Yawn....... Israel attacked by Hamas

Discussion in 'Politics' started by themickey, Oct 7, 2023.

  1. themickey

    themickey

    Once you realize the message of the Torah and Bible are religious scams of magnitude, the whole picture begins to fall into place.
    Where humans believe they have a relationship with a diety 'out there' which they call a God.
     
    #4271     Nov 27, 2024
  2. themickey

    themickey

    If one keeps thinking in terms of scams, it begins to make sense....


    Israel-Hezbollah Cease-fire: A Fragile Pause or Just a Tactical Delay?

    Giorgia Valente 11/27/2024 https://themedialine.org/top-storie...ire-a-fragile-pause-or-just-a-tactical-delay/

    The Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire pauses months of deadly conflict with a US-led monitoring system in place. While it offers temporary relief, concerns over future stability and Hezbollah’s weakened state leave the truce fragile and uncertain

    The cease-fire agreement signed on Tuesday between Israel and Hezbollah signals a precarious pause in the conflict that has devastated the region over recent months. With over 200,000 civilians displaced across southern Lebanon and northern Israel and hundreds of dead in relentless cross-border violence, the deal represents a crucial, albeit fragile, step toward de-escalation.
    This agreement is a way of buying time and a win-win for both sides for different reasons. Israel can obtain the international community’s silence for a while on the Middle East after the ICC’s statements against (Benjamin) Netanyahu and (Yoav) Gallant and all the things that have been unfolding in Lebanon and Gaza. On the other hand, for Hezbollah, it is a chance to keep surviving somehow and regroup after its major losses.
     
    #4272     Nov 27, 2024
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Pro-terrorist organization CAIR will be forced to show where it's funding is coming from.

    Hint: It's from terrorist organizations and unfriendly foreign governments.


    Great news — CAIR will be forced to open its books so US can see how deep the rot goes
    https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/opini...ts-books-so-us-can-see-how-deep-the-rot-goes/

    US Islamic Group CAIR Ordered by Federal Judge to Reveal Funding Sources
    https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/11/...ordered-federal-judge-reveal-funding-sources/

    "CAIR originally filed a lawsuit against former chapter leader Lori Saroya, accusing the ex-employee of engaging in “defamation” against the organization by exposing its alleged ties to terrorist groups and funding by foreign governments. After CAIR eventually dropped its lawsuit in January 2022, Saroya slapped the organization with a lawsuit of her own, accusing the group of defaming her character."
     
    #4273     Nov 27, 2024
  4. themickey

    themickey

    Netanyahu eyes ‘total victory’ after ceasefire deal

    After successfully crippling Hezbollah, Israel’s prime minister finally agreed a ceasefire in Lebanon and will now turn his full attention back to Gaza.

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    People in Beirut watch Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce a ceasefire on TV. Getty

    Neri Zilber and James Shotter Nov 28, 2024


    Israeli military achievements that delivered a crushing blow to Hezbollah. Reservists worn out by more than a year of fighting. Stores of arms beginning to dwindle. Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

    Many factors fed into Benjamin Netanyahu’s eventual decision to take up a US-brokered ceasefire and stop Israel’s offensive in Lebanon. His war aims against Hezbollah were also always more modest than the “total victory” he has sought against Hamas in Gaza.

    But in confronting the many domestic critics of the deal – including far-right government ministers, northern Israeli mayors and opposition figures – Netanyahu calculated that his goals had been largely met, while the risks of pushing on were mounting.

    “Hezbollah is not Hamas. We cannot totally destroy it. It was not on the cards,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Netanyahu who now works at Washington think tank Jinsa. “Lebanon is too big. Hezbollah is too strong.”

    This ceasefire deal “is not the dream that many Israelis had”, he said.

    But Amidror highlighted Israel’s dwindling munition stockpiles and the “pressure” on military reservists who had been fighting for months. “Israel cannot afford another year of war” at its current scale in the north, he said.

    Israeli officials consistently said their goal was the safe return to their homes of the tens of thousands of northern residents evacuated after Hezbollah began firing on Israel following Hamas’ October 7 attack last year.

    Officials said this would require pushing Hezbollah fighters back from the Israel-Lebanon frontier and changing the “security reality” along the border.

    After months of relatively limited exchanges of cross-border fire with Hezbollah, Israel escalated in September, setting off thousands of explosive pagers and walkie-talkies in an audacious covert operation, launching waves of air strikes across Lebanon, and initiating a punishing land invasion of its northern neighbour for the first time in almost two decades.

    In the span of a few weeks, most of Hezbollah’s leaders, including chief Hassan Nasrallah, were killed, and much of the group’s vast missile and rocket arsenal was destroyed. Israeli warplanes struck Beirut at will, and ground troops ranged across southern Lebanon.

    Tamir Hayman, a former head of Israeli military intelligence who now heads the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said “the military success has been exceptional”.

    Israel’s ground campaign resulted in the “systematic destruction” of Hezbollah positions – bunkers, weapons caches and firing positions – in the border region, he said, making it safer for Israeli residents to return to their homes and a ceasefire deal worth seizing.

    But the offensive came at a devastating cost to Lebanon. Broad swaths of the south and east were destroyed by Israeli bombardment. More than 3700 people, including an unknown number of combatants, were killed in Lebanon, the majority since September, and more than 1 million were displaced from their homes.

    More than 140 Israeli civilians and soldiers have been killed in the conflict, with 60,000 displaced from the north of the country.

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    A man returns to his village in south Lebanon after the ceasefire. AP

    The ceasefire deal is based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006 but was never fully implemented. Hayman called the newly concluded agreement a “tightened” version of the old accord.

    Both the Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters are due to withdraw from south Lebanon, to be replaced by the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers. A reinforced US-led international monitoring mechanism is meant to raise alarms regarding any violations.

    Senior Israeli officials have already made clear they will take matters into their own hands and strike Hezbollah inside Lebanon again if the militant group violates the deal. Indeed, as part of the overall ceasefire agreement, the US provided Israel with a separate “side letter” codifying a certain degree of Israeli freedom to act militarily, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    “Hezbollah will be in violation of the agreement not only if it fires on us. It will be in violation of the agreement if it obtains weapons to fire at us in the future,” Netanyahu said in a recorded video message on Tuesday. “And we will respond forcefully to any violation.”

    For Israeli officials, however, the real strategic prize in the ceasefire may be the prospect of a realignment inside Lebanon itself.

    “It used to be that Hezbollah was stronger than the state of Lebanon, but it’s now extremely weak,” Hayman said. “This is a big opportunity for the state to recalibrate the balance between the [various internal] forces and confessions ... and break Iran and Hezbollah’s power over the state.”

    According to two people with knowledge of Israeli government deliberations, US domestic politics played a critical role in the timing and substance of the agreement.

    “The war wasn’t going to last for ever. Trump wanted to end it, and [Netanyahu] was cognisant of that,” said one person.

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    Israeli security officers examine the site of an explosion in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel. AP

    The initial 60-day ceasefire implementation period bridges the end of President Joe Biden’s term in office until the staunchly pro-Israel Trump is inaugurated.

    Without explicitly blaming the Biden administration, Netanyahu said on Tuesday that it was “no secret” there had been “big delays in weapons and munitions deliveries”, but that he expected the issue to be resolved “soon”.

    “[Netanyahu] was aware that without a deal, you could see the Biden administration take certain ‘unpopular steps’ against Israel, including at the UN Security Council,” the second person said.

    As with much of Netanyahu’s animating impulses over the past year, domestic politics also played a central role in the long-serving leader’s willingness to strike a deal.

    Despite their opposition, Netanyahu’s far-right political allies have not threatened to topple the government over a ceasefire in Lebanon – in contrast to their vows over the past year to do so if he struck a deal in Gaza.

    Unlike with Hezbollah, a deal with Hamas would probably require the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and the end of the Jewish ultranationalist dream of resettling Gaza.

    “Netanyahu can do this deal for precisely the reasons he can’t do the Hamas deal,” said Aaron David Miller, a former senior US diplomat now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

    With Hezbollah out of the picture, Hamas is left on its own. We will increase our pressure on Hamas.

    Indeed, for Israeli strategists, perhaps the most important aspect of the deal is that Hezbollah, in agreeing to stop fighting, has severed the direct link it made with Hamas at the outset of the war when it began firing in “solidarity” with the Gaza-based group and vowed to continue until fighting in the enclave ended.

    According to Amidror, who is still considered close to Netanyahu, Iran’s regional “axis of resistance” now lies in ruins. “There is now no connection between the two fronts, and from Israel’s point of view that is an important success,” he said.

    Amidror said that with the so-called northern front resolved, Israel could now turn much of its ground forces and other military assets southward again to Gaza in a bid to finally “smash” Hamas.

    And Israeli officials close to Netanyahu contend that with the lack of Hezbollah’s support, Hamas may be more likely to cave to Israel’s conditions for a more favourable ceasefire-for-hostages deal.

    “With Hezbollah out of the picture, Hamas is left on its own,” Netanyahu said. “We will increase our pressure on Hamas and that will help us in our sacred mission of releasing our hostages.”

    Israeli defence officials, foreign diplomats and western analysts remain sceptical, however.

    “I do not believe this is going to somehow open the magic door to Gaza,” Miller added.

    Financial Times
     
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    #4274     Nov 27, 2024
  5. Mercor

    Mercor

    60 day ceasefire, 57 days until Trump takes oath
    Once Trump is in office Israel will finish the job
     
    #4275     Nov 27, 2024
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  6. themickey

    themickey

    Yup!
     
    #4276     Nov 28, 2024
  7. themickey

    themickey

    Yaaaaaawnnnnnn......


    Report: Another Israeli attack on a Lebanese town
    Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) says that an Israeli tank targeted the outskirts of the town of Kfarchouba with two shells.
    This comes after at least two people were injured in the town of Markaba after Israeli forces fired on it.
    Despite a ceasefire going into effect just over 24 hours ago, the Israeli army placed movement restrictions on southern Lebanon, saying anyone who violates them is in danger.

    21m ago (08:50 GMT)
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    Israeli troops fire on Lebanese town, injuring at least 2
    One day after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah went into effect, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that two Lebanese citizens were wounded in Markaba when Israel fired on it.
    Our correspondent on the ground has corroborated this information, saying the attack resulted in the injuries.
    The wounded were transferred to a hospital and are being treated, NNA says.
    We will bring you more on this as information comes in.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/
     
    #4277     Nov 28, 2024
  8. themickey

    themickey

    2h ago (06:30 GMT)
    US arms sales to Israel
    The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in place for almost a day now and Lebanese troops have started moving to the south of the country under the terms of the deal.
    People are travelling back to towns, villages and homes they were forcibly displaced from but Israel’s military has imposed movement restrictions on Lebanese civilians in parts of south Lebanon.
    US media are also reporting that President Joe Biden’s administration has provisionally approved new weapons sales to Israel.
     
    #4278     Nov 28, 2024
  9. themickey

    themickey

    Prolly part of the cease fire deal; Israel to agree to ceasefire with Lebanon in return for Biden once again turning on the weapons tap to Israel.
    Smoke and mirrors so Biden can save face and look like a winner.
    Netanyahu aware it's a stitch up temporary stop gap measure (the cease fire) until Trump's rein, then it all starts again.
     
    #4279     Nov 28, 2024
  10. themickey

    themickey

    Israel Launches First Airstrike on Lebanon Since Ceasefire, Accusing Hezbollah of Breaching Truce
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    A U.N. peacekeeper patrol drives past destroyed buildings in Chehabiyeh village, southern Lebanon, on Nov. 28, 2024, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.Hussein Malla—AP
    By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and JULIA FRANKEL / AP November 28, 2024

    BEIRUT — The Israeli military on Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold.
    There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's aerial attack, which came hours after the Israeli military said it fired on people trying to return to certain areas in southern Lebanon. Israel said they were violating the ceasefire agreement, without providing details. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said two people were wounded.

    The back-to-back incidents stirred unease about the agreement, brokered by the United States and France, which includes an initial two-month ceasefire in which Hezbollah militants are to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. The buffer zone would be patrolled by Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers.

    On Thursday, the second day of a ceasefire after more than a year of bloody conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's state news agency reported that Israeli fire targeted civilians in Markaba, close to the border, without providing further details. Israel said it fired artillery in three other locations near the border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
     
    #4280     Nov 28, 2024