ISRAEL/HAMAS WAR:
ISRAEL LAUNCHES 'TARGETED OPERATION' IN AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL
USA TODAY:
At around the same time Israel said it would allow fuel into Gaza for humanitarian operations, its troops went into Gaza City's Al Shifa Hospital intent on rooting out Hamas forces.
The Israeli military said it was "carrying out a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area in the Shifa Hospital, based on intelligence information and an operational necessity.''
Israel has long contended the militant group uses the hospital, the largest in the embattled enclave, and tunnels underneath it for military purposes. The White House said Tuesday it has intelligence to confirm that claim, which Hamas denies.
The IDF said in a statement it repeatedly warned Hamas against military uses of the hospital. "Yesterday, the IDF conveyed to the relevant authorities in Gaza once again that all military activities within the hospital must cease within 12 hours,'' the statement said. "Unfortunately, they did not.''
TWR: The IDF has worked very carefully in not surprising Palestinians with their military operations in Gaza…Drs and Hospital Personnel were advised by the IDF of this raid before it happened.
Using Civilian Medical Facilities as military installations is a War Crime…The IDF will now have access to both Al-Shifa’s basement and sub-basement tunnel facilities.
Should Israeli Authorities find Hamas military weaponry, supplies and/or Hostages, the entire calculus of the Palestinian/Israeli War…
If Hamas/Palestinians have indeed committed these war crimes, there can be no further support without the decision to join Hamas as terrorists.
DOCUMENTS POINT TO IRAN HELPING HAMAS CRAFT WEAPONS
CNN EXCLUSIVE:
A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran.
While it is widely known that Iran provides financial and military support to Hamas, Israeli officials and some former US intelligence officials say the document is evidence that in the run up to the October 7 attack on southern Israel, Iran was seeking to provide technical training that would help Hamas produce its own weaponry.
“This example is another piece in an elaborate puzzle of a deep infrastructure of building, supporting, financing and training terror proxies by the Iranian regime around the globe and specifically in the Gaza strip,” one Israeli official said.
Israeli officials say this is the first known instance of Iran attempting to fund this kind of university-hosted training for Hamas operatives, a claim US officials said they could not confirm.
TWR: Iran is very close to becoming a Strategic Target in this conflict.
The World’s worst-kept secret is that Iran occupies the center square of global terrorist sponsorship.
Their proxy-expeditions with Jews as the target for genocidal eradication will not be allowed to continue…Nor should they be.
As you read this, the US, Israel and all other concerned parties have all the tools necessary to end Iran’s world-wide export of Terror.
It is my hope that we see those tools used, or that we see Iran’s immediate capitulation at all levels regarding Terror activities.
LIVE UPDATES
USA TODAY:
1. Palestinian authorities are calling for a cease-fire to evacuate three dozen newborns and other patients from Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital. On Tuesday, a U.N. agency said only one hospital, the Al Ahli, remains operational in the battered north Gaza.
2. The Israeli military said it had gained control of the Hamas legislative and government building, the Hamas police headquarters and an engineering facility used for weapons production and development.
3. A consortium of Palestinian groups and individuals have asked a federal court in California to enjoin the Biden administration from providing arms, money and diplomatic support to Israel on grounds the administration is aiding in genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.
4. About 200,000 people have fled south over the past 10 days due to fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in northern Gaza, the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. More than two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have left their homes since the war began.
5. Several hundred demonstrators protested outside the Israeli parliament Tuesday night and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he is unfit for office. The protesters carried signs blaming Netanyahu for the Oct. 7 attack.
TWR: Comments…In Order…
1. No Ceasefire
2. Good
3. Motion Denied
4. If there are any “Innocent Palestinians” they are the ones making this escape…My God grant their passage to safety.
5. Those who stand with Hamas, are Hamas. They should be treated as such.
RALLY FOR ISRAEL; HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FLOCK TO WASHINGTON
CBS NEWS:
A huge crowd turned out in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for the March for Israel, gathering on the National Mall to show support for Israel, for the hostages to be freed, and to protest antisemitism, which has increased in the U.S. since the Israel-Hamas war began last month.
Renee Levy, who traveled to D.C. from Cincinnati, Ohio, told CBS News she felt it was important to be there with her son and their friends.
"It's been a really hard time to be Jewish in the U.S. this last month for these kids on college campuses, what they're having to deal with on top of mourning our dead and being worried about our hostages," Levy said.
"We're also being attacked everywhere for being Jewish. So to be here with all these people today and stand in solidarity with Israel and to just be together was really important to us."
TWR: Finally, a real demonstration of Jewish Support by We the People of the United States.
Let’s hope the rest of the World sees that support, then follows in it.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOINS THE FIGHT
CNN:
Hate groups and far-right internet trolls have seized on the tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, while leveraging advances in artificial intelligence to further stoke antisemitism in the United States.
The confluence of the conflict and the rapid development – and sheer accessibility – of AI tools have allowed antisemitic groups to weaponize the technology, creating images and audio that are used to harass the Jewish community, according to experts who track online extremism.
“We’ve seen a real concerning ideological convergence between far-right communities online and pro-Hamas sentiment,” said Ben Decker, CEO of Memetica, a threat analysis company that monitors online hate.
The activity is on law enforcement’s radar as antisemitism remains on the rise nationwide: A 316% increase in antisemitic incidents has hit the US since the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary data released Monday by the Anti-Defamation League.
TWR: Great…These maniacs are not only working to evangelize their fellow Human Beings in their Anti-Jewish Bigoted delirium…
Now, they’re working to teach what could be the World’s newest life form how to hate Jews too.
Monstrous, Horrible, Pathological Evil.
CONGRESS:
RASHIDA TLAIB FOUND TO BE PART OF FACEBOOK HAMAS SUPPORT GROUP
FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.
The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook. The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform's search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.
The group's founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.
The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
TWR: If you replace the word “Hamas” with “The Ku Klux Klan”, and the word "Jews” with “Blacks”…
You can see the horrors of the rank, unapologetic, bigotry of Rashida Tlaib…
That she remains as a Member of the United States House of Representatives stains not just herself, but the entire Congress.
She should be expelled forthwith.
US HOUSE PASSES TEMPORARY SPENDING PLAN
USA TODAY:
The House approved a temporary measure to fund the government and avert a catastrophic shutdown Tuesday, kicking the can down the road once again for Congress to pass a longer-term deal to keep the government’s doors open for Americans.
The stopgap bill led by newly installed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., – referred to as a continuing resolution – passed the lower chamber by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 336-95.
Johnson and House Republican leaders have touted the continuing resolution as a conservative victory, but the bill, which was Johnson’s first major test of his speakership, didn’t sail through the House without heartache from its hard-right members, who were adamant that any funding plan include spending cuts or conservative policy priorities.
TWR: Well…At least they passed something.
The proof will be the at the end of these deadlines…If the rest of the Appropriations Bills are passed through regular order, this will have been worth it.
If that doesn’t happen…No Moderate Republican should remain untouched by the angry Votes of We the People.
SENATE:
THINGS GET ROWDY…SENATOR CALLS OUT TEAMSTER BOSS
USA TODAY:
The Senate almost turned into The Octagon on Tuesday as Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin invited a Teamsters boss to throw down in a fit of anger over the union leader's mean tweets.
Mullin, a Republican former mixed martial arts fighter, challenged International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to fistfight in the middle of a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and rose from his seat before Sen. Bernie Sanders, the committee chairman, ordered him to sit down.
O’Brien had called Mullin, whose personal fortune runs into the tens of millions, a “clown” and a “fraud” who “pretends like he’s self-made.”
“In reality, just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy,” O’Brien wrote in June.
Speaking to O’Brien from his perch at the committee table, Mullin said, “Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here.”
TWR: Bravo to Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin…Holding Thugs, even Teamster Thugs accountable for reckless talk is not just good policy…
It’s also good exercise…
Here’s to Toxic Masculinity…
INTERNATIONAL:
BIDEN MEETS WITH XI JINPING
USA TODAY:
President Joe Biden will have a candid conversation with China's Xi Jinping at a Wednesday summit that Washington hopes will result in Beijing taking its calls the next time there's a crisis.
Iranian-backed groups are assaulting U.S. forces, Russia is pressing on with its war against Ukraine and China has been ratcheting up its aggression toward Taiwan. With so many clashes taking place, the U.S. says the world's two biggest military powers can't afford to be giving each other the silent treatment.
Both countries need to "get back on a normal course of corresponding, being able to pick up a phone and talk to one another through a crisis, being able to make sure our militaries still have contact with one another," Biden told reporters on Tuesday.
TWR: I sure hope President Biden stays awake…
SCHOOLS:
8 ARRESTED AFTER GANG MURDER OF LAS VEGAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
FOX NEWS:
Authorities in Las Vegas announced late Tuesday that arrests have been made, and eight teenagers are facing murder charges in a deadly beating that left a high-school student dead earlier this month.
All eight suspects are between the ages of 13 and 17, according to officials.
Due to the teenagers’ ages, their names were not immediately released.
During a news conference Tuesday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Lt. Jason Johannson said all the people involved were students of Rancho High School.
Johannson described the video as "void of humanity" and said there was no evidence the incident could be considered a hate crime.
The Clark County coroner’s office confirmed that Jonathan Lewis, 17, died following the attack Nov. 1. His cause of death was listed as complications of multiple blunt force injuries and his death was listed as homicide.
TWR: Murder. Hate Crime. Severe Penalties. Inhuman Monsters.
Products of a Diseased Society Bereft of Discipline or Accountability.
NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE UPHOLDS STATE BAN ON GENDER TRANSITION TREATMENT
FOX NEWS:
A North Dakota judge ruled that he will not immediately block the state's ban on gender transition treatment for minors.
District Judge Jackson Lofgren on Monday denied a temporary restraining order requested by the plaintiffs. The three families and a pediatrician who are suing also sought a preliminary injunction to temporarily block the law from being enforced as their case proceeds, but a hearing for that request is not until January.
"We're disappointed in this ruling, but we are confident that when all the evidence has been presented, the court will ultimately find that ending the health care ban permanently is the only just, equitable, and constitutional resolution," said Gender Justice's Brittany Stewart, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs.
TWR: To not just allow, but to actually encourage gender dysphoria among minors is an instant disqualification for any interaction with minors.
HIGHWAYS:
REPAIRS TO LA’S SANTA MONICA FREEWAY WILL TAKE WEEKS
USA TODAY:
Los Angeles residents will have to wait three to five weeks before they can access the Interstate 10 freeway.
The state will be making repairs to the freeway's bridge deck and columns after a massive fire charred and chipped 100 columns – with 9 or 10 severely damaged, said Gov. Gavin Newsom at a news conference on Tuesday.
The California Department of Transportation evaluated core samples from the upper deck of the freeway to evaluate the structural damage before making the determination, Newsom said. The blaze also twisted the freeway deck guardrails.
State officials were considering a rebuild of the freeway if it could not be repaired, Newsom said.
TWR: Make no mistake, this is a serious problem…The Santa Monica Freeway is an essential Los Angeles travel corridor.
Don’t believe me? Wait until the backups reach Flagstaff.
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