Haifa is on the "front line" in any action in the north but this blog looks at life in the shadow of danger to all of Israel
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Israel Keeps Facilitating Aid into Gaza
Thursday, December 19, 2024
IDF hits Houthi targets in Yemen after missile fired at central Israel
(Dec. 18, 2024 /from JNS Report)
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched over
200 missiles and 170 drones at Israel in
support of Hamas since the Gaza-based terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre
in the northwestern Negev. The vast majority were intercepted outside of
Israeli territory by Israel or the U.S.
The Israeli Air Force acted and struck
Houthi targets in Yemen overnight Wednesday, after intercepting a missile over
central Israel fired by the Iranian-backed terror group.
An elementary school in the Ramat Efal
neighborhood of Ramat Gan, just east of Tel Aviv, suffered severe damage when
shrapnel hit it following the interception. According to the city’s mayor, the
impact caused a partial collapse of the school’s central building, prompting
the cancellation of classes for the day. No injuries were reported.
According to the IDF, the IAF strikes
were carried out in two waves by 14 fighter jets, refuelers, and spy planes.
The jets were already en route to
Yemen when the Houthis launched the ballistic missile at around 2:35 a.m. The
first wave of strikes occurred at 3:15 a.m., targeting the Ras Isa oil terminal
on the Red Sea as well as the Hodeidah and Salif ports. Eight tugboats, used
for guiding ships into the ports, were also destroyed.
At 4:30 a.m., the second wave targeted
the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, hitting two power stations, the Haziz and
D’Habban, according to reports in Yemen.
Houthi-affiliated media reported
casualties.
“Over the past year, the Houthi
terrorist regime has been operating with the direction and funding of Iran, and
in cooperation with Iraqi militias, in order to attack the State of Israel and
Israeli civilians,” the IDF stated following the strikes.
“The conducted strikes degrade the
Houthi terrorist regime, preventing it from exploiting the targets for military
and terrorist purposes, including the smuggling of Iranian weapons to the
region,” the statement continued. “The IDF is determined to continue operating
against all threats posed to the citizens of the State of Israel, wherever
necessary.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz
warned Houthi leaders after the overnight operation that “the long arm of
Israel will reach you. Whoever raises a hand [against us] will have it severed.
Whoever harms [us], will be harmed many times over.”
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
A Must Watch from the German Bundestag
This is a π’πͺπ¨π© π¬ππ©ππ and a π’πͺπ¨π© π¨πππ§π.
“First the synagogues will burn and then the churches. They are burning already”
“First the Kippah wearers will be beaten, then anyone who will not submit”
An incredible speech by Beatrix Storch - member of the
German Bundestag. from a few weeks ago now
International Court of Justice
From Yoseph Haddad - The Hague Tribunal ran enough false campaigns and possesses enough distorted interests to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wealth Galore but the General Population in Poverty
(Thanks to Jeanine Hirshhorn)
Former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have lost his despot gig, but he has a very lavish "government pension" from years of treating the Syrian national treasury as his personal bank account. That's why there is so much turmoil, factions fighting one another for control, not only in this region but all over Africa and Asia. For a chance at the ultimate jackpot, the national treasury lavishly stuffed with foreign aid cash from international donors - in Syria's case, Russia and Iran, or oil and drug wealth.
Ismail Haniyeh, former head thug of Hamas, was reported to have a net worth of $4 billion, the product of years of embezzling and extorting all that foreign aid from gullible international donors such as the US and the EU. As well as the 20% tax Hamas charged on all items entering through tunnels from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. Haniyeh's eldest son was arrested by Egyptian authorities at the Rafiah Border Crossing with several million dollars, which he intended to take into Gaza. Yahye Sinwar, who replaced Haniiyeh as Hamas head thug, acquired his reported billion dollar wealth in a similar manner. While the rest of Gazans live on UN/UNRWA and NGO handouts.
Abu Mazen of the PA, King Abdullah of Jordan, the head thugs of Hezbullah in Lebanon, Sisi in Egypt all live lavish lifestyles thanks to their autocratic rule giving them sole access to the state treasury and donor billions. King Abdullah receives a yearly US aid stipend of $1.45 BILLION. While 25% of Jordanians live below the poverty line. Whelp, his Majesty does need the money to keep his 7 palaces in tip-top condition, his wife Queen Rania in designer gear and to pay top dollar to keep his small army of Beduin fighters on side so that he doesn't end up like al-Assad.
And Syria? Different day, same despot. The current winner in the power/control/wealth stakes will receive representatives of those countries looking to keep him on side, while he loots Syria's national treasury for what he can take. Democracy? Freedom? Unknown concepts used by despots to open international donor wallets a bit wider.
Hezbullah continued firing missiles and mortars into northern Israel for 9 days after the "ceasefire" went into effect. Their bombardment of Israel's northern civilian population finally stopped 6 days ago. But with no clear government directives/policies, Israel's displaced population are in no rush to return to what's left their homes in the north.
IDF heroes continue to fall in Gaza, in Lebanon and the West Bank fighting to protect Am Yisrael in this 75th year of its War of Liberation.
And 100 hostages are still scattered around Gaza (and
beyond?), captives of various terror thugs using human lives as bargaining
tools.
When will the world start to recognise the emperor has no clothes?
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Israel is communicating with rebels
From World Israel News
An Israeli source
says Israel is carrying out indirect talks with Syrian rebels, Israel
National News reported.
The source said
communication is occurring through the Druze community in Israel and Syria, the
Kurdish population, intelligence organizations, and US officials.
“There is someone to
speak to on the other side, and messages were passed,” the source said,
indicating Israel will continue operations to eliminate weapons held by the
Assad regime.
The source says the
United States fully approves Israel’s indirect communication with Syrian
rebels.
Defense Minister
Israel Katz has encouraged the IDF to capture more areas in the buffer zone
close to Syria’s border with Israel.
According to TPS,
Israeli security officials are recruiting prominent Israeli Druze leaders to
assist in fostering connections with Syrian Druze communities.
On Sunday, Maj.-Gen.
Shlomi Bender, head of the Israeli army’s Intelligence Directorate, met with
Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community,
according to Lt.-Col. Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Israel Defense
Forces in Arabic.
“The head of the
Intelligence Directorate and His Eminence Sheikh Tarif discussed recent
developments in Syria and their impact on the Druze community,” Adraee tweeted.
The initiative
follows instructions from Defense Minister Israel Katz, who directed the IDF on
Sunday to establish contact with the Syrian Druze and other local communities.
There are an
estimated 700,000 to 800,000 Druze in Syria, primarily in the southwestern
regions near Israel and Jordan. They make up about four percent of Syria’s
population.
Israel’s Druze
community, numbering around 152,000, traces its ancestry to Jethro, the
Biblical figure and father-in-law of Moses.
Israeli Druze hold
prominent positions in both public and military life, and the deep bond between
Jewish and Druze soldiers is often referred to as the “covenant of blood.”
During Israel’s War
of Independence in 1948, the Druze living in the Galilee and Mount Carmel
regions chose to align with the Jewish community. They decided to integrate
into Israeli society and have since established themselves across all sectors
of public life.
Food for Thought
(With thanks to Steven Shamrak)
Not long ago, members of the UN General Assembly, 157 of them, voted again for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. The international anti-Semites are ‘uncomfortable’ with the existence of the Jewish state, and are determine to create another Islamic terrorist state on the Jewish land.
- Occupation of the independent state of Tibet by China is long forgotten.
- The question of independence of Kashmir does not exist anymore.
- Nobody cares about the self-determination of Kurdish people, up to 45 million of them world-wide.
The members of the 'Ugly Nazi' are only preoccupied with the independence
of the fake people of the never existing country or kingdom on the Jewish land.
There are 57 Muslim countries, including 22 Arab states. They
could welcome and provide a secure prosperous future for their ‘Palestinian
brothers and sisters’. Why don't they?
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Europe Is Turning Into One Big No-Go Zone
Giulio Meotti November 22, 2024
Eight years ago Donald Trump scandalized the right-thinking
people by stating that “no-go zones” were being created in Europe. No-go zones?
It must have been another fake by Trump, it was said.
David Ignatius in the New York Times had
used the expression, explaining that some areas of Paris had become “no-go
zones at night”. Then Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester, spoke of no-go
zones in England.
Since then, it has become an open secret, and while even
Angela Merkel has admitted the existence of these areas in Europe, the former
French socialist president FranΓ§ois Hollande said: “How can we avoid secession?
Because that is what is happening: secession”.
Now, just over a week after the incredible events in
Amsterdam (40 no-go areas have been mapped out in the Netherlands), Barbara
Slowik, the head of the Berlin police, admits: “There are neighborhoods where
the majority of the population is of Arab origin who also have sympathies for
terrorist groups.” Slowik advised Jews and homosexuals to be careful in
“certain areas” of the German capital in an interview with the Berliner
Zeitung newspaper “There is open anti-Semitism against people of
Jewish faith and origin”.
If I were the police chief of Berlin, I would have resigned
a moment after admitting that the state had lost control of its territory. The Welt went
to one of these neighborhoods of Berlin to get reactions on Slowik: “The
population calls for the caliphate.” The incredible admission by Berlin’s
police chief is just one piece of the puzzle. In Bonn, Potsdam, Bochum and
elsewhere, Jews are hiding.
And London has also become a “no-go zone for Jews,” the
government’s anti-extremism tsar, Robin Simcox, has just denounced. And it’s
not just a problem for Jews and gays.
Berlin’s Greens want “women-only” train carriages. The
request was made by Berlin Green Party MP Antje Kapek, who said that “terrible
attacks on women” occur “even when there are large crowds.”
Even neighborhoods in Duisburg are “no-go zones,” according
to a report leaked to the weekly Der Spiegel. The report
speaks of “44 no-go zones” and warns that the government is losing control of
entire neighborhoods and warns that the police “will no longer be able to
guarantee public order in the long term.” Duisburg, which has a population of
500,000, is estimated to be home to 60,000 mostly Turkish Muslims, making it
one of the most Islamized cities in Germany (Muslims have outnumbered
Christians in Duisburg schools).
Police union chairman Rainer Wendt told Spiegel:
“In the north of Duisburg, there are neighborhoods where colleagues can barely
stop a car, they will be surrounded by 40 or 50 men.”
Wendt, president of Europe’s largest police union, also
said: “We are facing a challenge that is unprecedented in post-war history.”
The risk of collapse is “very real,” Wendt warned, and the police are losing
control of the situation. “Radical Islamists are questioning the power on our
streets. If no action is taken, Sharia law will prevail instead of the
constitution. It is time to return to the fundamental values of our societies.
Otherwise, the country will collapse and the law of the strongest will prevail.”
We have seen mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve and the
mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, advise women to “keep foreigners at arm’s
length.” Perhaps Jews and homosexuals should also keep them at arm’s length?
But it is not just about Germany. There is an infinite
multitude of small and large enclaves, true parallel states, that threaten both
the stability and the integrity of Europe.
The Migration Research Institute in Budapest, linked to the
prestigious Matthias Corvinus College, estimates 900 uncontrolled areas
throughout Europe.
What are they like? In these territories, the police, social
workers and ambulances do not enter or must be protected. The high birth rates
guarantee longevity and expansion. They are places where a woman can be openly
harassed during the day. These areas constitute threats to security through
crime, riots and terrorism. But the triad is not a matter of debate. In the
end, Sharia law is de facto respected by the inhabitants, not de iure: over
time, butchers are only halal, mixed hairdressers disappear, and women are
pressured to conform to Islamic law. It goes without saying that Jews must not
be seen.
With the numbers of Islamic immigration, positive law in
Europe is powerless over social and cultural norms.
“There are 60 ‘risk areas’ in Sweden,” Swedish journalist
Paulina Neuding writes in the Spectator. “Sweden’s immigrant
integration policy has failed, leading to parallel societies and gang
violence,” left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson had already
said. And again: “Society is simply too weak to break the segregation and
reject parallel societies.”
Violence against health workers in many areas of Sweden is
so endemic that they want to set up a “protection system” in no-go zones with
large populations of migrants hostile to the authorities. Postal services have
also stopped sending workers to areas of Stockholm with a high number of
immigrants because it is too dangerous. Firefighters were forced to abandon
efforts to put out a blaze in a burning building after locals attacked them.
The DGSI, the French directorate general of internal
counterintelligence, has mapped 150 districts “in possession” of the Islamists.
Districts, neighborhoods, enclaves now in the hands of fundamentalists and who
shape them according to their ideology of submission. According to the former
number two of the French DGSE, Alain Chouet, who published the book “Sept pas
vers l’enfer”, “these districts are in 859 cities and 4 million people live
there, or 6 percent of the total population of France”.
To carry out arrests in the lost territories of Marseille,
the police dress up as Muslims. Like in Fauda, the Netflix series on Israeli
anti-terrorism.
The French newspaper Le Parisien revealed
that the “no-go zones” are now located in the heart of the capital. Like the
Chapelle-Pajol neighborhood, in the eastern part of Paris.
When there were violent uprisings in the banlieues two
summers ago, “Nicolas,” a member of the “Bac de nuit” (criminal police) sent to
Nanterre, confessed: “We no longer have the impression of being in France. We
were quickly overwhelmed; the firefighters were attacked every time we moved”.
The Europe of open borders has ended up with no-go zones.
The problem is that European governments, and this is what
Barbara Slowik’s shocking admission tells us, seem to have concluded that it is
too late to prevent an Islamized Europe and that all that can be done is to
cushion its effects, at least in the immediate future, and hope that the
destruction is limited to a few areas, hopefully not theirs. (Remember what
Winston Churchill said about appeasers and crocodiles.)
We are turning into a gigantic no-go zone where the clash of
civilizations is taking place.