Back in the year of 1972 Lebanon was dominated by Christians until the civil war broke out in the middle 1970s. The war led to the Syrian occupation of part of Lebanon, and it resulted to the Israeli invasion in 1982. Chaos also eroded the Christians’ power in Lebanon, eventually leading to the Saudi-brokered deal to end the war in 1989. But the war didn’t really end. Israel continued to control a part of southern Lebanon until 2000 until they were forced out. The U.N. was supposed to control the south, but did little in preventing Hezbollah from marching in. The U.N. didn’t keep their charge, and the terrorists move in. There is only one way for Israel to stop the missiles from reaching their land is to take out these terrorists from head to toe, then Lebanon can become the Crown Jewel of the Middle East once again.
The rapper Macklemore told a crowd of Seattle concertgoers “F— America,” according to video of his recent “Palestine Will Live Forever” performance shared on X.
“Straight up, say it. I’m not gonna stop you. I’m not gonna stop you,” Macklemore said, appearing to reference chants from the crowd.
Macklemore, a 41-year-old rapper born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty in Kent, Washington, had advertised a “Palestine Will Live Forever Festival” on his Facebook page.
The mayor of a Muslim-majority city in Michigan says he is endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, calling the former commander-in-chief, “the right choice for this critical time.”
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, 43, in his City Hall office in Michigan. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Amer Ghalib, mayor of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced his endorsement of Trump in a Facebook post Sunday. While admitting he and Trump didn’t “agree on everything,” he said he regarded the former commander-in-chief as “a man of principles.”
“Though it’s looking good, he may or may not win the election and be the 47th president of the United States, but I believe he is the right choice for this critical time,” Ghalib wrote in Arabic on his Facebook page. “I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences. For this, and for many other reasons, I announce my support and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the next president of the United States, Donald Trump.”
Four people were killed and at least 21 others injured when “multiple shots” erupted in a popular entertainment district of Birmingham, Alabama Saturday night as police assured they will “hunt down” those responsible.
Birmingham Police said it was responding to the scene where “multiple people were shot with possibly multiple casualties just after 11 p.m. near 20th Street and Magnolia Ave. in Five Points South, a popular nightlife section of the city.
The Five Points South area has numerous entertainment venues, restaurants and bars and often attracts large crowds on Saturday nights.
Four people have died following a shooting in a nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, according to police and a news report.WVTM 13 News/YouTube
Initial reports suggested the victims were waiting to enter Hush, a hookah and cigar lounge, according to AL.com.Continue watchingThis Day in Historyafter the ad
First responders discovered two adult males and an adult female “unresponsive on the sidewalk suffering from gunshot wounds” and were pronounced dead at the scene, Birmingham Officer Truman Fitzgerald told reporters.
A fourth victim, who was transported to UAB Hospital, was pronounced dead.
“We also began locating multiple additional gunshot victims in and around the area,” he said.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue transported eight victims to local hospitals as others were brought by private vehicles.
Police investigators said officers arrived at the scene and discovered two men and a woman dead at the scene. A fourth victim died at a hospital.ABC 33/40- YouTubeInitial reports suggested the victims were waiting to enter Hush, a hookah and cigar lounge, according to AL.com.Google Maps
Police wouldn’t confirm the exact number of victims as the situation was still fluid.
“In these types of situations, when you lock into a number, that number typically changes, so we can for a fact say we have dozens of gunshot victims from this area.”
All the victims were “out in the open” either on a sidewalk or in the street.
Every country in the world would not stand by if their neighbors launched missiles into the homeland. Why would the world castigate Israel for doing the same? Because many of them are Antisemitic from the get-go. Turkey for instance, run by the Jew hating dog, a member of NATO no less, a killer of PKK, a thug to many in his own country, who someday will come face to face with the devil in hell.
Hezbollah has for many years now, continued to launch rockets into northern Israel, injuring many and killing innocents. Just a few days ago, Israel’s military, with the help of their Intelligent Service took out fourteen of the groups commanders.
Top Hezbollah commander among 14 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut. The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil had been killed with other senior members of an elite Hezbollah unit in the airstrike, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
An Israeli airstrike on a residential area of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed two top Hezbollah military commanders and other senior officials, in a major escalation that has added to fears of an all-out war.
Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia and political group, confirmed the death of Ibrahim Aqil, a senior commander in the group’s elite Radwan forces.
The group also confirmed that Ahmed Wahbi, himself a top Radwan figure, died in the attack that hit the densely populated Dahieh area – a stronghold of the group.
Senior UN official Rosemary DiCarlo warned that the Middle East was at risk of a conflict that could “dwarf” the devastation witnessed in the region so far.Friday’s attack was another major blow for Hezbollah and the first airstrike to hit Beirut since July, when Fuad Shukr, a right-hand man to leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed.
It happened just days after a wave of explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies used by the group that killed dozens, wounded thousands more and caused panic in a country already exhausted by almost one year of conflict.
Israel is widely believed to have been behind the attack, but has made no comment.
In Beirut, there were chaotic scenes as emergency teams rushed to the site of the attack on Friday, rescuing the wounded and searching for people believed to be trapped under the rubble.
At least one residential building collapsed and others were heavily damaged. Streets were closed by Hezbollah members, some looking incredulous.
The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed in the attack – including three children and seven women – with dozens more wounded.
The good news trickled out quietly, and despite the huge significance, is not getting the attention it deserves.
The White House now believes it won’t get a cease-fire deal in Gaza before Joe Biden leaves office.
“No deal is imminent,” a US official told The Wall Street Journal.
“I’m not sure it ever gets done.”
Hold the tears — cue the celebrations.
No deal is the best deal available.
Israel and the entire civilized world are saved from the awful consequences of an American bid to appease evil in the name of peace.For months, Biden and Kamala Harris have tried to force Israel to accept fatally flawed terms with Hamas in Gaza and, by extension, Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Democrats are motivated by fear that anti-Israel voters in the upper Midwest, especially Muslim Americans in Michigan, will abandon the party.
The result has been a relentless pressure campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, complete with attempts to undermine him politically at home and hamper Israel’s military by withholding munitions.
Recall that Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat in on cabinet meetings to dictate which targets Israel could attack.
The disgraceful effort, which included following the same playbook as anti-Israel mobs at the United Nations, prolonged the war and gave Hamas incentives to hold out for better deals.
Emboldening Hamas
Although some details remain unknown, the US was pushing for Israel to get back the remaining hostages abducted during the horrors of Oct. 7, some of them American citizens.
In exchange, it would release thousands of Palestinians arrested on terrorism charges.
Even worse, Hamas would have survived in some capacity, letting its leaders again plunder international aid, gain government control in Gaza and attack Israel again.
Even as Hamas kept upping its demands, Washington kept the heat on Israel.
Finally, Netanyahu spoke in the only language terrorists understand.
He rejected the Biden-Harris demand to halt Israel’s ground operation in Gaza and green-lighted last week’s sensational beepers-go-boom operation in Beirut.
Like a story line from “Fauda,” the hit streaming series about Israeli secret agents, disrupting Hezbollah’s communications delivered a psychological blow in addition to killing scores of fighters and injuring several thousand others.
Netanyahu followed with attacks on Hezbollah rocket launching sites and the targeted killing of one of the group’s top leaders.
Given that the leader, Ibrahim Aqil, was a US-designated terrorist linked to the 1983 bombings of our Marines barracks and embassy in Beirut that killed nearly 400 people, most of them US citizens, the White House should be celebrating.
Aqil had a $7 million American bounty on his head, and if Biden had any sense, he would send the check to Israel with a big thank you.
Instead, watch for long faces in the Harris campaign now that it’s clear she won’t get the Michigan political benefit of a pre-election cease-fire.
Shattered, too, is Biden’s fantasy of getting a Nobel Peace Prize for forging a deal on a Palestinian state.
The weakest link in the offers the White House pushed was that Iran’s malignant role would have remained intact.
It finances and directs Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, yet its money and vow to eliminate Israel were virtually ignored in the talks.
Oct. 7 reality check
No prime minister of Israel could accept that fact given Oct. 7 and the displacement of 60,000 Israelis in the north by Hezbollah shelling.
For the same reasons, a separate Palestinian state is a pipe dream.
Palestinians used their self-rule to turn Gaza into a terror state, and Israel would be suicidal to believe an Arab state that included the much-larger West Bank would be a peace-loving neighbor.
Indeed, the significance of Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah, which includes moving ground forces north, is the message that it will no longer tolerate the daily tit-for-tat exchange of fire.
By one count, Hezbollah has fired some 7,500 rockets at Israel since October, making much of northern Israel uninhabitable.
Unfortunately, giving Iran a pass has become routine during the Biden-Harris term.
Copying the delusions of the Obama-Biden administration, the White House still harbors fantasies that the mad mullahs can be coaxed into playing a constructive role on the global stage.
When we think we heard the last of her but she continues to spill diarrhea from “da mout.” The same old garbage comes pouring from this gutter snipe; apparently she can’t get over the “tremendous beating” at the hands of Donald J. Trump. Our question to her is, why don’t you put yourself out of your misery? Does she have the willpower to go kamikaze?
Hillary Clinton Suggests Posting Russian Propaganda Should Be A Crime
Hillary Clinton has suggested that Americans who spread Russian-backed pro-Trump “propaganda” should be charged with a crime.
Author and constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley sounded the alarm on Hillary Clinton’s “chilling” suggestion that Americans who share disinformation should be arrested. Turley addressed the former secretary of state’s controversial remarks on free speech during “America’s Newsroom,” warning that the global effort to stifle free speech has reached U.S. shores.
JONATHAN TURLEY: I talk about her in my new book, ‘The Indispensable Right,’ and how she’s been one of the outstanding voices in the anti-free speech movement. Her views on free speech are quite chilling. What’s interesting is that for years, the left has been trying to get people to embrace censorship, but it’s hard to get a free people to give up freedom, and it’s not working. And so now they’re going old school with Clinton and with countries like Brazil. They’re just going to straight state action prosecutions threatening people with arrest if you have opposing views. This is part of a movement that’s been growing worldwide, and that wave has now reached our shores. That’s why I wrote this book.
This two bit thug, who swallowed her husbands affair. Goes to show you where she is at. But let us remind you that she paid for the Russian Dossier. Gladly had her operatives at the State Department cover it up by lying to the investigators.
She owns it, she knows it, she won’t admit it. But Sleepy Joe has laid down like a cheap carpet, stepped on by our adversaries. The Kameleon has Hoovered Up (she is good at this) the Biden policy of war, on all fronts because she is inept. She is seen as weak and our enemies know it; Russia, China, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the rest of the axis are doing everything in their power to elect the Kameleon. They know that once Trump wins, their game will be over.
Imagine the leaders of the G-7countries having a summit. They will subjugate her to third fiddle, bring her to heel, and finally to tears. She is the Wannabee, who will never be president, a laughing stock to our adversaries. Before you know it America will see an invasion on all fronts; economic, political, territorial, Space and last but certainly not least, OUR MILITARY. This scenario is close at hand.
We warn you, that a vote for Harris, is a vote for the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA.
Lebanon’s health ministry says that 20 people were killed and over 450 were wounded in Wednesday’s explosions.
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government are blaming Israel for Tuesday’s attack.
What to know today:
Israel draws up new plans to strike Hezbollah: After months of fighting in Gaza,Israel’s defense minister said the country’s army plans to turn its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah. Israel’s army chief says they’re ready to strike.
A sales executive at the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom told The Associated Press that the exploded radio devices in Lebanon appear to be a knockoff product and not made by Icom.
“I can guarantee you they were not our products,” said Ray Novak, a senior sales manager for Icom America’s amateur radio division, in an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, Rhode Island.
Novak said Icom introduced the V82 two-way radio model more than two decades ago and it has long since been discontinued. It was favored by amateur radio operators and for use in social or emergency communications, including by people tracking tornadoes or hurricanes, he said.
Novak said he spent all day fielding calls and trying to dispel misinformation about Icom’s discontinued device. He showed a reporter on his cellphone how easy it is to find counterfeit versions of the product sold online.
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