Israel's IDF flushes Hamas's tunnels with sea water -- and sends terrorists scurrying out like rats

  Monica Showalter - American Thinker 

All in all, it's a marvel of human ingenuity and despite all of Israel's internal problems and squabbles and wokesterism, they're still the same old Israelis of legend -- the clever, resourceful, unbeatable Israelis no terrorist should ever mess with, takin' care of business.

"Hear that flushing noise?

"Amid all the screeching of the anti-Semitic global elites, the haze of pro-Hamas global protests, and the Biden administration's efforts to micromanage how Israel conducts its war against avowed terrorists, Israel's Defense Forces have been quietly takin' care of business.

"AT's editor, Andrea Widburg has written about the mass surrenders which is happy news indeed, here.

"But how they did it is fascinating.

🚨FAFO Report: New footage shows the IDF began flooding the network of tunnels beneath Gaza with seawater today.

The great irony in this is that the October 7 attack on Israel was dubbed “Al Aqsa Flood.”

If a better form of poetic justice ever existed, I have yet to see it. pic.twitter.com/OGRccWYiAo

— Jason Jones (@jonesville) December 6, 2023

Israel said to set up pumps in Gaza for flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater | The Times of Israel   Israel said to set up pumps in Gaza for flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater | The Times of Israel  "Israel has readied plans to flood Hamas’s system of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea, a move aimed at destroying the terror group’s subterranean network of passages and hideaways and driving its fighters above ground, according to a report Monday.

"Quoting US officials, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Israel Defense Forces last month set up five large water pumps near the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, which are capable of flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into them.

"The officials said Israel alerted the US about the plan last month, but has not yet decided on whether to implement it.

"The report noted it was unclear whether the IDF would move to flood the tunnels before all of the hostages that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups abducted during the October 7 onslaught in southern Israel were freed, due to the apparent risk that would be posed to hostages being held underground." . . . 

Explosions spread along the underground complex as the IDF blows up a tunnel network in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, in footage released on November 19, 2023.

Not ‘Trump the Dictator’ Again

 Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness  The Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself all too terrifying

The Left knows that in dictatorial fashion it has turned a federal republic into a government run wild, lawless, and in service to partisan agendas. It again talks of what Trump will supposedly do only because the Left surely would do exactly what it accuses Trump of planning to do if it were Trump.

"It is “Trump Will Destroy Democracy” season again. And predictably the Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening 2024 news.

"One, current polls in the primaries and in a general election for now show that Trump would win.

"Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s popularity dives below 40 percent. His policies on the economy, abroad, at the border, concerning crime, and about energy poll even more feebly. Never has an American president utterly and deliberately destroyed immigration law for the sole purpose of inviting in millions of illegal aliens, to establish political constituencies supportive of agendas that otherwise have scant public support.

"Two, unequivocal evidence is mounting that the Bidens are one of the most corrupt political families in American presidential history. Hunter, the Leona Helmsley of our times, is now indicted for massive tax evasion, despite his earlier, government-aided efforts of running out the statute of limitations on the full array of his crimes.

"When asked about his grifting, Biden angrily denies the undeniable. He can only become animated these days, when asked to square his denials about knowing what Hunter was up to with a multitude of facts and data to the contrary. And so in exasperation he shouts, “Lies!,” “Lies!,” and “Lies!”

"There is now conclusive proof that Biden himself lied repeatedly when he swore that he knew nothing about his wayward son Hunter’s grifting business. He used several aliases to communicate directly with his son’s grifting and quid pro quo partners.

"Canceled checks show the president was paid substantial sums by family members after they received money from foreign governments—for nothing other than being related to the future president. The pay-offs were hidden by “loan repayment” lies; no one expects ever to find any such evidence that there were formal loan documents or agreements between Biden and his family." . . .

The debacle of defunding the police is coming home to roost

 The Hill

 Mayors and national elected leaders who supported defunding law enforcement must be held accountable and voters must be smarter in who they elect next time around. 

"Liberal mayors across the country who took an ax to the budgets of their police departments following the death of George Floyd almost two years ago are scrambling. They now find themselves under extraordinary pressure from residents, including those who elected them, to address the unprecedented levels of crime and violence in their cities. 

"Combined with unrelenting national media attention regarding their early support of defunding police and inability to put forth effective alternative anti-crime solutions, liberal mayors are now reversing course and publicly calling for increased funding, aggressive policing measures, harsher penalties, and federal assistance for their cities. The motive for change is obvious, and not surprising — they swung for the fences and missed big time by adopting the most extreme and dangerous position of the left known as “Defund the Police.” 

"These mayors couldn’t resist the temptation no matter how impractical and unnecessary the idea was. They joined groups including Antifa, Black Lives Matter and democrat members of Congress (most notably “The Squad”) and immediately began slashing the budgets of their police departments and limiting their operations instead of implementing more reasonable, common-sense approaches like increased training and retraining, updated use of force criteria, and the deployment of additional less-than-lethal options for officers. 

"Instead, they responded to these calls by politicizing and villainizing the entire law enforcement profession and in the process their own departments. The mayors acted like they were invincible, yet the unforeseen problem lurking in the distance two years later for them and the Democratic party is that from the very beginning, they were dead wrong on this issue — wrong on the popularity and practicality of defunding police and not enforcing the law in a civilized society and wrong on the eventual political repercussions that they would face as citizens and visitors became fearful and disgusted at what these cities had come to resemble — third world countries." . . .

Obama's clueless foreign policy left behind the chaos we face today

  NY Post

"The structures that bind the nations of the world together are breaking down before our eyes.

Two savage wars are raging in volatile regions, either of which might at any moment blow up to involve additional belligerents and the potential use of nuclear weapons.

The UN, established to prevent such disasters, has become a plaything of dictators: Iran, one of the bloodiest regimes on earth and a proud sponsor of terrorism, has just assumed the chair of the UN’s Human Rights Council.

China has greatly accelerated production of nuclear warheads — and the Chinese media has begun to issue threats about “war on a global scale.”

The erratic Kim regime in North Korea has the bomb and the aforementioned Iranians, who have promised to annihilate Israel, are about to get theirs.

The Venezuelans are threatening to invade Guyana, which would disrupt the energy markets.

'Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is once again a potential staging area for terrorist attacks; but many additional locations are on offer — Yemen, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, whole swaths of the Sahel.

" 'Meanwhile, waves of escapees from impoverished and conflict-ridden nations batter democratic societies and roil democratic politics.

"This global implosion is a consequence of the failure of American leadership, most particularly in the Obama-Biden years.

"This is not to let their predecessors off the hook." . . .

The West Must Stand Up or Be Destroyed –

  PJ Media

Take the most recent United Nations resolution, which calls for an immediate cease-fire — an action that would surely lead to a repeat of October 7 by allowing Hamas to regroup and reorganize. Even Hamas leadership has claimed that they will repeat that horrific day again and again until Israel is destroyed.

"Trying to play both sides in a fight is always dangerous. This is especially true when the lines between sides are clearly delineated. Now is the time for every individual, every organization, and every country to take a stand in the war against the evil of Hamas, terrorism, and hate.  Do we side with Israel, whose IDF has correctly been called “the most moral army in the history of the world” and who has for over 70 years attempted to make “land for peace” deals to bring lasting peace to the Middle East? Or do we side with Hamas, a terrorist organization that in its own charter of 1988 calls for the obliteration of every Jew worldwide and publicly claims in that charter that the only reason to sit at peace negotiations is for subterfuge to weaken its enemy? Do we side with an organization that committed the heinous depravities of October 7, where its members beheaded babies, kidnapped and raped women, and tortured and killed civilians?

"The choice really is that simple. Civilization or barbarism? Hope or hate? Life or death?

"But for many of the Western world leaders, it seems that rather than take a stand for morality, they'd prefer to waffle and try to play both sides.

"Take the most recent United Nations resolution, which calls for an immediate cease-fire — an action that would surely lead to a repeat of October 7 by allowing Hamas to regroup and reorganize. Even Hamas leadership has claimed that they will repeat that horrific day again and again until Israel is destroyed. While the UN condemns Israel, this same resolution makes no mention of the horrors that Hamas perpetrates. It is simply another UN resolution against Israel. It’s not a surprise, given that from 2015-2022, the UN had 140 resolutions against Israel, while it had just 68 resolutions against all other countries combined over the same period. According to the UN, Israel has committed more than twice as many human rights violations as every other nation (Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, et. al.) on the planet. The U.N.’s Jew-hatred is visible and virulent. 

"But Australia, Canada, and Japan, all of which have claimed to support Israel and previously condemned Hamas, all voted for this resolution. Britain and Germany, which have both claimed that they want to crack down on terrorism and destroy Hamas, abstained. Only ten countries, including the United States, voted against the resolution, which is a manifest support of Hamas and their depravities." . . .

Trump is Right: Biden Is a Threat to Democracy

  American Greatness   

The likes of Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Letitia James, and Arthur Engoron – Democrats all – have shown they will stop at nothing to destroy Biden’s chief electoral opponent, democracy be damned.

"Weeks before the 2022 midterms, Joe Biden gave a memorable speech in front of Independence Hall. The setting could not have been a more ironic – or disturbing – choice for the content of Biden’s unusually authoritarian remarks. Trump and his movement, he said, represent a threat to “the very foundations of our Republic.” The visuals were likewise ominous: this was a campaign speech, but Biden was flanked by U.S. Marines as he thundered against his political opponents as if they were a foreign enemy.

"Since that speech, Biden’s approval ratings have not improved, and he has only grown more reliant on sweeping, demagogic themes. His feeble efforts to sell the country on “Bidenomics” are not working. Americans know that they are not prospering. They see the world is growing more unstable. Biden can’t run for re-election on what he has done; he has no alternative but to rile up fears of Donald Trump.

"At a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Trump hit Biden where it hurts. Biden and his allies “like to pose as defenders of democracy,” Trump said, referencing Biden’s notorious blood-red speech in Philadelphia. But the opposite is true: Biden is the “destroyer of American democracy,” Trump said. Like a “Third World communist tyrant,” Biden “has been weaponizing government against his political opponents.”

"The Biden campaign shrieked: “Donald Trump’s America in 2025 is one where the government is his personal weapon to lock up his political enemies.” . . .

‘I hope they boycott her’: Megyn Kelly slams into Taylor Swift over attendance of pro-Hamas event

 Kevin Haggerty (bizpacreview.com)   "Having remained silent on the slaughter, Megyn Kelly ripped into Taylor Swift’s attendance at an event “contributing to the demonization of Israel” with the hope for a financially impactful response from fans.

"' You clearly know nothing.”

"Marketing herself into a billionaire through pop music, the mega star’s influence that crowned her Time Magazine’s Person of the Year has remained undeniable. So, when Swift and her celebrity pals chose to attend a comedy show with proceeds getting funneled to Gaza, Kelly couldn’t help but hope the entertainer’s fans pressured her into recognizing the atrocities she was aligning herself with.

" 'Taylor Swift owes Israelis and Jewish Americans an apology,” said the podcast host Tuesday during a discussion with author and commentator Andrew Klavan." . . .

. . .“Taylor Swift, who has been out there tweeting about her support for the LGBTQ community– you know what they do to that community in Gaza, Taylor, that you now want to support?” asked the host rhetorically about the well-documented treatment of those practicing lifestyles considered deviant in the Middle East. “They’ll throw ’em off the top of a building. That’s what you’re contributing to.” . . .

Since October 7th, Taylor Swift has made ZERO mentions of the massacre that occurred in Israel at the hands of Hamas terrorists.

Her own bodyguard, who is charged with protecting her life, went to Israel to serve in the IDF.

Swift did, however, make the time to attend a Gaza… pic.twitter.com/dEeDmuzc49

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 11, 2023

"The left really, really hates Israel"

FOLLOW THE MONEY…and you’ll find the reason for the virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred on college campuses (barenakedislam.com)

U.S. colleges and universities are swimming in pro-Hamas and anti-Israel money, to the tune of $5 BILLION over the past few years.

"Critics call it a direct result of the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. 

"The group reportedly works closely with the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which, according to the Washington Free Beacon, has received $650,000 since 2017 from the George Soros Open Society Foundations.

"Also, Soros has reportedly given California’s Tides Foundation at least $ 3.5 million to support student protests agaisnt Israel similar to a recent demonstration at San Francisco’s Balboa High School. “…giving instructions to high school students — what to chant and what to yell during the demonstration,” Ehrenfeld insisted.

To the presidents of @Columbia, @nyuniversity, @Harvard and other universities who have stood SILENT as terror supporters have marched through campus and celebrated raping women, executing children and kidnapping grandmothers, you are cowards.

Listen to Columbia Professor and… pic.twitter.com/PoTXnAWZtp

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) October 19, 2023

Andrea Widberg - American Thinker   . . ."Second, the Harvard tyranny, like all tyrannies, doesn’t hold itself to any standards other than those that serve its immediate interests. There are rules, of course, but they are fluid (and you know how leftists love that fluidity). For people opposed to Harvard, the rules flex constantly to keep them in a one-down position. And for Harvard and its “allies”—another word leftists love—the rules’ fluidity operates in a way that always benefits them.  

"For those of us neither within Harvard nor trying to curry favor with the institution, Harvard doesn’t look powerful. Instead, it looks ridiculous: Hypocritical, hate-filled, narcissistic, and the antithesis of the knowledge it purports to impart.

"I’ll leave you with a very good video from Ben Shapiro, in which he discusses what universities were meant to be and how they devolved into leftist institutions that issue credentials to those who have accepted the statist mindset that governs them. He notes that they are in exactly the same position today as the universities were for the Nazis in the 1930s. I’ll add that the similarity extends right down to the genocidal antisemitism.

"The whole discussion about what’s happening in academia is good, but the history lesson starts at 17:30 or so if you want to skip ahead."

Harvard cancels congressman who mocked Harvard’s speech hypocrisy

 

Andrea Widburg - American Thinker   "Harvard was once a reputable institution. Now, though, it’s a joke, and, moving forward, any parent who pays for it or young person who goes into debt for it has inadvertently taken an IQ test and proved to be only in the double digits. The latest example of Harvard’s fall, not just from grace but from decency, is the fact that two days after its president, Claudine Gay, insisted that its devotion to free speech was so absolute that even genocidal rhetoric deserved its day, Harvard canceled a Democrat congressman who had spoken slightingly of Gay’s remarks.

"I’m sure you’re familiar by now with what Gay said. However, if you were without internet for the past week, she, along with the presidents of UPenn and MIT, stated that her institution would never simply ban offensive speech. Instead, “context” was everything. In the case of speech calling for genocide, context demanded that it become action (as in actual genocide) before Harvard would even think about shutting it down.

"For her brave stand, Gay earned the approval of both the Harvard faculty and board. Hundreds of the former signed a statement supporting her, and the latter just voted to keep her in her place." . . . 

Rep. Jayapal Should Not Be Reelected

I call on the Democratic Party in Washington’s 7th Congressional District to hold Rep. Jayapal’s feet to the fire on Aug. 6, 2024, the next primary election, and vote her out.

 Phyllis Chesler Organization   "Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the Progressive Caucus chair, should not be reelected to Congress. She is both heartless as well as out of touch with reality, morality, and evidence-based truth. 

"Like the members of the infamous Squad, the smooth-talking and rather arrogant Jayapal continues to demand a meaningless “ceasefire” in Gaza, speaks passionately about the “displaced” Gazan civilians, but does not say a word about the displaced Israelis who had to be moved away both from the northern and southern borders and who remain in limbo.

"She demands evenhandedness when she herself is hardly capable of it.

"Jayapal and her congressional comrades are in complete denial about what Hamas, trained and funded by Iran, did on Oct. 7 in southern Israel. And blind to what Iran has in mind for America.

"In a recent interview on CNN with Dana Bash, Jayapal refused to focus on what Hamas did to Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. She denied that “progressive” women failed to respond to the mass gang rapes and torture of Israeli girls and women.

“I don’t know that (they did so),” she claimed disingenuously before instantly pivoting to her tired talking points accusing Israel of committing “international humanitarian crimes.” 

"To her credit, Dana Bash pushed back. “With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas.”

"Jayapal claimed that she’d answered the question, insisting, “We have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians.”

"Hamas’ terrorist fiends murdered more than 1,200 civilians and engaged in a pogrom on steroids, one which they excitedly filmed. Hamas kept careful, Nazi-like records of their atrocities, which included gang rapes so violent that the women’s pelvises were broken, after which they mutilated their broken bodies. After raping these women, they shot them in their vaginal areas, and breasts; they also shot or blew up their faces. Clearly, they wanted to wipe out both their womanhood and their humanity." . . . 

Biden Throws Israel Under the Bus in a Big Way - Says Israel Has to Change Its Approach, Government –

 Has Obama taken Joe to the woodshed?  RedState

"What was it that Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said about Joe Biden? 

"That he's been wrong about foreign policy for 40 years? Well, all we have to do is amend that to 50 years, as, unfortunately, he's still predictably wrong on everything.

"What was it that Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said about Joe Biden? 

"That he's been wrong about foreign policy for 40 years? Well, all we have to do is amend that to 50 years, as, unfortunately, he's still predictably wrong on everything.

"What was it that Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said about Joe Biden? 

"That he's been wrong about foreign policy for 40 years? Well, all we have to do is amend that to 50 years, as, unfortunately, he's still predictably wrong on everything." . . .

But what about Joe saying he was a Zionist? But then he also said he was a Puerto Rican, Irish, Greek, and, well...who knows what else? A this critical time when Israel has so many enemies, that nation needs all the true friends it can get and cannot abide make-believe imposters. TD

Dem Pols Hate Jews As Much As They Hate Those Who Look Like Me

  Conservative Firing Line

 Schumer and company are the equivalent of George Soros without billions of dollars; they backstab and betray the people for personal gain at every opportunity, and that specifically includes the Jews, just as was/is the case with Soros.

"It is one thing to take military action in defense of one’s country when it is invaded or threatened with invasion or acts of repeated injurious and murderous violations of sovereignty. In such instances, when the aggrieved country is presented with no other option apart from military response, with the pronounced intention of subduing the invasive and/or invading threat, attack is understandable. But, even in that scenario, albeit war is not intended to be pleasant, there are acceptable rules of executing the war with the declared conclusion still being total and decisive conquest of the alien threat.

"However, the unprovoked murderous slaughter of innocent people is Erebusic barbarism and is unacceptable under any circumstances. That’s terrorism by definition, and there is no justifiable reason that allows for the rationalization of same. Even worse, it’s an unprovoked terrorism, and that must be met with overwhelming response that makes clear such unprovoked barbarism won’t be tolerated.

"Only those as demonic as the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists themselves can disapprove of a defensive military response to the provocation – which brings me to the self-unveiling of the Democratic Party and their Marxian supporters who champion the satanic propagation of hatred, division politics and the dehumanizing of so-called black people, women and Jews." . . .  Related:

• Hatred Of Jews Is Beyond Irrational – It’s Demonic
• Democratic Party Reaction To Israel-Hamas War: F**k the Jews They Will Vote For Us Anyway
• House Democrats Make It Official: Jews Don’t Matter
• Al Gore: Any Messaging Opposing My View Is A ‘Threat To Democracy’ (Video)
• Opinion: Pro-Hamas Progressives Putting A Smile On Hitler’s Face