Middle East War Briefing

Hijinx

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So X is ablaze with claims that France, Italy, and Spain have left the coalition to protect the Red Sea shipping.
France doesn't surprise me the Italy , Spain and France are on the Mediterranean and will probably feel some of the pain of the closing of the red Sea. If they don't want to be on the coalition we shouldn't be either. Screw them all.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Hamas rejects Egyptian proposal to end war with Israel, refuses free elections in Gaza




The terrorist organizations instead reiterated that the only thing they’re ready to discuss is a prisoner swap that would see more than 100 Israeli hostages released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel’s jails.

But a Hamas official who was in Cairo during the negotiations added that even a new prisoner swap would only take place once Israel has withdrawn from war-torn Gaza.

“Hamas seeks to end the Israeli aggression against our people, the massacres and genocide, and we discussed with our Egyptian brothers the ways to do that,” the official told Reuters.
 

Grumpy

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Jerry Seinfeld Popcorn GIF by Sheets & Giggles
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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11 Top Iranian Commanders Killed in Damascus Airport Strike




The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that Sayyed Reza Mousavi, an IRGC commander, was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike last Monday in the vicinity of Damascus.

Iran has vowed revenge for the death of Mousavi, who was reportedly responsible for fashioning a military alliance between Iran and Syria.

Now there's a report in the Jerusalem Post that a strike on the Damascus airport took out 11 IRGC commanders. J-Post quotes Saudi Arabian media, but the reports are entirely plausible.

"While there is no independent confirmation of Guard Corps names or ranks, the IRGC has long seen Syria as a critical regional hub to project power into the Eastern Mediterranean and connect its constellation of proxies called the ‘Axis of Resistance,’" Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said.

"It should come as a shock to no one that Guard Corps elite are operating there, especially amid a regional war, which they are directing far away from their own soil," he added.

The Iranians wouldn't necessarily be transiting through the airport. They may very well be based at the airport as they are in southern Lebanon.

Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad reports that four Iranians were executed after the death of Mousavi. The regime claimed that they were spies for Israel, but given the lack of a justice system in Iran, no one knows the truth.

This act follows a pattern of revenge by the regime. When it loses a commander, it targets its own citizens, demonstrating its inability to directly confront countries like the United States and Israel, who it considers enemies.
Three years ago, after the United States killed top general Qasem Soleimani, the regime shot down a Ukrainian plane. This action killed 176 innocent people, including women and children, as a form of revenge. The regime demonstrates its brutality by killing its unarmed citizens and yielding to its adversaries.
This is the true face of the totalitarian regime: a cowardly act of targeting the defenseless.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Biden Pushes Netanyahu to Give Palestinians Money, Mid-war



Axios.com’s Barak Ravid reported Thursday that Biden had a “difficult conversation” last weekend with Netanyahu. He explained:

Israel’s far-right ultranationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in October decided to suspend the transfer of all of the tax revenue funds after the Hamas terrorist attack.
But the Israeli government said that it would transfer all the funds except for those it says go to Hamas-run Gaza.
The PA, however, has refused to accept a partial transfer of the funds, raising concerns in the Biden administration about a potential economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

The PA has failed to condemn the October 7 terror attacks, and Palestinian media have continued to spread anti-Israel hatred. Moreover, the PA continues to pay stipends to terrorists in Israeli prisons, and to the families of terrorists killed by Israel.

However, the risk of not funding the PA is that it could collapse, leading to anarchy in the West Bank that could present new risks for Israel. While the PA does not cooperate fully with Israel on security matters, it does prevent the eruption of open conflict.

Biden has supported Israel in its war against Hamas, but has also made Israel’s task more difficult by criticizing Israel, pushing it to supply humanitarian aid that is ultimately controlled by Hamas, and pressing for the PA to return to Gaza when the war ends.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Brothers saved dozens at Nova, fighting terrorists with commander’s phoned-in advice



Two brothers saved dozens of lives during the massacre by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7 by providing fire cover for escapees with weapons they found in a tank, while receiving instructions over the phone from an IDF officer. Some 360 of the 1,200 people killed in southern Israel that day were slaughtered at the outdoor festival.

According to a Channel 12 news report, rave attendees Daniel and Neria Sharabi fended off terrorists with firearms from the tank near the site of the massacre, also treating the wounded who were hiding with them.

With Daniel’s former IDF commander, Yoni Skariszewski, advising them by telephone, the brothers saved some 30 partygoers sheltering behind the tank amid the Hamas onslaught, the report said.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Houthi Attack Maersk Hangzhou with Ballistic Missiles and Boarding Attempt - Defeated by US NAVY​



 

stgislander

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PREMO Member
Nothing in the MSM yet, but if true and to paraphrase a line from "The Hunt for Red October", this could get real ugly real fast.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
Nothing in the MSM yet, but if true and to paraphrase a line from "The Hunt for Red October", this could get real ugly real fast.
Heck..we'd make that little corvette disappear with a couple Hellfires.
 

Clem72

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France doesn't surprise me the Italy , Spain and France are on the Mediterranean and will probably feel some of the pain of the closing of the red Sea. If they don't want to be on the coalition we shouldn't be either. Screw them all.
Oh hey, this ought to go well. France has a great record working with Israel trying to control access to the Red Sea.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

INNOCENT CIVILIANS?


Ever since Israel began to retaliate against Gaza’s infamous attacks of October 7, the “international community” has been wringing its hands over the danger to innocent civilians in Gaza. But few have asked the question, how many innocent civilians are there in Gaza? Are there any?
Mia Schem is an Israeli who was held captive in Gaza for 54 days, and released as part of last month’s prisoner exchange. This weekend she gave interviews to two Israeli television stations. She described how she was shot in the arm and taken prisoner at the Supernova music festival. She was taken to Gaza, where a veterinarian operated on her injured arm. Thereafter she was housed with a Gazan family, who tormented her.

She was kept in a room and was told she couldn’t speak, couldn’t move, couldn’t cry, couldn’t be seen, she recounted: “There’s a terrorist, who is watching you 24/7, who is raping you with his eyes… an evil stare. I was afraid of being raped. It was my biggest fear there.”
She said she did not shower the entire period in captivity, didn’t receive any medications or painkillers, and would receive food “sometimes.”

Much more at the link, all of it appalling. This is the conclusion Schem drew from her experience:

“It’s important to me to reveal the real situation about the people who live in Gaza, who they really are, and what I went through there,” she told Channel 13 news. “I experienced hell. Everyone there are terrorists… there are no innocent civilians, not one,” she said. “[Innocent civilians] don’t exist.”
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Schem said she felt only “pure hatred. There are no innocent citizens there. They’re families controlled by Hamas. They’re children who from the moment they are born, they teach them that Israel is Palestine and just to hate Jews.”

That is, I think, the sad truth, and the reason why destroying Hamas is not enough if the sick culture of Gaza persists.
 
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