Originally Posted By Tango:
Really bombing the shit out of something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7v6kYdRo8

Originally Posted By PolarBear416:


Curious, why do they fire flares in daytime?

Originally Posted By Tango:
Pretty sure its smoke flares to obscure wire guided missile attacks.

Originally Posted By tnriverluver:
Lot of booms and automatic fire on this feed currently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRuhUYaGlh4

Originally Posted By SoCalExile:

BREAKING: CNN reports director of the UN's New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is quitting over the UN's 'failure' to halt the 'genocide' in Gaza

The Spectator Index  (@spectatorindex) October 31, 2023

Originally Posted By SIMJEDI:
Secondary border cam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frm4ZwcjqaE

Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu:
Here's what is said on Russian TV about antisemitism (something they would know something about):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUIp0pmxckE

Summary: antisemitism is bad, but it's a cultural norm for a whole lot of the world.

Originally Posted By Rossi:



Some things already left the human realm.  Dealing with them using "humanity" is like trying to reason with cockroaches and other varmint that invade a house or letting cancer cells be because they are part of ones body that "went astray".   Can anyone reason with the unreasonable whose only life's purpose is destroying that one?  

The leader of Yemen’s Houthis, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, delivered an incendiary speech on October 10, three days after the Hamas-Israel war began. He was dressed, as usual, in a gray suit and a white shirt with the collar open, just like former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to wear during his public appearances. Instead of a tie, Al-Houthi wore an ornate Yemenite sword.

“We are continuously monitoring what is happening in Gaza, and we coordinate regularly with our brothers in the Axis of Resistance,” he said, referring to Hezbollah, Shi’ite militias in Iraq, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

“God willing, we’ll be ready to participate in the context of this coordination, based on the different levels planned for it… We condemn and blame everything done by the countries that normalized relations with Israel – acts that harmed the Palestinian people with the goal of dismantling the unified Arab position.”

So far, the Houthis’ launches of ballistic missiles and drones – their contribution to the Axis of Resistance and a show of solidarity with Hamas – haven’t posed a direct strategic threat to Israel. But they could have consequences on other fronts, and no less so on diplomatic moves in the region.

The violent show of solidarity that Iran initiated to prove the existence of the “united front” has included Hezbollah’s controlled but escalating clashes with Israel, attacks by Shi’ite militias on American targets in Iraq and the sporadic missile and drone launches from Yemen. But the Houthis’ attacks are also meant to send a diplomatic message to Saudi Arabia, and through it, to Washington.

For the past year and a half, there has been a ceasefire in the war in Yemen that Saudi Arabia started in 2015. Under American pressure, intensive talks aimed at ending the conflict began this year between Riyadh and the Houthi government.

In September, a high-level Houthi delegation visited Riyadh for the first time, and the parties have already reached a draft agreement that includes massive Saudi aid to the Houthis and the reopening of the port of Hodeida, which has been blockaded since the war began.

But the war in the Gaza Strip and the Houthi threat create a serious dilemma for both Riyadh and Washington. In a violent clash between Houthi and Saudi forces that took place this week in the Jizan region, which is on the Saudi-Yemeni border, four Saudi soldiers were killed.

Saudi Arabia also intercepted five missiles fired at Israel when they crossed Saudi airspace. These events made it clear to Riyadh that not only might the peace talks collapse, but it may have to take an unequivocal position on the war in Gaza.

As Al-Houthi made clear, in his view, Israel isn’t the only legitimate target. So are the Arab states that have diplomatic relations with Israel and those, like Saudi Arabia, that are planning to normalize relations. And of course, America is also in the Houthis’ sights.

If Saudi Arabia is dragged back into war with the Houthis, this might well endanger its new relationship with Iran. But when the Houthis are justifying these attacks as part of the “united front” of the Axis of Resistance against Israel, Riyadh is forced to leave its comfort zone – in which it has so far made do with condemning Israel’s actions and demanding that it allow humanitarian aid – and position itself demonstratively beside America, and thereby implicitly beside Israel.

These dilemmas took center stage in the talks held by Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed’s brother, in Washington, where he landed on Monday for meetings with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Nor is this just a local Saudi concern. In a situation where the war in Gaza threatens to open additional fronts, the prevailing assumption is that the clashes in Lebanon could also develop into a full-fledged war.

U.S. President Joe Biden has already made it clear that if Hezbollah launches missiles at Israel, America won’t be part of the war. It is saving its heavy artillery for a situation in which Iran decides to actively join the fighting, in defiance of Washington’s warnings.

But the big surprise could come from a less predictable front, if the match lit by the Houthis requires Washington not only to intercept missiles aimed at Israel, but to use greater force in a theater where it has managed to avoid direct involvement ever since it stopped attacking Al-Qaida bases in Yemen.

More importantly, Washington might well decide to sign a defense pact with Saudi Arabia to show its commitment to defending the region against Iran’s satellites, without conditioning this on normalization between Riyadh and Jerusalem.

Like other substate organizations, including Hezbollah and the Shi’ite militias in Iraq, the Houthis also have strategic goals completely disconnected from the Arab-Israeli conflict or the Palestinian problem.

All three of these organizations serve Iran’s regional interests and are funded by it, and they maintain various levels of military coordination. But at the same time, they conduct independent policies aimed at ensuring their own status and their control over the countries in which they operate.

The Houthis began as a large tribe centered in the Saada region in northern Yemen. Most of its members belong to the Zaydi sect of Shi’ite Islam. Their war in Yemen was originally against the Yemeni government, and also against the Saudis, due to the friction along the border between Saudi Arabia and northern Yemen.

Thus, unlike Hezbollah or the militias in Iraq, the Houthis aren’t an Iranian “creation.” Only in 2012, when Yemen was already mired in its Arab Spring revolution, did Iran become interested in the Houthis as a potential vehicle for exerting influence over the country. A year after that, Tehran had already begun sending the Houthis arms.

When the Houthis began conquering parts of Yemen, the Iranians advised them not to capture the capital, Sanaa. But the Houthis had their own agenda. Capturing the Yemenite capital wasn’t just an act of seizing power; it also completed the settling of a historical account that began in the 1960s, when, with the help of Egyptian forces, the Yemenite king – a member of the Zaydi sect – was toppled and Yemen became a republic.

Even if the attacks from Yemen result in no far-reaching regional developments, they once again show the power of substate proxies to instigate geopolitical moves that go far beyond the radius of the local conflicts that normally nourish them.

The war in Gaza has already thrust America into the heart of our local conflict – not just to protect Israel, but to prevent a multi-country war. Yemen may well become the next focal point in the development of such a war.

Originally Posted By texashomeserver:

Reuters: The attack by Hamas on Israel will inspire the most significant terror threat to the U.S. since the rise of ISIS nearly a decade ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

— Apex (@Apex_WW) October 31, 2023

Originally Posted By Rossi:



While I agree that not all Palestinians are fanatical nuts, the ones who are not either already left that place or are beyond salvation, like the ones here in the US that still support democrats and their policies.  

We deal with that the same way we dealt with firebombing Dresden and Tokyo, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  There's a point where still talking is a waste of time.

Originally Posted By bigstick61:


While gendarmeries are primarily tasked with civilian law enforcement, unlike our police they are, in fact, military. They are not armed and equipped the same as the regular army, though.

11 Israeli soldiers killed on Tuesday in Gaza ground op, bringing total Israel deaths in Gaza to 13 ■ Israeli warships were deployed in the Red Sea on as reinforcements following long-range missile and drone attacks claimed by Yemen's Houthis ■ An Israeli airstrike killed Ibrahim Biari, commander of Hamas' Jabalya Brigade and one of the leaders of the October 7 massacre ■ Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reports over 8,000 Palestinians killed ■ Number of hostages held in Gaza stands at 240, with 40 remain missing ■ At least 1,300 civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas massacre on October 7

IDF names Roi Saragosti as 11th soldier killed in combat on Tuesday

8,796 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since war began, Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reports

Pdaya Mark, named as 10th soldier killed in Gaza on Tuesday

Up to 500 foreign passport holders will pass Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt on Wednesday, Egyptian source says

Palestinian communications company: Internet and cell connection in Gaza is being restored

IDF: Nine Israeli soldiers killed Tuesday after anti-tank missile hits vehicle in northern Gaza

Qatar brokers deal between Egypt, Hamas and Israel for limited Gaza evacuations

IDF missile warship arrived in the Red Sea Tuesday to reinforce defensive efforts following attacks from Yemen

IDF attacked terrorists entrenched in a building in Jabalya; more than 11,000 targets were struck since the beginning of the war

Palestinian reports IDF surrounded house of Fatah Secretary General in Jenin

Palestinian Health Ministry: Number of dead from IDF fire in the West Bank overnight rises to four

Originally Posted By xd341:
Israel needs to take the high road, not because Hamas deserves it, but because the global stakes are higher than they have been since '76.  Israel has the ability to reverse a generation of progress if they get this wrong.

Originally Posted By Oldgold:

Article pretty much sums up the RHINOs in the Senate without calling them that.  
Spend, spend, spend with no cuts.

Originally Posted By xd341:
The Palis have no place to go.  They are such bad actors in global affairs that no nation wants them.  They are full of Iranian influence, impossible to vet, have a history of insurgency and are the favored tool of the #1 global state sponsor of terror.  

It would be like donating your living body so cancer has a place to live.   That being said, the citizens of those Arab countries, Egypt, SA, the emirates, jordan..they have huge populations that are sympathetic to the Palestinians.

They also have reached relative peace with Israel, while not suffering popular uprisings, or having recovered from them.

Israel is in the driver's seat here. If they try to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza the whole region goes to shit again.   Iran knows this, that's why they use the Sunni Palestinians as a weapon, Iran is Shia, they think Sunnis are sub human. They don't actually care about Palestinians. They are just a pawn on Iran chess board.  That's why Iranian proxies are also poking at Israel, trying to get them to over react and cause division in the Sunni Arab countries.

Fucking turkey is helping

Originally Posted By texashomeserver:
Biden admin reportedly considering stationing US troops in Gaza

https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/news/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-latest-news-as-idf-expands-gaza-ground-operation/

Originally Posted By tnriverluver:

Do the Saudis still have our Patriot Missile defense?  Seems we put them there during the last gulf war because of the Scud missiles.

Originally Posted By michigan66:


Beirut 2.0. This is really the dumbest administration in history.

Originally Posted By Rossi:



The fact that it even existed all this time is quite telling, though.

Originally Posted By Logcutter:


Or, Israel realized that their neighbors are willing to do, or support, ridiculously perverse atrocities against them, and they'd rather go down fighting than raped and tortured.

The analogy above is a good one: what does showing mercy to cancer cells accomplish?

Originally Posted By tnriverluver:

Is that Chinese or Japanese?  Anyone know?