US deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as tensions rise
Al Mayadeen | October 1, 2024
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Monday said the US is increasing its military presence in the Middle East by deploying a “few thousand” additional troops.
According to a statement, this includes bringing in new units and extending the stay of those already stationed there.
“A certain number of units already deployed to the Middle East region… will be extended and the forces due to rotate into theater to replace them will now instead augment” those that are already there, Singh said.
“These augmented forces include F-16, F-15E, A-10, F-22 fighter aircraft and associated personnel,” Singh added, noting that there will be “an additional few thousand” personnel in the region as a result.
This comes in light of heightened escalations amid the start of “Israel’s” “localized and targeted” aggression of Lebanon.
The latest attacks on US positions in the region include a strike on the US military’s Victoria base near Baghdad Airport, occurring late Monday into Tuesday.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have also struck Israeli military targets earlier today using long-range multi-purpose one-way assault Samad 4 drone.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah continues its operations targeting Israeli movements within the occupied Palestinian territories.
Iran also launched a response to the Israeli assassinations of martyrs Haniyeh, Sayyed Nasrallah, and General Nilforooshian earlier, launching hundreds of rockets toward occupied Palestine.
Heightened escalations
On Monday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed support to Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant for “dismantling attack infrastructure” belonging to Hezbollah.
Austin also warned Iran of “serious consequences” should it directly strike “Israel” in retaliation for attacks on the Lebanese Resistance group.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah Political Council member Mahmoud Qomati said in an interview with Al Mayadeen that Hezbollah’s allies “will intervene if the battle expands.”
Qomati warned that southern Lebanon “will become a graveyard for the occupation forces” should they enter, highlighting the Resistance’s vast arsenal of unused weapons and the fighters’ readiness to engage with Israeli forces.
Addressing observers, Qomati said the Resistance was rebuilt immediately following the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The legacy of Sayyed Nasrallah is well-maintained, he said, adding, “his trust is in our hands and will remain so with every leader and fighter.”
Qomati also reiterated Hezbollah’s stance, which had been affirmed by the late Secretary-General since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s war on Gaza, stressing that the party “will not halt its support unless a comprehensive proposal is put forward, including a ceasefire in Gaza.”
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To all Jews everywhere, just remember that your leaders chose this path. Just as after 1945 “there were no ‘good’ Germans” so there will be “no good Jews”. [Any Jew is automatically an Israeli citizen.]
To all Americans everywhere, just remember that your leaders chose this path. Do not cry and say “It wasn’t me.” when the retribution for the actions of the US comes calling. And it will.
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“Jewish” is not an ethnicity but rather an adherence to an ideology.
One can be raised as a Jew but if they turn away from supremacism they are categorically no longer “Jewish”. This is according to Talmudic law as posted at the Chabad Lubavich site and as accepted by Israel’s chief Rabbi. There truly are no innocent Jews.
By contrast, there were many more Germans than Nazis. Also, Nazism was hardly more supremacist than the typical British imperialist or American exceptionalist of the era anyway.
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Thanks, but I would say “Jew” is both a culture and a club. One can embrace the culture of entitlement and arrogance without being Jewish, but you will never be invited into the club. I grew up in a 90% Jewish area and had jews as business partners. I was and always will be a Goy, a trusted Goy and a very useful Goy, but always an outsider.
By Nov 1933 Nazi had 93% of the vote. By 1938 membership was almost universal. Not because of ideological reasons but pragmatically you had to join the party to get any kind of preferment or promotion.
Same as being Jewish.
British and US imperialism was entirely different to Nazis. Nazi ( and today’s China and Russia) is all about language and culture. They don’t want an empire all they want(ed) is to be allowed to be German, Russian or Chinese, the imperialists want them to be little Englanders or Americans and cannot fathom that 90% of the world don’t want to be either.
Jews are the world’s pre-eminent Imperialists.
Baba Necia 114, 6:“The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”
Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L:“Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”
The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship, in this new world order the Jews will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state
Thus will the purpose of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which it is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.
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A short take on the issue:
One can be a former Nazi or a former Jew.
Becoming a former German is not the same, even with emmigration.
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Viva la Resistance! Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! … -cum Victoire!
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