Hamas Launches Infiltration, Rocket Attack on Israel

[LeftyGunner]

We just got back from visiting with the extended family in Israel...feels like we spent most of our time on airplanes, but it was a really good trip.

The situation there is just so surreal. My baby sister, who used to call me a gun nut for keeping a gun in the house, now carries a pistol to work. On the other hand, her kids don’t really seem phased by the war, their routine has been pretty normal since the initial attacks last year.

We have been very fortunate, none of my immediate family has been injured or killed, but one of my cousins was wounded in action and is now recovering. My sister’s nanny lost a brother to the violence, and now her mom is bugging her to go to the US until the fighting ends, but I think she wants to stay and help in Israel.

 

[Route 45]

 

[Shadow01]

Hopefully they are sending one of these.

 

[smokingman]

Was what you posted supposed to prove a link between our tax dollars and the wealth of Hamas leaders?

We funded them into existing and kept funding them even the week before they attacked and raided Israel. Even the UN funding was mostly from us. Virtually all NGO money was from the US and USAID. The only NGO I have heard mentioned not funded by the USA is the Red Crescent....then looked...sigh. We have been paying most of that as well.

Not only does USAID pay the Red Crescent now(at least since 2021),but it has long been policy for local embassies to give hundreds of thousands to them in the event of local natural disasters. Our CDC and FDA gave them covid funds(millions) to "inform and vaccinate". NIH throws wads of cash to them and the red cross for various programs.
Even the CFR has given them funds.

In short....we built and funded them. Israel themselves helped along the way to.

 

[bwframe]

US-UK coalition strike Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen after spate of ship attacks in Red Sea

Britain and the U.S. early Friday carried out joint airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen in response to the group's ongoing attacks on vessels traveling through the Red Sea.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Tombs]

We funded them into existing and kept funding them even the week before they attacked and raided Israel. Even the UN funding was mostly from us. Virtually all NGO money was from the US and USAID. The only NGO I have heard mentioned not funded by the USA is the Red Crescent....then looked...sigh. We have been paying most of that as well.

Not only does USAID pay the Red Crescent now(at least since 2021),but it has long been policy for local embassies to give hundreds of thousands to them in the event of local natural disasters. Our CDC and FDA gave them covid funds(millions) to "inform and vaccinate". NIH throws wads of cash to them and the red cross for various programs.
Even the CFR has given them funds.

In short....we built and funded them. Israel themselves helped along the way to.

Yet another example why I believe we need a relatively isolationist foreign policy. We apparently can't find competent enough people to be involved outside of our borders.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Yet another example why I believe we need a relatively isolationist foreign policy. We apparently can't find competent enough people to be involved outside of our borders.

The whole "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing sure hasn't been working out. That's created most of our "foreign entanglements" about which we were warned.

 

[Tombs]

The whole "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing sure hasn't been working out. That's created most of our "foreign entanglements" about which we were warned.

It never works out for the long haul, it can work for a short term goal though.

We're a country structured on taking a 180 degree turn every 4 years, so politicians always aim for short term solutions. This means we're going to remain in a perpetual mess until people wise up and start isolating.

To deal with most of these kind of issues, you'd need half a century of ground work and consistent planning/organization towards a solidly defined goal. It's not feasible for us, and that's why so many of our geopolitical rivals can take our lunch on the soft power game.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

It never works out for the long haul, it can work for a short term goal though.

We're a country structured on taking a 180 degree turn every 4 years, so politicians always aim for short term solutions. This means we're going to remain in a perpetual mess until people wise up and start isolating.

To deal with most of these kind of issues, you'd need half a century of ground work and consistent planning/organization towards a solidly defined goal. It's not feasible for us, and that's why so many of our geopolitical rivals can take our lunch on the soft power game.

 

[DadSmith]

Amir Tsarfati

Russia demands an urgent meeting of the Security Council due to the Western attack.

t.me

 

[Route 45]

 

[Route 45]

 

[DadSmith]

Amir Tsarfati

Oh, the hypocrisy: "Russia condemns the attacks in Yemen, and they are illegitimate from the point of view of international law," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in his daily briefing. But killing half a million Ukrainians is fine…

t.me

Amir Tsarfati

Turkish President Erdogan: The attacks against the Houthis in Yemen are "disproportionate" - the US and Britain are trying to turn the Red Sea into a "sea of blood"

t.me

Turkey sides with Russia and Iran.
Getting closer to Ezekiel 38,39 war.

 

[DadSmith]

 

[DadSmith]

Can you imagine how many FBI agents that would come to check out any other religious leaders besides Islamic if they said the same thing about others?

 

[DadSmith]

 

[Cameramonkey]

A fundamental issue there is no other surrounding nation wants them. Not Egypt, Jordan, or Lebanon in particular. They've proven themselves to be complete assholes for many decades, stirring up crap and raising hell wherever they go. They're pariahs in the region.

Yeah. Imagine your cousin’s family is taken in by your brother.

Shortly after the cousins kids start fights with your brother’s kids.

Then your cousin goes to the bank and tries to transfer the house into his name via a quitclaim deed so he can take over and make it his so he can force your brothers family out. Cops come finally and kick the cousins out.

Cousin calls you and whines about how he and his family has nowhere to live. Are you going to let them move in to your house after that?

That is why nobody wants them there. They have a LONG history of creating mayhem everywhere they have been allowed refuge.

 

[Ark]

I remember back when the war with the Houthis was genocidal oppression and a humanitarian disaster and the weapons needed to be cut off to Saudi Arabia to stop it.

Now we're fighting their war and footing the bill for them, because it turned out the Houthis were a-holes and the Saudis were fighting them for a reason.

 

[spencer rifle]

NPR gonna NPR. This morning during the usual screed they interviewed protesters outside the International Court of Justice, where Israel is facing genocide charges (LOL) brought by South Africa (double LOL). I should say protester, singular, since the only one we heard from was a Jewish teacher from UK who agreed with the genocide charges (he should get some counseling for that suicidal ideation). Of course they quoted the Hamas casualty figures as fact.

The follow-up found that only about 50% of the ICJ rulings are complied with in any way.

 

[DadSmith]

NPR gonna NPR. This morning during the usual screed they interviewed protesters outside the International Court of Justice, where Israel is facing genocide charges (LOL) brought by South Africa (double LOL). I should say protester, singular, since the only one we heard from was a Jewish teacher from UK who agreed with the genocide charges (he should get some counseling for that suicidal ideation). Of course they quoted the Hamas casualty figures as fact.

The follow-up found that only about 50% of the ICJ rulings are complied with in any way.

Drop that teacher off in the middle of Hamas controlled part of Gaza and get a real education about genocide a few seconds before shim dies or is taken as another leftist hostage.