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How really effective are the paragliders? They only hold two people at a time, they're slow as gently caress and both the alleged video of them over the rave and the propaganda video didn't seem like they had a lot. I could see them using these to get past the barriers in small numbers for infiltration, intelligence gathering and sabotage, but claiming this is some sort of airborne assault is a bit laughable. You're deploying fire teams with those numbers, not whole companies of fighters behind enemy lines. The skies would need to be filled with them to be an effective airborne fighting force. The only reason it seems is to make a claim about sophistication.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1714314827173175680?s=46 It may have been deleted because of international optics, but that is apparently a transcript of Netanyahu's speech to the Knesset.
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Madkal posted:Hamas does good for Palestinians as long as those Palestinians don't identify as LGBTQ and their ideas of non Muslims living in Palestine/Israel is a little bit problematic Ah, trying to pinkwash, aren't you? Don't look up what the status of interracial and same-sex marriage in Israel! Also, one of the targets that Israel bombed last night in Gaza was an Orthodox Christian church that was sheltering mixed denomination refugees.
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Hamas released two American hostages, largely in part to Qatari negotiations, and, specifically pointed out in statements, no thanks to "Joe Biden and his fascist administration". https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1715413571427811694?s=20 The hostages are Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie of Evanston, Illinois.   Meanwhile, Netanyahu is busy writing off hostages in front of their families so he can continue his bombing campaign, even throwing in ringers as fake family members. https://x.com/abesilbe/status/1714852909576339876?s=20
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Former Republican Representative of Michigan, Justin Amash, reports that several of his family members were killed in the bombing of the Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/20/gaza-church-strike-saint-porphyrius/ https://x.com/justinamash/status/1715470077196194068?s=20 Edit: I edited out some editorializing because I felt it was crude. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Ms Adequate posted:It does feel like "Rolling the tanks into Gaza City and loving razing the place" is something the IDF would be ready to do on like, 48 hour's notice, max, so yeah I get the feeling that someone, somewhere high up in Tel Aviv is extremely gun-shy about it. Though I would propose a couple of alternative reasons to Neurolimal's suggestion that they anticipate it'll cost them a lot more than they want to pay: one is that they are in serious back-channel negotiations for hostage releases and are holding off until those conclude one way or the other; two is that regardless of the degree of ground casualties they expect they're willing to sit back and keep hammering the place with air power before they go in. Israel has not won a major ground operation against near parity opponents since the '70s. And they're poor at attrition warfare despite being a conscripted army. Invading Gaza would be like trying to subdue a rogue Texas, too close for comfort. And that's not getting into if West Bank and Lebanon get dragged in further.
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Oct 22, 2023 23:27
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MadSparkle posted:I don't understand how Netanyahu has been strengthening Hamas for years, instead of working with Abbas for statehood, and telling Likud to do the same if they wanted to avoid establishing a Palestinian state.... yet no one is holding him accountable for an of this? How is no one calling him out? He's never wanted a 2-state solution at all, he's entirely just turned a blind eye to Hamas and then deliberately ignored Abbas. It's driving me crazy that I'm not seeing any of this really being talked about on news. It's because Israeli internal dissent is being actively suppressed.
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mrfart posted:True. hamas doesn’t have javelins, artillery or any nice stuff to take on tanks from a distance. Maybe they’ll try with grenade dropping drones or something. But I guess that as long as they keep these tanks out of narrow streets/rubble, they’ll be fairly safe. Infantry is another story. Grenade-dropping drones aren't a hypothetical, Hamas had video of their drones blowing up listening posts and brewing up Merkavas.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Counterpoint: Yes they should. This shithead line is only as old as the GWOT. Everyone used to negotiate for the release of hostages. That's why hostage negotiation exists. It's only due to the fascist American death drive, shared by Israel, that conscripts all civilians into itself as willing martyrs for the cause that, 'we don't negotiate with terrorists' has become policy. Also a counterpoint: Ronald Reagan, the person who said "we don't negotiate with terrorists", negotiated with terrorists.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The IDF HQ is in the middle of Tel Aviv so your wish was granted. https://x.com/elivalley/status/1716121672304955739?s=20 The central hospital in Tel Aviv sits more or less than a half-kilometer from the IDF's version of the Pentagon, regardless if you go from the center of the main hospital building or the specialist buildings at the end. If Hezbollah or Syria used their ballistic missiles, the hospital is well within their circle error probability (where 50% of missiles will fall within).
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An outrageous poll results broadcast on MSNBC https://x.com/Bilalbay/status/1719520725663387773?s=20 And that's from a couple weeks ago, it's has to be larger now. Regardless, how is President Biden think ignoring this is a good idea?
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Willo567 posted:Is there a better translation of what he's saying other than Memri? Also, would they even be able to repeat it at the moment? Believe it or not, Coup frontman and director Boots Riley has been on this. Riley is pretty political, having been an activist since he was 14 and being involved in Occupy Oakland, outreach for Bernie Sanders, and shouting out union actions, so I would trust his view on the matter, at least as a counterpoint. He says the translation is accurate but the MEMRI piece is heavily edited to take things out of context. He goes over it in some detail in this thread. https://x.com/BootsRiley/status/1719783509613789300?s=20 https://x.com/BootsRiley/status/1719845290146943442?s=20 He retweet his original thread with new information, after finding the unedited video. https://x.com/BootsRiley/status/1719864481055211780?s=20 https://x.com/BootsRiley/status/1719866507419877437?s=20 https://x.com/BootsRiley/status/1719892163415453895?s=20
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Hong XiuQuan posted:There are videos of fighters running up to and attaching explosives to tanks with 0 infantry support. You may not be seeing this but the Israeli ground forces are currently a running joke and the air forces are seen as only good enough to bomb hospitals. I literally could not believe that. There's a loving dude in a bright blue fake Adidas tracksuit hiding amongst dry brush not loving 20 meters from a Merkava and no infantry at all. Even the tank crews are buttoned up in open terrain, supposedly where tanks are most advantageous. And then his buddy not only puts a charge on the upper deck of Merkava but turns around and hits another Merkava with a PG-7VR. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Dubar posted:If hamas is in fact hiding in ambulances, the solution is not to blow up every ambulance. No one is being forced to murder children Like seriously, doesn't Israel have these super loving commandos we keep hearing about? You think if you're trying to kill or capture a single guy, you'd just risk a bunch of squaddies to stop an ambulance and haul off with the guy. It's like that the goal isn't to stop terrorists, it's to blow up ambulances.
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BUUNNI posted:https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1720400053347438719 What the gently caress is he talking about? 1000 years ago, that land was constantly being traded between various Arabic dynastic empires and then the Crusaders.
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The IDF did some intelligence work today and raided a HAMAS stronghold. https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1720501575624618111?s=20 https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1720510546464682141?s=20 https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1720513404031439094?s=20 Not sure if there was anybody there. The video from the raid makes it look abandoned. BTW, sure doesn't look like a tunnel complex under a hospital.
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punishedkissinger posted:We know that Israeli armor cant magically shrug off RPG attacks. They had 20 Merkavas knocked out in Lebanon in 2007. Armor technology hasnt really changed since then. With the same type of RPGs even. PG-7VRs, of which we have seen in use and the RPG-29 is a derivative of, is capable of penetrating the side hull of an Abrams and getting a motive kill.
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Kunabomber posted:i expect the top part to shoot up like a champagne cork and come crashing down That's apparently a bug specific to Soviet-era tanks (which even the modernized T-90 stuff counts since it's just upgraded T-80 and T-72 designs), because of the ammo carousels underneath the turret. Almost everyone else started designing their ammo storage around blow-out panels, which caused their turrets to balloon and the Merkava was no exception.
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Neurolimal posted:In retrospect it shouldn't be that crazy; it's not like they have X-ray vision, and their approach to punishing Gaza naturally incentivizes building underground where they can't see. The best they can do is blackmail Gazans into becoming informants, but....Well, despite how much effort Hamas has put into being more acceptable on an international scale, they still freely execute informants when they find them. Exempting Hamas' SOP with informants, another point is that why would any Palestinian become an informant now? It's not like the Israelis are going to rehouse them or let them stay in Gaza. They've made their intentions know and the Palestinians aren't a part of it, so why cooperate? I recall something happened with the Nazis in Russia and the Eastern Front: at first, they'd got collaborators to hunt down partisans but after they started massacre whole villages et al, the collaborators stopped working with them gathering intelligence since they knew they'd be next against wall after the partisans got hunted down.
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Jimbozig posted:It's not just that Egypt "don't want refugees." They can actually think two steps ahead. Everyone saw what happened with Lebanon. Pushing Palestinians into the Sinai is soon followed by Israeli soldiers in the Sinai to keep them from attacking Israel.
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Flopsy posted:https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1733229697641697404 idk IDF or Shin Bet pulls a President Park Chung Hee? Doubt a military-intelligence junta would be better for the situation than Bibi and his Likudniks, but at least it would be more honest of Israel than "the Middle East's only democracy".
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Neurolimal posted:Also hard to gauge the thickness of Merkava armor, especially because if you google anything about the Merkava you get vacuous articles masturbating about how badass it is (followed by War Thunder threads complaining that Merkava armor isn't OP in the game, citing those articles), but we do have some images of the Merkava 1/2: One of the things I recall about the Merkava is that the engine is in the front of the tank to provide additional crew protection and I can definitely think that may have been a compromise if they couldn't produce a front glacis thick enough to withstand most tanks.
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Ravenfood posted:Love that they stole the "he felt threatened" excuse that will never be examined from US cops. No follow-up questions will be asked on, exactly, why a bunch of armed soldiers supposedly felt threatened by shirtless unarmed civilians waving a white flag. I think one of the more infuriating things about this, outside of the obvious genocide, is seeing CopLogic and CopSpeak on such a large scale. It's no wonder the marginalized in America feel so much sympathy for the Palestinians, they're seeing all these "accidentally police shootings" and "died in police custody" incidents writ large by Israel, a nation of cops. I have to wonder if what came first, American police deferral of responsibility or Israel's "blamelessness" regarding war crimes? Did Israel teach that to our cops like everything else in the LEO/security industry they've set up or did they learn that from us? Or is it a convergent evolution of cover-ups and victim blaming?
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Sephyr posted:Between that and the "Dude, having sex after you snuff the life out of someone's eyes is the BEST" cop lecturer that had trained like 1500 precincts, color me unsurprised. Imagine David Grossman (apt name) losing business to the Israelis and video games.
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Alchenar posted:As long as the risk is 'we will fly a helicopter out and try to hijack you' rather than Iran's 'we will flood the gulf with mines and fling missiles at anything that passes' the threat is probably manageable. poo poo, they could hijack a couple of ships, sail them into the canal and Evergiven them intentionally at any point. We all saw how long it took to dislodge one ship, what happens if you have two?
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punishedkissinger posted:BDS was pretty helpful against South Africa and is effective enough against Israel that AIPAC has worked with many states to make it illegal. Before he championed against "anti-Italian discrimination" on The Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt got together pretty much every big name artist at their peak popularity and fame to declare they would not play Sun City... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR2r8Qlyyk (brief aside, I hadn't really seen this video in something like 40 years and Jesus, it still has an energy to it.)
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kiminewt posted:Speaking of Israel being "careful", here's a tweet by Israeli Economy minister after 14 soldiers have died during the weekend: They're probably counting the "8000 terrorists" as any "military-aged" (@16-49yo) male they've killed.
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Sephyr posted:Apparently the Israeli Supreme Court has (narrowly) struck down Bibi's power grab of the last months. It remains ti be seen if this will cause him to pause and regroup to sustain his coalition, or if he'll double down on the slaughter to try and deliver -something- to the public, and thus come across as their defender compared to the meddling/corrupt/weakling judges trying to stop him from saving everyone. Literally an hour later after the Israeli Supreme Court announced the decision, we get news that Israel is pulling troops out of Gaza. It's not a ceasefire or a complete retreat, but a regrouping supposedly to engage Hamas in at a lower intensity. Later in this Al Jazeera piece, they mention a whole bunch of friendly fire incidents and IDF deaths caused by weapons malfunctions and equipment failures as opposed to enemy fire, so my guess is that they're pulling back excess conscripts that keep getting themselves killed and keeping elite veteran units who are trained and experienced well enough at least not to shoot themselves. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/1/israel-says-it-will-pull-out-thousands-of-troops-from-gaza quote:The Israeli military has announced that it will withdraw thousands of its soldiers from the besieged Gaza Strip in the first significant pullback of troops since the war there began in October. Surprisingly, it looks like US is also de-escalating in the region... quote:Separately on Monday, the US announced that it would be taking an aircraft carrier strike group back from the eastern Mediterranean and replacing it with an amphibious assault ship and accompanying warships.
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Kalit posted:As a reminder, the Republic of Yemen is the internationally recognized government in the country. It's baffling how you wouldn't take them into consideration while talking about how the civil war is "on pause". UKMTO confirms basically confirms the attack, see #551 https://www.ukmto.org/indian-ocean/recent-incidents
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ABC News is confirming the strikes on the Consulate... https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...al_twitter_abcn
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Hong XiuQuan posted:Here's a tweet that mentions it: https://x.com/LumpyLouish/status/1751042267043762630?s=20 Can't help but notice that most of this appears to be using AI art. It's like they can't find a decent marketing team or are doing this on the cheap.
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Apparently, Israeli intelligence has determined where Hamas got the weapons used in the 10/7 attacks: from the Israeli military itself, usually in the form of weaponized unexploded ordnance as well as theft from poorly-guarded bases. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...keyword=dlvr.it quote:LONDON – Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct 7 attacks and in the war in the Gaza Strip came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military itself. There's really no stopping this. Israel drops more bombs in any modern conflict, a bunch fail to detonate and end up being used by Hamas to fight back the Israelis. The IDF is such a loving Keystone Kops operation that has been relying on their reputation from the 1967 war, when their army is so poorly trained that they can't keep their loving armories from getting looted. And they want to kick the Palestinians into the Sinai, where they will just get even more access to black market arms. There is no military solution for Israel.
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It's been overshadowed by Gaza, but Israeli real estate developers and settlers have been encroaching into the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for months now. There's been a land deal between the Armenian Patriarch Nourhan Manougian and Australian developer Danny Rothman and his company, Xana Gardens, to buy the Cow's Garden area of the Quarter for a hotel entertainment complex. The Armenian community, who have lived there for 1600 years, didn't take this lightly and protested against the deal and it took Jordan and the Palestinian Authority threat to revoke the recognition of the Patriarchate, which forced the Patriarch to relented in late October. Since then, Israeli settlers have been assaulting Armenians, tearing down fences, and attempt to bulldoze sections of the Quarter. Here's a thread I caught off Bluesky, with links to the news articles mentioned in the thread.  https://www.newarab.com/investigations/israeli-firm-attack-jerusalems-armenians  https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/24/we-wont-leave-armenians-in-jerusalem-push-back-against-armed-settlers  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-jerusalem-take-over-armenian-quarter-force  https://www.newarab.com/investigations/ben-gvir-associate-settlers-intimidate-jerusalem-armenians  https://www.newarab.com/analysis/how-secret-land-sales-threaten-jerusalems-armenian-quarter  https://mondoweiss.net/2023/06/jerusalems-armenian-community-fears-erasure-after-controversial-land-deal/
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Israel is looking to expand the war into Egypt, with their media manufacturing consent for a war with Egypt. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-786386 quote:Egypt may become an unstoppable enemy for Israel, former IDF general warns This is the same day, that Sisi in Egypt formally advised Netanyahu that they will seek to withdrawal from the Camp David Accords if Israel invades Rafah.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:We need to stop giving Israel money and weapons. I know that won't make all the weapons we've already given them magically go away, that damage can't be undone, but it's inexcusable to keep supplying them. Actually, the way Israel is using munitions, it would appear to magically go away for them.
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Paladinus posted:What's the source? I can't make out the expiration date or the TG channel.  Not really going to defend the Biden admin's decision to drop only 38,000 to feed up to 2 million people, but the expiration date say July 2026. Also, given the "Made In Jordan" label on the can, I believe this is probably from the Jordanian airdrops that have been happening since November. Could be mistaken since I'm seeing that the 38,000 meals were apparently a joint US/Jordanian project, but I would expect that US airdrops would be the "pink MRE" Humanitarian Daily Rations, which already have a menu formulated for Muslim dietary restrictions. Maybe they used Jordanian stocks or this was the only one just photographed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_daily_ration Randalor posted:"You see a movie about an oppressed people rising up against their cruel occupiers, immediately identify with the occupiers, and then begin making excuses for why your occupation is fine, you are a terrible human being and it disgusts me that we are associated in any way." with the "Hans, are we the baddies" image attached? Anyone who has followed the books can tell you that you probably shouldn't be identifying with the Harkonnens, goddamn, at all. Not only are they a culture of loving incestual child-raping cheats and schemers whose motto is "cruelty is the point", but the whole House stops existing after the first book, Paul wiping their memory from the universe. I am pretty sure the Israelis don't want either associations.
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cat botherer posted:If that happens, both the Biden administration and the Israelis will chalk it up to a whoopsie-daisy like they did with the USS Liberty incident. idk, the USS Liberty incident was just one ship in a long line of U.S. naval intelligence assets getting attacked in possibly neutral waters that resulted in diplomatic instead of open warfare. The USS Pueblo got captured by North Korea a year later: the crew was tortured, with the captain subject to mock executions, and a sailor died in captivity before the U.S. State Department issued an apology, which contributed to LBJ withdrawing from the '68 election. Then we had the Hainan incident in 2001, where a P-5 Orion surveillance aircraft collided with a Chinese interceptor, killing the Chinese pilot and resulting in the Orion aircrew bailing out and getting captured by the Chinese, who were released following a "not-apology" apology from the Bush administration. A big difference in these and the Liberty is the Israelis admitted to their mistake, made a formal apology and provided restitution to the sailors and families of those killed, which is why no one really talks about it. I do think if the Israelis attacked a U.S.-led humanitarian operation would end up differently than a "oops, my bad" apology, especially with a good portion of the American population already fired up due to the Gaza genocide. What would more likely happen is Israel would blame American deaths on Hamas while adding salt to the wound that the U.S. shouldn't have butted in and the media would play along with "Hamas F-16s In False Flag Livery Bomb US Navy Sailors With Stolen American Bombs!" It's also likely the pier is bullshit, too, since an incident between American military and the Israelis would be disastrous to Biden and make him appear weak.
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socialsecurity posted:Someone else committing a crime doesn't reduce accountability for the crime someone commits that not how accountability works. What US president has had a policy of NOT selling weapons to Israel? Like lay this out for me, would Bush be defying the MIC here? Trump? Clinton? Imagine how much money the MIC could make if they sold arms to both the Israelis and the Palestinians. Unironically, I think that would be the only way out of this mess. I'm reminded that part of the peace process in the Camp David Accords was supplying both foreign and military aid to both signatories, Egypt and Israel, and the promise to kick the rear end of the one nation that decided to start a fight between them.
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