While the Progmericans (which are no Americans at all) continue to ree-ree over the January 6 protests of an illegal Mass Mailer election that they claim was LITERALLY worse than 9/11, they cheer the storming of the U.S. capitol by “Americans” protesting resistance to the genocidal death cult known as Hamas. The “protestors,” (actual insurrectionists) illegally stormed the Capitol Rotunda and ripped down a pro-Israel sign in front of Representative Randy Weber’s (R-TX) office.
The violent anti-American, anti-God, pro-Jewish-genocide insurrectionists were led by the Orwellian-named group “Jewish Voice for peace,” a self-hating Jewish organization that is aligned with Hamas’ goals of wiping the Jews off the face of “Palestine” to “liberate Palestinians.”
While the Capitol Police have arrested the protestors, no charges have yet to be charged against them, and one doubts there ever will be.
As the demonstration was broken up, authorities announced that “Due to First Amendment activities on Capitol Grounds, all pedestrian entry points to the House Office Buildings [were] restricted to Members and Staff ONLY.”
Outside the House office buildings, a speaker in another group of “ceasefire now” demonstrators lamented the fact that “some people are afraid of our movement” which, again, is advocating for Hamas terrorist interests by calling for a ceasefire to restrict Israel’s ability to take out the Iran-backed terrorists who continue to launch rockets at Israeli civilians.
Rally speaker says, “Some people are afraid of our movement…”
In addition to the protests and demonstrations, some activists apparently defaced the exterior of buildings on Capitol Hill with calls to “Free Palestine.”
In a show of solidarity with Israel, Rep. Brandon Williams showed up to the Cannon Rotunda demonstration with an Israeli flag:
Rep Brandon Williams standing above the anti-Israel protest, standing silently with an Israeli flag above the demonstration in the Cannon House Office Building pic.twitter.com/BjZqODmWHs
A racist referendum failed to win over the Australian people, although nearly 40 percent (overwhelmingly white, upper-middle class, and urban, the same classes that dominate fascist leftism in America and the UK) voted for it. The referendum would create a de facto tribunal of indigenous Australians who, by their race alone, would be qualified to check any law, any regulation the Australian legislature and administration might create or modify.
When the idea was first proposed, of creating a race-based tribunal to have more de facto power to check government than even our Supreme Court does (and not having to even rely on Rule of Law to do so), 60 to 70 percent of Australians supported it. They must not have fully understood the ramifications of the racist referendum, however, for as the campaign wore on and they realized this wasn’t just an “advisory body” but one that would result in real de facto law-changing powers, the mood changed and the leftist fascists lost their opportunity to condition a people to accept their brand of totalitarian authoritarianism based on racial hierarchies (race fascism).
The language itself smacks of race supremacism, referring to the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples” as being the First Peoples of Australia. The First Peoples in the subconscious mind becomes the best people, and the crafters of this language know full well the hate they are spreading, the divisions they hope to create between the Aboriginals and everyone else.
The crafters of the Yes position tried to avoid the obvious fact that this was, on its face, an explicitly racist law, but that didn’t fly with the Australian people, who are now being accused of being racist for rejecting a racist law.
Aware that this was No’s strongest argument, Yes tried to rebut it by pointing out that there is only one human race, which means distinctions based on race can’t exist. The distinction, Yes claimed, is one only of ancestry, and refers to “inherent rights Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples hold as the original inhabitants of the Australian continent.”
Lawyers call this sort of argument “trivially true”. Biological race does not exist among humans. We are not genetically distinct enough. Chimpanzees possess biological race (biologists use the term “sub-species”). Humans don’t. However, Aboriginal ancestry in even tiny amounts stands out in a 23andMe test. The Yes claim that the Voice wasn’t conferring rights based on race thus looked like prestidigitation. Descent from the First Peoples of Australia (a real thing) was being used to draw distinctions between groups in the same way that nineteenth century racists drew distinctions based on race (not a real thing).
It also led to a situation where people who voted against a proposed law intended to distinguish between groups of Australians based on ancestry and cultural practice were accused of racism. I’m afraid those who support race-based policies designed to ameliorate “structural disadvantage” or “inequity” – of which the Voice is one – need to understand that to most people, they just look like more racism.
When leftists “defend” their perverse positions based on fear, hate, and fake hope, to the non-indoctrinated, their “best” arguments simply expose their true depravity even more, as has happened here, and hopefully will happen elsewhere in the world, including here in America where perversion is glorified and righteousness is outlawed.
While Disney fights for the “right” of teachers to groom children and traumatize them with assaults on their sexuality, gender, and race, they are now partnering up with the CCP to further do damage to our American republic, joining with TikTok in a content creation partnership designed to create “ad friendly,” “brand safe” content for the app.
The deal comes as Disney marks its 100th anniversary, spitting in the face of its namesake, Walt Disney, who was decidedly anti-communist. The move shows the company’s willingness to entangle itself with a political party that has as one of its goals the destruction of the republic of the United States of America.
As we are run by seditionists (in an American sense, but not a progmerican sense, which is no America at all), there will be no actions by the Federal government to halt this unholy alliance, let alone ban the spy app from having access to manipulate our children and gather data the party can use to develop better strategies to destroy us from within, in partnership with the DNC-CCP, which Disney has become a content marketing partner of this past decade.
CCP agents wrote on their TikTok Newsroom Twitter account“In honor of @Disney’s 100th anniversary, we’re launching the Disney100 Hub on October 16! It’s a first-of-its-kind destination for Disney fans on TikTok, offering a unique interactive experience where stories, magic and memories come together. ” alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />Learn more about the Hub and our latest exciting partnership via the link in our bio!”
And yes, if you work for TikTok, you are a de facto agent of the Chinese Communist Party, in direct and existential opposition to the republic of the United States of America.
Let us not forget that the virtue-signaling Disney has produced content pushing the narrative that anything not leftist is fascism, that Disney caters to the blue-haired crowd that fancies itself the pure moralists beating back the threat of fascism, while embracing the worlds’ most dangerous, most totalitarian example of fascism to date, even surpassing the Nazis in terms of genocidal murder.
Disney has no right to claim it opposes fascism while it sends millions of dollars to support the most bloodthirsty fascist regime on the planet today.
An indictment against Biden whistleblower Gal Luft has accidently revealed the Bidens’ connections to a Chinese-Communist-Party-controlled conglomerate that depended on Joe Biden’s influence on government to essentially sell weapons to a provider of arms to the bloodthirsty death cult Hamas. The company, CEFC China Energy, supplied the Bidens with millions of “consulting” dollars in exchange for their manipulation of government to sell arms to Qatar which were then delivered to Hamas.
As revealed in Luft’s indictment, CEFC China Energy members engaged illicit trafficking of arms to countries including Libya and Qatar. Luft often referenced the weapons as “toys” in correspondence evidenced in the indictment.
Patrick Ho, the Director of CEFC China Energy whom Hunter Biden has described as his personal business partner and also the “spy chief of China,” sent Luft an email in April 2015 with the subject line “Shopping lists,” writing about Qatar’s weaponry needs:
“It so turns out that Qatar also needs urgently a list of toys from us. But the same reason that we had for Libya, we cannot sell directly to them. Is there a way you could act as an intermediary in both cases? Could you ask your man to see if he is willing?”
“Qatar good chance be there is no embargo. Libya is another case be going against an embargo is tricky,” replied Luft. Ho followed up stressing Qatar’s “urgent” need for weapons, adding he’d be meeting with “their chief” to discuss the matter:
“Qatar needs toys quite urgently. Their chief is coming to China and we hope to give them a piece of good news. Please confirm soonest.”
The news is not surprising to those of us paying attention. It will not be reported in any credible way by the media machine controlled by the DNC-CCP, though the dots are easy to connect. As Republicans consider “compromising” with the Democratic Party, the openly seditious (if you believe in the American republic, but not if you believe in Progmerica, which is no America at all) party, on selecting a new House Speaker you must all the more understand that Republicans are mostly controlled opposition, the DNC-CCP’s rearguard, more aligned with Chairman Xi and his “mixed economy” than Thomas Jefferson. This party lashes out more at MAGA than it does the DNC-CCP, and that’s no accident.
As news like this continues to pour out, and the Republican Party continues to act as if the DNC-CCP is just a family member in slight disagreement (as opposed to an existential threat to the republic their very party’s name claims to represent), then you, the reader, must realize the GOP offers no real opposition to the assault on the republic this corrupt party (the Democratic Party) represents.
God has made them vessels of wrath made for destruction to be instruments of wrath against a nation that has rejected God in exchange for a lie that man can make himself in his own image. Let God contend with them, even as we peacefully choose to not comply with their ungodly demands.
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo are building a blockchain system to publish news that is assured of being “truthful.” The researchers are developing the technology to combat “misinformation,” or “fake news,” which they say is threatening democratic institutions.
The technology has three elements, blockchain (which enables decentralized publication from transparent interests), human intelligence through a quorum of “validators,” and finally a check on validators through an “entropy-based incentive mechanism.” In essence, it boils down to “popular opinion,” though the researchers would be loath to describe it in that manner.
Ultimately, the article would be validated as trustworthy on the platform only if most of the validators’ opinions align with the truth. As for the user who published the article in the first place, that person might then receive a reward using the entropy-based incentive mechanism. But if the article is exposed as fake news, the user who published it could be penalized. Meanwhile, this entropy measure would convey to the end-user the degree of uncertainty in the output.
At this point the researchers have built and are working with an early prototype. While initial test results are promising, their system is still in the development stage and needs a significant effort to make it usable in the real world. Even so, an industrial partner, Ripple Labs Inc.—a leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses—is part of the Waterloo research.
Chien-Chih Chen, one of the project’s lead researchers, said of the project “We are confident our system has the potential to be applied in practical situations within the next few years. We believe it can provide a robust solution to fake news. I hope my research can impact the world to make a positive difference.”
The use of the term “fake news,” the belief that “truth” is something popular opinion can calibrate shows the hubris behind this project, which some might categorize as fake news in and of itself. Promising a machine to assure truthfulness in news is fake news, right from the start. Whole philosophies have risen and fallen on such claims.
To emphasize my point, here is how the publication that perpetuated this fake news categorized examples of “fake news” that this project might debunk: The danger of disinformation—or fake news—to democracy is real. There is evidence fake news could have influenced how people voted in two important political events in 2016: Brexit, the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and the U.S. presidential election that put Donald Trump in power. More recently the Canadian government has warned Canadians to be aware of a Russian campaign of disinformation surrounding that country’s war against Ukraine. Although big tech companies—including Facebook and Google—have established policies to prevent the spread of fake news on their platforms, they’ve had limited success.
First of all, the definition of democracy and the practice of democracy are as varied as the political factions that claim to be bastions of that term. Second of all, the notion that “disinformation” is a threat to democracy is fake news, once again. What is dangerous to some form of democratic spirit is the blocking of information under the name of protecting people from “disinformation.”
Totalitarians the world over, since totalitarian states have existed, have long used claims of misinformation to justify preventing the free and open exchange of information.
This project seems more like the nascence of a new method of governments to assure only their narrative is perpetuated, using a “disinformation-safe” machine that might be “de-centralized” on the platform itself, but the platform will be licensed by the state that builds it.
Protecting the people from fake news is not real, not possible, and no government actually wants to do that (for they would be undermining their own justifications for power). What is real is your ability to discern efforts to approach truth in reporting (for pure truth is not accessible even in the very language that we use, which has ambiguity, subjectivity unavoidably built into it), not the ability of any machine or aggregate of human committees to discern truth.
You don’t need to protect the world from disinformation. You need to equip humans to protect themselves from disinformation, imperfectly though that would be. No government (and these researchers are all dependent on that “government”) has any incentive to equip their citizens to discern approaches to truth from actual disinformation, for no government can stand, including the United States, without, in part, disseminating “fake news.”
In a move that could set a precedent leading to government licensing for 3D printers, the far-left blue state of New York has a bill in its legislature called AB A8132 that would require its citizens to go through a criminal background check before they can purchase a 3D printer t0 ostensibly protect citizens from criminals being able to make “ghost guns,” which is just a far-left anti-American term for homemade guns, the heart of resistance to tyranny the world over.
The author of the bill, Jenifer Rakjumar, said of the bill “Three-dimensionally printed firearms, a type of untraceable ghost gun, can be built by anyone using a $150 three-dimensional printer. This bill will require a background check so that three-dimensional printed firearms do not get in the wrong hands.”
As the Supreme Court has recently decided to unconstitutionally allow the enforcement of a ban on homemade guns by the Biden regime, this bill is aligned with that un-American narrative perpetuated by the media organizations that find themselves mere vassals of the corpostate machine the DNC-CCP relies on to consolidate and preserve its anti-American power in these American lands.
The bill would lay the groundwork to create a registry of Americans living in this fallen state who possessed 3D printers capable of manufacturing homemade firearms, the symbol of American liberty itself for those of us paying attention to “current year” politicking.
The bill is allegedly targeting only 3D printers that can make homemade guns, derisively referred to as “ghost guns,” intending to illogically stigmatize the mind against this act of self-stewardship, liberty, that the powers that be, including the reporters who write about such bills, are violently against. But the bill fails to specify 3D printer models, as if it could since new 3D printers can be created after the bill becomes law, and even more, 3D printers themselves can be “Ghost 3D Printers,” that is, 3D printers created by individuals in their own homes.
The bill is also designed, this writer theorizes, to lay the groundwork for the ultimate prohibition against 3D printers in general, as they represent as much of a threat to the controlling of the means of human production as the printing press was (and still is) to the authoritarians that seek to control outcomes to make them the de facto gods of humanity, making humans in their own anti-Christ, anti-liberty image, which is the entire story of history throughout all humanity as readily observed in God’s scriptures.
The printing press in most kingdoms required a license to be owned and a license to publish. The state sought to control the flow of information. Now, the state needs to control more than information, it needs to control the means of production to assure that the large-scale systems it depends on for power, such as our near-monopolistic institutions, for they produce most all of our product needs, making them a concentrated, easy-to-access, predictably reliable sources of tax revenue and political campaign financing, as well as funding cultural production through the newspapers and movie studios they also control.
In 14th Century England, the Miller, the person who ground your grains to flour, was such an institution. When portable mills become more reliable, the state had to lock that down to protect its monopolistic control, through the Miller, of essential production the citizens relied on. This is why 14th Century England required its citizens to have a license to even own a portable mill, and strict laws regarding how that mill could be used (for limited family needs alone).
The 3D printer is the greatest threat to the state’s hold on information and production in all of human history up to this point, so the state has just recently figured this out and now the far-left blue state of New York is beginning the process of nudging Americans towards an acceptance of having that small-scale empowering technology locked behind government guns and missiles aimed at the rebel who would dare print what they want in defiance of a state that seeks to make humans in its own corrupt image rather than facilitating the self-stewardship potential of humans that live in the lands it controls.
Let us start off by addressing the proverbial elephant in the room.
On October 7th, 2023, the forces of Hamas – the Palestinian terror group with such delusions of legitimacy that they haven’t bothered with elections since attaining power – launched a short, sharp and brutal assault into southern Israel. For the first time since the rise of ISIL in 2011, the world was “treated” to a level of sadistic brutality that beggars the imagination. The acts of savagery – including the live-streamed slaughter, brutalization and kidnapping of mostly under-30 year olds at a literal “peace festival” – stunned the “polite” world as much as the apparent failure of some of the most vaunted intelligence services in the world.
The resulting war, on the fifty-year anniversary of the first “Yom Kippur War”, is now being termed “Israel’s 9/11”.
This article will not go any further into the political situation. Likewise, “sides” are not our purpose, here. This is strictly an examination of Hamas’ military operations, based on published reports and “informed supposition”, from October 7 to October 14, 2023. A much more in-depth examination of the situation will be available to our subscribers towards the end of the month.
OVERVIEW
In the early dawn hours of October 7, Hamas combat units launched a “broad spectrum” attack from its sanctuaries in the Gaza Strip. The assault opened with a massive and concentrated barrage of rocket artillery. The artillery assault was large enough and concentrated enough that it overwhelmed the “Iron Dome” anti-missile system that Israel has relied on for over a decade to defend itself from such attacks.
As the rocket attacks opened, mobile combat groups – some dressed in Israeli Defense Force (IDF) uniforms – infiltrated border checkpoints and massacred or captured the troops within, most of whom seem to have still been asleep. Simultaneously, other units conducted combat breaching operations at several points along the border, using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple RPG-7 rocket, to dedicated breaching charges, to using civilian construction equipment to batter holes in the security fences. Mobil combat groups, mounted on “technicals” and small motorcycles, quickly swarmed through the breaches, and fanned out to assault small town and villages, ultimately capturing and holding these urban areas for up to four days, a circumstance that has not happened since Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.
A map of the Gaza Strip showing key towns and neighbouring countries, 2009. Credit: Wikimedia User: Gringer. CCA/3.0
Perhaps most spectacularly, an airborne element assaulted the aforementioned peace festival using “paragliders” to insert a raiding force into the festival grounds, timed to strike shortly before the arrival a relief convoy mounted in technicals.
In both cases, at the peace festival and in Israeli urban settlements, Hamas forces deliberately massacred civilians, and captured as many as possible, carting them off to Gaza to be explicitly used as hostages and human shields against the expected Israeli counterattack. This has resulted in the largest number of Jewish lives lost in a single weekend since the Holocaust of World War Two.
While some Hamas forces held out for as long as four or five days in places, the bulk of surviving Hamas units had retreated into Gaza within seventy-two hours.
ANALYSIS
Hamas’ attack, on the purely tactical level, stands as a masterclass in operational deception, tactical ingenuity, flexibility and maximizing limited supplies on a shoestring budget.
It was also a complete and abject failure.
Way back in 2022, we discussed the emerging phenomenon of small-scale, targeted, and focused military training that was available to the general public around the world with nothing more than an internet connection. And that remains true – anyone who is at least moderately intelligent and educated can learn a very great deal by searching out real military informational guides via the internet.
The unspoken cautionary warning in the last paragraph is that such information, if not presented in a coherent manner, will most certainly not convey the level of competence necessary to fight and win.
Case in point – Hamas.
While Hamas demonstrated a surprisingly level of competence at the commando/light infantry level of warfare, its forces were absolutely no match for their enemy, once that enemy roused itself, and organized a coordinated counterattack. While Hamas’ leadership seems to have understood this, in a strictly tactical sense, it completely failed to tie tactical acumen to a realistic operational or strategic plan.
There was no possibility that Hamas was going to “win” against Israel in a conventional military sense. Hamas could – and did – certainly bloody Israel’s nose, exposing staggering complacency within the IDF, while also demonstrating the stark reminder that unarmed civilians are nothing but targets in a combat environment. As a result, as of this writing (October 16th 2023), the IDF has eliminated all Hamas forces that remained within Israel after the initial assault…and the IDF is now girding for an all-out assault into the Gaza Strip to put an end to Hamas, once and for all, world opinion be damned.
This also demonstrated the defective strategic thinking of Hamas, as the avowed purpose of taking hostages, to be used as human shields – and joyously live-streaming it via the internet – is something that they allowed themselves to believe would be a viable tool of negotiation with Israel…The problem being, this is not an “intifada” – Hamas’ very success is the agent of their coming destruction, because the State of Israel will now stop at nothing to destroy them.
Put more prosaically, Hamas’ combination of tactical acumen with idiotic and outdated strategic thinking, is effectively the strategy for a “live action” first-person shooter video game, like a combination of “Call of Duty” with “Grand Theft Auto”, where the player gets more rewards for being more ruthless and savage, a view that is being reinforced daily, with the gleeful cheering on of troops in combat zones operating drone that drop grenades on enemy forces…just like in a video game – and if a war crime is committed in the process, that is worth double-XP.
Video games, however, are not real life. They are nothing more than a pale and warped reflection of reality – and basing your military plans on visions of video game victory is not simply a poor strategy, it is a strategy of suicide.
Yours.
Write that on your hand, if you need to.
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Jim Jordan has been nominated by the GOP to be their next Speaker of the U.S. House after the previous nominee, Steve Scalise, withdrew. Reports are emerging of DNC-CCP operatives within the GOP (so-called moderates) not allowing Jordan to become speaker as they don’t wish to “reward” the rebellion of the 8 who caused their preferred controlled opposition leader, Kevin McCarthy to be reomved from office.
CNN reported on one anonymous insider saying. “The approximately 20 I’ve talked to know we must be prepared. We cannot let the msall group dictate to the whole group. They want a minority of the majority to dictate and as a red-blooded American I refuse to be a victim.” That very statement reeks of a seditious heart that does not understand a republic, but only a mobocracy, which this “anonymous source” seems to support. That red in you is not blood, it’s communism.
A number of House Republicans are in talks to block Rep. Jim Jordan’s path to the speakership as the Ohio Republican tries to force a floor vote on Tuesday, according to multiple GOP sources.
One senior Republican House member who is part of the opposition to Jordan told CNN that there he believes there are roughly 40 “no” votes and that he has personally spoken to 20 members who are willing to go to the floor and block Jordan’s path if the Ohio Republican forces a roll-call vote on Tuesday.
After receiving two powerful endorsements, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is poised to become the next House speaker. Trump endorsed Jordan last week, and now Fox News is reporting that former speaker Kevin McCarthy is backing him.
Jordan announced that he was re-entering the race for speaker Friday morning after Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) threw in the towel.
Scalise dropped out of the race last night when it became clear that he couldn’t get the 217 votes needed to replace Rep. McCarthy (R-Calif.). Now, Jordan appears to be the favorite in the aftermath of McCarthy’s historic ouster from the speakership.
According to Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie, McCarthy announced today that he is supporting Jordan.
In response to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) potentially forcing a speaker vote on the House floor, anti-Jordan votes threatened to not show up and let Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) win the election.
This is how toxic things have become on the Republican side of the House:
“What happens when Jordan forces us to the floor to try to pressure us and all of a sudden we don’t show up and Hakeem Jeffries is speaker cause he wanted to be a bully ?” one upset House Republican just texted me.
A lawsuit has been filed against the state of North Carolina allegedly by a nine-year old child who allegedly wants to “transition” from being a girl to being a boy, and her parents want to give the child physical and chemical “gender therapy” treatment that will leave the child infertile, mutilated, and dependent on expensive drugs for the rest of her life, drugs that have not been tested for long-term side effects. The lawsuit is in response to a law that prohibits the mangling of children for the rainbow cult of trans.
The name of the child allegedly suing is given as Victor Voe, which is not her real or made-up boy name, but a pseudonym given to protect her privacy. The names of the parents are not given, but the names of the child-grooming organizations supporting this lawsuit, especially economically are given.
The lawsuit alleges “Victor is transgender. He knew from a very young age that his gender identity did not match his sex assigned at birth, and he generally lives as athe boy he is in every aspect of life. However, with his puberty approaching, Victor will soon need medical care that is prohibited by the Health Care Ban.”
This lawsuit is really about sacrificing another child in rebellion against God by child-grooming rainbow cultists who show the lack of logic, reason, and morality that we Americans have grown accustomed to see from the progmericans that live among us (who are no Americans at all).
The lawsuit seems to want to set a precedent that children can consent to such bodily mutilation, a precedent that would lay open the door to grant them consent to have sexual relations as well. Some arguing for the lawsuit have also called conservatives hypocrites for asserting parental rights to protect them from state-sanctioned trans grooming in schools while not recognizing the parents’ rights to mutilate their children and make them dependent on dangerous expensive drugs for the rest of their lives.
Their arguments reflect their depravity and only make those of us that oppose the sacrificing of children to leftist causes all the more determined to resist them.
What the left in America do not understand is that there is no compromise with this depravity, that all of their arguments in favor of mangling children’s bodies to carry forth the lie that gender is a social construct, that humans are not sexually binary, make them seem all the more depraved and unsafe as neighbors for anyone who has children.
Leftists support murdering unborn children while rejecting capital punishment. To them, the life of the murderer is more precious than the life of the unborn. This depraved value system is at the heart of a people that would allow children to “choose” to have their bodies destroyed by chemicals and surgeons’ knives all so adults can feel they can conquer God and deny his sacred truth, that we are born men and women, nothing else. May God have mercy on this depraved land and deliver us from Babylon, the Democratic Party and all who support it.
The U.S. appears to be working to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from becoming a regional war, sending carrier groups to deter Iran and other states from joining the war while Israel hopes a mass migration to the south of Gaza of its citizens will prevent civilian loss of life during the planned invasion. As of right now, the invasion has not begun, save for some probing assaults, and the world, including the U.S., is sending mixed signals in its support and condemnation of Israel.
Iran has signaled its willingness to join the war should Israel carry out with the planned ground invasion. America has warned Iran not get involved, sending two carrier task forces to the region to deter Iran.
America, through Biden and Blinken, is sending mixed signals to Israel, supporting their “right” to defend themselves but warning Israel not to purge Gaza of Palestinians, nor to occupy Gaza when the war is over. America’s political factions aren’t even on the same page, with Republicans mostly showing unquestioning support for Israel’s actions while Democrat leaders like Schummer support Israel but have already called for a cease-fire. Biden supports the elimination of Hamas but not the occupation of Gaza by Israeli forces.
Meanwhile within Israel itself, protests have happened outside the Defense Ministry calling for Netanyahu to resign. The Prime Minister is being blamed by many for failing to prevent these assaults. Netanyahu’s support has eroded in public opinion polls while those of his rival, opposition leader Benny Gantz have been rising.
Israel has called for a ceasefire in Southern Gaza, hoping to encourage more Palestinians to leave Northern Gaza, their primary target. Hamas, however, has been calling for its citizens to remain put and has even (allegedly) set up road blocks to prevent them from leaving.
While Netanyahu and Gantz have formed a unity government, Netanyahu won’t work with a Gaza Strip Task Force headed by one of his judicial reform opponents, Maor General Roni Numa. Netanyahu also denies claims he ignored a report warning of the attack, saying he never received such report, which appears to be true, though there were reports. Allegedly it was middle management that didn’t take the reports seriously so they didn’t pass them up the chain of command.
Israel has confirmed Hamas has 155 hostages, and Netanyahu has met with some of the families of the hostages.
To the north, Israel still faces the potential of Iran-backed Hezbollah joining the war as exchanges of gunfire, rockets, and mortars continue on a daily basis.
Israeli tanks have been assembled along the border, with some being fired on by anti-tank missiles (no reports of lost tanks). They have, however, lost a helicopter, which as destroyed by Hamas fighters using anti-tank guided missiles.
Nations in the China-Russia orbit tend to support Hamas, with both Russia and China calling for an immediate ceasefire and China going so far as to call for the Palestianisns to be free. France and Germany in the West have signaled the greatest support for Israel while the U.S. has given the most material aid in the form of aircraft carrier presence and munitions.
The Israelis find themselves between the necessity of eliminating an existential threat without losing more support as that effort produces real and fake stories of civilian deaths and suffering, especially among children.
Below is a news link aggregation report on the events over the weekend:
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