"Exterminating" the Jews is specifically, openly Hamas' goal.

Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360

I still think this is the worst take I've seen from a media outlet in the last few days.

Washington Post, take a bow

The leftwing media pumps out explicitly-pro-foreign-terrorism propaganda.

But the FBI will surveil me for noting that the leftwing media pumps out explicitly-pro-terrorism propaganda.

Open a file on the Washington Post?! But we mustn't! We must not ever penalize protected first amendment expression (from one of our leftwing clients/allies)!

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

NEW: Internal CBP data provided & confirmed by CBP sources reveals thousands of "special interest aliens" from mostly Middle Eastern countries have been apprehended by Border Patrol while crossing into U.S. illegally over last 2 years.

Syria: 538
Yemen: 139
Iran: 659
Iraq: 123
Afghanistan: 6,386
Lebanon: 164
Egypt: 3,153
Pakistan: 1,613
Mauritania: 15,594
Uzbekistan: 13,624
Turkey: 30,830

Date range 10/1/2021 - 10/4/2023

These are Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry only, this data does not include CBP encounters at ports of entry.

Border Patrol sources tell me they have extreme concerns about who is coming into the country because they have little to no way of vetting people from these special interest countries. I'm told unless they have committed a crime previously in the US, or they are on some sort of federal watchlist, there's no way to know who they are because most of their home countries don't share data/records with the US so there is nothing to match a name to when BP agents run fingerprints.

A special interest alien is a term used by the U.S. government to refer to people coming from countries that have conditions that favor or harbor terrorism, or pose a potential national security to the U.S.

Willowed but I see Ace has covered so,e of it

For those doubters, the beheading of babies have been confirmed by French journalists who actually saw the scene and the bodies.

Besides, most of the early video was taken by the terrorists themselves. They are proud of what they are doing.

So far I have seen postings from Harvard, Swarthmore, UVA saying this is right and good: kill the Jews.

People in front of the Sydney Oprea House chanting Gas the Jews.

This is not about Palestine or land or anything other than Kill the Jews.

They just have permission to say it out loud now.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2023

Glenn Reynolds: Israel's intelligence agencies missed this attack for the same reason the US "intelligence" agencies miss everything -- they're too busy interfering in internal politics to bother themselves with monitoring foreign threats.

We know what the Israeli intelligence agencies weren't doing, which is getting warning of the attack. So what were they doing?

Well, one thing was organizing protests against Netanyahu, in opposition to his party's platform of reform aimed at Israel's Supreme Court.

As a Washington Post headline says, "Israeli spy chiefs led secret revolt against Netanyahu reforms."

"The leaked document labeled top secret says that in February, senior leaders of the Mossad Spy Service 'advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest the new Israeli Government's proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli government,'" the article continues.

This "direct intervention into Israeli politics by Mossad, an external spy service forbidden from wading into domestic matters," is "a significant revelation."

So the Mossad, whose job is to protect Israel from external threats, was instead monkeying with domestic politics.

Meanwhile, Hamas planned mass slaughter, unmolested.

Was the distraction of the agency's (illicit) involvement in domestic politics the reason nobody noticed a huge terror operation in the works?

We may get the answer after the investigation Herzog promised, but there are already some lessons for us here in America.

It is a characteristic of every bureaucracy -- and intelligence agencies are very much bureaucracies -- that it tends to engage in mission creep, and its leadership tends to become increasingly focused on politics as opposed to mission.

...

While foreign enemies infiltrate the United States via porous borders and Iranian spy rings operate freely within America, the FBI has been infiltrating Catholic churches and treating parents who protest at school-board meetings and grandmas reciting prayers in front of abortion clinics as "domestic terrorists."

The FBI is doing these things because that's what its political masters want and because it's easier (and safer) to spy on Catholic congregations than to infiltrate terrorist groups.

Read the whole thing.

From last week: National Security Advisor (and key Russiagate Hoaxer) Jake Sullivan says "the middle east region has been quieter than it has been in decades;" boasts that he's spending almost no time at all on the middle east.