Israel Declares War After Hamas Attacks. UPDATE: Israel Ends Ceasefire, Begins Bombing Gaza

For American white people, making profits is a very distant second in terms of priorities. Racism is always #1. It's why no one mainstream in the US interviewed the kind of people he interviewed. It's not about money. The US would never make a mainstream TV show like Luther despite its success in the UK. But this is another topic and should probably have it's own thread.
Definitely. Gotta keep Americans thinking one particular way
 
This is akin to your bad nephew staying with you and forming a gang in the neighborhood. They subsequently go out and rob and kill some rich citizens across town. In return, the city (with the help of wealthier cities around the state) decides to kill off your entire neighborhood, including your grandparents, aunts and daughters.

A travesty all around. May God be with the innocent victims of this war. :smh:
But I thought the reason your nephew started the gang was because He found out them Rich folks… killed his great great grandfather and raped his great aunt.
Also, heard they wanted to take your land
 
Damn couldn't be me. I'd have gun instead of a camera at this point.

I feel the same way, but I can understand where he's coming from. He knows that his family is dead because Israel is more afraid of reporters than they are of Hamas.

Now that he has nothing to lose, he'll probably go super hard with his reporting.

One can see how Hamas like groups, will keep going

“If you treat Palestinians like shit for over 7 decades - you should not wonder about groups like Hamas.
As long as that is going on - radicals will emerge - that is the whole strategy of Zionists - provoke and then play the victim card.
King Bibi and his supporters need those groups to stay in power - and to criminalize ALL Palestinians to take over their land.”
 
Statements by the President of Turkey, Erdogan:

Unfortunately, in Turkey, there are politicians who claim that just as Netanyahu is a terrorist, so is HAMAS. They don't know what HAMAS is.

Today, some in Turkey see Gaza as distant from us, and they don't care about what happens there. Gaza was an Ottoman city nearly 100 years ago. For us, it was one of our cities, like Adana and Mardin are today.

Unfortunately, we were divided and separated by borders, and today they are trying to divide us with various temptations and games.

Look closely at the statements of Israeli officials, and you will find plans of insult and betrayal, directed at our lands as well.

I confirm that HAMAS is not a terrorist movement, and we will not be satisfied with the condemnation of what is happening in the Gaza Strip.

Those who cried about injustice in Ukraine yesterday are today supporting Israel with blood on their hands.

Israel won't last even three days without the support of Western countries.

Turkey is preparing to declare Israel a war criminal to the entire world.

Western officials have become deaf and cannot hear the cries of the casualties in Gaza or the appeals of the UN Secretary-General.

Israel is committing a massacre in Gaza in the darkness, thinking that the world will not find out.
 
Never forget...why are we defending and funding them?


Israel attacks USS Liberty​


During the Six-Day War, Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters off Egypt’s Gaza Strip. The intelligence ship, well-marked as an American vessel and only lightly armed, was attacked first by Israeli aircraft that fired napalm and rockets at the ship.

The Liberty attempted to radio for assistance, but the Israeli aircraft blocked the transmissions. Eventually, the ship was able to make contact with the U.S. carrier Saratoga, and 12 fighter jets and four tanker planes were dispatched to defend the Liberty. When word of their deployment reached Washington, however, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered them recalled to the carrier, and they never reached the Liberty. The reason for the recall remains unclear.

Back in the Mediterranean, the initial air raid against the Liberty was over. Nine of the 294 crew members were dead and 60 were wounded. Suddenly, the ship was attacked by Israeli torpedo boats, which launched torpedoes and fired artillery at the ship. Under the command of its wounded captain, William L. McGonagle, the Liberty managed to avert four torpedoes, but one struck the ship at the waterline. Heavily damaged, the ship launched three lifeboats, but these were also attacked–a violation of international law. Failing to sink the Liberty, which displaced 10,000 tons, the Israelis finally desisted. In all, 34 Americans were killed and 171 were wounded in the two-hour attack. In the attack’s aftermath, the Liberty managed to limp to a safe port.

Israel later apologized for the attack and offered $6.9 million in compensation, claiming that it had mistaken the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. However, Liberty survivors, and some former U.S. officials, believe that the attack was deliberate, staged to conceal Israel’s pending seizure of Syria’s Golan Heights, which occurred the next day.

The ship’s listening devices would likely have overheard Israeli military communications planning this controversial operation. Captain McGonagle was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic command of the Liberty during and after the attack.
 
So Israel is sending troops in while blocking cell signals from leaving Palestine to hide what they are doing :smh:
 
So Israel is sending troops in while blocking cell signals from leaving Palestine to hide what they are doing :smh:
Yep but this the kicker


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Erdogan is a butcher himself. Those governing need to be overthrown pretty much en masse.

One of the main problems is that the economics are divorced from the politics until it comes time to talk about how tax revenue is spent but people need to be looking at those holding the purse strings. It's easy to identify figureheads in countries with strongman dictators because they essentially control industry in those places. In quote unquote "democracies" the title holders sit behind corporate veils.
Just think if he can rally the Muslim folks


 

CU CHI TUNNELS - VIETNAM’S HIDDEN UNDERGROUND WAR TUNNEL SYSTEM​

(Start at 3:15 mark)


Palestinians tunnel network is something serious like this

This is a video taken by the Vietnam’sNational Liberation Front (NLF) in its successful guerrilla warfare campaign utilizing the Cu Chi tunnels they built beginning during the French colonial period.

These tunnels were 150 miles long, and were critical to the victorious loners or on war waged against the French and American invasions.

We often here of Palestine’s tunnel system. Oppressed people always fight back, and despite Israel’s genocidal rampage, neither history nor victory is ever on the side of the oppressor.

Time is up for the era of colonial and unipolar domination. We must all play our part to hasten its end.
 
I’m wondering if they felt the move would help them in the international world

Gathering support for them being recognized
Yes I was expecting the same thing, so now would be the time to be all over the media and with supporting governments to make your case.

But now, what's the next step that gonna save the people in Gaza from the invasion? They knew the invasion was coming. Did they have a plan for their people?

Also, when does the world need to get involved to solve the solution for these two?

It's like expecting toddlers to resolve the problem themselves when they want the same toy.
 


Analysis: Israel’s ground attacks yield lots of bang, little success​

Israel’s land incursions, bombs and information blackout imposed on Gaza won’t necessarily harm a well-prepared Hamas.
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An Israeli mobile artillery unit is seen in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Israel, Saturday, October 28, 2023 [Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo]

By Zoran Kusovac
Published On 28 Oct 202328 Oct 2023

A strong combined-arms attack on Gaza that started on Friday night continued on Saturday, but it is still unclear whether this is the first step in the big push that Israel has been announcing or is it just another probe to test Palestinian resistance.

The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground attacks on Wednesday and Thursday night, releasing videos to exploit them for propaganda. On both occasions, they pulled back to Israel before dawn.

The still-ongoing attack seems not to be the “‘Big One”. But as an obvious extension of the previous two incursions into Gaza, it may be a precursor to an all-out offensive.

Saturday’s reports from Gaza may be the last made over mobile networks and land-based internet. Israeli forces hit public telecom infrastructure and Gaza is now under an almost total communications blackout. The only means to get information out to the world are the few remaining satellite telephones, but those could be targeted at any time.

Israeli Air Force dedicated electronic warfare aircraft can pinpoint every device exchanging data with low-orbit communication satellites and direct deadly air-to-ground missiles against it.

The technique is hardly new: It was first used by the Russians in 1996 to assassinate Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudaev as he was using a satellite phone. Israelis have a long record of targeted killings using phones to identify and locate the target. One of the first victims of the technique was Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash, killed the same year as Dudaev.

However, the destruction of communication nodes and the use of electronic countermeasures to block any remaining public lines that survived will not harm Hamas fighters who, knowing Israeli tactics and capabilities, appear to have prepared for this course of action.

Palestinian sources claim that Hamas installed “Israel-proof” communications infrastructure in its extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip. It allegedly laid tens of kilometres of cables with strong electromagnetic shielding to prevent the detection and interception of signals.

Installed in the most modern tunnels, set in much deeper, they are almost fully secure from prying Israelis. The cables emit a minimum amount of electromagnetic radiation, and the great depth practically prevents detection and signal interception. These new, secure, means of communications may explain how Hamas managed to keep its plans for the October 7 attack secret.

On Saturday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant admitted that his forces were specifically targeting the tunnels. Israel claimed it hit more than 150 underground targets, but this claim must be taken with a pinch of salt. Buildings hiding tunnel entrances, maybe; 150 tunnels, unlikely.


Since Hamas first embarked on underground warfare, its tunnels have grown from primitive makeshift dugouts couple of metres deep to sophisticated, well-engineered, concrete-clad structures that reportedly stand as deep as 20 metres (66 feet) under the surface.

The reasons for going so deep — a feat that requires considerable engineering effort and use of manpower — is to pass under Israeli border barriers, including tall concrete walls that extend as deep as eight metres (26 feet) under the surface. Digging deep gives Hamas the additional advantage of their tunnels becoming fairly immune to Israeli bombing.

Ordinary iron bombs, free-fall or laser-guided, penetrate poorly. Anything deeper than one meter (3 feet) is relatively safe. To destroy targets hidden further underground, special ammunitions are needed. Rocket-accelerated bombs, originally developed to penetrate the thick and strong concrete of airport runways and explode in the soft ground under it, raising the paved surface and making it unusable for aircraft, can be used against tunnels and underground bunkers. But in Gaza, their efficacy is questionable as tunnels are rarely dug under open soil that these boosted bombs can penetrate.

Having gone through so many bombardments, Hamas took good care to locate its subterranean facilities under surface structures. Its tunnels probably extend under the buildings wherever possible.

This affords the tunnels the protection of several concrete floor slabs that even bigger ordnance has difficulty penetrating. Bombs and rockets normally explode when they hit a hard obstacle, penetrating the first concrete floor but lacking the power to go through the subsequent ones.

This is overcome by tandem warheads, where the first charge explodes as the projectiles hit the topmost slab, the next blasting through the one immediately below it. Most such warheads are designed to take out two lawyers, a few might be able to take three. But none can blast its way through three or four floors. If the structures are hit by conventional explosions beforehand and turn into loose layers of rubble, the task becomes even more challenging. Rubble favours defenders rather than attackers.

Special dedicated “bunker buster bombs” exist, designed to take the biggest and hardest underground bunkers, but they are certainly not going to be a game changer in this conflict. Such deep penetrators were designed to defeat the enormous concrete ceilings of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s bunkers. But they would be a very impractical and prohibitively expensive solution because, despite Israeli superior technology, it still would have a very slim chance of accurately detecting the deep Hamas tunnels. Wasting thousands of bombs worth millions each simply could not be sustained.

The United States ended up not using these super-penetrators for the invasion in Iraq. Israel bought an undisclosed number of GBU-28 2,100kg (220-pound) specialised deep-digging bombs, but I would be surprised if these could make a strategic difference as the conditions for their use are far from ideal. Iraq probably had several dozens of main command bunkers whose locations were generally known while Hamas has more smaller facilities, most well-hidden under buildings.

We have to see how the latest escalation will develop, whether it will lead to an invasion along multiple lines using at least 30,000 ground troops or if it will quiet down.
To sum up the last four days of attacks: Nothing that Israel has shown so far could grow into a major strategic initiative to win the war on the ground. Its next steps will show how well it learns from its — and Hamas’s — performance.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
 
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Analysis: Israel’s ground attacks yield lots of bang, little success​

Israel’s land incursions, bombs and information blackout imposed on Gaza won’t necessarily harm a well-prepared Hamas.
AP23301503869289-1698516987.jpg

An Israeli mobile artillery unit is seen in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Israel, Saturday, October 28, 2023 [Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo]

By Zoran Kusovac
Published On 28 Oct 202328 Oct 2023

A strong combined-arms attack on Gaza that started on Friday night continued on Saturday, but it is still unclear whether this is the first step in the big push that Israel has been announcing or is it just another probe to test Palestinian resistance.

The Israeli military launched two limited-scope ground attacks on Wednesday and Thursday night, releasing videos to exploit them for propaganda. On both occasions, they pulled back to Israel before dawn.

The still-ongoing attack seems not to be the “‘Big One”. But as an obvious extension of the previous two incursions into Gaza, it may be a precursor to an all-out offensive.

Saturday’s reports from Gaza may be the last made over mobile networks and land-based internet. Israeli forces hit public telecom infrastructure and Gaza is now under an almost total communications blackout. The only means to get information out to the world are the few remaining satellite telephones, but those could be targeted at any time.

Israeli Air Force dedicated electronic warfare aircraft can pinpoint every device exchanging data with low-orbit communication satellites and direct deadly air-to-ground missiles against it.

The technique is hardly new: It was first used by the Russians in 1996 to assassinate Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudaev as he was using a satellite phone. Israelis have a long record of targeted killings using phones to identify and locate the target. One of the first victims of the technique was Hamas leader Yahya Ayyash, killed the same year as Dudaev.

However, the destruction of communication nodes and the use of electronic countermeasures to block any remaining public lines that survived will not harm Hamas fighters who, knowing Israeli tactics and capabilities, appear to have prepared for this course of action.

Palestinian sources claim that Hamas installed “Israel-proof” communications infrastructure in its extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip. It allegedly laid tens of kilometres of cables with strong electromagnetic shielding to prevent the detection and interception of signals.

Installed in the most modern tunnels, set in much deeper, they are almost fully secure from prying Israelis. The cables emit a minimum amount of electromagnetic radiation, and the great depth practically prevents detection and signal interception. These new, secure, means of communications may explain how Hamas managed to keep its plans for the October 7 attack secret.

On Saturday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant admitted that his forces were specifically targeting the tunnels. Israel claimed it hit more than 150 underground targets, but this claim must be taken with a pinch of salt. Buildings hiding tunnel entrances, maybe; 150 tunnels, unlikely.


Since Hamas first embarked on underground warfare, its tunnels have grown from primitive makeshift dugouts couple of metres deep to sophisticated, well-engineered, concrete-clad structures that reportedly stand as deep as 20 metres (66 feet) under the surface.

The reasons for going so deep — a feat that requires considerable engineering effort and use of manpower — is to pass under Israeli border barriers, including tall concrete walls that extend as deep as eight metres (26 feet) under the surface. Digging deep gives Hamas the additional advantage of their tunnels becoming fairly immune to Israeli bombing.

Ordinary iron bombs, free-fall or laser-guided, penetrate poorly. Anything deeper than one meter (3 feet) is relatively safe. To destroy targets hidden further underground, special ammunitions are needed. Rocket-accelerated bombs, originally developed to penetrate the thick and strong concrete of airport runways and explode in the soft ground under it, raising the paved surface and making it unusable for aircraft, can be used against tunnels and underground bunkers. But in Gaza, their efficacy is questionable as tunnels are rarely dug under open soil that these boosted bombs can penetrate.

Having gone through so many bombardments, Hamas took good care to locate its subterranean facilities under surface structures. Its tunnels probably extend under the buildings wherever possible.

This affords the tunnels the protection of several concrete floor slabs that even bigger ordnance has difficulty penetrating. Bombs and rockets normally explode when they hit a hard obstacle, penetrating the first concrete floor but lacking the power to go through the subsequent ones.

This is overcome by tandem warheads, where the first charge explodes as the projectiles hit the topmost slab, the next blasting through the one immediately below it. Most such warheads are designed to take out two lawyers, a few might be able to take three. But none can blast its way through three or four floors. If the structures are hit by conventional explosions beforehand and turn into loose layers of rubble, the task becomes even more challenging. Rubble favours defenders rather than attackers.

Special dedicated “bunker buster bombs” exist, designed to take the biggest and hardest underground bunkers, but they are certainly not going to be a game changer in this conflict. Such deep penetrators were designed to defeat the enormous concrete ceilings of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s bunkers. But they would be a very impractical and prohibitively expensive solution because, despite Israeli superior technology, it still would have a very slim chance of accurately detecting the deep Hamas tunnels. Wasting thousands of bombs worth millions each simply could not be sustained.

The United States ended up not using these super-penetrators for the invasion in Iraq. Israel bought an undisclosed number of GBU-28 2,100kg (220-pound) specialised deep-digging bombs, but I would be surprised if these could make a strategic difference as the conditions for their use are far from ideal. Iraq probably had several dozens of main command bunkers whose locations were generally known while Hamas has more smaller facilities, most well-hidden under buildings.

We have to see how the latest escalation will develop, whether it will lead to an invasion along multiple lines using at least 30,000 ground troops or if it will quiet down.
To sum up the last four days of attacks: Nothing that Israel has shown so far could grow into a major strategic initiative to win the war on the ground. Its next steps will show how well it learns from its — and Hamas’s — performance.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
Seem like these dudes were ready, and been ready…
would’ve been nice if they could’ve limited citizen displacement but that would’ve tipped Israel off

Nevermind that statement, apparently nations around knew and told Israel
 
I know a lot of Brothers here are very knowledgeable about the history of Palestine. So how accurate is this information?

 
Who voted against ceasefire?

One-hundred and twenty countries voted in favor of the non-binding resolution introduced by Jordan,
..while just 14 voted against, including the United States, Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Fiji, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Gineau, Paraguay and Tonga

 
Seem like these dudes were ready, and been ready…
would’ve been nice if they could’ve limited citizen displacement but that would’ve tipped Israel off

Nevermind that statement, apparently nations around knew and told Israel



The Hamas attacked in broad daylight IDF response bombardments.......and night incursions. The protection provided by a fucking tank ain't enough they also need obscurity. They're scared !
 
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