Yom Chamishee
Thursday
8 Shevat 5784
January 18 2024
UPDATE 8:00 PM
Iran Has Nuclear Weapons
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed yesterday what we have said here at OneIsrael for the past two years: “It is estimated that Iran now has sufficient quantities of very highly enriched uranium to build several nuclear warheads.”
The entire Biden-Obama-EU negotiations with Iran were never anything but a farce to give Tehran time to develop its nuclear weapons program. You can be sure that Iran has nuclear weapons and will use them.
In the last 24 hours alone, Iran has used long-range ballistic missiles to attack targets in Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Pakistan has retaliated by striking an Iranian base 20 km from the border.
Biden Continues to Undermine Israeli Democracy
The Biden Administration in the form of Secretary of State Blinken continues to try to undermine the Netanyahu government.
In the last month, Blinken has been trying to piece together a coalition that would be agreeable to a Palestinian state (read Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, and others). The goal would be to oust the current government either before or after the Gaza war comes to an end.
Yesterday, Blinken issued this idiotic statement: “There is a question mark as to whether Israeli society is ready to live with the idea of a Palestinian state.”
A question mark? We here at OneIsrael believe that few people if any in Israel are ready to accept a Palestinian state after the events of October 7—massacres that Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO is happy to boast that they participated in and is happy to pay money to the terrorist perpetrators.
On the Ground in the South:
*IDF commanders in the field issued a joint statement yesterday saying that “Anywhere we don’t hold it, we will lose control and terrorism will grow. We will get Gaza on steroids.” This statement was in response to the apparent IDF tactic to withdraw troops from captured areas.
*A major site of the Hamas manufacturing industry in the center of the Gaza Strip was destroyed. The combat teams of the 36th Division, in cooperation with the Yehlam and Sheld fighters, exposed and destroyed the heart of the Hamas munitions production industry near the Saleh axis.
*IDF soldiers have apparently brought back 21 exhumed bodies from a cemetery near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The obvious thought is that they may be “hostages”. There is also a whiff of completely unconfirmed information that a hostage may have been rescued alive.
*Released hostage Sharon Konio told CNN in an interview that numerous hostages were held in Nasser Hospital. The terrorists forced her to dress in Arab clothes, and put her husband on a stretcher and pretended he was dead.
According to Konio: “There were three rooms where hostages were kept, in each room there were between 10 and 12 people. The rooms were small, maybe 12 square meters, so there wasn’t much space.”
On The Ground in the North
*At least 4 rockets were fired by Hezbollah at the Ramim Ridge near Manara. No Israelis were wounded.
*The IAF attacked Hezbollah targets in Yaron, Kaoqba, Mays Al-Jabal, and Marqaba.
*The IDF used artillery to attack Wadi Saluki, Mohave, between Marj Ayun and Al Khayyam, Talat Al Hammas, Ita a-Shaab, between Tayba and Al-Adisa, Marjion, Lida, Aitron, Hula, Marvin, Al-Nakura, Lavona, Hamol, and Kfar Kila among other places.
*Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at Al-Aramshe.
*Hezbollah fired missiles at Berket Risha (west of Zareit).
*Hezbollah fired missiles at the Amdit IDF post and the IDF post at Al-Samaka.
*Israeli Lobby 1701 (1701 refers to the latitude of the Litani River in Lebanon) reports today:
Today: 4 drones from Lebanon, 40 indirect missiles, 5 surface to surface missiles.
The Last 24 Hours in Judea and Samaria
Dozens of armed terrorists marched through the streets of Shechem (Nablus) at the funeral of Yazan Al-Anjami–the terrorist killed yesterday:
Heavily armed terrorists in Samaria.
The IDF reports that in the last 35 hours, 8 terrorists were killed in Tulkarm by IDF reserve fighters, the Shin Bet, the YMS and the MGB.
The Last 24 Hours in the Red Sea
*The U.S. Command reports that it attacked 14 missiles that “posed a threat” to ships in the area.
*American airstrikes have just taken place on the Damar Police Station, targets in the Saada area, and on a military base in Al Hoban.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.