October 7th – The Day War with Iran Began

CPT Alex Gallo — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:07:10 -0400

Six months on from the horrific terrorist attack on October 7th , we can increasingly say it marked not only the beginning of a war with Hamas but also an increasingly decisive turn towards a war with Iran.

Hamas, a Sunni jihadist terrorist organization, governs approximately 2 million people in the territory of the Gaza Strip and is best known for what the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) describes as its “commitment to armed resistance against Israel.”

How did this Sunni-based jihadist group achieve an armed invasion of Israel – killing more than1200 people and taking more than 240-people hostage?

The answer: Iran.

Iran, a Shia-led theocracy, has “funded, armed, trained, and provided intelligence to Hamas for decades,” according to Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Why would a Shia-led sovereign country support a Sunni-based jihadist group?

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar of the Harvard Kennedy School and Texas A&M argues in Foreign Affairs that Iran pursued such a strategy to achieve five strategic objectives:

 Bring the fight to Israeli soil: “Already, Hamas has succeeded in bringing the proxy war between Iran and Israel—typically fought in Lebanon and Syria—to Israeli soil.”

 Deter Israel: “As Tehran sees it, the conflict could help Hamas permanently deter Israel from attacking Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by teaching Israel that the costs of invading the territory are prohibitively high.”

 Unite Iran’s axis of resistance: “The conflict could further unite Tehran and its allied militias into a lethal and highly coordinated fighting machine.”

 Increase Iran’s standing in the region: “It could give the Islamic Republic a new claim to moral leadership among states outside the West and restore Tehran’s credibility in the Arab world.”

 Justify completing a nuclear weapon: “…should the war expand into a regional conflict, it could create a window of opportunity for Iran to finally build a nuclear weapon.”

Tabaar goes on to argue: “As Israeli forces advance through Gaza, the war could escalate to the point where Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’—Hezbollah and other Tehran-backed militias in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and elsewhere—become direct combatants. Such developments could, in turn, drag the United States into the fighting.”

It appears Tabaar’s prediction in November of 2023 may be coming to fruition.

The United States and Israel are bracing for an attack by Iran against not only US forces in the region but also Israel itself – an attack that senior US officials describe as “inevitable.”

A direct attack on Israel represents a dire scenario. Even if Iran selects military targets they believe represent a re-establishment of deterrence in response to Israel’s recent strike in Damascus, Israel may not view such an attack by Iran in the same way.

There has been a fundamental shift in Israel’s perspective in the wake of the October 7th attack. Israel views October 7th as an invasion of its territory not only by Hamas but also a nation-state: Iran. Israeli leaders believe October 7th represents an on-going existential threat to Israel’s ability to continue as a sovereign state. Accordingly, Israeli leaders would likely view any direct attack by Iran as a further confirmation of an existential threat to Israel, its people, and Jews across the world. There is only one country that can step in to both deter Iran and de-escalate the situation.

The United States.

But even if the United States deters Iran from conducting such an attack and/or influences Israel’s response to an escalation by Iran, the implications of Iran’s attacks against Israel (by proxy on October 7th and perhaps directly in the coming days) have now extended beyond Gaza – and even the region – to a larger, global dimension that takes on more of the guise of great power competition than terrorism in Gaza and the region.

The on-going war in Gaza has not only catalyzed empathetic sentiment in the “global South” (a part of the world increasingly exploited by the likes of China and Russia) but also the West. As Tabaar further explains in his analysis in Foreign Affairs: “Last year, the streets of Berlin, London, Washington, and other cities across the world were filled with people protesting the
Islamic Republic’s violence against women. Now, those same streets are occupied by people protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza.”

By both aligning itself with and directly supporting the Palestinian cause through Hamas, Iran believes it may be positioning itself as part of a larger “resistance” against what it describes as US and Western “hypocrisy” and “oppression” – notably a narrative that China and Russia also employ to attempt to expand their influence across the globe. Iran may well view the sentiment among the “global South” and parts of the West as what Tabaar describes as a “broad, once-in- a-generation shift…[in which] the United States is in decline and that new global and regional powers are upending the order that emerged after World War I and World War II.”

Indeed, October 7th unleashed forces that are less akin to what we are immediately witnessing in Gaza and increasingly more akin to great power competition – a new fight for the long-term primacy of the global order in the second half of the 21st century – and beyond.

The United States’ actions and decisions in response to this apparent and “inevitable” Iranian attack over the coming weeks may well influence this long-term future. Israel’s security is, therefore, global security.

Sources:
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-hostages-israel-gaza-41432124
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/why-iran-gambling-hamas?check_logged_in=1
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/us-israel-iran-retaliation-strike/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/syria-iran-israel-hezbollah-lebanon-consulate-amirabdollahian-
68c7a652c5434d80fbff47e0ddbdd483

Dr. Alex Gallo is the author of “Vetspective,” a RallyPoint series that discusses national security, foreign policy, politics, and society and highlights the analysis of thought-leaders, policy analysts, and scholars. Alex also serves as a fellow with George Mason University’s National Security Institute, an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, and a US Army Veteran. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexGalloUSA.

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Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 11 at 2024 9:46 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:46:09 -0400

Excellent article. ANY U.S. administration which allows Iran to achieve a nuclear weapon on their watch will go down in history as an epic failure. A nuclear Iran, is a destabilizing rogue nation that the world cannot allow.

Response by CSM Chuck Stafford made Apr 12 at 2024 7:22 AM

CSM Chuck Stafford — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:22:43 -0400

I suspect that if Iran goes to war, then they must have nuclear weapons. We are witnessing a nation committing suicide and life as we know it will be forever changed

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 12 at 2024 8:22 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:22:36 -0400

The conflict was FACTUAL long before October 7th, 2023. Israel Leadership are responsible for the attack.

V1 : https://youtu.be/o7grSsuFSS0?si=9-mT2yeRfzMQsZDb

1.) How and why Israel helped create Hamas?

Not many people are aware of the fact that it was Israel which had helped the creation of Hamas as a counter to PLO

The acronym "Hamas" first appeared in 1987 in a leaflet that accused the Israeli intelligence services of undermining the moral fiber of Palestinian youth as part of Mossad's recruitment of what Hamas termed "collaborators."

How and why Israel helped create Hamas?

Not many people are aware of the fact that it was Israel which had helped the creation of Hamas as a counter to PLO.

Why Israel helped the creation of Hamas and how it utilised its resources for the purpose? Has Israel by taking brutal action in Gaza strengthened Hamas and how the Palestinian struggle got divided and weakened when Hamas challenged PLO, a secular and nationalist organisation?

Formed in 1964, PLO had a clause, in its charter, calling for the destruction of Israel. But when the Oslo process was launched for peace between Israel and PLO, that clause was removed from the Palestinian charter, granting recognition to the Jewish state. Likewise, the Israeli government in late 1980s and early 1990s lifted ban on maintaining contacts with PLO and recognised it when the historic PLO-Israeli accord, mediated by then US President Bill Clinton, signed on September 13, 1993. If PLO recognised Israel, Hamas opposed peace process with the Jewish state and called for the destruction of Israel.

Gaza, which was occupied by Israel as a result of June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, patronised Mujama al-Islamiya which was formed by a Palestinian cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yasin and viewed it as a harmless organisation involved in charity and welfare work for the Palestinian community of Gaza. Mujama al-Islamiya later became Hamas before Intifada-I was launched in December 1987. Israel considered Mujama al-Islamiya and its successor organisation Hamas a lesser evil as compared to PLO and thought that dividing Palestinians will serve the interest of Jewish state.

If Israel termed PLO a terrorist organisation and a major threat to its interests, Hamas was also against PLO because of its secular and nationalist outlook. That is how both Hamas and Israel were viewed as natural allies against PLO. But, later on when Hamas in 1988 killed two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) personnel in Gaza, Israel turned against Hamas but it was too late. Hamas, which earlier labelled itself as a welfare and charity organisation in Gaza and got favors from Israel, changed is tactics and exploited PLO’s peace process with Israel to gain popular support of those Palestinians who were disillusioned with Yasser Arafat’s mending of fences with the Jewish state despite the killing of hundreds of Palestinians in Intifada-I.

Regrets among those Israeli officials who helped the creation of Hamas are well documented. For instance, Avner Cohen, a Tunisia-born Jew who was an Israeli official in Gaza dealing with religious affairs during 1970s and 1980s, lamented that “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation”.

He observed the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then evolved into what is today Hamas — a militant group that now calls for Israel’s destruction. Cohen argued that “instead of trying to curb Gaza’s Islamists from the outset, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah.

Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas”. Does it mean that Hamas was clever enough to dodge shrewd Israeli intelligence service by portraying itself as a welfare and charity organisation in order to get itself establish in Gaza and then confront Israel?

Between June 1967 and 2005, Gaza was administered by the Israeli military. In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza but when Hamas gained control of that Palestinian enclave in 2007 it imposed land, air and sea blockade of that territory. How Israel helped the creation of Hamas is narrated by Andrew Higgins, an Israeli official who had worked in Gaza in the 1980s.

SOURCE : https://tribune.com.pk/story/2302309/how-and-why-israel-helped-create-hamas?amp=1

2.) What is Hamas? What to know about its origins, leaders and funding

SOURCE : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/what-is-hamas-what-to-know-about-its-origins-leaders-and-funding

* A.) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Author Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post, discusses the findings of his latest book on the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. To view the video feed of the discussion, please click on the "Event Summary" link below.

SOURCE : https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to

* B.) Yet the US government refuses to admit its central role in creating the vicious movement that spawned bin Laden, the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists that plague Algeria and Egypt — and perhaps the disaster that befell New York.

* The mass media has also downplayed the origins of bin Laden and his toxic brand of Islamic fundamentalism.

Mujaheddin
* In April 1978, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in Afghanistan in reaction to a crackdown against the party by that country's repressive government.

Washington, fearing the spread of Soviet influence (and worse the new government's radical example) to its allies in Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf states, immediately offered support to the Afghan mujaheddin, as the "contra" force was known.

Following an internal PDPA power struggle in December 1979 which toppled Afghanistan's leader, thousands of Soviet troops entered the country to prevent the new government's fall. This only galvanised the disparate fundamentalist factions. Their reactionary jihad now gained legitimacy as a "national liberation" struggle in the eyes of many Afghans.

The Soviet Union was eventually to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989 and the mujaheddin captured the capital, Kabul, in 1992.

Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured at least US$6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin factions. Other Western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more.

Washington's policy in Afghanistan was shaped by US President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was continued by his successors. His plan went far beyond simply forcing Soviet troops to withdraw; rather it aimed to foster an international movement to spread Islamic fanaticism into the Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics to destabilise the Soviet Union.

Brzezinski's grand plan coincided with Pakistan military dictator General Zia ul-Haq's own ambitions to dominate the region. US-run Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe beamed Islamic fundamentalist tirades across Central Asia (while paradoxically denouncing the "Islamic revolution" that toppled the pro-US Shah of Iran in 1979).

Washington's favoured mujaheddin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The West's distaste for terrorism did not apply to this unsavoury "freedom fighter". Hekmatyar was notorious in the 1970s for throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil.

After the mujaheddin took Kabul in 1992, Hekmatyar's forces rained US-supplied missiles and rockets on that city — killing at least 2000 civilians — until the new government agreed to give him the post of prime minister. Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.

Hekmatyar was also infamous for his side trade in the cultivation and trafficking in opium. Backing of the mujaheddin from the CIA coincided with a boom in the drug business. Within two years, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was the world's single largest source of heroin, supplying 60% of US drug users.

In 1995, the former director of the CIA's operation in Afghanistan was unrepentant about the explosion in the flow of drugs: "Our main mission was to do as much damage as possible to the Soviets... There was a fallout in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan."

* Made in the USA

According to Ahmed Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, in 1986 CIA chief William Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI proposal to recruit from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. At least 100,000 Islamic militants flocked to Pakistan between 1982 and 1992 (some 60,000 attended fundamentalist schools in Pakistan without necessarily taking part in the fighting).

John Cooley, a former journalist with the US ABC television network and author of Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, has revealed that Muslims recruited in the US for the mujaheddin were sent to Camp Peary, the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where young Afghans, Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, and even some African-American "black Muslims" were taught "sabotage skills".

The November 1, 1998, British Independent reported that one of those charged with the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Ali Mohammed, had trained "bin Laden's operatives" in 1989.

These "operatives" were recruited at the al Kifah Refugee Centre in Brooklyn, New York, given paramilitary training in the New York area and then sent to Afghanistan with US assistance to join Hekmatyar's forces. Mohammed was a member of the US army's elite Green Berets.

The program, reported the Independent, was part of a Washington-approved plan called "Operation Cyclone".

In Pakistan, recruits, money and equipment were distributed to the mujaheddin factions by an organisation known as Maktab al Khidamar (Office of Services — MAK).

MAK was a front for Pakistan's CIA, the Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate. The ISI was the first recipient of the vast bulk of CIA and Saudi Arabian covert assistance for the Afghan contras. Bin Laden was one of three people who ran MAK. In 1989, he took overall charge of MAK.

Among those trained by Mohammed were El Sayyid Nosair, who was jailed in 1995 for killing Israeli rightist Rabbi Meir Kahane and plotting with others to bomb New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center in 1993.

The Independent also suggested that Shiekh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian religious leader also jailed for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, was also part of Operation Cyclone. He entered the US in 1990 with the CIA's approval. A confidential CIA report concluded that the agency was "partly culpable" for the 1993 World Trade Center blast, the Independent reported.

* Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden

Osama's military and business adventures in Afghanistan had the blessing of the bin Laden dynasty and the reactionary Saudi Arabian regime. His close working relationship with MAK also meant that the CIA was fully aware of his activities.

Milt Bearden, the CIA's station chief in Pakistan from 1986 to 1989, admitted to the January 24, 2000, New Yorker that while he never personally met bin Laden, "Did I know that he was out there? Yes, I did ... [Guys like] bin Laden were bringing $20-$25 million a month from other Saudis and Gulf Arabs to underwrite the war. And that is a lot of money. It's an extra $200-$300 million a year.

And this is what bin Laden did."

In 1986, bin Laden brought heavy construction equipment from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan. Using his extensive knowledge of construction techniques (he has a degree in civil engineering), he built "training camps", some dug deep into the sides of mountains, and built roads to reach them.

These camps, now dubbed "terrorist universities" by Washington, were built in collaboration with the ISI and the CIA. The Afghan contra fighters, including the tens of thousands of mercenaries recruited and paid for by bin Laden, were armed by the CIA. Pakistan, the US and Britain provided military trainers.

SOURCE : https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/how-cia-created-osama-bin-laden

* BONUS :

HOW MANY PEOPLE DID THE NAZIS MURDER?
Nazi Germany committed mass murder on an unprecedented scale. The Nazis and their allies and collaborators killed six million Jewish people. This systematic, state-sponsored genocide is now known as the Holocaust. The Nazis and their allies and collaborators also committed other mass atrocities. They persecuted and killed millions of non-Jewish people during World War II.

The Nazi German regime systematically murdered Jewish people in gas chambers; mass shooting operations; and through deliberate privation, disease, and brutal treatment. The Nazi German regime systematically murdered Jewish people in gas chambers; mass shooting operations; and through deliberate privation, disease, and brutal treatment.

SOURCE : https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas

Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state...

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 12 at 2024 8:24 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:24:37 -0400

Frank-stein’s Creation and Monster :

V1 : https://youtu.be/H4PckPdApIY?si=3vrhl6oBjUSgubPc

1.) How Israel went from helping 'create' Hamas to bombing it
HAMAS-ISRAEL WAR

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Hamas has roots watered by Israeli funding, former military governor of Gaza admits

Hamas would not exist in its current form without Israeli involvement, highlights a recent piece published by The Intercept.

The article by Mehdi Hasan, a British-American broadcaster and Dina Sayedahmed, a multimedia journalist based in New York suggests that Hamas, an acronym for the "Islamic Resistance Movement," creation was largely influenced by resources provided by Israel.

"This isn't a conspiracy theory," the Intercept article reads.

The article refers to comments from Israeli officials, such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, a former military governor in Gaza.

Segev reportedly stated his part in financially aiding the Palestinian Islamist movement, viewing it as a "counterweight" to the secularist Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as "a creature of Israel.")

"The Israeli government gave me a budget," Segev confessed to a New York Times reporter, "and the military government gives to the mosques."

In a startling revelation, Avner Cohen, a former Israeli official who worked in religious affairs in Gaza for over twenty years, told the Wall Street Journal, "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation."

According to The Intercept article, during the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists.

"I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face," he wrote.
Over the past decade -during 2009, 2012, and 2014- Israel has engaged in military conflict with Hamas at least three times, resulting in about 2,500 Palestinian civilian casualties in Gaza.

Hamas has been accused of killing more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian fighter group, mentions the article.

Reflecting on the chain of events, David Hacham, a former Arab affairs expert in the Israeli military based in Gaza, admitted, "When I look back, I think we made a mistake."

SOURCE : https://www.tbsnews.net/hamas-israel-war/how-israel-went-helping-create-hamas-bombing-it-718378?amp

2.) “Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood
STORYOCTOBER 20, 2023

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is urging Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s two-week bombardment has topped 4,100. Israel says a ground invasion may be imminent.

“This isn’t an effort to try to quell, to destroy Hamas specifically,” says Tareq Baconi, Palestinian analyst and author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance.

“This is an effort to pursue an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Gaza Strip and beyond the Gaza Strip, as we see the violence rising in the West Bank.”

Baconi lays out Israel’s history of enabling Hamas while designating them as terrorists in order to maintain tight control over Gaza. After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,400, Baconi says, “that equilibrium has now shattered.”

SOURCE : https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/20/divide_and_rule_how_israel_helped

3.) HISTORY
* MADE BY HISTORY
What the World Can Learn From the History of Hamas

The massacre by Hamas, which killed more than 1,000 men, women, and children, was an example of how that can happen. The terrorist group’s roots and strength date back to a Palestinian uprising that began in 1987—known as the first Intifada—when Israel turned a blind eye to the rise of Hamas so it could focus on what Israeli leaders saw as an even greater threat at the time: secular Palestinian groups, such as the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Yasser Arafat.

This move proved to be a disastrous miscalculation. The Israeli campaign against the PLO in the 1980s ended up enabling the rise of both Hamas and the Lebanese Hizballah (Party of God), two non-state actors that currently threaten Israeli security. Israel’s military campaign might weaken Hamas. Yet, Israel is unlikely to destroy the terrorist group—just as it never destroyed the PLO—and may instead encourage the rise of a group far more threatening than Hamas.

Beginning with the foundation of Israel in 1948, the PLO provided the de-facto leadership for Palestinians, many of whom had been displaced by the Arab-Israeli wars first in 1948, and then again in 1967. Palestinians turned to the group once they realized they could no longer rely on nearby Arab states like Egypt and Syria to liberate what they saw as their land.

First from Jordan and then from Lebanon—after the PLO was expelled from Jordan in 1970—the group conducted military strikes against Israeli targets. In 1982 and 1983, an Israeli military operation chased the PLO from Lebanon to Tunis—far from Israel’s borders. Israel’s military campaign, however, spawned the creation of a Shi’a resistance group in Lebanon called Hizballah, which later inspired the creation of Hamas.

In 1987, the first Intifada erupted as a spontaneous, homegrown protest movement. Some of the Intifada’s leaders, disillusioned with the secular PLO, formed Hamas (“Courage”)—a more hardline, religiously-motivated group.

Israel imprisoned Hamas’ leader, Ahmad Yassin, in 1989, but otherwise turned a blind eye to the group’s spread because it was a relatively minor threat to Israeli security, and Israeli leaders were focused on Arafat and the threat posed by the PLO.

In 1993, the first Intifada finally ended in a historic peace agreement signed by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Known as the Oslo Accords, the agreement that President Bill Clinton helped broker promised to eventually lead to Palestinian statehood.

Yet, almost immediately, this “two-state solution” began unraveling.

In 1994, an American-Jewish settler living in the West Bank walked into a Hebron mosque and killed 29 Muslim worshipers, inflaming tensions. Then in 1995, another Jewish settler opposed to the Oslo Accords assassinated Rabin, just after he had addressed a peace rally. The loss of the prime minister removed a champion of peace from the top of Israeli politics. Finally, in 1996, an Israeli tunnel built under what Muslims know as the Noble Sanctuary or Haram al-Sharif, and Jews know as the Temple Mount, sparked Palestinian protests.

These events prompted a dramatic change in strategy for Hamas. The group became the first Muslim organization to embrace the use of suicide bombers. Its leaders had tired of waiting for a Palestinian state and understood that Israel had a superior military. They also recognized that the shock of the tactic would guarantee media coverage, sow fear, and push Israel to lash out.

Hamas’ decision ignited a spiraling cycle that destroyed the peace process and thwarted any attempt to create a two-state solution.

Israeli voters reacted to Hamas’ first two suicide attacks by replacing the incumbent, pro-peace Labor government with a more hawkish, Likud-led government helmed by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Initially, although Likud distrusted the deal with the PLO, Netanyahu promised to fulfill Israel’s commitments. The prime minister even agreed to withdraw Israeli troops from most of Hebron in January 1997.

SOURCE : https://time.com/6324221/hamas-origins-history/

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* BONUS READ :

The Origins of Hamas: Militant Legacy or Israeli Tool?

Jean-Pierre Filiu
Journal of Palestine Studies
Vol. 41, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 54-70 (17 pages)
Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

SOURCE : https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2012.xli.3.54

V2 : https://youtu.be/BoIgloYGSTs?si=fDIpj15Yh51PGgmg

“Liar!” Norm Finkelstein DISMANTLES Hillary Israel Spin

This is a teaser clip! Make sure to stay tuned for the entire interview this weekend. Krystal and Norm Finkelstein discuss Hillary Clinton’s take on Israel a...

Response by MSG Stan Hutchison made Apr 12 at 2024 8:09 PM

MSG Stan Hutchison — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:09:36 -0400

I disagree with the headline on this article. The war in that region started over 2000 years ago and never settled.

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 12 at 2024 10:21 PM

CPL LaForest Gray — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:21:53 -0400

1.)Nuclear War Map
Simulations : Maps : References

SOURCE : https://www.nuclearwarmap.com

2.) SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 CAMPAIGN NEWS

New Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 million casualties in first few hours

34.1 million people could die, and another 57.4 million could be injured, within the first few hours of the start of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States triggered by one low-yield nuclear weapon, according to a new simulation by researcher’s at Princeton‘s Science and Global Security programme.

SOURCE : https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_russia_nuclear_war

3.) FEMA - Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear
Detonation
Third Edition

SOURCE : https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_nuc-detonation-planning-guide.pdf

Nuclear War Map: what would happen in a nuclear war?

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 13 at 2024 6:58 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:58:29 -0400

Israel are Squatting and Squatters

V1 : 2 Years Ago : https://youtu.be/KNqozQ8uaV8?si=jM9QyzUIevugLZBT

V2 : May 25th, 2021 : https://youtu.be/Bvf9bpqL4KM?si=EDLy10e3FfiTGI90

V3 : October 6th, 2016’ : https://youtu.be/_Tlnk0RL5VM?si=BpSTDEpsi8fz38fS

V4 : July 11th, 2023’ : https://youtu.be/AHfUm0Eda80?si=RnJpIPCofs7XygR7

V5 : August 7th, 2017’ : https://youtu.be/5D5-0bKtwuY?si=uXQYTnAB9UQ_KLFW

V6 : July 27th, 2017’ : https://youtu.be/DzCusuaKG1A?si=9voi4Q2bQ8RuJo8R

Israel is a mass murder and land theft baron.

99.9% that back Israel will one of two things :

1.) Never look at the facts/videos.

2.) Will see the FACTS for what they are, and the offer alternative reality/spin doctors/play victimhood for Israel.

3.). Will blatantly say “F*ck the FACTS, and continue the slaughter.

‘If I Don’t Steal [Your Home] Someone Else Will’ Israeli Settler Justifies Forcible Takeover

"You are stealing my house."This is what a Palestinian woman told an Israeli settler, as he tried to take over her family's home in occupied East Jerusalem's...

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 13 at 2024 7:21 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:21:08 -0400

israel was formed by bankers in that region.

This is land theft (USA is of course great with that).

This is Genocide and Ethic Hatred (USA is of course great with that).

israel ain’t f*ck’n with Germany for revenge or retribution of the 6 million jews slaughtered, ethnically eradicated by their NAZIS counterparts.

1.200 jews in israel were sacrificed so that this could take place and be “justified”.

No sneak attack happened, it was allowed and their fanbase salvate at the slaughter and are taking notes.

The Rothschild and other land thieves invaded and setup shop in that region. As it’s noted as the were homeless and pan handling until this farce was setup.

If anyone respond, respond with FACTS to disprove the legal documents of the establishment of Israel by the bankers.

FYI : You can’t, but try.
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* Before ANYONE says anything Asinine to me about this subject do your FACTS FINDINGS …. Both #2 & #3 are directly from “The Rothschild Archive”

* SOURCE : https://www.rothschildarchive.org/family/

White Nationalist established Israel as Historical Documention Proves as FACTUAL.

V1 : https://youtu.be/JFu-OUHpCLo?si=2gxOtOAjUD7NrGjo

V2 : https://youtu.be/kI_spMxp6t8?si=fK65comOd-ETLhMd

V3 : https://youtu.be/ZXfuqUhzESg?si=RodG-Z9f9SwRalqy

Misdirection:

That’s the illustrious misdirection sold by Bush Jr. administration.... “The War on Terrorism”.

It’s a war as old as mankind and the face forever changes.... Terrorism doesn’t fall under the Geneva Convention.... there are and never have been rules to it. It’s why the average citizen across the globe can’t grasp why you can’t take out terrorism.

Israel was established by a collection of European countries to further their foothold and agendas in that region. They had been fighting and establishing peace amongst themselves for thousands of years.

Fact find the terrorist attacks on European countries prior to the establishment of Israel and since. Those attacks increased not solely because of the establishment of Israel but because of Western countries being seen as they are.... invaders.

These European countries have started, backed proxy wars and political coo’s, assassinated politicians and figureheads to further their agendas, armed one side or both.

Them fighting in their own house is one thing.... European countries being ringleaders is something that both citizens and military personnel have paid for with their lives.

And save that argument about them invading western countries, that B.S. propaganda for western countries to do and keep doing what they’ve done.

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* Facts : https://youtu.be/42FmObIfodY?si=_81hdVS5pBpP4WlI

1.) In 1917 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration to the Zionist Federation, which committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.

Edmond's work in Palestine
A strong supporter of Zionism, his most outstanding achievements were involved in responding to the threats facing the Jewish people in Europe in the late 19th century by supporting massive land purchases and underwriting Jewish settlements in Palestine and Israel.

Edmond's large donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years, which helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel. In the 1880s, in his goal for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, Edmond’s philanthropy funded Jewish settlements and encouraged the development of agriculture and industry.

'The Benefactor', as he was known provided support for Jewish colonists, overseeing dozens of new colonies. Rishon le Zion (the First in Zion) was followed by others bearing the names of his parents.

Edmond stimulated the economic development of the settlements by investing in new crops, such as wine, grapefruit and avocado, and industrial enterprises such as silk production; he played a key role in Israel's wine industry.

Under the supervision of his administrators in Ottoman Palestine, farm colonies and vineyards were established, and two major wineries were opened in Rishon le Zion and Zikhron Ya'akov. Edmond paid his first visit to the colonies in 1887, to inspect the progress that had been made in the first five years.

In 1899, responsibility for the Rothschild settlements was transferred to form the Palestine branch of the Jewish Colonisation Association, which had been founded in 1891 by the Bavarian philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch to help Jews from Russia and Romania to settle in Argentina. Baron de Hirsch died in 1896 and thereafter the JCA began to also assist the Jewish settlement in Palestine. At the end of 1899, Edmond transferred title to his colonies in Palestine plus fifteen million francs to the JCA.

In 1924, the JCA branch dealing with colonies in Palestine was reorganised by Baron Edmond as the Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association (PICA), under the direction of his son, James de Rothschild (1878-1957). PICA acquired more than 125,000 acres (50,586 ha) of land and established a range of business ventures. As well as offices in Palestine, PICA had offices in Paris. After the 1929 Palestine riots PICA helped to rehabilitate agricultural colonies that had been damaged.

SOURCE : https://www.rothschildarchive.org/family/philanthropy/baron_edmond_de_rothschild_and_palestine

2.) Who was behind the Balfour Declaration?
30 OCTOBER 2017

Below, Al Jazeera examines the key players involved in realising the Balfour Declaration.

This week, Palestinians around the world are marking 100 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917.

The Balfour Declaration was a public pledge by Britain, declaring its aim to establish "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.

The statement came in the form of a letter from Britain's then foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community.

But the declaration was by no means formulated and decided upon overnight - rather, it had been in the works for years, involved many people and was drafted numerous times before being sent out.

The pledge is generally viewed as one of the main catalysts of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of the Zionist state of Israel.

SOURCE : https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/behind-balfour/amp.html

3.) Walter Rothschild and the Balfour Declaration

On November 2, 1917, the British Government expressed its sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations and announced that it would use its “best endeavours” to facilitate “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.

The announcement came in a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter, 2nd Lord Rothschild (1868-1937), the unofficial leader of the British Jewish community.

The Balfour agreement became the diplomatic foundation stone of the state of Israel. The origins of the letter had begun in the early twentieth century, when Chaim Weizmann, the leading spokesman for Zionism in Britain began to solicit support among the British people, shortly after he settled in Manchester in 1904.

Origins in The First World War
Beginning in 1916, the British hoped that in exchange for their support of Zionism, “the Jews” would help to finance the growing expenses of the First World War, which was becoming increasingly burdensome. More importantly, policy-makers in the Foreign Office believed that Jews could be prevailed upon to persuade the United States to join the War.

At this time, there were very strong pro-Zionist feelings by many of the political elite and establishment. Many of Britain’s leaders, including Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and Balfour himself, felt for the Jews and their history. These men were deeply religious Christian Zionists. They had grown up on the Bible; the Holy Land was their spiritual home.

They believed that modern Zionism would fulfil a divine promise, and re-settle the Jews in the land of their ancient fathers.

SOURCE : https://www.rothschildarchive.org/collections/rothschild_faqs/walter_rothschild_and_the_balfour_declaration

4.) Balfour Declaration
United Kingdom [1917]

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Balfour Declaration, (November 2, 1917), statement of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” It was made in a letter from Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary, to Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (of Tring), a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community. Though the precise meaning of the correspondence has been disputed, its statements were generally contradictory to both the Sykes-Picot Agreement (a secret convention between Britain and France) and the Ḥusayn-McMahon correspondence (an exchange of letters between the British high commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, and Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, then emir of Mecca), which in turn contradicted one another (see Palestine, World War I and after).

SOURCE : https://www.britannica.com/event/Balfour-Declaration

*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***

“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.

Did the Rothschild buy land in Israel?

Several of the moshavot established by the Baron were named after members of his family, including Zichron Yaakov, Mazkeret Batya, Bat Shlomo, Binyamina and Givat Ada. In all, Baron Rothschild purchased more than 500 square kilometers of land in Israel, upon which he established more than 40 settlements.

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“Throughout the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Jewish people in the Diaspora, there was probably no figure equal, or even comparable, to the amazing Baron Edmond de Rothschild- the builder of Jewish settlement in the renascent Jewish homeland of modern times.

Even the combination of three distinguished personalities: Don Yosef Nasi, Sir Moses Montefiore and Baron Hirsch, each of whom accomplished great things in his own way and in his time, could not match the personality of the “Famous Benefactor,” with his great vision, wide-ranging enterprises and exceptional accomplishments.”

The plight of the Jews of Russia and the pogroms that raged there in 1881 led the Baron to the conclusion that the solution to the problem of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe lay in Jewish immigration to Israel, where Jews could build a new life. Influenced by the chief rabbi of Paris, the Baron began to support the Hibat Zion movement and the first groups of Jews who tried to immigrate to Israel and establish new moshavot (agricultural colonies).

In the initial stages of his activities in Israel, the Baron did not reveal his role in the financing of the Jewish settlement, and he was simply known as the “Famous Benefactor”.

SOURCE : https://www.caesarea-assets.com/en/רוטשילד-וקיסריה/#:~:text=Several%20of%20the%20moshavot%20established,established%20more%20than%2040%20settlements.

*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***

“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.

The Family :: The Rothschild Archive

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 13 at 2024 7:28 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:28:17 -0400

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Just because I post about how Hamas was helped by Israel Military Intelligence in proxy wars, by no means am I sympathetic to Hamas.

I am sympathetic to the Palestinian people who don’t support Hamas. There is a difference.

V1 : https://www.instagram.com/reel/C04jAPbM0LS/?igsh=Zjlkd2Npcmw1Zjg5

1.) What Is Hamas?

The Palestinian militant group has struggled to govern Gaza and remains committed to violently resisting Israel. Its surprise attack against Israel in 2023 threatens a wider conflagration in the Middle East.

Summary

* A spin-off of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s, the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party, Fatah, in elections in 2006.

* The United States and European Union have designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its armed resistance against Israel, which has included suicide bombings and rocket attacks.

* Israel has declared war on Hamas following its surprise assault on the country’s south in 2023, the deadliest attack in Israeli history.

SOURCE : https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hamas

2.) Foreign Terrorist Organizations
BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.

Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

October 8, 1997 - HAMAS

Legal Criteria for Designation under Section 219 of the INA as amended

* It must be a foreign organization.

* The organization must engage in terrorist activity, as defined in section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)),or terrorism, as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. § 2656f(d)(2)), or retain the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism.

* The organization’s terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States.

Other Effects of Designation

* Supports our efforts to curb terrorism financing and to encourage other nations to do the same.

* Stigmatizes and isolates designated terrorist organizations internationally.

* Deters donations or contributions to and economic transactions with named organizations.

* Heightens public awareness and knowledge of terrorist organizations.

* Signals to other governments our concern about named organizations.

SOURCE : https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/

3.) OVERVIEW

HAMAS–the acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement)—is the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the territories’ two major political parties. HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch.

The group is committed to armed resistance against Israel and the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state in Israel’s place. HAMAS has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority from power.

* OPERATING AREAS Primarily in Gaza; also maintains a presence in the West Bank; Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; and key regional capitals, such as Doha, Qatar, and Cairo, Egypt.

* MEMBERS Between 20,000 and 25,000

‏TACTICS AND TARGETS
‏ HAMAS uses improvised explosive devices, short- and long-range rockets and mortars, small arms, kidnapping operations, rocket-propelled grenades, man-portable air defense systems, antitank missiles, and unmanned aircraft systems in attacks against Israeli military forces and civilians, as well as against ISIS and other Salafist armed group members based in Gaza. The group also uses cyber espionage and computer network exploitation operations.

‏FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUP

‏DESIGNATION The US State Department designated HAMAS as a foreign terrorist organization in October 1997.

SOURCE : https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html

Israel Military Intelligence :

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HAMAS

Has Hamas attacked Israel in other instances prior to 2023?

Since it seized power in Gaza in 2007, Hamas has provoked multiple major confrontations with Israel, including a 22-day war in 2008-2009; an eight-day war in 2012; a 50-day war in 2014; a series of coordinated attacks in 2018 and 2019; and an 11-day war in May 2021.

Prior to October 2023, Hamas had killed approximately 25 U.S. citizens and was holding two hostages plus the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. Hamas’ 2023 attack represents the most lethal terrorist attack in Israel’s history. The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, claimed the lives of 22 citizens from the United States, 17 from Britain, 18 from Thailand, 10 from Nepal, 10 from France, seven from Argentina, and others.

SOURCE : https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/16/10-things-to-know-about-hamas/

V1 : https://www.instagram.com/reel/C04jAPbM0LS/?igsh=Zjlkd2Npcmw1Zjg5

1.) What Is Hamas?

The Palestinian militant group has struggled to govern Gaza and remains committed to violently resisting Israel. Its surprise attack against Israel in 2023 threatens a wider conflagration in the Middle East.

Summary

* A spin-off of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s, the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party, Fatah, in elections in 2006.

* The United States and European Union have designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its armed resistance against Israel, which has included suicide bombings and rocket attacks.

* Israel has declared war on Hamas following its surprise assault on the country’s south in 2023, the deadliest attack in Israeli history.

SOURCE : https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hamas

2.) Foreign Terrorist Organizations
BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.

Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

October 8, 1997 - HAMAS

Legal Criteria for Designation under Section 219 of the INA as amended

* It must be a foreign organization.

* The organization must engage in terrorist activity, as defined in section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)),or terrorism, as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. § 2656f(d)(2)), or retain the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism.

* The organization’s terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States.

Other Effects of Designation

* Supports our efforts to curb terrorism financing and to encourage other nations to do the same.

* Stigmatizes and isolates designated terrorist organizations internationally.

* Deters donations or contributions to and economic transactions with named organizations.

* Heightens public awareness and knowledge of terrorist organizations.

* Signals to other governments our concern about named organizations.

SOURCE : https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/

3.) OVERVIEW

HAMAS–the acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement)—is the largest and most capable militant group in the Palestinian territories and one of the territories’ two major political parties. HAMAS emerged in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch.

The group is committed to armed resistance against Israel and the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state in Israel’s place. HAMAS has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority from power.

* OPERATING AREAS Primarily in Gaza; also maintains a presence in the West Bank; Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; and key regional capitals, such as Doha, Qatar, and Cairo, Egypt.

* MEMBERS Between 20,000 and 25,000

‏TACTICS AND TARGETS
‏ HAMAS uses improvised explosive devices, short- and long-range rockets and mortars, small arms, kidnapping operations, rocket-propelled grenades, man-portable air defense systems, antitank missiles, and unmanned aircraft systems in attacks against Israeli military forces and civilians, as well as against ISIS and other Salafist armed group members based in Gaza. The group also uses cyber espionage and computer network exploitation operations.

‏FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUP

‏DESIGNATION The US State Department designated HAMAS as a foreign terrorist organization in October 1997.

SOURCE : https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html

Israel Military Intelligence :

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HAMAS

Has Hamas attacked Israel in other instances prior to 2023?

Since it seized power in Gaza in 2007, Hamas has provoked multiple major confrontations with Israel, including a 22-day war in 2008-2009; an eight-day war in 2012; a 50-day war in 2014; a series of coordinated attacks in 2018 and 2019; and an 11-day war in May 2021.

Prior to October 2023, Hamas had killed approximately 25 U.S. citizens and was holding two hostages plus the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. Hamas’ 2023 attack represents the most lethal terrorist attack in Israel’s history. The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, claimed the lives of 22 citizens from the United States, 17 from Britain, 18 from Thailand, 10 from Nepal, 10 from France, seven from Argentina, and others.

SOURCE : https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/16/10-things-to-know-about-hamas/

Charleston White delivers a chilling take on the Israel vs Palestine war.

Full Interview OUT NOW!https://www.youtube.com/live/V-SyDFZ3mlE?si=wvBBCqhkqoikLc6c

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 13 at 2024 7:41 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:41:03 -0400

Response by CPL Larry Frias Jr made Apr 13 at 2024 7:29 PM

CPL Larry Frias Jr — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:29:16 -0400

.......F ...iran....send in the wolfhounds of the 25th Infantry.....guarantee they will get the job done or screw things up more !!!!!!!!

Response by Maj William Mitchell made Apr 13 at 2024 10:27 PM

Maj William Mitchell — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:27:53 -0400

Praying for Israel. May God bless and protect Israel.

Response by Lt Col Charlie Brown made Apr 14 at 2024 9:27 AM

Lt Col Charlie Brown — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:27:05 -0400

The start of a nightmare that might have been preventable.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 14 at 2024 7:22 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 19:22:19 -0400

We should also be alert domestically. I am certain a large number of terrorist cells infiltrated the US during the unmonitored Southern mass migration.

Response by A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney made Apr 14 at 2024 7:24 PM

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 19:24:42 -0400

~~ "October 7th – The Day War with Iran Began"~~
And FAR Past Time To End It, No Matter Who Does It.
I Prefer It Be US ~~ We CAN Stop It, We Just Need To Get
Off Ouraz And DO It. ... Sometimes It TAKES Violence, To END Violence.
And THIS Is One Of Those "Times".....

Response by PO3 Justin Bowen made Apr 18 at 2024 4:40 AM

PO3 Justin Bowen — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:40:55 -0400

"“Last year, the streets of Berlin, London, Washington, and other cities across the world were filled with people protesting the
Islamic Republic’s violence against women. Now, those same streets are occupied by people protesting Israel’s attacks on Gaza.”"

People who opposed the Islamic Republic's violence against women are ALSO outraged about Israel bombing women and children who speak a funny language and have somewhat darker skin than the average Jewish person?

Hmmm. What a surprise.

Maybe people who are opposed to far-right Muslim-majority states committing or permitting violence against women aren't JUST opposed to far-right Muslim-majority states doing so.

Despite what many on the right think, people killing Muslim and/or Arab women and children isn't acceptable simply because the savages doing the killing are Israelis.

Side note: the only way that the US and the world are going to be rid of the Israeli-MENA conflict is if the world gets off of oil as source of energy or if the MENA states eliminate Israel as a state before the MENA states lose their main revenue source and, with it, the political power that comes from it. The US isn't going to stop backing Israel, which is no friend to the US, because the US needs stable oil prices, which are largely dictated by people's sentiments about what MIGHT happen as a result of conflict in the Middle East.

And in the US, the primary group of people who want to keep the US and the world addicted to oil as an energy source come mostly from one party.

Response by CPL LaForest Gray made Apr 18 at 2024 8:59 AM

CPL LaForest Gray — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:59:32 -0400

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1.) Tensions between Israel and the Vatican escalating

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the pope's Secretary of State, sparks yet another protest from Israel after condemning the "carnage" caused by the country's military operation in Gaza

"I believe we are all outraged by what is happening, by this carnage," the 69-year-old cardinal said. "We request that the right to defend itself, which Israel has invoked to justify this operation, be proportionate. And, certainly, with 30,000 dead, it is not."

The cardinal reiterated the Vatican's "clear and unreserved condemnation" of the attack Hamas carried out in Israel on October 7, and the Catholic Church's "clear and unreserved condemnation of all forms of antisemitism".

SOURCE : https://international.la-croix.com/news/politics/tensions-between-israel-and-the-vatican-escalating/19178

2.) The Vatican and the War in Gaza

A rhetorical dispute between the Church and the Israeli government shows the limits—and the possibilities—of the Pope’s role in times of conflict.

SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-vatican-and-the-war-in-gaza

3.) Stop war from spreading throughout Middle East, pope says in message
CINDY WOODEN
Apr 16, 2024
US & World

“I make a heartfelt appeal for a halt to any action that might fuel a spiral of violence with the risk of dragging the Middle East into an even greater conflict,” the pope said April 14 after reciting the “Regina Coeli” prayer with visitors in St. Peter’s Square.

SOURCE : https://www.cathstan.org/us-world/stop-war-from-spreading-throughout-middle-east-pope-says-in-message

Pope Francis condemns Israeli 'terrorism' in Gaza

Pope Francis condemned the Israeli military attack on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Parish that killed a mother and her daughter, calling for an end to the ‘te...

Response by SGT Kevin Hughes made Apr 23 at 2024 3:16 PM

SGT Kevin Hughes — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:16:19 -0400

I rarely comment on anything remotely political - but this is such a thoughtful analysis of the challenges and History (and to think back in my Day- the Shah of Iran was the one that fed our Navy Oil during the 73 War.) that I just had to say this was a well written piece. Kudos to you and your analytical skills.

Response by SGT Ruben Lozada made Apr 24 at 2024 1:25 PM

SGT Ruben Lozada — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:25:46 -0400

Good afternoon CPT Alex Gallo. Excellent post. Thank you for sharing this Sir.

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