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Navies have been taking hits. They pulled the Eisenhower a few days back after getting damaged.
Hurrah. Finally. At last, the Trudeau Liberals have listed as terrorists the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the most dangerous organizations on the planet. I’m sure this has NOTHING to do with the bi-election in St Paul’s on Monday 24th with its significant Jewish population…nothing at all…
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The fact it has taken them so long to do something so simple is an indicator that national and world security is not a high priority for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Of course, the Chinese election interference debacle has told us that already…but better late than not at all…
Trudeau’s inaction could be down to sheer incompetence or smug complacency. Maybe a combination of both. But let’s not rule out political expediency.
Six years ago, Trudeau, Mélanie Joly, now foreign affairs minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, now minister for public safety, all voted for a motion to list the IRGC as terrorists.
Following that, the Liberals did nothing.
Four years ago, the IRGC shot down Ukraine International Airlines PS752, killing 176 people including 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents. The families of the victims have been calling for the listing of the IRGC for years.
The IRGC killing a large number of Canadians still didn’t prompt Trudeau to act.
Three years ago, a petition was presented to the House of Commons calling for the IRGC to be listed.
More of nothing.
And yet in Canada things were happening. The IRGC was issuing death threats against Canadian citizens, Iranian spies and affiliates were flooding the country, and the Iranian regime was using Canada as a giant money laundering operation. Link above…
Michael Higgins: Liberals realize IRGC is a terrorist group now that it's politically convenient — National Post
Trudeau acts because of politics, not people
Trudeau’s inaction could be down to sheer incompetence or smug complacency. Maybe a combination of both. But let’s not rule out political expediency.
Six years ago, Trudeau, Mélanie Joly, now foreign affairs minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, now minister for public safety, all voted for a motion to list the IRGC as terrorists.
Following that, the Liberals did nothing.
Four years ago, the IRGC shot down Ukraine International Airlines PS752, killing 176 people including 55 Canadians and 30 permanent residents. The families of the victims have been calling for the listing of the IRGC for years.
The IRGC killing a large number of Canadians still didn’t prompt Trudeau to act.
Three years ago, a petition was presented to the House of Commons calling for the IRGC to be listed.
More of nothing.
And yet in Canada things were happening. The IRGC was issuing death threats against Canadian citizens, Iranian spies and affiliates were flooding the country, and the Iranian regime was using Canada as a giant money laundering operation. Link above…
The Trudeau government’s shocking apathy on the IRGC has had real consequences.
As usual, Trudeau has talked a good game on Iran and wallowed in the applause and cheers as he criticized the IRGC and the Iranian regime.
In October 2022, Trudeau gave a speech while attending a protest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who died at the hands of the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab.
“We will do everything we can to stand against the Iranian regime,” he said, and the crowd went wild. And why wouldn’t they? Here was the prime minister pledging to take action.
“Enough of the brutality. Enough of the repression. Enough of the violation of fundamental human rights.” More cheers.
The speech was as impassioned as it was facile.
“I will stand with you. I will march with you. I will hold hands with you,” said Trudeau, before concluding with remarks in Persian.
It was all hogwash.
The Liberals continued to call out the IRGC for being a terrorist organization but refused to list it as such.
As usual, Trudeau has talked a good game on Iran and wallowed in the applause and cheers as he criticized the IRGC and the Iranian regime.
In October 2022, Trudeau gave a speech while attending a protest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who died at the hands of the Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab.
“We will do everything we can to stand against the Iranian regime,” he said, and the crowd went wild. And why wouldn’t they? Here was the prime minister pledging to take action.
“Enough of the brutality. Enough of the repression. Enough of the violation of fundamental human rights.” More cheers.
The speech was as impassioned as it was facile.
“I will stand with you. I will march with you. I will hold hands with you,” said Trudeau, before concluding with remarks in Persian.
It was all hogwash.
The Liberals continued to call out the IRGC for being a terrorist organization but refused to list it as such.
Meanwhile….Iran was using Canada as a safe haven from which to operate.
Two years ago, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said there were “credible” reports that Iran was threatening the lives of Canadians — in Canada.
Last year, Global News reported that Masih Alinejad, a U.S. human rights activist and journalist, was warned by the FBI not to travel to Canada because she would not be safe from the long terrorist arm of the IRGC.
“That’s heartbreaking. Canada should be safe,” Alinejad told Global.
It was also Global News that reported that about 700 Iranian affiliates were in Canada getting up to all sorts of skullduggery, not the lest of which was money laundering.
Earlier this year, Finance Canada officials told a parliamentary committee that $100 billion is illegally laundered in Canada each year.
After the hearing, the Conservatives pointed out that the IRGC was certainly one of the groups involved in that crime.
“Trudeau’s refusal to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity means that the regime’s illegal money laundering in Canada goes undetected according to testimony from Finance Canada officials yesterday,” said a statement from the Conservatives…hmmm…
“One can equate it to a large, corrupt mafia group comprising 150,000 members involved in money laundering, transnational terror, selling drugs on the black market, expropriation of property, extrajudicial killings, targeted assassinations, cyberwarfare and the spread of Islamist propaganda,” she said. Good times indeed.
Two years ago, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said there were “credible” reports that Iran was threatening the lives of Canadians — in Canada.
Last year, Global News reported that Masih Alinejad, a U.S. human rights activist and journalist, was warned by the FBI not to travel to Canada because she would not be safe from the long terrorist arm of the IRGC.
“That’s heartbreaking. Canada should be safe,” Alinejad told Global.
It was also Global News that reported that about 700 Iranian affiliates were in Canada getting up to all sorts of skullduggery, not the lest of which was money laundering.
Earlier this year, Finance Canada officials told a parliamentary committee that $100 billion is illegally laundered in Canada each year.
After the hearing, the Conservatives pointed out that the IRGC was certainly one of the groups involved in that crime.
“Trudeau’s refusal to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity means that the regime’s illegal money laundering in Canada goes undetected according to testimony from Finance Canada officials yesterday,” said a statement from the Conservatives…hmmm…
“One can equate it to a large, corrupt mafia group comprising 150,000 members involved in money laundering, transnational terror, selling drugs on the black market, expropriation of property, extrajudicial killings, targeted assassinations, cyberwarfare and the spread of Islamist propaganda,” she said. Good times indeed.
Governments, theirs or ours, operate a lot like organized crime. They just like to say they do it "with the consent of the governed." Of course, that's what organized crime says, too. "I just make a product (or service) available. I don't force anybody to buy it."
The mass attack against Israel came from all sides, coordinated by Iran. Lebanon fired tens of thousands of missiles and sent combat units across the border. Syria, Yemen, Iraq all sent missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. Meanwhile from Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad followed, firing so many missiles as to overwhelm the Iron Dome.
Roads, electricity, communications system, army bases, airports, all destroyed.
It was the doomsday scenario that never was — at least not yet. Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a Middle East scholar, predicted this scenario six months before October 7.
“The Iranian plan was a barrage to destroy Israel within a week,” Kedar told the National Post during a recent Toronto visit.
But Hamas went rogue on October 7.
The terror group was supposed to wait until the order came from Iran for a coordinated assault. The Islamic Republic wanted to attack, when their nuclear capability was ready, to deter any retaliation.
But Hamas smelled weakness and a fissure in Israeli society when 200 Israeli F-15 pilots were boycotting training to protest judicial reforms in March 2023. The in-fighting and mass demonstrations “destroyed the image of Israel as a powerful country” to its neighbours.
“It inflated the Jihad glands in the bodies of our neighbours. They went out in the streets to celebrate. ‘No fighters, no pilots!’ It encouraged them to start the war,” Kedar said. They were looking for the right time, and the Nova Music Festival was a welcome opportunity — thousands of unarmed party-goers in a single place.
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At the same time, Hamas sought to derail negotiations between the Saudis and Israel on a path to normalization. According to Kedar, the result would have been a kind of peace domino effect: Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Tunisia, Mali, Chad and Niger would have followed, “mainly because of the American goodies.” But it would have diverted attention from the Palestinian cause, Kedar said, which is unacceptable to Hamas.
The calculation, then, was to kidnap hundreds of Israelis, with the expectation that Israel would swap them for manifold more Palestinian prisoners. As precedent, in 2011 a single IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit, was exchanged for a thousand Palestinian prisoners — and the anticipated trade-math was exhilarating. Obviously, they miscalculated the aftermath.
Still, jihadists believe that the destruction and civilian casualties are the cost necessary to destroy Israel, Kedar said. The Quaran preaches that dying for Islam is praiseworthy, he said, and therefore “the tantrum over civilians killed is for the foreign media. It’s good PR.”
In the struggle to determine a workable plan after Operation Swords of Iron, Kedar (Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar proposes splitting Gaza and the Palestinian Authority along its clan lines, administered by their own communities. Clans, or tribes, he believes, aren’t bad words; rather, they are embedded strongly into Arab culture. These splits would avert conflicts between other clans, and Israel. “It fits the culture of the Middle East, because it fits the clan mentality.”
It makes the difference between a successful, and a failing Arab state, he said. The failing ones, like Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran. And the successful ones — Qatar, the seven Emirates, Kuwait — that have economic stability, safety, law and order. These by no coincidence, are run by clans: al-Sabah (Kuwait), al-Thani (Qatar), al-Nahayan (Abu Dhabi), al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), al-hashim (Jordan) and so on.
“A Palestinian state with all of the clans together would fail because it’s the same disease as Syria,” he said.He wrote his PhD on the Syrian attempts to convince their people of a single clan, and to focus on a single enemy, Israel. “It didn’t work,” he said, because inter-clan and religious conflict killed hundreds of thousands.
“Every clan sees the other clan as the enemy because they are ‘not from us,’” he said, adding that prejudice and discrimination is rampant in the region.
“In terms of Palestinians, if you tell me their last name I’ll tell you where they live, because they live in compounds, or you might say a community. The word in ancient Arabic for clan and neighbourhood are homonyms. If you moved across the street to another clan, it would be like you were exiled. Clans don’t intermarry.” There are five clans alone in Hebron.
For at least eight decades, Gaza has been split into five administrative districts, without much clan overlap. Kedar’s idea is to let Gazan clans run their own affairs.
“This could very well work — with no Hamas, which no one wants,” he said. “Otherwise a Palestinian state could very well turn into another Hamastan.”
In 2006, Hamas won the elections in Gaza, and occupy a majority of the legislative council of the Palestinian Authority.
It’s a struggle for many to hear conversation about clans and tribes, he said, because it isn’t politically correct.
“It reminds people of the Indians. It raises all kinds of conscience problems.”
World leaders especially, who are forming policy and donating billions of aid, operate with a Western mindset involving innovation, reciprocal altruism and human rights. “But this misunderstanding and ignorance of the Arab mindset isn’t just alive and kicking. It’s alive and killing.”
Roads, electricity, communications system, army bases, airports, all destroyed.
It was the doomsday scenario that never was — at least not yet. Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a Middle East scholar, predicted this scenario six months before October 7.
“The Iranian plan was a barrage to destroy Israel within a week,” Kedar told the National Post during a recent Toronto visit.
But Hamas went rogue on October 7.
The terror group was supposed to wait until the order came from Iran for a coordinated assault. The Islamic Republic wanted to attack, when their nuclear capability was ready, to deter any retaliation.
But Hamas smelled weakness and a fissure in Israeli society when 200 Israeli F-15 pilots were boycotting training to protest judicial reforms in March 2023. The in-fighting and mass demonstrations “destroyed the image of Israel as a powerful country” to its neighbours.
“It inflated the Jihad glands in the bodies of our neighbours. They went out in the streets to celebrate. ‘No fighters, no pilots!’ It encouraged them to start the war,” Kedar said. They were looking for the right time, and the Nova Music Festival was a welcome opportunity — thousands of unarmed party-goers in a single place.
Why Hamas went rogue on October 7 and how the West could end the war — National Post
A Middle East scholar who predicted a mass attack on Israel six months before the fall attack by Hamas says Gaza should be split along clan lines
The calculation, then, was to kidnap hundreds of Israelis, with the expectation that Israel would swap them for manifold more Palestinian prisoners. As precedent, in 2011 a single IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit, was exchanged for a thousand Palestinian prisoners — and the anticipated trade-math was exhilarating. Obviously, they miscalculated the aftermath.
Still, jihadists believe that the destruction and civilian casualties are the cost necessary to destroy Israel, Kedar said. The Quaran preaches that dying for Islam is praiseworthy, he said, and therefore “the tantrum over civilians killed is for the foreign media. It’s good PR.”
In the struggle to determine a workable plan after Operation Swords of Iron, Kedar (Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar proposes splitting Gaza and the Palestinian Authority along its clan lines, administered by their own communities. Clans, or tribes, he believes, aren’t bad words; rather, they are embedded strongly into Arab culture. These splits would avert conflicts between other clans, and Israel. “It fits the culture of the Middle East, because it fits the clan mentality.”
It makes the difference between a successful, and a failing Arab state, he said. The failing ones, like Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran. And the successful ones — Qatar, the seven Emirates, Kuwait — that have economic stability, safety, law and order. These by no coincidence, are run by clans: al-Sabah (Kuwait), al-Thani (Qatar), al-Nahayan (Abu Dhabi), al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), al-hashim (Jordan) and so on.
“A Palestinian state with all of the clans together would fail because it’s the same disease as Syria,” he said.He wrote his PhD on the Syrian attempts to convince their people of a single clan, and to focus on a single enemy, Israel. “It didn’t work,” he said, because inter-clan and religious conflict killed hundreds of thousands.
“Every clan sees the other clan as the enemy because they are ‘not from us,’” he said, adding that prejudice and discrimination is rampant in the region.
“In terms of Palestinians, if you tell me their last name I’ll tell you where they live, because they live in compounds, or you might say a community. The word in ancient Arabic for clan and neighbourhood are homonyms. If you moved across the street to another clan, it would be like you were exiled. Clans don’t intermarry.” There are five clans alone in Hebron.
For at least eight decades, Gaza has been split into five administrative districts, without much clan overlap. Kedar’s idea is to let Gazan clans run their own affairs.
“This could very well work — with no Hamas, which no one wants,” he said. “Otherwise a Palestinian state could very well turn into another Hamastan.”
In 2006, Hamas won the elections in Gaza, and occupy a majority of the legislative council of the Palestinian Authority.
It’s a struggle for many to hear conversation about clans and tribes, he said, because it isn’t politically correct.
“It reminds people of the Indians. It raises all kinds of conscience problems.”
World leaders especially, who are forming policy and donating billions of aid, operate with a Western mindset involving innovation, reciprocal altruism and human rights. “But this misunderstanding and ignorance of the Arab mindset isn’t just alive and kicking. It’s alive and killing.”
So Hamas took advantage of the near Israel civil war but nobody else saw the massive weakness?The mass attack against Israel came from all sides, coordinated by Iran. Lebanon fired tens of thousands of missiles and sent combat units across the border. Syria, Yemen, Iraq all sent missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. Meanwhile from Gaza, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad followed, firing so many missiles as to overwhelm the Iron Dome.
Roads, electricity, communications system, army bases, airports, all destroyed.
It was the doomsday scenario that never was — at least not yet. Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a Middle East scholar, predicted this scenario six months before October 7.
“The Iranian plan was a barrage to destroy Israel within a week,” Kedar told the National Post during a recent Toronto visit.
But Hamas went rogue on October 7.
The terror group was supposed to wait until the order came from Iran for a coordinated assault. The Islamic Republic wanted to attack, when their nuclear capability was ready, to deter any retaliation.
But Hamas smelled weakness and a fissure in Israeli society when 200 Israeli F-15 pilots were boycotting training to protest judicial reforms in March 2023. The in-fighting and mass demonstrations “destroyed the image of Israel as a powerful country” to its neighbours.
“It inflated the Jihad glands in the bodies of our neighbours. They went out in the streets to celebrate. ‘No fighters, no pilots!’ It encouraged them to start the war,” Kedar said. They were looking for the right time, and the Nova Music Festival was a welcome opportunity — thousands of unarmed party-goers in a single place.
At the same time, Hamas sought to derail negotiations between the Saudis and Israel on a path to normalization. According to Kedar, the result would have been a kind of peace domino effect: Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Tunisia, Mali, Chad and Niger would have followed, “mainly because of the American goodies.” But it would have diverted attention from the Palestinian cause, Kedar said, which is unacceptable to Hamas.Why Hamas went rogue on October 7 and how the West could end the war — National Post
A Middle East scholar who predicted a mass attack on Israel six months before the fall attack by Hamas says Gaza should be split along clan lines
The calculation, then, was to kidnap hundreds of Israelis, with the expectation that Israel would swap them for manifold more Palestinian prisoners. As precedent, in 2011 a single IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit, was exchanged for a thousand Palestinian prisoners — and the anticipated trade-math was exhilarating. Obviously, they miscalculated the aftermath.
Still, jihadists believe that the destruction and civilian casualties are the cost necessary to destroy Israel, Kedar said. The Quaran preaches that dying for Islam is praiseworthy, he said, and therefore “the tantrum over civilians killed is for the foreign media. It’s good PR.”
In the struggle to determine a workable plan after Operation Swords of Iron, Kedar (Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar proposes splitting Gaza and the Palestinian Authority along its clan lines, administered by their own communities. Clans, or tribes, he believes, aren’t bad words; rather, they are embedded strongly into Arab culture. These splits would avert conflicts between other clans, and Israel. “It fits the culture of the Middle East, because it fits the clan mentality.”
It makes the difference between a successful, and a failing Arab state, he said. The failing ones, like Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran. And the successful ones — Qatar, the seven Emirates, Kuwait — that have economic stability, safety, law and order. These by no coincidence, are run by clans: al-Sabah (Kuwait), al-Thani (Qatar), al-Nahayan (Abu Dhabi), al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), al-hashim (Jordan) and so on.
“A Palestinian state with all of the clans together would fail because it’s the same disease as Syria,” he said.He wrote his PhD on the Syrian attempts to convince their people of a single clan, and to focus on a single enemy, Israel. “It didn’t work,” he said, because inter-clan and religious conflict killed hundreds of thousands.
“Every clan sees the other clan as the enemy because they are ‘not from us,’” he said, adding that prejudice and discrimination is rampant in the region.
“In terms of Palestinians, if you tell me their last name I’ll tell you where they live, because they live in compounds, or you might say a community. The word in ancient Arabic for clan and neighbourhood are homonyms. If you moved across the street to another clan, it would be like you were exiled. Clans don’t intermarry.” There are five clans alone in Hebron.
For at least eight decades, Gaza has been split into five administrative districts, without much clan overlap. Kedar’s idea is to let Gazan clans run their own affairs.
“This could very well work — with no Hamas, which no one wants,” he said. “Otherwise a Palestinian state could very well turn into another Hamastan.”
In 2006, Hamas won the elections in Gaza, and occupy a majority of the legislative council of the Palestinian Authority.
It’s a struggle for many to hear conversation about clans and tribes, he said, because it isn’t politically correct.
“It reminds people of the Indians. It raises all kinds of conscience problems.”
World leaders especially, who are forming policy and donating billions of aid, operate with a Western mindset involving innovation, reciprocal altruism and human rights. “But this misunderstanding and ignorance of the Arab mindset isn’t just alive and kicking. It’s alive and killing.”
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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hamas was conducting Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel on behalf of the entire "Axis of Resistance" (= Iran) and, if a deal was reached, Hezbollah would stop its operations with no need for separate talks.
Hezbollah began firing at Israeli targets on the border in support of Palestinians after its ally Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that precipitated the war in Gaza.
At the same time, Nasrallah warned that Hezbollah was ready for and did not fear a war and pointed to the ever-larger salvos of rockets and drones the group has fired at Israel as evidence.
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The Axis of Resistance is an alliance built up over years of Iranian support against Israel and U.S. influence in the Middle East. It includes the Yemen's Houthis and Shi'ite armed groups in Iraq.
Hezbollah began firing at Israeli targets on the border in support of Palestinians after its ally Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that precipitated the war in Gaza.
At the same time, Nasrallah warned that Hezbollah was ready for and did not fear a war and pointed to the ever-larger salvos of rockets and drones the group has fired at Israel as evidence.
Lebanon's Hezbollah chief: Hamas negotiates on behalf of the entire Axis of Resistance — Reuters
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hamas was conducting Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel on behalf of the entire "Axis of Resistance" and, if a deal was reached, Hezbollah would stop its operations with no need for separate talks.
Risk of atomic Armageddon: US must restore military deterrence against Iran - opinion — The Jerusalem Post
Perhaps if the Iranians had thought there was a credible US-Israel military threat, we wouldn’t be in this position today.
Apple News links are dead links thanks to Trudeau.
Risk of atomic Armageddon: US must restore military deterrence against Iran - opinion — The Jerusalem Post
Perhaps if the Iranians had thought there was a credible US-Israel military threat, we wouldn’t be in this position today.
Greek authorities are on heightened alert for a possible attack on an Israeli target after receiving a warning from foreign security forces, Greek daily Kathimerini reported on Friday.
The threat of a retaliatory attack in response to recent assassinations, including that of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday, "is a significant possibility," the report stated.
"The level of vigilance has increased," one Greek security official told Kathimerini.
The report said that the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP) is maintaining close contact with foreign intelligence services, specifically with Cyprus, where an attack was foiled in December.
In March 2023, Greek counterterror authorities, in collaboration with Israel's Mossad, arrested two Pakistani nationalson suspicion of planning an attack on a Jewish center in Athens, who were reportedly linked to Iran.
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How dare the Greeks stop a terrorist attack against a target (a Jewish target) in Greece by two Pakistani Nationals eight months before Oct 7th, 2023!! That deserves Iranian retaliation against Greece!
The threat of a retaliatory attack in response to recent assassinations, including that of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday, "is a significant possibility," the report stated.
"The level of vigilance has increased," one Greek security official told Kathimerini.
The report said that the Greek National Intelligence Service (EYP) is maintaining close contact with foreign intelligence services, specifically with Cyprus, where an attack was foiled in December.
In March 2023, Greek counterterror authorities, in collaboration with Israel's Mossad, arrested two Pakistani nationalson suspicion of planning an attack on a Jewish center in Athens, who were reportedly linked to Iran.
Report: Greece 'on high alert' for attack against Israeli targets after Haniyeh assassination — Haaretz
According to a report in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Greek authorities are in contact with foreign intelligence agencies regarding reports of heightened threat of an attack on Israeli or Jewish targets in Athens