October 9, 2023

Updated numbers: 900 Israelis killed, 2400 injured. Palistinians..unknown

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article-live/at-least-700-israelis-killed-2-000-wounded-over-130-held-hostage-in-gaza/0000018b-1298-d2fc-a59f-d3990eb50000

October 9, 2023

Tuberville won't bend on military blockade amid Israel crisis

Tuberville won’t bend on military blockade amid Israel crisis
After Hamas attacked Israel, Senate Democrats said it was past time for several top-level military nominees to be approved.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville is not relenting from his monthslong blockade of military nominations over the Biden administration’s abortion policy — even in the face of one of America’s closest allies going to war.

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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) told POLITICO Saturday that America needs a Senate-confirmed chief of naval operations amid the chaos in Israel. Tuberville spokesperson Steven Stafford responded Sunday: “Sen. Schatz should do what Coach did and file a cloture petition,” referring to the senator, a former football coach.

Typically, military promotions are processed en masse, but individual senators have the leverage to require roll call votes. The Senate would have time for little else if it confirmed them all individually, so Tuberville’s blanket objection has effectively stalled the typically uncontroversial promotions process.

As a result, over 300 nominees are in limbo, including two picks for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and top officers slated to command U.S. forces in the Middle East.

“The severity of the crisis in Israel underscores the foolishness of Senator Tuberville’s blockade,” Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed said in a statement Sunday. “The United States needs seamless military leadership in place to handle dangerous situations like this and Senator Tuberville is denying it.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/08/tuberville-blockade-israel-military-00120525

October 9, 2023

How Hamas prepared: practiced in mock Israeli settlement, recruits didn't know why they drilled

In one of the most striking elements of their preparations, Hamas constructed a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza where they practiced a military landing and trained to storm it, the source close to Hamas said, adding they even made videos of the manoeuvres.


"Israel surely saw them but they were convinced that Hamas wasn't keen on getting into a confrontation," the source said.

Meanwhile, Hamas sought to convince Israel it cared more about ensuring that workers in Gaza, a narrow strip of land with more than two million residents, had access to jobs across the border and had no interest in starting a new war.

"Hamas was able to build a whole image that it was not ready for a military adventure against Israel," the source said.

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As part of its subterfuge in the past two years, Hamas refrained from military operations against Israel, even as another Gaza-based Islamist armed group known as Islamic Jihad launched a series of its own assaults or rocket attacks.

The restraint shown by Hamas drew public criticism from some supporters, again aimed at building an impression that Hamas had economic concerns not a new war on its mind, the source said.

In the West Bank, controlled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah group, there were those who mocked Hamas for going quiet. In one Fatah statement published in June 2022, the group accused Hamas leaders of fleeing to Arab capitals to live in "luxurious hotels and villas" leaving their people to poverty in Gaza.

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Many Hamas leaders were unaware of the plans and, while training, the 1,000 fighters deployed in the assault had no inkling of the exact purpose of the exercises, the source added.


https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08/

October 9, 2023

A bigoted maniac moved to Florida and became one of it's most prolific book banners: Bruce Friedma

“Mr. Friedman’s erratic and inconsistent challenges make it impossible for us to predict and devise a solution,” the school district’s chief academic officer, Roger Dailey, told the board during its Sept. 26 workshop. “I don’t know that there is a way to satisfy him.”

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“He’s been incredibly successful,” said Tasslyn Magnusson, who researches school book bans for the literary free-speech group PEN America and considers Friedman one of the biggest players in a movement she sees as attacking public education. “He’s by far the best example of how this is not about the books, but this is about destroying the system.”

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Yet Friedman, who is involved in both groups, stands out for the sheer volume and intensity of his challenges; he is responsible for more than a third of all challenges in Florida, and for 94% of the challenges in his district, which has acceded to hundreds of his requests to pull books and has removed more books than any other in the state as a result. He insists that his efforts are on behalf of children like his own, whom he pulled from public school when they lived back in New York out of concerns about what the child was learning there.

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Friedman said the standards caused his now-stepson to experience “considerable harm,” declining to offer specifics. ........... When he saw Fishbein talking about No Left Turn on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show following the 2020 racial justice protests, he knew he had found his new cause.

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When Friedman and his family moved to Florida, he made the decision to put his son — now in high school — back in public school, believing that his evangelical education had given him “a very good moral base” that would insulate him from danger. But he forbade his stepson from ever using the school library and threw himself into monitoring the library’s contents.

There were so many parents out there, Friedman reasoned, who didn’t have time to thoroughly monitor their children’s media consumption like he did. Even if most of those parents might be fine with their kid reading the occasional racy book passage, some might not be.

“It’s not the kids that have a wicked dark sense of humor like I was,” he said, describing the child he pictures in his head when he files his challenges. “It’s for the sheltered little people who have parents that are so concerned with their souls that they don’t want them harmed.”

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Friedman’s challenge to the book, which he shared with JTA, doesn’t mention Kraus’ quest to protect children’s books from Nazis. Instead, he quotes from sections describing nude, emaciated Auschwitz prisoners and Jewish corpses, passages which he believes are inappropriate for all age levels. A message to the board further articulating his objections suggests that his main issue with the book is that it mentions the Holocaust at all.

“Unsupervised forays into the horrors of the Holocaust can be traumatizing for children,” he writes. “They are almost certain to have some impact on a child. I wouldn’t necessarily expect this impact to be positive.” Elsewhere he repeats his familiar objections: “PROTECT CHILDREN,” he writes in all caps. “DAMAGED SOULS.”



https://www.jta.org/2023/10/06/united-states/this-jewish-dad-got-a-version-of-anne-franks-diary-removed-from-his-florida-school-district

October 8, 2023

complex synchronized orchestration..how Hamas pulled it off

The IDF was used to rocket fire without border riots or border riots without rocket fire.

It was used for one small group of sea commandos trying to invade Zikim beach or one or two drones or other flying contraptions being sent over the border which could be easily isolated and handled.

Instead, Hamas launched 2,000 rockets as a cover.


At the same time that it launched rockets diverting IDF attention, it also launched an entire fleet of motorized hang-gliders (something which has barely ever been discussed by the IDF) which manually dropped bombs on Israeli lookout positions. These motorized hang gliders were a brilliant tactical use of homemade retro technology with a tiny "footprint" (in terms of being able to detect them in advance) customized to pinpoint holes in the IDF's highly advanced technological apparatus.

With the lookout positions taken out, immediately after Hamas sent its forces into different crossing locations.

As the IDF started to notice that its crossing locations were under attack along with the rocket fire, its attention was diverted from the 20 or so entry points, which already lacked lookout positions, where Hamas was ready with additional large volumes of soldiers.

At the same time, Hamas did not come into Israel on land with dozens, but with hundreds of soldiers, a volume the IDF never expected.

Also, at the same time, Hamas did not penetrate Israel by sea with one group of Hamas naval commandos, but with many groups, something the navy was not ready for.

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All of this happened virtually simultaneously, but in a specific order to allow each next step to move forward smoothly and further confuse and overwhelm Israeli decision-makers about where and what was going on.

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Systems overload
The system was simply overloaded.


https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-765254

October 8, 2023

RNC chair Ronna McDaniel: Israel war a 'great opportunity' for GOP candidates

https://www.themidwesterner.news/2023/10/ronna-mcdaniel-israel-war-a-great-opportunity-for-gop-candidates/

https://twitter.com/DNCWarRoom/status/1710757011812458808

National Committee Ronna McDaniel argued the Hamas attacks on Israel and subsequent war is a good thing for Republican candidates for president.

Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel argued the Hamas attacks on Israel and subsequent war is a good thing for Republican candidates for president.



“I think this is a great opportunity for our candidates to contrast where Republicans have stood with Israel time and time again and Joe Biden has been weak,” McDaniel said on Fox News on Saturday.

McDaniel’s political analysis came as Hamas terrorist forces attacked civilians, killing seniors at a bus stop and abducting and killing an apparent German citizen in Israel for a music festival.

October 8, 2023

Mass shooting in Inglewood Calif , 5 shot, two died.

October 8, 2023

Israel begins to list the names of those that died in the attack

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-763187

Major Ofer Yosef Ran, from Itamar, of the Duvdevan unit, was born and raised in the hills of Itamar, recipient of numerous commendations and "the grandson of the pioneering settlers of Samaria, Shrona and Avri Ran," according to a statement.

Some 15 Israelis were murdered in the village of Netiv HaAsara: Amit and Yigal and Waks, Oren Stern, Shlomi and Ayelet Molcho, Chweik Segal, Gil Ta'asa, Adi Baharav, Tal Keren, Ruti, Aryeh and Or Akuni, Nurit Bregel, Marina Almabegor, and Dani Webek.


Col. Jonathan Steinberg, commanding officer of the Nahal Infantry Brigade (credit: IDF)
-Col. Jonathan Steinberg

Murdered by Hamas terrorists near the Keren Shalom crossing on the Gaza border. He was the commanding officer of the Nahal Infantry Brigade.


Aharon Chaimov, MDA medic who was killed during Hamas attack (credit: MDA)
-Aharon Chaimov

Murdered in a Magen David Adom ambulance on his way to treat the wounded in his hometown of Ofakim.

- Capt. Adir Abudi



Abudi was 23 years old, from Modi'in, a military policeman in the Home Front.
- Captain Yotam Ben Bassat

Best was 24 years old, from Bat Hefer, and a commander in the Multidimensional Unit.

- Sergeant Ofir Zioni

21 years old, Mikneam Illit, squad commander in the 51st Battalion, Golani.
-Sergeant Adar Ben Simon

20 years old, Maneva Ziv, military officer in the Home Front.

- Sergeant Or Asto

21 years old, from Be'er Sheva, logistics NCO in the 51st battalion.

- Lt. Col. Sahar Mahlouf

36 years old, from Modi'in, 481 Communications Headquarters.

- Sergeant Afik Rosenthal

20 years old, from Kfar Menachem, a fighter in the Commando Brigade.
- Sergeant Major Yanai Kaminka

20 years old, from the Hadassah siege, a member of the Home Front Army.
- Lieutenant Or Mozes

22 years old, from Ashdod, Sgt.
- Sergeant Omri Niv Feirstein

20 years old, from Givatayim, search and rescue soldier in the Home Front.
- Corporal Dvir Lisha, 21 years old

From Manitzan, a soldier in the Golani 51st Battalion.

- Sergeant Eden Alon Levy

19 years old, from Nirit, solder in the Home Front.
- Sergeant Yuval Ben Yaakov

21 years old, lives in Kfar Menachem, a soldier in the 77th Battalion.
- Corporal Guy Bazak

19 years old, from Givatayim, a soldier in the 51st Battalion.
- Private Neria Aharon Negri

18 years old, from Talmon, a search and rescue soldier in the Home Front.
- Private Naama Aharon Nuni,

19 years old, from Afula, Personal Affairs NCO in the 77th Battalion.
- Lieutenant Yeftah Yebetz

23 years old, from Ramat Hasharon, officer in Maglan.
- Sergeant Ido Harosh

From Mitzpe Ramon, a fighter in the 77th Battalion.
- Second Lieutenant Yoav Maliev

19 years old, from Kiryat Ono, battalion liaison officer in the 77th Battalion.
- Corporal Nathaniel Young

20 years old, from Tel Aviv, a soldier in the 13th Battalion.
- Major Chen Buchris

26 years old, from Ashdod, deputy commander of the Commando Brigade
- Captain Or Yosef Ran
29 years old, from Itamar, squad commander in Commando Unit.
- Corporal Adi Gruman,

19 years old, from Hogla, collection fighter in the 414th battalion.
- Major General Amir Fisher

22 years old, from Tel Aviv, a soldier in the Commando Unit.
- Lieutenant (res.) Ido Edri

24 years old, from Gibton, an officer in the infantry.
Deputy Superintendent JR Davidov

Commander of Rahat Station, South District.
Deputy Superintendent Yitzhak Bazoka Shvili

Commander of the Segev Shalom station, southern district.
Superintendent Martin Kuzmicsaks

Commander in the Directorate of Coordination of Enforcement Operations (MTPA).
Commander Shlomo Moshe El

Officer in the Special Unit for Combating Terrorism (YMM).
Inspector Nissim Logsi

Deputy Commander of the Rural Assault Unit of the Southern Military Police.
Commander Amin Okhundov,

Team commander in the Yoav unit, South District.
Inspector Andrey Poshibi

Patrol Officer, Yoav Unit Station, South District.
Inspector Alexey Shamkov

Officer in the special unit for combating terrorism.
Command Sergeant Major Meir Abergel
Sderot Station Investigations Coordinator, South District.
Senior Master Sergeant Chen Nahmias

A sniper in the Special Unit for Combating Terrorism (YMM).
Senior Master Sergeant Roman Gandel

Lt.R. Instructor, Tactical Brigade of the Military Police.
Senior Master Sergeant Yehuda Kader

Eshkol Ein Hashour NCO of the Southern Military District.
Senior Sergeant Roni Abuharon

Detective at Rahat Station, South District.
Senior Master Sergeant Adir Shlomo

Head of logistics staff at Sderot Station, South District.
Senior Sergeant Major Yigal Iloz

South District Saboteur.
Advanced Master Sergeant Bar Sivan

Officer in the Special Unit for Combating Terrorism (YMM).
Advanced Master Sergeant Alon Bard

Researcher at Rahat Station, South District.
Advanced Master Sergeant Alexey Borodovsky

Patrol officer at YSM Negev, South District.
Advanced Master Sergeant Vitali Kersi

Crime scene investigator Tel Aviv District Forensic Investigation Department
Advanced Master Sergeant Alik Pozniakov
Detective in the Magen unit, South District.
Advanced Master Sergeant Malik Karim

Researcher at Beer Sheva Station, South District.
Advanced Master Sergeant Yorai Eliyahu Cohen

Officer in the Special Unit for Combating Terrorism
First Sergeant Major Dror Elton

Officer in the Special Unit for Combating Terrorism
First Sergeant Yaacov Shlomo Krasninski

Officer in the undercover unit of the Southern Military District.
First Sergeant Major Elior Yafarah

Central Unit Detective (YMR) Negev, South District.
Master Sergeant Avi Bozaglu

Detective at Rahat Station, South District.
Master Sergeant Michael Lizmi

Detective at the Beer Sheva station, South District.
Staff Sergeant Shay El Knafo

Eirat Station, South District.
First Sergeant Aliona Estepanko

Patrol officer at Ofakim Station, South District.
Ravit Hana Essig

Officer of the BTP unit in the Southern MGB.

October 8, 2023

Some of Israel images appear to be edited/ manipulated. Elon Musk eliminated content moderation team

On X, formerly known as Twitter, a violent video claiming to show the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Saturday morning. The New York Times found hundreds of X accounts sharing images of dead bodies, claiming to be Israeli civilians killed in the last 24 hours of fighting. Some of the images viewed by the Times appeared to be manipulated and edited.

Underneath some of the videos and images posted on X, people warned that they could be spread as part of a campaign to stoke fear among Israelis. Some of the accounts claimed to be working on behalf of Hamas.

On WhatsApp, Israelis warned each other not to look at X, which often auto-plays videos without warning.

“Don’t look, you might see someone you know,” wrote one person on a WhatsApp group dedicated to a neighborhood of South Tel Aviv.

There is a long history of misinformation being shared among Israeli and Palestinian groups, with false claims and conspiracies spiking during moments of heightened violence in the region.

Since Elon Musk took ownership of the platform one year ago, he has eliminated many of the content moderation teams that once removed violent imagery from the platform.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/07/world/israel-gaza-attack#graphic-images-of-violence-flood-social-media

October 8, 2023

Jared Kushner brings peace to middle east and resolves all world problems

In his skinny suit. Whatever happened to him?

His wife schools women on how to get ahead at work