The IDF stated on Sunday that they can neither confirm nor deny reports on the possible death of Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar.
Among sources consulted by The Jerusalem Post, a top source poured cold water on the notion, another source – who would be expected to have information – said they had no real information on it, while others noted disagreements within the defense establishment.
Each of the pagers that exploded on their Hezbollah owners across Lebanon on Tuesday, injuring thousands of the terror group’s operatives, was individually detonated, with the attackers knowing who was being targeted, where he was, and whether others were in close proximity, Channel 12 claims.
In a lengthy report quoting Israeli and foreign sources, the TV channel says those behind the attack were determined to ensure that only the person carrying the pager would be hurt by the blast.
h/t Mauser
As the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 pogrom in southern Israel approaches, Jewish communities feel mounting dread, imagining the nefarious ways in which our enemies may choose to “commemorate” it.
Earlier this month, a Pakistani man in Canada on a student visa was intercepted near the U.S. border, allegedly en route to New York with a “stated goal of slaughtering, in the name of ISIS, as many Jewish people as possible,” according to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
This was not a Palestinian, or someone affiliated with Hamas — just some random antisemitic Islamist eagerly answering the call to “globalize the intefadeh” on what jihadists consider a glorious anniversary. How many others are out there who aren’t under RCMP surveillance? It’s rational to wonder.
Faint hope is better than none.
The two principal foreign and strategic crises of this year, Ukraine and Israel, the federal government has a defensible record on the first but not on the second. In both cases it appears to be motivated entirely by domestic political equations without a glance at strategic requirements, let alone the course of national honour. For a country where Prime Ministers Chrétien, Harper, and Justin Trudeau have allowed our military capabilities to atrophy so badly that the chief assurance of our national security is to keep the telephone number of the Pentagon constantly at hand when we need the Americans to protect us, this government’s policy toward the Gaza war, in addition to being completely mistaken, is also extremely pompous. (Paul Martin wanted to explore the possibilities of Canada taking responsibility for its own defense, but his government was defeated before he could get to grips with this issue; the fact that he even thought of it should not be forgotten.)
Though Iran is not-yet-nuclear, an asymmetrical nuclear war with Israel is still possible. Even a conventional war in the region could elicit calibrated nuclear operations by Israel. Any such unprecedented war scenario is most worrisome in circumstances wherein Iran would target Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor and/or employ radiation dispersal weapons against the Jewish State. Similarly, unique escalations could follow in the wake of an Iranian resort to biological or electromagnetic pulse (EMP) ordnance.
Who knows know what the Mullahs think about a nuclear war but naming a missile “Death to Israel” is likely a broad hint.
US President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff, one-word answer — “no”— to the question of whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was doing enough to free Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity and get a cease-fire, will only encourage Hamas to up its demands and refuse to agree to a reasonable deal. So far, it appears as if Hamas, instead of negotiating, has just been saying, “no.” The US is reportedly no longer expecting a ceasefire before the November 5 US presidential election.
Biden’s remark sends a dangerous message to Israel’s and America’s enemies that, by continuing to terrorize and hold hostages, they can turn the Biden administration against Israel.
Lebanon was once so accustomed to the sounds of war that its parrots learned how to imitate the whistle of incoming shells.
An African Grey called Coco, which inhabited the lobby of Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, was so good at making the noise that unwitting guests would fling themselves under tables to take cover.
Lebanon’s civil war ended 34 years ago and with it the days when the Commodore’s deadpan receptionist asked new arrivals if they preferred a room “on the car bomb side or the rocket side” of the hotel.
Hezbollah’s terrorism targets civilians.
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians spent their night hiding in bomb shelters, while barrages of rockets were flying over their heads, some hitting their homes, and rocket alert sirens were constantly sounding throughout the night.… pic.twitter.com/2XzgAQQ7Fp
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 22, 2024
Government MPs presented a motion to study Palestinian statehood at committee, sources say
Liberal MPs presented a motion to study a path toward recognizing Palestinian statehood on Thursday, CBC News has learned.
The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said.
CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
Middle-school students forced to take part in a political protest this week were allegedly asked by teachers to wear blue shirts in order to identify them as “settlers” and “colonizers.”
DEI subscribers really are the new Nazis.
Founded in 1982, the Lebanese paramilitary group now claims to have 100,000 fighters — and has formed an uneasy partnership with Hamas against its old foe Israel
A senior Hezbollah figure was walking along a quiet Damascus street one February evening after dinner in 2008 when a bomb planted in a spare tyre on the back of an SUV exploded.
Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s international operations chief, was killed in the burst of shrapnel. It emerged that the CIA had built the bomb. Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence agency, triggered it remotely from Tel Aviv.
Mughniyah was on the “hit list” for his role in a bombing on the American embassy in Beirut, in 1983.
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty said on September 18 that his country will never accept any Israeli security presence at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. “Abdelatty asserted that Egypt maintains complete opposition to any military presence at the [Rafah border] crossing or the Philadelphi Corridor [between Egypt and the Gaza Strip],” according to Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper.
Canada’s Jewish community is condemning an offer from the Palestinian Authority to teach its curriculum to children who recently arrived in Canada from Gaza, calling it “unacceptable” and “blatantly inappropriate.”
The citizens of western states have been viciously abused by the elites who encouraged Islamist immigration.
Mass deportations are called for and they should included the elites who advocated for Muslim immigration.
On Wednesday, secondary students from the Toronto District School Board were taken on a field trip to the Grassy Narrows River Run, near Kenora, Ont. The event was communicated to parents as an educational opportunity for the students to learn about the issue of mercury contamination affecting the First Nation. The permission slip sent home stated that, “while at the event, students will not be participating in the rally itself; instead, they will observe and learn from the presentations and discussions.”
In April 1983, a truck loaded with 2,000lb of explosives sped through the gate to the US embassy in Beirut and struck the building.
The blast turned the embassy into rubble and killed 63 people, including 52 American and Lebanese employees.
One of the men behind it was Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah commander with a $7m US bounty on his head, who was allegedly killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday.
After thousands of pagers and radio devices exploded in two separate incidents in Lebanon – injuring thousands of people and killing at least 37 – details are still being pieced together as to how such an operation was carried out.
Lebanon and Hezbollah, whose members and communication systems were targeted, have blamed Israel – though Israel is yet to comment.
The inter net wins again.
This pager meme is gold pic.twitter.com/0E4BsQ2dZE
— Dailymindvirus (@dailymindvirus) September 17, 2024
