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Israel has taken down some more operations centers, and a lot of rockets fired off from Gaza in the past few minutes.

I want to see this again, and again, and again until they are all wiped out. https://t.co/w4dOxucXyA

— Lilly Wilson (@RealLillyWilson) October 8, 2023

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— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 9, 2023

Muslims/democrats are such lovely people:

So anyway, we spent 20 years sacrificing blood and treasure in the global war on terror and this is how American cities ended up looking pic.twitter.com/DqVMOfznZv

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 8, 2023

In case you wondered how the United States managed to miss all signs that Iran was planning and funding a massive terrorist invasion of Israel, wonder no longer. The Biden administration’s top liaison to Iran was spying for it. https://t.co/7yBMR7sG5Z

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 8, 2023

Pres. Obama FAVORED a pro-Arab/Islam resolution to the conflicts in the Middle East. He encouraged the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt's government, and advanced the interests of Iran over the interests of other countries in the region.

His Admin was filled with pro-Iran…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) October 8, 2023

I posted this alarming ATF email 6 days ago showing criminal networks were planning to use straw purchasers to acquire heavy weaponry

Hamas attacked Israel just 5 days later

Now America is on alert for attacks in the US

Does our Federal Gov’t already know about Hamas’ plans? https://t.co/Q6X1BENhJg

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 9, 2023

Hamas has terror cells in the United States. They came in via the porous Southern border.

The people in power know this and they also know their will be attacks targeting our major cities.

America is next.

Joe Biden and his handlers are responsible for what is set to happen.

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) October 9, 2023

I AM TALKING TO MY SOURCE IN THE IDF SPECIAL FORCES. ----UPDATE----

There is going to be a huge retaliation.

Over 100,000 Israeli soldiers are already on the border with Gaza.

It is estimated that Israel will enter Gaza with 250,000 soldiers and completely destroy Hamas.…

— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) October 9, 2023

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Israel isnt going to get those hostages back alive. Once that is assured we are going to see the fireworks begin. Any house that has housed a terrorist on Mossad's list is going to be leveled. Any military aged male with an AK in his hand is going to get smoked. They are likely also going to hit a major target in Iran and there isn't a damn thing Iran can do to stop it.

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I think it is going to be / needs to be worse than you describe... I believe indiscriminate death is about to descend upon them in a manner we haven't seen in generations.

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Anybody else surprised that massive retaliatory actions haven't already begun? I mean we all know it's going to happen, but I'm surprised that it's taking so long.

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As fighting enters its third day, Israel’s military is still battling armed Hamas fighters in its southern towns and defending breaches in the border fence with Gaza https://t.co/k7KKCJ1Nd9 pic.twitter.com/kJgF1N1Plu

— Financial Times (@FT) October 9, 2023

Yes, they are striking hard from afar right now, and have amassed 100K but probably will build to 250K before rolling in on the ground. They know pretty much every square inch of that 'strip.'

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It seems inconceivable that Hamas would start such an operation without a contingency, particularly if Iran helped plan it. We know that Hezbollah has already stated it would intervene if the IDF enters Gaza.

Recall that only days ago, the U.S. shot down a very expensive and high-end Turkish drone over Syria, when said drone was reportedly coming close to bombing U.S. forces. Such developments speak of larger simmering tensions in the region.

Many now believe that Israel is set to fall into a "trap" set by Iranwhereby they enter Gaza and will have Hezbollah open up a second front. Hamas has already reportedly depleted much of Israel's Iron Dome with their own cheap 'bottle rockets', and has thus paved the way for Hezbollah to demolish Israel with real Iranian-supplied firepower in the form of heavy SRBMs and drones, etc.

The plan could then be secretly aided by the entire Russian bloc due to the knowledge that such a widescale conflict could greatly benefit Russia and even China in a variety of ways.
The first and most obvious is it would take all U.S. attention away from Ukraine, forcing them to focus on combating Iran and its regional powers, which would allow Russia to swiftly finish off an abandoned Ukraine.

Secondly, and in aid to the first above, any conflict of this sort would send oil prices through the roof, which are already being estimated to go to $150 per barrel in the future. This would lead to Russia's already-exorbitant fossil fuel profits to shoot through the roof, not only stabilizing its own economy but helping to finance the Ukraine war.

China of course could benefit in a similar way in having the U.S.'s attention diverted elsewhere, giving China breathing room to continue building up and consolidating its own regional strength while also depleting the U.S. and thus preventing it from ever funding/supplying Taiwan to substantial degrees

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I don't think this is remotely true but it is a possibility:

🧵Ok Israel might actually be screwed.

Artillery is 90% of all effective firepower. Airborne munitions can't cycle through endless tons of explosive the way arty can, and they cost vastly more.

If this is true and Israel has only 20% its arty stockpile, then Hamas isn't… pic.twitter.com/6wWIsOs8vj

— CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) (@FromKulak) October 9, 2023

For those calling for Israel to change their gun laws permitting citizens to own firearms how would that work with 18% of the population in Israel being Muslim? They couldn't pass a law banning firearm ownership by religion and it isn't as if background checks would help much. I'm sure there is a database of people on terror watchlists but like in the US those people wouldn't buy weapons legally. You can have a well armed populace but that would also include Muslims that could decide to go jihadi at any moment if they have a gun in their hand. That is a complicated problem I would think.

If you question the MSM at all, be very circumspect about the amount of coverage this conflict is receiving.

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Why do people keep posting stuff from random Twitter accounts that Israel sent 80% of their artillery shells to Ukraine? That is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a while.

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They aren't random Twitter accounts. They are the same Russian milblogger accounts used in the pro Russian perspective thread. Basically just Russia being Russia trying to use this as an attempt to blame Ukraine aid.

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I'm constantly amazed by the boomer generation, being manipulated by the Internet or the MSM.

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Stlkofta said:

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Surrendering to the Taliban.

Paying tribute to Iran.

Funding Hamas….from Day One.

This the worst foreign policy POTUS we have ever had and it isn't close.

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Well, admit it. All Presidents, both D and R have done things like this. We funded terrorism in Pakistan as well as long as it did not touch us.
On the economic front, we built up China until they became the global menace they are today.

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I never understood our war on communism concurrent with the efforts to normalize relations with China in the 1970s.

infinity ag said:

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Stlkofta said:

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Surrendering to the Taliban.

Paying tribute to Iran.

Funding Hamas….from Day One.

This the worst foreign policy POTUS we have ever had and it isn't close.

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Well, admit it. All Presidents, both D and R have done things like this. We funded terrorism in Pakistan as well as long as it did not touch us.
On the economic front, we built up China until they became the global menace they are today.

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Biden is not getting a pass on this or any of his other foreign policy failures with the claim "they all do it."

Even Obama didn't surrender to the Taliban.

With regard to Pakistan, you sometimes have to deal with a slime nation in order to advance overall foreign policy goals. Pakistan was essential to the planning and development of Afghanistan operations and could have been a far bigger issue for us and our assets in that country.

Saudi Arabia aren't princes amongst nations and we all know that. But as a counter to Iran, who is a far more dangerous nation to American foreign policy interests, the Saudis have to be in our equation warts and all.

What was the foreign policy benefit to funding Hamas? What was the foreign policy benefit of funding Iran under Obama and now Biden?

As far as the CCP, only one President authorized the mass transfer of technology allowing the Chinese to be where they are today. That was a Democrat as well. After Nixon, the interest was primarily in opening China to American overseas business with an eye towards countering the Soviets in the Cold War era. In other words, that market-oriented interest represented a return to an American foreign policy goal that existed from the very founding of our nation.

"Pakistan was essential to the planning and development of Afghanistan operations and could have been a far bigger issue for us and our assets in that country"

End result? A failed war with needless loss of US Servicemen and women that went on far too long.

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"Pakistan was essential to the planning and development of Afghanistan operations and could have been a far bigger issue for us and our assets in that country"

End result? A failed war with needless loss of US Servicemen and women that went on far too long.

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Ignore the man who made it happen.

That was a COIN operation. It did not have to end that way but for the current President who decided to make sure the Afghan government couldn't win it.

The Afghanistan cards had been dealt long before then. We were funneling money to a fake army that existed only on paper. The Afghanistan papers were leaked in (iirc) 2011, but no one reported on it. The CIA and DOD knew that the Afghani Army was a walking pile of crap and couldn't do anything, but at the same time we're telling the public and Congress that everything was going great.

BREAKING: Reports of armed militants who infiltrated the Galilee. Civilians are called to lock themselves in the house

— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 9, 2023