Friday, September 20, 2024
Amjad Taha أمجد طه
You dared to strike at a smart and courageous nation on October 7th—committing genocide, kidnapping their children, and violating their women. You thought they would fall, but they rose again, returning after 11 months to correct what had only momentarily slipped—their…
— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) September 18, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Newsweek says that Israel's Pager Strike Have Arab Leaders (Quietly) Cheering
In the wake of the alleged Israeli assault on thousands of Hezbollah members, whose pagers and walkie talkies simultaneously exploded on Monday and Tuesday, Arab governments rushed to condemn the attack, expressing fears that it would escalate the region's conflict.
Yet many of their citizens had other ideas.
In the days following the explosions, Arabic-language social media have been full of memes of Hassan Nasrallah, the militant group's chief, with a blown-up backside; schadenfreude remarks of how Hezbollah got what it deserved; claims that the explosions were divine justice and songs praising the operation. In Northern Syria, soldiers even handed out sweets to passing cars to celebrate the "Hezbollah massacre."
This isn't the first time since the Iran-backed terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7 that Arabs have cheered on brazen operations—allegedly—pulled off by the Jewish state against Iran and its allies. Indeed, according to The Media Line, a U.S.-based independent news agency that reports on Arabic and Hebrew-language media, the Arab world largely favored the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in July and some Arab commentators even supported Israel's assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh last month. When Israel bombed the Houthi-controlled Hodeida port in Yemen, Saudi and Yemeni journalists and social media users rejoiced.
One of the many important nuances of the Middle East conflicts is that most victims of Iran and its proxies and clients such as Hezbollah and Hamas are not Jews but Arabs.
In Syria, Iran has propped up the despotic president Bashar Al Assad, who has used barrel bombs and chemical weapons against his own people, ethnically cleansed certain Sunni districts and strengthened violent and criminal militias such as Hezbollah and the ethnic-Afghan militia Liwa Fatemiyoun.
In Yemen, Iran-backed Houthis have torn the country apart, abusing their citizens and prioritizing fighting a faraway Israel while almost 3 million Yemeni children are either acutely or severely malnourished.
Lebanon, once known as the "Switzerland of the Middle East" for its snowcapped mountains and stability that led to it being the banking capital of the Arab world, has been hijacked by Iran and put on the brink of a war with Israel that would send it back to the Stone Age.
Not "Bashert" for Trump to Eat At Gottleib's in Williamsburg as Mr. Gottlieb Sr Passes Away
The visit was planned for today at the renowned Gottlieb’s Restaurant, owned by Menashe Gottlieb. However, the sudden passing of Menashe's father, R' Shulem Yosef Gottlieb, has led to the visit's cancellation.
R' Shulem Yosef, a respected figure in the community, passed away earlier today, leaving his family and the broader Williamsburg community in mourning. As a result, plans for the former president's visit were quickly called off out of respect for the family.
Trump supporters had previously been seen preparing for the visit, with signs of welcome hung around the neighborhood, including a portrait of the former president displayed at Gottlieb’s Restaurant.
Details surrounding the rescheduling of Trump’s visit, if any, are yet to be confirmed.
Stay tuned to Williamsburg365 for further updates.
Moti Maman 72 Israeli businessman indicted in Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli leaders
Prosecutors say he was smuggled into Iran twice and demanded a $1 million payment in advance for various missions, including plotting to assassinate top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
The Shin Bet and Israel Police revealed that the suspect, later identified as Moti Maman, a 72-year-old resident of Ashkelon, was arrested in August in a joint anti-terror operation by the Shin Bet and the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 serious crimes unit on suspicion of committing security offenses on behalf of the Iranian regime.
The investigation revealed that while living in Turkey, the suspect maintained business and social ties with Turkish and Iranian contacts. In April, through the mediation of two Turkish nationals, identified as Andrey Farouk Aslan and Junayd Aslan, he agreed to meet a wealthy businessman in Iran named Eddy to discuss potential business ventures.
AOC Totally Unhinged! Attacks Israel for Blowing Up Innocent Hezbollah Terrorists
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday night tweeted this – I am not messing with you:
“Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon detonated thousands of handheld devices across of a slew of public spaces, seriously injuring and killing innocent civilians. This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict. Congress needs a full accounting of the attack, including an answer from the State Department as to whether any US assistance went into the development or deployment of this technology.”
The Human Side of Donald Trump the side the media won't allow you to see
Liam, who has a rare brain disorder, was recently given a letter from Trump just before his eighth birthday and his heartfelt reaction to the surprise went viral.
Doctors warned the family Liam might never walk, talk or eat on his own, according to his mother, Siobhan.
"My buddy here plays ice hockey, he does roller hockey, he does very good in school, plays sports…we’re so proud of him," she told Fox News Digital in an interview moments before Trump’s rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale near the family’s Long Island home.
Liam's mom said he has been a Trump supporter since he was 18 months old.
After receiving the letter, Liam's family was invited to Trump's Unidondale rally as VIP guests, where Liam received an even bigger birthday gift by meeting the Republican presidential nominee.
"I'm supposed to be on that stage, but that doesn't matter because I got you the best present. This is the best present you'll ever have," Trump said while greeting Liam backstage.
Trump handed Liam a box and said "in there is real good stuff."
"We're gonna have that picture for life, you and I," Trump told Liam after taking a photo.
Trump thanked Liam and his family for joining him.
"Take care of yourself, okay? I wish I looked like that or if I looked like that, I'd be president," Trump told Liam.
Fox News Digital spoke with the family after meeting Trump and shared just how big of an impact it made on Liam.
"It's a pipe dream, I can never imagine, to thank the world for helping my son come this far and showing support and making his dream come true, because, believe it or not, this is definitely probably one of his big dreams, to meet Donald Trump, his hero since he was probably born. If not, very close," Liam's dad said, choking back tears.
‘Trump 2024!" Liam added.
Trump also gave Liam and his family a shout-out during the rally, telling the crowd about Liam's bravery and their visit while pointing him out from stage while the crowd erupted in applause.
"I'm in tears," Liam's mom told Fox News Digital.
The original viral video, which caught national attention, showed Liam eagerly opening an envelope with a letter addressed to him from the former president.
"This is a side of Donald Trump that nobody gets to see," said Kevin Smith, who shared the original video before it blew up online. "Most Americans, he said, only see Trump’s public persona and widespread media coverage."
The video opens with Liam sitting on a couch as his mom hands over the envelope. She asks if he wants to read the letter or have her read it, as he fights back tears realizing what is happening.
"Dear Liam, Happy birthday, Mrs. Trump, and I hope you enjoy this special occasion surrounded by the love of your family and friends," Liam's mom, Siobhan reads.
"We are so encouraged by the strength and determination you have shown throughout your life and send our love and best wishes to you as you continue to fight," the letter continued. "Remember you are never alone, and we are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers for continued care and good health. May God bless you and your family, stay strong."
Siobhan then mentions that Trump knew Liam's birthday was coming up and asked him how he felt about him wishing him a happy birthday.
"Sincerely, can you tell me who signed that?" Siobhan asks.
"Donald Trump," Liam responds shakily, holding back tears.
"He knew it was your birthday coming up? What do you say to him," Siobhan asks.
"Thank you, I love you," Liam says while also signing "I love you."
UN General Assembly passes resolution calling for Jerusalem Old City to be Jew-free..No More Kotel!
Jerusalem’s Old City and Judea and Samaria must be judenrein within a year, according to a Palestinian-drafted resolution, which the U.N. General Assembly passed on Wednesday.
The resolution, which passed by a 124-14 margin with 43 abstentions, is meant to give force to a July advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice, which declared Israeli presence to be illegal in any area over the 1949 armistice line.
More than 40 countries sponsored the resolution, which was the first that Palestinians filed after being granted unprecedented privileges, for a non-U.N. member, earlier this year.
The resolution calls on the Israel Defense Forces to withdraw completely from Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and Gaza within 12 months, which means evacuating all Jewish communities beyond the armistice line, including Jerusalem’s Old City.
It also bans arms sales to the IDF of any equipment that would be expected reasonably to be used in the territory over the 1949 lines and calls for a boycott of all products produced by Jews in those areas.
The resolution text lacks any mention of Israeli security concerns, historic ties to the lands or Hamas’s terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.
The vote came after a day of debate on Tuesday.
Argentina, Czechia, Fiji, Hungary, Malawi, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, Tuvalu and the United States joined Israel in opposing the resolution.
Notably, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Ukraine and Australia were among those who abstained.
General Assembly resolutions have no legal force, but the resolution’s passage on Wednesday is expected to be used in international courts and other fora to seek additional action against the Jewish state.
It is widely expected that the Palestinians will request that the U.N. Security Council take up the issue. Security Council resolutions are binding, but the United States would be expected to thwart such an effort, including with its veto power.
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, called it “a shameful decision that backs the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic terrorism.”
He added that the General Assembly “continues to dance to the music of the Palestinian Authority, which backs the Hamas murderers.”
Before the vote, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters he would back the implementation of the resolution should it pass.
Seth Riklin and Daniel Mariaschin, president and CEO respectively of B’nai B’rith International, said that the international nonprofit is “appalled” by the “atrocious” resolution.
“B’nai B’rith International strongly condemns the U.N. General Assembly’s passage of the first resolution officially sponsored by Palestinians days after they became the first non-member state group further upgraded to many member state privileges at the U.N. General Assembly, despite the world body’s own rules and practices,” the duo stated.
“Coming from an assembly in which Arab and other pro-Palestinian governments wield an automatic majority to annually condemn Israel more than all other countries combined, the motion is unprecedented in its shamelessly one-sided endorsement of Palestinian claims and political demands, and further erodes the U.N.’s credibility as a serious contributor to promoting conflict-resolution and universal human rights,” they added.
“Shame on all countries that enabled this atrocious affront to justice and peace as part of the latest UNGA ’emergency session’ on the Middle East that does nothing to help seriously address and settle the emergency,” Riklin and Mariaschin said.
Arsen Ostrovsky and Nadav Steinman, CEO and board chair respectively of the International Legal Forum, stated that “today, simply put, the United Nations has become the diplomatic arm of Hamas” and that the resolution “is just the latest in a litany of obscenely one-sided anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N. since Oct. 7.”
“All it does is reward the murderers, rapists and abductors of Hamas while pouring further fuel on worldwide antisemitism and eroding whatever remaining credibility of the already problematic and politicized International Court of Justice, upon which this resolution is meant to be based,” they added. “Ultimately, peace will only prevail when Hamas is defeated and the hostages are released, not through tiresome antics and pyrrhic Palestinian ‘victories’ at the U.N.”
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Entire World in Shock as Israelis Celebrate Two-Days Yom Tov ! "Beeper" Explosions Continue ..Computers, Walkie Talkies Blow Up
Newspaper front pages around the world are extensively covering yesterday's insane beeper operation in Lebanon. The entire world is in complete shock.
Attack in Lebanon Continues:
Around 60 buildings, 15 cars, dozens of motorcycles, and hundreds of mobile devices were affected, according to Lebanese sources.
Hezbollah's walkie-talkies, which exploded across Lebanon today, were reportedly purchased by the group about five months ago, similar to the pagers that exploded a day earlier, according to a security source cited by Reuters. The latest blasts have left dozens of people injured.
Israel won't let them die in peace!
Footage shows the walkie-talkie explosion at a funeral in Beirut.
Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists have been wounded across Lebanon and many killed in this new wave of explosions. Numbers are expected to rise.
A building with several walkie-talkies inside exploding simultaneously in Lebanon.
What Experts Make of Israel’s ‘Ingenious’ Hezbollah Pager Attack
Israel’s astonishing attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday culminated in the explosion of thousands of Hezbollah terrorists’ pagers. It left at least nine dead and 2,800 injured, according to the latest reports.
But it left many wondering why it wasn’t followed by a larger offensive incursion into Lebanon, from which Hezbollah has for the past 11 months launched near-daily rocket and drone attacks that have driven tens of thousands of Israeli civilians from their homes in northern Israel. For months, Israelis have been bracing for a second-front war against Hezbollah, the Washington Free Beacon‘s Andrew Tobin reported in March, and Tuesday’s events raise obvious questions about what Israeli officials intended to communicate about their intentions.
We asked some of the smartest foreign policy experts we know what they made of the situation. Here’s what they said.
- Elliott Abrams, senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, former U.S. Envoy to Iran: “Israel has been re-establishing deterrence since it was badly undermined last Oct. 7. Like the recent assassinations in Lebanon and Iran, and Israel’s attack on some Iranian air defense sites in April, this attack is meant to remind Hezbollah of Israel’s technical sophistication and its willpower. Israel is trying to make it clear to Hezbollah and Iran that it does not fear escalation. Hezbollah will respond, but this attack will make them realize they are more vulnerable than they think.”
- Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies: “It was obviously a major feat to pull off this technology. The Mossad was able to manipulate the Hezbollah supply chain when they purchased these pagers. This was what I consider to be a zero-days exploit—use it or lose it. And now there are thousands of injured Hezbollahis. The question now is whether this leads to escalation. The northern border has been on a knife’s edge for eleven months since Oct. 8, when Hezbollah began shooting rockets, missiles, and drones at Israel. Does this bring us closer to war? Nobody knows.”
- Gabriel Noronha, fellow, Jewish Institute for the National Security of America, former State Department official: “Hezbollah’s security vulnerabilities run deep. This latest incident demonstrates the extent to which Israel has penetrated their networks. The psychological damage will be just as immense as the physical damage to Hezbollah operatives.”
- Joe Truzman, research analyst, Foundation for Defense of Democracies: “It’s certainly possible the attack on Hezbollah can escalate into a full-blown war. Israel demonstrated that it could have attacked Hezbollah further by targeting strategic sites following the mass confusion created by the pager blasts. However, it chose not to. It’s in Israel’s interest not to initiate a full-blown war, and I think Hezbollah is avoiding such an escalation as well. If Hezbollah responds, I don’t think it will be a knee-jerk reaction, and it will try to limit the response so that it won’t trigger an escalation of the ongoing conflict. However, mistakes often happen in conflict. It’s a slippery slope for both actors.”
- David Schenker, former State Department assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs: “This appears to be a well-conceived interdiction of supply chains that was done not only conceptually well, but executed with great competence. Israel did the operational preparation, laid the groundwork, and when you have these things in place, if you don’t use it, you might lose it. This is another in the growing list of Hezbollah’s humiliations. Hezbollah is asking itself today whether it wants this war. All they have to do is fire a missile into Tel Aviv and we’re there. Israel itself is demonstrating that it is willing to climb the escalatory ladder.”
Israel has a long history of using explosive phones and other devices to kill terrorists, according to Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. In 2001, Israel blew up a pay phone used regularly by Iyad Haradan, an Islamic Jihad commander. In a 1996 operation, the Mossad planted an explosive cell phone on Yahua Ayyah, Hamas’s top bomb maker at the time. As far back as 1972, Israel planted a bomb in a telephone used by Mahmoud Hamshari, a terror leader who was assassinated in Paris.
'Harshest blow to the Islamic resistance': Lebanese media shocked at blow to Hezbollah
Reflecting on the pager attack that reportedly killed around nine and wounded thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar exposed the extent of the damage in its editorial, calling it one of the most severe blows dealt to the terror organization since it began launching attacks on Israel last October.
“In just one minute, the enemy managed to deliver the harshest blow to Islamic resistance since the onset of the conflict,” the article stated, adding it was “an exceptional security operation in terms of the ability to reach targets and means, and in demonstrating elements of Israeli technological and intelligence superiority."
The article detailed the damage, stating the operation “led to the injury of more than three thousand resistance fighters and civilians from Hezbollah units, who were crowded in hospitals in the south, the Bekaa, Beirut, and the suburbs.”
Hezbollah’s worst nightmare: Chaos in its ranks
Hezbollah is known as a disciplined group. Highly trained, the group invests heavily in its recruits. It is not known to waste them as cannon fodder. It views itself as an elite organization, and within its own structure, there are centers of terrorist excellence, such as the Radwan force.
Hezbollah has achieved this through decades of fine-tuning its capabilities. It has built itself up slowly, first in the 1980s and then in the last two decades as it came to dominate Lebanon. Now, the group faces its worst nightmare: Chaos.
Hezbollah is facing chaos because a large number of its alleged members were wounded on September 17 by exploding communications devices. The full details of this incident are not yet known, and they will only be known over time. However, video and images from Lebanon show men, many of them in their forties, wounded in the hands and faces by exploding communications devices.
The devices are alleged to be pagers. The video shows at least one man pulling his pager from his pocket, only to have it explode in his hand. Gruesome videos, apparently from hospitals in Lebanon, show a large number of men missing parts of their hands or wounded in the legs, stomach, or face.
Hamas Leader Says Biden Will Let Group Stay in Power: ‘They’re Practically Recognizing Hamas’
Khaled Meshal, one of Hamas’s most senior leaders, expressed confidence that President Joe Biden will allow the Palestinian terror group to remain in control of Gaza.
In an interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday, Meshal noted that Biden has stopped echoing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to Hamas’s eradication and has pushed indirect negotiations with Hamas for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza war.
“The Israeli-American vision wasn’t talking about the day after the war, but the day after Hamas,” Meshal said, referring to the initial U.S. position.
Now, he said, the Biden administration is saying, “We’re waiting for Hamas’s response.”
“They’re practically recognizing Hamas,” he added.
Meshal, speaking from Doha, Qatar, where he is based, also expressed confidence in the interview that Hamas is winning the war against Israel.
“Hamas has the upper hand,” he said, echoing similar comments by another senior Hamas official to AFP on Sunday. “It has remained steadfast” and brought the Israeli military to “a state of attrition.”
The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 Hamas terrorists in Gaza during the war, more than half of the estimated total number. Netanyahu said earlier this year in a podcast interview that “total victory” over the group will likely take years.
Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said last week that Hamas “as a military formation no longer exists.” He separately told Israeli troops to prepare for a ground invasion of Lebanon amid escalating conflict with Hezbollah, a Hamas ally and fellow Iran-backed terror group in the country.
Kalman Leib Lustig of Beit Shemesh is the rapist that was Arrested in Miron
Police disclose name of the pedophile from Beit Shemesh
The investigation shows: this is how Lustig raped a guy, 7 months after he was investigated for assaulting a minor* 📢
Remember the dramatic arrest in Miron, and the clashes that broke out in the cave? So today the name of the pedophile was disclosed:
Kalman Leib Lustig, 24 years old from Beit Shemesh.
He was investigated for sexual offenses and rape. The testimonies of the complainants in the case were revealed after Lustig was indicted this week.
The investigation showed that there is an additional case against him from about 7 months prior on suspicion of committing sexual offenses against a minor.
The affair was revealed after boys complained that Lustig had committed sexual offenses, and raped one of them in a spring after the Yurzeit of the Holy Ari, making acquaintances with them through a telephone dating line. Lustig denied the suspicions against him during the investigation.
"He asked to meet them at the spring at three in the morning. Not far away," one of the 14-year-old boys repeated, "he told us to undress. At one point he grabbed my friend and I yelled at him: 'What are you doing to him? Leave him alone. . . .
The boys' testimony also shows that Lustig slapped them because he couldn't reach a climax, he asked them to come with him to the cave on Keren Hayesod Street in Safed. He asked the two to sexually undress one of the other boys until he finally climaxed.
Ha Ha ...Yente upset about the terrorists getting blown up because of the inequity
She’s upset about the terrorists getting blown up because of the inequity 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/l5g87dOFwE
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 18, 2024
Rep Dan Goldman Called for "Trump to be Eliminated"
Jewish congressman Dan Goldman is going viral for calling for Donald Trump to be assassinated on national television pic.twitter.com/lGphMPmW0z
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) September 16, 2024
Kamala Harris proudly states that she was “entirely supportive of” “the pause on 2000 lb bombs” to Israel. She Later, she blamed Israel for the death of American hostage Hirsch
What a dangerous disgrace. https://t.co/LOWUbrfFGn
— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) September 18, 2024
For What Possible Reason Would Lapid "The Hamas Stooge" Meet Obama?
The man actually running DC meets with the pro terrorist puppet he wants to see take over Israel https://t.co/KnYMAmh5wR
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) September 17, 2024
When you lost ABC you know its bad!
When you’ve lost ABC….damn you know it’s bad pic.twitter.com/1BlT5AAGsE
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) September 16, 2024
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