🚩 October 7 massacre mastermind Yahya Sinwar chosen to replace Haniyeh as Hamas leader
🚩 confusing signals are coming from Iran about an attack on Israel, giving the Jewish state time to prepare
🚩 Defence minister Gallant in northern Israel: “They can’t imagine what might happen”
🔷 Iran may be reconsidering major strike on Israel after American show of force. The report comes after the US sent more warships to the region in preparation for an Iranian-led attack on Israel. https://lnk.sk/sujl ; https://lnk.sk/bosi According to the Al Arabiya report, the latest intelligence suggests the Iranian response may be delayed until Thursday or Friday. https://lnk.sk/owdi
🔷 Iran will never remain silent in the face of aggression against its interests and security, President Masoud Pezeshkian told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. https://lnk.sk/klcm Israel ‚cannot be saved from annihilation,‘ says Iranian army commander. “We believe that this child-killing Israeli regime is nearing its end. …and will be annihilated ASAP.” https://lnk.sk/vim5
🔷 Gallant in northern Israel: ‚Nasrallah may drag Lebanon to pay a very heavy toll’. Minister of Defense visited a military exercise in northern Israel and warned that Lebanon would pay the price for Hezbollah’s actions. “They can’t imagine what might happen,” said Gallant. https://lnk.sk/agnf
🔷 The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and a prominent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician urged Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to intervene militarily on the side of Israel in response to an Iranian regime attack on the Jewish state. https://lnk.sk/ckod
🔷 France’s foreign ministry criticized Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said that „there may be a moral justification for starving to death two million citizens in the Gaza Strip in order to free the hostages,“ Israeli media reported on Wednesday. https://lnk.sk/rxyr
🔷 Israeli troops located, investigated, and destroyed an underground route and Hamas weapons manufacturing workshop dozens of meters deep below Khan Yunis. Launchers were found in humanitarian areas. https://lnk.sk/azz3 ; https://lnk.sk/pydl
🔷 The Higher Level Military Group has submitted a legal brief to the International Criminal Court to reject a request for arrest warrants against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant. Top former military generals from several North American and EU countries who in July visited Israel and Gaza say allegations of Israel trying to starve and deliberately kill civilians are baseless. https://lnk.sk/feit
🔵 COMMENT of the day: Israel Reestablished Deterrence. It Should be Praised, Not Admonished
Arsen Ostrovsky and John Spencer for Newsweek
The elimination of arch-terrorists Mohammed Deif of Hamas and Fuad Shukr of Hizbullah, as well as Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, was entirely legal, just, and moral. The world today is a safer place without them and Israel ought to congratulated for their elimination. Each one was responsible for the blood of thousands of innocent civilians, including Americans.
To those who insist that the elimination of Haniyeh and Shukr will only escalate regional tensions, we ask: Where have you been the last 10 months? Hamas initiated the massacre of Oct. 7 and were joined by Hizbullah the day after, which has fired over 7,250 rockets at northern Israel from Lebanon.
Arsen Ostrovsky is a senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security. John Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
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