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Canada Under Siege, by the Red Chinese:
https://youtu.be/ho87awEYXGA?si=8AJTTxcPbbIws326
On the rapid fall of Canadian real estate and general economy:
https://youtu.be/HMwhcEp6IVA?si=JNWLXWY7Wl5xlluV
British Columbia:
https://youtu.be/rRinKyp21Zg?si=Ya0VvV-JxrBqdigz
Canadian household debt at $3.1 T is at its highest point in history. Any shock will lead to cascading defaults:
https://youtu.be/LciKdYUbIuc?si=EVWFebcIL6KO1_OB
Finally Melissa Lantsman on the quick debasement of the Canadian dollar:
https://youtu.be/thCvo0xktW0?si=LOxWEbd7tjz_sDX-
On digital IDs in Britain. A warning from a Chinese man who seems to know:
https://youtu.be/XQRfSkKVhlA?si=w-ihWrBhSi5lJh-S
About the American system of sovereignty vs the British system of globalism:
https://youtu.be/XQRfSkKVhlA?si=w-ihWrBhSi5lJh-S
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Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah
Listen to me and listen carefully.
The Trump admin is undermining major allies in the region, namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in favour of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey.
The decision to grant Qatar a defence agreement—which has not been extended to partners like Saudi Arabia and the UAE—represents a remarkable policy reversal, particularly given Qatar’s previous designation by Trump as a terror sponsor. This move, combined with marginalising Riyadh and Abu Dhabi on Gaza despite their shared objective of dismantling Hamas, is an act of madness.
We were the first to warn of Egypt’s sinister plan in Gaza, a position that was only later corroborated by reports of Saudi and Emirati concerns that mediators were attempting to ensure Hamas’s survival.
Egypt is the only country in the region whose President repeatedly refused an invitation to the White House, or to even receive President Trump’s Ambassador Mike Huckabee in Cairo, and got Trump running to Sharm El-Sheikh and showering them with praise.
This is the very definition of humilation and, quite frankly, it’s pathetic and sad.
This situation is unsustainable and will continue to deteriorate, and neither the UAE nor Saudi Arabia will put a penny into Gaza under Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey’s increased influence in the Strip.
https://x.com/Khaledhzakariah/status/1982798334860427722
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Cairo Gambles on Undermining Trump’s Gaza Plan
A resolution brokered by others, or one that diminishes Egypt’s role as the indispensable mediator, threatens Cairo’s geopolitical influence
Egypt is playing a dangerous double game. While publicly aligned with American efforts to stabilize the region, the Cairo regime undermines President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.
Ziyad al-Nakhalah, secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, fired the first rhetorical shot against the U.S.-Israeli proposal from the heart of Cairo, where he resides under the security and control of the Egyptian state. Reports confirm that Cairo has not only provided him a safe haven but also granted formal residency permits to him and other militant leaders, effectively institutionalizing their presence…
The primary driver of Egypt’s unspoken opposition is the plan’s failure to guarantee an Israeli withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow but strategic strip of land on Gaza’s border with Egypt. For Cairo, an ongoing Israeli military presence there is a red line, a violation of its sovereignty and a threat to its security…
https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/cairo-gambles-on-undermining-trumps-gaza-plan
Countries Unwilling to Join International Stabilization Force to Disarm Hamas
A senior Israeli official told Israel Hayom: “Israel is now dealing with a bloc that includes Turkey, Qatar and Egypt – countries interested in preserving Hamas’s role in Gaza to varying degrees and refusing to pressure it to disarm.”
In recent days, countries that were expected to deploy forces to help stabilize Gaza have made it clear they will not do so as long as Hamas retains its weapons. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE oppose sending troops to Gaza while Hamas continues to wield military power.
Arab diplomatic sources say Egypt is also unwilling to deploy troops at this stage. Egypt, like others, understands that clashes between its troops and armed Hamas operatives are only a matter of time, especially if there is any serious effort to disarm the terrorist group. This position is shared by other potential contributors to the stabilization force, including Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Morocco.
The practical result is that no international force is currently willing to take responsibility for Gaza or carry out its primary mission of disarming Hamas in line with the Trump plan.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/10/27/saudi-arabia-pulls-back-as-hamas-gains-ground/
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Turkey’s Road to Middle East Hegemony Runs Through Gaza
In the past decade, Turkey has become a regional power, competing with Israel not only in the Syrian and Palestinian arenas, but across the Middle East and beyond.
Ankara has established dozens of army bases in Libya and Qatar, Somalia and Iraq. It has conquered territory in northern Syria and has erected training bases for the new Syrian army.
Turkey has a military presence in Azerbaijan and Djibouti, and dozens of its soldiers serving in UNIFIL in Lebanon.
Turkey is already deeply involved in Gaza. Turkish aid organizations such as the IHH, which initiated the deadly Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010, now deal, among other things, with clearing rubble from the streets of Gaza.
https://archive.ph/Vk7UF
Khaled Abu Toameh is ine of the very best:
A “Technocratic Government” for Gaza: The Mother of All Deceptions
Are Egypt and Qatar working to ensure Hamas’s continued rule over Gaza by allowing the terror group to choose members of a new technocratic government? Hamas submitted a list of more than 40 “independent national figures” as potential candidates to form a technocratic body to administer Gaza, including figures sympathetic to the terror group, while the Palestinian Authority chose the rest.
“Hamas inserted about half of the technocratic government’s composition, choosing individuals who support Hamas and its principles…”
That Hamas and other terror groups are involved in the discussions over the formation of the new government in Gaza is problematic. The terrorists who launched the war should not be allowed to have a say in Gaza’s future governance.
The talk about “independent” Palestinian figures being part of the technocratic government is laughable. If you are chosen by a terrorist group to serve in the government, that means it views you as someone it can trust to prioritize its interests.
Moreover, negotiating with Hamas and other terror groups over the future governance of Gaza grants them legitimacy. At the same time, Hamas leaders have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention to disarm.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22016/gaza-palestinians-technocratic-government
Khaled Abu Toameh is ine of the very best:
A “Technocratic Government” for Gaza: The Mother of All Deceptions
Are Egypt and Qatar working to ensure Hamas’s continued rule over Gaza by allowing the terror group to choose members of a new technocratic government? Hamas submitted a list of more than 40 “independent national figures” as potential candidates to form a technocratic body to administer Gaza, including figures sympathetic to the terror group, while the Palestinian Authority chose the rest.
“Hamas inserted about half of the technocratic government’s composition, choosing individuals who support Hamas and its principles…”
That Hamas and other terror groups are involved in the discussions over the formation of the new government in Gaza is problematic. The terrorists who launched the war should not be allowed to have a say in Gaza’s future governance.
The talk about “independent” Palestinian figures being part of the technocratic government is laughable. If you are chosen by a terrorist group to serve in the government, that means it views you as someone it can trust to prioritize its interests.
Moreover, negotiating with Hamas and other terror groups over the future governance of Gaza grants them legitimacy. At the same time, Hamas leaders have repeatedly emphasized that their group has no intention to disarm.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22016/gaza-palestinians-technocratic-government
!! Jonathan Spyer !! WSJ:
The Iranian Islamist Bloc Has Been Weakened, but the Sunni Islamist Alliance Has Grown Stronger
After two years of war, it becomes clear that the battles haven’t led to a fundamental strategic transformation of the region. The balance of power between existing power blocs has been somewhat altered, but no one has faced total defeat, with the notable exception of the Assad regime in Syria.
The war of the past two years consisted of a clash between the Iran-led regional alliance and Israel, with crucial support from the U.S. The result is that Iran and its allies have been bloodied but not destroyed.
Iran itself was pounded by Israeli and American ordnance, which it proved unable to divert. Its nuclear program has been damaged and its centers of governance attacked. Its efforts to strike at Israel proved generally ineffectual.
Lebanese Hizbullah’s historic leadership is decimated, its missile array largely destroyed, and many of its midlevel commanders killed.
The Yemeni Houthis have been severely mauled by Israeli air power, with little to show for their many attempts to attack the Jewish state.
The Iraqi Shiite militias, after some drone and rocket attacks on U.S. forces, scaled back.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad suffered enormous losses and ceded most of Gaza. In all these cases, recovery and rebuilding are underway.
The Sunni Islamist alliance, whose main components are Turkey and Qatar, appears to have played a crucial role in cajoling Hamas to accept the Trump plan and the Gaza ceasefire. It did so not to secure a lasting peace, but to ensure Hamas’s survival. The Sunni Islamists of Gaza are a natural and comfortable ally of this bloc, whose outlook they share in all essentials.
In the Middle East, one Islamist bloc, that of the Iranians, has been considerably weakened. Another, that of Turkey and Qatar, has grown stronger. The contest is set to continue.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mideast-cease-fire-is-both-a-defeat-and-a-victory-for-islamists-54628e8a?mod=opinion_lead_pos8
AEI:
The State of the Axis of Resistance: Assessing Risks and Opportunities for the United States
Executive Summary:
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/the-state-of-the-axis-of-resistance
Looks like Jonathan Spyer has become director of research at Dan Pipes’ Middle East Forum.
That’s a relief. He’s spent altogether too much time on enemy territory as solder/journalist/ and… well…Spyer.
Phase II of the Gaza Agreement: The American Vision and Israel’s Security Considerations
The series of visits by senior U.S. administration officials to Israel, alongside the deployment of American forces at the forward headquarters in Kiryat Gat overseeing the Gaza ceasefire agreement, reflect President Trump’s strong commitment to ensuring the agreement’s success.
Despite broad understandings between Jerusalem and Washington, the American determination to accelerate implementation may generate significant gaps between the sides. The U.S. favors an international mechanism under its supervision to ensure a phased disarmament process alongside a gradual Israeli withdrawal. Israel insists on complete dismantling of terrorist infrastructure as a precondition for any change in troop deployment and rejects parallel or reciprocal frameworks.
Washington, backed by Arab states, tends to soften the condition that the interim governing body be fully detached from the Palestinian Authority, while Israel opposes the inclusion of figures affiliated with it or with Hamas and demands binding security guarantees before reducing the IDF’s presence. Moreover, Israel conditions any reconstruction step on the completion of disarmament and strict security oversight, rejecting the transfer of funds before “the military threat is completely removed.”
The second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement places U.S.-Israel relations in a delicate test between an American political vision and Israel’s imperative to maintain security control. While Trump views the agreement as a lever for building a new regional order, Israel’s priority remains safeguarding its security and operational independence.
https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/phase-ii-of-the-gaza-agreement-between-the-american-vision-and-israels-security-considerations/
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Graeme Wood (Atlantic)
No One Knows How to Pull Off the Gaza Peace Deal
The Oct. 13 peace summit in Sharm al-Sheikh – where Donald Trump assembled more than 30 world leaders – achieved, for about two hours, general agreement on a 20-point plan for Gaza. It immediately freed the remaining 20 living Israeli hostages, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, plus assurances of an Israeli military withdrawal.
Yet the remaining steps of the plan – disarming Hamas, fielding an international security force – will be a challenge since no one knows how to do them. “It’s not going to happen,” a former Israeli intelligence official told me. Disarming Hamas is a task that only the Israeli military can handle, he said.
The plan’s 13th point calls for the permanent destruction of the 500 miles of tunnels built by Hamas under Gaza. Israel has destroyed 200 miles of tunnels. Who will destroy the rest? And how, if Hamas shoots at the engineers who are destroying them?
The countries currently being considered for the International Stabilization Force have no relevant experience. And many of them – Indonesia, Pakistan – don’t know a word of Arabic. What will happen the first time an Indonesian or Pakistani military contingent gets hit by a rocket, or sees Hamas preparing for an attack and fails to prevent it?
https://archive.ph/08Ty4
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Jonathan Sacerdoti:
A “Two Gaza Solution”
The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed shape. The American vision that has emerged is vast in ambition and uncertain in outcome. President Trump’s envoys have constructed a regional framework that joins the recovery of Gaza to a broader project linking Arab capital, American protection, and Israeli restraint. For the moment, it works. Hostages have been released, the guns are quieter, and the promise of a new Gaza is being drawn on every conference table.
Yet on the ground, two Gazas now exist. To the west, the remnant of Hamas authority. To the east, the zone under Israeli control. Eastern Gaza will be demilitarized and reconstructed under international sponsorship. Western Gaza is left to Hamas’s residual power and the patronage of its regional allies.
Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, insists that Hamas, as an Islamic jihadist movement, “will not lay down its arms voluntarily because that would be tantamount to erasing its identity” and argues that the only realistic agent of disarmament in the short term is the IDF. What remains now for Israel is to secure the gains, shape the reconstruction, and prevent the return of illusions.
https://archive.ph/0r6Bg
To support Hezbollah on behalf of the twisted ragheads?
France responsible for UNIFIL decision to shoot down Israeli drone in southern Lebanon
France was responsible for deciding to shoot down an Israeli drone in Kafr Kila on Sunday, a diplomatic source told Le Figaro. The outlet also reported that the UNIFIL peacekeepers were French.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-871863
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UNIFIL Shoots Down IDF Surveillance Drone over Southern Lebanon
An Israeli military drone was shot down by the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) during a routine surveillance mission on Sunday. The IDF said Monday that the drone had posed no threat to the UNIFIL observers who opened fire on it.
Israel has long argued that the observer force has failed in its mission, doing little to block Hizbullah from building up its forces near the Israeli border over decades. In August, the UN Security Council voted to end UNIFIL’s mission in 2027.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/unifil-shoots-down-idf-surveillance-drone-over-southern-lebanon-sparking-public-tiff/
On Hizbullah’s Disarmament, Israel Will Not Compromise
Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire to end the Hizbullah-Israel war in November 2024. In the deal, Beirut committed to disarm Hizbullah.
Today, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is collecting weapons and dismantling Hizbullah infrastructure in the south of the country, but Beirut is balking about undertaking its obligations in the north.
Fearing civil war, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun started talking about “containing” Hizbullah’s weapons north of the Litani.
Yet there will be no peace, no sovereignty, and no reconstruction for postwar Lebanon absent the confiscation of Hizbullah weapons.
Hizbullah is currently at its weakest point, but left intact, it will certainly reconstitute.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/on-hezbollahs-disarmament-israel-will-not-compromise
Macron has forces in Poland undergoing intensive training before deploying to Ukraine. The first couple minutes of this video.
Killzone, The Cauldron Day Two: New Attempts To Break Out Of The Encirclement Failed
Israel Defense Forces @IDF
WATCH: Two years since the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza, IDF troops have continued to eliminate threats, dismantle Hamas terror infrastructure, and work to bring every hostage home.
https://x.com/IDF/status/1982758919207583994
Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13
WATCH: Exclusive footage from the last days of Hams leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar. The strongman in Gaza moves between the ruins in Rafah, from one building to another for fear of being discovered, struggling to walk, accompanied by two armed bodyguards.
In a few days, he will be accidentally eliminated by IDF forces who surrounded a random terrorist cell—and later they discovered that they got the architect of the October 7 massacre.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1982907043422830671
Canary Mission @canarymission
MAMDANI’S HOSTILE TAKEOVER
Leaked video reveals Mamdani and the DSA’s real agenda:
“We hate the Democratic Party”
“We need to orient ourselves toward insurrection”
They’ve captured the party, they’re seizing NYC, and now have their sights on destroying America.
https://x.com/canarymission/status/1983234094038122737
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Canary Mission @canarymission
Just Released: Canary Mission uncovered a sweeping DSA effort to capture the Democratic Party, with links to terror-tied networks and anti-police activists surrounding Zohran Mamdani.
Full report:
Hostile Takeover: The DSA’s Plan to Capture American Politics: Mamdani’s Network of Influence
Across the political spectrum, Americans value democracy, fairness and freedom of thought. Yet a movement has emerged that directly challenges those ideals — the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
As its leaders repeatedly state, the DSA are NOT Democrats. They are an external force that has infiltrated the Democratic Party to reshape it in their own image. Like the cuckoo that lays its eggs in another bird’s nest and then throws out the original bird’s eggs, the DSA is using the party’s structure and reputation while working to replace it with its own extremist agenda.
If successful, this project would transform one of America’s great political parties into an unrecognizable entity hostile to the institutions that define our country.
https://canarymission.org/campaign/DSA
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