America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, October 9, 2023
9 AMERICA'S MURDERED BY PALESTINIAN MUSLIM TERRORIST - HERE'S WHAT HARVARD'S BRIDGET TERRY LONG HAS TO SAY IN SUPPORT OF THE MUDERERS - Harvard Dean, 33 Student Groups Blame Israel for War
Report: Hamas Drones Used in Surprise Attack Bear ‘Iranian Fingerprints’
Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
As drones play a role in the surprise attack on Israel this weekend, questions about how the terrorist organization secured the latest weaponized drone technology are being asked. According to Israeli experts speaking to the media in September about the Hamas drones, “the inspiration for them is Iran.”
The surprise attack by Hamas has included massive barrages of rockets along with attackers entering Israeli territory by air, land, and sea, causing mass casualties. At the same time, numerous reports of Hamas attacking Israeli troops, equipment, and even civilian targets with drone strikes are emerging.
Social media contains numerous videos purporting to show Hamas drones attacking Israeli targets with explosives. Although all such videos should be treated with skepticism in the age of deep fakes and digital manipulation, defense analysts are taking the videos seriously.
Videos of alleged drone strikes from this weekend include:
The Jewish Press, the largest independent weekly newspaper in the United States, reported on the terrorist organizations’ unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capabilities in September. The conclusion of experts is that Hamas engineers are backed by Iranian assistance. As Breitbart News’ John Nolte notes, Iran has received billions of dollars from Joe Biden’s administration.
Via the Jewish Press:
Tal Inbar, a senior research fellow at the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a nonprofit organization that promotes public support for missile defense systems, noted that this was not the first time Hamas has fielded UAVs.
“Hamas has a number of models that have a very similar appearance to UAVs in the possession of Hezbollah, and in principle one can say that the inspiration for them is Iran,” he told the Tazpit Press Service.
While it remains uncertain which elements of Hamas’s drone program are smuggled in from Iran and which are assembled in Gaza, it is beyond doubt that Iranian know-how is fueling Hamas’s UAV fleet build-up, he said.
Uzi Rubin, founder and first director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization, also believes the drones are enabled by knowledge transfers from Iran. He told the Jewish Press, “Hamas has no problem producing and assembling all of the rest on its own.”
As the sudden conflict continues, Israel will have to shift its tactics to meet the threat not only of human attackers, but also drones carrying a variety of weapons aimed not only at military targets, but potentially at civilians as well.
In the wake of the horrific attack on Israel, which has left over 700 dead, reports have surfaced that Iranian security officials helped the terrorist organization Hamas plan the strike for weeks.
“Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group,” the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers as well as four Iran-sponsored terrorist groups, including Hamas, reportedly attended meetings in Beirut where the operation had been planned. U.S. officials have said they have not seen evidence of Tehran’s direct involvement in the attack.
“We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on CNN.
“We don’t have any information at this time to corroborate this account,” a U.S. official said of the meetings.
Mahmoud Mirdawi, a senior Hamas official, has claimed that the group planned the attacks on its own. “This is a Palestinian and Hamas decision,” he said. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised the attacks in a post on X. “Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region,” he said.
More from the WSJ:
A direct Iranian role would take Tehran’s long-running conflict with Israel out of the shadows, raising the risk of broader conflict in the Middle East. Senior Israeli security officials have pledged to strike at Iran’s leadership if Tehran is found responsible for killing Israelis.
The IRGC’s broader plan is to create a multi-front threat that can strangle Israel from all sides—Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the north and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, according to the senior Hamas and Hezbollah members and an Iranian official.
Israel has said that Iran had a hand in the attacks, though indirectly.
“We know that there were meetings in Syria and in Lebanon with other leaders of the terror armies that surround Israel so obviously it’s easy to understand that they tried to coordinate. The proxies of Iran in our region, they tried to be coordinated as much as possible with Iran,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said Sunday.
On Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held a meeting with Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
“We are now free to focus on the Zionist entity,” the Iranian official said. “They are now very isolated.”
As Israel enters peace talks with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, the Iranian regime has likely seen that as threatening to its access on global trade, primarily in the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab Al Mandeb connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea.
“That’s very bad news for Iran. If they could do this, the strategic map changes dramatically to Iran’s detriment,” said Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
Though Iran has backed Hamas, it has largely considered it an outsider as a Sunni Muslim group as opposed to Tehran’s Shia clients. That relationship has changed in recent weeks.
“Representatives of these groups have met with Quds Force leaders at least biweekly in Lebanon since August to discuss this weekend’s attack on Israel and what happens next, they said. Qaani has attended some of those meetings along with Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, Islamic Jihad leader al-Nakhalah, and Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas’s military chief, the militant group members said,” noted the WSJ.
“Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian attended at least two of the meetings, they said,” it added.
The Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education is blaming both "Hamas and the Israeli government" for the outbreak of war in Israel.
In an email to students on Sunday, the dean, Bridget Terry Long, told students she was writing to "express my concerns in the aftermath of the deadly attacks in Israel and the Gaza strip where it has been reported that more than 1,100 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded by the actions taken by Hamas and the Israeli government."
Her email appeared to draw equivalency between Hamas, which indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Israelis in the deadliest terrorist attack in the region’s history, and the Israeli government, which has started to launch defensive operations in Gaza.
The message came on the heels of a statement on Saturday from a coalition of 33 Harvard student groups that blamed Israel for provoking Hamas’s mass terrorist attack, saying the Jewish state is "entirely responsible for all unfolding violence" and the "apartheid regime is the only one to blame."
"We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," said the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee letter.
The dean's statement and group letter could add to concerns about an increase in antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, after the student newspaper endorsed the anti-Israel boycott movement last year and a student group held a demonstration comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
Harvard Jews for Liberation describes itself as a "warm, creative, spiritual and political space for anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jews, as well as Jews questioning their relationship with Zionism," and Lovett-Graff has written about suffering a "spiritual crisis" over celebrating Shabbat because it has, in her telling, been used as a tool to subjugate Palestinians.
Other groups listed as signatories on the letter include the Harvard Kennedy School South Asia Caucus Leadership, Amnesty International at Harvard and Act on a Dream, which describes itself as the "home for undocumented, DACA, mixed status family, and other immigrant students & allies."
Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Israel formally declared war on Hamas Sunday following unprecedented attacks by Hamas that left hundreds dead.
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip," Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday. "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is trying to quell progressive outrage and GOP glee after he announced he would build another 17 miles of President Donald Trump’s 450-mile border wall.
Biden Admin Deletes Tweet Instructing Israel to Stand Down Amid Hamas Terror
‘This tweet was not approved and does not represent U.S. policy,' State Department says
The Biden administration was forced to delete a Saturday morning tweet from its Palestinian Affairs office calling on Israel to stand down amid a fresh wave of Hamas terror attacks that have left scores of Jews dead and the region on the cusp of war.
"We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred," wrote the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs, a diplomatic post opened by the Biden administration when it entered office and restarted relations with the Palestinian government. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing."
The tweet was quickly deleted following outrage from Republican lawmakers and Israel’s defenders, who accused the Biden administration of abandoning Israel and its right to self defense amid the deadliest and most sophisticated attack on the Jewish state in decades.
When the Washington Free Beacon asked about the missive on Saturday, a State Department official confirmed the tweet was erased because it "was not approved and does not represent U.S. policy."
"The United States condemns the terrorist attack against Israel and unequivocally supports Israel’s right to defend itself, as the President and Secretary have both made clear," the spokesman said.
The administration’s about-face is certain to add confusion to U.S. policy toward Israel as the country faces down one of the most dangerous situations in recent memory.
Scores of Hamas militants backed by Iran raided multiple Israeli cities on Saturday and fired thousands of rockets into the country. Dozens of Israelis have already been killed as the Jewish state’s security forces battle Hamas terrorists in around 22 locations near the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is based, according to the Associated Press.
The State Department’s initial tweet on the matter drew quick GOP anger, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) saying that "every single person involved in drafting and approving this tweet should be immediately expelled from the U.S. government."
Len Khodorkovsky, a former deputy assistant secretary of state during the Trump administration, labeled the tweet "pathetic" and said a message of that nature "emboldens the terrorists and endangers the civilians."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that none of the $6 billion released by the U.S. for humanitarian aid in Iran was used to help fund Hamas’ attack against Israel on Saturday, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
Anchor Dana Bash said, “While we’re talking about Iran, I have to ask you to, if you want to respond to what we’re hearing from Republicans who are over and over since this happened using word appeasement when it comes to Iran and they criticized the decision to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds. I know and want to state that that money has not yet been unfrozen. Iran does not yet have it. But the accusation is that…your administration posture towards Iran has helped contribute to this. I want to give you a chance to respond.”
Blinken said, “Well, there are two things here. First, with regard to the funds that you mentioned, that were made available to Iran for humanitarian purposes. As part of getting Americans back who were being held or detained in Iran. Let’s be very clear about this and it is deeply unfortunate that so many are playing politics when Israel is under attack.”
He continued, “The facts are these, no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved. These are Iranian resources that Iran has accumulated from the sales of oil that were stuck in a bank in South Korea. They have had from day one the right to use these monies for humanitarian purposes. They were moved from one account to another in another country to facilitate that use. As of now, not a single dollar has been spent from that account. The account is closely regulated by the U.S. Treasury Department. It could only be used for things like food, medicine, medical equipment. That is what this is about.”
Blinken added, “By the way, the previous administration set up a very similar mechanism so enable Iran to use its oil proceeds that were blocked in various places for humanitarian purposes. So, people are either misinformed or they’re misinforming and either way it is wrong.”
No comments:
Post a Comment