Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: ""Genocide" now means "war." Verbal inflation is all SJWs do, other than lie."
Max 📟 @MaxNordau: ""Allegations of genocide in the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon" Things have just gotten silly now."
Rather, genocide is war conducted by people who left wingers hate on people who left wingers love
Addendum: This is Wikipedia
Meme - Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: ""As shocked and stunned as I was, there was no way I was going to let him say that to me, unchallenged." My response to the racism & incitement on Monday, to a CNN pro-Trump panelist telling me: “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off," because I said I supported Palestinian rights."
Mild Mannered Maniac @80sGeek: "Pretty thin skin for someone throwing around insults like racist and nazi don't ya think?"
Rashida Tlaib Uninjured After Her Pager Mysteriously Explodes | Babylon Bee
US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib slams racist image of her with exploding pager
There's so much to unpack here. One interpretation is that she's saying that all Palestinians support terrorism, so to criticise terrorism-supporting Palestinians is racist
Saul Sadka on X - "When the pager attack happened, knocking about 10% of Hezbollah's men (mostly senior) out of the fight in the most emasculating way possible, I wondered: How many of the remaining rank and file would melt away? This video tour, showing a complete Hezbollah underground fortress taken whole and undamaged by the IDF, with precious weapons left behind and unused, hints at Hezbollah being in total and perhaps irretrievable disarray. Remember this next time a defeatist tells you, "Killing terrorists just breeds more terrorists.""
Meme - Duolingo on Pager: "Look like you missed your Hebrew lesson again. you know what happens now!"
Raylan Givens on X - "🚨EXCLUSIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE PAGERS - A THREAD: Just when you thought it couldn't get crazier, Reuters released brand new details about Mossad's brilliant pager operation against Hezbollah in September. I will break down the most important parts and the exciting moments."
Craig Murray on X - "The amount of triumphalism at the mass terrorist attack against the Lebanon is heart-rending. Israel has just destroyed its own vital tech sector. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy Israeli electronics or software again. Let that sink in."
David Montgomery on X - "The amount of triumphalism at the mass terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 by terrorist sympathizers in the west is far worse. And the Pagers came from Taiwan, not Israel."
Meme - Goose chasing guy: "Why did the "civilians" have Hezbollah pagers. Why???"
Thread by @Saul_Sadka on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Why is Israel destroying so many buildings in these border villages? Random vengeance? The truth is accidentally revealed by anti-Israel researcher Evan Hill: The blank patch (i.e., almost no buildings are damaged) between Ayta al-Shab and Yaroun is Rmaich.
Despite the negligence of the Lebanese government and UNIFIL, the citizens of this Christian village fought all attempts to turn the bucolic mountain township into a terror base to destroy Israel. They bravely defied Hezbollah, unlike their neighbors. When a village adjacent to an international border is made into a swiss cheese of tunnels and dungeons filled with weapons—ready for an invasion at the beep of a pager—that infrastructure needs to be destroyed. Its destruction is good, the tragedy is that it was built. The Lebanese border villages chose: Some allowed Hezbollah encroachment, became terror forts, and are getting wrecked. Some fought Hezbollah—they chose life. I hope Israel offers an olive branch and helps revive them. The real culprits here are UNIFIL, the UN and Iran.
Of course, this is a report for the Washington Post, so even though they evidence clearly shows that as Netanyahu claimed, Israel is attacking Hezbollah, not Lebanon, they quote "analysts" to say the opposite. (And Hezbollah is merely "showing solidarity" with Hamas. And WaPo, by the way, the use of explosive weapons in empty urban areas, is the only way to remedy the storage of massive quantities of such weapons under inhabited civilians buildings.)...
For the curious, here are 2 maps. The first shows the religious breakdown of the villages of S. Lebanon. When the outlines of the Christian villages are drawn on the damage map, the effect becomes obvious. They alone resisted Hezbollah. Sadly even the Sunnis seem to have failed."
'Hamas leader' in Lebanon killed by Israel was UN employee, UNWRA confirms - "A United Nations agency has confirmed an individual described by Israel as the leader of Hamas in Lebanon was a UN employee after he was killed in an Israeli strike. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) said Fateh Al Sharif had been under investigation over his political activities and had been on "administrative leave" since March."
'Hamas leader' in Lebanon killed by Israel was UN employee, UNWRA confirms : r/anime_titties - "Highlight from other users from another subreddit:
(1) Hamas themselves are confirming this guy was both a senior commander AND a member of their leadership... while enjoying the diplomatic access as a UN employee.
(2) Fathi Al-Sharif is one of the many openly Hamas members who got awards, respect and probably money from UNRWA, a terrorist organization financing Hamas's activities using western tax money. UN Watch posted this in their website for example: Despite UNRWA knowing for more than a decade that the head of its teachers union in Lebanon, Fathi al-Sharif (a.k.a. Fateh “Abo Amin” al-Sharif), overseeing 39,000 students in 65 schools, is part of Hamas and an overt promoter of terrorism, the agency is refusing to fire him. https://unwatch.org/contempt-for-colonna-unrwa-leaders-continue-to-promote-terrorism-presented-to-parliament-of-the-netherlands-the-hague-20-june-2024/ Here is a picture of this terrorist getting an award from UNRWA: https://imgur.com/a/fb77o8V Here is a picture of this same guy, the chairman of UNRWA's teachers association, on an official Hamas proclamation with the special title: commander in Hamas in Lebanon: https://imgur.com/jYRkO9s
(3) UNRWA suspended him, but later reinstated him just months later, despite knowing he is a Hamas member for years. Palestinian media is reporting that UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has reinstated Hamas-linked school principal and union leader Fathi al-Sharif in “understandings” reached in Beirut last week with a coalition of terrorist groups, in exchange for their ending protest actions that have crippled UNRWA in Lebanon over the past two months. https://unwatch.org/unrwa-chief-lazzarini-reinstates-hamas-linked-union-chief-for-terrorist-groups-to-end-crippling-strike-in-lebanon/
Here's the fucking evidence, happy?"
Damn Zionist monsters, refusing to let UNWRA perpetuate terrorism with impunity anymore!
'Hamas leader' in Lebanon killed by Israel was UN employee, UNWRA confirms : r/anime_titties - "Israel: he was a terrorist so we permanently retired him.
Hamas: this guy was our leader in Lebanon.
UN: this guy was our employee, head of our teacher’s union in fact, and also yeah we knew he was a Hamas commander. He totally misappropriated funds and used his diplomatic status for terrorist gain. We’re not really sorry, we’re just admitting it now because y’all somehow keep finding out we employ a suspiciously high number of terrorists and while that’s bad, trying to hide it now that there’s so much proof is probably worse.
Saudi Arabia: I literally don’t give a shit, I’m glad the terrorists are being eliminated regardless of who they are.
The western world: we must give him, and the UN who gave him access to buttloads of money, the benefit of the doubt!!!! He’s just trying to do his job. It’s not his fault the textbooks teach them how to kill Jews. What he did in his private time is his own business. 🥺👨🏽🏫📚
Some people have so much microplastic in their brains they’ve been exfoliated smooth. Imagine happily simping for terrorists who are pretty fucking clear that their objective is to first kill all the Jews and then conquer the entire world in the name of Islamism. I hope everyone supporting them and protesting for them is full of shame and embarrassment when the history books put their pictures next to kkk dudes, Nazis, and white supremacists with tiki torches at Trump rallies. I also hope it stops being publicly accepted as okay. If there had been the same kind of reaction in favor of Al Qaeda after 9/11…oh boy. Hypocrites and idiots, the lot of them."
Meme - Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf: "Hezbollah official: “We’re currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destabilize their own countries.” This is the decade-old plan by Hamas, Hezbollah and Qatar to destroy Europe and America."
"We should invest in the Western students"
Dr. Maalouf on X - "This is what the terrorist leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said in one his speeches a few years ago: “Lebanon was a Christian country, but we took it and now it’s ours. After we kill all the Jews in Palestine, we will just have begun. We won’t stop until every country on Earth is ruled by the law of Allah and the people of Islam, like our prophet promised.” Hezbollah is not a resistance group, it’s a terrorist organization and must be destroyed at all costs!"
Thread by @Saul_Sadka on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Something seemed odd about the Iranian drone attack on the dining hall of the IDF basic training base, Camp 80, on October 13 that killed 4 IDF trainees. How did they know exactly which part of which building in the sprawling camp to target and at exactly what time? They put the drone directly above the corner of the hall where the tables were laid out at exactly the time when dinner was served. How did they get that inside information? Now we know... a trainee who had gone AWOL was one of the 7 members of a new immigrant family from Azerbaijan who were taking money to spy for Iran.
The fact that the picture from inside the base leaked didn't seem surprising, as we are talking about a base full of new recruits, in their first months, aged 18-19, without any experience or much discipline. It is also not an "elite" base, and there were lots of medics arriving to deal with the 50+ injuries."
Too bad it's racist and xenophobic to treat some groups differently from others
'Deadly Serious Breach': Classified US Docs on Israel Reach Iranian News Entity, Signaling Jewish State 'Can't Trust Washington' - "The Biden-Harris administration is investigating a "deadly serious breach" of classified U.S. intelligence detailing Israeli plans for a strike on Iran, the latest in a series of targeted leaks against Israel that has put America’s closest Middle East ally on edge, according to current and former U.S. officials. The explosive weekend release included top-secret Pentagon documents purporting to show Israel's preparations for a large-scale counterstrike on Iran. The two documents—compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency over the past several weeks—expose how Israel is preparing for the attack, including the types of aircraft and munitions that are expected to be used. They were published by the Middle East Spectator, a little-known outlet that is known to disseminate propaganda from Tehran. While the documents, according to CNN, include markings that indicate they were meant to be shared with the "Five Eyes" intelligence network—made up of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada—a former U.S. intelligence community official who reviewed them said there is no question they emanated from the U.S. side. The documents, the former official said, appear to have been posted on a U.S. classified system that can be accessed by "thousands upon thousands" of American officials from across the government."... While the documents do not detail which sites Israel is likely to attack inside Iran, they are the latest in a string of leaks that have raised questions about the Biden-Harris administration’s ability to safeguard information at the highest levels of government. For Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser, that trend is likely to erode Israel’s trust in the United States. "The damage wrought by this leak has less to do with tipping Iran off about or tactical insight into an impending Israeli strike than with broader bilateral trust," Rubin said. "This is not the first time a U.S. administration has leaked top secret details meant to sidetrack Israeli efforts to undermine Iran's nuclear program." In the end, Rubin said, "it's not Israel that will ultimately pay the price; it's the United States. The U.S. intelligence community can gain more from Israel than vice versa. By signaling Israel can't trust Washington, the United States will essentially be operating blind, learning about Israel actions from the media after the fact, just like the rest of the world. In a region where minutes can make the difference between life and death, this is a truly high price to bear." One senior Biden-Harris administration official, who was not authorized to speak on record about the situation, described the leak as a "deadly serious breach." "For at least the past year there has been a concerted campaign to leak what at least seems to be classified information by anti-Israel elements in large part to impact media narratives—but, if true, this obviously goes beyond that," the official said... The leak has also raised fresh questions about several senior Biden-Harris administration officials who are known to advocate for increased diplomacy with Iran. This includes senior Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai, who was identified last year as a member of a secretive pro-Iran influence group operated by the hardline regime’s government."
When you have terrorism supporters working in the government. But support for Iran reaches to the highest levels, so this is not surprising, since Obama and Biden enabled Iran
Senator Roger Wicker on X - "Last year, I called for suspending Ariane Tabatabai’s security clearance for her role in an Iranian info op. Amazingly, she’s still in her job. The latest apparent leak to an Iranian Telegram channel reflects the Biden-Harris administration's tolerance of insider threats."
Saul Sadka on X - "Is Ariane Tabatabai the mole leaking US secrets to Iran? The crazy truth is that it doesn't matter, it's so much worse that that. If a woman with close personal and family ties to the IRGC (a group bent on the destruction of America) can get hired to a position that gives her top level clearance to all US (and allied) secrets, and then keep her job for years after she is exposed as literally taking directions from Iranian officials, the US bureaucracy is clearly so dysfunctional that there are no doubt dozens more like her, and it could have been any of them."
(((John Mirisch 🌸))) on X - "Jonathan Pollard served almost 30 years in prison for sharing secrets with US ally Israel. If Ariane Tabatabai shared secrets with an avowed US enemy, the Iranian regime, an act of treason far worse than Pollard’s, she should get lifetime in prison with no possibility of parole."
Racism! Islamophobia!
Shelley G on X - "Media reports that the leaker of classified documents from the Pentagon was Ariane Tabatabai. But guess who one of Ariane's closest friends and colleagues is? Phil Gordon: Kamala Harris' National Security Advisor and the man who will direct her foreign policy if she is elected."
Noah Pollak on X - "The Biden admin at this point is just openly admitting that it's been aiding and abetting Iran's terror war on Israel by protecting Iran from Israeli retaliation. Strategically imbecilic and morally revolting. The Democrats are pro-Iran."
Jonathan Schanzer on X - "US message reported sent to Islamic Republic of Iran: If you strike again, we will not be able to restrain the Israelis as we have done in the past.
Me: this is the right message. The question is whether Khamenei is hearing it."
Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "Stop it. Every war is not caused by some Western attempt to steal Flintstones-era resources from dirt poor third world countries. States no longer fight for "limestone" and "flint.""
Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro: "Why is the US backing an Israeli attack on Lebanon? There's a materialist answer for this. To get at Lebanon's limestone resources."
"lebanon mineral resources
limestone, iron ore, salt."
Readers added context: "The United States is one of the top producers in the world for all three minerals listed."
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "WaPo: "Hezbollah has a moral compass." NYT: "Hezbollah wanted equality." AP News: "Hezbollah has charisma."
Hezbollah: *Nazi salute*"
Meme - Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn: "Lebanese people are fearful of texting their loved ones in case their phones explode. Our government's cowardly failure to call out this latest war crime is shameful. There is only one reasonable response: end all arms sales to Israel, now."
Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: "Sending my condolences. Must be so difficult for you losing so many of your friends (your words) at once"
Dr. Maalouf on X - "The female principal of a school in Lebanon bravely stands against Hezbollah terrorists who are trying to hide in a school full of children. Hezbollah are a bunch of cowards for trying to hide behind children and endangering them. F*ck Hezbollah!"
Meme - Syrian Girl @Partisangirl: "There is no better way to die than in honour and glory fighting for your homeland.
Heroic Sinjwar died fighting for his country, rifle in hand, along side all his men."
Visegrad 24 @visegrad24: "Why do you live in Australia if that is the case?"
French Senate speaker 'astounded' by Macron 'ignorance' on Israel - "The speaker of the French Senate -- the country's second most senior figure under the constitution -- said Thursday he was "astounded" by remarks attributed to Emmanuel Macron on Israel and accused the president of showing his "ignorance" of history. Macron was quoted as saying in a cabinet meeting Tuesday that Israel "must not forget" it owed its existence to a United Nations resolution after its troops fired on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon... In a blistering attack that is highly unusual from an establishment figure in France, Larcher questioned if Macron had taken account of the 1917 British Balfour Declaration, which supported the creation of a Jewish homeland, and even the Holocaust and its consequences. Netanyahu has hit back at Macron's comments, saying the country's founding was achieved by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, not a UN ruling. He also said that among those who fought for Israel in 1948 were French Jews who had been sent to death camps after being rounded up by the collaborationist Vichy regime, which governed a large part of France during the Nazi occupation in World War II. In an interview with France's Le Figaro daily published Thursday, Netanyahu accused Macron of a "distressing distortion of history" and "disrespect"."
Biden-Harris Threat against Israel Is a Moral Disgrace - "Harris can spend the closing weeks of the presidential election arguing to the pro-Hamas caucus that the administration has put Israel on notice while still claiming to supporters of Israel that no decision has been made to suspend aid... While the cynicism of the Biden and Harris posture toward Israel may have some rationale in the world of Democratic politics, it makes no sense if the goal is actually to end the current Israel–Hamas conflict, free the hostages, improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and mitigate the risks of a regional war. Preventing Israel from retaliating against Iran with sufficient force will encourage Iranians to keep sending missiles at Israel either directly or through Hezbollah, which will force Israel to respond. Threatening Israel with a suspension of military aid provides an incentive to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to dig in, reject cease-fire proposals, and further obstruct the delivery of humanitarian aid."
Thread by @Saul_Sadka on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I almost feel bad for Hezbollah. They’ve spent the 18 years since the Second Lebanon War preparing for this day. They dug bunkers and tunnels, turned bedrooms into missile silos, and mosques into fortifications. They concealed firing positions under bushes across Lebanon's hills and in the Bekaa Valley. They carefully distributed their weapons. But in those 18 years, Israel has been working too, and the technological advances in that time have vastly increased Israel's edge. What the IDF has now confirmed in this video was obvious: there’s no doubt they have centimeter-level 3D models of every building in Lebanon. On lidar maps, the entrances to all of Hezbollah's "secret" hideouts would light up like Christmas trees. It’s trivial to track changes in these maps: when a farmhouse is extended, when new tracks appear in a wood, the changes show up bright. Like the French in the 1930s, Hezbollah prepared for the last war. It turns out they’ve built a modern Maginot Line. They’re cooked. As their civilian human shields head north, leaving them exposed, Hezbollah's fighters will now be scrambling through the brush and across the hills, unable to safely use roads and with no way to contact each other. They’ll desperately try to reach whatever rockets they can, only to ineffectually fire back at Israel. But they’ll be tracked by Israel's endless eyes in the sky and eliminated along with their rockets.
The question is: Can Israel sufficiently reduce the Hezbollah threat with targeted airstrikes alone and avoid a ground incursion? In the past, this would have been impossible, even with carpet bombing. However, with the new technology available and complete air superiority, Israel may be able to keep their enemy pinned down from the air, slowly degrading them into dust.
If the Israelis do need to go in, it might be sufficient to cut off Hezbollah's heartland in the south from the Bekaa Valley, and thus from resupply from Iran, just as was done to Hamas at Rafah, sealing their demise. It might even be possible to achieve this from the air alone. Lebanon's geography makes this feasible, as it is split north-south by mountains and east-west by around 12 large canyons. There are no more than seven bridges across each canyon, and there are minimal passes through the mountains. Israel would just need to pick a river and make it impassable for Hezbollah with a few bombs. With careful monitoring, Hezbollah's southern activities would dry up and fizzle out. The Litani River probably isn’t far enough north, as it bisects Hezbollah's Shia heartlands, and parts of it are less than 10 km from Israel. Don’t be surprised if the bridges on the Awali or Damour rivers go kaboom at some point. If the Israelis do go in, it might simply be to take up positions on the very lightly populated (mostly Druze) western reaches of Mount Hermon (highlighted). Occupying those heights, with one of the valleys made impassable, would force Hezbollah's communications over a single mountain road—essentially turning it into a shooting gallery."
Joe Biden continues to betray Israel by publicly tarnishing our allies - "Washington simultaneously demanding our ally show restraint in Lebanon and Iran, and allow increased amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. In other words, Israel should raise the white flag until the American election is over. If it doesn’t, the US threatens to join France and others in imposing an arms embargo on the beleaguered Jewish state. The urge to protect Israel’s enemies is doubly bizarre when they also happen to be America’s enemies. Yet that is the impact of the positions America is taking and the demands it’s making. Notice that Biden and Harris are not making a single demand of any other party, and no one else faces ultimatums. Israel alone is being held responsible for the care and feeding of Gaza’s civilians even though Hamas uses them as human shields. Why aren’t Jordan and Egypt pushed to help care for their fellow Arabs? And in what previous war was the country that had been attacked required to risk the lives of its military to care for the enemy’s civilians? Hamas could end the war in Gaza immediately. Yet there are no White House demands for the terror group’s leaders to come out of their tunnels, surrender and release all the hostages, including the Americans still being held. Similarly, there is no demand that Hezbollah stop firing into Israel. Instead, Lebanon’s prime minister said he has “received American guarantees” that Israeli strikes in Beirut, Hezbollah’s stronghold, will be reduced, according to Al Jazeera. Neither the Arab outlet nor Israeli media say who made the guarantee, but suspicion falls on Blinken, the errand boy who has led the charge against Israel all along... Harris echoed the letter from the campaign trail, writing on X that “Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water, and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected.” She said that while planning to spend several days in Michigan, a battleground state which is home to an estimated 200,000 registered Muslim-American voters. Most reflexively vote Democrat, but anger over the war has led many to say they will stay home or vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who is Jewish and yet a harsh critic of Israel. Her running mate, Butch Ware, is a Muslim. Politics is a dirty game, but it doesn’t have to be this dirty. Not if you have a spine and any sense of America’s security and how to build trust among threatened allies. Consider that the only beneficiaries of the Biden-Harris buttinsky moves are Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran"
Weird. I looked at Antony Blinken's Wikipedia entry's "Early Life" section, but the anti-Semites were wrong