The call is for ONE MILLION Plus Arabs to get up and leave?
The threat is that Israel wants to seek out terrorists, hostages and make sure an attack like happened almost a week ago does not occur again….
There are also images of Arabs being treated for injuries along with those image of Israeli atrocities ….
One doubts that Isreal is gonna be able to push that many people out of their homes and country.…
The United State’s and Jordan are NOT happy with the demand….
Egypt has closed it’s borders , as has Jordan, which already has Palestinians that immigrated there back when ….
Israel is watching Lebanon and has done limited artillery strikes there…
The US State Dept is working to get ferry flights into Israel to get Americans out of the country …..
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Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, held an hourslong online meeting in March with an elite group of strategists from all the Iran-backed militias and told them to get ready for a war with Israel with a scope and reach — including a ground invasion — that would mark a new era, according to two participants from Iran and Syria. The participants spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the meeting.
There are conflicting accounts of whether these activities were leading specifically toward last week’s attack by Hamas, which left 1,200 Israelis dead and shattered the country’s sense of security.
Some people familiar with the operation said that a tight circle of leaders from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas helped plan the attack starting over a year ago, trained militants and had advanced knowledge of it. That account is based on interviews with three Iranians affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, one Iranian connected to senior leadership and a Syrian affiliated with Hezbollah.
Other people say they believe Iran had some involvement but it was not as deep. “The implementation was all Hamas, but we do not deny Iran’s help and support,” said Ali Barakeh, a senior Hamas official based in Beirut….
Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel’s high-tech “Iron Wall” and launched an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal.
A slickly produced two-minute propaganda video posted to social media by Hamas on Sept. 12 shows fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted paper targets.
The Islamic militant group’s live-fire exercise dubbed operation “Strong Pillar” also had militants in body armor and combat fatigues carrying out operations that included the destruction of mock-ups of the wall’s concrete towers and a communications antenna, just as they would do for real in the deadly attack last Saturday….
New York Times: “Not long ago, Donald Trump occupied enormous psychological space in Israel and among American Jews: His face draped skyscrapers alongside Benjamin Netanyahu’s during Israeli elections, and his politics drove a wedge between the Democratic Party and the Jews who have long called it their political home.”
“But it is President Biden’s face that now beams from a billboard over the main highway through Tel Aviv, and Mr. Trump’s criticism of Israel’s leaders that has left even Israeli conservatives stunned.”
Donald Trump vs President Biden and Foreign Affairs /Israel…..
“He’s a fool. Only a fool would make those kinds of comments,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has rooted his campaign in criticizing Trump’s suitability for office, told CNN.
“Only a fool would give comments that could give aid and comfort to Israel’s adversary in this situation,” Christie continued. “This is someone who cares, not about the American people, not about the people of Israel, but he cares about one person and one person only, the person he sees in the mirror when he wakes up in the morning.”
The former president tried to defuse the growing controversy on Thursday evening, releasing a statement in which he insisted that “there was no better friend or ally of Israel” than him. He accused President Joe Biden of weakness and incompetence. “With President Trump back in office, Israel, and everyone else, will be safe again!” he said.
Trump’s original grievance-based analysis reflects a transactional, unorthodox approach to foreign policy that often prioritizes his own personal goals over a standard understanding of the national interest. It also highlighted a contrast with his potential 2024 election opponent. Biden reacted to the attack by using all of the tools of traditional statesmanship, including rhetoric, personal behind-the-scenes contacts with key foreign leaders and by mobilizing allies. Like Trump, Biden has had a personal and political beef with Netanyahu – but shelved his differences with him weeks before the attack and has been in constant contact with the prime minister since it occurred.
Biden is seeking to strike a balance. He has shown the most ardent support for Israel of any recent US president and acknowledged its desire to retaliate and reestablish its sense of security after the most shocking penetration of its borders and national psyche in 50 years. But Biden is also sending private and public signals to Netanyahu that Israel’s response should not infringe the laws of war and that he should consider the humanitarian consequences of an invasion of Gaza, as he seeks to prevent the war escalating into a dangerous regional conflict that could draw in the US….
Jordan warns against Israel exporting Palestinians to other countries…
Jordianian King Abdullah II warned Secretary of State Tony Blinken in their meeting in Amman on Friday against any Israeli attempt to “forcibly displace Palestinians from all Palestinian Territories or cause their internal displacement,” the Hashemite court said in a statement.
Why it matters: The King’s harsh statement underscores Jordan’s anxiety about the war in Gaza and concern that escalating tension in the occupied West Bank could lead to a flow of Palestinian refugees to Jordan.
- The majority of Jordan’s population is Palestinian. There have been in recent days mass protests in Jordan in favor of Hamas and the people of Gaza.
Flashback: During the 1948 war between Israel and several Arab countries, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees either fled or were forcibly displaced by the Israeli military.
- A second, but smaller wave, of Palestinian refugees fled the West Bank during the 1967 war between Israel and the Arab countries.
- Most of the Palestinian refugees in these two waves ended up in Jordan and some still live in refugee camps there…
Ex-President Donald J.Trump does a U-TURN on Netanyahu and Israel…..
Trump Flip Flops on Netanyahu
After criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and praising Hezbollah — earlier this week, Donald Trump posts to Truth Social: “I stand with Israel. I stand with Bibi.”
I am guessing his daughter and son-in law threatened to testify against him.
If Israel didn’t have a wartime unity government that needs American support, I’d expect the ideologically-fanatic Zionist settlers to try occupy the streets, homes and buildings of northern Gaza, claiming a mandate from God and (without a sense of irony) screaming “Never Again !”
There have not been any Zionist settlers in Gaza in over 18 years. Perhaps you forgot seeing them leave on television back then.
And they would be ran over and spit out….
Bibi IS playing to Right Wing Nuts who ALWAYS wanted to get rid of the Palestinians
This thing is gonna turn out REAL BAD in the end…..I can just feel it….
I literally cannot believe you actually just made that post.
I DID….
It IS ALREADY BAD….
It WILL get Worst before it gets Better…..
A pair of classified C.I.A. intelligence reports issued in the days ahead of a major Hamas attack on Israel warned about a potential escalation in violence but did not predict the complex, multipronged attack that Hamas gunmen launched against Israel days later, according to U.S. officials.
The first of the intelligence reports, dated Sept. 28, described the possibility that Hamas would launch rockets into Israel over a period of several days.
The second report, dated Oct. 5, built on the first but was more analytical….
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Several U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, described the reports as routine, and similar to other intelligence reports about the possibility of Palestinian violence that were written throughout the year….
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The White House said Thursday there are no plans for U.S. troops to travel to Israel for combat. With 17 Americans missing and possibly among Hamas’ captives, the Pentagon has sent a small cell of special operations forces to help with intelligence and planning. However, those troops won’t be directly involved in hostage rescue operations….
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Some of the over One Million in North Gaza ARE leaving the area….
The unprecedented Israeli evacuation order, delivered Friday by fliers, voice messages and on social media, has set off a desperate and chaotic scramble across this besieged territory. Israel has dropped more than 6,000 bombs on Gaza since Saturday, and they are still falling, even as hundreds of thousands of people try to move south….
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Religious right groups on social media are happy as pigs in slop right now thinking that Israel is going to fulfill some biblical prophecy that leads to world destruction.
They’re going to be so disappointed when the world doesn’t end yet again.
And it won’t…..
We humans are just being normal…..
I hope James will let us know if anyone reports a scarlet whore or a seven-horned beast…
On the other hand, the Apocalypse (after World War I, the Easter Rising and Spanish flu in 1919) is the theme behind the Yeats poem I quoted earlier (“Things fall apart/The centre cannot hold..” from The Second Coming}
“…Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming!…
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
[P.S. That’s the allusion in Joan Didion’s book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem]
See (inter alia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
Yeah and all the Jews go straight to Hell!
I mean with friends like these…..
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in today’s New York Times. I agree with most of it, but CG and much of the BDS movement might not:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/israel-gaza-united-nations.html