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  • Iran Fires Ballistic Missile From A Shipping Container At Sea

    02/23/2024 6:34:51 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 28 replies
    The War Zone ^ | 2/14/22 | Oliver Parken
    Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has fired two ballistic missiles from launchers disguised as standard shipping containers that were hosted aboard one of its sea base-like vessels. This particular combination, which has not been seen to date, greatly expands the reach with which those weapons could be used to strike potential targets by surprise, especially given that shipping containers can be embarked on any vessel that has the space to accommodate them. The country's IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency reports that two "Fateh class" ballistic missiles were recently launched from Shahid Mahdavi, which the Iranian Navy took delivery of in...
  • Gantz: Israel preparing for Rafah operation, will happen during Ramadan if no hostage deal

    02/22/2024 4:27:28 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 14 replies
    All Israel ^ | 2/21/24 | Staff
    War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel is preparing for an operation in the southern town of Rafah in Gaza after the civilians are evacuated from the area. His statement was made during a press briefing on Wednesday evening. Gantz, the head of the National Unity party, also claimed that unilateral international recognition of a Palestinian state, without bilateral agreements, is “a tailwind for terrorism.” “It would be a mistake to give such a tailwind to terrorism,” Gantz said. “Political arrangements must take place directly, otherwise they will not be sustainable. In any future situation, Israel will maintain its...
  • Middle East escalation fears spike as Houthis launch most damaging attack yet

    02/20/2024 2:13:01 PM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 12 replies
    "The Middle East looks set for a path of escalation on multiple fronts as Israeli forces close in on what is left of southern Gaza, and as Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch their most damaging strike yet on a ship in the Red Sea.The crew of the British-owned, Belize-flagged bulk carrier MV Rubymar were forced to abandon ship in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, receiving help from a nearby merchant vessel and coalition warship to reach a nearby port after “two anti-ship ballistic missiles were launched from Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen,” according to U.S. Central Command." (snip) Twenty-six...
  • Nasrallah threatens Hezbollah rockets can reach 'anywhere' in Israel as IDF braces for war in north

    02/17/2024 11:18:01 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 10 replies
    Ynet News ^ | 2/16/24 | Yoav Zitun, Lior Ben Ari
    Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened on Friday that his armed group possesses rockets capable of reaching “anywhere” in Israel as the IDF says that its forces drilled war scenarios on the northern front. “The Americans and Israelis should know that they are also facing a people in Palestine that will not back down, no matter how many victims there’ll be,” he told his supporters via video link at a memorial event commemorating his terrorist group’s “martyred commanders” who were killed in recent Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. "Hezbollah possesses tremendous and precise missile capabilities that can reach anywhere from Kiryat...
  • Report: Israel behind explosions of gas pipelines in Iran

    02/17/2024 11:15:38 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 7 replies
    Israel National News ^ | 2/16/24 | Staff
    Israel carried out covert attacks on two major gas pipelines inside Iran this week, two Western officials and a military strategist affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps told The New York Times on Friday. The attacks resulted in explosions that disrupted the flow of heat and cooking gas to provinces with millions of people, the report said. “The enemy’s plan was to completely disrupt the flow of gas in winter to several main cities and provinces in our country,” Iran’s Oil Minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian media on Friday. Owji, who had previously referred to the blasts as “sabotage and...
  • Everyone said not to invade Rafah, the IDF did it anyway

    02/13/2024 6:33:20 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 17 replies
    World Israel News ^ | 2/12/24 | Daniel Greenfield
    After months of fighting, Hamas had been forced to fall back to its stronghold in Rafah on the Egyptian border. And the pressure on Israel not to go into Rafah intensified. Not only AOC and Bernie Sanders, but Biden warned Israel not go in because of the “humanitarian impact”. Israel went in and brought out two hostages. After the previous hostage deal, Hamas supporters, including AOC, kept hammering home the claim that the only way to free the hostages is to cut a deal with Hamas. But cutting deals with terrorists just leads to more dead bodies and more hostages....
  • BOOK: The Palestinian deceit: The true story after 75 years of unbelievable anti-Israeli fake news

    02/12/2024 9:24:02 PM PST · by Milagros · 7 replies
    Feb 2023 | Tanio Romano
    The Palestinian deceit: The true story after 75 years of unbelievable anti-Israeli fake news.One issue on which the historical assessment is almost unanimously in favour of the ‘Palestinian’ side is undoubtedly that of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The very few publications that offer a more cautious or at least neutral assessment of the Israeli camp come mainly from Jewish or Israeli authors. What was lacking was a counter-cultural and therefore courageous, well-documented, yet fluent and not infrequently ironic vade mecum on a very complex subject, written by someone who is not a party to the conflict. The reader will be surprised...
  • Graham on Biden Middle East Strikes: We Only Killed ‘Some $#@&+$$

    02/04/2024 8:56:29 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/04/2024 | Pam Key
    Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden’s military strikes to dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias only killed “some @#&$@##.” Graham said, “They have four oil refineries you can see from space. If you knocked one of them out, they would stop this. Our American troops are in harm’s way. If the goal is to deter Iran, you’re failing miserably. If the goal is to protect American troops, you’re not achieving your goal. If you’ve convinced Iran you don’t want a wider war, they believe...
  • We’re at that 1938 moment

    01/26/2024 5:32:15 PM PST · by bitt · 6 replies
    GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 1/26/2024 | John Mills
    Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and Stalin’s archrival said words to the effect, “You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.” In 1940, Trotsky found war personally when he was assassinated in his well-guarded compound in Mexico City by one of Stalin’s people. Mexico for years was a playground for KGB and now FSB personnel, with the American Government essentially ceding Mexico to the foreign adventurism of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea; a veritable Mos Eisley of international rogues. Currently, the ungoverned spaces of Mexico are the domain for Chinese overseers of...
  • Israel must go to war with Hezbollah if it wants regional peace

    01/20/2024 5:13:22 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 3 replies
    World Israel News ^ | 1/19/24 | Nave Dromi
    Over the years, it has become de rigueur and increasingly predictable to state that “there is no military solution to the conflict” regarding Israel’s long-standing conflict with its enemies. Nonetheless, the Hamas massacre of October 7 has demonstrated that, regardless of the frequency of its usage, it is increasingly understood not to be true. Regarding Gaza, Israel has tried any number of other solutions, whether diplomacy during the Gaza-First phase of Oslo: autonomy, disengagement, and enfranchisement. None of them worked to end Hamas’s irredentist and extremist beliefs and goals. In fact, its leadership has gone on record claiming that it...
  • Biden no longer on speaking terms with Netanyahu – report

    01/20/2024 5:11:39 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 74 replies
    World Israel News ^ | 1/19/24 | Staff
    President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not spoken in over a month, according to a new report, after a tense phone call ended with Biden hanging up abruptly on the Israeli premier. Four U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the issue told Axios this week that tensions are mounting between the Biden administration and the Prime Minister’s Office, leading to a break down between the president and prime minister. While the two spoke at regular intervals following the October 7th invasion of southwestern Israel, the Biden administration’s growing demands of Israel – including to scale down...
  • Saudi diplomacy could reshape region, Israeli journalist tells WEF

    01/20/2024 5:07:38 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 3 replies
    Arab News ^ | 1/19/24 | Caspar Webb
    LONDON: Strategic deals launched by powers including Saudi Arabia could reshape a region simmering with tensions, an Israeli journalist on a panel at the World Economic Forum said on Friday. In the panel titled “Anticipating the Middle East in 2024,” experts and government officials discussed the turbulent regional situation, with the Gaza conflict, Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and potential Saudi normalization with Israel high on the agenda. “If the US wants to manage the (Gaza) conflict … it needs to embrace a pathway to two states,” said Jane Harman, chair of the US Commission on the National Defense Strategy. “I...
  • Media Warns of WWIII Starting in Mid-East After Presidential Elections

    01/20/2024 5:02:51 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 17 replies
    Israel 365 News ^ | 1/19/24 | Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
    According to media reporting on documents leaked from the German Ministry of Defense, European leaders are preparing for a “hybrid” Russian attack in Eastern Europe. The first stage, dubbed “Alliance Defense 2025,” would start this February with Russia mobilizing an additional 200,000 soldiers. Fox News reported on Tuesday that classified German documents outlined how the militaries of several European countries are planning to prepare for an offensive by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The story was first reported in the BILD newspaper based on information obtained from the German Ministry of Defense. The “Alliance Defense 2024” could start in February as...
  • Netanyahu: 'No One Will Stop Us, Not The Hague, Not The Axis Of Evil And Not Anyone Else'

    01/15/2024 3:29:49 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 43 replies
    Harbingers Daily ^ | 1/14/24 | Harbingers Daily
    Israel will pursue its war against Hamas until victory and will not be stopped by anyone, including the world court, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a defiant speech Saturday, as the [Israel-Gaza War] approached the 100-day mark. Netanyahu spoke after the International Court of Justice at The Hague held two days of hearings on South Africa’s allegations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, a charge Israel has rejected as libelous and hypocritical. South Africa asked the court to order Israel to halt its blistering air and ground offensive in an interim step. “No one will stop us, not...
  • What Do You Call A War With China Plus A War With Russia Plus A Colossal War In The Middle East?

    01/13/2024 12:26:23 PM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 67 replies
    End of The American Dream ^ | 1/11/24 | Michael Snyder
    Did you see that we just bombed the Houthis? Each new day in 2024 seems to bring some sort of a new escalation, and for now most Americans can ignore all of the fighting because it is all happening on the other side of the globe. But how are they going to feel when the U.S. is actively engaged in multiple wars simultaneously and those wars are directly affecting daily life inside the United States? The time to speak out against the foolish policies of our leaders is before the entire world is engulfed in flames. Once thousands of missiles...
  • US and UK Air Launch Strikes Against Houthi Militants In Yemen

    01/11/2024 3:52:54 PM PST · by Nextrush · 145 replies
    BBC News ^ | 1/11/2024 | BBC
    UK-US air strikes launched against Houthis in Yemen...
  • IDF chief: Fight against Hamas will last all of 2024

    01/08/2024 10:16:32 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 25 replies
    Israel 365 News ^ | 1/8/24 | JNS
    The coming year will be “challenging” for the Jewish state, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzl Halevi said Sunday, suggesting that the war against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad will last all of 2024. “We will be at war in Gaza, I don’t know if all year—we will be fighting in Gaza all year, that’s for sure,” Halevi said following a situational assessment with officers and commanders of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division. The Defense Ministry expects to recognize at least 12,500 IDF soldiers as wounded veterans in the wake of the Hamas-initiated war, Ynet reported...
  • Blinken warns against wider Middle East conflict in meeting with Turkish, Greek leaders

    01/06/2024 12:22:20 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/06/2024 | Nick Robertson
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish and Greek leaders on Saturday, marking the beginning of a week-long trip around the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East to discuss the next phases of the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. Blinken started his day in Istanbul to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Blinken and Erdoğan discussed the war in Gaza, the White House said a press release.
  • IDF commando: It is the time of Jacob’s trouble

    01/06/2024 11:51:23 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 13 replies
    Israel Today ^ | 1/5/24 | Staff
    On the morning of October 7, the commander of IDF Unit 217, commonly referred to as ‘Duvdevan’ (Hebrew for ‘cherry’), was woken by his friend, the commanding officer for personnel in the Southern Command. “Bring everything you’ve got,” he was told. Duvdevan is a counter-terrorism unit famous for its undercover work among Arab populations. It is also one of the IDF’s top fighting forces. But even the commandoes of Duvdevan were taken aback by what awaited them upon entering the hellscape of the Gaza periphery on that Black Shabbat. In an interview this week with Channel 14 from his new...
  • Gallant: 'the hourglass is about to turn' on Hezbollah

    01/06/2024 11:49:38 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 1 replies
    Ynet News ^ | 1/5/24 | Yoav Zitun
    Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a warning to Hezbollah on Friday, saying that although Israel favors a diplomatic resolution to the tensions along the Lebanese border, the likelihood of resorting to a military option is increasingly imminent. "We will continue to intensify our operations across the entire sector as needed. We have one clear objective - to safely return the residents of the north to their homes," Gallant said. "There are two alternatives here: one, a diplomatic option, which we are actively working on. Yesterday, I met with the U.S. president's special envoy Amos Hochstein. Soon, we will meet with...