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Austin to Netanyahu: "I know ISIS, what is happening here is worse" The US Secretary of Defense, who planned the war on ISIS, says in his meeting with Netanyahu that the atrocities committed by Hamas are worse than those of ISIS • "We are with you, Mr. Prime Minister," Austin told Netanyahu: "As the president said, you have our backs." Editors of Channel 14, 28 Tishrei 5784, 13.10.23 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today (Friday) with the Secretary of Defense of the United States Lloyd Austin, in Kirya in Tel Aviv. Austin, who was the person who planned the war...

"Bombshell" publications in the Russian media refer to the failure of the Israeli Army's ground operation in Gaza. The Russians report that the Israeli Army will not achieve the goals it has set while suffering significant losses. The worst-case scenario for Israel, and for the West, is to get bogged down in a war and then be attacked on other fronts with the risk of sliding into a regional war as WarNews247 reported yesterday .

Russians will take Kharkov and Odessa

Defiant Gazans who refused to evacuate after Israel gave them 24 hours before launching an all-out assault have claimed they would rather die than leave their homes. While some heeded the call to leave, by Friday afternoon there was little sign of a mass exodus, despite the UN warning the area is 'fast becoming a hellhole'. 'Death is better than leaving,' said Mohammad, 20, standing in the street outside a building reduced to rubble in an Israeli air strike two days ago near the centre of Gaza. 'I was born here, and I will die here, leaving is a stigma.'...

Nice recovery in gold. It had lost about $100 over the last few weeks, to early October. Pretty much got it all back.

While the world is looking to get away from internal combustion engines (ICE) and towards battery electric vehicles (BEV) or fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) for cleaner emissions, China-state owned Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (GAC) appears to want to do it all. During its annual technology showcase, the Chinese partner to Toyota showed off an engine powered by ammonia. While it's not the first ever to use the rather toxic fertilizer as a combustible fuel, it would be the first to use it outside the shipping and trucking industries.

NEW YORK -- New York City Council Member Inna Vernikov surrendered to police after she was photographed at a pro-Palestinian rally with a gun in her waistband. Vernikov, a licensed gun owner, attended the rally Thursday at Brooklyn College. Police told Vernikov she was not authorized to carry the weapon at a public gathering, even though she is a licensed gun owner. Vernikov's gun was confiscated and her permit was temporarily revoked.

In a surprise move Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced that he is withdrawing his name from the race for the vacant House speaker role. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports on how Scalise lost support and what the Republicans will do now.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday compared Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip to Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad during World War Two and called for a resolution to the conflict to be reached through mediation. Putin said Israel’s blockade of Gaza was unacceptable.

VIDEOAlger Hiss 2.0. The State Department's architect of the disastrous Iran deal has turned out to likely be working as an intelligence asset for the mullahs. Robert Malley, the spiritual son of State Department traitor Alger Hiss. It was no secret as to where Malley's sympathies lay since you can hear him for yourself speaking lovingly about Hamas. Amazingly, despite Malley having being busted months ago, the Biden regime still went ahead with the horrible Iran deal, giving them BILLIONS of dollars, despite the fact that the deal was brokered by a known Hamas sympathizing Alger Hiss.

Iranian Regime Mouthpiece Kayhan: Iran Is The Mind And Hands Behind Hamas; Operation 'Al-Aqsa Flood' Was Planned, Orchestrated By Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani Before He Was Killed; Khamenei Hinted In August 2022, August 2023 At 'The Complete Conquest' Of Israel. The war on Israel by the Palestinian Islamic resistance organization Hamas was the result of long planning.[1] Iran has been leading the cause of eliminating Israel, on the ideological and operational levels, since the founding of the Islamic Revolution regime in 1979, and has been working tirelessly to achieve this goal by means of the resistance axis it has...

Israel notified the United Nations that they should evacuate their staff and inform Palestinian civilians living north of Wadi Gaza that they should move south within the next 24 hours. Axios reported that it’s a sign a ground operation, which was expected, is about to begin soon. Once again, the IDF sets itself apart from the Hamas animals by warning civilians, instructing them where to go, and working to minimize the loss of innocent life (via Axios):

A record number of migrants flowed into the Big Apple last week — with city officials logging nearly double the daily average of asylum seekers, new data show. Roughly 3,900 migrants arrived in New York City over the seven-day span ending Sunday, according to City Hall data. That brings the total number of asylum seekers who have made their way to the Big Apple to more than 126,700 since the start of the crisis in spring 2022.

To even the casually trained observer, it’s easy to see the causal link between a weak, addled, far left President of the United States and Russia’s decision to escalate its aggression against Ukraine, as well as Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel. To anyone who is being honest with themselves, the last thing that a violence-weary world needs right now is more Joe Biden.The dutiful Democrat lapdogs in the Mainstream Media don’t see things that way, however. Along with his puppet masters, they insist on trotting this mentally vacant old fool in front of cameras so he can engage in a...

My old comrade Ezra Levant has a great nose for these kinds of stories, but even by his standards this one's a doozy. Meet Air Canada pilot Mostafa Ezzo:Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant · Follow Mostafa Ezzo is a pilot with Air Canada, flying their 787s.That's the plane Air Canada flies to Tel Aviv.They should probably keep him off of that route. Just to be safe....The suddenly sheepish Mr Ezzo has taken his social media offline, including the Instagram post where he says "F**k you, Israel. Burn in hell."In its way, this is the perfect summation of the post-9/11 world:You have...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the first Jewish Senate majority leader in history and a staunch ally of Israel, faces a tricky divide in his caucus and the broader Democratic Party over how to respond to the attacks against Israel. Schumer must navigate the growing tensions between Democratic allies of Israel and progressive Democrats who want Israel to de-escalate its reprisals in the wake of the attacks. Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 1,500 people in Gaza, including nearly 500 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and the enclave is running out of fuel and medical supplies...

Frenzied knife attacks were reported in China and France on Friday after Hamas called for the 13th to be a global “day of rage” in response to the group’s ongoing war with Israel. The disturbing acts of violence cannot be immediately linked to the war but the first victim was an employee of the Israeli embassy. The second attack, which killed at least one man, came in France where the local media reports that the assailant—who was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical—shouted “Allahu Akbar” during an attack on multiple people at a school. A terrorism investigation has...

Lawmakers in both parties are expressing growing openness, both in public and in private, to a bipartisan deal to elect a House speaker as Republicans are continually thwarted in their efforts to do it alone.----- What we're hearing: A bipartisan group of roughly ten House lawmakers is quietly holding "very" serious discussions, a moderate Republican involved in the discussions told Axios on the condition of anonymity."The question is who gets you to the largest minority of the majority," the GOP lawmaker said. "Is it Don Bacon, who gets 20 [GOP] votes and 200 Democrats? Is it French Hill who gets...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the mastermind behind the ​Green New Deal and a prominent figure on the socialist front, found herself in the spotlight for a particularly peculiar reason. VIDEO AT LINK............ During her appearance on the ​New York City-based radio show, Ebro in the Morning on Thursday, AOC unintentionally provided a soundtrack to her discussion about the ​Israel-Hamas crisis. AOC appeared to let one slip – yes, we’re talking about a fart! The video interview was later posted on her official X (former Twitter) account. WATCH: (Fart sound at 0:38 mark) The internet wasted no time in sharing this comical mishap,...

In the West Virginia Republican race to succeed Gov. Jim Justice, three-term Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading by 11 points against House Judiciary Committee Chairman Moore Capito, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Americans for Prosperity, a super PAC established by the Koch network, shows Morrisey with a much more significant lead over Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), since the last polling was released over the summer. According to the poll, Morrisey leads with 29%, while Capito carries 18% of those polled. Other prominent candidates in the governor's race, like Secretary of...