I recall seing these videos of the people in Gaza celebrating the attack on Israel, and striking the Israeli hostages, some of them dead and half naked like Shani Louk, who were paraded through the streets. No one seems to remember this now.
When they came back, countless hostages survivors said Hamas had to shield them from the mob of "civilians" who wanted to tear them limb from limb.
Look what they did to the hostages who arrived dead:
https://t.co/qAwhiyPRAC
It's been three years since the October 7th terror attacks where 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage into Gaza. NBC News' Raf Sanchez was in Israel covering the events that would cause a major shift in the Middle East.
My governor on Trump's deranged invitation to Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego ...
An American president is talking about Los Angeles and San Diego being “taken out.”
Where the hell is Congress?
This is dangerous. The time to stand up is NOW. https://t.co/1PVG6PHb7m
In speech tonight, Trump suggests Iran should strike L.A. and San Diego with nuclear weapons, saying "it's a small price to pay". The crowd of Republicans cheers.
Israel is observing a national memorial day on Monday for those killed in the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks and the soldiers who died in the Gaza war, Israeli media reported.
The baby and his brother and mother were killed by their captors.
I recall the plane hijackings of the 70s. I was often flying back then. My family's flight to Europe in July of 1976 took place just after one of the most notorious hijackings - -that of Air France flight 139 on June 27, 1976 ...
Following the 27 June hijacking, the captors took the 248 passengers hostage with the objective of compelling the release of imprisoned Palestinian militants and international prisoners ...
It was during the rescue of these hostages by Israeli forces that PM Netanyahu's brother was killed.
The Times of Israel's military correspondent reviews the film NAZA.
By now you may have heard of the documentary film NAZA. It's made by two Israeli journalists who were sponsored by The Guardian (UK), and it purports to show that the Israeli army used AI to help evaluate the number of civilian deaths that might be caused by certain air strikes in Gaza targeting terrorists. It showed at the Venice film festival where it got a 25 minute standing ovation.
It should be mentioned that none of the claims made in the movie have been substantiated, and none of the soldiers making claims is identified. Also, the movie was released just before elections in Israel, probably in order to influence them.
All modern armed forces use AI. As for calculating and limiting civilian deaths through this use of AI - it's a good thing, not a bad thing. In fact, our own miliatry has, under Hegseth, actually shut down the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response (CHMR) office and the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence (Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.). So, if nothing else, Israel's military is more concerned about limiting civilian deaths than our own military now is.
I think this film is another example of the almost rabid hatred of Israel that seems to now grip Europe and the US. The recent concert debacle with Macklemore and Ed Sheeran is an example of this. My own political party seems happy to take advantage of this hate in order to win more votes.
Bill Gates interview with Kristen Welker of Meet the Press.
Gates believes we need government intervention to create safety systems for AI and he wants to talk to Trump about this, but given the fact that Trump and his family are financially invested in AI growth, I think Gates' advice will just be ignored.
Interesting that so many have shown up to see him. The Catholic church in France is both relatively small and very conservative, and there is that French SSPX group that rejects Vatican II, so kind of suprising to see how popular Pope Leo is. Good for him :)
I saw this tonight, one of Haviv Rettig Gur's videos in the series "Ask Haviv Anything".
What struck me was the other person in the video, the one asking the question - Ayman Mohyeldin. I've seen him many times on MSNBC/MSNOW where he has a show. He always seemed like a reasonable person but this question he asks Haviv is so contrived and hostile that I doubt he honestly wants an answer.
So the ballroom is really a bunker and the arch is really a kill zone. Just who exactly are all these snipers and drones going to be targeting? Alien invasion? Zombie apocalypse? The American people?
Nope, I'm not of German extraction (me Scotch-Irish/French), and I don't drink alcohol, but I have liked Oktoberfest ever since college, when I and my sister and my boyfriend all took German as our foreign language.
There's just something so cheerful about it. I love the mish-mash vibes of a European past ... fairy tales, forests and alpine peaks, castles, and polka music ... yes polka music :) ...
