At least 1100 dead, Israeli PM Netanyahu declares 'war' after Hamas terrorists l

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At least 1100 dead, Israeli PM Netanyahu declares 'war' after Hamas terrorists launch massive attack
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hamas-attack-israel-war

Hamas has launched the biggest attack on Israel in years, killing at least 1,100 and wounding more than 2,000 with a barrage of rockets as gunfights are reported in Sderot and other cities in southern Israel.

Another war in the Middle East?

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Horrifying images reveal Hamas massacre at rave, where Israeli officers acted as human shields to protect civilians
https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/horrifying-images-show-victims-of-hamas-attack-at-nova-music-festival/

At least 260 people were killed in the “massacre’’ at an Israeli music fest, which included Israeli officers being blown away while acting as human shields and hostages having their legs shot off so they couldn’t run, survivors say.

Graphic new images include a photo of scores of dead lying in a tent at the rave, which turned into bloody mayhem after heavily armed Palestinian terrorists paraglided across the Gaza Strip border in Saturday’s early-morning sneak attack on Israel.

Video showed the unsuspecting crowd earlier dancing to music as the terrorist motorized paragliders could be seen coming down in the distance.

The disturbing photos posted online by the Israeli MInistry of Foreign Affairs also show people who were gunned down in the street while fleeing the Tribe of Nova music festival near Gaza, while one snapshot captures a bloodied hostage loaded in the back of a Hamas terror vehicle.

Many of the deaths happened at the Tribe of Nova music festival. At least 260 people were massacred. Untold numbers have been kidnapped by Hamas.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Unknown number of dead Americans at the music-site.

Biden and Dr. Biden host a bbq at the Rose Garden with live band.

[Eupher]

Biden and Dr. Biden host a bbq at the Rose Garden with live band.

Interesting. Reminds me of the time when Barry Soetoro announced the beheading of journalist James Foley and 10 minutes later, hit the links for a round of golf.

SharterJoe isn't running the show. He's just doing what he's told.

[Eupher]

Iran Makes It Clear They're Behind Hamas' Barbaric Terrorism

Waaaaay too many Twitter tweets in this "article" to actually post some text, so here's the link to Katie Pavlich's non-article.

She gets into how SharterJoe's administration became a place where Palestinian sympathizers are instrumental in shaping US policy. This, despite Senate objections.

If even 1/10 of this is true, SharterJoe and Antony Blinken are guilty of treason.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/10/09/iran-makes-it-clear-theyre-behind-hamas-barbaric-terrorism-against-israeli-civilians-n2629521

[FlaGator]

To quote Senator Palpatine: "Wipe them out. All of them."

[Old n Grumpy]

To quote Senator Palpatine: "Wipe them out. All of them."

Unfortunately that’s the only solution to prevent more deaths

[DefiantSix]

Unfortunately that’s the only solution to prevent more deaths

There is no negotiating with people who want you dead. No matter what the hand wringing hippies still clinging to their grasp on power have to say on the subject.

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The Costs of the Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/10/09/the_costs_of_the_afghanistan_withdrawal_debacle_149861.html

In diplomacy and national security, as with personal relations and social life, credibility is a precious good. Once lost, it is difficult to recover. With its botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 – accompanied by falsehoods it disseminated to conceal its blunders and to meet its domestic political goals – the Biden administration dealt a blow to American credibility and undercut U.S. interests.

Russia seems to have paid particular attention to U.S. disarray in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, just as it did to U.S. pusillanimity in Syria in the summer of 2013. President Barack Obama declined in August 2013 to enforce the U.S. red line that he had announced in 2012 against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. Instead of punishing Assad for violating the international laws of war in the summer of 2013, Obama invited Russia back into the Middle East to oversee the removal of Assad’s chemical weapons stockpile. Six months later, in February 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces seized Crimea and substantial portions of eastern Ukraine.

An uncannily similar sequence of events unfolded under President Joe Biden. His administration’s hasty and mismanaged pullout of American troops and diplomats in August 2021 precipitated the fall of Kabul into the Taliban’s hands, squandering the stability and good will that America had established over the course of 20 years in Afghanistan. Six months later, in February 2022, Putin’s military rolled into Ukraine with the intention of bringing the entire country under Russia’s dominion.

No doubt multiple factors drove Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in 2014 and his attempt to conquer it in 2022. He has long made known his designs on lands he regards as essential to Russia’s imperial ambitions. But if the Russian strongman was uncertain about how America might react to a blatant violation of Ukraine’s political sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Obama administration’s projection of irresoluteness in the summer of 2013 and the Biden administration’s demonstration of ineptitude in the summer of 2021 would have diminished Putin’s fear in the winters of 2014 and 2022 of American retribution.

How the Afghanistant debacle weakened America.

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US Weapons Left Behind in Afghanistan May Have Been Among Deadly Tools Hamas Used on Civilians
https://www.westernjournal.com/us-weapons-left-behind-afghanistan-may-among-deadly-tools-hamas-used-civilians/

If freeing up $6 billion of Iranian money, making it easier for them to divert other funds to terrorist organizations, wasn’t enough, it appears the Biden administration’s disastrous foreign policy decisions may be supplementing ammunition to terrorists like Hamas as well.

According to Newsweek, a high-ranking official in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expressed Israel’s concerns to the outlet about weapons from the U.S. and other Western nations provided to Ukraine ending up in the hands of Israel’s enemies, particularly the Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile system.

Even more shameful, The Israeli commander told Newsweek that U.S. small arms seized in Afghanistan have been observed being used by Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip.

In January, NBC reported that weapons left behind in Afghanistan during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the nation have been used to arm militants in Kashmir, India, in what NBC said experts call “just the start of the weapons’ global journey.”

America left weapons behind in Afghanistan after the debacle. It has turned up in militants in Kashmir. It likely has turned up in Hamas.

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Hamas threatens to execute Israeli hostages — including toddlers — leaving Jewish state in desperate race to free them from terrorists
https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/hamas-threatens-to-execute-israeli-hostages-on-camera/

Hundreds of innocent civilians, including children, are believed to have been taken hostage in Israel by Hamas — forcing the Jewish state into a desperate race to find and free them as the terror group threatened Monday to execute captives.

Israeli authorities have not yet provided specific details about the number and identities of the kidnapped victims, however, a preliminary assessment shared by one senior military official with the New York Times suggests at least 150 people have been captured.

Among them are 5-year-old Raz and 3-year-old Aviv, their devastated father, Yoni Asher, revealed Monday.

Asher’s entire world came crashing down Saturday when he recognized his girls and their mother in a video circulating on social media showing abducted Israelis being forced on a flatbed truck, surrounded by men with guns.

He had last spoken to his wife, Doron Asher Katz, 34, earlier that day when she phoned him from her mom’s place in southern Israel, according to Bloomberg.

Sickos. 

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The single worst day in Israel's history? Probably.
https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/the-single-worst-day-in-israels-history

Take a guess as to how many Israeli civilians were killed in the Yom Kippur War?

Zero. Not a single one.

Bludgeoned by the Syrians and the Egyptians, Israel still managed to fulfill the single most basic obligation of any government—to keep its citizens safe.

In the Yom Kippur War, Israel made massive mistakes with intel that it had and waited far too long to call up reserves. But it did have intel. And the top brass did fight over what to do about the intel.

The attack is likely the deadliest day in Israel. More civilians were killed in the terrorist attack than soldiers in the Yom Kippur War.

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Israeli woman Inbar Lieberman, 25, is hailed a hero for saving kibbutz Nir Am from invading Hamas
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12616229/Israeli-woman-Inbar-Lieberman-kibbutz-Nir-Hamas.html

An Israeli woman has been hailed a hero after saving the community of Nir Am from Hamas as infiltrating terrorists began to invade.

Inbar Lieberman led a group of residents to kill more than two dozen advancing terrorists while defending the kibbutz (community), just a mile from the Gaza Strip.

Lieberman, who has been part of the security detail in the region since December 2022, heard explosions erupting early Saturday when Hamas launched the unprecedented and deadly attack on Israel.

She quickly realized that the sounds were different to those she heard during the usual rocket attacks on the kibbutz and rushed to open the armory and distribute guns among the 12-member security team.

The 25-year-old placed her squad of kibbutzniks in strategic positions across the settlement, set up ambushes, and turned the tables on the incoming forces.

She killed five terrorists herself, while the others claimed the lives of 20 more over a four hour period. Nir Am was turned into an impenetrable fortress, while nearby kibbutzim's suffered heavier losses.

Meet Inbar Lieberman. She is a hero.  

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Death toll from Hamas onslaught passes 1,000; IDF kills terrorists in southern Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/death-toll-from-hamas-onslaught-passes-1000-idf-kills-terrorists-in-southern-israel/

The death toll from Palestinian terror group Hamas’s shock attack on Israel on Saturday has surpassed 1,000, with close to 3,000 injured and the fate of an estimated 150 people abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip still unclear.

According to Hebrew media reports, the death toll hit a grim 1,000 late Tuesday as security forces and Zaka, a volunteer group that handles human remains after terror attacks and other disasters, worked in southern Israeli communities to clear and collect bodies.

The Health Ministry said earlier that 2,901 had been injured in the assault, with over 500 still hospitalized, including 26 critically and 340 seriously.

Funeral after funeral was held across Israel on Tuesday for soldiers and civilians alike as Israel reels from the mass infiltration on Saturday.

Security forces were also still battling terrorists in southern Israel on Tuesday, with two killed in an agricultural field near the southern community of Kfar Maimon and another two gunmen killed near the Erez Crossing into the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, according to Hebrew media reports.

A 1,000 Israelis have been killed in the deadly terrorist attacks,

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Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz: report
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/hamas-kills-40-babies-and-children-beheading-some-of-them-at-israeli-kibbutz-report/

Hamas terrorists slaughtered at least 40 babies and young children — decapitating some of them — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border, shaken Israeli officials and reporters at the scene said Tuesday.

“It’s hard to even explain exactly just the mass casualties that happened right here,” visibly distraught i24 News correspondent Nicole Zedek said during a broadcast from Kibbutz Kfar Aza near Sderot about a quarter-mile from the Gaza Strip.

“Babies with their heads cut off, that’s what [the soldiers] said. Gunned down. Families gunned down, completely gunned down in their beds,” Zedek said of the “sheer horror.

“This is nothing that anyone would have even imagined,” she said.

Top CNN reporter Nic Robertson, dressed in a military helmet and flak jacket, said, “There were so many murdered members of this Kibbutz.

Pure evil. 

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Netanyahu: “Every Hamas Operative Will Die. Hamas is ISIS.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/netanyahu-every-hamas-operative-will-die-hamas-is-isis/

Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a united government to defeat Hamas.

Gantz and Netanyahu addressed the nation together:

Announcing the formation of a “national emergency government” with the addition of Benny Gantz’s National Unity party, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, “the people of Israel are united, and now the leadership is also united. We put all other considerations aside, because the fate of the nation is at stake. We will work together, side by side, for the citizens of Israel and the state of Israel.”

“We saw the beasts. We saw the barbarians we are facing. We saw a cruel enemy. An enemy worse than ISIS. We saw boys and girls, bound, shot in the head. Men and women burned alive. Young women raped and slaughtered. Fighters decapitated… In one place, they set fire to tires around them, and burned them alive.”

“How staggering the atrocity. How great the pain,” he says in a televised address that Israel is now on the attack.

He says every family in Israel knows somebody who was killed. We all know families whose loved ones were murdered. But he also cites the acts of heroism of those who fought the Hamas terrorists. “And we will all fight for the home,” he says.

He says Israel’s unity is resonating worldwide, and was exemplified in President Biden’s support.

“We are fighting with full force, on every front, we have gone onto the attack. Every member of Hamas is a dead man,” he adds.

Hamas is Islamic State, he says, and Israel will destroy Hamas just as the world destroyed Islamic State. “The people of Israel lives, and together we will win,” he concludes.

Hamas is no different from ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

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Hamas Goal In Capturing Jewish Women, Children, and Babies Was To “Dirty Them, To Rape Them”, Admits Terrorist
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/hamas-goal-in-capturing-jewish-women-was-to-dirty-them-to-rape-them-admits-capured-terrorist/

he savagery of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists has included mass rape. That was the goal of capturing Jewish women, admitted a captured terrorist being interrogated, including the children and babies.

Footage released from an interrogation of capture Hamas terrorist who infiltrated Israel. He admits that the Hamas terrorists fully intended to rape Israeli women who were captured.

To anyone denying or minimizing the barbarity of Hamas? Stop gaslighting the Jewish people. pic.twitter.com/0TdXOAZfgX

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 11, 2023

Mass rape has been a key part of the terror of Hamas, just like ISIS.

Pure evil. 

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US Weapons Left Behind in Afghanistan May Have Been Among Deadly Tools Hamas Used on Civilians
https://www.westernjournal.com/us-weapons-left-behind-afghanistan-may-among-deadly-tools-hamas-used-civilians/

America left weapons behind in Afghanistan after the debacle. It has turned up in militants in Kashmir. It likely has turned up in Hamas.

Night-vision goggles were possibly the bigger-ticket item from the US booty.

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Updates: IDF Gears up to Eliminate Hamas Targets and Free Hostages; UN Chief ‘Upset’ Over IDF Operation
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/updates-israel-urges-gazans-to-flee-to-egypt-as-idf-gears-up-to-eliminate-hamas-targets-and-free-hostages-un-chief-upset-over-idf-operation/

As counter-terrorism operations against Hamas entered the third day, the IDF is rising up to its full strength amid reports of a possible large-scale ground operation against Hamas and its allies in Gaza.

“The Israeli government approved the recruitment of 360,000 reserve soldiers, many of whom already answered the call to duty within 48 hours,” the Israeli TV channel i24News reported Tuesday. “In addition, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made special flights to pick up reserve soldiers from different destinations abroad, using Hercules transport planes.”

Israeli Navy attacks Hamas naval targets. pic.twitter.com/enOf8kBgSZ

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 9, 2023

Meanwhile, the Israeli death toll from Saturday’s terrorist attack has crossed 1000. Among hundreds of wounded 3 were reported to be in critical state, while 126 were in serious condition.

IDF is planning ground attacks in Gaza to fight Hamas and rescue hostages.

[Eupher]

The single worst day in Israel's history? Probably.
https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/the-single-worst-day-in-israels-history

The attack is likely the deadliest day in Israel. More civilians were killed in the terrorist attack than soldiers in the Yom Kippur War.

Gordis says "Yesterday may well have been the worst day in Israel’s history." OK, it's an opinion piece and he's careful to say Israel, which - as a country - has been in existence only since 1948.

But Jews have been murdered by others for millennia.

Nitpicky, maybe, but let's try some perspective.

[SVPete]

... UN Chief ‘Upset’ Over IDF Operation

After 55 or 60 years of UN anti-Semitism, one would hope Israel has the wisdom to know that any and all "advice" from the UN is hatefully ill intended. IOW, Israel's response to the UN should be .

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NYC officials beef up police presence for Friday 'global day of Jihad' despite 'no specific, credible threats'
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-officials-beef-up-police-presence-day-jihad-despite-no-specific-credible-threats

As Hamas leadership calls for a "global day of Jihad" on Friday, New York City officials are beefing up the metropolitan’s police presence despite there not being any specific or credible threats.

In a statement Thursday, the New York City Police Department said, "There are no specific, credible threats to New York City.

"We are aware of the concern that postings circulating online have caused, and we have increased our uniform deployments at large gatherings and cultural sites to ensure public safety out of an abundance of caution," the statement concluded.

On Thursday evening, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city faith leaders to speak with reporters about the added precautions.

Adams reiterated there was no specific or credible threat to NYC at this time, though he was aware of protests planned for Friday and of Hamas’ global call to action.

Things could get very jarring on Friday.

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Israeli forces entered Gaza for localized raids, IDF tells Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-forces-entered-gaza-localized-raids-idf-tells-fox-news

The Israel Defense Forces tells Fox News that its infantry forces and tanks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday to conduct localized raids.

Fox News' Trey Yingst reported the military action was not the much-anticipated ground invasion by the Israeli military of the Gaza Strip.

The development comes as the militant group Hezbollah took responsibility for targeting Israeli military posts with small-arms fire along the country's border with Lebanon, which the Israelis responded to with artillery strikes.

More than 1,300 Israelis were killed and thousands more wounded when Hamas launched a surprise terror attack on the Jewish state Saturday. As many as 150 people are believed to have been taken captive by terrorists and held in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities.

IDF is now entering Gaza. Their goal is to find the hostages held somewhere in Gaza.

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Terror attack in French school 'linked to Israel-Hamas conflict'
https://news.sky.com/story/teacher-killed-and-several-injured-in-knife-attack-at-school-in-france-reports-12983722

A terror attack that left a schoolteacher dead is linked to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, France's interior minister has said.

Gerald Darmanin said France would also be placed on its highest level of security alert after the suspected Islamist attack.

Police arrested a Russian-born Chechen shortly after a teacher was killed at a secondary school in the northeastern city of Arras, 115 miles (185 km) north of Paris.

Three other people were wounded in the incident.

A day before the attack, the suspect had been held by police for questioning on suspicion of radicalism, Mr Darmanin added.

A French teacher was stabbed to death by a Russian-born Chechen. It is likely connected to the Israel and Hamas War.

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Israel Embassy Employee Attacked In China As Country Declares War On Hamas
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-embassy-employee-attacked-in-china-as-country-declares-war-on-hamas-4477614

Beijing: An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing was attacked on Friday, Israel's foreign ministry said.
Video geolocated by AFP shows the man was stabbed with a knife on a street in the Chinese capital.

"An Israeli employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was attacked today," a foreign ministry statement said, adding that the attack did not take place at the embassy compound.

"The employee is being treated at hospital and is in stable condition," the statement said.

"The motive for the assault is being looked into."

An Israeli embassy worker was stabbed by a foreign national in Beijing.