COMMENTARY / OPINION
How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran? By Kenneth R. Timmerman
October 22, 2024 American Thinker
The leak of high-classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Iranian regime last week has triggered a much-needed counter-intelligence investigation to identify the source — either a mole who has betrayed their country, or a cyber-hack.
The documents, which bore Top Secret/NOFORN and compartmented intelligence headers, described U.S. satellite spying on Israeli airfields as the IDF conducted exercises believed to foreshadow a massive airstrike on Iran.
The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
While the possibility exists that the materials were hacked from the highly-protected SIPRNET, the government’s internal data base of highly-classified materials, there have been no public reports of any hacks of the SIPRNET by external actors.
Insiders, including former Army Private Bradley Manning and NSA contractor Edgar Snowden, have divulged reams of material from U.S. government classified holdings, but the government accused both of them of espionage, not hacking.
Last year, the Justice Department arrested a 21-year-old National Guard employee in Massachusetts in connection with the leak of more than fifty Pentagon documents, many of them classified, to a social media platform called Discord.
Those documents included U.S. assessments of the war in Ukraine, reports of Mossad disaffection with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and intelligence reports on Iran’s negotiating strategy with the International Atomic Energy Agency, all of them embarrassing to the United States.
In the fall of 2022, Department of Justice investigators uncovered at least ten classified documents in Joe Biden’s private office that included intelligence memos and briefing materials on Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom. Biden was never prosecuted for the security breach, even though most of the documents dated from his tenure as a U.S. senator, when he had no authority to take classified documents out of secure facilities where lawmakers can consult them.
Far more damaging for the United States, and of potential relevance in this latest leak of U.S. classified information to Iran, is the Iran Experts Initiative, an effort spearheaded by the Iranian Foreign Minister to lobby on behalf of the Iranian regime in the West.
Among the prominent members of the initiative was Ariane Tabatabai, who worked under former U.S. envoy for Iran Robert Malley, and today continues to have a Top Secret security clearance as chief of staff for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.
As I reveal in my new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, Ms. Tabatabai was not only involved in the Iranian government operation “to expand Tehran’s soft power in the United States,” but would email Iranian foreign minister Javad-Zarif seeking policy guidance.
She was also close to Philip Gordon, the national security advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris who has been touted as a potential secretary of state under a Harris-Walz administration. The two co-authored several op-eds arguing for better ties between the United States and the Islamic regime in Iran.
President Biden is himself a long-time supporter of closer ties with Tehran. Just weeks after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on America, Biden said “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” according to Politico.
And as I report in my book, he made similar comments a year later at a fundraiser hosted by a pro-Tehran lobbying group in Washington, D.C., that better ties with Tehran were “in the naked self-interest of the United States of America.”
A pro-Tehran culture permeates the Biden-Harris administration. It starts with the onboarding of senior Obama-Biden officials who were involved in negotiating the failed 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, including current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Iran negotiator Robert Malley, who has since been placed on an extended leave of absence by the Department of State for allegedly mishandling classified information that ultimately leaked to media outlets in Iran.
But it is far worse than that. As I reveal in The Iran House, a senior advisor to the Biden presidential campaign in August 2019 contacted Iranian foreign minister Javad-Zarif, requesting that the Iranian regime “do the same thing in Baghdad that you did with our embassy in Tehran” in 1979.
In plain English, the Biden advisor was asking the Iranian regime to take U.S. diplomats hostage, in order to create an “October Surprise” they believed would undermine President Trump’s 2020 re-election effort.
Americans will be shocked when they learn the full extent of the Biden-Iran file. This latest leak of classified documents to Tehran was not the first breach of U.S. security by senior Democrat party officials. Nor will it be the last.
The most shocking part about it may be that the administration wanted to tip off the Iranians to the Israeli military preparations. They just didn’t want that tip-off to become public.
Why Hidden Algorithms in State Board of Election Voter Rolls Disqualifies Certification By Jerome R. Corsi, Andrew Paquette
October 25, 2024 American Thinker
… “Conclusion: The finding of an algorithm in a SBOE voter registration database should be sufficient evidence to contaminate the use of that SBOE voter registration database to certify any election, opening up challenges by candidate demanding proof they were defeated by the voters, not by the algorithms.”
Those who want to diminish the importance of finding cryptographic algorithms embedded in state boards of election (SBOE) voter registration databases typically demand proof the algorithms have resulted in fraudulent votes or suggest that legitimate purposes can explain the algorithms. However, they’re focusing on the wrong things.
This article argues that cryptographic algorithms in SBOE voter registration databases may violate state and federal laws, potentially indicating improper practices or even criminal activity. Election officials who fail to investigate and address unauthorized algorithms once discovered could risk civil and possibly criminal liabilities, depending on specific circumstances and applicable laws.
Consider the following legal requirements that secretly embedded algorithms appear to violate:
- The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires states to implement a computerized statewide voter registration list that is uniform and nondiscriminatory. The algorithmic structure would lack the required uniformity and may be discriminatory if used to treat certain voters differently. Specifically, Section 303(a)(4) requires that voter registration records be maintained in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner. If the algorithm is used to tag or treat certain records differently, this could be problematic.
- On September 16, 2024, attorney Thomas W. Connors of Mendenhall Law Group, Akron, reported to the Ohio SBOE about an algorithm found in the Ohio voter registration database:
Dr. Paquette’s initial review of the Ohio voter rolls, attached, shows that voter identification numbers in certain counties are assigned by an algorithm that permits a hidden means of tracking voter registrations. His work, while preliminary and not comprehensive, is consistent with his extensive review of the New York voter rolls that showed an algorithm that also permitted such tracking, which his analysis showed was tied to false registrations. This hidden tracking structure effectively functions as a third ID number in New York and appears to present a significant election system risk. It also appears to violate the requirements of the Help America Vote Act and related Ohio statute which provide that all election officials be able to obtain immediate access to the information contained in statewide voter registration lists.
- The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) mandates accurate maintenance of voter registration lists. In New York, Voter ID numbers were apparently assigned to known purged records, contradicting the NVRA’s core principle of maintaining accurate eligible voter lists. The NVRA requires removing ineligible voters, not retaining them as ‘purged’ with new IDs. This practice risks accidental reactivation and compromises voter roll integrity. While not explicitly prohibited, it potentially violates Section 8’s spirit, which requires states to remove ineligible voters from official lists. Retaining purged records with new IDs, instead of removing them, undermines the Act’s goal of list accuracy and creates potential for errors.
- The 2021 New York State Election Law contains several relevant sections. Section 5-614 outlines requirements for the statewide voter registration list. Section 3-103 mandates minimum standards for computerized record keeping systems, including ‘system access and security, the format and content of the data to be recorded and stored.’ A hidden algorithm structuring voter IDs might not align with these standards, particularly regarding data format and content. Moreover, the state-level implementation of this algorithm may conflict with NY Codes, Rules and Regulations Title 9, Subtitle V, §6217.1, which gives County Boards of Elections ‘sole responsibility for adding, changing, canceling, or removing’ voter records. Section 3-103 also limits the use of voter registration information to election purposes, which could be relevant if the algorithm’s purpose extends beyond election administration.
The following considerations mitigate against the likelihood that cryptographic algorithms found in SBOE voter registration databases have legitimate explanations:
- Simplicity and Efficiency: The preferred approach is to keep the process simple and efficient when dealing with ID number assignments. Using a complex algorithm adds unnecessary complexity to the system, making it more difficult to understand, maintain, and troubleshoot.
- Transparency: Voter rolls are public records, and the process of assigning ID numbers should be transparent and easily understandable. Applying a complex algorithm that obscures the relationship between the County ID (CID) and State Board of Elections ID (SBOEID) numbers goes against the principle of transparency and can raise questions about the intentions behind such an approach.
- Scalability and Performance: Complex algorithms can be computationally intensive and may impact the scalability and performance of the system, especially when dealing with large datasets like voter rolls. Simpler mapping techniques, such as sequential assignment or straightforward hashing, are typically more efficient and scalable.
- Maintainability and Futureproofing: Implementing a complex algorithm ties the system to that specific approach, making it harder to modify or update in the future. It can also make it challenging for new developers or administrators to understand and work with the system, leading to increased maintenance costs and potential errors.
The following factors suggest that the placing and maintenance of complex cryptographic algorithms in SBOE voter registration databases may indicate serious irregularities or potential legal violations:
- Deviation from Best Practices: Using such a complex algorithm for mapping CID to SBOEID numbers in voter rolls significantly deviates from established best practices in election management and IT in general. Best practices prioritize simplicity, transparency, efficiency, and adherence to industry standards, none of which are apparent in cryptographic algorithms found in New York, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.
- Lack of Justification: Given the context of public voter rolls and the requirements for transparency and accessibility, there seems to be no clear and justifiable reason for employing such complex and obscure algorithms. The complexity appears unnecessary and counterproductive to the goals of maintaining accurate and transparent voter records.
- Potential for Misuse: The opaque nature of the algorithm raises concerns about its potential for misuse. The lack of transparency and the difficulty in understanding the algorithm’s workings could be exploited to manipulate or obfuscate data, intentionally or unintentionally. These obfuscations are particularly concerning in the context of sensitive voter information.
- Absence of Precedent: Using a highly complex algorithm in the context of voter rolls lacks precedent or justification in existing state and federal election laws. Standard practices in election management and public records handling do not typically involve such intricate and obscure algorithms, further suggesting that its purpose may not be entirely legitimate.
- Inconsistency with Public Records Laws: Public records laws generally emphasize the need for transparency, accessibility, and ease of understanding. The use of the Spiral algorithm appears inconsistent with these principles, as it obscures the relationship between CID and SBOEID numbers and makes the data more difficult to interpret and work with.
Dr. Paquette continues to uncover complex algorithms in various state voter ID systems. These intelligence-grade cryptographic methods share three key characteristics: 1) they segregate voter data, 2) they conceal their operational methods, and 3) they add hidden attributes to voter records. The algorithms obscure straightforward relationships between IDs and registration dates through multi-stage processes and intricate mathematical schemes. The sophistication and opacity of these expensive-to-implement systems suggest a purpose beyond normal administrative needs.
Conclusion: The finding of an algorithm in a SBOE voter registration database should be sufficient evidence to contaminate the use of that SBOE voter registration database to certify any election, opening up challenges by candidate demanding proof they were defeated by the voters, not by the algorithms.
Please check GodsFiveStones.com for a more comprehensive listing of up-to-date reports on the investigations of Drs. Paquette and Corsi into the algorithms embedded in state official voter registration databases.
The New Marxist on the Block and His Pernicious Gospel of ‘Degrowth‘ By Janet Levy
October 24, 2024 American Thinker
A deluded, muddleheaded intellectual of the far Left has gained traction over the last four years. His name is Kohei Saito, and he declares rather blithely that “capitalism is dead” and that “degrowth communism” – a term of his coinage—is the future.
It would be easy to dismiss him as a Quixote or a crank. But raising the bogey of an ecological crisis to push for a global slowdown – in terms of population, economy, production, pollution, everything – is an old ruse of academics, industry, governments, and their elite controllers who aim to establish a new world order. And that is why Saito’s popularity – despite his vague pronouncements, often wrapped in dense theory – is worrisome.
Magazines across the political spectrum, including avowedly radical ones, have panned Saito’s ideas: the New Yorker, reviewing one of his books and sketching a brief profile of him, takes an aloof, skeptical view; the Atlantic dismisses his theory as “economically dubious and politically impossible;” the Jacobin says he is not only incorrect, he spells disaster for the left and the environmental movement; and Counterfire declares that he “misunderstands” Marx.
Yet this unlikely Marxist philosopher from Japan, aged 37, is becoming influential among young leftists enamored with the hodgepodge of eco, equity, and woke activism. He is a product of the disenchantment with economic prosperity and concern for the environment felt by many young Japanese after the 2008 economic crisis and the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Attracted to Marxism in college, he made an academic career of it, focusing on Marx’s late, unpublished writing – notebooks, mainly.
Were it not for his surprise bestselling books, Saito would have remained obscure. But Capital in the Anthropocene (in Japanese, 2020), its English translation Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (2024), and Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (2023) – catapulted him to fame, first among Japanese youth, then worldwide.
Saito’s big claim – that Marx in his later years became an eco-socialist, even before the term was invented – came in his 2017 work Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism. The claim has been debunked by many Marxist theoreticians, and yet is catalyzing the current degrowth movement. The book is replete with ludicrous passages such as the following:
For example, the form of a desk that labor provides to the “natural substance” of wood is “external” to the original substance because it does not follow the “immanent law of reproduction.”
Perhaps it takes sufficient Marxist brainwashing for such writing to spark green epiphanies in those swearing by Saito, who wants to end “mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste.” In short, he wants almost all economic activity to stop, and envisions a utopia where people minimize needs and communes own and control production with an undefined authority dictating how much is enough.
Be that as it may, the degrowth strategy for establishing a new world order dates to the late 1960s, and has insidiously gained influence over the decades to create the present milieu of fear in which the extremes of Saito’s propositions are taken seriously. It was in 1968 that the Club of Rome, a restricted society of elites, was formed to create a framework for a new world order that would overcome global problems, including environmental ones, inherent in prosperous economies. That began the assault on the benign ethos of capitalism, innovation, and freedom.
The Limits to Growth, a 1972 report commissioned by the club, concluded that in a hundred years the world would run out of resources. But the report failed to consider behavioral changes over time and the ability of the human spirit of innovation to find numerous solutions that would together forestall the doomsday prediction.
The report came in the wake of Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich’s alarmist book The Population Bomb (1968), which warned that by the 1970s, overpopulation would cause worldwide famine, social unrest, and pandemics. The Ehrlichs suggested bringing the population growth rate to zero, or even a negative value, through draconian measures. Today’s degrowth/zero growth movement seeks to apply similar strictures across the board to control all aspects of the economy and human life.
The Agenda 21 and Agenda 30 action plans, introduced by the United Nations in 1992 and 2015 respectively, took those ideas forward. Introduced as a “comprehensive blueprint for the reorganization of human society,” they went on to integrate social justice considerations, net zero emission, and other impossible goals. Looming environmental crises of severe proportions were presented to justify government intrusion and control.
The Great Reset, advanced by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is another iteration of this idea. In this effort, big corporations have allied with governments to actively lobby for regulations that will cripple small companies, kill competition and grassroots innovation, centralize trade, redistribute manufacturing, wealth, and jobs across national borders, and restrict the use of natural resources. Its elite proponents, who hope for ultimate control over people, claim this will transform capitalism, creating a kind of corporate socialism in which “you will own nothing, and you will be happy.”
Saito, though, is so far left that he distrusts the United Nations; he also distrusts purported efforts to transform capitalism. A measure of his confusion and chimerical idea-mongering comes across in this exchange with the Atlantic. Degrowth on its own, he told the magazine, had bad branding (a thoroughly capitalistic concept, please note!), so the solution was to add “another very negative term: communism.” And a measure of his acuity is evident in how “degrowth communism” has caught on with leftist, anarchist, and woke movements on campuses and elsewhere.
Conservative author and political commentator James Lindsay pointedly declares in one of his recent New Discourses podcasts that degrowth is communism and a death cult. Degrowth calls for the acceptance of lower GDP, fewer material goods, and lower standards of living under a planned and controlled economy.
It demands a lowering of our expectations for quality of life so that – ostensibly – the planet can be saved and we can have greater “abundance” as defined by more quality and a oneness with nature in place of capitalism’s intrinsically impoverished abundance of commodities. In the New Yorker piece, Saito makes a point about not buying “fundamentally useless things.” It is, of course, entirely irrelevant that his family of four lives in a three-story house in Greater Tokyo!
Lindsay views the degrowth movement as a planned elimination of “unsustainable” Western economies that will generate less energy, decrease food production, and ultimately reduce the population. He says this is impossible, for one cannot have high standards of living with low energy production. The reality of this utopian fantasy, he says, is “starving while you freeze to death in the dark.”
The actual goal of degrowth is, of course, to achieve communist authoritarianism: the end of free markets, individual liberty, and free will. As Lindsay says, it’s “a strategy to break the West economically and force it into communist policy using environment concerns as the justification.”
And that is why soft-spoken, self-deprecating Saito – muddleheaded as he is – and his ideas – amalgamated as they are with communism now – are both dangerous. For a taste of his writing, three of his books are available for reading, quite appropriately, on an anarchist website.
Why don’t they want Israel to win? Moshe Phillips
This isn’t the first time that the United States has tried to stop the success of the Israel Defense Forces. It happened in 1973, too.
October 22, 2024 ISRAPUNDIT – U.S. President Richard Nixon, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 1973. Credit: Oliver F. Atkins Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Right on cue, as soon as Israel began striking at Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Biden administration and the government of France rushed to demand a “ceasefire.”
And where did those demands for a ceasefire lead? Hezbollah became emboldened. This past Shabbat during the Sukkot holiday, Hezbollah succeeded in using a drone to attack the Caesarea private residence of the Netanyahu family. The attack cracked glass in a bedroom window.
Why didn’t the United States and France push for a ceasefire during the previous 11 months, when Hezbollah had been firing rockets at Israel on an almost daily basis?
The answer is that “ceasefire” actually means that only Israel should end its military actions. Apparently, when Arabs fire at Israelis, that’s to be expected; when Israel fires back, it’s “escalation” and must cease—immediately! Where are the calls for Hezbollah to stop firing at the Netanyahu home?
In the eyes of the Biden administration, there’s nothing worse than “escalation.” That’s what administration spokespeople say constantly. But in truth, there is something worse than escalation: allowing terrorist organizations to exist.
Hezbollah has murdered hundreds of Americans and Israelis. The Biden administration should be encouraging Israel and thanking its military for doing to Hezbollah what the United States itself should have done long ago. Instead, Biden is once again delaying or denying vital arms shipments that Israel desperately needs to defend itself. That’s outrageous.
The Biden administration has been doing the same thing in Gaza. For months, it has been demanding a “ceasefire,” meaning Israel should stop firing at Hamas. What’s so wrong about this is that Biden’s team knows full well that Hamas has never honored a ceasefire it agreed to.
Thousands of Hamas terrorists are still alive. So are some of Hamas’s top leaders. To cease firing at them now means allowing Hamas to regroup, rearm, and soon retake control of Gaza, so that it can start planning its next Oct. 7.
It’s obvious that the Biden administration does not want Israel to win. Instead, it wants whatever set of conditions will create temporary quiet and win votes in Michigan, regardless of what that will mean for Israel in a few weeks or months. An Israeli victory means that Arab-American voters will be angry at his party. Sadly, it appears to be that simple.
This isn’t the first time that the United States has tried to stop Israel from winning. It happened in 1973, too.
Henry Kissinger was secretary of state. Egypt and Syria were preparing to invade Israel. We know what occurred on the eve of the war, and the days to follow, from three reliable sources: Walter Isaacson’s definitive biography, Kissinger; the book The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger by Matti Golan, longtime chief diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz; and David Makovsky, formerly an Obama administration Middle East envoy.
On Yom Kippur morning, hours before the 1973 Arab invasion, Prime Minister Golda Meir was informed by her military intelligence officials that Egypt and Syria were massing their troops along Israel’s borders and would attack later that day. The Israelis immediately contacted Kissinger.
Matti Golan recounts what happened next: “Till the very outbreak of the fighting, Kissinger remained more concerned with the possibility of an Israeli preemptive strike than an Egyptian-Syrian attack.” Kissinger instructed the U.S. ambassador in Israel to present Meir with “a presidential entreaty”—that is, a warning, in the name of President Richard Nixon—“not to start a war” (p. 41).
Abba Eban, who was foreign minister at the time, confirmed in his autobiography that Israeli Army Chief of Staff David Elazar proposed a pre-emptive strike—but Prime Minister Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan rejected it on the grounds that “the United States would regard this as provocative” (p. 509).
As soon as the Arabs attacked, the Israelis requested a U.S. airlift of military supplies. Kissinger stalled them—for an entire brutal week. Kissinger’s strategy was to orchestrate “a limited Egyptian victory,” Makovsky wrote in The Jerusalem Post in 1993. The secretary of state feared that an Israeli victory “would cause Israel to strengthen its resolve not to make any territorial concessions in Sinai.”
“Kissinger opposed giving [Israel] major support that could make its victory too one-sided,” Isaacson confirms. Kissinger told Defense Secretary James Schlesinger that “The best result would be if Israel came out a little ahead but got bloodied in the process” (p. 514).
A “little bloodied”? Try 2,656 dead Israeli soldiers.
Kissinger’s pressure on Israel in 1973 undermined and endangered America’s only real ally in the Mideast. Biden’s pressure on Israel today is equally objectionable. And it’s a recipe for disaster for both countries. Because unless Israel defeats Hamas and Hezbollah, the terrorists inevitably will rise up again and murder more Americans and Israelis.
Moshe Phillips is national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group.
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The Death of Yahya Sinwar and the Collapse of Hamas BY HUGH FITZGERALD
OCT 23, 2024 4:00 PM JIHAD WATCH – Professor John Spencer of West Point, who studies urban warfare, has famously concluded from his study of the IDF that “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires.” Now he has delivered himself of some thoughts on the death of Yahya Sinwar and how Hamas is now at the breaking point, More on his animadversions can be found here: “What Yayha [sic] Sinwar’s Death Revealed About Hamas’s Waning Capabilities | Opinion,” by John Spencer, Newsweek, October 20, 2024:
Last week, in a surprising chance contact, Israeli forces eliminated the leader of Hamas and the mastermind of the October 7 massacre, Yayha Sinwar. Like the death of Osama bin Laden 10 years after 9-11, Sinwar’s death gives strategic closure to many people in Israel; Sinwar was the mastermind and commander of the deadliest massacre against Jews since the Holocaust, and the atrocities of October 7 caused deep psychological trauma for Jews, along with a loss of personal security that will be felt for a long time. The closure Sinwar’s death provides Israeli’s population is important for their moving forward and healing as a nation.
But there’s also poetic justice in the facts surrounding who killed Sinwar, when, and where. Sinwar was not killed by Israeli Special Forces acting on information collected by their elite intelligence organizations. He was killed by regular Israeli soldiers with tanks from the IDF’s Gaza division. It was the same division that collapsed on October 7. Videos and photos of their tanks and crews pillaged, burned, and desecrated were spread by so called journalists who travelled with Hamas on their massacre. The soldiers that killed Sinwar were also from the same unit that accidentally killed three Israeli hostages in Norther Gaza nine months ago.
Sinwar was also killed on the first day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a seven-day festival period during which Jews recall the days when the Israelites lived in huts (sukkot) during their years after the Exodus from Egypt. Sinwar initiated the October 7 massacre on the last day of Sukkot last year.
Then there’s the fact that Sinwar was killed in the city of Rafah in Southern Gaza. Israel’s government had to overrule the strong objections and threats of the international community to move into Rafah, yet that is where six Israeli hostages were found after they were brutally murdered last month. Over 100 cross-border tunnels being used to arm and supply Hamas were also found there.
But the details of Sinwar’s death also tell us a lot about the state of Hamas. Much like when U.S. forces discovered Saddam Hussein cowering in a hole, the myth about Sinwar has been busted. He was not found looking defiant and capable, surrounded by an elite bodyguard force in one of the luxury bunkers discovered in areas of Gaza like Khan Yunis. Sinwar was killed looking desperate, dirty, and disheveled, living in fear, running from tunnel to tunnel, rubbled house to rubbled house, with only a couple other men, in a district he had hidden in because the world told the IDF they could not go there.
He was not commanding a military force with any capability. He oversaw nothing.
He had the pocket litter of a bum: a pack of mentos, tissues, some money, and a fake passport with the occupation listed as employee of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Hamas is clearly broken. It clearly is operating without leadership, on autopilot and functioning as separate, disconnected guerrilla gangs completely unable to do organized acts….
Sinwar’s death has dealt a devastating blow to Hamas’ morale, and been a cause for rejoicing in Israel. He died alone, wretched, exhausted, terrified. His “act of defiance” that some Arab sites are praising consisted of impotently throwing a stick at an IDF drone. When he emerged from his latest tunnel hideout and then ran to find shelter in the building where he was killed, that may have been the only time he had been above ground since he first entered the tunnel network on October 6, 2023. He would have seen the rubble of Rafah all around him, and realized what the attack launched by Hamas at his direction had wrought on Gaza and its civilians. Did he have a pang of remorse for bringing about such devastation? Or did he still think, just before his own death, that the deaths of Gazan civilians, as he once said, were “necessary sacrifices” in the endless war on the Jewish state?
Jew Exposes Arab Muslim Beliefs From the Inside | The Caroline Glick Show [59:28]
October 22, 2024 JNS TV – Forget what you thought you knew about mainstream Arab and Muslim culture. Moriel Bareli is here to explain how Jews and the West have it totally wrong when it comes to understanding Islam’s war against Israel and its perception of Jews.
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You’ll get a sneak peek in the latest episode of “The Caroline Glick Show”!
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‘The House With Nobody In it’ – In Washington D.C.? by Lawrence Kadish
October 23, 2024 at 5:00 am – “The House with Nobody In It” by Joyce Kilmers (1886-1918), brings to mind a certain house in Washington, D.C. — the White House. Our White House is not just a residence, it is a command post. The Free World depends on it. If there is no apparent occupant, how will the U.S. contend with threats to our allies and us?
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are “the new ‘Axis of Evil,'” according to Politico, hardly a right-wing outlet. How worried should we be? Probably very.
The United States is already facing two wars at full tilt, and another, it seems, on the way. Russia is still trying to seize Ukraine the same way it seized Crimea. In the Middle East, Israel, the size of New Jersey, is fighting a defensive war on seven fronts to protect its existence and that of civilization from a genocidal Iran — about to have nuclear weapons — and its proxies. In the Pacific this month, warships from Communist China have been encircling Taiwan, threatening Japan and the Philippines, and seemingly preparing to crush US naval assets should they try to intervene.
At home, the United States has in recent years been overrun by more than 10 million illegal migrants, including an estimated 1.7 million “gotaways” about whom nothing is known, such as how many there actually are. More than 323,000 children who have crossed the border are “missing.” No one even knows their names or where they are, or who might be abusing them. Presumably they have been forced into slavery, sex slavery or dangerous labor. All those are in the U.S. in addition to an estimated 10.5 million illegal migrants who were here before 2021.
Violent gangs, such as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, which are made up of youths mainly from South America, have been increasingly infiltrating the U.S. been commandeering apartment blocks at gunpoint and terrorizing people in Colorado, Texas and New York.
An unprecedented surge of 55,000 illegal migrants from China have entered the U.S. in recent months. China does not grant visas to its people to vacation in the Adirondacks. While some of these migrants might be seeking a better life, others seem to have the “the makings of a Chinese army” inside the US. There has been a “massive surge” of unaccompanied “military-age Chinese men,” with “many of them having ‘known ties’ to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army,” according to Rep. Mark Green. They are possibly waiting for orders from CCP headquarters to sabotage the US electric grid, air traffic control, bridges, ports and other infrastructure. Some of these men have been trying to enter US military facilities. FBI Director Christopher Wray has already warned that Chinese hackers might be waiting for “just the right moment to deal a devastating blow.”
China has already exported cargo cranes, loaded with hidden listening devices, which are installed in US ports. “A great concern is that they could remotely operate these cranes, and therefore disrupt these port operations at critical times,” says China expert Gordon Chang. The Chinese Communist Party could, in a crisis, use them to shut down all maritime commerce or drop shipping containers onto US vessels to destroy them.
The US also has China to thank for the death by poisoning of more than 100,000 Americans each year in the last few years, from fentanyl and other synthetic opiates. The Biden-Harris administration has warned them to stop murdering Americans, and China has said that it will — but so far, two weeks before a presidential election, has does nothing.
Then of course there was Communist China’s spy balloon. It hovered over the most sensitive US military sites and sent information to Beijing in real-time for a week. When it was back out at sea, the president had it shot down.
Americans have also been plagued with mushrooming inflation, called “the silent tax.” It eats away at one’s income as the cost of staples skyrockets. People are reportedly having to choose between “heat or eat” — and that does even include medicine or rent. Much of the inflation has been propelled by the administration’s effective hobbling of domestic energy exploration from its first week in office. The move resulted a spike in the price of oil and gas, tripling the price of oil — from less than $42 a barrel in 2020 to $130 a barrel in 2022 — and producing enough financing for Russia to invade Ukraine, and for Iran and its proxies — thanks to oil-sanctions lifted or waived by the Biden-Harris administration — to attack Israel on October 7, 2023 and every day thereafter.
A U.S. national debt of $34 trillion-and-counting threatens to collapse the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The cost of interest on the debt is now higher than the entire US defense budget – and in a world that is aggressively militarizing to replace the US as the world’s leading superpower.
Education in the US is, bluntly, a disaster. It is the most expensive in the world per student but is graduating youths who can barely read or do the simplest arithmetic. With a disadvantage like that, how can they ever hope to participate in the American Dream?
Our children are also being manipulated on social media by the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-American propaganda on TikTok, and all of us have been manipulated on social media by an administration that is censoring speech with which it disagrees. This suppression has gone from the real origins of the Covid-19 virus, to possible cures for it, to the “Russia Hoax” — lies by government officials “to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump,” that he was under the influence of the Russians – and cover up and deny the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop and alleged influence-peddling. The administration even tried to establish a “Disinformation Governance Board,” until a court swiftly ruled that it was a vehicle for censorship by the government.
The journalist Wayne Allen Root wrote that in addition to failing to increase the US defense budget, the government has instead been “rooting patriots and warriors out of the military and replacing them… brainwashing our children with critical race theory; and using the FBI to arrest and intimidate parents speaking out at local school board meetings.”
As we head to the polls, perhaps we should vote for a White House with somebody in it?
Lawrence Kadish serves on the Board of Governors of Gatestone Institute.
The Infiltration of America with James Lindsay Tom Renz
OCT 22, 2024
I URGE YOU TO WATCH THIS FILM.
“Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” – Has tied together the war on Christianity, the war on our children, schools and all the things we’re seeing today through the perspective of what occurred during the Soviet Union.
This is more than just a film, it’s a wake-up call.
Again, I URGE you to see this film.
This film goes beyond the surface, revealing the tactics used to manipulate public perception and control societal narratives, and how patterns of cultural takeover are not just history but our present reality.
If we don’t take a stand, who else will protect our children?
Please share this video with everyone you know.
WATCH NOW at https://beneathsheepsclothing.movie
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Letter to the editor: Cease-fire would be suicide Moshe Phillips
OPINION:
October 21, 2024 Washington Times – The idea that Israel should cease firing at Hamas now that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, has been killed flies in the face of historical precedent (“Blinken in Israel as U.S. looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader,” web, Oct. 22).
The Allies did not stop fighting the Nazis once Adolf Hitler died; they fought until Germany surrendered. The United States did not stop its war on terrorism when Osama bin Laden was killed; U.S. forces in Iraq are still fighting terrorists there to this day.
By continuing its pursuit of the terrorists who slaughtered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli army can ensure that such atrocities will never be repeated. That’s a goal all decent people should share.
MOSHE PHILLIPS, National chairman, Americans for a Safe Israel, New York
10/7 Exploited for Two-State Solution [19:49] Brigitte Gabriel
Biden and Harris Betrays Israel in Two-State Solution No One Wants!
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The dignity they so rightly deserve Howard Rotberg
Obama’s equivalency between American notions of justice, tolerance and human dignity to that found in Muslim countries was quite simply shocking. And Harris is going down the same road. Opinion.
Oct 21, 2024, 2:31 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – Some polls say that American Vice-President Kamala Harris has a reasonable chance of becoming the next American president at the November elections.
America then might be governed by a leftist and Islamist, who thinks that Middle East peace depends on Israel (presently under attack on many fronts) agreeing to a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel – which could do what Hamas did, in accordance with its Charter, on October 7, 2023, massacring Jews in the worst way since the Shoah.
She has advocated on several occasions in the last few months “for a two-state solution where we can rebuild Gaza where the Palestinians have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve.”
“They so rightly deserve”? Does she think that the approximately 1200 civilians murdered also rightly deserved their fate?
Arab non-Islamist scholar Bassam Tawil, writing in Gatestone on October 16th, says:
§ “Harris’s repeated talk about the need to establish a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 atrocities against Israelis is the best gift the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group could have wished for.
§ “Harris seems to ignore that a majority of Palestinians continue to support Hamas and the October 7 atrocities…. Two-thirds of the Palestinians [in a poll conducted by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in June] said that the October 7 massacres were “correct.”
§ “What is most disturbing about Harris’s advocacy for the establishment of an Iranian-controlled Palestinian state is that it is seen by many Palestinians as a reward for the October 7 atrocities…. So, when Harris talks about the need to establish a Palestinian state, she is sending a message to Hamas and other Palestinians that terrorism against Israel pays….”
Accordingly, a Harris administration would complete the cultural suicide that Barack Hussein Obama started when his first trip after his inauguration was called by many his “Muslim apology tour”.
He stated in Egypt:
“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings(my emphasis).”
To any student of the Middle East, where most Islamic countries do not allow the residence or citizenship of Jews, and do not extend to Christians or Jews full rights, this talk of “mutual respect” made no sense at all.
Then, Obama’s equivalency between American notions of justice, tolerance and human dignity to that found in Muslim countries was quite simply shocking. So was his invitation to several members of the Muslim Brotherhood, widely viewed as a terrorist-supporting Islamist organization, to attend his speech.
Hillary Clinton, another liberal female presidential aspirant, gave a speech stating that women have a better feel for diplomacy: Clinton, whose close friend and top aide was the Saudi-raised, Muslim Brotherhood-allied Huma Abedin, has some very odd opinions, which she expressed at a speech at Georgetown University.
She claimed in her speech that women are superior to men in diplomacy and security and, strangely, gave as an example a couple of female Philippine Muslims who were instrumental in negotiating (submitting to?) Muslim rule over an area of the Philippines. She cited their feminine skills as part of something she called “Smart Power” and then claimed that Smart Power would use “every possible tool…leaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand, and insofar as is psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view, helping to define the problems (and) determine a solution” (emphasis added).
So Hillary Clinton wanted to show “respect’ even for one’s enemies. We can’t be sure what Hillary meant in her own mind, but the Oxford Dictionary defines “respect” as “a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities or achievements.”
To me, Islamists who use beheading, rape and sexual assault, torture, persecution of ethnic and religious minorities and gays, and disregard most human rights, do not deserve our “deep admiration” and do not show any great “qualities or achievements.” The fact that Hillary argued otherwise validated the concern of Trump supporters who did not want to place in her hands the responsibility for war and peace and the fulfillment of American values for liberty and human rights, and who did not feel admiration for our enemies.
Fears of a scorned Democrat Administration Barry Shaw
My fears about the US Presidential Election: What would a Biden-Harris Administration do in its waning days if defeated by Trump, or as a victory message should Harris win? Opinion.
Oct 20, 2024, 4:07 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News – My strategic affairs antennas are predicting an awful and damaging outcome for Israel whatever the result of the US Presidential Election.
I predict that if Trump wins, the Biden-Harris Administration will use its wani ng days, between November through to February, to inflict serious diplomatic damage and an Obama-style punishment on Israel for not kowtowing to US demands over Gaza, Hamas, Hezbollah and Lebanon. If Harris wins, that is how the entire term will look.
Throughout 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration took one-sided swipes at Israel.
Over Gaza, they consistently hampered Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas to the point of placing essential weapons restrictions on Israel.
The media was full of recriminating conversations between Biden and Bibi while Harris was sniping from the sidelines and did not attend Netanyahu’s 25 July address to Congress.
Their subsequent meeting was anything but warm.
Notoriously, the Biden-Harris White House has issued punishing Executive Orders against individual Jews living in Judea & Samaria with bloated and downright false charges of violence against these individuals.
Their hypocrisy is mirrored in the fact they never applied Executive Sanctions, nor the Taylor Force Act, against hundreds of Palestinian Arabs, individually or collectively, for the incessant murder of thousands of Israelis in almost daily terror attacks in Judea & Samaria.
Nor did they impose Executive Sanctions against the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas for their incentive payments to Palestinian Arabs to kill Israelis known as their “Pay to Slay” policy.
Not only have they never imposed such Sanctions, on the contrary, Biden-Harris pumps money into the PA system that helps fund their reward payments, this despite the Taylor-Force Act.
The contrasting approach to Israel and the Palestinian Arabs has also been seen in the Biden-Harris arms embargo on Israel for not complying with their surrender to Hamas demands while persistently threatening to accept the adoption of Palestinian Arab statehood, totally ignoring the fact that Hamas would sweep into power in Ramallah given an election. This according to several Palestinian Arab polls and surveys.
Is this truly what a Biden-Harris Administration would do in its waning days if defeated by Trump, or as a victory message should Harris win?
The answer is yes if they follow the behavior of the Obama-Biden playbook in the transition period between Obama and Trump.
Immediately after the 2016 Trump election, Obama recruited Biden and rushed to the UN Security Council to wipe out in international armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan, and redefine what had been agreed and designated as Area C in the Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, in which Israel would retain total control of designated territory until such time as the Palestinian Authority proved itself willing and able to accept the existence of Israel as a legitimate neighbor.
Despite the fact that until today the PA singularly rejects recognition of Israel as a state and a neighbor, Obama-Biden actively pulled in the votes to ram through UNSC Resolution 2334 which flew in the face of a prior internationally recognized armistice agreement of 1949 between Israel and Jordan in which territories in what is known as the ‘West Bank’ including east Jerusalem were part of Israel.
Due to 2334, they became known as “illegally occupied” by Israel in an act of spite by a defeated Obama ably assisted by Biden.
My awful premonition is that, win or lose, the Biden-Harris Administration will execute another major spiteful diplomatic hit on Israel between November and February, for not kowtowing to their demands and display weakness to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
I predict that they will lobby and ensure the approval of a willing United Nations to recognize the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state and assist in rushing it through the UN legislative process into the Security Council before the inauguration of whichever president wins.
I hope I am wrong, but my gut feeling tells me that Israel is about to suffer the wrath of a Biden-Harris transition before it becomes whatever the American electorate decides on 5 November.
Beware of a victorious Democrat Administration, but also –
Beware of a scorned Democrat Administration.
Barry Shaw is at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Israel’s plans to prevent Iranian nuclear power: Is there a Russian ‘fly in the ointment’? Prof. Louis René Beres
Israel must take into account Russia’s escalating threats to deter Israeli preemptive strikes against Iran. Opinion.
Oct 21, 2024, 11:38 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – For Israel, even after recent successes in complex self-defense operations, it is high time to forge a comprehensive “strategic dialectic.” To be sure, Jerusalem’s most capable security planners are already “on the job,” but there remains at least one seemingly indecipherable factor: Credibility of Russia’s escalating threats to deter Israeli preemptive strikes against Iran.
Though there could be no scientific or logic-based way to fully assess such Russian threats (extraordinary because they concern events that would be historically unique or sui generis), the Jewish State will still have no choice but to reach operationally useful conclusions.
For Jerusalem, there will be multiple and potentially intersecting scenarios. In these daunting cases, total prospective harms would always be greater than the calculable sum of their constituent “parts.” Among other things, this cumulative metric could signal an enlarged and potentially irreversible exposure to Russian-inflicted harms which could be authentically existential.
Reduced to its essentials, a worst case scenario for Jerusalem would commence with additional and progressively more explicit threats from Moscow concerning contemplated Israeli preemptions. Israel, fully aware that it could not reasonably expect to coexist indefinitely with a nuclear Iran, would go ahead with its planned preemptions in spite of Russian warnings. In response, Russian forces (air, land, sea) would begin to act directly against Israel (as they are presently acting against Ukraine), seeking to persuade Jerusalem that Moscow is in a plausibly superior position to dominate any imaginable escalations.
Such persuasion ought not to be a “hard sell” for Putin. Unless the United States were to immediately enter the situation in unambiguously support of Israel, Moscow would have no foreseeable difficulty in establishing “escalation dominance.”
Would the United States display such credible willingness, a commitment that could place its tiny ally in an historically unprecedented positon of vulnerability? For the most part, the answer would lie with the character and inclinations of the new American president. It this national and international leader would accept the long-term benefits of honoring US alliance agreements; the world could be looking at another Cuban Missile Crisis or some similar confrontation. If not, Jerusalem would have no real choice but to face a nuclear Iran.
There will be important issuers of nuclear doctrine. In his continuing war of aggression and genocide against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has been recycling provocative elements of Soviet-era strategic thinking. One especially critical element concerns the absence of any presumptive or codified “firebreak” between conventional and tactical nuclear force engagements. Now, much as it was during the “classical” Soviet-era of nuclear deterrence, Moscow openly identifies the determinative escalatory threshold with a first-use of high-yield, long-range strategic nuclear weapons, not with any first use of tactical (theater) nuclear weapons.
This perilous escalation doctrine is not shared by Israel’s United States ally, and could erode once-stabilizing barriers of intra-war deterrence between the superpowers. Whether sudden or incremental, any such erosion could impact the plausibility of both a deliberate and inadvertent nuclear war. Here, as Israel could need to depend on US support in countering Russian nuclear threats, Vladimir Putin should occupy a central place in Israel’s threat assessments of Iranian nuclear progress.
For Israel, the bottom-line of such assessment is the obligation to work-through all preemption–option complexities, no matter how “dense.” Reaching a rational judgment on launching defensive first strikes against a still pre-nuclear Iran will require careful anticipations of (1) Russian and/or North Korean involvement; and (2) United States willingness to stand by Israel in extremis; that it, when all active adversaries are struggling for “escalation dominance.”
For Israel, perhaps more than any other decisional factor, compelling evidence of Russian support for Iran’s ongoing nuclearization could represent a poisonous “fly in the ointment.” Together with certain other potentially lethal threats from already-nuclear North Korea, this latent “toxin” warrants continuously close attention in Jerusalem.
LOUIS RENÉ BERES is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. Educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), he is the author of twelve major books dealing with international relations, military strategy and world affairs. Dr. Beres was born in Zürich on August 31, 1945, and lectures and publishes widely on issues of terrorism, counter-terrorism, nuclear strategy and nuclear war. He has consulted for assorted agencies of government on national security matters and is a contributor to leading American, European and Israeli newspapers and magazine. Professor Beres’ latest book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (2016; 2nd ed. 2018). https://paw.princeton.edu/new-books/surviving-amid-chaos-israel%E2%80%99s-nuclear-strategy
In Israel, Louis René Beres was Chair of “Project Daniel” (Iranian Nuclear Weapons, PM Sharon, 2004).
The IDF Hits a ‘School’ BY HUGH FITZGERALD
OCT 20, 2024 10:00 AM Jihad Watch – You heard it on NPR, BBC, MSNBC, or read it in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times. Those dastardly Israelis are at It again: they’ve just wantonly bombed “a school” in Jabalya camp in northern Gaza. This conjures up heartrending scenes of innocent children being killed by the mad-dog killers of the IDF. In point of fact, the Abu Hassan School has not been a school for many months. It has been, rather , a meeting place for senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, a place to hide both combatants and enormous caches of weapons. It should be accurately described not as a “school,” but as a “school building that Hamas and PIJ have taken over to hide both men and weapons.”
More on this attack that the world has been told was on a school can be found here: “IAF strikes Gaza school housing Hamas terrorists, filled with pro-October 7 propaganda,” Jerusalem Post, October 17, 2024:
The Israel Air Force (IAF) conducted a precise strike on an operational meeting point for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jabalya in the Gaza Strip, the military said on Thursday.
The operation, using intelligence and under the direction of the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), struck the terrorists who operated inside a command center embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Abu Hassan School in northern Gaza.
This was a precise attack on an operational meeting of senior Hamas and PIJ operatives. The IDF and Shin Bet had intelligence that senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members would be meeting there; they even had the names of a dozen of the participants.
Remember, this building was no longer a school. The terrorists had turned it into a command-and-control center that was embedded in what had once been, but was no longer, it must be endlessly repeated, the Abu Hassan School. That should have been made clear by Western media, who keep poisoning audiences world-wide against Israel by claiming that the IDF “hit a school” or “struck a mosque” (mosques too have been used by terrorists who hide both themselves and weapons in them) or “hit a hospital,” without ever explaining that those “schools” and “mosques” and “hospitals” were all being used.by Hamas to hide weapons, men, and rocket launchers.
At the time of the strike, dozens of terrorists were present in the compound, the military stated. These terrorists include Hussam Muhammad Atiya Salah, Ahmad Abd al-Naser Awad Hamdouna, Akram Maher Namar Zaqoul, Ahmad Abd al-Rahman Mahmoud Abu al-Jabeen, Mustafa Ali Khalil Ouda, Muhammad Abdullah Abd al-Rahman Tamraz, Muhammad Muhammad Rafat Hussein Daher, Mahmoud Musa Abd al-Wahab Atal, Abd al-Karim Hassan Awad Hamdouna, Youssef Hosni Ali Salem, Muhammad Samih Atwa Sheir, Abd al-Rahman Fawzi Kamel….
Nary a school child among them. These were all hardened terrorists, who had been using what had once been a school — but had ceased to be many months ago — and now was a regular meeting place for Hamas terrorists plotting their next moves against the Israelis. The IDF discovered pro-October 7 propaganda covering its blackboards. It also found massive amounts of weapons that had. been warehoused in what had once been a school. Hamas clearly was hoping that the IDF would be reluctant to hit what it knew would be described by Western reporters as a “school.” The IDF weighed the value of the terrorists assembled in the building against the propaganda value to Hamas of the predictable reports about “the IDF attacks a school,” found the former outweighed the latter, and went ahead.
Hamas has since denied using the Abu Hussein school in Jabalya, saying it was serving as shelter for displaced people.
Hamas didn’t dare maintain that the school building was being used as a school, so it claimed instead that it was being used as a shelter for displaced people — you know, those Gazans whom those terrible Israelis warn to move from places the IDF is about to be targeted, in order to get them out of harm’s way.
So there we have it: one more example — there have been so many — where Israel is accused in the media worldwide of attacking a “school” that is no longer a school, but a hideout for Hamas men and weapons, or a “mosque” that does double duty as a warehouse for rockets and missiles, or a “hospital” where terrorists have taken over whole wards where their members are counting on the frightened-into-silence medical personnel to serve as human shields against IDF attacks.
Write to those newspapers, telephone your radio and television stations, when next you read or hear that the IDF has struck a school, a mosque, or a hospital, and set them straight. Many will ignore those complaints, but some will listen. Explain to these journalists exactly what other information about those sites in Gaza, that made them legitimate targets, should be provided.
Hezbollah Plot to MASSACRE Northern Israel UNDERCUT [14:33] By Yair Pinto
Oct 19, 2024 TBN Israel – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto travels to the Israel-Lebanon border to report on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Avraham Levine of the Alma Research Center gives an updated assessment of Hezbollah’s military strength following intense IDF strikes eliminating its command structure and operations to dismantle its infrastructure. Could Iran enter into the conflict directly? Watch now on TBN Israel.
Please join us in praying for the peace of Israel and Jerusalem.
“Grave Mistake!” Bibi warns Iran after assassination attempt [46:25]
October 20, 2024 JNS TV | JLMinute – Is yesterday’s assassination attempt on Prime Minister Netanyahu really that much of a game changer? And what happens now that Israel’s attack plans seem to have been leaked to Iran?
Join Josh Hasten and JNS CEO Alex Traiman in our Jerusalem studio for insight and analysis!
We’ll also cover Israel’s elimination of Yahya Sinwar and reactions; continued rocket attacks from Hezbollah; progress in Gaza; and stern warnings from the US administration.
00:00 The Assassination of Yahya Sinwar
04:51 Implications for Hamas and Hostages
09:48 The Future of Governance in Gaza
14:50 International Reactions and Humanitarian Concerns
20:07 The Attempted Assassination of Netanyahu
25:01 Iran’s Role and Future Attacks
30:07 The Broader Regional Conflict
35:05 Conclusion and Future Prospects
Leak of Sensitive Intelligence to Iran Shakes Israel’s Plan to Hit Iran and More STEPHEN BRYEN
OCT 20, 2024 WEAPONS AND STRATEGY – “Middle East Spectator,” is a pro-regime Telegram outlet based in Tehran, as all media channels based in Tehran are – by law. Last week, Middle East Spectator leaked two sensitive intelligence documents The documents originated in the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the information pertained to Israel’s preparation to retaliate for Iranian missile attacks.
I have not re-published the documents leaked on Telegram. Interested readers can go to the link provided above.
Middle East Spectator claims it is an independent operation in Tehran. It says it got the documents from an “informed source in the US intelligence community.” If we take this at face value, then a source in the intelligence community contacted the Spectator and shared the two documents. To further clarify, in a subsequent post Spectator says the source was in the US Defense Department.
Because “news” and information in Iran is very tightly controlled, Spectator could only publish these documents with permission from the regime.
It is extraordinarily valuable material that Iran can, and likely will, use to prepare its defenses.
One of the two leaked documents is classified above top secret. That document is headlined as NOFORN which means that the document cannot be shared with foreign governments. Assuming that the documents were not shared with allies (such as the Five Eyes group that have extraordinary access to US intelligence information), that information strengthens the claim made by the Spectator, that the leak came from United States persons or organizations.
The documents describe an Israeli “large force employment exercise” on the 15th and 16th of October. The document was published on Telegraph by the Spectator on the 18th.
Whoever leaked it to Tehran was warning that an Israeli strike was imminent. It also told the Iranians the type of weapons that would be used and probable targets, the latter being mainly Iranian air defense sites and long range radars.
How do we know? The two documents provide highly detailed information on Israeli Air Force preparations for a strike and describes in detail activities at three Israeli air bases subject to massive US surveillance. It carefully identifies the types of cruise missiles Israel was preparing, namely a system called ROCKS (which otherwise may be Israel’s long range Crystal Maze or Crystal Maze II air launched cruise missile) and Golden Dawn, another type of cruise missile that could be a derivative of the Sparrow series that originated as a target system emulating Iranian long range missiles. The report also said that the platform carrying these missiles would be the F-15I, not Israel’s F-35 “Adir” jets. It also indicates the refueling tankers and surveillance platforms Israel would use.
There is more. The lesser classified document (secret level) discussed Israel’s Jericho II medium range ballistic missiles, which are believed to be a critical part of Israel’s nuclear deterrent. The missile is solid fueled and can be silo or TEL-based. The document’s context means that the US accepts Israel has nuclear weapons, although the US has never officially acknowledged that before. The document reveals that Israel may have dispersed the Jericho missiles to prevent them being targeted by Iran. It also says that the US has not detected any preparations by Israel of its Jericho II missiles and concludes any nuclear strike by Israel is unlikely.
There can be no doubt that the leak of geospatial-origin intelligence has brought significant harm to Israel. It is also likely much more sensitive intelligence was leaked to the Iranians, which Iran may be protecting from public disclosure. Some releases on the Spectator channel admit as much.
Why would the Iranian government (either via Spectator or by giving permission to Spectator) leak ANY of the information?
Some speculate it was to convince Israel that the retaliation plan was known to Iran – thus deterring Israel from an attack that the Iranian government REALLY didn’t want to face. Second, perhaps, it was to warn (boast?) that Iran was being supplied with secret information by the United States, making Israel worry about what else had been compromised.
Consider this.
The Iranian leak was published on October 18th. On the 19th, an alleged Hezbollah-origin drone attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea near the coast. Accurately targeting Netanyahu’s home required “scene matching,” as any drone from Lebanon, Syria or Iraq would likely have been outside of radio control communication. “Scene matching” would require significant intelligence preparation.
Was there confidence Netanyahu would be at home during the attack? Or confidence that he wouldn’t be – striking the house knowing he wasn’t there would be another way of telling Israel what Iran knows without facing the retaliation that would surely follow an actual assassination.
Were US assets complicit? In other words was the leak a violation of law or was it an act by the administration or some in the administration with political motives? No one can say, yet.
All of this is likely to cause a significant reassessment in Israel. At minimum, the Israelis will have the opinion that US intelligence is unreliable and penetrated. Beyond that, some will understand the US to be overtly hostile and acting against Israel. (After the drone attack, the Prime Minister received phone calls from heads of state and from former President Trump and US House Speaker Mike Johnson. Neither President Biden nor Vice President Harris called.)
In the real world this is a very sad development. Israel has some of the best human intelligence (HUMINT) in the world and has significant access to Iran’s nuclear programs. Israel has, on many occasions, warned friendly (and not so friendly) countries about threats, including foreign leaders, the Mossad and other intelligence centers in Israel have detected. Leaks like this put a severe chill on intelligence cooperation and directly harms the US.
The US has apparently launched an investigation, according to House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson. Documents of this type are often sent via secure internet to security-cleared personnel. There could be hundreds, perhaps even more, with access. It might be possible to review time stamps on those who accessed or copied the documents, which would potentially help narrow the search. It may also be possible to track documents sent outside the US using NSA’s massive capabilities. Much depends on whether the investigation undertaken is serious.
One suggestion being floated is that maybe the documents were hacked. But such sensitive information is not only carried on classified channels, but it is also encrypted, making hacking less likely to yield useful results. For the record, there are no public reports of any hacks of US security information.
It isn’t clear what Israel will do. It would be reckless to retaliate now that at least some of Israel’s plans and preparations have been leaked – which was the whole idea. Israel had already reportedly agreed with the US not to strike either Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities. Will that agreement hold now, or will Israel consider the agreement void?
Beyond that, Israel has to be concerned that its other operations – against Iranian proxies from the Red Sea to Gaza, Lebanon and Syria also are at risk because of US intelligence leaks.
[Ed.: Why would Israel tell US anything about Iran plans? (one might well ask.) We know that they are going to leak, so, we feed them what they want Kakameinei to hear! They’re playing us, and we’re playing them. We don’t trust them as far as we can throw them, so we entertain them and ‘consider’ their offers for us to die with a straight face. But we do NOT trust them with sensitive information. The problem is that traitors like Gallant are dazzled by the bogus ‘US friendship’ and he keeps going (on his own) to the Deep State US (falsely called “The Biden-Harris Administration even though Biden and Harris have absolutely nothing to do with it,) to get his marching orders. Israel is on to this (and to his treason,) and also plays him and his ‘concerns’. It’s all a big snake pit full of vipers… But everyone is playing everyone else. The only consolation is that in the end, in the beginning, and at the current moment: Hashem is in full control over each of them, as He was in control of Pharoah’s hardened heart, over and over again! Baruch Hashem (B”H,) amen.]
No, Prime Minister Macron: The UN did not create Israel Dr. Alex Grobman
If it were within the power of the UN to create states, an Arab state would have arisen in 1948 alongside Israel, whether or not the Arabs agreed. Op-ed.
Oct 20, 2024, 8:06 PM (GMT+3) Israel National News – A number of Western leaders seem to think they know what is best for the State of Israel, and frequently admonish and attempt to bully the Israeli government to follow their dictates.
The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal reminds us that President Biden harassed Netanyahu about stopping the war in Gaza, strongly advised him against launching a military attack against Hamas, and even after the IDF’s obvious military success, sought to intimidate him from advancing to the city of Rafah, where Yahya Sinwar was believed to be hiding. The paper concluded that “if Israel had taken Mr. Biden’s advice, Sinwar, Nasrallah, and the rest of the Hamas-Hezbollah leadership would still be alive.” Arutz Sheva writer Gary Willig wrote of the next war that would have ensued.
Now French President Emmanuel Macron allegedly asserted, that “Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN. Therefore, he should not liberate himself from the decisions of the UN,” Apparently, he was referring to UN Resolution 181 adopted on November 29, 1947.
Perhaps if Macron understood how Israel came into being, he would not be so callous in demanding Israel adhere to UN resolutions, when they are consistently prejudicial to the security of the Jewish state. As Abba Eban, Israel’s first permanent representative to the UN, once pointed out, the UN is “the world center for antisemitism.”
Did the UN Create the State of Israel?
The Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration, sent by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour in a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild on November 2,1917 read: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object….”
In a speech in Parliament on November 17, 1919, Lord Balfour, who held no ill will toward the Arabs, believed that the Jewish claim to Palestine was more compelling: “Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”
In April 1931, David Lloyd George, who had been Prime Minister of England when the Imperial Cabinet formulated the idea of a national home, explained the justification for the Balfour Declaration: “The Jews surely have a special claim on Canaan. They are the only people who have made a success of it during the past 3,000 years. They are the only people who have made its name immortal, and as a race, they have no other home. This was their first; this has been their only home…. Since their long exile… this is the time and opportunity for enabling them once more to recreate their lives as a separate people in their old home and to make their contribution to humanity as a separate people, having a habitation in the land which inspired their forefathers.”
The San Remo Conference
At the San Remo Conference in San Remo, Italy in April 1920, the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan met to define the precise boundaries of the lands they had conquered at the end of WWI. As part of a peace agreement, Turkey yielded jurisdiction over the land which it had ruled from 1517 to 1917, including the Holy Land. Israel and two dozen other countries were created from the states of the former Ottoman Caliphate.
Former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold observed that in the last century, Israel is the only state established whose legitimacy was officially acknowledged by the League of Nations and the UN.
The League of Nations Mandate did not grant the Jewish people the rights to establish a national home in Palestine, it simply recognized the pre-existing right that had never been surrendered or forgotten. The Jewish people had been sovereign in their own land for a thousand years before many were forced into exile. The establishment of the State of Israel did not represent a creation ex nihilo. Israel was admitted to the United Nations as a full member on May 11, 1949.
These rights were upheld by the UN under Article 80 of the UN Charter after the UN replaced the League of Nations. International law expert Nathan Feinberg, added, On July 24, 1922, the Council of the League of Nations recognized the existence of the Jewish people, its historical link to the land of Israel and its right to reestablish its ancestral home there.
When the Muslims invaded Palestine in 634, ending four centuries of conflict between Persia and Rome, Israeli diplomat Yaakov Herzog noted, they found direct descendants of Jews who had lived in the country since the time of Joshua bin Nun, the man who led the Israelites into the Land of Canaan. This means that for 2,000 years, Jews and Christians constituted the majority of the indigenous population of Palestine, while the Bedouins were the ruling class under the Damascene caliphate.
Israel’s formal acceptance as the 59th UN Member State on May 11, 1949 was consistent with the UN’s original core beliefs. The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in Paris on December 10, 1948 by the UN General Assembly, was issued in response to the “disregard and contempt for human rights” that resulted in the “barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind” called the Holocaust—the attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe by the Nazis.
Does this suggest that Israel was “created” by the UN asks historian Martin Kramer. No he says, because “ if it were within the power of the UN to create states, an Arab state would have arisen in 1948 alongside Israel….”
Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society, a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, and on the advisory board of The National Christian Leadership Conference of Israel (NCLCI). He lives in Jerusalem.
The Biden-Harris Administration Owes Israel’s Netanyahu An Apology by Bassam Tawil
October 20, 2024 at 5:00 am
- “Again and again we see that Israel absolutely made the right call in not heeding the Biden administration and the rest of the world’s insistence that the IDF not invade Rafah.” — Lahav Harkov, Israeli journalist, X, October 17, 2024.
- “Pretty rich after a year of undermining Netanyahu, saying he MUST go to a ceasefire, MUST deescalate, trying to stop Israel from going into Rafah WHERE SINWAR WAS KILLED, and Kamala boycotting his joint address to Congress – now Biden & Harris have the nerve to congratulate him for setting the path to peace. I’m sure the phone call sounds something like ‘You were right Bibi [Netanyahu], we apologize,'” — US Rep. Mike Waltz, X, October 18, 2024
- Israel’s killing Sinwar and destroying Hamas’s military infrastructure in Rafah sadly show how steadfastly the Biden-Harris administration was trying to prevent Israel from achieving victory over the Iran-backed Islamist murderers and rapists responsible for the deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust.
- Netanyahu deserves credit for ignoring the warnings and threats by Biden and his senior officials. Thanks to Netanyahu, Hamas has been significantly debilitated and Sinwar has been eliminated, making the Middle East a safer place. It now remains to be seen whether the Biden-Harris administration will reconsider its failed foreign policies and apologize to the Israeli prime minister for attempting to undermine his efforts to combat terrorism and bring more security and stability not only to Israel, but the entire Middle East as well.
Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration spent weeks warning Israel not to enter the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where many of the leaders of the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas were believed to be hiding. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had prepared to enter the city as part of a counterterrorism offensive to destroy Hamas’s military capabilities and rescue some of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by the terrorist group on October 7, 2023.
The October 17 killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Rafah area proved that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did the right thing in ignoring the warnings of the Biden-Harris administration. The IDF eventually entered Rafah, where it succeeded in killing hundreds of Hamas terrorists and recovering the bodies of some of the hostages. In addition, the IDF managed to rescue one of the hostages held in a Hamas tunnel in the Rafah area.
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News Flash: Trump is Uncle Sam! CHERIE ZASLAWSKY
OCT 19, 2024 – To understand what’s unfolding in this election year, we need to view Trump not only as a candidate, and not merely as a man, but as a symbol—as if he were the personification of Uncle Sam brought to life in an attempt to save America from a passel of formidable enemies, both foreign and domestic, that seek to destroy her.
Simply put: this election is between a return to the America we loved and lost in the Color Revolution of 2020, and the last phase of a Communist takeover of our nation, as predicted by Khrushchev back in the 1950’s: “We will take America without firing a shot… we will destroy you from within.”
That’s the only way to begin to comprehend the Progressive Left’s myriad strategies to either keep Trump off the ballot, send him to prison, or worse—disenfranchising We the People in our attempt to elect the man who best represents the American Republic—the leader of the MAGA movement.
In fact, it is not Trump per se, but the MAGA movement—the awakened Sleeping Giant—that the Dems and their globalist pals really fear. Their attacks on Trump are attacks on We the People. Their lawfare against him is their corruption of our justice system, depriving us of any hope of justice as well. That’s also their message regarding the illegal detaining of patriots for “trespassing” on January 6th.
They’re in control—they’ve already hijacked the Constitution.
We’re not in Kansas anymore.
ELECTION THEFT
Remember when Hillary advised Biden in 2020 to refuse to concede “no matter what”? That was her “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” way of saying: Steal the election! Perhaps by using truckloads of fake ballots, fake vote counts, no holds barred, to cheat one’s way into office—elections be damned.
The Dems’ definition of “democracy”? They win.
They’re hellbent on getting their way. And their way is to get Obama at least virtually back into the White House to finish the job he started of “fundamentally changing America,” through the fatal combination of empty vessel Kameleon Harris, she of the meaningless word salad to hide her stunning ignorance of…well…nearly everything—as well as her total inability to think on her feet—and her low IQ but radically Leftist support person, Tim Walz.
TRUMP’S SOARING POPULARITY TERRIFIES THE LEFT
You have only to watch a replay of President Trump’s rally last May in the Bronx, smack dab in true blue New York, to see why the Dems fear him. After almost four years of Doddering Dementia Joe obediently following Obama’s Marxist playbook, with inflation skyrocketing, gas prices and food prices hammering the middle and working classes, people have caught on.
They remember they were better off under Trump!
It seems everything the Desperadoes do backfires against them, including the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th. The colossal failure of the O’Biden/Harris administration to provide adequate security for a former president and likely winner of the current election is a national disgrace.
Not only that, but the failed assassination attempt only made Trump stronger and more popular than ever! He even had the chutzpah to hold a second rally in Butler Pennsylvania. The man is fearless!
And at his recent rally in California—a state not even considered in play—he drew a crowd of 50,000 people!
The Dems are panicking at Trump’s continued rise in popularity. Their lawsuits against him are crumbling—people can see the charges are both phony and pathetic. The Dems do nothing but cheat, and deep down, Americans hate cheaters.
This may also be why Kamala is widely considered the most unlikeable candidate in American presidential politics—even besting the Hildebeast in that regard—and why it’s no surprise that she plagiarized whole segments of her grossly mistitled book, Smart on Crime, but I digress….
It’s obvious by now the Dems have figured out that even the alleged mail-in ballot scam, including truckloads full of fake ballots and alleged rigged vote-counting algorithms may not be enough to steal this election. So, deep in the bowels of the Leftist enclave of Georgetown University, they’ve been busily hatching another strategy: Plan B.
Tucker Carlson’s guest—author, veteran and expert analyst J. Michael Waller unveiled it on TCN several months ago. It turns out a group of renegade lawyers and retired Generals war-gamed this election, the way the participants of Event 201 war-gamed the Covid lockdown response. Says Waller: “… according to their latest war games, if Donald Trump wins a free and fair election, he still has to be removed.”
Let that sink in!
They’re planning to use lawfare to keep him out of the White House even after he wins the election! And if that doesn’t work, a military coup!
This is Seven Days in May. This is what a real insurrection looks like. It is shocking, dangerous, and treasonous. This is why Maine’s change to “popular vote” matters.
SOME MUCH NEEDED GOOD NEWS
The good news is that a stalwart member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Pete Sessions, is investigating the nefarious Georgetown plotting that apparently went on in 2020 and 2022, and has ramped up all the more for this make-or-break election.
Says Sessions, “As our nation prepares for the 2024 presidential election, the work of TIP has been brought to my attention as an intensely partisan exercise intended to sew [sow] dissension and subversion regarding the American election system and the institution of the president of the United States.”
And according to The New York Sun:
Mr. Sessions also spotlights another Georgetown affiliate, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protections, known as “ICAP.” That is led by Professor Mary McCord.
Says McCord: “We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to.”
Ready with lawsuits against a duly elected President? What country do they think this is? Ah, I forgot we’ve been living in their Marxist “utopia” ever since their successful Color Revolutionary coup d’état against Trump in 2020. And now they must be stopped from perpetrating their second—and final—coup against America, or it’s game over for the We the People.
A vote for Donald Trump is far more than a vote for a man. In the face of the myriad assaults against our people, our liberty and our sovereignty—seemingly courtesy of the Leftist globalist elites’ final push for their totalitarian “One World Government”—it is a vote for America!
