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Merkava IS heavy, but it seems it isnt slow ;-) I Like the Tank too.
Warfare HAMAS attack on Israel, Oct 2023 & Iran’s Proxies.
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It depends on the context, huh?
Interesting precedent that sets...
Interesting precedent that sets...
Via Tiborublog and Lemilblog facebook group, thanks to Sándor Gúth:
"Benjamin Netanyahu, at least privately, has spoken openly about what Israel needs most to destroy Hamas: a steady supply of more American bombs. "We need three things from the US: ammunition, ammunition and ammunition". "There are huge protests in Western capitals", Netanyahu added, fearing that political pressure overseas could jeopardise US arms supplies. "We must counter-pressure . . . There have been disagreements with our best friends". FT graphic."
Addendum: After the Cold War, the West, in its infinite wisdom, cut much of its military manufacturing capacity. Non-guided bombs and artillery shells are cheap, but their production requires skilled labour and high energy requirements: ergo, there is little money to be made from them. Moreover, Desert Storm proved that precision weapons are the future. As long as there are no large-scale, protracted operations, because then the guided 155 mm ammunition, which can be bought for tens of thousands of dollars each, or the GPS-guided kits that can aim a penny bomb with metre precision, will run out very quickly. Which are so expensive - partly because of low defence budgets, small batch production is never cheap - that there simply won't be enough.
While wars are being waged or threatened to be waged by authoritarian regimes from Venezuela, Africa, Gaza, Ukraine and Taiwan.
A Gaza division reservist is accused of stealing weapons from soldiers wounded on the Gaza border and taken to hospital. He confessed and claimed that he wanted to take the weapons to his parents in Herzliya to protect themselves. Another fighter, who was caught with 2 kg of marijuana, was released after he said he had been fighting in Nahal Oz and was surrounded by dead bodies, which is why he had the foo... his story worked at first, but it soon became clear he was lying - , he is also being charged. But that doesn't explain why they let him out the first time...
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On one side we have these amazing female heroes, and on the other it seems at least part of October 7th could have been avoided if senior commanders hadn't ignored the female border surveillance units:
Surveillance soldiers charge sexism a factor in their Oct. 7 warnings being ignored
'If the soldiers had been male, things would have looked different,' one says in exposé by Haaretz; soldier says they were left to be slaughtered by terrorists like 'sitting ducks'
www.timesofisrael.com
More and more it comes down to the arrogance of the people in charge... "oh no, the Gaza Palestinians won't do this, they don't want war" and then they even take away some of the existing defence positions making the border even weaker than it was. No wonder you get so many conspiracy theories about the attack being an "inside job" with this attitude...
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On one side we have these amazing female heroes, and on the other it seems at least part of October 7th could have been avoided if senior commanders hadn't ignored the female border surveillance units:
Surveillance soldiers charge sexism a factor in their Oct. 7 warnings being ignored
'If the soldiers had been male, things would have looked different,' one says in exposé by Haaretz; soldier says they were left to be slaughtered by terrorists like 'sitting ducks'
More and more it comes down to the arrogance of the people in charge... "oh no, the Gaza Palestinians won't do this, they don't want war" and then they even take away some of the existing defence positions making the border even weaker than it was. No wonder you get so many conspiracy theories about the attack being an "inside job" with this attitude...
האיש שמצא מה מפחיד את הסטודנטים האנטישמים
האמירה המפורסמת היא שכסף מסובב את העולם, וזה בדיוק מה שמפחיד את הסטודנטים תומכי חמאס בקמפוסים בארה"ב. בעוד אין להם בעיה לצעוק סיסמאות נגד קיומה של ישראל או ליצור אווירה עוינת כלפי סטודנטים יהודים, כשזה מגיע לכיס האישי שלהם וליכולתם לעבוד בעתיד בחברות המובילות, הם פתאום נבהלים ומסתתרים. מאחורי...
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The west went to guided weapons, and I would say this was justified, the cost of one guided weapon, versus the number of 'cheap/dumb' weapons you have to use to get a probability kill - not guaranteed - is massive. Russia is seeing this it needs a train car of shells to equal a truck load of guided weapons. With our democracy, and squeamishness about both mil and civil deaths, I'd still go with guided, most of the time.
The issue now is how many we have sent versus whats needed. Ukraine production should be coming on line, and existing ammo plants in Nato are expanding production etc.
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Well yes, but also:
More details unveiled of IDF intel on Oct. 7 plans, consults hours before Hamas attack
2 IDF commando companies diverted to West Bank from Gaza border days before onslaught; Sinwar last year publicly hailed Hamas TV dramatization of invasion as ‘what we're preparing’
www.timesofisrael.com
Why in the world would you do this?? It's clear that serious mistakes were made here, of course they didn't know for sure that it was going to happen, but if there is a possibility, you'd want to make sure you're not asleep at the wheel, right?
Z germans at it again
www.reuters.com
German ruling party official urges EU to sanction violent Israeli settlers
The European Union should echo the U.S. stance in imposing sanctions on a number of Israeli settlers over attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats said on Wednesday.
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Its the ZPD what do you expect?
Look here a ZPD guy wanting to raise the debt ceiling in light of "rebuilding Gaza"
www.welt.de
Yes thats my total first utmost important interest as a German tax payer.
This party is totally lost in idiocy and naïvity.
Mützenich should talk to some survivors to get a sense of reality.
Or at least read the transcripts.
All those Western politicians cozying up to terrorists and legitimizing them share a big burden of guilt with each other.
Look here a ZPD guy wanting to raise the debt ceiling in light of "rebuilding Gaza"
Mützenich für erneutes Aushebeln der Schuldenbremse – mit Verweis auf Aufbauhilfe für Gaza - WELT
Für 2024 will SPD-Fraktionschef Rolf Mützenich erneut eine „außergewöhnliche Notsituation“ feststellen, um die Schuldenbremse auszuhebeln. Deutschlands Hilfe werde beim Wiederaufbau der Ukraine und im Nahen Osten gefragt sein.
Yes thats my total first utmost important interest as a German tax payer.
This party is totally lost in idiocy and naïvity.
Mützenich should talk to some survivors to get a sense of reality.
Or at least read the transcripts.
All those Western politicians cozying up to terrorists and legitimizing them share a big burden of guilt with each other.
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I could be wrong, but didn't Hamas brand their Oct. 7th terror attack as some sort of a flood?
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Saudi Arabia urges US restraint as Houthis attack ships in Red Sea
Saudi Arabia has asked the United States to show restraint in responding to attacks by Yemen's Houthis against ships in the Red Sea, two sources familiar with Saudi thinking said, as Riyadh seeks to contain spillover from the Hamas-Israel war.
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He wouldn't be the first UNSG who died in an "accident" ... just sayin' 
www.theguardian.com
UN’s António Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire to end ‘epic suffering’ in Gaza
Secretary general’s comments spark fierce row and Israeli calls for resignation as 700 deaths are reported in a day and hospitals close for want of electricity
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Sorry, meant to link an article about him invoking Article 99.
Guterres invokes Article 99 to 'avert catastrophe'
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has taken the highly unusual step of writing a letter to the UN Security Council under Article 99 of the UN Charter, calling on the Council to "press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza and appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
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