“Oct 7 2023”

Vivian Bercovici: Iran could fall any day, and Carney could not be more irrelevant

SDEROT, Israel — On Feb. 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, stood at the top of the stairs of an Air France jet that had just landed in Tehran. This stern, robed man had been whisked from his country villa provided by the French government (then led by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing) to a waiting jet. During his 14 years in exile, Ayatollah Khomeini was treated reverentially by the French. Before descending the stairs, the 40 year old cleric paused, triumphantly.

I think Carney is where he wants to be.

Shoring up the Muslim vote and waiting for profitable opportunities to arise.

Israel will become less viable for business as it becomes increasingly isolated and subject to additional sanctions while the Islamic world will open to their new BFF Carney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Congressman claims he was run off the road by pro-Palestine protester

A Republican congressman has claimed he was run off the road by a “deranged” pro-Palestinian protester.

Ohio lawmaker Max Miller said he was forced off the road on his way to work by a man who issued death threats against him and his family before waving a Palestinian flag while driving off.

Mr Miller, who is Jewish, recounted the incident in a video on X and pledged to hold the perpetrator responsible, saying: “I will not hide in the face of this blatant anti-semitic violence”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

Trump approves Iran attack plan but has not made final decision, reports say

Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports.

The US president held off from initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a US strike on Fordo, an underground uranium enrichment facility in Iran.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender, as the US president said his patience had run out.

Beneath Israel’s bombs lies an unpopular and repressive Iranian regime that has spent billions of dollars on a nuclear program and on projecting the Islamic Revolution through armed regional proxies, while presiding over a domestic economic disaster and stifling paralysis.

An 86-year-old autocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rules this restive nation, as he has for 36 years, in his role as guardian of the revolution, a conservative calling at which he has proved adept. The supreme leader is no gambler. But his system, remote from a youthful and aspirational society, looks sclerotic to many, and he is now up against the wall.

Must be getting tense in Tehran …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Greta Thunberg’s Excellent Adventure

The media circus she was desperately hoping for never materialized.

Greta Thunberg’s Excellent Adventure and Media Event aboard the S.S. Narrenschiff has now ended. She had been joined in this publicity stunt by, inter alia, the Franco-Palestinian politician Rima Hassan, Thunberg’s BFF, who has attended pro-Hamas rallies in Jordan and blamed Israel for the killing of the Bibas family, including nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, who in fact were murdered — strangled — by Hamas in captivity. This ghastly crew also included the Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, a German “self-described ‘activist’ who openly celebrates when Iran bombs Israel,” and Israel haters from a half-dozen other countries, including Brazil and Turkey. Videos show the commandos handing out sandwiches and water to the crew, and amusingly, Thunberg is captured on film eyeing hungrily the sandwiches about to be distributed by the Israeli commandos, just before the boat again got back underway to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where the boat will remain for now, and the dirty dozen of mostly dozy bints will now be flown home to their countries of origin. The Israelis did insist on doing one thing: they played for Thunberg and her fellow travelers a film showing the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, no doubt hoping to educate some of those who are now so supportive of Hamas. One doubts, however, that anything could change their minds in the slightest. In fact, once they realized what it was, they refused to watch it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

CUPE Ontario sponsoring ‘Hands off Iran’ rally outside U.S. consulate this Sunday

Fred Hahn Creepy as Fuck

The Ontario chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is sponsoring a demonstration outside the American consulate in Toronto in protest of support for Israel amid its ongoing efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“Hands off Iran,” the advertisement for the Sunday event reads in all caps. Nearly a dozen sponsoring groups are listed on the poster alongside CUPE Ontario, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, an organization that has repeatedly expressed support for the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Islamization of the West

The march of the useful idiots

In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches. Watching the Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, it is difficult not to cringe as you see it slowly dawn on the privileged tourists that the whole thing is a con.

We saw a similar case of privileged Western delusion meeting reality in Egypt this weekend. Some 4,000 activists had descended on Cairo for the ‘Global March to Gaza’. They expected to take buses to Arish, a city in northern Sinai, before marching 30 miles to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border at Rafah. There they would break Israel’s blockade.

This is awful. Awful funny.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech

The valedictorian at a west Ottawa high school says she’s been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

Elizabeth Yao largely focused on highlights from the past four years at Bell High School during her speech on Thursday, including a memorable waffle fundraiser and the days spent dozing off while reading Shakespeare.

Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end, after a land acknowledgement.

Our brainwashed Valedictorian will no doubt rise to leadership in the Brave New Replacement Canada.

Canada’s schools resemble those under Stalin or Hitler.

They all indoctrinated children to venerate evil as virtue, lies as truth.

What is different is that the economic and ideological coercion of the teachers unions and colleges provided the muscle that allowed their Long March to succeed rather than the guns of revolution.

You would not be far off speculating that core subjects have been degraded into deep debates about how many transgender Palestinian children can dance on a fake residential school grave.

Parents and politicians with rare exception have said little as questioning teachers or schoolboards began to resemble a rendezvous with the Peoples Court.

Ideological capture of our institutions and mass immigration from incompatible cultures did this to our country.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", "Peak Woke", "Progressive Paradise", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

The mountain fortress Israel must destroy to topple Iran’s nuclear programme

One key site remains unscathed, however: the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Located 20 miles from the ancient, central city of Qom, and about 100 miles south of Tehran, Fordow is one of two nuclear enrichment sites in the country. The other, in Natanz, was reportedly partially destroyed in the attacks.

The events of the past few days appear to have proved that Israel has near-total air superiority over Iran. Iranian armed forces have been powerless to counter the Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed critical buildings and wiped out swathes of the Islamic Republic’s military leadership.

At least 14 Iranian nuclear scientists have also been killed by the unilateral operation, codenamed Rising Lion, which appears aimed at decapitating the country’s nuclear programme.

Report: Israeli Car Bombs Take Out Iranian Nuclear Scientists

Multiple Iranian nuclear scientists were reportedly eliminated by car bombs. Israel has assassinated a staggering number of Iranian military leaders and scientists this week, but the car bomb rumors have yet to be confirmed.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Israeli strikes spark anti-regime sentiment across Iran

As Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear sites — and the killing of scientists and top military personnel — began to unfold early this morning, UnHerd was able to speak to our contacts across the Islamic Republic. The dominant reaction was not anger but jubilation, and hope that the regime’s failure to respond in kind would hasten its demise.

Mohammad, 20, told us from Tehran: “This is our chance to rise up against them because they have shown themselves to be so weak. Our liberation is very close, and they do not have big enough security forces to suppress us.” He went on: “The generals and military officers are now so scared of being targeted by Israel that they won’t dare to come after us.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Thousands of protesters march through the streets of Montreal in support of Gaza

Several thousand demonstrators gathered on Saturday afternoon in the streets of the city centre to denounce the “numerous red lines crossed by Israel in Gaza.”

They were responding to a call from more than 50 organizations, which invited the public to dress in red and join a march denouncing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and calling on the Canadian government to increase pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reach a ceasefire.

Around 1:30 p.m., the protesters gathered at Norman-Bethune Square, near the Guy-Concordia Metro station. Escorted by Montreal police (SPVM) officers in cars and on motorcycles, they began marching east toward Place des Montréalaises, which was inaugurated last month near the city’s downtown core.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader – report

President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday.

“Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” said one of the sources, a senior US administration official.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said top US officials have been in constant communications with Israeli officials in the days since Israel launched a massive attack on Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran, USA

Ottawa’s foreign ministry says it erred in issuing statement advising Canadians to leave the Middle East

Beautiful downtown Tehran

Ottawa’s foreign ministry said it erred when it issued a public statement Friday advising all Canadians in the Middle East to leave if possible as a conflict between Israel and Iran escalates.

Instead, it told Canadians to consult its travel advisories for individual countries in the region.

The Department of Global Affairs in a Saturday statement advised Canadians to keep abreast of its official travel advisories for specific countries and other areas in the region, which currently warn Canadians to “avoid all travel” to Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, as well as Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Iranians in Canada reeling as Israel’s fatal attacks reverberate through diaspora

Mona Ghassemi, president of the Iranian Canadian Congress, was at home in Montreal when she first heard about the Israeli strikes in Iran early Friday. She called her mother, learning her aunt and cousin in Iran awakened to the sounds of nearby missile blasts but were unharmed.

“Residential buildings were hit, and there were children among the killed. So this, of course, is very devastating,” Ms. Ghassemi said.

The Israeli military attack is reverberating 10,000 kilometres away as the Iranian diaspora in Canada reels from the sudden escalation of a long-simmering conflict.

No true Iranian … which voices is the Globe with?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

I once embraced the Zionist dream. Now I’m protesting the genocide in Gaza on the streets of Toronto says Michele Landsberg

I grew up swathed in antisemitism in 1940s Toronto. We Jewish kids on the block knew which stores we shouldn’t enter, which areas of Toronto were dangerous (Beaches!), how to defend ourselves in the schoolyard around Christmas and Easter, when our ears burned at the taunt of “Jews killed Jesus!” We cowered … as a tiny minority in our public school … when the principal threatened us with the strap for not praying to Jesus, and when the music teacher told us that Jewish students were not allowed to sing in his class. We had to mouth the words.

If Israel were to cease to exist would the Mohammedans suddenly become peaceful Jew loving neighbors?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Protesters march through London waving Iranian flags and chanting ‘stop bombing Iran’

Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators waved Iranian flags as they marched through central London on Saturday demanding an immediate end to Israeli air strikes on the Islamic fundamentalist republic amid rising fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East. Crowds gathered in Parliament Square, chanting “stop bombing Iran” and calling on the UK Government to end all military support for Israel.

h/t XC and Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"