Israel celebrates breaching ground Hamas didn’t foresee as war enters second month

An account I find fascinating; TD

FDD's Long War Journal

"Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday that Gaza has been revealed to be the world’s largest “man-made terror base.” He portrayed current Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar as stuck in a bunker somewhere in Gaza, cut off from other Hamas commanders. Netanyahu has also hinted at the depth of Israel’s strikes saying “Hamas is finding out that we’re getting to places it didn’t think we’d reach. And the campaign is still underway.' ”

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to members of Israel’s elite Egoz unit on Tuesday, exactly one month after Hamas’ surprise attack on the country flipped the world upside down. The Egoz unit specializes in guerilla-style warfare and is part of Israel’s commando brigade. It uses special weapons and tactics. “I would like to tell you that what we see on the ground, from the reports the War Cabinet and I receive, and the conversations with commanders and soldiers, it is an extraordinary success. I tell you, the Americans were here. They explained to us what was in Fallujah and what was here and there, and they are amazed at what we have achieved,” Netanyahu told the soldiers at a base in the Negev desert.

"The Prime Minister admitted there are challenges. “There are UAVs, IEDs and anti-tank fire. That is true. Sometimes there are very painful losses but all in all, the success is phenomenal because we went in there and hit the enemy – this is a great success. We do not intend to stop; we intend to continue to the end,” he said, according to a statement from Israel’s Government Press Office.

"Netanyahu also gave an address to the country on Tuesday. He reiterated that there would be no ceasefire in Gaza without the return of the 240 hostages being held by Hamas and other terror groups.

"Israel’s former Minister of Defense Benny Gantz spoke to the country as well in a separate statement. He joined the War Cabinet from the opposition early in the war. He stressed that there would be a time for protests or criticism, but that the country should remain united during the war and support the soldiers.  He also referenced the multi-front threats Israel is facing.

"That all came as Hezbollah tried to target Israel with an anti-tank missile and fired more than 20 rockets toward northern Israel. The IDF also intercepted “a suspicious aerial target” that flew from Lebanon, likely another Hezbollah drone. Hezbollah has used drones, rockets and anti-tank missile threats often against Israel over the last month. Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, gave an interview to NBC in which he threatened escalation if Israel continues its war in Gaza." . . .

Israel's Givati Brigade Uncovered Maps of Tunnels, Critical Intel 

 "Israel has uncovered secret documents after they attacked Hamas in the “refugee camp” of Jabaliya, where they killed a mastermind of October 7 and other Hamas terrorists.

"They found secret documents, including information on the underground tunnel systems.

"This could be why Hamas offered to turn over all the hostages they held in exchange for a five-day ceasefire.

"According to Jerusalem Post, soldiers for the Givati Brigade of the IDF took control over a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip, uncovering documentation that could be crucial for the IDF moving forward in the war.. . ."

Survivor Testimony: Hamas Used Mass Rape as Weapon of War Oct. 7

 The Gateway Pundit | by Richard Abelson

Animals parading the broken, twisted corpse of dancer

"The Hamas terrorists who massacred over 1,400 Israelis and took over 200 people hostage on October 7 committed mass rape, Arutz Sheva reports, according to survivor testimony and interrogation of captured terrorists gathered by the Israel Police’s special Lahav 433 unit.

"Dozens of cases of sexual assault and sexual crimes by Hamas terrorists have been documented, according to police evidence released Wednesday.

"One massacre survivor testified that she saw another woman being raped in front of her, Arutz Sheva reports. “I knew that he raped her, then they transferred her to someone else. She was alive until, in the end, he shot her,” said the survivor.

"Multiple terrorists revealed they had been instructed to kill Jewish children because the children would grow up to become IDF soldiers , as well as to abuse the corpses of their victims in order to sow fear in Israeli society, Aruzu Sheva writes." . . .

Shani Louk's Final Moments Detailed by Festival-goer (newsweek.com)

While how Louk died is unknown, a fellow festival-goer described the moment she saw Louk before she died. Roni Roman said on German political talk show Hart Aber Fair (Hard But Fair): "We saw her bleeding. We saw that she had a head injury. We saw these people [Hamas] around her being happy and cheering and singing that she was hurting. And it's just unbelievable to realize that this was her last moment in this world." 

Jihad Rep Rashida Tlaib: When I Think About The Holocaust I Get A ‘Warm Feeling’ - DC Dirty Laundry From back in 2019.

Tlaib should be expelled from Congress, and ostracized from the Democrat Party. That is unlikely to happen, of course. Speaker Pelosi is a coward and would not dare take any disciplinary action against Tlaib.

Pelosi knows that any action against Tlaib would infuriate the supporters of the far-Left Jihad caucus, which now represents a significant voting bloc for the Democrat Party. Pelosi also knows that if she is accused of being Islamophobic it will be the end of her political career.

Shame on any Jewish American who supports the Democrat Party. #JEXODUS. 

Islam is getting restless at home and abroad, and the U.S. government loves it

 Leo Hohmann

. . ."It’s a favorite globalist tactic to bring down a great nation. You do it by replacing the native population with those from foreign cultures who do not share the host country’s values. In fact, most refugees from Somalia or Syria would say, if they’re honest, that they hate American values, in many cases for good reason. We used cluster bombs and cruise missiles to destroy their homelands so now we bring them here thinking they will want to assimilate into the same culture that just bombed their homes and sent them fleeing?

"Not one of the wars fought by U.S. troops since the end of World War II has had anything to do with defending the American homeland. What these wars have done is create a very unstable world with a lot of pent-up hatred for America and Americans.

"America is blessed with such favorable geography, surrounded by water and friendly neighbors, that it could never be conquered by a foreign invader if it had just resisted the temptation to build empire, if it had simply said, after World War II, that we will be open to trade with all nations but harbor hostilities toward none. And it would not have taken a rocket scientist to figure this out. Any nation blessed with a geographic location such as that enjoyed by America would be safe by simply having a reasonable defense budget focused on protecting its borders from foreign invaders. But those entrusted with running American foreign policy over the last 80-plus years have violated this simple wisdom at every turn." . . .

It's as twisted and vile in its logic as Karine Jean-Pierre's refusal to condemn the poster-ripper propagandists for the Hamas terror regime.

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to condemn pro-Hamas poster-rippers - American Thinker  "Which side in the Israel-Hamas war is the White House actually on?

"Here's a miserable White House-media exchange about the White House stance on pro-Hamas poster-rippers, and no, the correspondent wasn't Peter Doocy." . . .

. . ."Those are the voters the White House is looking for, the Hamas fanboys and fangirls, working like ants to erase memory of Hamas atrocities from the American consciousness, and make Israel into the bad guy for going after the bad guys in the public's mind.

It's as twisted and vile in its logic as Karine Jean-Pierre's refusal to condemn the poster-ripper propagandists for the Hamas terror regime.

It's sorry stuff, and a black mark on the White House, which, unlike Israel, is going soggy and deflated in its support for our Israeli ally like a rotten souffle.

Sorry, Obama: 'We' Aren't Complicit. It's You Who Has Blood on Your Hands | Opinion (newsweek.com)   . . ."It's you because you're the one who gave that stentorian speech about red lines in Syria and then sat by and did nothing as those red lines were crossed and Assad continued to slaughter his own people, allowing the Iranians and the Russians to creep in and fill the vacuum left by your devastating lack of leadership.

"It's you because you're the one who came up with the idea of empowering Iran, the world's premiere exporter of terrorism, Holocaust denial, and chaos, all the while telling the American people you were merely trying to stop Teheran from getting a nuclear bomb. Billions of dollars and thousands of dead later, we can all see how well this idea—which you, with the eloquence only a professor could muster, called "regional integration"—is working." . . .

Alan Dershowitz Calls Obama A ‘Villain’ Over Israel-Hamas War Comments, Says He’d ‘Never’ Support Him Again | The Daily Caller

. . ."Obama issued a lengthy statement lambasting Israel’s response to Hamas’ terror attacks on Oct. 23. He said that “how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters,” emphasizing that “thousands of Palestinians have been killed.”

“ 'He grossly compared these massacres, these rapes, these beheadings to Israel’s occupation of Gaza, which doesn’t exist,” Dershowitz said. “Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005. They not only removed all settlers and all soldiers, but even dug up their dead bodies from graves, and took them out of the Gaza Strip.”

That's ok, Barack. Springsteen sill still court you and Stephen Colbert will want to "drink you in".

A horror story for climate zealots

  American Thinker

Zero carbon means zero industrial civilization.  It means 7 billion people starve to death.  It means we have forgotten to fear the cold.

. . ."Most folks don’t think of Jack London when it comes to the authors of frightening stories, but you should.  Because Jack London wrote one of the most unsettling and frightening stories ever told.  It’s called “To Build a Fire.”

"It’s a half-hour read, and it doesn’t have ghosts, werewolves, or possessed dolls.  “To Build a Fire” is a horror story where the only thing that is going wrong is the subject of the story’s lack of imagination.

"He is a man who has forgotten how to be afraid of the cold.  He doesn’t imagine just how many degrees of frost he is facing.

"Everything he does is a mistake.  Every time he tries to make things better, they get worse.  And it all was 100% preventable.

"As I read “To Build a Fire” again this fall, I realized that this work might as well be a metaphor for Joe Biden’s energy policies.

"When the man sets out in weather he knows is colder than usual, also knowing that he is inexperienced...I am reminded of our sudden obsession with “zero carbon,” with zero real-world experience in zero carbon.

"When he builds a fire under a snowy branch and discovers that warming snow falling on his fire puts the fire out, I am reminded of the folly of the E.V. fiasco.

"And at each point along the way towards his doom, he thinks about the warm camp he will arrive at later.  Denying the reality that he has already made a series of fatal errors is the biggest fatal error he makes. 

"It’s a lot like the illusion climate zealots have that getting rid of carbon somehow means that they get to keep civilization.  They don’t get to keep it if they get what they want." . . .

Here’s a top candidate for ‘most misleading MSM headline of the year’

The rising tide of hatred against the Jews is appalling and indefensible.  The refusal to acknowledge truth is even worse.

 Eric Utter- American Thinker   "Paul Kessler, a Jewish man in California, passed away after a pro-Palestine protester struck him in the head with a megaphone.  His death has been ruled a homicide.  The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office is investigating and hasn’t ruled out deeming the assault a hate crime.  (I should hope not.  It obviously was.)

"In the latest example that the mainstream media are the enemy of the people (and truth, sanity, and decency), NBC News ran the following online headline about the attack: “Man dies after hitting head during Israel and Palestinian rallies in California, officials say.”

"Officials said that, you say?  Hmm, did the poor fellow perhaps slip and fall, hitting his head on the sidewalk?  Did he smack himself in the head too hard?  That headline makes it difficult to discern what happened.  Oh, he was murdered?!  That’s horrible!  Why didn’t you say so?!

"As I noted in my last post, those in the MSM are brazen, shameless, and apparently in the throes of a psychosis.  If today’s intrepid “reporters” were on the job in past years, we would have seen headlines like: . . ."

“Pearl Harbor rocked by multiple explosions.” 

Insurrection? No, 'passion'! - American Thinker

'She Believes Israel Should Be Eradicated': GOP Lawmaker Slams Rashida Tlaib

On the House floor, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) argues for the censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

 

 BREAKING NEWS: Rashida Tlaib Censured By Fellow House Members - YouTube

Tempers Flare During Explosive Debate To Censure Rashida Tlaib

@lazertheconservative: Anybody else laugh when he said “in the United States don’t punish people for their political beliefs”?