We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad anticipate that the ongoing hostage deal will soon collapse due to Israel’s stance and the support of the Trump administration. In response, they are coordinating with Iran to prepare for renewed fighting.
According to intelligence assessments in Israel, Hamas is actively using the current ceasefire to restore its military capabilities and replenish its ranks with new recruits in preparation for a return to combat in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas assumes that Israel, backed by the Trump administration, will not alter its positions regarding key negotiation points, including the return of all hostages, the reduction of Hamas’ control over Gaza, the disarmament of its military wing, and the deportation of its leadership abroad.
Hamas publicly announced days ago that it will not relinquish its rule in Gaza, disarm, or deport its leaders.
This fundamental gap in positions appears irreconcilable, and officials in Hamas and Islamic Jihad acknowledge this reality.
For this reason, security sources report that Hamas and Islamic Jihad delegations recently traveled to Tehran, where they met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), General Hossein Salami, to coordinate their next moves against Israel.
On February 21, General Ibrahim Jabari, an advisor to the IRGC commander, threatened during a military exercise that “Operation The Righteous Truth Number 3” would be launched at an opportune moment to destroy Israel, specifically targeting Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Senior security officials believe that these Tehran meetings resulted in agreements on financial aid transfers to Hamas and the smuggling of weapons into Gaza and terrorist groups in northern Samaria.
Hamas’ military wing is reportedly planning renewed attacks inside Israeli territory.
The recent failed terrorist attacks on buses in Bat Yam and Holon should be viewed in this context.
Additionally, the release of hundreds of terrorists into Judea and Samaria during the first phase of the deal has strengthened Hamas’ military capabilities in the field.
Commentators in Gaza predict that Israel will resume fighting by mid-March.
They expect Israel to focus first on suppressing terrorist activity in northern Samaria before shifting additional forces to Gaza.
According to these assessments, Israel is likely to restart military operations once negotiations on the second phase of the deal reach a deadlock and after the new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, assumes office early next month.
Hamas anticipates that the renewed fighting will be intense, with backing from the Trump administration.
The IDF is expected to launch large-scale incursions into areas it previously avoided, such as refugee camps in central Gaza.
Rather than isolated raids, the anticipated strategy involves dividing the Gaza Strip into three sections using three IDF divisions in the initial phase. This maneuver will also halt the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
(Yoni Ben Menachem)
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
