Netanyahu reportedly offers Israeli military support for regional campaign against Houthis in Yemen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly offered Israeli military participation in a broader regional effort to counter the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, the Lebanese news outlet Al-Akhbar reported Friday, citing unnamed U.S. sources. The report comes after the Houthis seized the Yemeni port city of al-Mokha earlier this week, near the strategically important Strait of Bab al-Mandab on the Red Sea. Much of the world’s commercial shipping passes through the strait. The Houthis, who openly call for Israel’s destruction, began attacking Israel and international commercial shipping shortly after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on southern Israel. The Israeli government has neither confirmed nor denied the report of potential Israeli military involvement.
BRICS nations call for ‘maximum restraint’ in Middle East
Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East, in a joint statement issued Saturday at a summit in New Delhi. “We express deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in Middle East/West Asia and, recalling our respective national positions, call for exercising maximum restraint, as well as avoiding actions that could further aggravate the situation,” said the statement.
Pompeo: We Cannot Afford To Flinch From Our Responsibility As Many Call ‘Evil Good And Good Evil’
Twenty-five years ago, nearly 3,000 innocents were murdered in the deadliest single terrorist attack in human history. We cannot afford to flinch from our responsibility to face and defeat the evils that threaten our way of life, or to indulge in moral equivalence: Not in 2001, and not today. Scripture tells us, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Let us never forget that lesson, and let us remain steadfast in fighting for what is right and just in the face of those who seek to tear our country down.
Trump says Iran ‘probably’ responsible for attack on Saudi East-West pipeline
Pakistan, a key mediator between the U.S. and Iran during Operation Epic Fury, said Saturday that it “strongly condemns” the drone attacks that targeted the Saudi Arabia East-West oil pipeline. The country’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying the “reprehensible drone attacks” caused damage to the pipeline and “injuries to civilians.” “Pakistan has been and will continue to make earnest efforts for achieving lasting peace and stability in the region,” it added. Iraq closes border crossings with Iran following Saudi pipeline attack
“Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda”: Hillary Clinton Gives Flippant Answer When Pressed On Patriot Act Support
Hillary Clinton attempted to wave off criticism of her post-9/11 votes this week, telling a Columbia University audience that Monday-morning quarterbacking carries its own bias and that relitigating the Patriot Act does little good. “But it’s got as much bias as anything else. And so looking back and saying shoulda, coulda, woulda doesn’t really help us,” the failed presidential candidate added. That authorization became the legal blank check for roughly two decades of American military adventurism spanning multiple wars in the Middle East and multiple administrations, power lawmakers in both parties have since tried, and failed, to claw back.
‘I Have To Sit With That’: Gayle King’s Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black Man
After the media spent the last two weeks casting pent up handmaiden feminist energy at the ‘male holdout’ juror who caused a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King had a visible record scratch after one of the karen jurors revealed that the holdout was a black man that the white ladies virtually lynched in the town square of national dialogue for not letting Clancy off the hook for murdering her children. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better,”
“Riyadh In Difficult Position”: Saudis Shutter Critical East-West Pipeline After Drone Attacks
Saudi Arabia temporarily shut its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline following multiple drone attacks, exposing a massive vulnerability in a critical export route used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during more than six months of US-Iran conflict.
UK Government Reserves Two-Thirds Of Elite Jobs By Race; Leaked Doc Exposes
Sixty-six per cent of the slots are ringfenced for staff who are ethnic minority, disabled, or from a lower socio-economic background. Everyone else – including the white working-class kids the same government claims to champion – can take whatever is left. They’ve essentially built a public-sector caste system. A leaked document reveals 66% of places are ringfenced for ethnic minority, disabled and lower socioeconomic background staff.
Lefty Seattle-Area Corporate Giants Begin Revolt Against Progressive City Hall
Seattle-area corporate giants, including Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, and Alaska Airlines, are pressuring City Hall for a new public safety plan amid concerns about violent crime and ongoing disorder after years of failed progressive experiments have transformed parts of the metro area into a hellhole.
The coalition includes Microsoft President Brad Smith, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, Costco CEO Ron Vachris and executives from Nordstrom, Alaska Air Group and other major employers, according to local outlet Komo News. Their letter, sent to City Hall on Thursday, brings coordinated pressure from the business community to change how City Hall governs. Literal madness on the streets of Seattle Monday afternoon. A woman was totally naked on the sidewalk across the street from Seattle City Hall.
I asked if she needed help. Instead, she wanted my muffins. THIS IS INSANE!!!!
Ted Cruz and RFK Jr. declare war on Islamism at GOP convention
There was plenty of ‘red meat’ served up at the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this week. But two speeches stood out for going directly at an issue many politicians prefer to discuss in vague, carefully worded language. U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t hold back and they surely didn’t sanitize it. They called out Islamism – the political ideology that seeks to impose Islamic rule over government and society, often at the expense of religious freedom, individual rights and Western democratic values. Their bluntness was a sight to behold. Cruz delivered a sharp warning, arguing that the Democratic Party is being overtaken by what he described as a coalition between communists and Islamists.
Haifa Port poised to become key link in India-Middle East-Europe trade corridor
Israel’s Haifa Port could eventually become a key link in the planned India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a proposed trade route connecting India with Europe through the Middle East and Israel. The large-scale project envisions a combination of maritime shipping and overland rail transportation. Under the proposed route, goods from Asia would be shipped by sea from India to Gulf states before being transported by rail through Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Haifa. From there, the goods would be shipped by sea to European markets.
People fleeing Iran-backed rebels’ advance in Yemen describe a ‘hysterical panic’
It was a heart-pounding escape. As Houthi rebels backed by Iran swept south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week, some residents had little time to flee. “We set out in hysterical panic on a motorcycle, not knowing where we were heading,” Alaa Ali Salem said. “The roads suddenly became extremely congested, and while I was driving, the motorcycle overturned. My wife, my children and I were all injured.” His family and thousands of others, in numbers leaping by the day, are now displaced as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a potential return to a devastating civil war.
Israel holds the high ground, Iranian axis severely weakened
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … declared that Israel now exercises control from the peak of Hermon to the Yarmouk River and westward toward the Mediterranean, an operational dominance the country had never previously held. “We will not allow any terror army to establish itself on our border,”
Trump links 9/11 war on terror to ongoing war against Iran
US President Donald Trump marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the Pentagon on Friday, vowing that the United States would never forget the victims and drawing a direct connection between the war on terror launched after the attacks and the ongoing conflict with Iran. “Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago. We will never, ever forget. That’s why we fight today,” Trump said during the ceremony, where he was joined by First Lady Melania Trump. “We don’t have a choice. There can only be victory. We fight hard. We fight to win,” he added.
1998 CIA memo warned Clinton of Bin Laden plan to hijack commercial airliner
The CIA has declassified more than 100 pages of presidential intelligence briefings from the years preceding the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, including a 1998 memo warning President Bill Clinton about a potential Al-Qaeda attack involving the hijacking of a commercial airliner. The agency described Friday’s release of 71 presidential briefs as its largest disclosure in 25 years of intelligence concerning Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and the events that preceded the attacks.
History at the UN: Shofar blown in General Assembly Hall
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon and a Chabad rabbi sound the shofar in the UN General Assembly Hall for the first time in Rosh Hashanah greeting. In a Rosh Hashanah greeting video filmed by Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danonת together with Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Neuman, Chabad’s emissary to the diplomatic community, the sound of the shofar was heard for the first time in the UN General Assembly Hall.
10,500 Palestinians Left Gaza Over Past Year, New Data Show, Amid Israeli Ministers’ Renewed Voluntary Emigration Push
About 10,500 Palestinians have left the Gaza Strip over the past year while roughly 6,000 have returned, new figures show, challenging accusations that Israel is seeking to forcibly remove Gaza’s population. The vast majority of those departures were connected to medical evacuations, according to Israeli border crossing data
CHILLING WARNING: HaRav Shternbuch Weeps: “I Am Not Allowed To Speak… The Situation Is Bitter, Bitter, Bitter
HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch broke down in intense tears following Selichos after midnight, delivering an emotional and deeply troubling message ahead of Rosh Hashanah. “Let us return to Hashem, because the time is difficult and our troubles have multiplied, and we do not know what will be,” HaRav Shternbuch cried. “Father, Father, Father! Return to us! How much longer will we have to suffer? You told us that we are Your children, and a father does not abandon his children. Please, do not abandon us!” His voice filled with emotion as he then issued a particularly ominous warning. ….
Over a dozen earthquakes rattle Pacific Ring of Fire over last 24 hours in latest burst of seismic activity
In the latest burst of seismic activity, more than a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or higher have rattled the Pacific Ring of Fire. 3 earthquakes rattled cities across 8 countries between Wednesday and Thursday, with some minor seismic activity happening in the very center of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Indonesia Earthquake Today: Powerful 6.6 Quake Strikes Off Java
A 6.6 deep quake struck Indonesia’s Java region. There were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage. This comes a month after a much more destructive tremor struck Indonesia, killing at least 100 people and damaging tens of thousands of homes.
‘Thousands of Lives Have Been Saved’: Christians Celebrate After British MPs Narrowly Defeat Dangerous Assisted Suicide Bill
British MPs yesterday rejected the resurrected assisted suicide bill, voting to stop the bill from passing through Parliament by 286 votes to 270. The vote effectively means that the parliamentary push for assisted suicide is over for this Parliament, as it is unlikely that MPs will give any further time to debate the contentious topic.
Penalize terrorists, not Judea and Samaria: Protesters rally at Downing Street against UK sanctions
Demonstrators gathered outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday to protest British sanctions targeting Israeli individuals and organizations connected to Judea and Samaria, accusing the government of penalizing Israel rather than confronting terrorism.
Anthropic reveals Yemenis vibe coding ballistic-missile guidance; Iran using AI to target US Navy
A new report from Anthropic reveals how Yemeni terrorists, Iran and other actors have attempted to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools to develop weapons of mass destruction and to carry out attacks against the United States.
‘This Is the Most Dangerous Interview I Have Ever Done’: Dr. James Thorp on the Fauci Diary and the Missing Births
They knew in January 2021 that the shots were hitting pregnancy — then they threatened 62,000 obstetricians, paid hospitals $!80 billion to stay silent, told pregnant women it was safe, and watched live births collapse.
BRICS, Oman talks reveal how Gulf states are preparing for Iran’s next phase – analysis
The Iran conflict is entering a new phase amid key meetings in India and Oman. These meetings show how countries in the Gulf are looking to what may come next, even as Saudi Arabia faces pressure from Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Yemen. Oman is also hoping to host Gulf states and Iran at a meeting on Monday.
Trump said to reject Saudi request for strikes on Houthis, as they complete Bab el-Mandeb takeover
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly called President Trump twice Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Trump rejected the request, and US officials said the administration does not intend to take direct military action against the Houthis at this time.
