israel. This is now debunked]


    Tulsi bends with the wind of Zion…. the consolidation in the combined West is TOTAL.  Not even Ukies and defeating Russia elicited this passion. It is about maintenance of the Parasite, “Urbi et Orbi.”

    AHH
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    @MedManTG:
    ⚡️🇵🇸 Heavy Missile strikes on Northern Israel were directed from Lebanon. Drones were observed in the airspace alongside Gliders carrying troops. It seems Hezbollah has officially joined this war
    ⚡️🇵🇸 Holy shit another missile barrage is on its way from Lebanon
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    @Strategika51:
    ⚡️Hezbollah releases another video showing the destruction of Israeli border guards by an anti-tank missile.
    ⚡️It appears that dozens of drones have just entered the Galilee from Lebanon and Syria. This is confirmed!
    ⚡️Unknown drones are currently flying over Lake Tiberias and heading towards ancient Armageddon…
    ⚡️Hezbollah appears to have thought deeply about the possibility of a direct confrontation with Washington.
    ⚡️Warning sirens sound in all towns and villages from northern Israel to Haifa
    ⚡️Dozens of explosions heard in northern Israel…Repots about swarms of kamikaze drones…
    ⚡️Information on an attack using light motorized Aircraft coming from South Lebanon
    ⚡️This war will not be like any other…
    ⚡️Israeli media: “armed incident inside the Dimona nuclear power plant”

    Hezbollah said FUCK IT. Lessons learned from Saddam and waiting six months for build ups… when a fight’s inevitable..

    AHH
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    Terrible developments underway. 3 US aircraft carriers on way, target appears Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians… The abject arab regimes will be shamed into the desired wider war.. Russia on horns of dilemma

    💠Holy wars of total extermination are declared…. what Beast slouches towards Bethlehem??


    @Intel Republic: ⚡️🇺🇸 🇮🇱🇵🇸 TIME FOR A CRUSADE: US hawk Lindsey Graham declares that Israeli war is “religious war” and demands that Gaza be “levelledin hate-laden rant proudly posted on Twitter (👆). Warmonger Graham’s logic be like: Israel must “defend itself” by blowing up kids in Gaza Strip…  [did he let slip the truth for once??]
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    ⚡️RT: “Gaza should be “flattened” with nuclear-capable missiles, a member of the Knesset from the ruling party has stated”
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    ⚡️[remember, the PR foundation has been laid: Hamas = the entire wildly diverse Palestinian nation. Therefor, justification to exterminate the entire Palestinian nation.]
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    @MedManTG:⚡️🇵🇸 The Israeli occupation army arms 1,000 Israeli children and women to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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    @Strategika51:
    ⚡️Information on a third US carrier group which could be deployed off the coast of Israel. Three nuclear aircraft carriers with their battle groups is a bit too much…
    ⚡️The deployment of American combat units in the Gaza envelope is confirmed.
    ⚡️Elements of the US 101st Airborne Division deploy alongside the Israeli armed forces near Sufa where intense fighting is taking place.
    ⚡️Urgent: three private US military companies interrupt all their activities around the world and redirect their mercenaries to Israel
    ⚡️An anonymous billionaire buys 250 plane tickets for mercenaries and conscripts with dual US and Israeli nationality at New York’s JFK airport.
    ⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin: “I don’t understand why the United States is sending its nuclear aircraft carriers off the coast of Israel. Are they going to invade Lebanon? In any case, these moves only make the situation worse.”
    ⚡️Israeli media:
    🔸”Israeli army is not sufficiently equipped or trained to carry out a ground operation against Gaza”
    🔸”we will need at least three million men to meet the needs of this war, but the troops mobilized so far do not exceed 360,000 men, or 10% of the needs”
    🔸“we must mobilize all NATO armies, if we do not do it now, we will have this problem for another century” [Final solutions…]
    🔸”We practically discovered by chance that Israel gave its entire arsenal to Ukraine to face Russia. Now it is up to our allies to provide us with everything we need.” [and how should Russia respond to this development? I note today, unlike all other nations, Russia was NOT making preparations to evacuate Russians, and said so, eventhough some 1.5M Russians live there.. and Volodin had strong comments about returning 5th columns too]

    ⚡️Hezbollah seems to face a dilemma: it knows that this time it will deal directly with the United States. He assesses the consequences of the destruction of a US nuclear aircraft carrier which he considers within his reach and in all cases Washington will use tactical nuclear weapons in Lebanon and Syria. Hezbollah blames Washington for all these killings and considers Israel a simple puppet that will disappear the day its master falls. [this may inform delays for Resistance Arc to get involved atm. A bigger fight approaches, in need of states’ coordination, including Russia as involves nukes which will impact serving Russians in Syria and the Levant..]
    ⚡️The Israeli Minister of Security, the extremist Ben Ghvir, was violently attacked by the settlers. He announced the free distribution of weapons and munitions of war to all civilians, including children over 10 years old. Sderot will be a pilot operation in this direction. Given the madness of certain settlers, it’s not going to be a pretty sight… [this confirms Med Man’s West Bank arming of kids and women above..]

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    ⚡️I’m going to dispel four myths about this conflict

    1.) FOR FCKS SAKE THIS war isn’t Israel vs Hamas it’s Israel vs 🇵🇸 PALESTINE. Stop equating Palestine to Hamas. Hamas is one of MANY resistance forces and is not part of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), which FATAH is part of. There are also resistance forces outside of Palestine like Hezbollah that support Palestine.

    2.) What Hamas is and isn’t. Hamas on that note has various factions and is a divided and divisive group. There are certainly rogue factions and the group as a whole isn’t entirely trusted due to its creation (via U.S. & Israel to undermine socialist government in Palestine), funding & past grievances. But Hamas has been used as a red herring to distract from all of Israel’s war crimes of the century by tying them to terrorism. This has also been used by Israel to attack PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS countless times, saying they were “going after Hamas”. Americans and westerners who were propagandized against Muslims after our government created & radicalized actual terrorist groups to accomplish 9/11 & then the “war on terror” easily fall for this trope.

    3.) This narrative that Israel 🇮🇱must have “let this happen,” by all accounts appears to be a false Zionist deterrence. The idea that Israel is too high tech too powerful and too intelligent to fail is only a plausible idea if we are led to believe everything we hear in the west is true. Israel after all, has only attacked women and children with rocks and fire as a weapon since most of the older men are in prison or dead. It’s also true if you believe that you can dismiss all of the work the resistance has been doing for over 75 years, or maybe you don’t know. But it truly would require all of the resistance forces to be “in on it” and these people are extremely intelligent and would have seen through this. Even if you could have some cooperation from inside Israel, that would be the work of the defense forces of Palestine not of Israel. The truth is that Israel is but a Hologram of what it’s been projecting out into the world just like the US. And similarly like the weapons that are sent to Ukraine, the weapons that are sent to Israel & all of that surveillance intel matters little when it comes to on the ground combat and being able to use these weapons with the facility and ease needed. It discounts the fact that scientifically people who have lost everything and all to fight for their very existence have more determination to succeed. Not saying it’s impossible but highly improbably and a very Zionist position to think Israel is invincible. They got caught off guard with their pants down. That’s the story, sorry it hurts so many to believe it, but Goliath can fall.

    4) There is absolutely zero evidence that Palestinians have been raping women in Israel. None. Not saying bad things don’t happen during war because it is war. But I have yet to see any evidence except debunked claims. It is in fact another red herring the west has used to blame the people rising up against their foreign policy. Here is an example. Btw there is evidence of Israelis raping Palestinian women. Plenty of videos I and others have shared.
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    @MedManTG:⚡️The Zionist regime has killed 260 children since the attack on the Gaza Strip began. The reason for this murder is the regime’s massive attacks on residential buildings.

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    ⬆️⬆️Oct 11, Jabalia refugees camp in the Gaza strip after a night of massive Israeli air strikes. The ammunitions used are ready to use US-provided JDAM bombs.

    The relentless destruction is too horrible. The air’s been sucked out of every channel. We’re witnesses to sheer satanism. And the delegitimization of current “international law” as enshrined in the UN, and the failure of capable regional arab armies to uphold it. We are at a moment more terrible than the last moments of the inter-war League of Nations.

    Do we blame most of mankind for watching, when Palestinian’s brethren and arab neighbors are so cowardly and complicit?? This is orders of magnitude more abject than Armenian compradores or Germany deindustrializing itself; they watch while a nation is being wiped out. This is among reasons Arabs have so little respect worldwide. Russia tolerated the shelling and slow genocide of Donbas for only 8 years, using those years to fruitfully prepare against the entire combined West; then it unleashed hell against them which will return them to a new broke Dark Age. The Arabs have had 75 years, or even 50 since the last October War, without meaningful preparation. And so those who love this life condemn themselves, in this life and the next, without honor…

    Fires of mutual total extermination are being lit….

    “The report that 40 Israeli babies were found decapitated is a consistent Israeli propaganda campaign to counter images of Palestinian babies being torn to pieces by bombs in Gaza. This element was missing from Israeli propaganda during previous attacks on Gaza. However this time, the Netanyahu government wants to have a free hand and it has carte blanche from Joe Biden but also wants to prevent international opinion from being shocked by the scale of the planned massacre.”

    The Palestinians continue futile rocketing of surrounding settlements and towns such as evacuated Ashkelon in Israel, which through contrived equivalence helps whitewash their own genocide. Two days ago, the zionists ran a Bucha-like FF involving “40 beheaded babies” [not in incubators this time] subsequently refuted by IDF itself, but the damage was done, disclaimed by Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley and other US indignants. This also now helps cover for the slaughter of Gaza innocents, its evident intent.

    💠 Misc.
    @Slavyangrad:
    ⚡️National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan: We are discussing with Israel and Egypt the safe passage of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt
    ⚡️Reports from Syria indicate that Hezbollah forces and associated groups from Lebanon and Syria advanced tonight and took up positions in the Syrian town of Barika, about 2 km from the border with Israel.
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    @MedManTG:⚡️ 🇩🇪 German Foreign Ministry: More than 5,000 Israeli settlers of German origin decide to return to Germany from the occupied Palestinian Territories.
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    Intel Slava Z:⚡️🇮🇶 Iraqi media report that the commander of the Iraqi Shiite militia “Kataib Sayed al-Shohada” Abu Ala al-Walai was spotted in Lebanon, with him by the end of the week from 3,000 to 7,000 fighters from Iraq will arrive to participate in the battle for Palestine.
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    @Strategika51:
    ⚡️A senior Egyptian official says the plan to make Gaza residents flee to Egypt without a right of return, as happened in Lebanon, is an old Zionist project. This project has received financial support from Saudi billionaires over the last six years and there has even been talk of creating cities in the Sinai desert somewhat similar to the Neom mega project in northern Saudi Arabia. This project is dangerous because it is not only part of the continuation of the initial Zionist project from 1948 but demonstrates that Israel has never sought peace, even virtually.
    ⚡️The Colombian president draws a parallel between what is happening in the Gaza Strip and what happened in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War.
    ⚡️Turkish President Erdogan describes what is happening in Gaza as a mass massacre that has no moral or other justification and has no military significance.
    ⚡️Israel’s entire military history is a big lie maintained by marketing operations. They wanted to build a warrior myth for themselves while others fought in their place.
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    @africaintel:⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸🇮🇱 Tension on Egypt’s border with Gaza and Israel increased, led to the closing of borders. Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling hit the area of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, disrupting operations at the only exit point on Gaza’s southern border, Egyptian security officials said.

    Egypt, meanwhile, has urged Israel to open humanitarian corridors for the strip’s 2.3 million people to escape the bombardment. Three other crossings along Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip and Israel have been closed for security reasons.

    Authorities have meanwhile stepped up patrols along Egypt’s borders with Gaza and Israel to prevent any infiltrations by militants into Israel. Troops deployed in the area have been placed on high alert and given permission to use deadly force against suspicious movements by anyone who approaches.

    [Gaza is well and truly blockaded. Egyptian Junta knows the game and is determined to not permit a new displacement, a Nakba 2.0, knowing the refugees would never be allowed to return as long as Zionism exists, like other refugees who’ve lived and rotted in surrounding lands for 75 years now.]
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    @DDGeopolitics: ⚡️Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin:

    “Washington is the main beneficiary of armed conflicts. Shares of the largest American arms companies soared in price after a sharp escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is evidenced by trading data on the stock exchange. Washington has always used the tragedies of millions of people to further its economic interests.As a result of the First World War, US GDP actually doubled. First of all, due to the fact that the American military-industrial complex was provided with large orders. At that time, the concept of “military millionaire” even appeared. The US went from debtor to creditor, and the dollar subsequently supplanted the British pound to become the world currency.

    Washington was also able to use World War II to build up its own economic power. The United States provided military aid to its allies on credit. The main recipients of supplies under Lend-Lease were Great Britain and the USSR. By the way, our country paid off the Soviet debt for Lend-Lease only in 2006. Decades have passed, but US methods have not changed. We saw this in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. We are seeing this in Ukraine today. Washington is fomenting armed conflicts for its own enrichment.

    And now American aircraft carriers are heading to the shores of Palestine and Israel with the goal not of ensuring peace, but of starting another war beneficial to the States”
    [Volodin confirms rumors of more aircraft carriers are headed to East Med, and to start a larger war since not a single one is needed for Palestinians]

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    Thousands of people rally in support of Palestine in the capital of Jordan. This US colony has severe elite-people dislocation: the elites opened their military bases for US Air Force logistics support to Israel.

    💠@Slavyangrad:
    ⚡️Israeli airlines El Al, Israir, and Arkia have increased flights to transport reservists back to Israel as 360,000 reservists were called up
    ⚡️Chevron halts gas exports via EMG pipeline from Israel to Egypt
    ⚡️The Pentagon does not rule out a “special operation” to rescue American citizens in the Gaza Strip – Sky News
    ⚡️Israeli media report that 75% of residents living in the Galilee region fled to the center of the country towards Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
    ⚡️The funnel continues to expand. The Secretary General of the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, Ahmed al-Hamidawi, has threatened that their missiles will hit American bases if they intervene in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. According to him, missiles, UAVs, and special forces are in a state of heightened combat readiness


    ⚡️The Pentagon used private contractors to transport weapons to Israel. At these moments, a Challenge Airlines cargo Boeing 747, having taken off from Dover Air Force Base in Biden’s home state of Delaware, is preparing to land at a military base in southern Israel – directly in the combat zone. [Hamas has already used Cousin Cokehead’s Soviet-era Strela-series MANPADS… Do a fast, hard, zig-zagging landing laddies!]
    ⚡️American special forces, along with American intelligence officers, arrived in Israel to help the IDF rescue American hostages in the Gaza Strip.
    ⚡️The Paris Police Headquarters has prohibited the demonstration in support of Palestine scheduled for October 12

    Now, let’s delve into some statistics. Islam is the second-largest religion in France, both in terms of the number of adherents and its growth rate. The country hosts more than 2,200 mosques, and it’s projected that the Muslim population in France will reach 8.5 million by 2025, according to Pew Research Center analysts.

    Moreover, Paris and Marseille stand out as the European cities with the largest Muslim populations. It’s alarming that in Paris today, Muslims have been denied the right to support their fellow believers in light of Israel’s actions, which many consider to be a form of genocide.

    It’s not difficult to anticipate how the Eastern community might perceive these restrictions. France has witnessed numerous mass protests in its streets, but this time the situation could spiral out of control for law enforcement, and the burning of Macron’s portraits might not be the only consequence.

    As Elon Musk has prophetically warned, “if current trends persist, a civil war in Europe is inevitable.” [France is screwed, every which way]
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    ⚡️The US national debt has grown by more than $500 billion in less than a month. This is evidenced by information released by the US Department of the Treasury. [maybe they’ll implode like a broke dope fiend, before they can end us all??]
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    ⚡️It’s hell in Gaza. The Israeli Air Force continues to destroy civilians 24/7.
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    ⚡️💥🇸🇾🇮🇷 The Syrian Il-76 cargo plane landed in Tehran a few minutes ago. [why are all channels watching this? What goodies are being picked up? Drones? Voentorg’s open on both sides…]
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    internet connectivity in Gaza

    💠 Misc.
    @Strategika51: ⚡️US special forces have arrived in Israel to officially help free Israeli hostages with US citizenship and others detained in Gaza.
    These are mainly Navy Seals, Green Berets, Team Alpha and other specialized units.
    This for the official side. On the unofficial side, hundreds of veterans of Iraq’s counterinsurgency are helping Israeli forces contain the situation using extreme methods.
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    the well-greased US Senator “Liddle” Rubio messages

    Gaza Oct 10, an early dividend

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