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Drone targets Netanyahu’s house but no one’s home; Blinken and Biden have a plan — 34 Comments

1. Additional Footage from Wednesday’s Elimination of Yahya Sinwar, the Senior Leader of Hamas; with him being seen on a Thermal Camera right before a Pair of Merkava lV Tanks fired Shells into the Building.

   https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1847706101418250283

   Very brief video at link, some seeming thermal optics too. I think this was the Matador firing, but not the ultimate headshot.

2. Blinken and Biden have a plan? Sure they do: surrender to evil.
   I hope they rot in hell.
   Looking forward to pulling a Trump vote lever soon, along with the wish Biden and Blinken would be flushed down the toilet. Like the crap they are.
   Speaking of crap, feces are called that because a British engineer, Thomas Crapper, invented the flush toilet! Crap goes into a Crapper!

3. In the lameduck period they’ll backstab Israel just as Obama did, though with worse measures. Stuff like UNSC demands for immediate ceasefire, or/and unilaterally recognizing a “Palestinian” State in Judea-Samaria-Gaza. Think vile and add something more evil.

4. Three “reporters” from The Wall Street Journal wrote a front page article on Friday headlined: “Netanyahu’s Options: End War or Keep Up Fight.” This is industrial strength stupidity. Seems to me that Hamas–not Israel–has a choice to make: (1) surrender, return the hostages, and turn over the murderers and rapists for justice or (2) be destroyed. The “news” pages of the WSJ have gone down the same appeasement rathole as the New York Times and the Washington Post. Here’s a pro tip for big media: hire people with critical thinking skills and adults to edit them. When your reporters are actually as stupid as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, you’ve lost the bubble.

5. Some are nearly worse if that were possible bibi keeps his own counsel and he has some sharp advisors some like gallant he has been able to keep under his thumb

   They might be leaking to the Times or Axios or any other of the blank pages

6. “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Saturday night to an assassination attempt on his wife by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists…”
   “The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” he said. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.”

   “I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price,” he continued. “We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them.” [my emphasis]
   https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-grave-mistake-netanyahu-responds-to-assassination-attempt

7. The Iranians, and IMO Muslim warlords in general, are working off the wrong game plan.
   Taking out the “king” of an Islamic country (or any dictatorship) sets off a frenzy of internal chaos and in-fighting over the succession.
   Taking out a president or prime minister just riles up the people, as the line of succession is either clearly established, or cleared up by elections asap.

   Killing Netanyahu, or Trump, is not the “checkmate” move their opponents think it would be.

8. “That’s the typical backwards logic of Biden”
   It is the typical backwards logic of all the Dems. Talk Talk, with no real resolution.

   OK, now Iran has directly attack BiBi, so all bets are off about Israel going after the Mullahs, including the “Supreme” Leader.

9. Apparently, the Grand Betrayal has not gone far enough.

   (Make that “the Grand Betrayals”…)

10. An Investigation is ongoing by the U.S. Department of Defense and FBI to determine the Source of several Top Secret Documents related to the Israeli Retaliatory Strike against Iran, that were recently Leaked, appearing on Telegram Channels linked to the Iranian-Backed Militias as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to a Source, it is believed the Documents were likely to have been Leaked Online by a Member of the U.S. Military; similar to the Leak of several Documents on the War in Ukraine which occurred in April of 2023, which was linked to a Airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1847739216413036746

    Biden and Blinken have many plans. Sometimes isn’t necessary to share plans in order to see them coming. The Israelis should have seen this coming from 14 years ago.

11. Aesop Fan: “Taking out a president or prime minister just riles up the people, as the line of succession is either clearly established, or cleared up by elections asap.”

    That is another one of those “oh so obvious” statements that none the less deserves occasional repetition to remind us of their validity. And the nature of the distinction being made. Thank you for that.

    And that brings us back to wondering just how and why our current situation, and election cycle, seems [or is] less “republican” and civilized than we wish and expect it to be.

12. The Israeli’s are not listening. Sooner or later country ( probably India) will send a tanker to the Gulf to see if we really have an Ad Hoc blockade of the Gulf. Also people tend to forget Iran has ties and is backed by Russia and probably the Chinese.

13. https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1847744941096616100

    Since the IRGC is reading the leaked DoD/NSA documents, you may as well too: screen shots at link.

14. “Also people tend to forget that Iran has ties and is backed by Russia [by “Biden”] and probably the Chinese.”

    There, fixed it.

15. Thanks Barry!

16. this is jeremy scahill’s omidyar affiliated site,

    dejavu, the syrians sought to murder bashir gemayel, in 82, now the reason is why, probably because he was the leading rival to their plans, of domination of the country, however there is another reason that can’t be discounted, Hobeika the militia leader who triggered the rampage against the Palestinians, he would subsequently defect to the Syrians, its taken decades to dig through all this

    Fisk and Friedman and everyone in between have killed acres of trees to hide the real facts

17. And?

    Lee Smith re-posted Sara Carter who re-posted the DropSite link. I merely linked the final source, but tell me, are those not the documents in question (which is the sole object of interest here)?

    And if then they are, who gives a flying squid who pastes them up? I sure don’t. Never heard of DropSite myself, and don’t really have any expectation I will in future.

18. I only mention it, because scahill pitches it insistently, previously he was al queda’s devil’s advocate, he was one of the first to make blackwater a bete noire for reasons, well kos moulitas, but he really went all in, making eric prince, of darkness, we saw how the intercept would previously push any level of document,
    up to the forefront,

    now will there be a counterintelligence investigation, no seriously, its all on the up and up

19. Have you got information that pins the originating leak on Telegram (which I haven’t seen) to this Intercept, Scahill, Omidyar, or DropSite? Because that would be salient.

    Otherwise? Not so much.

20. Circumstantial, much more than any tie of say Assuange to Russia, they went all in on that score, the little details like any prospective deployment of Jerichos which would signal a definite escalation, on Israel’s part. I agree as much as disagree on any major point,

    the most interesting part as Sherlock Holmes might note ‘is the dog that doesn’t bark’ how the Corporate press, pretends this isn’t happening at all,

    well they wouldn’t want to call attention to the treachery would they, unless they can get some use out of it,

21. “Abbas has indicated that the PA is willing to take control over the Gaza Strip after Hamas is removed from power there — on condition of the establishment of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

    He may not be Jewish, but he certainly knows the meaning of the word chutzpah.

22. Drones are dangerous.
    So far I’ve seen very little commentary on these incidents, other than that the US didn’t immediately take them down, catch at least one, or send a chopper to follow them.

    And don’t forget Biden Inc allowed known Chinese balloons to spy on the entire country several times.

    https://notthebee.com/article/drones-keep-swarming-U-S-air-force-bases-and-no-one-knows-whose-they-are

    Who is really in charge of our military: China, Russia, Iran, or all of the above?
    It certainly isn’t loyal Americans (or, at least, not competent ones).

23. Assange and RUSSIA!!!
    Trump and RUSSIA!!!
    Hunter’s laptop and RUSSIA!!!
    [ ________ i.e., ANYONE] that “Biden” wishes to royally screw—amplified by the loyal, if totally morally bankrupt, Media] and RUSSIA!!!
    (Hey, I think that Trudeau has even linked Poilievre—leader of the opposition—to…RUSSIA!!!…so it’s all fun and games up north, as well…. That’s right! Anyone can play!!)

    BUT hold on: How to explain(!) President “I’ll have more flexibility after the election”…heh, heh, heh….not to mention Hillary’s Rooskie pals (or, for that matter, Decadent Joe’s Chinese ones—YES WE HAN!??)
    No matter (AKA, “What? [Us] worry?”): TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP….
    – – – – – – – – – –
    Now here’s a thought(!):
    What if Israel provided its bestest, mostest reliablist ALLY (not to mention EVERLASTING FRIEND) with the wrong plans…to leak….

    (Just a thought, mind you….)

    File under: Fawlty Powers

24. J. E. Dyer takes a break from football to address the core components of the war in the Middle East.
    Go team!

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/israel-wins-iran-club-loses/

    In the aftermath of Yahya Sinwar’s death, it’s easy to get distracted by both the incessant deluge of new events and the erroneous but common assumption that “ending the war” is now about getting the remaining hostages back.

    In the interest, precisely, of not being thus distracted, I want to keep this brief and start not with a summary from the last 24 hours, absorbing though its details may be, but with a direct statement of priorities for the immediate future.

    The summary is this. Israel’s priority must be winning the war, meaning not having to fight this war again, or spend any more time trying to tend an inherently unstable situation like the one in which Hamas rides along inviolate, on the constant invocation of an “Oslo” framework end-state that quite obviously is never going anywhere.

    Winning the war must also mean that neither Hamas nor Hezbollah functions as a forward outpost of Iran snuggled under Israel’s armpit.
    …
    After the grotesque atrocities of 10/7 in 2023, Israel has the right and obligation to define self-defense as eliminating predatory, ungoverned terrorist groups – and the political situation that favors them – on its borders. Israel is justified in cutting the cord with a canon of political expectations (i.e., the long-dead Oslo narrative) that has proved conclusively it cannot deliver a better outcome than that.

    So Israel has to win, not just look for an excuse to “settle.” To invoke the framework of motives and methods laid out by Basil H. Liddell-Hart in his 1954 book Strategy, Israel has to seek a “better peace.”

    The essential condition of that better peace is captured in the very useful French term renversement – for Iran and Iran’s allies and proxies in the Middle East. We don’t have a single-word English term that means exactly the same thing. We might speak in English of a “reversal” for the Iran club, but in our language that doesn’t really convey the comprehensive and game-changing nature of a renversement. The magnitude of the latter is the purpose of arranging it. It’s not merely that the enemy sees incentives for rethinking his condition and his plans. It’s that he is faced with no other choice, and literally has no option to avoid such a rethinking.

    That’s what Israel needs to focus on.

    There’s a lot of complaining that Israel hasn’t submitted to the U.S., or the EU or UN or someone, a 50-slide PowerPoint explanation of what Israel would then do to reorder everything, once the power of Iran’s proxy network is broken.
    …
    The behavior of Western governments to date makes clear that that would be the worst move Israel could make. Don’t point red arrows to your goals and thereby paint bull’s eyes on them.

    Rather, Israel should be doing what Israel is already doing. The IDF is altering the facts on the ground so that the factors are no longer in place to restore the highly dysfunctional status quo ante, no matter who buys his way into the settlement process that will inevitably follow.

    Israel has to present that inevitable consortium with a fait accompli of conditions. T
    …
    The reason to have fought this war is to bring from it a better peace: for Israel, of course, which suffered the ghastly 10/7 raid with its demonic viciousness, but also for the region as a whole.

    Neutralizing the terror groups and Iran’s string-pulling connection with them is an essential aspect of doing that.
    …
    Killing missiles isn’t a permanent solution to anything. But doing it would alter Iran’s own defense reality, and for a useful period of time while other goals were achieved.

    Israel may have additional priorities for setting back the capacities of Iran’s regime. They need to be balanced out, and only Israeli strategists can do that. What Israel should not do is let itself be distracted, and have its priorities and policy discretion preempted, by fresh provocations every whipstitch.
    …
    Making combat worthwhile is always a matter of staying a course and keeping your own priorities to the fore: not letting the enemy gain the initiative and drive you into an endless cycle of reaction.

    So, yes, I know that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s home was targeted in the last 48 hours, and that the U.S. government seemingly suffered an intelligence “leak” involving details about sensitive Israeli operations. This parade of new, infuriating developments and betrayals and inconveniences won’t stop, any more than the Biden administration and the EU and the UN will stop demanding a “ceasefire,” and settlement talks in which they prop up a zombie Hamas that would otherwise have no hope of being there, and a “two-state solution” that every kindergartner on earth knows is a crock of lies.

    None of it will stop. Israel has to win anyway.

25. A couple of illustrations for this post:
    https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sinwar.png?w=500

    https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/takingouttrash.png?w=670

26. Do we see Bibi setting up a predicate with this assassination attempt, when he attributes it (perfectly plausibly) to a great mistake by the Mullahs? Hmmm. I think we do.

27. AesopFan:

    Excellent piece by J. E. Dyer.

28. AF, clearly, Dyer is describing—as usual so profoundly, so meticulously, so thoroughly—just what “Biden”, the UN (and other global orgs), the Mullahs (and cohorts Hamas, Houthis and Hezb’ullah), Russia, the CPC, the Palestinian Authority and most of the EU, et al. …are up against.

29. And so…to recap:
    “Leaked US Intel Confirms Israeli Nuclear Weapons“—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaked-us-intel-confirms-israeli-nuclear-weapons

    A leak that IS ENTIRELY CONSISTENT with such sentiments as “The [Middle-East] hasn’t been this quiet for over 20 years” AND with “We have seen NO involvement by Iran in the “October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel….”

    (Well at least they’re consistent…)

30. @ Barry > “Leaked US Intel Confirms Israeli Nuclear Weapons“

    Nobody has ever doubted they had them.
    The questions are “where?” and “how many?”

    From the source of the ZH post:
    https://www.commondreams.org/news/leaked-classified-docs-israel-iran

    It has long been known that Israel has a nuclear weapons program and maintains a nuclear arsenal, but it remains both Israeli and U.S. government policy never to acknowledge or confirm the existence of either. In one of the documents, the U.S. specifically references Israel’s ability to deploy a nuclear weapon, though it categorizes the threat of doing so in this case as low.

    That post links to this one if you want to see more of the docs.
    Very informative about intel sources and methods in general.
    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/israel-preps-for-strike-on-iran-top

31. Very interesting, from Oct. 8.
    Not a surprise that we do it, but the depth and breadth is astonishing.
    And the spooks still seem to be caught off-guard when Israel acts.
    Did they know about the pagers??

    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ironclad-but-distrustful

    IMO this puts the recent leak into context: somebody among those spies doesn’t like Israel.

32. “…this puts the recent leak into context…”

    I’ll raise ye’:
    The October 7, 2023 mass massacre, rape, mutilation, butchery and kidnapping perpetrated by Hamas upon Israel—and the follow-up attacks by Hezb’ullah, the Houthis and other Iranian proxies in Iraq and southwestern Syria—“puts the [hundreds of billions of dollars bequeathed by “Biden” to the Mullahs] into context…
    …along with “Biden”‘s oh-so-very deep concerns about AVOIDING WAR IN THE REGION!!!!

    + Bonus:
    What about all those Iranian “assets” who’ve been working for the State Department and the DOD (and related eyes-‘n-ear departments, e.g., the post-Brennan CIA? The NSA? The NID?)…as well as universities ???
    Should one be talking about them??

33. Surprise!
    “Captured terrorists admit: Hezbollah paid UNIFIL for use of their positions;
    “Hezbollah took over and used UNIFIL cameras near the Lebanon-Israel border, paid UNIFIL for use of its posts, report says.”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397903

    + Bonus (boring though it may be…YAWN…)
    “UNIFIL again levels accusations at Israel;
    “UNIFIL claims that the IDF demolished a watchtower and a fence in southern Lebanon: The IDF has deliberately damaged UN positions.”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397884

    …AAAND not to be left out…
    “Francesca Albanese calls post blaming Israel for 9/11, predicting death of US ‘must read’;
    “UN rapporteur reposts Chris Hedges X post accusing the US and Israel of genocide, claiming Bin Laden was motivated by Israel, and predicting the destruction of both countries, calling it a post ‘for the ages.'”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397874

34. Channel 12 report via AbuAliExpress:

    The response in Iran will be larger (than previously planned – AA) and will take into consideration the UAV launch at (Netanyahu’s private residence in – AA) Caesarea.

    https://abualiexpress.com/en/en37435/

    Interesting, I think.

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