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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:52pm On Feb 08 |
Hamas leader Sinwar who has been hiding under the ground in Gaza, surrounded by his leadership and Israeli abductees, has been out of touch for at least ten days and was not involved in Hamas' response to the outline of the hostage deal that was transferred to Israel. 1 Like |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:57pm On Feb 08 |
A large crowd at the prayer rally in the Western Wall square due to the difficult situation, and for the success of the fighters and the release of the abductees. Photo: Netiv Aryeh yeshiva 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 1:15am On Feb 09 |
Multiple buildings on fire in Moscow, Russia
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 1:46pm On Feb 09 |
After the assassination of the senior members of the pro-Iranian militias yesterday in Iraq - many senior members of the various militias fled to Iran or went into hiding throughout Iraq for fear of further assassinations. 1 Like |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 1:49pm On Feb 09 |
After saying my memory is fine - Biden just referred to Sisi as the president of Mexico, not the president of Egypt. 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 1:51pm On Feb 09 |
America is blocking an Israeli operation in the last Palestinian stronghold of Hamas in Gaza and the main route of weapons into the strip - Rafah US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby commented on the possibility of an Israeli operation in Rafah: "They have a special responsibility as the one who is running the military operation that caused about a million Palestinians to arrive in Rafah and take shelter - we cannot support this in the current situation." |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 1:59pm On Feb 09 |
IDF forced in Khan Yunis destroyed a booby trapped terror compound, which includes homes of Hamas operatives who participated in the 10/7 massacre by several tons of explosives. After the explosion, the forces occupied the compound in order to continue the maneuver.
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:02pm On Feb 09 |
Prof. Bernard Lewis, who was a leading authority on Islam and the Middle East, shed light on a cardinal aspect of the frustrating, complicated and inconvenient reality of the Middle East: "If the fighters in the war for Islam are fighting for God, it follows that their opponents are fighting against God…. In the classical Islamic view, the world is divided into two: the House of Islam… and the House of Unbelief, which it is the duty of Muslims ultimately to bring to Islam…. The struggle between these rival systems has now lasted for some 14 centuries…. America has become the archenemy, the incarnation of evil, the diabolic opponent of all that is good… of Islam…." *Western conventional wisdom has been based on the assumptions that Middle East violence is despair-driven; that radical Middle East dictators can be induced to subordinate their radical ideologies to dramatic financial benefits (“money talks”); and that significant gestures and concessions could motivate rogue Middle East leaders to embrace peaceful coexistence, compliance with agreements, adoption of human rights and democracy, to depart from fanatic ideologies, and to join the “multilateral/cosmopolitan club.” *In order to advance its well-intentioned assumptions, Western conventional wisdom has consistently overlooked the 1,400-year-old shifty, unpredictable, violent, totalitarian, intolerant, anti-“infidel” (Islam vs. the West), anti-“apostate” (Shiite vs. Sunni), fragmented, volcanic and frustrating nature of Middle East (intra-Arab and intra-Moslem) reality. It has also overlooked the supremacy of fanatical ideologies over financial benefits in shaping the policy of Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Moslem Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, as reflected in their (K-12) school curriculum, mosque sermons and constitutions/charters. *Western appeasement of Shiite, Sunni and Palestinian terrorism has ignored the well-documented fact, that terrorists bite the hands that feed them, as demonstrated by the Mujahideen (who were assisted by the US to drive the USSR out of Afghanistan and proceeded to carry out 9/11), Iran’s Ayatollahs (who were critically assisted by the US to topple the Shah of Iran and proceeded to become the lead anti-US terrorist and drug trafficker) and the Palestinian leadership (which was hosted by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait and proceeded to subvert and terrorize them). *In defiance of Western conventional wisdom, the inherent hostility toward the “infidel” West, and especially “the Great American Satan,” has been a dominant feature of fundamental Arab and Islamic education, culture and politics, fomenting epicenters of global anti-US terrorism. *Notwithstanding Western conventional wisdom-driven gestures, Islamic terrorism has haunted the US since the Barbary pirates in the beginning of the 19th century, irrespective of US policy, and independent of the identity of the US President. Thus, it afflicted the US during Presidents Trump (e.g., the Hudson River Park terrorism murdering  , Obama (e.g., the Orlando terrorism murdering 49), G.W. Bush (9/11 murdering 2,977), Clinton (e.g., the car-bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania murdering 300), Reagan (e.g., the blowing-up of PanAm-103 murdering 257), etc.*9/11 underscored the determination of Islamic terror regimes to engage the US in their battle to bring the “infidel” West to submission, irrespective of the US' intent to disengage from Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East at-large. These rogue regimes view the US’ disengagement, isolationism and gestures as symptoms of Western battle-fatigue and the erosion of a posture of deterrence, which intensifies terrorism and shifts the battle gradually to the US mainland (e.g., Iran’s and Hezbollah’s sleeper cells in the US and collaboration with Latin American terror organizations and drug cartels). |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:06pm On Feb 09 |
*Islamic terrorism is not driven by despair, but rather by the imperialistic vision of Islam as the only legitimate religion, divinely-ordained to bring “apostates” and "infidels" – especially the US - to submission, peacefully or militarily. *The following examples demonstrate the unbridgeable gap between Western conventional wisdom (WCW) and Middle East reality: <While WCW believes in the separation of state and church and secular policy making, Islam believes in the dominance of religion in domestic and foreign policy-making, civic life, justice, law and order, education, culture, peace, war and geo-strategy. <While WCW is preoccupied with the present and the future, the Middle East is preoccupied with the past 1,400 years as a base for future undertaking. For instance, WCW shapes its positive attitude toward the proposed Palestinian state according to future, speculative scenarios (e.g., peaceful coexistence), but the Arabs shape their indifferent-to-negative attitude toward the proposed Palestinian state according to the subversive and terroristic Palestinian track record in the intra-Arab sphere. <While WCW underscores give-and-take, Islam is determined to bring the adversary/enemy (especially the “apostate” and “infidel”) to submission, peacefully or militarily, employing dissimulation, in order to mislead naïve opponents. <While WCW refers to the Arab-Israeli conflict as “the Middle East conflict,” 11 million Muslims have been killed since 1948, of which 35,000 - 0.3% - were related to Arab-Israel wars. <While WCW assumes that the Palestinian issue is the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a crown-jewel of Arab policy makers and a core cause of Middle East turbulence, no Arab-Israeli war was every triggered by the Palestinian issue. No Arab country has ever flexed a military muscle, or a substantial financial muscle on behalf of the Palestinians. No Israel-Palestinian war has ever expanded into a regional war, and no major Middle East turbulence has ever erupted due to the Palestinian issue. <While WCW has focused on the Arab talk, which embraces the proposed Palestinian state, the Arab walk refrains from advancing the cause of a Palestinian state. It is consistent with Aa dominant Middle East motto: on words one does not pay custom. <While WCW assumes that ceasefire agreements advance the cause of peace, and peace accords end hostilities and the state of war, Islam considers ceasefires (especially with “infidels”) as an opportunity to regroup for the next phase of a perpetual war until submission of the enemy. Peace accords are viewed (especially with “infidels”) as temporary ceasefires, serving the cause of the Muslim party, to be abrogated upon amassing sufficient power to bring adversaries to submission. *The self-destructive nature of WCW (e.g., the 45-year-old diplomatic option toward Iran in defiance of Iran’s rogue track record) is exposed by the march of Middle East facts. (Yoram Ettinger) |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:10pm On Feb 09 |
I just watched the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin. While I agree with many of the statements regarding the CIA and the Deep State running the show in many of the western countries, what I don’t understand is the passion he has to “denazify” Ukraine on one hand and yet he helps arm, train, and support Hamas , the admirers of Hitler and the modern doers of his words. I am carefully monitoring Russian nationalists on telegram channels and X - they are as antisemitic as the Nazis were. So before accusing Ukraine for being “Nazi”, why doesn’t Putin clean the Nazis in his own country first and stop hosting, arming, and supporting the Arab branch of the Nazis? Amir T 2 Likes |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:30pm On Feb 09 |
This is the most impactful excerpt from the entire interview and perfectly summarizes the insanity of the current US foreign policy. “Do the United States need this? What for? Thousands of miles away from your national territory. Don’t you have anything better to do? You have issues on the border. Issues with migration. Issues with the national debt. More than 33 trillion dollars. You have nothing better to do, so you should fight with Ukraine? Wouldn’t it be better to negotiate with Russia?” Putin is an evil person but a brilliant strategist. He knows exactly on which button to press to gain the U.S. public support. He is absolutely correct about one thing - the U.S. foreign policy is a disaster. Ignoring the source of the problems in the Middle East which is the jihadist agenda supported and promoted by Iran, will never ever solve the problems. You can declare fifty thousand times your will to have a two-state solution and even recognize and imaginary Palestinian state and yet if their will to destroy Israel that is fueled by Iran won’t be addressed - it will only make America weaker and look foolisher in the eyes of the world in general and the Middle East in particular! Amir T
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:31pm On Feb 09 |
A loud explosion was heard in the Haifa area as a result of a successful interception of the Iron Dome system 1 Like |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by DystopianMuse(f): 2:37pm On Feb 09 |
HolinessForever:At 1:00:00 TCN x Putin Interview Tucker Carlson asks Putin what the DeNazification is? Putin replies and explained, then Tucker asks subtly that is he (Putin) trying to shape Ukrainian nationalism? To which Putin replied to that he gets the question that it is subtle and Tucker was been pesky. Moving on Tucker talks about how Hitler has been dead for 80 years, and stuffs like that yada yada yada! Putin replied, yes Hitler is dead but the seeds he planted still lives on., and that is what he is trying to do. Uprooting those seeds. He talks about the how the current Ukraine president was in Canada's parliament and they applaud a certain Nazi guy together. Also, don't forget Putin says he is trying to uproot all seeds of Nazism in Ukraine, that is why the SMO was launched. If so, that means he should also attack Canada, since the government there are supporting Nazism which he is trying to get rid of. 🤣Mr Putin should just admit, he bullied Ukraine because he thought they are a softer target. He is a fucking clown 1 Like |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:44pm On Feb 09 |
Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, dances to the song “Am Israel Chai” - The people of Israel Lives! And where? Right at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a spontaneous visit at night. Arab channels are going nuts! Amir T
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:48pm On Feb 09 |
The fighting in the Gaza Strip continues; Documentation: commando forces closing a circle on a terrorist squad that tried to set off explosives near fighters in West Khan Yunis 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:49pm On Feb 09 |
Netherlands adds extra security at Israeli embassy in The Hague The Netherlands added extra security at the Israeli embassy in The Hague on Thursday following a threat "that must be taken extremely seriously", the city's mayor Jan van Zanen said in a statement, confirming earlier reports in Dutch media. Van Zanen did not say how long these measures would remain in place. Dutch press agency ANP added that the embassy had been cordoned off. The Israeli embassy could not be reached for comment. |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:54pm On Feb 09 |
Read carefully this portion from the special counsel's report into Biden's handling of classified documents. I believe that the clock began ticking for replacing Biden by someone else as the candidate of the Democratic Party for the presidential election. My prediction is that both California governor Gavin Newsom and former First Lady Michelle Obama are now being considered as running mates. Amir T
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 2:56pm On Feb 09 |
ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRANIAN TARGETS IN DAMASCUS |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:03pm On Feb 09 |
A few points about the publication of the New York Times according to which American intelligence estimates that Israel is not close to destroying Hamas - a publication that was jumped on by some of the media outlets in Israel: 1. Netanyahu himself said just this week that the destruction of Hamas will take months, therefore it is very likely that there is no real contradiction between the assessment of American intelligence according to the Prime Minister - the difference is mainly in the framing. 2. In this context of the framing, the Times is not an objective or even particularly reliable source - for at least two months it has been promoting an agenda of ending the war and the survival of Hamas. 3. In addition, the American media, including large and respected ones, are surprisingly negative in the level of accuracy of their reports in this war: we have seen this in the last two weeks several times with the publication of far-fetched details about kidnapping transactions that did not exist and were not created. 4. American intelligence was wrong in most of its assessments regarding the war. They predicted a much higher number of casualties for the IDF and advised Israel not to enter into a large-scale operation in the Strip - either because of a professional error in assessing the capabilities of the IDF, or because of the reflection of the interests of the administration. 5. Hamas is in its dying throbbing stage, even if this stage can be long: its launch capability has been destroyed close to 100% and its ability to cause casualties to the IDF has been reduced by approximately 95% compared to its capability on the eve of the war (there will be a temporary increase in casualties during the expected operations (in Rafah and Deir al-Balah, two of the last Hamas strongholds, but by and large that's it - beyond sporadic losses that will continue for months.) Complete destruction takes a long time, but the last and long phase exacts much lower prices than those that preceded it. 6. There is almost no fighting by Hamas in Khan Yunis - its men surrender in large numbers and most of them choose to forgo a confrontation with IDF soldiers. In Israel they estimated that the maneuver in Khan Yunis would result in about a hundred deaths, in reality there are less than ten. 7. The New York Times is wrong - Israel is winning, Hamas is on the way to destruction. (Tamir Morag) |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:05pm On Feb 09 |
The skies of Damascus a few minutes ago
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:06pm On Feb 09 |
According to Syrian reports The attack was carried out towards Damascus airport. Sources say that two of the missiles were intercepted, and one hit the airport. 1 Like |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:10pm On Feb 09 |
The IDF continues to attack Hezbollah assets in southern Lebanon 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:14pm On Feb 09 |
Rocket launchers near a kindergarten and an underground route under a civilian water facility; Documenting the activity of the combat team of the Brigade in Khan Yunis The divisional combat team of the 646th reserve brigade operates in the Khan Yunis area. As part of their activities, the reservists raid terrorist infrastructures, encounter the enemy, eliminate terrorists, and locate many weapons. During a raid on rocket launch targets, rocket launchers placed by Hamas terrorists were located near a kindergarten and a mosque. The launchers were loaded and aimed at the territory of the State of Israel and were destroyed by the forces. In addition, in scanning a civilian water facility in the area, the forces located a shaft leading to an underground route within the facility. In the investigation of the route, two terrorists were found in it. In addition, during a raid on properties used by Hamas operatives, many weapons were found: RPG missiles, explosives, Kalashnikovs, uniforms and vests.
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:17pm On Feb 09 |
Arabic sources. American military cargo planes are landing with equipment and supplies at the American base in Djibouti near Yemen for several days, and at the American Al-Odeed base in Qatar
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:24pm On Feb 09 |
Another terror tunnel blown up in Gaza 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:27pm On Feb 09 |
The city of Pitt Meadows, Canada: Muslims in Canada sent out these flyers to non Muslims demanding that their non-Muslim neighbors keep their dogs “away from the Muslims who live in this community", because "dogs are considered filthy in Islam". Amir T 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:29pm On Feb 09 |
A class at Cross City Church, Euless, TX stands with Israel 🇮🇱 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:32pm On Feb 09 |
The Saudi “Al Arabiya” news Channel: The Americans and Qatari attempt to kick out the leaders of Hamas from Doha. 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 3:34pm On Feb 09 |
The Israeli Air Force continues to attack on southern Lebanon
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by iykofias(m): 5:10pm On Feb 09 |
The Israeli media is reporting that the IDF is certain the Israeli hostage Yossi Sharabi was killed in an Israeli airstrike. He is one of many Israeli hostages killed by the Israeli army, as part of Netanyahu's disregard to the their lives. 1 Like
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| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:11pm On Feb 09 |
At least 20 rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona and the Upper Galilee. |
| Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 9:12pm On Feb 09 |
Prime Minister’s Office: It is impossible to achieve the war objective of eliminating Hamas while leaving four standing Hamas battalions in Rafah. On the other hand, it is clear that a massive operation in Rafah requires the evacuation of the civilian population from the combat zones. That is why the Prime Minister directed the IDF and the defense establishment to bring to the cabinet a dual plan for both the evacuation of the population and the disbanding of the battalions. 1 Like |
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