(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Irony Dome: 'Apparently, only Trump can save Israel.' [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-10 Previous Guy's 'Truth' is fungible enough to hide his mistakes in office that made Iran stronger Nearly every Trump statement in his latest shtick-fest/speech in New Hampshire was a lie. We’re now so numb to his pathetic stand-up routines that the GOP disinformation about his blunders in Iran despite assassinating individuals seem even more incredible than his presidential crime spree. On social media, a number of people believe that Trump's handing over of Israeli information may have resulted in Iran assisting the Palestinian group. Trump’s actions in office kept the current Iranian regime in place, one that supported the Hamas attack. His errors in Syria and his continuing support for Russia along with the GOP have raised the risks for regional conflict. "this government, which is the worst government in the history of the state of Israel, led by a corrupt, dysfunctional, and egoistic man who sees only himself—Benjamin Netanyahu—failed us." An extraordinary survivors' story: https://t.co/Od1lDoynJt U.S. and Israeli officials said they have no firm evidence so far that Iran authorized or directly coordinated the attack that killed more than 900 Israelis and wounded thousands. But current and former intelligence officials said the assault bore hallmarks of Iranian support, and noted officials in Tehran have boasted publicly about the huge sums in military aid provided to Hamas in recent years. Hamas, the Gaza-based Palestinian militant organization that led the attack, has historically maintained a degree of independence from Tehran compared with true Iranian proxy groups such as the Lebanese-based Hezbollah. But in recent years, Hamas has benefited from massive infusions of Iranian cash as well as technical help for manufacturing rockets and drones with advanced guidance systems, in addition to training in military tactics — some of which occurred in camps outside Gaza, the officials said. While Iran’s precise role in Saturday’s violence remained unclear, the officials said, the assault reflected Tehran’s years-long ambition to surround Israel with legions of paramilitary fighters armed with increasingly sophisticated weapons systems capable of striking deep inside the Jewish state. The Palestinian militants behind the surprise weekend attack on Israel began planning the assault at least a year ago, with key support from Iranian allies who provided military training and logistical help as well as tens of millions of dollars for weapons, current and former Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials said Monday. Israel media report a Hamas missile strike on Ahmad Haji Kadyrov Mosque in the village of Abu Gosh near Jerusalem. It was opened in 2014 by Ramzan Kadyrov and built with Chechen donations. pic.twitter.com/C7Sb6itngL National Resistance Center, established by the Special Operations Forces of the AFU, reports that instructors of the Russian internationally recognized criminal organization Wagner PMC trained militants of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to attack Israel. Some of Wagner… pic.twitter.com/AYYAMjrCyx Gaza is not a contiguous urban area. Statements that there is nowhere for Gaza's citizens to go is not true. There are tactics/techniques/methods to get citizens out of combat areas before attacks. The IDF is warning civilians to flee specific areas/bldgs. pic.twitter.com/15W3Efathf What the size and scale of the 2014 ground invasion into Gaza looked like. It is likely the ground invasion being planned now will be a much larger force. Nahal and Golani brigades definitely in the front again. pic.twitter.com/nu4I1mZCFz No electricity, no food, no fuel for 1 million children. Straight from the horse's mouth. That can't be the civilised world's answer, whatever differences we may have on who did what to whom first or last. https://t.co/UM0xsRJJhs “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" https://t.co/7lTQs9E5Zf Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric. "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades . Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction. Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago. Not formal press conferences, but he lied unhingedly to the press daily and was the most anti-democratic/authoritarian and openly corrupt president in US history. There’s no disputing that. Couple of edits. https://t.co/Wqn4be31uF CNN (2021)— It should have been a spring day most Iranians could look forward to. The trees that lined Tehran’s boulevards glistened in the sun as a gentle breeze wafted through the city. But on May 8, 2018, the capital’s residents braced themselves for a terrible reversal of fortunes. President Donald Trump was about to announce America’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. It signaled the start of an onslaught of sanctions that would all but crush Iran’s economy. It also dashed the dreams of reform-minded Iranians. “What Trump is about to do is extend the life of the regime by another 30 years,” an elderly Iranian-American told CNN in the hours before the speech. The Islamic Republic, established in the wake of the overthrow of the autocratic, staunchly pro-Western Shah, was just a few months shy of its 40th birthday. The nuclear deal, on the other hand, seemed to serve as the opening salvo of reform in the country. In June 2017, Iranians had shown up in droves to reelect President Hassan Rouhani in what was seen as a referendum on his landmark deal. The urgency to preserve the most significant opening up of the insular country to the West was palpable. [...] In 2020, Trump ordered the killing of Iran’s most revered general, Qasem Soleimani, further enraging conservatives. His funeral was one of the largest in the region’s history. Trump was voted out of office that same year. His successor, Joe Biden, immediately moved to restore the deal. Reformist Iranians thought, perhaps, that they could dial back the clock to May 2018. But the clerical establishment’s response was a resounding “no.” Nowhere was that more loudly articulated than in this week’s election, which was engineered to deliver victory for ultra-conservative judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, the most hardline president Iran has seen in decades. 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