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More for Ukraine? Just in case Israel needs it?
Or to prevent another "insurrection"?
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Whew! Article datelined June 15, 2022.
We published it at the time courtesy of The Walking Unvaxxed, according to the Related archive search results. Deacon Blues pointed out, “M855 and SS109 are military grade. There are other sources for .223 and 5.56.”
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Missing the date is a common step on the learning curve, dear Brer Rabbit, as is posting a duplicate article because it is clearly of interest to Rantburgers. Lots of learning took place today, which is a wonderful thing. :-)
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Missing or hard-to-find dates seems to be a thing on web pages lately. Combine that with web search being less functional and it all becomes most annoying.
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I remember I drove once from Los Alamos to El Paso. All the locals I knew told me I was crazy to drive a car with NM plates through Texas. But I wasn't stopped by cops (unlike in NM) once.
[GEO.TV] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has strongly criticised Israel's call for Paleostinians to vacate Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in the backdrop of escalating tensions between Israel and Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia denounced the displacement of Paleostinians and the targeting of innocent civilians, calling for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade on Gaza.
A statement from the Saudi Foreign Ministry expressed "categorical rejection" of the forced displacement of Paleostinians and urged the international community to intervene to prevent further military escalation.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms its categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the Paleostinian people from Gaza, and its condemnation of the continued targeting of defenseless civilians there," a statement from the Foreign Ministry said.
Saudi Arabia said in the statement that the deprivation of basic necessities for a decent life contravened international humanitarian law.
As the situation unfolds, Israel has transitioned from aerial campaigns to ground operations within the Gaza Strip. Ground forces, supported by tanks, have been deployed with the aim of targeting Hamas rocket crews and gathering crucial intelligence regarding hostages held by the holy warrior group.
Hamas, which governs the densely populated Paleostinian territory, remains unwavering in its determination to resist. In response to Israel's call for evacuation, thousands of Paleostinians have sought refuge in the southern Gaza region, fearing an impending ground offensive.
The call for evacuation comes in the wake of a significant breach of the heavily fortified Gaza border by Hamas holy warriors. This incident resulted in over 1,300 casualties, with the majority being civilians. The scale and impact of the attack have been likened to the 9/11 tragedy in the United States.
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Reuters:
Saudi Arabia is putting U.S.-backed plans to normalise ties with Israel on ice. pic.twitter.com/vjKB1Ov8Ix
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Cue nautical op, code word Whydah:
A funky flotilla, low bidder.
See Palestine's peerage,
From stateroom to steerage,
Start beaching as hajjis near Jiddah!
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[REGNUM] The aggravation of the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone has found a reaction in all corners of the world. Moreover, the fact that Latin America is located on the other side of the world has not changed this state of affairs at all.
The region showed a rather mixed picture in its attitude to what is happening.
And it’s understandable: Latin America is home to the largest communities of both Jews and emigrants from the Middle East.
In addition, the kibbutzim in Israel that were attacked by Hamas were home to many elderly South American immigrants.
These people left for Israel in the first decades after its emergence, but retained ties with Latin America and the local diaspora, which immediately began work: organizing rallies, marches, convincing the “wrong” politicians and supporting those who responded “properly.”
Both of them turned out to be enough.
"THESE WILD BEASTS"
One of the most striking pro-Israeli statements was made by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
He called for an end to the Hamas group and compared it to gangs of drug traffickers, against whom he himself once declared a merciless war. In addition, Bukele added that the complete disappearance of Hamas is the best thing that can happen to the Palestinian people, and “these wild animals” do not represent all Palestinians.
This sounds especially poignant because Nayib Bukele himself is the son of an imam of Palestinian origin and has repeatedly identified himself as Palestinian. True, he managed to change the faith of his ancestors to Catholicism, like most Latin American right-wing politicians.
You shouldn’t be surprised by this: the vast majority of the Palestinian diaspora in Latin America were at most born in the Middle East, but did not experience all the charm of life there. But they managed to join the business elite of the Western Hemisphere (the same can be said about the Lebanese, Syrians and Egyptians), and therefore they pay more attention to the preservation of certain cultural and memorial aspects, and prefer not to highlight political issues.
In addition, they calmly began to practice mixed marriages with locals and are quite loyal to the fact that their children change their faith (most often to Catholicism, Protestantism, or, like the supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid, to their own, greatly simplified version of Islam ) .
Returning to Nayib Bukele’s position, we can say that his support for Israel was expected: the politician often expressed admiration for the structure of Israeli society, tough political measures, as well as widespread militarization - which, by the way, he, to some extent, managed to implement in El Salvador .
ARGENTINA: IN RESONANCE WITH THE RECENT PAST
It is very interesting to observe the reaction to events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone from Argentina: a country where one of the largest Jewish diasporas in the world lives. And also the countries where many Nazi criminals fled after the defeat of Germany in World War II.
The Argentine leadership condemned the terrorist attacks on Israel and also expressed solidarity with the Jewish people. Almost immediately, pro-Israeli demonstrations took place in Buenos Aires, organized by the local diaspora - and at the same time by the American embassy.
Controversial presidential candidate Javier Miley expressed full support for Israel, recognized the country's right to defend itself against terrorism, and even earlier told voters about his plans to convert to Judaism and move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem.
The local public perceives the situation in the Middle East more acutely than many on the continent also because, until recently, Argentina was the place where the worst terrorist attacks against the Jewish people since the Second World War took place in 1992 and 1994.
In 1992, the headquarters of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was rammed by a car filled with explosives. As a result, 22 people were killed and more than two hundred were injured. The Islamic Jihad group (whose militants are also involved in the current attack on Israel) claimed responsibility for the incident.
In 1994, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Argentine Jewish Cultural Center. 85 people were killed, and over three hundred more were injured. As a result, local intelligence blamed Hezbollah and the Iranian leadership for the incident.
By the way, Iran is still facing the consequences of these stories: officials from certain structures (in particular, the IRGC) are often arrested when flying through Argentina to other Latin American countries on suspicion of organizing the above terrorist attacks.
True, for the most part, instructions and recommendations for such actions come not so much from official Buenos Aires as from the FBI.
TEAM "AGAINST"
In addition to supporting Israel, the leadership of some countries on the continent also expressed a diametrically opposite point of view, especially after the bombing of the Gaza Strip began.
Venezuelan President (and Iran's longtime partner) Nicolas Maduro has accused the Israeli authorities of genocide against the Palestinian people.
Chilean leader Gabriel Boric condemned the killings of civilians both at the hands of Hamas and the Israeli army, which has carried them out “for decades.” Borich also considered it his duty to report that Palestine was subject to illegal occupation.
The Chilean Foreign Ministry reacted more restrainedly, calling on both sides to stop using force against civilians.
True, this position aroused furious indignation at the Israeli Embassy: they considered it offensive that the very name of their country appears in the same category as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, although there is supposedly “no reason for this.”
But, as practice has shown, these were just the beginnings - a skirmish with Colombian President Gustavo Petro awaited the Israeli structures ahead .
"YOU ARE COPYING AUSCHWITZ IN GAZA"
It all started relatively peacefully - Gustavo Petro made statements in the spirit of aspirations for the resumption of negotiations and an end to attacks on civilians. However, after the Israeli Defense Minister in one of his statements made the statement “humanoid animals” when speaking about the Palestinians, the Colombian President did not remain silent.
On social networks, he wrote that “this is exactly what the Nazis said about the Jews in their time ,” under no circumstances should Nazism be allowed to take root again in international politics, and the speeches that the Israeli leadership allows will only lead to a new Holocaust.
Israel's Ambassador to Colombia, Gali Dagan, had previously been dissatisfied with Petro's failure to directly condemn Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli territory in which children were killed. The Colombian leader responded to this that children are also dying at the hands of terrorists in Gaza and in Colombia itself, and Gaza itself is being completely turned into a concentration camp, committing a crime against humanity.
Dagan suggested that the president go to Auschwitz and see what a concentration camp is like there - and Petro said that he had already visited Auschwitz and could see perfectly well how “they are now copying this in Gaza.”
Later it turned out that the President of Colombia at one time studied the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and therefore called everyone who wants to destroy the Palestinian people neo-Nazis, and said that if he had lived in Germany in 1933, he would have fought on the side of the Jews, and if in 1948 in Palestine, then on the side of the Palestinians.
Such comparisons have already caused outrage among the leadership of the World Jewish Congress and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Complex. They condemned Petro's statements, equating them with denial of the Holocaust, an insult to both its victims and the entire Jewish people in addition.
IT'S OKAY
All of the above reactions look interesting, but, if you look at them as a whole, they are not unexpected and are in line with the usual relations of Latin American countries with Israel.
For example, in Venezuela, Israel is considered an extension of the United States, and Iran (and everyone associated with it) is a partner and ally. The Chilean authorities refused to accept credentials from the Israeli ambassador back in September amid the killings of Palestinian civilians, and Gustavo Petro had criticized Israeli soldiers before.
Right-wing Latin American politicians - such as Nayib Bukele and officials from the teams of former presidents of Colombia and Brazil - adhere to largely pro-Israel narratives and condemn the Palestinian side.
Another question is what is planned to be done after the hot phase of the conflict subsides with those who, during these turbulent days, were caught “denying the Holocaust” or refused to mourn to the extent assigned to a particular country by the Israeli mission. In normal times, criticism of the World Jewish Congress or Yad Vashem would not have gone unheeded.
However, now there is every chance that both Gabriel Borich (a quite pro-American liberal) and Gustavo Petro (also not an enemy of any of the American parties) will be able to get away with it.
There is too much evidence that both warring sides do not stand on ceremony with the civilian population - in connection with which it will become much more difficult to maintain the usual “white coat”.
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[KavkazUzel] A number of events have been canceled in the Jewish communities of Makhachkala and Kizlyar due to threats from Palestinian militants. In the Nalchik synagogue, the schedule of events has not changed, and in the public Jewish cultural and educational organization "Sholom" of North Ossetia, enhanced security measures have been taken.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Jewish community centers in several regions of the Southern Federal District and the Stavropol Territory were placed under increased security due to the Palestinian Hamas movement's call for pogroms. The Jewish community in Maykop has canceled all events.
Synagogues in Azerbaijan are operating today as usual, under police protection, despite Hamas’ call for pogroms, representatives of the Jewish community said. In Armenia, events of the Jewish community were canceled due to the call of Hamas. The Jewish community of the republic asked the National Security Service to protect its office and synagogue in Yerevan.
On October 12, the National Security Council and the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned that the leadership of the Palestinian Hamas movement called on its supporters around the world to hold a “Day of Wrath” on October 13 and attack Israelis and Jews. “It is reasonable to assume that protest events will be held in various countries that could escalate into violence,” TASS quoted the statement as saying.
The police have strengthened security measures, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Makhachkala synagogue . “There is a police patrol post in front of the community building; police officers change regularly,” said a community representative. “In addition, we have canceled today’s Shabbat celebration. The remaining events remain,” he noted.
In the small Jewish community in Kizlyar, the police were not involved, but events were cancelled. “We are not going to - why risk it,” a representative of the Kizlyar Jewish community explained to the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent .
In the Nalchik synagogue "Nimaz Nalchik" all events will take place without changes. “If any measures are required, law enforcement agencies will take them,” a representative of the Nalchik synagogue told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
The regional public Jewish cultural and educational organization "Sholom" in North Ossetia took security measures, but expressed hope that they would not be required. “I don’t think we have enough people here among Muslims to listen to this call. Who is calling? Meshaal is the leader of Hamas. It’s as if Bin Laden told Muslims to smash Americans all over the world. Firstly ", I think this will not affect us. Secondly, we have very good relations with all our Muslim communities. Thirdly, our community is very small, very mixed. We have many people with Ossetian, Armenian, Georgian surnames," he said to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" Anatoly Kharin, deputy chairman of the regional public Jewish cultural and educational organization "Sholom" in North Ossetia .
However, according to him, representatives of the organization talked with representatives of other communities, as well as with the Ministry of National Relations, the House of Friendship and the Center for Combating Extremism. “If someone has a desire, then it is very difficult to foresee any course of their thoughts,” Kharin noted. “We will try to take the measures that are available to us. Just in case, we have thought through our actions. We will try to do everything in our power. I hope that we will not need all this,” Kharin noted.
The fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement began on October 7 with the firing of hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, including civilian targets and civilians. Hamas militants broke into a number of populated areas. In Israel, 1,300 people were killed, including 220 military personnel, and about 3,300 people were injured.
The Israel Defense Forces responded by launching the military operation “Iron Swords” against Hamas, after which Israel announced a blockade of the Gaza Strip: the supply of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel was suspended. More than 1,400 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, the number of wounded exceeded 6,000, Kommersant reported today, October 13. Also today, Hamas militants reported rocket attacks on the city of Ashkelon and Tel Aviv airport, RBC reported.
Synagogues in Baku and the Guba region are operating as usual, despite the call of the Palestinian Hamas movement for pogroms, representatives of the Jewish community said. Security measures near synagogues have been stepped up since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, police said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, events of the Jewish community in Armenia were canceled due to Hamas' call for pogroms. The community asked the National Security Service to protect its office and the Yerevan synagogue.
On October 12, the National Security Council and the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned that the leadership of the Palestinian Hamas movement called on its supporters around the world to hold a “Day of Wrath” on October 13 and attack Israelis and Jews. “It is reasonable to assume that protest events will be held in various countries that could escalate into violence,” TASS quoted the statement as saying.
In the Baku Synagogue of Mountain Jews, which is located on Alimardan Topchibashev Street in the center of Baku, no special measures were taken in connection with the calls of Hamas, a representative of the synagogue told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.
“We continue to work as before, there are no changes in our activities. We do not experience any security problems in Azerbaijan,” he explained.
On the morning of October 13, the doors of the synagogue were opened, and those who wished could freely enter the building. There was a police officer inside at the entrance , but he explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the police always provide security for the synagogue.
However, according to him, security measures have been strengthened in recent days. “If previously one squad provided security, now five squads are involved in this territory. But there have never been any incidents here before. We have not noticed anything suspicious in recent days,” the policeman said.
A Caucasian Knot correspondent observed three police officers in the synagogue building, but no police officers were visible from outside. An empty police patrol car was parked in front of the synagogue building.
There were also no special security measures visible near the synagogue of Ashkenazi and Georgian Jews, located on Dilyara Aliyeva Street. There were two police officers at the entrance. One of them told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the synagogue "is always under police protection."
However, he refrained from answering the question of whether additional measures had been taken. “We are responsible for the tasks assigned to us, we cannot answer other questions,” the policeman explained. A spokesman for the synagogue itself said that the community does not have any security problems and is continuing its daily operations.
A member of the municipal council of the village of Krasnaya Sloboda, Guba region of Azerbaijan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there are two synagogues in the village populated by Mountain Jews, and they continue to operate as usual today.
“Our synagogues, like us, the Mountain Jews ourselves, are under reliable state protection. In Azerbaijan, and especially here in Krasnaya Sloboda, we have no security problems, and there is no need for any additional protection measures. Synagogues have always been like that under reliable security,” said a representative of the municipal council.
Let us remind you that by October 13, seven natives of Azerbaijan died as a result of hostilities in Israel. 72 ethnic Azerbaijanis have been evacuated from Israel, the embassy in Tel Aviv said.
[FINBOLD] As tensions escalate between Israel and the Hamas group, it has been revealed US congressional leaders have been making some strategic investment moves into military-related stocks.
For starters, defense company General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has witnessed a surge in purchases. This isn’t entirely unexpected; defense stocks often become attractive during times of geopolitical tension. Remember the Ukrainian war? We saw a similar trend then.
However, what’s even more intriguing is the sectoral split between Republicans and Democrats. A substantial number of Republicans have shown a keen interest in the energy sector. Heavyweights like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN), and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) are clearly the favorites.
On the other side of the aisle, Democrats seem to be playing the long game, focusing on the cybersecurity sector with acquisitions in firms like Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), according to insights by @unusual_whales on X (formerly Twitter) on October 9
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4th Quarter stock churning? Bets that the Ukraine need for military gear will continue or at least US stockpiles will need to be replenished (longer term investment that)?
Assuming a causal link with the Hamas attacks seems ...premature, very premature.
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Interesting idea to provide state assets. I’m not sure that it will make a real difference. Plenty of commercial empty seats going the other way as IDF reservists pour back in.
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[Beitbart] During a portion of an interview with NBC News set to air on Thursday’s broadcast of "NBC Nightly News," Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... stated that the $6 billion in Iranian assets unfrozen by a prisoner swap deal the Biden administration brokered was money Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was allowed to accrue under the Trump administration and Iran has "always been allowed to use" these funds for humanitarian reasons, but "for technical reasons, Iran was having trouble actually using the funds," and the Biden administration moved it to a different account, "where the money could actually be used, but under the supervision of our Treasury Department, only for humanitarian purposes."
Blinken said, "The money in question, Iranian money, not American taxpayer dollars, is money that was allowed to accrue in a bank account from the sale of Iranian oil. And that mechanism, allowing Iran to accrue this money, to get the money and have it in an account, was established by the Trump administration. Now, the account that it was established in in South Korea, for technical reasons, Iran was having trouble actually using the funds, which it’s always been allowed to use for humanitarian purposes, under our sanctions, under our laws, we always carve out humanitarian, food, medicine, medical equipment. So, what we did is we moved the money from one account in South Korea, to another account in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , where the money could actually be used, but under the supervision of our Treasury Department, only for humanitarian purposes. And not a dollar of that money has been spent to date. And we retain the right to freeze that account."
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Word salad lessons from Kamela.
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"We've got to let them spend the money so we can see how they are going to spend the money."
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We almost didn’t get them their cash in time.
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This makes no sense at all. Words have no meaning to Mr. Blinken. He could (but probably will not) benefit from a dictionary.
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Makes sense - Kamala had no use for hers
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[GEO.TV] Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Friday warned illegal immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants in Pakistain to leave the country by the November 1 deportation deadline or the state would show "no compromise" in taking action against them.
The interim government had earlier this month ordered all illegal immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants, including 1.73 million Afghan nationals, to leave the country or face expulsion after revealing that 14 of 24 suicide kabooms in the country this year were carried out by Afghan nationals.
"In the meetings about the expulsion of Afghan refugees, all stakeholders were present. In that meeting, it was decided that a grace period should be given them," the minister said in a statement, claiming that some people also told authorities that some immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants wished to return voluntarily.
The interim security czar reiterated that the policy to expel illegal immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants was not restricted to Afghan nationals, but all those who do not have the required documentation for residing in Pakistain.
"People, no matter which nationality they belong to, will not be troubled if they have a valid visa and other required documentation. We're just [planning to] expel illegal immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants," he added.
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[GEO.TV] Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has ruled out any talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP), the banned outfit, saying that the state of Pakistain is powerful enough to fight them even for the next 100 years.
"Don't you see that their people are being killed daily? Our people are also being martyred. So what kind of talks or impediments [you are talking about]? They are killing my children and I am killing them," he told the media during his visit to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... on Friday.
"The state of Pakistain is so powerful to fight the TTP, not just one year rather 100 years," the interim premier said.
Asked what were the impediments in talks with the TTP, the PM said the biggest obstacle was that no one was willing to talk to them. "We don't want to talk to them. Who told you that we have any intention to talk with TTP."
Pakistain has seen a surge in terrorism in recent months, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... provinces, where the TTP bandidoshard boyz have targeted security forces and innocent civilians.
In response, the security forces have upped their operations against the murderous Moslems and also asked illegal immigrants colonists'>colonists Migrants to leave Pakistain by November 1 — as several Afghan nationals were involved in attacks on forces.
Rubbishing the notion of any registered Afghan refugees being expelled from Pakistain, Premier Kakar clarified that only the foreigners living illegally in the country would be expelled.
Through such measures, he went on to say, Pakistain does not want to undermine its relationship with Afghanistan but rather desires to have ties based on international standards in which the movement of the people would be subject to visas.
The caretaker prime minister said as the illegal residents had no registration in Pakistain’s database, the state was unable to distinguish between those playing a productive role in society and the criminals challenging the writ of the state.
He clarified that the expulsion of illegal residents was not out of any vengeance rather the state wanted to rid the country of those causing social ills as well as becoming a challenge of terrorism and crimes.
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[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu says he was updated only when devastating Hamas infiltration began at 6:29 a.m. Saturday; reports say top brass had ‘scraps’ of info, didn’t raise alert or boost forces
Senior IDF and security officials reportedly held an assessment hours before the start of Hamas’s brutal onslaught on southern Israel on Saturday morning, having received “weak scraps” of information that something was afoot, but concluded that the activity in Gaza was likely a drill.
In response to the reports, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had not received any intelligence warnings from the security establishment before the start of the devastating mass Hamas infiltration, in which some 1,300 people were killed as terrorists rampaged across communities in southern Israel.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was updated at exactly 06:29 on Saturday, and not before, upon the outbreak of the fighting,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. “He immediately went to the Kirya [military headquarters in Tel Aviv], held an assessment of the situation and convened the Security Cabinet.”
The reports said that senior military and Shin bet officials, including IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, held phone discussions just a few hours before Hamas’s devastating infiltration, after indications of irregularities were noted.
The generals reportedly concluded that the activity in Gaza was probably a drill, and agreed to hold further discussions in the morning. They reportedly chose not to raise an alert or boost forces to the Gaza border area, since the issue was not considered pressing.
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Look Skid, they are (were) always, always, active in Gaza - you can't respond every time.
And since everybody (in Israel) could predict the eventual (current) response - it would be pure craziness for them to do something.
In short, the failure was underestimating how crazy they are.
Israel can play at "who's head should roll?" later. The important thing is to do them maximum hurt before USG stops Israel (I for one, have very inconfortable feeling between my shoulder blades everytime I read about USG functionaries promising eternal support to Israel)
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No confirmation from their friends in Washington? No one asked? No one provided overhead, signals, conducted predictive analysis ?
Alright then, what news (criminal, Plandemic, Mex border) are we now NOT hearing much about? What US national news is being masked. What other costly, failing international conflict is suddenly OFF the radar ?
So Israel may have missed it. Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Ardennes was 'missed' too, as was 9/11. Looks like they've got their 'A-Game' on right now and are running the ball.
"Who shot John".... talk about it later during 'lessons learned' sessions at The Israel National Defense College (INDC), AWC, or Leavenworth.
Keeping in mind Israel didn't start this kak slinging contest, run the ball and take meaningful, effective strategic measures to terminate the threat.
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It gets very tiring hearing people complaining about how the Intelligence Community of Israel and the US is supposed to be omniscient. This ain't an f'ing Tom Clancy novel.
Did they miss something they should have paid more attention too, maybe but that's life. perfection is a dream.
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If Trump we in a similar decision making situation for the US, could all government officials be counted on to pass along correct and timely intelligence? Would Miley, for instance?
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Every intel shop I worked was staffed with jaded pukes and run by an asshole.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli intel was caught off-guard by devastating assault; but terror group recently held live-fire exercise blasting through mock wall, raiding mock town
Less than a month before Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... Lions of Islam blew through Israel’s high-tech "Iron Wall" on the Gazoo
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[BenarNews] Thai national Katchakorn Pudtason was thankful to be back home and alive as he recounted how he was shot after hiding out for hours at an Israeli kibbutz during an attack by Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... turbans on Oct. 7.
He took a bullet to the leg as his boss tried to move him and other farm workers to safety, he recalled after he and 40 other Thais arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on Thursday aboard a commercial flight from Israel.
"I thought I could not make it out alive until today. They fired salvos, not one round followed by another round," Katchakorn told journalists as he described those tense hours on Saturday, when Hamas fighters raided the Moshav Mavki’im kibbutz as part of a devastating wave of rocket attacks and ground strikes into southern Israel from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
When the violence broke out, the kibbutz boss sheltered him and other workers, he said.
"At noon time, he [the boss] said it was calm so he took us to change our clothes and have lunch. On the way to the residence, gunfire was heard from the roadside — a bullet struck my knee," said Katchakorn, who sat in a wheelchair.
"We told the boss to flee while we were ducking on the car floor. Bullets pierced through the car, injuring four out of eight of us," he said, adding, "one was shot in the cheek.
"The boss’s relatives helped shelter me and called a rescue unit that took me to a hospital."
Katchakorn was one of 15 Thai workers from the kibbutz whose flight home on El Al, Israel’s flag carrier, was sponsored by Thailand’s government while 26 others purchased their own tickets, according to government officials.
Another Thai, who identified himself as Boy, said because he feared for his life, he left his job and booked a ticket home, adding he did not want to be one of the thousands waiting to be airlifted out of Israel.
"When the attack erupted, I saw the visions of my wife, children and family — I didn’t know what was going to happen. My workplace was next to Gaza," Boy told journalists at the airport.
"They sent me over to an evacuation camp in Haifa and asked me to work in another place. If a bomb landed, we could die, so I picked up my only bag, headed to Tel Aviv by taxi and bought a ticket home," he said.
21 THAIS KILLED
Thai officials estimate that about 30,000 citizens are in Israel, including nearly 5,000 living near flash points along the border with the Gaza Strip.
At dawn on Saturday, Hamas launched thousands of rockets and hundreds of its fighters infiltrated southern Israel to attack civilians and Israeli security forces, reports said.
As of Thursday afternoon, 21 Thais had died in the violence, another 14 were maimed, and 16 had been kidnapped, according to the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv. In addition, nearly 6,000 Thais had signed up for evacuation.
During an airport ceremony welcoming the first group of returnees, Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said the government had asked Israel to assist in efforts to release the hostages as soon as possible and to find a way to return the bodies of those Thais who had been killed.
"There are 16 hostages. We are discussing with [partners] around there and the Israeli government to come to the rescue of the hostages as soon as possible," Parnpree said, adding he believed they were alive and safe.
"We have no conflicts with any countries. I don’t see any motives to harm Thais," he said.
Hamas leaders have threatened to kill one hostage for each unwarned attack by Israel on the Gaza Strip, a Paleostinian enclave that is home to more than 2 million people, according to media reports. Since Hamas launched the attacks on Saturday, fierce fighting has followed between both sides and Israel’s military has been bombarding the territory, reports said.
FOREIGNERS KILLED
A Thai who returned from Israel and asked to not be named said Israelis who had been killed were identified and buried following religious ceremonies, while the bodies of foreigners were being kept in morgues pending identification so they could be repatriated.
Among the dead are two from the Philippines — a 42-year-old man from the northern province of Pampanga, and a 33-year-old woman from the northern province of Pangasinan. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has promised to give the victims a "decent burial."
Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, 19 other Thai nationals left Israel on Friday and were expected to arrive in Thailand on Saturday, while another 100 were scheduled to leave Israel on Saturday, Thai Foreign Ministry officials said. The first batch of 41 Thai returnees arrived in Bangkok on Thursday.
Thai Defense Minister Anutin Klangsang told news hounds at the Bangkok airport on Thursday that military officials were working on efforts to repatriate all of the Thais who had registered with the embassy in Tel Aviv — 6,778 Thai nationals have registered for voluntary repatriation.
According to the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv, 21 Thais had been killed in the Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -Israel violence, another 14 had been injured, and 16 had been kidnapped.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, the foreign ministry said most Indonesians in Israel had left for Jordan via a border crossing this week, although a majority of the more than 100 living there and in the West Bank had decided to stay.
Most of the more than 300 Indonesians who left were religious pilgrims, while many of the 129 staying on were students, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official said.
[IsraelNationalNews] Personnel from the IDF Rabbinate and the IDF Manpower Directorate presented the identification processes currently being carried out on hundreds of massacre victims, including women, children and many infants. The correspondents were exposed to difficult scenes and the scope of the attack on civilians.
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