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”?

The Squad: who voted for these people?

 Eric Swalwell Served Up a Nice, Refreshing Glass of STFU Juice After Accusing Comer of 'Hiding Something' – Twitchy

"This is their typical modus operandi.  They say and do outrageous and even bigoted things, then instantly play the victim card to stifle pushback, insisting that their lives are endangered by the resulting criticism.  Much like prominent Squad members would prefer the Jewish State not defend itself against Hamas -- a morally-demented immunity standard for the terrorist Jew-slaughterers -- they also demand that they be allowed to lie and demagogue with impunity.  As the phrase goes, if the Squad didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.  Here's Cori Bush warning, apparently with a straight face, against 'dangerous' words:. . ."

  Even some DEMOCRATS are Sick of Rashida Tlaib and Her Anti-Semitism  John Podhoretz:  "If you're an MSNBC anchor defending Rashida Tlaib, you are a Hamas propagandist. Not to mention just a very bad human being who deserves to be treated with contempt."

Moskowitz: I'd Support Censuring Tlaib, Redefining 'From the River to the Sea' Like Saying 'Mein Kampf' a Coloring Book (breitbart.com) . . ."Moskowitz answered, “Well, first of all, we don’t disagree, there are — some debates don’t have two sides. ‘From the river to the sea’ means the destruction of Israel and everyone who’s in it, okay? Just like ‘Mein Kampf’ is not a coloring book and the final solution means exactly what Hitler meant it to mean. ‘From the river to the sea’ is calling for the destruction of an entire country, period, full stop. And so, look, the Congresswoman has a First Amendment right. She can say whatever she wants. But, at the same time, Congress has the ability to express their displeasure with a fellow colleague of ours calling for the destruction of a country. What if we had someone going around saying, France should be wiped off the map? We would think that’s outrageous. But, somehow, ‘From the river to the sea’ is debatable. It is another ridiculous double standard when it comes to Israel.' ” . . .

22 Republicans Saved Rashida Tlaib From Censure. Here’s Who They Are. – PJ Media  "Last month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for engaging in “antisemitic activity” and “sympathizing with terrorist organizations.” Since the October 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas, Tlaib has been promoting anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas propaganda and undoubtedly deserves punishment."   But then these Republicans played their part...

Squad: It's Super 'Dangerous' to Criticize Us, You Guys (townhall.com)   "This is their typical modus operandi.  They say and do outrageous and even bigoted things, then instantly play the victim card to stifle pushback, insisting that their lives are endangered by the resulting criticism.  Much like prominent Squad members would prefer the Jewish State not defend itself against Hamas -- a morally-demented immunity standard for the terrorist Jew-slaughterers -- they also demand that they be allowed to lie and demagogue with impunity.  As the phrase goes, if the Squad didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.  Here's Cori Bush warning, apparently with a straight face, against 'dangerous' words:"

This is a lie. This rhetoric is dangerous and needs to stop.
This endangers the life of Rashida and Palestinians standing up for their liberation everywhere. https://t.co/OJQRBqYXDU

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) November 6, 2023

Censuring Rashida Tlaib Will Not Solve the Antisemitism Problem – RedState   "The controversy surrounding Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and her apparent enmity toward Israel and the Jewish people has continued to be discussed on the airwaves and interwebs. Critics on both sides of the political divide have called her out for her recent and distant history of making antisemitic remarks." . . .

 Democraticide - Don Surber (substack.com)

The Squad is the face of a party too diverse to survive

"Democrats are losing the Gaza War because of four women: Larry Omar, Moe Tlaib, Curly AOC and Shemp Pressley. They are the biggest anti-Semite recruiters in the Democrat Party since Nathan Bedford Forrest formed the KKK.

"It would be childish and demeaning to call them the Squaws, so I will follow the crowd for once and call them the Squad. They rolled into Congress after the 2018 election and played identity politics to the hilt. One was black, one was Hispanic, one was Palestinian and one was married to her brother. The New York Times celebrated this as the future of the Democrat Party.

"So did I, man. So did I.

"On August 8, 2019, NYT ran a piece by Barbara Ransby under the title, “The Squad Is the Future of Politics. You can credit social movements for that.”

"Oh I do credit the social movements for that. Yes indeed, I do.

"NYT said Babs “is a historian who specializes in black politics and social movements and she has written a book on the Black Lives Matter movement.”  . . .

. . .Just the News reported, “The National Muslim Democratic Council, a nationwide group of Democratic leaders and activists, threatened President Joe Biden that if he does not force Israel to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, they will work to mobilize against him in the 2024 presidential election.”

"The deadline passed with no public demand for a ceasefire. Nice ultimatum. The Palestinian Wingers have become Never Bideners. Tlaib can be their Billy Kristol." . 

Footage Reveals Shocking Discovery by IDF Soldiers in Gaza During Ground Offensive Against Hamas

Even further, if civilians are killed in an airstrike, then Hamas and other enemies of Israel can use their deaths as a political cudgel against the Jewish state and continue perpetuating the false narrative that it is committing genocide against Palestinian Arabs.

  RedState   "Despite claims made by Hamas and its defenders, more proof has emerged exposing the fact that the terrorist group routinely uses Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israel’s critics have constantly railed against the Jewish state for supposedly indiscriminately bombing buildings like schools, hospitals, and others. Those who have paid attention to the overall Israeli/Palestinian conflict understand that this is how the terrorist group operates.

Now, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has released even more footage from its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the territory Hamas controls. The video shows Israeli soldiers walking through an abandoned building that appears to be a school. The soldiers point out the rocket launchers that were strategically placed in areas where they could be used to launch rockets into Israel.

This is what we are finding in Gaza.
A building where children play is a Hamas rocket launching site.
You have to see it to believe it: pic.twitter.com/KmMxfbYj93

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 6, 2023

" In another video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, the IDF highlighted the existence of a network of tunnels and storage spaces being hidden under a hospital." . . .

The Morning Briefing: Democrats Finally Realizing That Biden 2020 Was a Horrible Idea –

 PJ Media

. . ."What I find most interesting is that the Democrats are just coming to grips with a problem we all could have told them back in 2020 that they'd be facing now. Old-school Democrats would have been better prepared for this. No doubt many think that this is all just so much theater, but I truly believe that they have been caught flat-footed.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is what got us into this predicament. It affected even the better brains among the Democrats. All of their efforts were on one goal in 2020: NOT TRUMP. That was the prize and that was the focus. It's not that they didn't bother to look ahead and ponder the consequences, it's that they were incapable of doing so. The blind TDS rage made them rabid animals. 

"In its more functional days, Democrats would have had a Biden removal plan that kicked in well before Mrs. Biden was able to make him blurt out on camera that he wanted to run for reelection. They've spent three-plus years reveling in the fact that their COVID machinations vanquished Trump, and it has muddled their planning. 

"Ivory Tower Dems went all-in on legally harassing Trump either into submission or prison and now that it has gone this long without doing either, they are just realizing that they're stuck with a candidate who walks in circles and shakes hands with his imaginary friends. 

"Biden is such a liability that some mail-in ballot sleight of hand probably won't do the trick for them next year. Axelrod and his ilk are almost certainly working on various graceful exit scenarios that they can pitch to Old Joe. If they do, they'll quickly be reminded that the real fly in the Gavin Newsom ointment is named Jill Biden. " . . .

Crowd chants 'We Want Trump' when Joe Biden tries to speak (trendingviews.com)

Thomas Sowell's Book Debunks Social Justice Fallacies With Facts

 The Federalist

As Sowell warns, ‘Stupid people can create problems, but it often takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.’

"More than 100 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed that popular catchwords can stunt critical thinking for 50 years or more. In his latest book, Social Justice Fallacies, revered economist and scholar Thomas Sowell confirms Holmes’ observation by examining the buzzwords that self-described “social justice” proponents commonly use today. He shows that, despite many years — and in some cases even centuries or more — of evidence revealing these words to be nonsense, our media and cultural elites continue touting them in utter defiance of facts."

Social Justice’s False Premise

"Consider, for example, the very term “social justice.” It is predicated on the assumption that institutional discrimination is the primary reason for differences among groups of people, whether among races, economic classes, or even between the sexes. It assumes that were it not for such discrimination, all races, groups, and classes would be equally represented in all human endeavors. In other words, human beings are equal not only in their nature and capacities but in their ability to develop those capacities." . . .

Here come de judge

Nathan Shiba | November 6, 2023 at 7:06 pm:  I think Trump is bad for America. I won’t vote for him. But he’s doing a service for all New Yorkers by pushing back against this elected D judge who is, fairly clearly, not living up to his oath of office. 

Judge Engoron Claims He is ‘Not Here to Listen to What’ Trump has to Say During Testimony (legalinsurrection.com)  . . ."The trial is a sham because Judge Arthur Engoron has already decided that Trump is guilty, but due process is so passe, right?

When Trump left, he said:

This is a case that should have never been brought. It’s a case that should be dismissed immediately. The fraud was on behalf of the court. The court was the fraudster in this case. They made references to assets that were very valuable, and they said, uh, they had no idea. They had no idea what the numbers were when they said $18 million for Mar-A-Lago, has 50 to 100 times that amount by any estimation. It’s a terrible thing that’s happened here. We’re taking days and days and weeks and weeks and it goes on. And then you look at the outside world and what’s happening. But of course, they’re getting their wish because I don’t have to be here for the most part. But I certainly do have to be here because I want to be here because it’s a scam. And this is a case that should have never been brought, and it’s a case that now should be dismissed. . . Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba says judge Arthur Engoron had an unhinged episode in the court room where he started "slamming" a table.

 Donald Trump Responds Sarcastically to Judge Engeron: 'I Am Shocked' (breitbart.com)   . . ."Trump also reportedly berated the judge at one point for several minutes, according to a Politico reporter.  “Trump just yelled at the judge for a several minute stretch. The judge has his brow furrowed, but otherwise didn’t react,” she posted.' . . .