“Oct 7 2023”

The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza

In November 1967, the Indian chapter of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front organization, held the International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples in New Delhi. Gathering in the capital of India were some 150 delegates representing 55 countries and 70 international organizations from across the Third World, the socialist bloc, and the West. India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne—the biggest political stars of the Non-Aligned Movement—sent their greetings, as did heads of Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, Kuwait, and Mongolia. Chairing the proceedings was Krishna Menon, a firebrand leftist Indian intellectual and former Indian defense minister the KGB had actively cultivated in the hopes that he would rise to be the head of state.

It is often feared that individual assassinations will spiral into wars. The Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday morning just a matter of hours after Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr was killed, looked as if it might start a new spiral on the road to outright war between Israel and Iran.

Shukr was said by Israel to have been behind the, probably accidental, bombing of the children’s playground at Majdal Shams on July 27, and the Israelis went after him in retaliation inside the Beirut suburb at the heart of the Hezbollah leadership. When Haniyeh travelled to Tehran for the inauguration of the new Iranian president, the Israelis targeted him in one of the guesthouses of the presidential compound itself. It was a stunning demonstration of successful intelligence, precision assassination, and Israel’s audacity to kill him on an Iranian state occasion. It emphasised the failure of Tehran to protect itself, showing Iranian leaders just how vulnerable they all are.

Global Affairs Canada is again telling Canadians to avoid all travel to Israel, citing an unpredictable security situation due to ongoing regional conflicts.

The advisory issued Saturday says an escalation in armed conflict in Israel could affect people’s ability to leave the country on commercial flights, adding they should not rely on the Canadian government to help them evacuate.

The statement says Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as their spouses and dependent children, should make sure their travel documents are up to date in the event an evacuation is required.

Israel and Iran about to go at it?

A target, a sign of resistance, a badge of honor, a Nazi-era symbol — the inverted red triangle means many things to many people.

The upside-down triangle appeared in videos released by the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, to mark potential Israeli military targets, such as tanks, shortly after the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

The European Union as well as the United States, Germany and several other countries classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Following the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, the German interior minister outlawed all activities of the group in Germany.

The United States has sent warships and fighter jets to the Middle East as it prepares for a major Iranian attack against Israel over the assassination of Hamas’s political leader.

A US aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln is being transferred to the region to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Pentagon officials said.

It emerged on Saturday that Iran has arrested two dozen people, including intelligence officers, as it hunts down the intelligence leak which led to Israel killing Ismail Haniyeh on a visit to Tehran.

h/t DS

His high-ranking colleagues have been killed but the ‘cruel, cunning’ ideologue who masterminded the October 7 attacks has disappeared into the tunnels beneath Gaza

Of the high-value Hamas targets sought by Israel, only one remains. After the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader, and Israel’s confirmation it has killed Mohammed Deif, the military chief, Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader in Gaza, is the last man standing.

Sinwar, a veteran of the Israeli prison system, is the mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israeli communities near Gaza and a committed ideologue who had to have known, but did not care about, the horror it would visit upon the Gazan people.

Amid reports of Iran bolstering anti-Israel activists in the United States, disinformation researchers fear a similar phenomenon is unfolding across Canada.

Marcus Kolga founded DisinfoWatch in 2007 to monitor and expose state-sponsored attempts to hijack social media for malicious intents. Since the Hamas invasion of Israel last October, he’s seen a spike in such activity.

Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in three separate rooms of a building where a Hamas leader was staying, the Telegraph has learned.

The original plan was to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of the Palestinian terror group, in May when he attended the funeral of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s former president.

The operation didn’t go ahead due to the large crowds inside the building and the high possibility of its failure, two Iranian officials told The Telegraph.

At a ritzy downtown Toronto hotel last November, on one of the year’s biggest nights for Canadian literature, a pro-Palestinian campaign quite literally took centre stage.

There, during the opening minutes of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, anti-war activists stormed the ceremony. Flanking host Rick Mercer with signs reading, “Scotiabank funds genocide,” the protesters called out the award’s title sponsor for its multi-million-dollar holdings in a controversial Israeli arms manufacturer. Then, as quickly as they arrived, the activists were escorted out of the star-studded ballroom by police and later charged. It was an event that marked the beginning of an ongoing movement led by pro-Palestinian activists that has upended the Canadian arts scene, with the goal of pressuring cultural organizations to distance themselves from corporations that they say are tied to the Israeli war effort.

Professions of ironclad support by America and Britain at this dark hour for the Jewish state are humbug.

At time of writing, Israelis are bracing for a possible direct and multi-front attack by Iran.

Following Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah chief of staff Fuad Shukr and the even more spectacular assassination in Tehran itself of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly in retaliation.

If this takes place, it may take a terrible toll of Israeli civilians. Nevertheless, Iran will be the loser because Israel will use those high casualty numbers to launch an all-out war against this genocidal enemy.