| Hamas rockets are the only ones to get "accidentally" launched by the "weather"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Jan 05:45 AM From Times of Israel: | | From Times of Israel: The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday morning that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward central Israel. Large explosions were heard in a number of central Israel cities around 7 a.m. Video circulating on social media showed an explosion in the sea off the coast of Jaffa. Other footage apparently showed the two rockets being fired from Gaza. Armed factions in Gaza said the rocket fire was "caused by weather conditions," not the first time the excuse has been used to explain the firing of projectiles toward Israel. Indeed. I know of at least two times that rocket fire was said to have been caused by lightning strikes - but the other two times, the IDF actually accepted the excuse. One was in November 2020, and the other in October 2018, both times the rocket fire was blamed on lightning. And Israel seemed to accept that excuse. In at least one of the previous attacks, Israel was able to link the launch with a specific lightning strike. The video of the rockets being launched over Gaza today shows rainy conditions, but no lightning is evident. Clearly Israel didn't believe that excuse this time, because the IDF responded with limited...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Frantzman: The Middle East: A year in review In contrast to this threat, Israel increased its joint training with the US and other partners and allies. It hosted an exercise with the British and Americans called Tri-Lightning and sent F-35s to fly in Italy. It also did a joint naval drill with US Central Command and Bahrain and the UAE in the Red Sea. It hosted US Marines at the same time for training in Israel. This was the highest tempo of joint training in Israel's history. It came amid a joint drone training in Israel and the Blue Flag drills that saw an unprecedented number of partner countries come to Israel. Israel was putting itself on the map in military technology in a way it hadn't before. This was tied to Israel's increased work with the US defense industry and also talk of more Israeli partnerships in the Gulf and beyond. This is where Israel excels, in developing new technology such as precision weapons, artificial intelligence and air defense. Israel revealed, for instance, that it had used a drone swarm for the first time over Gaza in the May war, and it had used more artificial intelligence. The message was that Israel could confront Iranian-backed adversaries. For Israel's friends in the Gulf, though, the big question was whether the US would be leaving the region. After the debacle of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, it became clear that the US was not going to remain in many...Read More |
Pseudo-journalist CJ Werleman - who we have already proven is an lying antisemite - is at it again,
From Turkey's TRTWorld: The Zionist state has been pumping billions of dollars into US-based groups to portray Muslims as a community of terrorists. Billions! Recent revelations that an anti-Muslim hate group allegedly paid thousands of dollars to two employees of a Muslim advocacy organisation to undermine American Muslim activists on behalf of the Israeli government are undoubtedly shocking but represent only the tip of the iceberg in what is now a decades-long effort by the Jewish State to harass, smear and threaten pro-Palestinian activists in the United States. The International Project of Terrorism is not an Israeli group. It is also not an anti-Muslim group, from everything I can see. It exposes antisemitism and terror ties in some Muslim groups, I have never seen it say any blanket anti-Muslim statement. Anyway, that is "thousands" of dollars, and not from Israel. Next? [T]he nexus between Zionism and the Islamophobia industry is documented in great detail, starting with a Zionist-funded conference in 1979. The conclave brought together US neoconservatives...Read More |
From Ian: 18 noteworthy Jews who died in 2021 Every year brings the deaths of Jewish icons who leave behind outsized legacies, from the realms of art and culture, government, business, philanthropy and beyond. Here are 18 whom we lost in 2021 — none from COVID — presented in alphabetical order. Sheldon Adelson
Few people have exerted as significant an influence on American and Israeli politics as Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who gave lavishly to Republican candidates and Israeli causes. The founder and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and one of the world's richest men, Adelson regularly set records for his donations. At $25 million, he was the largest donor to Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential bid and the biggest giver in the 2012 American election cycle, at nearly $93 million. He was also a leading supporter of Birthright Israel, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Zionist Organization of America, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Israel American Council. He had previously been a top AIPAC supporter, but cut off support more than a decade ago in favor of more conservative pro-Israel groups. He was also a principal backer of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He died in January at 87.PodCast...Read More |
It happens every time.
A Palestinian attacks Israelis with a knife, he gets killed, and the Palestinian media starts off with sob stories about how he in an innocent victim.
The Ministry of Health announced this afternoon the death of the young man, Amir Atef Khader Rayan, from the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, after the occupation soldiers shot him on charges of trying to carry out a stabbing attack west of Salfit. The martyr was shot by the occupation, leaving behind his wife, who is seven months pregnant, and his sons Muhammad, 9, Jana, 7, Atef, 4, Maryam, two, and his wife, who is pregnant with a child in her seventh month. How could a man with four kids and a pregnant wife possibly want to jeopardize that? Perhaps because he wanted to be a hero: The Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) mourns its martyr hero Mujahid Amir Atef Rayan from Qarawat Bani Hassan, who rose to life after carrying out a heroic stabbing operation today, Friday, with an unplanned coming. These operations are a natural response to the crimes of the enemy and its settlers. A thousand greetings to the spirit of the heroic martyr and to all the heroes of the stabbing and ramming operations and the heroes of the resistance who...Read More |
From Ian: Mark Regev: The UN - where anti-Israel prejudice remains supreme There are clear signs that Arab hostility towards the Jewish state is on the wane. The Abraham Accords normalized Israel's relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, an Israeli Defense Minister can make a very public visit to Morocco and even Saudi Arabia allows flights to and from Israel to cross over its territory. But there remains at least one bastion of anti-Israel enmity, the United Nations, where systematic, organizational prejudice against the Jewish state reigns supreme. The opening act: Though not representing a member state, in 1974 Yasser Arafat was issued an extraordinary invitation to address the UN General Assembly (UNGA). His speech included a call for an end to Israel. The Jews, he said, could become citizens in the PLO's "democratic Palestine." Extreme content notwithstanding, and the fact that he spoke soon after his PLO massacred 25 hostages in Ma'alot, mostly high school students, Arafat received a standing ovation. Infamously, the following year, the UNGA adopted Resolution 3379 which declared Zionism a "form of racism and racial discrimination". Although that travesty was officially repealed in 1991, its annulment did not mark the end of the UN's anti-Israel obsession – far from it. Every year the UNGA routinely passes, with massive majorities, a series of blatant anti-Israel resolutions; in 2021 17 were enacted...Read More |
To commemorate the 57th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah held a military parade in the Burj Al-Barajneh camp in Beirut. They marched with weapons including rifles, bazookas and machine guns. The camp features a mural of Palestinian terrorist heroes of all factions - not just Fatah but Hamas and Islamic Jihad. This isn't in southern Lebanon, but in a crowded suburb of Beirut. Palestinians can openly parade around with weapons only meters from where Lebanese citizens live, and occasionally violence erupts in these UNRWA-run camps.
No wonder the Lebanese people hate the Palestinians. * * * * * *
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