An updated assessment suggested that as many as 400 Hezbollah terrorists have been killed by IDF troops in recent days.

During one clash on Thursday, Israeli forces eliminated 15 Hezbollah terrorists, while one IDF soldier was wounded in the battle. Overall, nine Israeli soldiers have been killed since the fighting began with Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon. Like the Hamas terrorist organization, Hezbollah has deliberately embedded itself in civilian structures, including schools, mosques, hospitals and residential buildings, which constitutes a war crime under international law.

The IDF’s 98th and 36th Divisions are currently engaging Hezbollah terrorists in numerous villages and towns in southern Lebanon. In addition, troops have uncovered large caches of weapons left behind by Hezbollah forces.

The IDF announced it is conducting “limited, localized, and targeted raids.” The overall goal of the IDF ground offensive is to neutralize the Hezbollah threat close to the Israeli border and enable the return of some 60,000 evacuated Israelis to their homes in northern Israel after one year.

On Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that Israel has “more surprises in store” and stressed that the IDF had already delivered severe blows to Hezbollah.

“Hezbollah is receiving very severe blows, one after the other. We eliminated [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah and we have more surprises in store, some of which have already been carried out and some of which will be carried out,” Gallant stated during his visit to the 36th Division headquarters in northern Israel.

“[Hezbollah’s] missile and rocket division suffered a very heavy blow. A significant part was destroyed as a result of a high-quality and precise operation. Command and control headquarters, communications, the entire leadership of [the elite Radwan Force], and in fact, the entire second and third tiers of command below Nasrallah were eliminated,” the defense minister added.

Gallant also said the Israeli military was currently “carrying out an operation today in several villages, and this process will continue wherever necessary to destroy all the infrastructure from which Hezbollah planned to carry out attacks.”

Since launching an unprovoked attack on Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces in Lebanon have fired over 9,000 rockets, missiles and exploding drones into the Jewish state.

Dozens of Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers have been killed and Israel has responded by stepping up its attacks on Hezbollah forces assets across Lebanon and in neighboring Syria since last week.

In recent weeks, the IDF has eliminated most of Hezbollah’s top leadership, including Sec.-Gen. Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last Friday in a massive Israeli aerial strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

The Israeli military has stressed that the current ground offensive in southern Lebanon is limited in scope, and it seeks to wrap up the intensive phase of the operation within a few weeks.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced on Friday that it had eliminated Muhammad Rashid Sakafi, a senior Hezbollah operatively, in an aerial strike in Beirut. Sakafi was the head of the terror group’s communications division.

“Sakafi invested significant efforts to develop communication capabilities between all of Hezbollah’s units in all periods of operation, to maintain the flow of information throughout the terrorist organization,” the IDF stated.

We shouldn’t have any dealings with Iran. We should not be sending aid to Israel. They can BUY arms from us. We’re in no position to give it away, especially with the possibility of U.S. military involvement in four regions across the globe (all of which I would oppose, of course). We would not be getting attacked by Houthis or anyone else if we weren’t in the region at all.

America can block idiotic U.N. resolutions. We can offer intelligence, satellite reconnaissance, and other information that we’re already in the process of gathering. We can and should pray for God’s Will to be done. And yes, we can SELL them weapons. Otherwise, we shouldn’t be getting involved or sending taxpayer dollars to Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, or anyone else that looks at us as their wartime piggybank.

With all that said, I do appreciate Rosenberg’s understanding of the schizophrenic nature of the regime’s Middle East policies. As usual, Biden’s handlers have him acting like a dog on a leash in a room full of cats. He’s pulling in every direction while tripping over himself to accomplish nothing. Here’s Rosenberg’s article…

(All Israel)—U.S. President Joe Biden is pursuing a schizophrenic policy in the Middle East that is not only dangerous, it’s disastrous.

For some crazy reason, the Biden White House keeps giving billions of dollars to the Iranian terror regime. They are doing precious little to enforce economic sanctions against the Iranian regime.

They are also refusing to take truly tough and decisive military action against Tehran despite the fact that Iranian-funded and backed Shia terror proxies in the region have launched at least 76 attacks on U.S. military forces since Oct. 17.

That said, Biden is standing with Israel in our brutal fight against Hamas. The president made a solidarity trip here to Israel shortly after the war began. He has spoken out against the lies being told about Israel by Hamas and many in the so-called “mainstream” media. He has sent Israel dozens of plane loads full of ammunition and other military aid.

On Friday, Biden vetoed a resolution in the Security Council – sponsored by the United Arab Emirates – that would have forced Israel to accept an immediate cease-fire.

“The vote in the 15-member council was 13-1, with the United Kingdom abstaining,” the Associated Press reported.

“The United States’ isolated stand reflected a growing fracture between Washington and some of its closest allies over Israel’s monthslong bombardment of Gaza. France and Japan were among those supporting the call for a cease-fire.”

“U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood called the resolution ‘imbalanced’ and criticized the council after the vote for its failure to condemn Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel in which the militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, or to acknowledge Israel’s right to defend itself. He declared that halting military action would allow Hamas to continue to rule Gaza and ‘only plant the seeds for the next war.’”

“Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace, to see a two-state solution,” Wood said before the vote. “For that reason, while the United States strongly supports a durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate cease-fire.”

Good for Biden.

The resolution should have condemned Hamas and called on their radical Islamist jihadists to lay down their arms and surrender. But it didn’t. Rather, it tried to pressure Israel into surrendering to Hamas-driven genocide.

I’m appalled that the UAE and almost every other member of the Security Council supported such a terrible resolution. And I’m grateful that Biden showed moral clarity by vetoing it.

At the same time, I’m appalled by how weak Biden is acting toward the terror masters in Tehran. Through their proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, the mullahs are literally getting away with murder. Israelis are being murdered.

And American military personnel in the region are being wounded over and over and over again. Why does Biden let it happen? Why does the leader of the world’s only superpower show such weakness in the face of the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism?

Enough is enough. Biden’s poll numbers aren’t just plummeting because Americans despise his economic and social policies. They also cannot stomach his feckless foreign policies, especially towards Iran.

Biden thinks of himself as passionately pro-Israel. And I’m truly grateful for what he’s doing to defend the Jewish state militarily and diplomatically. But his unwillingness to truly and decisively confront the Iranian regime is completely unacceptable.

Biden is allowing the mullahs to get away with murder. Even as they feverishly pursue fully operational nuclear weapons that could lead to a Second Holocaust.

We are seeing growing evidence of Biden’s schizophrenic approach toward the Middle East. And it’s increasingly clear that such an approach is not only dangerous. It’s disastrous.

According to Herzog, IDF soldiers located the book during ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip in recent days.

The book was found among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists who operated there, and one can see markings and underlined notations along with written comments on its pages.

According to the president, the finding indicates a deepening of Hitler’s Nazi ideology among Hamas terrorists.

“This is Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic. This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II,” Herzog said in the interview.

“This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a child’s room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied again and again, the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing,” the Israeli president continued.

“We are in a religious war. We got caught up in our watch in a war upon all that is holy and precious to us,” Gafni said.

Gafni’s comments came in reference to the recent protests over segregated Yom Kippur prayers at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on Monday. Both religious and secular leaders have traded blame over the fighting last week.

“What we saw on Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv, we saw why they are intend, while people were praying Kol Nidrei [the prayer asking for release from all erroneous vows], they came from the protest group, as they call themselves” Gafni continued. “Pulling on the tzitzit of those praying there. We are in the midst of a religious war.”

Gafni said the issue was no longer the judicial reforms but the character of the coalition government as religious Jewish.

“We haven’t been talking about that [the reforms] for months already,” Gafni stated.

He also claimed that the ideological conflict is why members of his party haven’t given any interviews in recent months.

Gafni also disputed claims that judicial reforms and coalition agreements were detrimental to Israel’s economy.

“I met with the leading economists many months ago, and they explained to me about the reform, what a difficult problem it is, and what might happen to the economy if it passed,” he said.

“By the way, quite a long time has passed since then and the economy is in excellent shape,” he claimed.

However, the economic figures released in September do not appear to support Gafni’s claim. They showed a widening fiscal deficit to 1.3% of the GDP during August compared to the previous months.

This was apparently due to increasing government expenditures as tax revenues declined. According to the Jewish Press, the coalition’s extra-budgetary spending has reached around NIS 13.7 billion ($3.6 billion), compared with NIS 2 billion ($530 million) under the former Israeli Bennett-Lapid government.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party responded to Gafni’s comments.

In a post to his Facebook page, Lapid wrote: “No, Rabbi Gafni, we are not in a religious war, because we have the same religion. We are Jews. All of us. Jews believe, and faith has all kinds of forms and ways.”

“We don’t need any guidance on how to be Jews. The Bible is ours, Jewish history is ours, the Kol Nidre prayer is ours, and for the attempt to incite a civil war, there is no atonement on Yom Kippur.”

Lapid continued his criticism of Gafni, saying: “There is no religious war in Israel, and it is forbidden for there to be one because it is the dream of the antisemites. There is a conflict over the character of Israel, over its values, and its democracy.”

Lapid also accused the coalition of harming the security of the country and its economy by supporting extreme interest groups.

Brockman — whose company OpenAI is widely understood to be the most advanced AI project in the world — made these comments during a panel discussion that included Netanyahu, Elon Musk and MIT physicist Max Tegmark. As they gathered to discuss the future of AI, much of the conversation orbited around two possible futures: A future extinction of mankind, and a future “heaven” in which AGI eliminates poverty, hunger, and sickness and mankind merges with machines.

Brockman acknowledged the major risks in creating AGI but told the rest of the panel that it is this “heaven” that his company is working to bring about.

“I think this whole arc, in my mind, is all about paradigm shift, right?” Brockman said. “And I think that, even the question of what would that heaven, post-AGI, positive future look like? I think even that is hard for us to imagine what the true upside could be.”

Brockman went on to name one thinker, in particular, who he believes best understands the future of AI.

“The thinker who I think had the best foresight about how the AI revolution was going to play out is actually Ray Kurzweil,” he argued, with Musk immediately expressing his agreement.

Kurzweil, a Jewish author and inventor who currently works as a director of engineering at Google, is a famous transhumanist, most known for his books predicting “the Singularity.”

“His book Singularity is Near gets, like, a lot of shit,” Brockman went on to say.

“I think that people, you know, kind of assume it’s going to be this…religious text, but it’s instead a very dry, analytical text. And he just looks at the compute curves, and he says this is the fundamental un-locker of intelligence. Everyone thought that was crazy, and now it’s basically true — it’s basically common wisdom. And part of what he says is, ‘Look, what’s going to happen is in 2030 — first of all he says AGI: 2029.”

Here Musk again interjected: “Yeah. I keep telling people, it seems to be almost exactly right.”

“It’s spooky. It’s spooky,” Brockman continued. “2030 is when the merge happens. So we’ve got Neuralink coming. And uh, you know, maybe other systems like that. And what does it mean once you actually are kind of merging with an intelligence?”

While Musk said he believed his brain-computer interfaces — which are being developed through his company Neuralink — may not be quite ready for Kurzweil’s 2030 prediction, he agreed that humanity is on the doorstep of the “singularity.”

“You know, sometimes digital superintelligence is called, like, a singularity — like a black hole. Because just like with a black hole, it’s difficult to predict what happens after you pass the event horizon…” he said.

“And we are currently circling the event horizon of the black hole that is digital superintelligence.”

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