Iran President Upset That Israel Has Nukes and They Don't

NEW YORK — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to express his deep, heartfelt sorrow that international atomic inspectors keep interrupting his country's totally peaceful, super-friendly uranium enrichment activities instead of harassing Israel.

Surrounded by suits, globalists, and the finest diplomatic catering taxpayers can buy, Pezeshkian complained to an audience of nodding bureaucrats that it is completely unfair for inspector clipboard-wielders to scrutinize Tehran. After all, they only need nuclear capabilities to keep their humble houses warm.

"The topic of this gathering is mutual trust. That cannot be achieved with words alone, but by abandoning double standards. Atomic and nuclear weapons are in the hands of the 'Israeli regime,' but the [IAEA] inspectors are requested to come to Iran," Pezeshkian whimpered, longing for a world where peaceful religious leaders can enrich weapons-grade material in absolute peace without pesky scrutiny. 

"Israel has the bombs, has the weapons of mass destruction. Not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). During their shameful lives, they have not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded with all the means necessary to bomb any capital of the region at will," Pezeshkian added, visibly upset that the wrong Middle Eastern nation has global firepower.

He reassured the crowd that Iran's centrifuges are strictly for domestic enjoyment and green energy initiatives. 

"Our regional issues must be resolved in the region; no relationship with a foreign power can become the tool of threatening countries in the region," he explained. "For our country, peaceful nuclear technology is part of our progress..."Iran does not accept nuclear technology to be at the disposal of a handful...We will not bow our head, and we say it clearly. No nuclear weapons, and no limitations to our peaceful nuclear development."

The Iranian leader then expressed shock that anyone could possibly brand his regime as the bad guys. "Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 civilians in Gaza, while Iran, behind the table of negotiation, was being bombed," he said. "Palestine remains an open wound on the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a visible symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent civilian suffering...For decades, resolutions have been adopted, and occupation has continued. Lasting peace in West Asia is impossible without justice for Palestine. As long as occupation, aggression, and injustice persist in the world, resistance will continue. If it's weakened in one form, it will reemerge in others."

He praised the ongoing resilience of regional proxy groups. "Gaza, despite relentless killing and widespread destruction, has strengthened the people's will of resistance. This is human nature."

Turning his attention to the American delegation, Pezeshkian whined about President Donald Trump’s scathing Tuesday speech. 

"I had prepared a speech to present to you yesterday, when the US president described us as terrorists. We have been victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran where our supreme leader was assassinated without any legal reasons, where they bombed a school. The children perished under bombs with weapons used by Israel and the US; they had committed no crimes," Pezeshkian grumbled.

"The words of the US president yesterday show that those who are experts in international law, dialogue, diplomacy, and basic human standards know that everything uttered against our country goes against the charter of the UN... Trump must understand that Iran is ready for the way of dialogue and negotiation, without accepting the language of war," the weasel said, holding out a olive branch wrapped in ballistic missile blueprints.

"Those who are terrorists, and train, and protect terrorists, described us as terrorists. We are defending ourselves; we are not terrorists," he insisted. "We responded, but we didn't target civilians...The day I became president, they assassinated [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh. They target any neighborhood, any province, in any place."

Pezeshkian finished his routine by painting Iran as a gentle, misunderstood lamb of the Middle East. "Are we the sources of instability? We only seek to live independently..."We don't want anything. We have received our response. We need strength, because a people that is not capable of defending itself will be trampled on," he said. "For the past 200 years, Iran has never attacked any territory. We have defended ourselves, but never attacked..."We do not seek power to attack or commit aggression; we seek energy for progress, not to threaten...The people of Iran have been in the last seven months in support of our homeland."

The President of the world's leading nation of terrorism added, "Iran must be powerful, so to avoid being threatened, to avoid its future being threatened...Our defensive systems are being built so that the bombing of Iranian cities doesn't go unanswered. We do not seek anyone's approval for our defense. We don't see our neighbors as security rivals. We want strong neighbors. But we can not let some gain access to our waterways and then use it to attack us."

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was unimpressed by the performance, pointing out that Tehran's definition of "defense" usually involves funding chaos across four different countries. "This is the same regime that arms Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, and the militias in Iraq," Danon said. "The same regime that murders its citizens when they dare to protest against it. Pezeshkian, your regime spreads terror. You are the last one who can preach to Israel and the US about morality."

Not to be outdone in the UN grievance competition, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa took his turn at the microphone to remind the world that the Golan Heights belongs to him.

"When land is usurped, when sanctity is violated, people suffer, and people pay the price," Sharaa declared. "With seven states, we started to destroy chemical weapons and worked with the IAEA to combat chemical and nuclear weapons. Syria went from being a crisis to an opportunity for many countries."

Sharaa assured the assembly that his government is built on law and order. "We have consolidated our values and the rule of law. Any attempts that violate our sovereignty will be stopped. [The] Golan [Heights] will remain Syrian territory," he pledged. "Any other attempts will be thwarted."

He concluded his remarks by asking the international community to politely tell Israel to stop firing back. "I ask our partners to abide by international law...The world is encouraged by our return, but Israel keeps attacking Syria," he said. "We will continue to serve our people; we will continue to serve god. God will always reward you for your actions... There have been 500 airstrikes, more than 1200 incursions, and 300 detentions. This is at odds with the orientation that we are seeing at a global level. It is reminiscent of an era that we thought was long gone. We are committed to the 1974 agreement; we call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the line of the 8 of December of 2024."

Romanian President Nicusor Dan briefly brought basic sanity back to the room, reminding the assembly that giving radical regimes weapons of mass destruction remains a terrible idea. "Iran must not possess a nuclear weapon. Iran must comply with the NPT, and must restore access to the IAEA," Dan said. "Romania will continue to provide maritime security and unrestricted navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Black Sea."

Finally, Argentine President Javier Milei stepped up to offer a rare display of common sense, explaining why his country prefers backing free nations over religious dictatorships.

Milei noted that Buenos Aires "aligned with the US and Israel because we share beliefs and a profound strategic affinity."

"That's why we condemned the attacks by the Iranian regime against Israel; we declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist group, and we are still demanding justice for the two terror attacks against Argentine soil in 1992 and 1994," Milei stated, before delivering a parting shot to the diplomats in attendance.

The UN, Milei noted, "voted systematically against Israel, while they kept silent over Islamic extremism and the genocide of Christians in Africa."

At press time, UN delegates responded to the speeches by forming a sub-committee to draft a strongly worded resolution condemning Israel for existing.

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TRUMP TO HAMAS: DISARM OR WE'LL DO IT FOR YOU—AND IT WON'T BE PRETTY

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Folks, if you thought the Middle East was finally catching a breath after that hostage swap, think again. President Donald Trump, never one to mince words or let terrorists off the hook, dropped a bombshell on Hamas Tuesday: Lay down your arms, or we'll pry them from your cold, dead hands.

Speaking at the White House alongside Argentine President Javier Milei, a guy who gets it when it comes to draining the swamp of socialism, Trump laid it out plain and simple. "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently," the president warned, his voice carrying that unmistakable edge of a dealmaker who's done playing nice.

This comes hot on the heels of yesterday's big breakthrough: Hamas coughing up the last living Israeli hostages from their Gaza hellhole, while Israel shipped back a convoy of Palestinian detainees. All thanks to the ceasefire Trump muscled through, because let's face it, no one else could've pulled off that kind of high-stakes poker, in spite of the left claiming former President Biden laid the groundwork.

But don't get it twisted; this isn't some feel-good kumbaya moment. Hamas hasn't whispered a peep about surrendering their rocket launchers or suicide vests. Enter Trump's 20-point peace blueprint, the kind of no-nonsense plan that actually aims for lasting quiet instead of endless virtue-signaling photo ops.

The president says he spoke with the Hamassholes directly, through back channels. He was tole that they were on board. "I spoke to Hamas, and I said, you’'re going to disarm, right? Yes, sir, we're going to disarm. That's what they told me," Trump recounted, before noting the middlemen magic.

Look, this ceasefire's a feather in Trump's cap the size of the Golan Heights, a diplomatic gut-punch to the naysayers who said he couldn't thread the needle. But with this fresh ultimatum, it's crystal clear: The Godfather of geopolitics isn't here to coddle militants. 

Disarm, Hamas, or get ready for the Trump treatment. Your move.

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IDF Paratrooper's Brigade raids and dismantles Syrian outpost

Well, folks, while the world’s busy clutching pearls over Israel’s latest moves, the IDF’s Paratrooper’s Brigade, under Division 210, has been putting in some serious overtime. [Get it? 'Overtime'.]

Over the past week, these brave skydivers stormed a southern Syrian outpost like it was a clearance sale at "Tanks R Us." The military proudly announced Saturday that they dismantled a rusty collection of out-of-service tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery—relics of the former Syrian regime that probably hadn’t seen action since the Nixon administration.

Not ones to leave empty-handed, the troops snagged some bonus goodies: mortars, dozens of rockets, and whatever else was lying around this former regime HQ. The IDF says it’s all about “removing threats to Israel,” particularly for the folks living in the Golan Heights who’d rather not have mortars as their new neighbors. Fair enough.

Then, because why stop at a garage sale when you can throw a little party, the IDF took out “several armed targets” in the Tasil area Wednesday night after they had the audacity to shoot at Israeli troops. 

The military confirmed Thursday that they didn’t just stop at target practice—they confiscated more weapons and turned some terror infrastructure into rubble. Defense Minister Israel Katz, clearly not in a mood for subtlety, called the strikes “a warning for the future.” You can almost hear the ominous movie-trailer voiceover.

Katz wasn’t done flexing and rolling his shoulders. He doubled down, saying Israel’s forces are parking themselves in Syrian buffer zones and will keep swinging at anything that smells like a threat. He’s got a message for Syria’s government too: let any anti-Israel clowns slip through, and “you’ll pay a heavy price.” 

Sounds like a guy who’s tired of sending polite memos.

Meanwhile, Syrian news is whining about IDF clashes with pro-Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters in Daraa early Thursday. 

Shocker—jihadists and Israel aren’t exchanging holiday cards. Oh, and Israel’s air force has been treating Syria like a piñata, with airstrikes confirmed across the country. The HTS-led Syrian Foreign Ministry—because apparently that’s a thing now—threw a tantrum over it. One highlight? The IAF turned Hama’s military airport into a smoking crater overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, leaving dozens of civilians and soldiers with more than just a bad hangover.

The IDF’s been at this since early December when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took the reins, figuring it’s better to preemptively squash a jihadist invasion than wait for the RSVP. 

So, while the usual suspects clutch their UN charters and sob about sovereignty, Israel’s out there doing what it does best—making sure the neighborhood doesn’t go full Mad Max. That is, a country's gotta do what a country's gotta do.

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Syria's new textbooks still crazy after all these centuries

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Let us cast an unflinching eye upon the new schoolbooks emerging from Syria, shall we? There is something deeply troubling afoot. "In the new schoolbooks, the role of women in Arab history is being deliberately downplayed; Islam relegates women to a lower rank than men." 

So it is written, and so it appears to be. 

Figures such as Nazik al-Abid—once hailed as the “Joan of Arc of the Arabs” for her courageous stand for women’s rights—are now scrubbed from the pages. Queen Zenobia, that towering figure of the 3rd century, is dismissed as a relic of the Jahaliyya, the Time of Ignorance, unworthy of emulation. And Khawla bint al-Azwar, the fierce warrior of the Rashidun era who dared to believe Ali was the first rightful caliph, finds no favor in the uber-Sunni sanctum of Damascus. A Shia in all but name, she is cast out of this new pedagogical pantheon.

The excision does not stop there. 

The Assad dynasty, both father and son, has been predictably erased from any hint of praise, direct or oblique. Yet when it comes to Israel and the Jews, the venom remains untouched. 

"Multiple maps in a geography textbook for 14 – 15-year-olds present all of Israel’s internationally recognized territory as Palestine." The Golan Heights, firmly under Israeli control, are brazenly claimed as Syrian, while the cover flaunts an image of the Sea of Galilee—nestled within Israel’s borders—as though to whisper that it, too, might belong to Syria. 

Does Israel exist within its 1949 armistice lines in these texts, or has it been obliterated entirely? The answer is murky, but what is crystal clear is this: the Israel of today finds no reflection in these maps.

And then there is the matter of science—or its absence. 

"An entire chapter in a biology textbook for 13 – 14-year-olds on evolution has been removed." Why? Because evolution, we are told, is merely a “theory,” one that clashes with the immutable truths of Islamic doctrine. Best to shield the young minds from its seductive heresies until they can be sufficiently armored with faith. Secularism, it seems, is an unwelcome guest in this new scholastic order.

But it is in the reframing of “martyrdom” that the shift becomes most chilling. 

"‘Martyrdom’ will be reframed in the new textbooks from a national to a religious perspective." Out goes the notion of “a person giving away his soul to defend his homeland”; in its place, 10 grade pupils will now be taught of “a person giving away his soul for the sake of Allah.” The homeland of Syria fades into irrelevance; the call is now to martyrdom for Islam itself—to expand the umma, to strike down the infidels. 

Take Dalia al-Mughrabi, for instance, enshrined in these pages as a paragon of virtue. She, who in 1978 helped slaughter 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, in the Coastal Road Massacre, is held aloft as a model to emulate. 

If this is the education of the young, what future can we expect?

Behind this lurks the shadow of Turkey, Erdogan’s hand guiding the rise of HTS and its leader, al-Jolani, in their war against Assad. Ankara remains the principal foreign patron of this new Damascus regime—though one wonders how long that alliance will hold if Turkey insists on lingering in northern Syria to keep the Kurds in check. 

For now, the Ottoman legacy is gently rebranded: what was once an “occupation” in Assad’s textbooks is now a neutral “regime,” a semantic sleight of hand to appease a friend. Syria itself, as a nation, recedes from view; the spotlight falls instead on Islam and the global umma. The old hatreds endure—Jews and Western powers, those “warmongers and exploiters who suck the ‘blood of the innocents,’” remain the perennial enemies.

Al-Jolani may speak soothing words, pledging to disarm militias and forge a national army, disavowing any intent to challenge Israel’s recent gains on the Syrian Golan. And yet here are these textbooks, freshly minted, steeped ever deeper in an Islamic fervor that will shape the next generation. "Statements against Jews remain, as do those against all the Western powers." Many of these children, fed this diet of piety and prejudice, will surely emerge as jihadis—foot soldiers in a war without end.

The Israelis, wisely, keep their distance, unmoved by al-Jolani’s supposed overtures. They are right to hesitate. 

If you seek the reason, look no further than these schoolbooks. Impact-se has laid it bare: what has been kept, what has been altered, and what has worsened. This is not a curriculum of peace; it is a blueprint for something far darker. We would do well to take note and stay strong.

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Bibi Netanyahu says IDF will occupy buffer zone in Syria for the foreseeable future

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will remain in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, “until another arrangement is found that will ensure Israel’s security.”

Netanyahu made the comments from the mountain's summit — the highest peak in the area — which is inside Syria, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with the Israel-held Golan Heights.

This was apparently the first time a sitting Israeli leader had set foot this far into Syria. Netanyahu said, "I had been on the summit of Mount Hermon 53 years ago as a soldier, but the summit's importance to Israel's security has only increased given recent events."

Israel seized a swath of southern Syria along the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted by rebels.

Israel's capture of the buffer zone, a roughly 400-square-kilometer (155-square-mile) demilitarized area in Syrian territory, has sparked criticism, with some people accusing Israel of breaking the 1974 ceasefire agreement and maybe taking advantage of the chaos in Syria after Assad's removal to expand territory.

Netanyahu traveled to the buffer zone with Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he had instructed the Israeli military to quickly establish a presence with fortifications, expecting a possibly long-term stay in the area.

"The summit of the Hermon is the eyes of the state of Israel to identify our enemies who are nearby and far away," Katz said.

An Israeli military official, speaking anonymously as per military protocol, confirmed there are no plans to move out the Syrians living in villages within the buffer zone.

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. following the 1973 Mideast war, with around 1,100 U.N. troops patrolling the area since.

A U.N. spokesman remarked on Tuesday that the advance of Israeli troops, no matter the duration, violates the 1974 agreement that established the buffer zone.

"That agreement needs to be respected, and occupation is occupation, whether it lasts a week, a month or a year, it remains occupation," said spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

There was no immediate response from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that overthrew Assad, or from Arab countries.

Israel still holds the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed — a move not recognized by most countries. Mount Hermon's peak is shared among the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Lebanon, and Syria. Only the United States recognizes Israel's control over the Golan Heights.

With Assad gone, more than 30 bodies of Syrians who disappeared during his rule were discovered in a mass grave on Monday in Izraa, north of Daraa. Forensic teams and rebels worked together to find these remains, with families watching, hoping to find their missing loved ones.

"But we didn't find anyone and it broke our hearts. They were burned alive here after being doused in fuel," said Mohammad Ghazaleh, who was at the site.

Some of the bodies indicated they were shot or burned, according to Moussa Al-Zouebi, head of Izraa's health directorate.

Syria's new government has set up a hotline for families to report missing people or secret detention sites.

In Damascus, Qatar reopened its embassy on Tuesday, after nearly 13 years of severed ties with Assad's government, stating its "categorical rejection of the regime's repressive policies against the Syrian people."

Most embassies in Syria closed after the civil war started in 2011. The French Embassy in Damascus raised its flag on Tuesday as a "symbolic gesture" to support the Syrian people during the transition, with no confirmed date for full reopening due to ongoing assessments of the situation. 

The Turkish Embassy in Damascus has also recently reopened.

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IDF assisting UN forces in "repelling attack" in Syria

On Saturday, the Israeli army announced that its troops were helping UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights to fend off an attack "by armed individuals," making the notion that war creates strange bedfellows very meaningful.

 Meanwhile, Israel's Foreign Minister stated that "armed forces" had entered the UN-patrolled buffer zone.

The UN force, UNDOF, reported that its personnel had seen "unidentified armed individuals in the area of separation, including approximately 20 who went into one of the mission's positions in the northern part of the area of separation," according to a UN Peacekeeping spokesperson who spoke to AFP.

"The inviolability of UN premises must be respected at all times," the spokesperson said.

In its statement, the IDF described the incident, saying, "an attack was carried out by armed individuals at a UN post in the Hader area in Syria," which is near the buffer zone.

"The (Israeli Army) is currently assisting the UN forces in repelling the attack."

Late on Saturday, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar posted on X: "During the last day, armed forces entered the buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border with Israel. Among other things, attacks were carried out on the (peacekeepers) in the area."

Saar expressed concern about the violations of the 1974 armistice agreement with Syria, stating, "Israel does not intervene in the internal conflict in Syria."

Earlier that day, Syrian rebels had captured the provincial capital of Quneitra, which is about 8 miles (12 kilometers) south of Hader, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in Britain.

The Syrian civil war, which had been at a standstill, saw significant rebel advances late last month, with numerous major cities being taken over.

The Israeli military also noted that its army chief, Herzi Halevi, visited the Syrian border that day. He reiterated Israel's non-intervention policy in Syria, saying, "Israel's primary focus is on observing Iran's movements and interests" while also focusing on Syrian factions to "ensure they do not mistakenly direct their actions towards us."

The military did not provide Brain Flushings nor the legacy media with any updates regarding whether the attack was still happening later in the evening.

Israel took control of most of the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967 and later annexed it, a move which has not been recognized by the international community.

UNDOF has been overseeing the buffer zone between the territories controlled by Israel and Syria since 1974.

In a notable past incident in August 2014, Islamist rebels attacked UNDOF, capturing over 40 Fijian peacekeepers and holding them hostage for nearly two weeks.

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Night rocket barrage hits northern Israel: guess what happened next

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Galilee and the Golan Heights were hit with a rocket barrage on early Tuesday morning as alarms sounded, Israeli media reported. It was estimated that about one hundred rockets were fired that crashed mostly harmlessly into open fields such as Ein Kuniya, Snir, Sha'ar Yashuv, and Kfar Szold. No farmers, cows or farm equipment was hurt but a significant amount of holes were made and blades of grass were burned in the rocket attack.

In quick response, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked launchers in Lebanon that had fired into Israel. Fighter jets attacked three of the launchers and neutralized the sites.

Just in the meme time

Notice they're called Israeli DEFENSE Forces, not Offense Forces. Israel is on constant defense against those who would kill all their people; but Israel did not start this war. It began even before October 7. It began over a thousand years ago in the desert when Islam was in its infancy and Israel was even back then, the land of the Jews.

Meanwhile, military fighter jets hit two Hezbollah compounds in the Beka area, deep within Lebanon as Israel  responded to the earlier rocket attack toward northern Israel. The compounds that were struck are affiliated with Hezbollah's air force.

"Since the establishment of the state, no Israeli government has ceded sovereign territories, as the Gantz-Netanyahu government is doing," Major General and former Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan stated in response to the rocket bombardment.

He continued, "A quarter of a million [people] are displaced...Hundreds of rockets every day. Widespread abandonment. The abandonment of the territory will be a central issue in the inquiry committee that will be displaced...Hundreds of rockets every day. Widespread abandonment. The abandonment of the territory will be a central issue in the inquiry committee that will be established."

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Israeli Air Force bombs Syrian positions in Golan Heights

The Israel Air Force's (IAF) fighter jets attacked the Tel al Hara area in the Dara's district in southern Syria, according to Syrian sources, hitting Hezbollah and Iranian infrastructure.

Syria’s official media outlet SANA news reported that the Israel attack occurred at about 1:30 am and that the damage was caused by the attack, but there were no casualties because Hezbollah fighters are already dead inside.

Militarily, Tel al-Hara is a strategic hill situated adjacent to the Israeli Golan Heights which it overlooks. The Tel al-Hara base controls the Dara'a-Damascus road and is the center for all intelligence operations in the southern Syrian province.

Israel has previously bombed Hezbollah and Iranian infrastructure while under construction in the region.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has assets in the war-torn country and reported that the Syrian army’s air defense systems responded to the attack in south-western Rif Dimashq, Al-Quneitra and the western countryside of Dara’a.

The targets hit were Syrian army positions and those of forces and militiamen loyal to the Syrian army, including “non-Syrian nationalities,” the SOHR reported.

The SOHR reported human as well as material losses in spite of the balderdash SANA news reported.

Israel has remained silent about this strike.

The purpose of these strikes are to prevent advanced weaponry from being transferred from Iran through Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or to prevent Iran's military buildup in the country, particularly on Syria's border with Israel.

Like most Islamic countries surrounding the tiny Jewish state, along with such American congresswomen as Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), they would like to see the total destruction of Israel and the total takeover of Israel by the so-called Palestinians.

Iran uses its positions in Syria to transfer weapons and infrastructure to its terror proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, while attempting to establish another military front against Israel from the Syrian Golan Heights. They have openly announced their intentions to destroy Israel and kill all Jews everywhere.

The IDF in March announced that it had exposed a clandestine Hezbollah unit that was operating in southern Syria in the area reportedly attacked by Israel. The unit’s objective is establishing another front against Israel from the Golan Heights.


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Syria [aka Iran] brags it will recapture the Golan from the Jews

President Trump is clearly the best ally to Israel and best defender of the Jewish state than any other American president in our history. For the first time every, the U.S. on Thursday recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a strategic mountainous border region that lies between Israel and the s***hole failed state of Syria.

The President tweeted:

"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!"

The highly mountainous Golan Heights region, is militarily strategic for Israel as it borders Syria — by allowing it to fall back into Arab hands foreign armies could easily target large areas of central Israel's population centers.

Israel won the Golan Heights as part of the existential Six Day War of 1967, during which Israel was forced to defend itself against revanchist Arab armies that invaded and sought to totally obliterate the young Zionist state from all sides. Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981.

Shortly after Trump's tweet, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting Washington, D.C. for the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, the President signed a formal proclamation asserting that it is henceforth U.S. policy that Israel has sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Now, The Times of Israel reports that Syria is vowing to take back the Golan Heights "by all means" necessary. Yes, seriously, even while Syria is in the middle of an almost decade-long civil war which has thus far left over 500,000 people dead.

Syria will not shy away from using force to reconquer "every inch" of the Golan Heights, the country’s foreign minister threatened Thursday.

"Syria will liberate the occupied Golan by all means and all choices are on the table," Walid Muallem said at a press conference in Damascus alongside his Venezuelan counterpart. The invaders like to think that everywhere they've placed their feet belongs to them.

"US President Donald Trump’s decision on the occupied Syrian Golan has a single effect, as it only enhanced the US isolation," he said. "Our right in the occupied Syrian Golan is firm and can’t be denied by the passage of time, and every inch of the occupied Syrian territories will be liberated."...

Their so-called "right in the occupied Syrian Golan" is bull crap. The only thing they want to do is to destroy Israel. This shouldn't be news to anyone, particularly anyone who gets their information from sources other than CNN and the other leftist media.

"We have will and determination and our war since 2011 is to protect Syria’s sovereignty and independence and to liberate every inch of its territories," Muallem said.

Nobody is threatening Syria's sovereignty. The laughable part in all this is that Muslims in Israel have more rights than Muslims in Islamic countries in the Middle East.


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Omar 'chuckles' when calling Israel a democracy: compares it to Iran

Rep[ulsive] Ilhan Omar (D-MN) a congressional freshman, is getting blowback after she compared Israel to Iran, a country that has just made it illegal for their citizens to walk a dog in public and hangs gay people.

The anti-Semite Muslim said that she "almost chuckle[s]" when the Jewish state is described as a democracy, a remark she made on a Yahoo! News interview on Tuesday.

She also likes Venezuela's dictator and other U.S. adversaries.

When she was asked about how the U.S. can facilitate the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, she criticized the U.S. for not having “an equal approach” in dealing with both sides, not realizing that Israel is an ally and the so-called Palestinians are not.

“Most of the things that have been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other. And we mask it with a conversation about justice and a two-state solution. When you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other,” she said.

Omar, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was asked to explain in more detail what she meant, prompting her to criticize America’s closest ally in the Middle East.

“I mean just our relationship with the Israeli government and the Israeli state. And so when I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it,” she said, because she is clueless and not very fair-minded.

“And we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out,” the lawmaker continued. “We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.”

The truth is, Israel is superior to the Palestinians in several ways. To begin, let's look at Israel and where it stands in terms of democracy and fairness:

1. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2013, the Israeli population was comprised of 1,658,000 Arabs, or 21 percent of the population. Arabs in the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem living there after the 1967 Six Day War, were offered Israeli citizenship. While most turned it down, they were given permanent residency status with a future option of becoming citizens.

2. There are three main Arab political parties in Israel: a) Hadash, which is a joint Arab-Jewish party; b) Balad; and c) United Arab List, which is a coalition of political organizations including Islamic Movement in Israel and Ta'al. There are no Israeli-Jewish political parties in the Palestinian Authority. In fact, there are no living Jews in so-called Palestine that are free to walk the streets.

3. Palestinian Arabs sat in Israel's very first parliamentary assembly in 1949.

4. In 2011, 13 of the 120 members of the Israeli Parliament are Arab citizens, compared to zero Israelis in the Palestinian Authority government in any context. 

5. There is one Arab on the Israeli Supreme Court. There are no Israelis involved in any capacity with Palestinian law.

6. In 2004, then-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, declared that every state-run company must have at least one Arab on its board of directors. 

7. In 2015, there were 18 Arabs elected to the Knesset. There are no Israelis in the Palestinian Authority.

Omar's anti-Semitic comments sparked condemnation on social media, with former New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Democrat, criticizing her comparing Israel with Iran.

“Who objects to Saudi Arabia being Islamic? Or any of the other 48 Muslim states? The issue with Iran isn’t their state religion; it’s their terror-loving leaders that are condemned. @IlhanMN needs to learn about the world before she’s out of excuses for her antisemitism,” he wrote.

Jim Hanson, president of Security Studies Group who also served in U.S. Army Special Forces, meanwhile, accused Omar of being an “anti-Semite” and lamented that she’s a member of Congress.

“@IlhanMN is an anti-Semite. Give her an opportunity to speak her mind & like most bigots she'll tell you. She laughs at the idea Israel is a democracy & compares it to Iran. Shameful to have those ideas represented in Congress,” he wrote.

This isn’t the first time Omar has been slammed for her comments regarding Israel. She had to apologize earlier this month for a tweet that read: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine#Israel.”

Yeah, the evil doings of Israel--that's why Hamassholes hurl stones and fire rockets and mortars at Israeli school buses and kill families, mothers, fathers and babies while they sleep. They do it to stop Israeli evil.

Like Antifa stops fascism. 

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Sens. Cotton and Cruz call on US to recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a joint statement that the United States should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contends.

On Sunday, Netanyahu, with U.S. national security adviser John Bolton beside him, had stated, “The Golan Heights is tremendously important for our security,” and said he'd hope to take a helicopter with Bolton to see the Golan plateau on Monday so that Bolton could "understand perfectly why we will never leave the Golan Heights, and why it is important that all countries recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights."

For his part, Bolton said the U.S. regarded the “ultimate mark of sovereignty” as a country’s ability to defend itself.

“President Trump has said repeatedly that he backs Israel’s right to self-defense," he added. "He says it proudly and unequivocally. And I would just say to any nation in this region – or not in this region – that has any doubt about America’s support for Israel’s self-defense – it better think about it again. We have the best Israel-US relationship in our history, and on our side we are certainly determined to continue that.”

Netanyahu said that Israel was grateful Trump pulled the U.S. out of “the dangerous Iran deal and imposing sanctions,” moving the capital to Jerusalem, and “unequivocally backing Israel at the United Nations.”

Netanyahu also said that the United States supports Israel’s right to self-defense “in word and in deed, and added that he was thankful “to know that we have the support and backing of our great friend and ally, the United States of America.”

Cruz and Cotton’s statement echoed the Israeli prime minister’s perspective on the Golan Heights, asserting:

Israel's northern border has become increasingly dangerous in recent weeks with the discovery of Hezbollah’s terror tunnels and Bashar al Assad’s continued efforts to consolidate control of Syria with the assistance of Iranian shock troops. Responding to the threat posed by Iran and its proxies requires ensuring that Israel can defend its territory and its citizens from attacks. To support Israel’s right to self-defense, Washington should take the long overdue step of affirming Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six Day War after Syria and other Arab nations attacked the Jewish state.

In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, but since then, the U.S. has refused to recognize the region as sovereign territory of Jewish state in spite of the fact that it is usually understood that, in the spoils of war, the country that wins gets to keep the spoils, not the losers. And Israel didn't even start the war.

In mid-December, Cotton and Cruz introduced a resolution that urged the Senate to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The resolution stated that the United States would support Israel’s right to defend itself; that it is in
United States’ national security interest to ensure Israel’s security, and that Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights would ensure that the Assad regime “faces diplomatic and geopolitical consequences for the killing of civilians, the ethnic cleansing of Syrian Sunnis, and the use of weapons of mass destruction.”

When you consider that Israel is the only civilized country in all the Middle East, and our only real ally, you simply have to give Trump the credit he deserves for having their back against all the surrounding nations that want to destroy Israel.

It's a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe.

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IDF shoots down Syrian warplane as things heat up in Golan Heights

Jerusalem/Beirut -- Israel says it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday. The Syrians claim the jet was fired upon as it flew an operation against rebels on Syrian territory.

The latest incident increases existing tensions in the area, a strategic plateau between the two long-standing enemies. Little Israel has been high alert as Russian-supported Syrian government forces close in to take back rebel-held territory.

Israeli sirens have been sounded on the Golan and witnesses saw two missiles flying into the sky. The IDF said it fired Patriot interceptor missiles at a Syrian Sukhoi jet that crossed about a mile into Israeli airspace after they first tried to warn it off.

"It was shot down and it crashed . . . most likely in the southern part of the Syrian Golan Heights," Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said.

The jet crashed in northern Israel and both pilots ejected and were injured, one critically, it was recently discovered.

The fate of the two pilots is unknown, but there were no reports of any parachutes opening.

Syrian state media [aka fake news] said the warplane had been targeted by Israel and hit while conducting raids in Syrian airspace. [Google the term: 'taqiyya'].

An IDF statement addressed the civil war across the border.

"Since morning hours, there has been an increase in the internal fighting in Syria, including an increase in the activity of the Syrian Air Force," the statement read.

The statement made it clear that Israel would "continue to operate against" any breach of a 1974 U.N. armistice deal establishing buffer zones on the Golan.

Israel is concerned that the chinless Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [the 'ad' is silent] might decide to defy the demilitarization regime or allow his forces and Hezbollah reinforcement to deploy in the area.

These recent tensions have prompted intercession by Sergei Lavrov [of Hillary Clinton 'reset button' fame] and a top general on Monday for talks with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The PM does not agree with Russia's offer to keep Iranian forces 62 miles away from the Golan lines.

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Israeli jets struck Iranian military base in Syria

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked an Iranian military base in Syria in the area of al-Kiswah early Saturday morning, launching surface-to-surface rockets from the Golan Heights. 

The Israel Air Force (IAF) fired missiles at the military base. Israel has not confirmed nor denied the strike, but they had made it clear in the past that if Iran sets up shop in Syria, they aren't going to sit by and wait to be slaughtered.

I call it the "Trump North Korea Approach."

One month ago, the BBC reported alleged Iranian activity at the site. It published satellite photos of construction work that took place from January to October 2017, including 20 structures that could be used as barracks and storage. It is believed the base is not yet manned.

This last strike was the second one in three months that Israel has allegedly struck Iranian military assets inside Syria. On September 7, it is believed the IAF hit a missile production facility. 

Let's hope they didn't miss.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot have been warning against Iranian entrenchment in southern Syria. Eisenkot told a Saudi website last month, "We will not accept the Iranians entrenching themselves in Syria. We warned them against building factories or military bases there, and we will not permit that."

Israel doesn't take kindly to countries that say they want to destroy them.



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Israel attacks Syrian position after stray mortar lands

Jerusalem (Reuters) -- Israel said it attacked a Syrian military position on Wednesday as a response to a stray mortar shell landing in the Golan Heights. The fighting in Syria's civil war has been spilling over into the Jewish State so call it tit-for-tat.

There were no injuries as the Syrian shell landed in an open area. In response, the Israeli army "targeted the Syrian military position that fired the mortar."

Israel's return strike was in the village of Samadanieh al Sharqiyah in Quneitra province. This is close to the area where rebels engaged the Syrian army in heavy fighting for the last week.

The mortar fell while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting Katzrin, another Golan Heights town about 12.5 miles from the area that was hit with most of the recent stray fire from Syria.

"While I was speaking, I said here that we will not tolerate errant shooting and we will respond to all firing. During my speech, there was errant fire from the Syrian side that landed in our territory and the army has already attacked," Netanyahu said. "Whoever attacks us, we attack them. This is our policy and we will continue to implement it."

Because if Israel didn't implement it, there would be a lot more "stray" projectiles falling on them "by accident."

Over the past few days, there has been an increase in such "stray" fighting in Syria spilling over into the Golan Heights. Israel has responded in kind each time.

As is internationally understood about the spoils of war, Israel captured the Golan in the 1967 Middle East war and therefore the Golan belongs to Israel.



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Israeli military kills 4 ISIS militants who attempted an ambush

Jerusalem -- A machine gun-mounted vehicle inside Syria opened fire on an Israeli military patrol on the Israel side of the border in Golan Heights. The patrol called in an airstrike, surprising the ISIS butt-rockets and sending all four of them on their way to meet their virgins.

Israel hasn't been largely affected by the war next door, sporadic incidents of spillover fire referred to as "tactical errors" of the Assad regime, has Israel responding lightly, with limited retaliation on Syrian positions in response.

But Sunday's shooting wasn't an accident--it was a case of intentional targeting of Israeli soldiers by Islamic militants.

Lt. Colonel Peter Lerner explained that the Israeli patrol came under machine gun and mortar fire early Sunday and immediately returned fire toward Syria. An Israeli aircraft engaged and struck the vehicle blowing its passengers to Jannah (Islamic paradise) in bite-size pieces. Lerner said the attackers were suspected militants from an Islamic State arm that controls the area. No Israeli troops (aka "the good guys and gals") were hurt.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (and former Israeli Special Forces officer) commended the troops for thwarting the attack. "We are well prepared on our northern border and will not allow Islamic State elements or any other hostile element to use the war in Syria to establish themselves close to our borders," he said at the weekly Cabinet meeting.

Israel has generally stayed on the sidelines of the conflict in Syria, avoiding being sucked into a clash between forces that are all hostile to the Jewish State. But it is thought that Israel carried out airstrikes on arms shipments destined for Hezbollah, a close ally of the Syrian government, as Israel refuses to be suicidally passive.

Amos Yadlin, director of the Institute for National Security Studies and former military intelligence chief said that it's too soon to know if this attack marks a shift in IS policy or just a couple of scumcrumpets out for a walk, so to speak. However, Yadlin added, "I don't think this is a planned strategy."

Probably just a little religious anti-Semitism by the religion of peace.

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Suicide bomber to ISIS: Badahbing!

Haifa, Israel-- President Obama not only has Russian President Putin to thank for going after ISIS, now he has Al Qaeda to thank as well. A suicide bomber blew himself to pieces and took out an ISIS brigade leader in the process.

The religious act of Islamic jihad too place in southern Syria showing just how much of a rivalry exists between ISIS and Al Qaeda.

May have been killed for looking Jewish

The exploded body parts hit the proverbial fan on the ides of November during a top-level meeting of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade. These bearded first cousins to camel dung are known for their bloody hold over much of the Golan Heights. Six of the top scumcrumpets were sent to meet their virgins, including Muhammad (really, who would've guessed that name?) "Abu Ali" al-Baridi, head of the group and also know by the sobriquet "The Uncle." This may have been due to all the intermarriages that take place among the more religious families of these pious men, and Abu was, indeed, their uncle.

Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Al Nusra Front, immediately took credit on Twitter calling the attack "heroic." Obama would have disagreed. He sees men and women who have their gender changed and strive to use toilets normally used for the opposite sex as heroic. He sees black gay basketball players as heroic. He sees traitors like Bowe Bergdahl as heroic.

"The Islamic State [ISIS], that controls the closest area to the Israel border in the Syrian Golan Heights, suffered a severe blow and lost its entire top command in the area in one fell swoop," said Alex Fishman, writing for Yediot Aharonot, an Israeli newspaper.

In spite of the fact that Al Nusra and ISIS share a common religion and common beliefs in jihad as part of that religion, and also both groups hate the same people, especially the Jews and everyone else not believing in Allah the same way they do, they are fighting the crap out of each other south of Damascus along the Israeli border. It's like junk yard dogs going at it while the cats cheer them on.

It took a while for word to get out about the bombing as it came around the same time as the Paris attacks. "We heard the sound of a strong explosion coming from the Baath Party headquarters in the village," said Abu al-Ezzam, a Jamleh resident and another Abu. "We ran to the place, and there were body parts scattered everywhere," Abu noted, speaking of the religion of pieces and what can happen to you if you're involved.

The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade Tweeted a macho crotch-grabbing statement: "The martyrdom of the leaders will only make us more determined. Blood and sacrifice is welcome for God's sake."

Yes, they love their blood sport, don't they?



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