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Israel's military said it deployed troops against a suspected infiltration from Lebanon on Monday, which a local radio station said appeared to have taken place in the central part of the countries' border. "A report was received regarding the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory. IDF soldiers are deployed in the area," the military said in a statement. Israel's Army Radio gave the location as near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

The United States has transferred American munitions stored in Israel for use in Ukraine and plans to send more soon, US and Israeli officials told CNN Wednesday. A US official told CNN they have moved “some” of the 300,000 155-millimeter shells that the US and Israel agreed would be transferred, and that there are plans to move the remaining amount in the coming weeks. Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Richard Hecht told CNN that the Americans notified the Israelis a while ago they were transferring munitions. Hecht said the munitions are US-owned, that their movements are “American business” and that they...

Elon Musk was forced into deleting a tweet which recommended an anti-Semitic account and a promoter of debunked videos as reliable sources of information about the attack on Israel. The owner of X, formerly Twitter, faced a furious backlash after telling his 159 million followers that the accounts @WarMonitors and @sentdefender were ‘good’ for ‘following the war in real time’.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Monday that he is “very disappointed” that Beijing has not condemned the Hamas attack on Israel in more definitive terms. “The ongoing events in Israel over the past few days are horrific,” Schumer said at a meeting with Xi. “I urge you and the Chinese people to stand with the Israeli people and condemn these cowardly and vicious attacks. The New York Democrat also said that “250 young people gathered at a dance and the Hamas terrorists took machine guns and shot them all dead.” “I was very...

We all had an inkling that this had happened, but now we know: US Weapons from Afghanistan Ended Up in Palestinian Hands in the Gaza Strip A claim in a news report that American weapons seized in Afghanistan have ended up in the hands of Palestinian groups operating in the Gaza Strip has taken on renewed significance after Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, launched an attack on Israel on Saturday. WWW.BREITBART.COM =================================================== Yeah, remember all these? Some of those weapons are now in the hands of Palestinians in Gaza — the same Palestinians who savagely attacked Israel over the weekend....

...we find the now inhospitable and hyper-arid zone of the southern Jordan Rift Valley was frequently lush and well-watered in the past.Our evidence suggests this valley had a riverine and wetland zone that would have provided ideal passage... out of Africa and deep into the Levant and Arabia...Our findings from sedimentary sections ranging 5 to 12 metres in thickness showed ecosystem fluctuations over time, including cycles of dry and humid environments. We also found evidence for the presence of ancient rivers and wetlands.Luminescence dating showed the sedimentary environments formed between 125,000 and 43,000 years ago, suggesting there had been multiple...

The esteemed Victor Davis Hanson posted an excellent analysis of what’s really happening in the Middle East and how the Biden-Harris regime are complicit. The Israel War is Joe Biden’s albatross. They say foreign relations don’t affect elections but such rules don’t apply when Islam and Israel are the subjects. Whatever the White House projects publicly, behind the scenes they will be playing both sides. They will declare support for Israel as they’ve already started doing, but they will quickly reverse that support when they have a smidgen of “evidence” that Israel is engaged in asymmetrical retribution. But here’s the...

NASHVILLE, Wednesday, Oct. 7. Up to a late hour this evening information from Chattanooga at Murfreesboro did not tell of a general engagement. The two armies still remain in front of each other, fortifying. Irregular firing was of constant occurrence. There were some movements being made on the part the enemy that seemed odd and mysterious, but not positively threatening. I do not pretend to give these as positive facts, for I got the information through a source that is indebted to others for the same. Neither railroad nor telegraph communication is open to Stevenson, Ala., from Nashville; but the...

At least four U.S. citizens are believed to be among those killed in Israel during Saturday's Hamas attacks, senior U.S. officials told U.S. lawmakers during a Sunday night briefing. According to several people familiar with the briefing, held by senior State Department and Defense officials, the total likely to rise in the coming days. The White House confirmed "several" deaths of U.S. citizens earlier in the day, after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was working overtime to verify U.S. casualties and hostages.

A survivor of the attack said he saw scantily clad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot point-blank By Orlando Radice, October 09, 2023 11:03 Screengran from a video shot as revellers realise Hamas gunmen are attacking. A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revellers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”. Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later,...

"Winning Iowa requires understanding Grassley." Gov. Ron DeSantis is back in Iowa, following the footsteps of one of the state’s most influential politicians. The DeSantis campaign told media Saturday night that the GOP candidate is back on track to go “full Grassley,” an homage to the strategy employed by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a longtime sitting Republican lawmaker from Iowa. The game plan? Visit all 99 counties in Iowa before the caucuses. Grassley has a legacy of spending time in each county on a yearly basis, and as the longest serving Republican in the Senate, it’s a no-brainer for GOP...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !SURPRISING SALVATIONS!Because salvation is God’s gift and cannot be earned, every salvation is surprising. Here is a series presenting some of them, beginning with Noah. And if we had art about yours and mine, we could include ours, also.NOAH THE RIGHTEOUS HOW NOAH’S SALVATION WAS SURPRISING: 1. ITS SUBJECT—God started over with Noah, because “Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.” 2. ITS EXCLUSIVITY—Only Noah and his immediate family survived—all others died. 3. ITS COLLABORATION—At...

A new report is shedding light on how Hamas managed to pull off its violent invasion of Israel on Saturday. Possibly thousands are dead in the wake of the Palestinian terror spree, in which women and children were indiscriminately murdered in the streets. Before the dust settled -- and it's about to get kicked up again in the Gaza Strip as Israel plans a retaliatory strike to behead Hamas -- many were wondering just how such an attack could have been pulled off. Clearly, intelligence resources were involved, and the multitude of weaponry, including thousands of rockets, was not produced...

The NYPD on Sunday released photos of four cowardly thugs wanted in the Friday hate-crime beating in Chelsea that left a 72-year-old man with a broken jaw. The attack occurred around 10:15 p.m. at West 17th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan when the suspects converged on the victim shouting anti-LGBTQ slurs, according to police. The four then started to punch and kick the elderly man in the head before running off — leaving him with a broken jaw and cuts to his face and hands. The victim went to a local hospital on his own after the attack.

********************************************************* Backed by the largest activation of reservists in its history, Israel on Monday battled to regain control of areas invaded by Hamas terrorists over the weekend while ordering a complete siege of the Palestinian-held Gaza territory. "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told a news conference. "We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly,” he added. Israel conducted an aerial bombardment of Gaza Sunday night, leveling buildings and forcing Palestinian residents to flee. More than 300,000 reservists were ordered to active duty, the largest such activation in...

As news was breaking on Saturday and we were leaning about the atrocities that were taking place in Israel, I immediately wrote an article. But even as I was writing, the news kept getting worse. How could this be happening? It turns out that things were far worse than we could have imagined. Here are some open, honest, raw reflections on the last 48 hours.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Large businesses in California will have to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday — the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation. The law requires more than 5,300 companies that operate in California and make more than $1 billion in annual revenues to report both their direct and indirect emissions. That includes things like emissions from operating a building or store as well as those from activities like employee business travel and transporting their products. The law, SB 253, will bring more transparency to...

A new VinFast earnings report shows the electric car company lost $623 million this summer, with net losses now eclipsing $5 billion since 2021. ****************************************************** Anew VinFast earnings report shows the electric car company slated to receive the largest taxpayer subsidy in North Carolina history lost $623 million this summer, with net losses now eclipsing $5 billion since 2021. The earnings report released Thursday shows VinFast’s revenue swelled 3.8% from the second quarter to $342.7 million, as net losses continued to rise by 20% to $622.9 million, putting the company on track to post its biggest yearly loss in the...

Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton will file criminal complaints Monday morning against the state House Board of Managers for allegedly releasing his personal information, such as his home address, the Daily Caller has exclusively learned. Paxton said the House impeachment managers had a desire to threaten him with the goal of harming him when they released his home address in an Oct. 2 document release. Paxton will be filing complaints with every manager’s county prosecutor. He also is calling for all of the districts to investigate “the criminal offenses that have been committed.” “My family and I receive multiple...

Shani Louk, the young woman whose naked body was seen in the back of a pick-up truck driven by Hamas fighters through Gaza, may have also been robbed, a report suggests. The parents have not heard from their daughter since a phone call early on the morning of October 7, just after Hamas launched the first rockets into Israeli territory. But in an interview with German news outlet Der Spiegel, the family said they had received information from her bank that the tattoo artist's credit card had been used in Gaza. Louk's mother, Ricarda Louk, still holds out hope that...