Israel-Gaza War (and Iranian Distractions)

[Syne]

That's the standard attitude toward Jews throughout the Arab/Muslim world. Just emboldened by the Hamas attack.

How can you appease that?

[Yazata]

Apparently a Russian commercial airline flight from Tel Aviv Israel did land at the airport. The plane appears to be surrounded by rioters shouting "Allahu akbar!" and waving Palestinian flags as I write this. Its passengers are still aboard and the mob is demanding that they exit the plane so it can be determined who is and isn't Jewish.

I believe that there are many Russian military in Dagestan, given that it is adjacent to Chechnia and even more militant, if that's possible. Something like 14 different languages are spoken in Dagestan and as the saying goes, the only thing that they hate more than Russia is each other. So Russia exploits the differences to keep a lid on.

I'm thinking that it might be time for Putin to order Russian army MPs to take over airport security.

[Syne]

Putin might decide it's better to use the situation as a proxy against the West. I mean, why wouldn't he align with Muslims?

[Yazata]

Canada has beefed up security at their embassy in Israel (located in Tel Aviv) with members of Joint Task Force 2, a Canadian special forces unit.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10056886/cana...ed-israel/

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Russian authorities are saying that the situation at Makhachkala International Airport in Dagestan is now “under control”. Moscow says that security forces have removed rioters from the airport terminal, runways and tarmac.

Apparently this doesn't extend to the nearby hotels where militants were reportedly going room to room in search of Jews.

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The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency says that Makhachkala International Airport in Dagestan will remain closed for at least a week due to civil unrest.

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Mass-arrests at Makhachkala International Airport are being conducted by security forces in helmets and body armor, reportedly members of the Rosgvardiya (National Guard of Russia) who seem to have taken over from local police who were more inclined to just watch. The video coming out appears to show Rosgvard pushing crowds back and that they have lots of people down on the ground, putting on handcuffs or zip-ties or some kind of restraints.

Russia seems to have responded to this quickly and forcefully.

[C C]

Troubling reports are coming out of the Russian "Autonomous Republic" of Dagestan, located just north of the Caucusus mountains along the west shore of the Caspian sea. Dagestan is a largely Muslim region (83%), poorly controlled by Moscow. (Dagestan is 9% 'spiritual but not religious', 2.4% Russian Orthodox, 2% atheist and 2% practice folk religion, plus an assortment of smaller groups.)

[...] By all accounts an old-style anti-Jewish pogrom is underway in this remote place.

As they once did in the past (but got bitten from)... If Muslim countries and regions really cared about Palestinians, they'd take them in as refugees -- as well as the option of becoming naturalized citizens. The rage stems from ideology looking for excuses and opportunities to bare and flex the (WWII enhanced) inner monster of Islam in public.

Why Egypt and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian-j...878b66bd3d

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[Yazata]

Israel says that they are coordinating with Russia, that the passengers from the plane are safe in a secure location, and that Israelis and/or Russian Jews in Makhachkala will be flown to Moscow as soon as that can be arranged.

[RainbowUnicorn]

Troubling reports are coming out of the Russian "Autonomous Republic" of Dagestan, located just north of the Caucusus mountains along the west shore of the Caspian sea. Dagestan is a largely Muslim region (83%), poorly controlled by Moscow. (Dagestan is 9% 'spiritual but not religious', 2.4% Russian Orthodox, 2% atheist and 2% practice folk religion, plus an assortment of smaller groups.)

Well, rumors appeared to have swept the Republic's capital that an Israeli plane was due to land at the local airport. So mobs of rioters took over the airport in hopes of "killing Jews". When no Israeli plane arrived, mobs started going hotel to hotel, in search of Jews to kill. This is continuing as I write this.

It's unknown whether any Jews or suspected-Jews have actually been killed. (In Soviet times several thousand Jews lived there, but as Islamic militancy increased in recent years most left, many moving to Israel. There may be a few hundred left.) It's unknown whether foreigners have been attacked. (I doubt that many Americans, Canadians or Europeans are in Dagestan.) Video shows local police just standing by and watching. (The police are mostly locals and report to the 'autonomous republic's' Muslim government, they aren't ethnic Russians controlled by Moscow.)

By all accounts an old-style anti-Jewish pogrom is underway in this remote place.

reminds me of the documentary i watched about chimpanzees going on a monkey hunt & how they would rile each other up before hand.
same/same
chimpanzee brains
it's a war between the uncivilized chimpanzee brains and the civilized human brains.
the civilized must prevail at all costs because genocide is the opposition.
modern civilized world verses old blood thirsty world

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QkGvblv_ts4

[RainbowUnicorn]

Israel says that they are coordinating with Russia, that the passengers from the plane are safe in a secure location, and that Israelis and/or Russian Jews in Makhachkala will be flown to Moscow as soon as that can be arranged.

i wonder what attracted them to such a shit hole country in the first place

[Yazata]

There's apparently some kind of Israeli military operation underway in the West Bank city of Jenin. A big convoy of MRAP-type vehicles went in along with armored bulldozers that are crashing through road barricades. The Palestinians appear to have planted IEDs along the roads and there are Israeli injuries, some serious.

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Thanks to Evergreen Intel for this interesting information:

Unusual collection of six USAF C-17 transport aircraft south of Fort Sill Oklahoma.

The relevance of these aircraft to the Middle Eastern war is that Ft. Sill is home to many of the US Army's air defense missile batteries. Want to defend something against rockets? Oklahoma is where you go. So the gathering of military transport aircraft suggests these batteries are on the move. Given that US air defense batteries are being deployed all over the Middle East, it's not hard to guess what's happening here.

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[Yazata]

The White House says

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/17...4160479396

The restoration of communications in Gaza was critical.

Aid workers, civilians, and journalists need to be able to communicate to each other and the rest of the world. Our Administration cared about this, worked on it, and are glad to see it restored.

Unclear if they are talking about Elon's recent Starlink disagreement with the Israeli Communications Minister. I don't believe that Starlink comms will be activated for regular Gaza civilians, just well-vetted international aid organizations. What's more, it isn't even clear how many Starlink terminals there are in Gaza.