Author: Blazingcatfur

Israeli officials say they are considering plans for the future government of Gaza after their tanks have invaded and carried out their stated plan of “eliminating Hamas” .

Other governments including Israel’s western allies are urging caution and some diplomats are warning it not to make the same mistake as the US-led alliances after the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In both of those conflicts, western armies, backed by fierce bombardment from the air, were relatively easily able to take territory. Governing it safely was another matter.

An Israeli TV station has released new footage which it says appears to show rockets fired over a hospital in Gaza just moments before an explosion killed hundreds last night.

It comes after Israel’s military shared footage and analysis which they say shows they were not responsible for the horrifying blast at the Al-Ahli Hospital on Tuesday.

A video clip from a livestream, aired by Israel’s Channel 12 News, shows a salvo of rockets being launched before explosions rock an area claimed to be the medical centre.

VIDEO PROOF: Israeli Channel 12 news anchor @LeviYonit presents footage from the station's cameras at the time of the Gaza hospital explosion definitively showing how a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket is responsible for the terrible incident. pic.twitter.com/mWdcErnpPE

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 18, 2023

Library Assistant at @Penn was filmed walking around campus ripping down posters with images of the missing women and children who Hamas terrorists took hostage pic.twitter.com/esKCOrezwb

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 17, 2023

New York State law makes it next to impossible for Jews and others legally to arm themselves for protection.

Last week, Inna Vernikov, a New York City councilwoman representing southern Brooklyn, was charged with criminal possession of a firearm. The story flared briefly, then faded amid graver breaking developments, but it’s worth retelling, because the story of Vernikov’s plight is the story of why Jews aren’t and cannot be safe in New York or any other major American city. It’s the story of bad laws happening to good people.

On October 7, the terrorist group Hamas initiated deadly attacks against Israel.

Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, near the Gaza Strip. They murdered hundreds of civilians, took hostages (including children and the elderly), beheaded babies, burned people alive, shot children in front of their parents, shot parents in front of their children, and fired thousands rockets and missiles into a country smaller than New Jersey (roughly 22,000 km²). As of this writing, Hamas has killed more than 1,400 people in Israel since October 7; wounded more than 4,200 people, and abducted 199 hostages who were taken to unknown locations in Gaza. Hundreds remain missing.

Shortly after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, friends and relatives of Gali Shlezinger Idan, who lived in a kibbutz near the Gaza border, received frantic messages to check her Facebook page.

What they found shocked them. Hamas members were using Ms. Idan’s Facebook account to livestream themselves holding her and her family hostage. During the 43-minute broadcast, gunmen forced Ms. Idan and her family to crouch on a tile floor as missiles and gunfire blasted their building.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Keren de Via, a friend of the Idan family who watched Ms. Idan’s children hug their parents and cry during the livestream. “How could we watch them terrorize the family like this? How could I watch this on Facebook?”