Daily Archives: 22. Oktober 2023


22.10.2023 - 10:25 [ Ofer Cassif / Communist Party of Israel ]

I Will Not Be Silent, MK Ofer Cassif

Last week, I was accused from the platform of Maariv, in the article “Let You Explain” written by Lilac Sigan, that I and my friends in my political path are responsible for the backing the abominable Hamas organization and its strengthening.

Strange, I thought, it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who said, in his words, that “those who want to thwart a Palestinian state should support the strengthening of Hamas”, and it was Minister Bezalel Smotrich who referred to Hamas as a “political asset”.

For years, the right-wing governments avoided overthrowing the Hamas regime and even transferred funds to it in order to facilitate a favorable political situation for the deepening of the occupation in the West Bank, when the Israeli surrounding localities of Gaza were sacrificed on the altar of the settlements.

22.10.2023 - 10:25 [ Ayman Odeh / New York Times ]

What It Takes to Choose Life Over Revenge

(Oct. 19, 2023)

In his declaration of war on Gaza on Oct. 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel quoted a line from a poem by the Jewish writer Chaim Nachman Bialik. “Revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan,” Mr. Netanyahu posted on social media.

Perhaps the prime minister forgot what Bialik wrote just one line before that: “And cursed be he who cries out: Revenge.” Or the next lines: “Let the blood fill the abyss!/let it pierce the blackest depths.”

These days I find myself asking what the poet meant by this. Bialik wrote it after learning of the horrors of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom.

22.10.2023 - 09:54 [ MiddleEastEye.net ]

Israel-Palestine war: Israel to identify civilians as ‚terrorist partners‘ if they stay in northern Gaza

The Israeli military has informed Palestinians in Gaza that they would be identified as „a partner in a terrorist organisation“ if they didn‘t follow forced displacement orders and move south.

The threatening leaflets, which were dropped by drones on Saturday, come after Israel ordered 1.1 million residents in the northern part of the Gaza Strip to move to the south, with no guarantee of safety or return.

22.10.2023 - 09:50 [ The Spectator Index / Twitter ]

BREAKING: Palestinian health ministry says Gaza death toll has risen to 4,385

22.10.2023 - 09:32 [ MiddleEastEye.net ]

Israel-Palestine live: Israel bombs Gaza, Jenin, Lebanon and Syria

Here‘s some update you might‘ve missed:

– Overnight shelling in Gaza has killed at least 50 Palestinians. Israel has been killing an average of 300 people a day in Gaza since 7 October, 70 percent of whom are children, women and elderly people.

– Israel bombed a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp at around 3 am local time, killing at least two with another three killed elsewhere in the West Bank.

– An Israeli missile attack targeted Damascus and Aleppo international airports in Syria, killing at least one and putting the airports out of service

22.10.2023 - 09:22 [ Reuters ]

Friends, relatives hold vigil for fallen Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah

Lebanon‘s army and government blamed Israel for Abdallah‘s death. Israel‘s military says it is reviewing the case. Reuters has called on Israel to conduct a „thorough, swift and transparent investigation“.

22.10.2023 - 09:11 [ The Cradle / Twitter ]

Israel intensifies its bombardment in southern Lebanon as tensions with Hezbollah escalate.

22.10.2023 - 08:50 [ Israel Radar / Twitter ]

US-Israel war coordination: Defense Minister Gallant speaks with Sec. of Defense Austin; Pentagon orders reinforcement of US deployment in region with more missile defense systems

(via @gilicohen10 & @kann_news)

22.10.2023 - 08:34 [ Times of Israel ]

US activates air defense systems across Mideast, citing ‘escalations’ by Iran and its proxies

(today)

The Pentagon moves to step up its military readiness in the Middle East, ordering the activation of air defense systems “throughout” the region and alerting additional US forces that they may be deployed soon.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says in a statement that the moves are in response to “recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East.”

22.10.2023 - 08:30 [ theCradle.co ]

What‘s behind the US military surge in West Asia?

(August 16, 2023)

In a significant move that sent worrying ripples across West Asia, the US military has discreetly dispatched over 6,000 troops to the region, igniting tensions and triggering debates on regional stability. While the surge of forces into the Red Sea to counter Iran’s actions in the Persian Gulf has garnered attention, the deployment of a substantial US military presence into Iraq and Syria has largely gone under the radar.

22.10.2023 - 00:10 [ BreakingDefense.com ]

‘All systems need to be hardened’: Officials, industry sound the alarm on quantum threat to encryption

(September 29, 2023)

Such an all-conquering computer doesn’t actually exist yet. But there lies the paradox of what’s called quantum-resistant or “post-quantum” encryption: You don’t need a quantum computer to start laying the foundations for a quantum-powered hack — or, fortunately, to start building a defense.

The threat is a tactic called “collect now, decrypt later.” Well-heeled foreign intelligence agencies (and the American NSA) already scoop up terabytes of encrypted communication. Whatever they can’t crack today can just go into long-term storage, waiting for quantum computers to get powerful enough to break them.

22.10.2023 - 00:05 [ hpcwire.com ]

EuroHPC Announces First Exascale Supercomputer and Four Other Systems

(June 15, 2022)

JUPITER, EuroHPC says, will be the first European exascale supercomputer when it is installed in 2023. It will be hosted by the JĂŒlich Supercomputing Centre (FZJ) in a specially designed building.

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But that wasn’t all: EuroHPC also announced four additional sites for “mid-range supercomputers with petascale or pre-exascale capabilities”: Greece, Hungary, Ireland and Poland.