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Savage speaks with former CIA operative Larry Johnson about the large-scale surprise attack waged on Israel and the developing war. Savage and Johsnon give a breakdown of the crisis as Israel faces its greatest threat in over 50 years. How did Israel miss this attack? Did U.S. weapons sent to Ukraine make it Hamas? How has the Palestinian Authority responded? Has Israel underestimated Hamas? Did Russia play a part in this plan? How incompetent leadership is putting us all in danger. What led to the Iron Dome failure? How has Biden emboldened Iran? Are there Hamas operatives in America?Why does...

Behind the headlines, Israel is quietly concerned about protecting its citizens from an attack just across its northern border with Lebanon. Hezbollah, the so-called "Party of Allah" is known to have at least 150 thousand missiles in its armory. They are all earmarked for the Jewish State. Under Iran's control, it is virtually certain that the only reason Hezbollah has not yet attacked Israel is because of Syria. Like Hezbollah in Lebanon, that country's President Assad is also a vassal of the Islamic Republic. Almost all of Tehran's immediate efforts are focused on keeping Assad in power. Accordingly, Hezbollah has...

In the United States, We Patriots set aside one day a year to remember our Fallen Heroes. We owe them so very much,it is hard to put it into perspective as the numbers grow continuously and seemingly without end. We pray for them and their families and honor their memories every single day, even though only one day is marked on our calendars. Today, I would like to take a minute of your time to remember Israel's Fallen as well. In these dark days, when Israel seemingly stands alone in the world, one moment away from war every day of...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in a bid for political survival, struck an alliance Monday with a hard-liner who has called for stripping Israeli Arabs of citizenship, executing lawmakers for talking to Hamas and bombing Palestinian population centers. Taking the hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party into the government would shore up Olmert's coalition, weakened badly by the war with Hezbollah, but probably ends any hope for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from much of the West Bank. Yisrael Beiteinu's leader, Avigdor Lieberman, announced the deal Monday after meeting Olmert. "We are joining the government," the smiling Lieberman said. Olmert said as deputy...

Polish humanitarian organization to solicit funds for Israel By ETGAR LEFKOVITS In a first, a Polish humanitarian organization is working to provide humanitarian assistance to hard-hit residents of northern Israel, the head of the group said Monday. The non-governmental Polish Humanitarian Organization will ask the Polish government as well as private donors for about NIS 1 million in aid for residents in the north for two projects, in addition to separate funding for Lebanese civilians, said Janina Ochojska, the group's founder and president. The head of the Polish humanitarian organization, who has just completed a tour of hard-hit areas in...

Petition for US Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East This statement was drafted by US Jews committed to stopping and holding accountable Israel for its destructive policies and practices-most immediately for a halt to the current attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. We are gathering signatures from Jews committed to this. Our goal is to then publish this statement in the New York Times and other publications. Please add your name below as an American Jew of conscience - only if you agree with all 5 points. http://www.jewishsolidarity.info/petition.php As Jews of conscience living in the United...

In Lebanon during the night, the Air Force struck over 120 Hizbullah targets, including 80 buildings, several weapons storage facilities, four rocket launchers, 25 access roads and seven bridges. A Hizbullah headquarters in Bint Jbeil was one of the hardest struck targets. The structure, from which at least ten gunmen were firing at IDF paratroopers, was leveled. A senior Hizbullah man was reportedly killed by an Israeli air strike in the city of Mashgara, together with his entire family. Two more people were killed in one of the many Lebanese slums inhabited by the children and grandchildren of Arabs who...

One war By Frank Gaffney, July 31, 2006 (Washington, D.C.): On September 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government. The United States retaliated with what can only be called a "disproportionate response." How We Fight Terrorists America launched air and ground assaults on Afghanistan, aimed at destroying not only the al Qaeda safe havens but toppling the Taliban regime. We damaged or destroyed critical Afghan infrastructure so as to deny its use to the enemy. Civilian...

Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group has claimed to have seized an Israeli army post in the disputed Shebaa Farms border area, destroying a Merkava tank, after Israeli troops deserted under heavy shelling. The guerrillas planted Hezbollah's flag at the Rowaissat al-Aalam position, the group's Al-Manar television station said. It did not specify if Hezbollah later withdrew or held on to the post. Hezbollah dedicated its latest attacks on Israeli troops in the border region to the "heroic" Palestinian fighters facing Israel's massive offensive against West Bank towns. The group, in a statement, paid tribute to the "heroic knights fighting and standing...

18:00 IT Sunday: Israeli Soldiers Injured in Hizballah Rocket and Shelling Attack on Mt Hermon and Shaaba Farms Positions. Israeli Air and Artillery Strike Back.

Heavy Israeli Tank, Infantry and Engineering Forces Drive Into Seventh Palestinian West Bank Town of Nablus Wednesday Night.