US was worried Israel would do that
They asked Israel to take them off the list
Israel did take them off the list
But then a misleading headline lead to media insanity. Again.
Current aid to Israel is approximately 4B annually, and with Israeli yearly budget topping 250B, they could cut the 1.6%
The current US budget is over 7000B so it would save less than 0.1%, but politically it is very astute. Not worth the bad optics.
Rom Braslavski says Talal Jaber Mohammad Abd al-Aal, an Islamic Jihad terrorist eliminated in southern Gaza, commanded the cell that held and tortured him during captivity
“This is Talal Abd al-Aal, or as I know him, Abu Youssef,” he wrote. “This is the man who weighed 100 kilograms and jumped on my neck while I was malnourished. This is his face. This is his hand. This is him. This is the man who forced me, while I was tied hand and foot, with bruises on my body and very close to death, to open my mouth and then spat into it.”
“This is the commander who gave the order: ‘Tie Abu Salem up and abuse him,’” he wrote, using the name he said the terrorists used for him. “This is the man who, by his orders and with his own hands, abused me and almost killed me several times.”
“You get used to the beatings,” he said. “But that humiliation, that was the lowest moment of my captivity.” On one occasion, after 28 days without a shower, he begged to be allowed to wash. His whole body, he said, was black with dirt. A terrorist told him to prepare for a shower, then returned with a bucket full of sand and garbage and forced him to pour it over himself. “They wanted to make me feel like I was an animal,” Braslavski said. “Not a human being.”
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have recently published formal obituaries for combat fighters who were previously listed as murdered journalists, triggering the probe.
This highlights the practice of "dual role" people who simultaneously report for news agencies while fighting for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, and the nature of reporting from Gaza.
Translation:
Khybar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Khaybar
A famous event where the Muslim under Muhammad defeated the jews, took some of their women as sex slaves, and subsequently expelled them from the Arabia peninsula. The Kybar chant is very popular in Muslim protests against Israel. It has subsequently been merged with October 7th chants for obvious reasons.
The fighter was a member of the Haniyeh extended family (clan).
A. Israel's Hasbara office has been closed for nearly 3 years https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-769602 after its minister famously said she couldn't get printer working.
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B. The Hasbara private network closed over 5 years ago. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israeli-hasbara-group-shuts-down-offices
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C. Meanwhile Qatar has put over 60 Billion$(!) in US education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari\_involvement\_in\_US\_higher\_education which is clearly working
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D. Until its split and even today TikTok is prioritizing crazy hatred of Jews and the craziest conspiracies about them https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/business/tiktok-antisemitism-claims-israel-palestinians.html
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E. Israeli leadership has no structural, financial or cultural concept of 'how others see us' , with ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich vieing to put the craziest war crime quotes out there to vilify their own country even when the IDF tells them to cut it out because it is things they didn't do.
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F. Around the world jews are attacked for looking Jewish or speaking Hebrew. From UK to Spain.From Italy to Dagestan. From Belgium to France (just look up Ilan Halimi). No Israeli propaganda helped them, and no Israeli, US or Jewish propaganda could make these cases change any narrative.
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G. And i am not talking about the Arab world where jews would be lynched on sight, unless they had extreme heavy armed guard to fight off the lynchers (although to be fair, in Egypt and a few others any single female traveler is also in similar risk, but for SA not lynching)
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H. Qatar has Al Jazeera, and in the US AJ+. They fund it to the tune of over 6000 employees
https://www.reveliolabs.com/companies/al-jazeera-media-network/employees/
And they have been successful at creating exactly the influence Israel is claimed to be achieving
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-896974
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I. I'm not even starting on Trump's plane an the deals to his family. Too much has already been written on it.
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So, basically, everything Israel has been blamed to do, the Qataris and have actually done, and much more successfully, with very little scrutiny or criticism among the average "Israhell" leftist or "goyslop" right winger.
The Iranians press their advantage following the US defeat and Iranian dictates in the MOU. This is only the beginning as the US defeat continues creating negative geopolitical consequences for the US, Israel and the Gulf States.
On Israeli strategic decline after a decade of Netanyahu-Trump leadership
His name was Sabai Abu Husna. Alongside him a few other hamas members and a dual-role Hamas sniper/Al Jazeera photographer Ahmed Wishah were killed. Also killed was one child, possibly a family member or neighbor
He just didn't say who surrendered to whom...
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Hezbollah and its controlled ministry denied it has infrastructure under the castle
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and said that Israeli findings are far from the castle itself. Israel
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