Originally Posted By realwar:
Translation: Al-Qassam Brigades publishes scenes of targeting Israeli naval targets with Asif torpedoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akt7voY9pE4

Originally Posted By Element94:

What the hell happened to his head?

Originally Posted By Element94:

What the hell happened to his head?

Originally Posted By xd341:
That's pretty much Yemen.

01NOV2023 updated map of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.

Trying some different layouts let me know what you think.

Corrections:
Removed TCG Yavuz (F240)  and TCG Heybeliada (F-511) from map due to departure from respectie groups for 100 ships parade will add back to groups when they are observed.
Added specific location for USS Carney and USS Thomas Hudner in Red Sea.
Added specific location of USS Mesa Verde as it is doing disaggregated ops in Eastern Mediterranean.
USS Laboon did not cross the straight of Gibraltar yesterday tracker code was for USS Philippine Sea.
Corrected minor typos

Updated all sources used

Changes since yesterday

IKE CSG should be arriving in the Eastern Mediterranean

Tonnerre "ARG" no imagery or updates though based off speed should be in the general vicinity of IKE CSG

Bataan ARG USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall Will be staying in the Red Sea for now along with Destroyers from the Ford CSG to include
USS Carney,
USS Thomas Hudner,
USS Roosevelt (currently in Rota Spain)

Side note, this leaves Ford CSG with one destroyer USS Rampage still with the group unless back filled by unassigned destroyers or ships from other task forces

Warships from the following countries underway or deployed in the Mediterranean currently.

Does not include vessels currently partaking in various naval exercises such as Dynamic Mariner 23 and Operations such as Operation Irini.

Originally Posted By DTIguy:
I'd venture to guess it's a, "Look at me" muslim religious thing.  Their head touches the ground when they bow to pray so in essence you are supposed to think that he is super religious and prays a lot because his forehead is so dirty.

Or maybe he went to a catholic mass on Ash Wednesday.

Originally Posted By GarandM1:
Correct.  People are assuming this is a simple of matter of Israel barging into Gaza and crushing everything in their path.  Which of course they are more than capable of doing, but as we saw in Afghanistan there are other factors besides sheer military power which determine who wins in the end.

Bibi has to weigh his military objectives against their effect on European public opinion, Arab public opinion, Israeli domestic opinion, and most of all, US public opinion.  Israel is not an island; it cannot survive on its own and needs the approval and support of the rest of the world.

Turning Gaza into a smoking crater full of dead jihadis and their families is not in their best interest.

Originally Posted By realwar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx1icUakng


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDnhBBvFCw

Every target in Gaza struck by Israeli jets has been assessed in advance to minimise civilian deaths, the chief of staff of the air force has said in its highest-level defence of the scale of Palestinian casualties.

Brigadier General Eyal Greenbaum said every strike went through 11 or 12 stages of approval before it was authorised. He insisted that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) were closely following rules of war that demand the rate of civilian deaths be proportional to the importance of the military target being struck.

Brigadier General Eyal Greenbaum said Israel stuck to rules of war

More than 8,000 people, more than half of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza so far, Hamas officials claim. Hamas regularly accuses Israel of committing “genocide”.

Greenbaum blamed Hamas for the civilian losses, saying it was making civilians part of its war machine.

“It’s not a campaign, it’s a war in Israel right now,” he said. “We insist on keeping the process of how we select targets. These are our values. Unfortunately, there are a lot of casualties. We try to avoid these casualties. But Hamas-Isis uses civilians to be part of this war. Despite this decision we try to avoid civilian casualties, but unfortunately sometimes in this war it happens.”

However, he admitted that this campaign “used more ammunition and struck more targets” than previous rounds of conflict between the two sides, and an IDF legal adviser said that the greater importance of the war changed how these calculations were made.

“The way that the IDF manages this very difficult consideration, this very tragic loss of civilian life, has not been changed. The mechanism has not changed,” the adviser said, but the need to confront the “greater threat” that resulted from the scale of Hamas’s attack — which struck deep into Israel for the first time — changed the balance.

“This war is fundamentally different from the rounds of hostilities we had with Hamas in the past,” he said. “The military advantage that arises from the imperatives of defending Israel is much clearer.”

Israel has pointed to the thousands of civilians killed in Mosul and other cities in Syria and Iraq as the United States, UK and other allied air forces helped Iraq drive out Islamic State.

Greenbaum said target lists in Gaza prepared before the conflict had been updated and re-checked before strikes were approved.

However, it is clear that the determination to go after Hamas’s tunnel network has created a greater danger to civilian buildings that sit on top of them.

The number of dead, especially when bodies still unaccounted for under the rubble are added in, is greater than in all previous rounds of fighting in Gaza put together.

That reflects the greater ambition for the military campaign laid down by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu — the complete eradication of Hamas.

Originally Posted By xd341:
The issue is that no one is addressing the problem.  Hamas is just a symptom.  The Iranian regime is the issue.   We are going down the path that we went down with China, if we let them be successful they will moderate.  Except they won't, and every bit of success they achieve will be used to further the ultimate goal of eliminating Israel, regional domination and then on to the US.

Extremism is the bigger problem but that is only fixed by societal and economic stability.  Which can't happen when you have radical theocracies in charge.  They need extremism to exist.  Turkey is headed full steam down that path.

Originally Posted By 1969iggy:

Allies.  No other country i'd rather have by our side, with the Polish and Ukrainians close behind.

Originally Posted By tsg68:
They arrested the Cornell shitposter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12695827/Cornell-student-Patrick-Dai-21-charged-threatening-shoot-Jewish-students-campus-assault-rifle-calling-rape-beheading-female-Jewish-attendees-Ivy-League-college.html?ico=related-replace

Originally Posted By realwar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx1icUakng


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDnhBBvFCw

Originally Posted By Logcutter:


Yeah, you're not making a compelling argument for Israel to do anything other than destroy Hamas completely.

Originally Posted By The_Like_Button:



We’re past surrender. The only way this thing ends is either with Israel no longer standing or a major regional war that draws us in that likely ends in WWIII.

There’s a way out but our administration and the court of public opinion don’t have the stomach for it. Drop MOABs on Tehran and Damascus while leveling every square inch of GAZA. Pull back every student visa for every student here from that part of the world and seal the damn border. Park a couple Ballistic Missile Subs off the Med and the first reprisal attack after the MOABs fall  gets the offending nation’s royal palace or presidential residence and their governmental chambers flattened, 2nd attack we destroy every power station, water treatment station, and waste water treatment station in every major urban population center in the country, 3rd reprisal attack we nuke their capital and sink every military ship in their port, and set every oil field ablaze.

There’s a way to win wars without winning heart and minds.

Originally Posted By BerettaGuy:



A TON of bullshit in the "reports" that imply Israel has some sort of open gun ownership. Truth below:

Israel's Shin Bet Actively Disarming Some Near Front Lines: Israelis receiving military firearms are part of security services NOT regular citizens. Handguns and shotguns are still VERY difficult to purchase.

Israel's Gun Reforms: Too Little, Too Late? Reports that Israel opened up gun ownership and are passing out guns to ordinary civilians are NOT true.

Israel: Draconian Gun Control in a Country in Desperate Need of a 2nd Amendment.

Originally Posted By GarandM1:
Correct.  People are assuming this is a simple of matter of Israel barging into Gaza and crushing everything in their path.  Which of course they are more than capable of doing, but as we saw in Afghanistan there are other factors besides sheer military power which determine who wins in the end.

Bibi has to weigh his military objectives against their effect on European public opinion, Arab public opinion, Israeli domestic opinion, and most of all, US public opinion.  Israel is not an island; it cannot survive on its own and needs the approval and support of the rest of the world.

Turning Gaza into a smoking crater full of dead jihadis and their families is not in their best interest.

Originally Posted By xd341:
I'm making a compelling argument to address the source of the problem.  I don't want to see another Afghanistan situation that burns blood and treasure to just hand it back to the bad guys.

Pakistan deserved to be glassed, and then make the glass bounce.


Nothing will change until the mullahs are gone.

Not every fight is worth fighting, unfortunately we tend to avoid the fights that might make the world better.

Proxy wars just cause suffering and not changes.

Originally Posted By JT_26:

He doesn't look very muslim to me.

Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea:
Jordan pulling ambassador today not good news

Originally Posted By HiramRanger:


Wonder if this is for show, Didn't we just send a Patriot battery there?

Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:

8 Republican members urged @POTUS to separate funding for Israel and Ukraine. Both countries must be victorious, they said in a letter, and laid out 12 conditions "that must be addressed before a single $ is sent to Ukraine." One of them is providing "an actual win strategy" \uD83D\uDC47 pic.twitter.com/zkUtTjsjns

Ostap Yarysh  (@OstapYarysh) November 1, 2023

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