October 11, 2023 Good morning, Leading the News . . . Pray for Israel and the United States of America At least 40 babies, some beheaded, found by Israel soldiers in Hamas-attacked village . . . The families of missing Americans held a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday and asked the Biden administration for help to bring their loved ones home. Israel’s military has discovered unspeakable horrors in an Israeli community that was attacked by
Hamas on Saturday, including dozens of dead babies, some with their heads chopped off, Israeli media reported. According to local Israeli outlet i24News, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers moved into Kfar Aza, one of the communities Hamas terrorists invaded early Saturday morning, and discovered about 40 dead babies, some decapitated — highlighting the brutality of the invading forces. Fox News IDF strikes Hezbollah position in Lebanon after missiles fired at border post . . . The Lebanese Hezbollah terror group launched anti-tank guided missiles at an Israeli army post on the northern border on Wednesday. The Israel Defense Forces said it responded with a drone strike on
a Hezbollah post, as fighting continued in southern Israel in the wake of a devastating attack launched by the Palestinian Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. There have been several deadly clashes on the northern border in recent days, some of them claimed by Palestinian terror groups operating out of Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon, and others by Hezbollah themselves. Times of Israel Who is Mohammed Deif, the Hamas commander behind the attack on Israel?
. . . Israel calls last week's devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood. The phrase Israel's most wanted man used in an audio tape broadcast as Hamas fired thousands of rockets out of the Gaza strip on Saturday signalled the attack was payback for Israeli raids at
Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque. It was in May 2021, after a raid on Islam's third holiest site that enraged the Arab and Muslim world, when Deif began planning the operation that has killed 1,200 people in Israel and wounded more than 2,700, a source close to Hamas said. Reuters Stop exploitation of your personal information with Incogni . . . Hundreds of companies are collecting & trading your personal information. Data brokers create shadow profiles on you that include a
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Why Democrats aren’t far ahead heading into 2024 . . . Given the behavior of former President Donald
Trump, House Republicans and the Freedom Caucus wing of the Republican Party, it’s hard to believe that the 2024 presidential and congressional elections are going to be close. But they will be. The GOP’s likely nominee for president is as vulgar and dishonest as any nominee in history. He has been impeached twice and indicted four times — yet actually has a chance to be nominated for president in 2024 and to win that election. Roll Call This speaker race might take a while, Republicans warn . . . House Republicans took another baby step toward
picking their next speaker Tuesday night, as they gathered for an official candidate forum. The event gave the two official contenders — Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan — a chance to make their pitches to colleagues, but didn’t seem to resolve much of the race’s uncertainty. Here are our takeaways from the evening. Semafor No clear front runner for House Speaker after GOP candidate forum, lawmakers say . . . A closed-door candidate forum for House Speaker held Tuesday with GOP Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, making
their final pitches for the post failed to produce a clear frontrunner, according to multiple GOP lawmakers who attended the event. Held during a party conference meeting, the forum saw the two declared candidates attempt to woo Republican representatives to become the next leader of the lower chamber of Congress. Votes are on hold in the House until a new Speaker assumes office. The winner will need a simple majority of 218 of yes votes on the House floor to assume office. Just the News Biden Tapped This Group to Fight Anti-Semitism. It’s Defending Hamas’s Attack on Israel . . . The Biden administration earlier this year tapped the Council on American-Islamic Relations for an initiative to
curb anti-Semitism. This week, the anti-Semitic group and its leaders defended Hamas attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Jews. Free Beacon
US special operations forces, hostage rescue experts assisting Israeli forces: report . . . The US
has sent a team of hostage rescue experts to advise the Israeli military on a potential rescue of the 150 hostages violently abducted by Hamas terrorists and taken across the border to Gaza during a surprise attack on south Israel, according to a report. A small group of US special operations forces is also working with the Israel Defense Forces in response to the bloody Hamas ambush that killed more than a thousand people in Israel, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday. New York Post Thousands of 'special interest
aliens' from Middle East countries stopped at southern border since 2021: data . . . Thousands of "special interest aliens" from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News. "Special interest aliens" are people from countries identified by the U.S. government as having
conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat to the U.S. That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria. Fox News Boeing Sped 1,000 Smart Bombs to Israel After Hamas Attacks . . .
Boeing Co. accelerated delivery of 1,000 smart bombs to Israel as the country steps up retaliation against Hamas after the devastating weekend attack that killed hundreds of people, industry and defense officials said. The 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs, part of a 2021 contract, were flown from an Air Force base in the US by Israeli Air Force transport, according to an industry official who asked not to be identified discussing the arrangements. Bloomberg Discover the wine you love
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Israel responds to Hezbollah attack from Lebanon deploying 'tens of thousands' to northern border .
. . Israeli forces have launched rockets into southern Lebanon, striking Hezbollah forces after the terror group fired anti-tank missiles across the border initially hitting Israeli soldiers, officials said. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said Wednesday that the Israeli army shelled the Lebanese border town of Duhaira and the surrounding area where the missile attack came from. He also said Israel was actively fighting a secondary front along Israel’s
northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon, in addition to the counteroffensive the IDF is launching in the Gaza Strip. Fox News Zelensky Visits NATO as Alliance Considers More Aid to Ukraine . . . President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made a surprise visit to NATO headquarters on Wednesday, as top defense officials representing members of the military alliance gathered to consider how many more weapons — and for how much longer — the West can give Ukraine in its war against Russia. New York Times The Russia-Iran axis is fomenting war in the Middle East . . . It doesn’t take much strategic
insight to join the dots between Gaza, Tehran and Moscow. The devastating onslaught against Israel is not the work of terrorists fighting alone. These are not desperate freedom fighters trying to rid their land of imperialist occupiers as the warped anti-Israel narrative – originally dreamt up by the KGB in Moscow – would have you believe. Rather, they are willing tools of an Iran-Russia axis that wants to foment war and chaos in the Middle East in pursuit of their own geopolitical
objectives....Telegraph UK Putin blames failure of US policy for Mideast conflict, Russia says talking to both sides . . . Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the explosion of violence between Israel and the Palestinians showed the U.S. policy had failed
in the Middle East and taken no account of the needs of the Palestinians. Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said the Kremlin was in touch with both warring sides and would seek to play a role in resolving the conflict, but did not specify how. Peskov warned that the conflict risked spilling over into other regions. Reuters NORSAR blames gas pipeline explosion on foul play, investigating sabotage . . . The Finnish government suspects foul play in the disruption and damage to a key gas pipeline after a regional seismic observer discovered evidence of an explosion. The Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) announced Tuesday that the reported damage to the Baltic-connector pipeline was caused by "external activity." "NORSAR have detected a probable explosion along the Finnish coast of the Baltic Sea at 01:20 (local time in Finland) on 8th October 2023," the foundation said. "This explosion was detected using stations in Finland." Fox News
Money Federal budget deficit reached whopping $1.7 trillion for fiscal year 2023: Watchdog . . . The U.S. government’s budget deficit finished at a whopping $1.7 trillion for the 2023 fiscal year that ended last month, according to a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analysis released Tuesday. The monthly deficit was $166 billion in September alone as Congress debates an appropriations bill for 2024 before the Nov.
17 deadline to avoid a government shutdown. Just the News IMF urges governments to cut deficits to dent inflation . . . Governments around the world must take more meaningful steps to rein in public spending and raise revenues or risk hindering central banks’ efforts to tame inflation, an IMF official has warned. Vitor Gaspar, head of the fiscal affairs department at the multilateral lender, urged policymakers to tighten fiscal
policy at a time when it was becoming “increasingly difficult for most countries around the world to balance public finances”. Financial Times U.S. Announces New Military Aid for
Ukraine as Obstacles Mount . . . The Pentagon announced a new batch of weaponry and other materiel for Ukraine’s effort to fight off Russia’s invasion, amid rising obstacles in Washington to future military and financial support. The package, valued at about $200 million, was announced by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ahead of a meeting with allies here Wednesday.
Longer-term decisions over military support for Ukraine are on hold in Washington, where the House is without a speaker and Republicans are split over extending funding. Wall Street Journal
Culture ‘I Stand With Palestine’: BLM in Chicago, Indianapolis Blasted for Celebrating Hamas’ Violence . . . Black Lives Matter chapters in Indianapolis and Chicago are drawing sharp bipartisan criticism for praising the heinous actions of Hamas in its brutal invasion of Israel. On Tuesday, the Black Lives Matter Indy
organization retweeted a post from the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, praising “[t]he heroic Palestinian people” and their “right to resist their racist, white supremacist, land-stealing [Z]ionist occupiers!” Daily Signal Biden’s White House is hostage to a ferocious cadre of radical children . . . The Democratic Party is in a state of rhetorical paralysis. This weekend, as Palestinian terrorists streamed across the Israeli border, the White House maintained hours of thunderous silence. On
Saturday, the Biden administration released a few limp paragraphs to the effect that “terrorism is never justified” and “Israel has a right to defend itself and its people.” This, after an uninterrupted outpouring of financial and oratorical support for Ukraine, is weak tea. But as the head of a party that is being overrun in not-so-slow motion by a vigorous young coterie of anti-Israel extremists, what more could Joe Biden say? Spencer A. Klavan
Hamas Militants Behind Israel Attack Raised Millions in Crypto . . . Hamas’s lightning strike on
Israel last weekend has raised the question how the group financed the surprise operation. One answer: cryptocurrency. During the year leading up to the attacks, three militant groups—Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and their Lebanese ally Hezbollah—received large amounts of funds through crypto, according to a review of Israeli government seizure orders and blockchain analytics reports. Digital-currency wallets that Israeli authorities linked to the PIJ received as much as $93 million in
crypto between August 2021 and June this year, analysis by leading crypto researcher Elliptic showed. Wall Street Journal Hamas uses social media to incite fear, researchers find . . . The Palestinian militant group spread violent images and propaganda on platforms like Telegram and X in the wake of its brutal attack on Israel. Social media was a key tool of Hamas militants as they waged their brutal attack on Israel over the weekend, according to an online misinformation expert: the group leaned on platforms
with loose rules against terrorism propaganda and misinformation to sow fear and misinformation. Politico Anonymous donor buys 250 plane tickets for Israel-bound IDF reservists at JFK airport: Report . . . An anonymous man reportedly purchased plane tickets for 250 Israeli Defense Force reservists at New York's JFK Airport on Monday. Avi Meyer, the Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post, shared the heartwarming story on X, saying that the benevolent donor wished to remain anonymous. Fox Business
Dog dubbed 'Cheeto' after rescue from plastic cheese ball container . . . A dog seen wandering with
a plastic cheese ball container stuck over its head for at least three days was freed by animal rescuers in Michigan. Tom Walsh, who runs the Last Stop Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in Carleton with his wife, Sue, said the dog, nicknamed Cheeto, was seen wandering for at least three days with its head stuck in the plastic jug. Walsh said a member of the public was able to catch the dog and brought him to the rescue, where the jug was finally removed. Cheeto did not have any ID tags or a
microchip when he was found, but the rescue is now hoping to find the canine's owner. UPI
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