TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Matt Gaetz should maybe take a long trip to a country with no extradition.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/it-might-finally-be-time-for-matt-gaetz-to-panic/54463/
Trump just committed textbook treason. We are members of NATO. An attack on them is an attack on us.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/senile-unhinged-donald-trump-asks-russia-to-attack-nato/54466/
During the European Convention at Harvard University, Péter Szijártó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, was presented with a gift—a fragment of a destroyed Russian tank from the battle for Kyiv in Ukraine. Oleksiy Prokopenko, head of the humanitarian fund HUCUS at Harvard, presented the war artifact to the official.
Prokopenko emphasized the significance of the gift, stating, "It was made in Russia, burned and processed in Ukraine. Wear this keyring on your house keys to remember what Russian terror is like, if you have forgotten the murders of Hungarians and Soviet tanks on the streets of Budapest in 1956."
He continued by cautioning against fostering close ties with Russia, warning, "Being friends with Russia is like betraying your children. Because today they are smiling at you, and tomorrow they will shoot your families."
TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝
🇫🇷 "France will produce and transfer to Ukraine dozens of Caesar artillery systems, as well as shells for them", - Zelensky
🇺🇸 "Biden and I agree that the US Congress should release financial aid to Ukraine", - Scholz
🇳🇱 "There should be no restrictions in military aid to Ukraine, in particular in the supply of weapons to Kyiv", — MoD of the Netherlands, Ollongren.
👀 "NATO wants to coordinate arms aid to Ukraine", - Handelsblatt
❗️ Republican congressman Turner said that the US will fully approve funding for Ukraine.
Avdiivka.The Russian Federation is targeting CIVILIANS.
Head of the Avdiivka City Military Administration Vitaliy Barabash about the situation in the city and about evacuation of the civilian population.
"In Avdiivka there is no building where you can live in, the enemy is using Kabs 500 bombs, many building are collapsed. As of today 941 people are remaining in the city but evacuation is getting harder, Fortunately the White angels are helping us" Barabash.
In addition he told that the occupiers attacked a volunteer of the White Angels who are evacuating citizens from Avdiivka.
Zelenskyy
Today I spent the entire day in meetings with military leadership and the Government. We continue to reboot the management team in the Armed Forces. Now, people who are well-known in the army and who themselves know well what the army needs are taking on new responsibilities. Combat commanders of this war, whose experience will be useful at the all-army level.
Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi – his focus is on unmanned systems and the development of utilization of drones by our soldiers, and Colonel Andriy Lebedenko – his focus is on innovation, specifically the technology component of the army and combat systems – have been appointed deputies of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Clear practice with new technologies is needed.
Brigadier General Volodymyr Horbatiuk – his focus is on operational work, staff work, planning, management, in every staff, they must fully understand the front, Brigadier General Oleksiy Shevchenko – his focus is on logistics, ensuring maximum quality of logistics in our army, and Brigadier General Mykhailo Drapatyi – he will be responsible for the quality training of our military – have been approved as deputies of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
All the real-life experience of combat commanders, combat brigades, our units, who have built a quality training system for soldiers and evaluation and analysis of combat actions – all this experience must be implemented for the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Glory to all our warriors!
Glory to our people! Glory to Ukraine!
🔴 Joint IDF and ISA announcement:
A significant underground Hamas intelligence asset and weapons inside offices—These findings were found within UNRWA facilities
Over the last two weeks, IDF and ISA forces have been conducting a division-level targeted raid on terror targets in northern and central Gaza.
The forces operated in the areas of Shati and Tel al-Hawa in northern Gaza. Approximately 120 Hamas terrorists were killed and 20 terrorist infrastructure sites were destroyed as part of the operation.
Following ISA intelligence, the forces arrived at a tunnel shaft near an UNRWA school. The shaft led to an underground terror tunnel that served as a significant asset of Hamas' military intelligence and passed under the building that serves as UNRWA's main headquarters in the Gaza Strip.
The tunnel was 700 meters long and 18 meters deep and contained several blast doors. A wide variety of intelligence assets were seized during the operation. The newly-found intelligence will allow the forces to operate against additional Hamas targets. The dismantling of the tunnel weakens Hamas' intelligence capabilities.
The forces located electrical infrastructure inside the tunnel connected to UNRWA's main headquarters, under which the underground tunnel was located, indicating that UNRWA's facilities supplied the tunnel with electricity.
Following these findings and based on preliminary ISA intelligence, the forces conducted a targeted raid on UNRWA’s central headquarters, which contains offices for various humanitarian and international organizations. Large quantities of weapons were found inside the rooms of the building, including rifles, ammunition, grenades and explosives. Intelligence and documents discovered in the offices of UNRWA officials confirmed that the offices had in fact also been used by Hamas terrorists.
Attached is an animated infographic showing the underground route passing between UNRWA infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4bvaVe5
Attached is footage from inside the underground tunnel route that passes under an UNRWA funded school and its demolition: https://bit.ly/3HSBNH8
Attached is drone footage of the tunnel located underneath an UNRWA compound: https://bit.ly/3usw4oA
Attached is footage of the weapons found in an UNRWA building and an explanation by the Commander of the 401st Brigade Combat Team, COL Benny Aharon: https://bit.ly/42yQybM
Attached is a video of a Shayetet 13 Company Commander, CDR A.: https://bit.ly/3uquuDJ
Attached is a video of the Commander of the 52nd Battalion, LTC Daniel: https://bit.ly/4bJftxE
Attached is footage of the 401st Brigade during the operation: https://bit.ly/42w3Aa9
Attached are related photos:https://IDFANC.activetrail.biz/ANC9879465
🇮🇱 @israel_report
🟠 UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza.
- UNRWA is made aware of reports through the media regarding a tunnel under the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza.
- UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified in the area.
- We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there.
- We understand, through media reporting, that the Israeli Army has deployed troops within the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza City.
- We are therefore unable to confirm or otherwise comment on these reports.
- In times of “no active conflict” UNRWA inspects inside its premises every quarter, the last inspection for the UNRWA Gaza premises was completed in September 2023.
- UNRWA is a Human development and humanitarian organisation that does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises.
- In the past, whenever suspicious cavity was found close to or under UNRWA premises, protest letters were promptly filed to parties to the conflict, including both the de facto authorities in Gaza (Hamas) and the Israeli authorities. The matter was consistently reported in annual reports presented to the General Assembly and made public.
- These recent media reports merit an independent inquiry that is currently not possible to undertake given Gaza is an active war zone.
- The Israeli Authorities have not informed UNRWA officially about the alleged tunnel.
Phillippe Lazzarini
@UNLazzarini
... Trying to be more hypocritical than that will be quite hard ...
🇮🇱 @israel_report
🟠 Gaza Primer
* "Ceasefire": Disingenuous calls for Israel to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Pro-jihadists want Israel to stop defeating Hamas terrorists, so that Arabs can annihilate Jews and Israel.
* "Genocide": The stated goal of Hamas in its original charter. What Arabs have tried to do to Jews since 1948 and well before.
* "Ethnic Cleansing": Since 632, Arabs have colonized and ethnically cleansed nearly the entire Middle-East, N. Africa, and much of the world. Israel is the only 0.3% of the Middle-East they don't have.
* "Indigenous": Jews / Judeans have a 4000 year history in Israel / Judea. Arabs are from S. Arabia. Indigenous means the first peoples in an area, who have an eternal connection with their sacred lands.
* "Jihad": A 1400 year Islamic holy war to replace every other faith. The primary cause for the Israel-Arab conflict, and similar conflicts around the world. Hundreds of millions have died overall from jihad.
* "Replacement Theology": Jihadists want to take Jerusalem just like they took Constantinople, the heart of Christianity at the time. This is why they often mention the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.
* "Nakba": The failure of Arabs to genocide Jews and replace Israel and Judaism with Islam in the 1948 war of aggression they launched on Israel.
* "A few bad apples": In a recent poll, 98% of Arabs in Gaza said they were "proud" of the Oct 7 atrocities committed by Hamas.
* "Partner for Peace": Hamas official Ghazi Hamad recently said they will do Oct 7th attacks "again and again until Israel is annihilated". The PA also morally and financially supports all Oct 7th terrorists.
* "UN Schools": Jihadist indoctrination facilities, providing training in terrorist ideology and glorification of violence. Also used to store weapons and launch rockets. Run by UNRWA, funded by US/EU taxpayers.
* "Projection": When jihadists psychologically project their history and current strategy of genocide, colonization, ethnic cleansing, rape, violence, and religious hate on others.
* "Useful Idiot": A slang term for activists who don't understand these definitions, and inadvertently support jihadists diametrically opposed to everything they claim to believe in.
@QuantumFlux36
🇮🇱 @israel_report
⚫ One of the Arabs' best-kept secrets, skillfully obscured over the years, is the true reason behind their refusal of the 1947 UN partition plan:
For those less familiar, here's a quick summary:
After WWII, the British, looking to exit the complicated situation they found themselves in in the Middle East, planned to hand back the mandate they had received from the UN.
The UN dispatched the UNSCOP committee to determine the region's future. The committee proposed several plans, with the well-known Partition Plan eventually being accepted by the majority of its members.
The Jewish community accepted this plan, and a majority of UN members voted in favor of it.
However, the Arabs rejected it, similarly to their earlier refusal of the Peel Commission's recommendations (a topic for another post).
So, why then did the Arabs reject the partition proposal?
Primarily, they were confident in their ability to swiftly defeat the Jews, eliminate them, and seize the entire territory.
This conviction also had a significant contribution to the Nakba as it led them to advise many Arabs to temporarily vacate their homes during the conflicts, expecting to return post-victory - a victory that, of course, never materialized.
Yet, this is not the core reason.
Pay close attention now:
The primary reason Arab leaders rejected the UN's partition proposal was their own disbelief in the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. In fact, they were opposed to it! Indeed, that's exactly as it sounds.
Arab leaders never recognized Palestinians as an ethnic group with self-determination rights, but rather as a part of the larger Arab nation.
As those knowledgeable in history (and not propaganda) understand, there were originally no 'Palestinians', only Arabs.
The Arabs' national goal was to create Greater Syria, covering today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, a vision outlined in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1915-1916.
Therefore, they rejected any proposal that independently defined the Palestinians, as such a distinction simply did not exist.
(Interestingly, this truth is widely recognized in the Arab world. While not often acknowledged publicly, it occasionally surfaces, as seen in a video I'll share in the comments)
So next time Palestinian history, culture, or their right to self-determination is discussed, remember that while the world, Jews included, were willing to acknowledge this, the refusal came from the Arabs themselves, who recognized the idea of a Palestinian nation as a UN fabrication.
@OrenBarsky
🇮🇱 @israel_report
⚫ In 126 days, haters of Israel have:
1- Never asked Hamas to release Israeli hostages
2- Never asked Hamas to handover perpetrators of Oct 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis
3- Never asked Hamas to surrender to spare Gaza the death and destruction of the war Hamas started on October 7
4- Never blamed Hezbollah for launching an unprovoked attack on Israel. Never asked Hezbollah to stop its aggression
5- Never asked Houthis to stop striking Israel with missiles or stop threatening global shipping
6- Never ever asked for peace between the Palestinians and Israel, insisting only that Israel stop decimating (ceasefire) Hamas
So why not come clean? Admit that:
1- You want to see Israel vanish, replaced by a Medieval Islamist Palestine
2- You want Hamas spared to be able to fight another day, kill more Israelis in the future
3- You cared little about humanity when the massacred are Israeli (Oct 7), when you demanded that we put the Hamas attack in context, but refuse to put Gaza War in context (response to Hamas massacre)
4- You pretend to care about humanity, but only focus on Palestinians. Most of you cheered for Saddam, Assad, still shill for Putin, Khamenei and the Global South, the tyrants responsible for actual tyranny and genocide.
STOP pretending you are ethical and humanitarian. You are using this as en excuse to help your team survive this, and ultimately win and beat Israel.
Gaza War ends when Hamas is ended.
@hahussain
🇮🇱 @israel_report
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg cautions about a potential decades-long confrontation with Russia, emphasizing the need for NATO states to strengthen their arms industry. Stoltenberg urges allies to support Ukraine, highlighting the importance of credible deterrence and emphasizing rapid weapons production to counter Russian aggression. He warns that Putin's preparation of the Russian economy for a prolonged war requires a swift response from the West to ensure security and prevent Putin from gaining an advantage.
The son of the head of Chechnya received an award for a competition in which he did not participate
16-year-old Adam Kadyrov received a medal from the UAE SWAT Challenge special forces competition in Dubai for the best result of the fourth day of the Akhmat team.
According to the chairman of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, Kadyrov Jr. “supported” fighters from the republic.
Now Adam Kadyrov allegedly works as the “head of the security department” of his father, a title which he received last fall after the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning the Koran.
It should be noted that the prisoner was restrained when Adam Kadyrov beat him. No actual bravery involved.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 71 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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