Quote:Israeli Forces Tighten Net Around Hamas in Gaza City

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) encircled Gaza City on November 2, fighting Palestinian terrorists street-to-street as it closed in on the heart of Hamas operations. “We’re at the height of the battle. We’ve had impressive successes and have passed the outskirts of Gaza City. We are advancing,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced as troops backed by tanks, armored bulldozers, and air force strikes moved in from eastern farmland, western coastal dunes, and a southern highway through the first lines of urban housing.

“Evidence demonstrates that the Israeli military has made substantial headway in its southern push. Both the Israeli military and terrorist groups in Gaza have released official communiques indicating that the fighting has extended to more southerly territories. While Hamas is militarily inferior to Israel, it will continue to leverage guerilla tactics in an attempt to slow down the IDF’s advances, especially when fighting begins in significant areas of operation such as Gaza City.” — Joe Truzman, Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal

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President Biden ran for office to restore the soul of our nation. He is unequivocal: there is no place for hate in America against anyone. Period.

Today, he and Vice President Harris are announcing that their Administration will develop the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia in the United States. We look forward to continuing our work with community leaders, advocates, members of Congress, and more to develop the strategy – which will be a joint effort led by the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council – and counter the scourge of Islamophobia and hate in all its forms. For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents. We all mourn the recent barbaric killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American Muslim boy, and the brutal attack on his mother in their home outside Chicago.

Today’s announcement is the latest step as part of President Biden’s directive last year to establish an interagency group to increase and better coordinate U.S. Government efforts to counter Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and related forms of bias and discrimination within the United States. Moving forward, the President, Vice President, and our entire Administration will continue working to ensure every American has the freedom to live their lives in safety and without fear for how they pray, what they believe, and who they are.

The White House

Quote:IDF Daily Recap: Hamas - Israel War November 8th, 2023 - Day 33

To date, the IDF struck over 14,000 terrorist targets, has destroyed over 100 terrorist tunnels, and has confiscated over 4,000 weapons, many from inside mosques, kindergartens, residential buildings and otehr civilian areas exploited by Hamas.

The IDF has focused on eliminating senior and tactical Hamas leadership. In one such example, the IDF and ISA eliminated Hamas’ Head of Weapons and Industries, Mohsen Abu Zina, yesterday. Abu Zina served as Hamas’ leading weapons developer and had expertise in the field of strategic weapons and rockets.

The IDF is continuing to deliver Humanitarian aid to southern Gaza. In recent weeks, hundreds of trucks of aid including equipment, water, food and medicine have been delivered to Gaza. Yesterday, 96 trucks entered Gaza, including 5 with medical supplies, 31 with food, 8 with water, 19 with supplies for shelter and 23 more. In addition, the IDF opened another evacuation corridor today for civilians in northern Gaza to move south from 10:00-14:00. Some 50,000 Gazans utilized the corridor to move south.

The IDF has notified the families of the 349 IDF soldiers who have fallen in defense of the State of Israel. There have also been IDF injuries due to the past few weeks of fighting.

Quote:Key Takeaways:

1. Hamas forces north of Gaza City conducted hit-and-run attacks that harassed Israeli forces, which supports CTP-ISW's previous assessment that Hamas units in the northern Gaza Strip are screening a main defensive effort in central Gaza City.
   
2. Hamas Political Bureau Deputy Chairman Saleh al Arouri said that Palestinians in the West Bank will respond to the Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which is consistent with repeated Hamas calls for further resistance in the West Bank.
   
3. Hamas political leaders continue to call for Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) to increase its involvement in the Hamas-Israel war to alleviate the pressure that Hamas is facing in Gaza.
   
4. Brazilian police working with Mossad arrested LH operatives who were planning an attack on Jewish targets in Brazil on November 8.
   
5. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed responsibility for three attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria on November 8.
   
6. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed 45 attacks targeting US forces in the Middle East since October 18.
   

Gaza Strip

Axis of Resistance campaign objectives:

Erode the will of the Israeli political establishment and public to launch and sustain a major ground operation into the Gaza Strip

Degrade IDF material and morale around the Gaza Strip

(11-09-2023, 09:14 PM)727Sky Wrote: A couple of things I find interesting about the following video besides the shoot down is the map of all the U.S. bases that have been struck across the Mid=East. Also the missile that shot down the 32 million dollar drone was not some home made in a cave device but was supplied by Iran or so the story goes....The Hawks and the Doves are all airborne trying to spin the story to their own advantage, so standby for more bird droppings...


US forces destroy Iran-linked weapons depot in Syria which is one of the lowest threshold paybacks possible for a response to the 42 strikes on our bases... The Iranian base that was struck was watched (and probably warned) about the coming strike. There are some serious "WHYS" that should be asked about all our dealings with Iran under this Biden regime IMO..

Quote:'I need to be more clued up': Students quizzed at pro-Palestine protest reveal how little they
know about Israel-Hamas conflict and don't even know terror group launched bloody slaughter
on October 7 - as others insist killers are 'freedom fighters'

*Activists denied Hamas massacre while others voiced support for terror group

'Students who were interviewed at a pro-Palestine protest admitted they 'need to be more clued
up' about the Israel-Hamas conflict and even confessed to not being aware that the terror group
launched a bloody massacre on October 7.

Some activists who attended a London rally on November 4 denied that Hamas were terrorists
despite them being a proscribed terror group in the UK, meaning it is a criminal offence to declare
support for it. Others described the Hamas attacks as a 'beacon of hope' and claimed the 'continued
existence of Israel is a war crime'.

On October 7, Hamas terrorists blitzed into Israel, slaughtering 1,400 victims and taking 240 hostages
in a rampage that shocked the world. Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas and Palestinian officials
have said 10,569 people have been killed.


Then we'll do lunch.

Among those interviewed by Jewish charity Campaign Against Antisemitism were two young women
- one of whom denied Hamas's barbaric invasion took place while the other admitted to not knowing
what had happened. In a video shared to X/Twitter, an interviewer stops the girls and asks: 'When
Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, what was your initial reaction to that?'

The girl on the left, holding up a home-made sign condemning the British Government, replies: 'I don't
believe they did, did they?' Looking at her friend for reassurance, she asks: 'Hamas?' But her friend on
the right replies: 'I think so?'
She continues: 'Honestly I think I need to be a bit more clued up on everything that's going on. So I feel
like I'm not really qualified to answer that too well.'

Despite bloody evidence of men, women and children being murdered and captured by Hamas, the
woman on the left adds: 'I mean, I'm not sure if I've seen anything that shows that that's actually
happened or that's correct.'


My Mom Dropped Me Off.

The camera filming then pans around to her home-made sign, with cut-out images and drawings, reading:
'Rishi, Keir, U must be invertebrates cause ur spineless! Call 4 a ceasefire'.
The two women were joined by others who confidently backed Hamas despite the atrocities.
One woman said: 'It's controversial but I think Hamas are freedom fighters.'


Ilhan Omar Said It, So It Must Be True.

When asked if the UK has made the wrong decision by making Hamas a proscribed terror organisation,
another woman said: 'Of course. It's not Hamas that are terrorists. It's America that are terrorists. Israel
are terrorists, not Hamas.'

A third said: 'Honestly, it showed signs, it was resistance against the occupation against the Palestinians.
Honestly it was a beacon of hope for me. To me, it was them fighting back and showing resistance.
Another raging activist said: 'The continued existence of Israel is a war crime.'


Ilhan Omar Said It, So It Must Be True... Again.

And in more support for Hamas, a protester claimed: 'They are freedom fighters. They are not terrorists as
the media portrays them to be. They are fighting for the right to their land. It's their land. They have the
right to self-defence and they are not terrorists. They are absolutely not.'

A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: 'This footage showcases the toxic combination of
ignorance and support for terrorism that motivates too many of the protesters on these marches.
'Is it any surprise that opinions such as these, accompanied by genocidal chanting, anti-Semitic signage
and calls for violence, are terrifying the Jewish community?

'Worse still, the demonstrations are coming just after the worst anti-Semitic atrocity since the Holocaust,
when Jews are feeling particularly vulnerable.  'This is why we have called on the police to use their existing
powers under Section 13 of the Public Order Act to ban these marches. London cannot continue to be a
no-go zone for Jewish people week after week.'

Outraged social media users also showed their dismay at the comments made by the protesters.
One wrote: 'Shocking. The girls who don't know if Hamas attacked Israel are embarrassing.'
A second posted: 'I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry or be in shock. I wish I was in total disbelief that
people in the UK could say these things….but I no longer am. It's shameful!!'

A third commented: 'Can't believe, what I am hearing.'
And a fourth added: 'Pure ignorance.'...'

(11-10-2023, 04:38 PM)Snarl Wrote: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/did-they-know-in-advance-israeli-opposition-leader-demands-answers-from-media-after-report-on-journalists-embedding-with-hamas/

Interesting read. The denial from those publications may give a little insight into how much they fear being singled out and killed by the IDF. Personally: I think they deserve it.

Quote:Daily Recap: Hamas - Israel War November 9th, 2023 - Day 34

Last night, Nahal Brigade soldiers overran Hamas’ ‘Outpost 17’ in Jabalya after a 10 hour firefight. Dozens of terrorists were killed in the battle. Significant enemy materials were recovered from the outpost relating to Hamas’ operational plans.

An IDF fighter jet killed Ibrahim Abu- Maghsib, the head of Hamas’ Anti Tank Missile Unit in the Central Camps Brigade. The attack was carried out using intelligence provided by the ISA and IDF Intelligence agencies.

Since the beginning of the war, about 9,500 rockets and dozens of aircraft have been launched towards Israel. About 12% of the total launches towards Israel landed in the Gaza Strip and about 900 launches were carried out from civilian sites such as: mosques, schools, hospitals and cultural centers.

Over 130 tunnel entrances have been discovered by IDF forces since ground forces entered Gaza.

Quote:Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday that “far too many Palestinians have been killed” in Gaza, in the latest indication that the Biden administration is growing increasingly concerned about the civilian death toll under Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion.

“Much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that humanitarian assistance reaches them,” Mr. Blinken told reporters in New Delhi after a diplomatic tour through Middle Eastern and Asian nations. “Far too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks. And we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them.”

NY Times Live Updates

(11-11-2023, 12:17 AM)Snarl Wrote: Waiting for this application:

Troops in the open. Fire for effect.

(11-12-2023, 12:53 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: John Mearsheimer - considered one of the foremost International Relations scholar's in the world today - on Gaza:

Israel is "waging a punishment campaign in Gaza, they are punishing the civilian population... The Israelis are interested in causing a huge amount of destruction in Gaza and in the process they are going to kill huge numbers of civilians... It seems to me that when you do that you're committing war crimes. If the Israelis were going to great length to target just Hamas and avoid civilian casualties then you could make a coherent argument that this is not a case of them committing war crimes but they're not doing that, they're purposely tearing the place apart. This is a massive punishment campaign.

Furthermore at the same time they've cut off all food, water and gas to Gaza and this means that in effect they're going to end up starving out, or trying to starve out, the civilian population in Gaza. By my understanding of international law, this too is a war crime."

He also says the U.S. is "definitely complicit" in those war crimes.

Mearsheimer also makes the case that it simply won't work as he doesn't believe there's a military solution here:

"I don't think that [Israel] can beat Hamas on the battlefield and even if [they] do some other group will come to take their place. And I don't believe you can beat the Palestinians into submission."

Instead he says "what you have to do is come up with a political solution", which everyone "fully understands" is the 2-state solution. However he says "the Israelis have - except on one occasion - never been really interested in even trying to achieve a 2-state solution."

Prof. John J. Mearsheimer: Ukraine/Israel: How China benefits (25 min)

(11-12-2023, 07:17 AM)727Sky Wrote:

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This says Turkish fighters are now involved...

(11-12-2023, 09:03 AM)727Sky Wrote: Call it what you want but yes you can live with Muslims until they reach a certain mass at which point they will force their will and religious beliefs on everyone. Let more into western societies and see what happens in the near future. Growing up I never once thought a one world government and religion would be based on the Koran....now I am not so sure ???

(11-12-2023, 09:03 AM)727Sky Wrote: Call it what you want but yes you can live with Muslims until they reach a certain mass at which point they will force their will and religious beliefs on everyone. Let more into western societies and see what happens in the near future. Growing up I never once thought a one world government and religion would be based on the Koran....now I am not so sure ???

(11-12-2023, 09:03 AM)727Sky Wrote: Call it what you want but yes you can live with Muslims until they reach a certain mass at which point they will force their will and religious beliefs on everyone. Let more into western societies and see what happens in the near future. Growing up I never once thought a one world government and religion would be based on the Koran....now I am not so sure ???