Why is Israel destroying so many buildings in these border villages? Random vengeance?
The truth is accidentally revealed by anti-Israel researcher Evan Hill: The blank patch (i.e., almost no buildings are damaged) between Ayta al-Shab and Yaroun is Rmaich. (1/4)
Despite the negligence of the Lebanese government and UNIFIL, the citizens of this Christian village fought all attempts to turn the bucolic mountain township into a terror base to destroy Israel. They bravely defied Hezbollah, unlike their neighbors. (2/4)
When a village adjacent to an international border is made into a swiss cheese of tunnels and dungeons filled with weapons—ready for an invasion at the beep of a pager—that infrastructure needs to be destroyed.
Its destruction is good, the tragedy is that it was built. (3/4)
The Lebanese border villages chose: Some allowed Hezbollah encroachment, became terror forts, and are getting wrecked. Some fought Hezbollah—they chose life. I hope Israel offers an olive branch and helps revive them.
The real culprits here are UNIFIL, the UN and Iran. (4/4)
Of course, this is a report for the Washington Post, so even though they evidence clearly shows that as Netanyahu claimed, Israel is attacking Hezbollah, not Lebanon, they quote "analysts" to say the opposite.
(And Hezbollah is merely "showing solidarity" with Hamas. And WaPo, by the way, the use of explosive weapons in empty urban areas, is the only way to remedy the storage of massive quantities of such weapons under inhabited civilians buildings.)
For the curious, here are 2 maps. The first shows the religious breakdown of the villages of S. Lebanon. When the outlines of the Christian villages are drawn on the damage map, the effect becomes obvious. They alone resisted Hezbollah. Sadly even the Sunnis seem to have failed.
Watch this clip from the Druze village of Hasbaya (about 10km from the border) as the locals catch a Hezbollah man ferrying weapons.
A mob attacks and evicts him & they share the video to deter more incursions.
They knew: Hezbollah today means death and destruction tomorrow.
Trump doesn’t get Europe. Trillions spent on windmills that need subsidies, raise electricity prices for everyone, and place an undue burden on the poorest—that’s money well spent, as it allows Europe to restore the landscapes that inspired so many artists like Constable… (1/6)
Sicne they also only provide occasional power, you still need all the coal plants, sitting and waiting to be used. But Van Gogh's classic, The Starry Night, is so much better in the original, with the turbines. (2/6)
People say that these windmills—sorry, turbines—are hideous and pointless, but who can argue that Da Vinci's masterpiece isn't improved by them? What could possibly make Tuscany more beautiful than more of these? (3/6)
Bill Nye thinks the Holocaust could have been avoided if Jews had made more effort to get to know their neighbours.
Zionism means Jews no longer have to stay and die, beg for their lives on bended knee, and can fight back when attacked. That’s why all Jew-haters hate Zionism.
Not all Jews are Zionists, but all Jew-haters are anti-Zionists.
So, aparantly, this clip is ten years old, someone sent it me, and @kahntra posted it recently. It's hard to tell as @billmaher doesn't age.
But so what? The lesson stands. Im fact, even more, since this is before these defamation clowns has the "genocide" or "famine" libels as cover.
As promised, they globalized the intifada again today, this time in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and life for Jews in the UK will never be the same. It might even be the beginning of Jewish life in the UK. It is a black day.(1/9)
For decades, British Jews have lived under the threat of Jihadi terror, the vast bulk of the nearly 50,000 UK residents on terror watchlists are Jew-hating Jihadis. For every six Jews, the UK has one suspected Jew-hating terrorist. (2/9)
Jewish organizations beg the police and the CPS to pursue cases against people openly inciting hate against Jews, but the police refuse even the most blatant cases.
The Jewish community knows why: There are certain groups the authorities are appeasing at their expense. (3/9)
Operation Grim Beeper was the turning point of the war.
A year ago today at this hour, the entire Hezbollah organisation built up over 40 years and at the cost of hundreds of billions was neutered by a mere 50 kilograms of explosives. It precipitated a new Middle East. (1/10)
In seconds it was transformed from the most fearsome terror army the world has ever seen into a rehabilitation charity, with thousands of living anti-martyrs, who will be rolling, castrated examples of what Allah does to people who plan Jihad against Jews into the 22nd century.
So much changed, everything was flipped upside down, and so many things had to line up for this all to occur. (2/10)
Hezbollah had been forced, against its will and against the will of its sponsor Iran, to come to the symbolic aid of Hamas, who had failed to understand the plan: wait for an Iranian nuke and only then attack in tandem under a nuclear umbrella.
Sinwar jumped the gun, and from that moment the fate of the entire axis was sealed—just so long as Israel could hold a coherent strategic line. The Biden administration, by holding Israel back and restarting the pace of the main effort in Gaza, accidentally made this all possible. (3/10)
HUGE: Israel has struck Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar! Rumors suggest Khalil al-Haya is among those targeted.
Hamas will be eradicated—its leaders will be hunted down no matter where they are, and no matter how much money their protectors have. Bold stuff from Israel.
I didn't believe Israel would dare attack the Hamas leaders in Qatar, even though they obviously easily could. Qatar alone is defenceless.
I doubt they would have done this without the tacit approval of the Trump admin, and perhaps this was a hint:
Today is Purim. One of the greatest days in Jewish history.
Today—the 14th of the Jewish month of Elul—will be celebrated centuries hence as a festival. At this hour a year ago today, the most effective clandestine military operation was executed. It flipped everything: (1/10)
Hundreds of sworn enemies of the Jews—committed to their genocide—were killed & 1,000s more injured, crippled, blinded—so incapable of realizing their evil plans. For the rest of their lives, they are a living testament to the effects of Jew-hate and the failure of Jihad. (2/10)
I wondered: When is the correct date to celebrate Israel's total victory over the now collapaxd Iranian axis that spent 40 years trying to destroy it, with its final terrorists still hiding in the ruins of Gaza City? What day could that be celebrated on? (3/10)