/h/sandshit

94

/h/sandshit marseyflagus

Redactor0 naori/oppa Darklands shill, do not engage 5mo ago (text post) 1,360 thread views #293065

EFFORTPOST Hezbollah shows off its massive tunnel complex in a video game trailer-style reveal + I examine their main target Haifa

63

Block /h/sandshit

63

94

This complex is called Imad 4, named after the terrorist Imad Mughniyeh who was sent to heck in 2008. Hezbollah claims there are several more like it. It is presumably dug into the mountains east of the Bekaa Valley along the border with Syria. Hezbollah says the missiles shown are precision guided and have a range of 140km which would just barely be enough to hit Haifa from there. I can't tell if the guy on the motorcycle is just going around in circles, but clearly the place is pretty darn big. In addition to Iran they've had North Korean advisors teaching them how to dig tunnels so they know what they're doing.

Roughly the area where I expect most of Hezbollah's tunnels. I had to draw the border myself by eye because Google Earth didn't feel like displaying that layer at the moment.

I mention Haifa because it's going to be one of the primary targets of Hezbollah in a full-scale war. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are about 200km away from the area in the Bekaa Valley where Hezbollah's most powerful rockets will be firing from and in Jerusalem you've got to be careful not to hit anything of religious importance. Haifa is about 130km away, so it can be hit by smaller missiles with a shorter range. It's also the main port of the country. Most of Israel's trade passes through it. Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah has said that in the event of war they would target enemy economic infrastructure in the north, and there's no reason to doubt him. Crippling the port of Haifa would cripple the economy.

Haifa port complex with obvious targets marked.

There's worries about the oil refinery in Haifa. The port and its industrial complex is truly massive, about 5km across. Just looking on Google Earth I could see two big farms of oil storage tanks, two large chemical plants, and a power plant as well as the refinery. Some people there are afraid that if these are hit there could be a big explosion or a cloud of toxic gas or something. I think that's probably overblown. The authorities say they've moved the really dangerous stuff out, and crude oil doesn't explode. The port complex is definitely one of Hezbollah's main targets as they've said themselves, but if I lived nearby I would worry more about a getting hit by a rocket aimed at it.

I couldn't find any picture that shows just how huge all this is.

Looking south from the northern oil tanks.

Meanwhile Hezbollah isn't doing so well casualty-wise. They're up to 400 dead now including a few dozen of their Sunni allies. That's not really a significant number in itself as Hezbollah has tens of thousands of troops, but when you look at who is getting killed it's another story. That guy who got killed recently who they're so butthurt about commanded their military. Their forces on the border are divided into two sectors and the commanders of both of those got killed. Presumably a lot of the others were at least somewhat important.

A funeral for Hezbollah's casualties in Houla, South Lebanon, March 2024.

Diplomacy continues. It appears the deal would basically be a cease-fire in Gaza in return for Iran not attacking and Hezbollah to stop shooting. One of the current stumbling blocks is that Hamas is demanding a complete Israeli withdrawl from Gaza, but the Israelis want to keep some troops along the Gaza-Egypt border. I'm a bit confused by this. Maybe it's a language thing. In English "cease-fire" just means everyone stays where they are and stops shooting, so this agreement would be more than a cease-fire.

US envoy Amos Hochstein leaving a meeting with Amal chief Nabih Berri. You might remember Berri from the civil war.

I hope you f-slurs appreciate this because I'm sure I got some glowie's attention by spending so much time looking at likely targets for rocket attacks in Israel. After about an hour I suddenly had this pop up in Firef*x every time I tried to go to a new page. I don't remember it ever doing that in all the years I've used it and there's no concievable reason for it. Why would I be forced to do the update immediately? Seems kinda sus to me. I've probably got Unit 8200 frantically trying to figure out what the Hezbollah code phrase "dude bussy lmao" means before it's too late.

Just kidding. I probably had another instance of Firef*x running that was trying to update and things got screwed up.

109

/h/sandshit House Vampire

Bookers tip/top 8mo ago (text post) Edited 8mo ago 897 thread views #269831

EFFORTPOST The real reason behind the destruction of Palestine: An alternative to the Suez Canal

136

Block /h/sandshit

136

109

Hello, I recently became aware of some information and I'm going to share it.

It started when I saw this article about the pier that the US recently constructed in Israel in order to "bring aid" to Gaza

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-american-taxpayers-350-million-completed-gaza-pier

So I asked: why is America doing this?

And I got this answer: "Saudi Arabia and Israel are building a canal to replace the suez. This will let work crews and material land and start construction."

Wow, that's weird. I hadn't heard of this. Could this be true?

Google 'saudi arabia, india, suez replacement'

The first result is this: https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/The-Egyptian-authority-the-Saudi-Indian-corridor-will-not-replace-the-Suez-Canal/

>"There are no alternative routes to the Suez Canal." This was stated by the president of the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority, Admiral Osama Rabie, during a television broadcast.

That's weird, why would he say that?

Rabie was commenting on the Saudi-India Economic Corridor project, part of an agreement reached between Saudi Arabia and India on the sidelines of the summit of G20 in New Delhi.

What?

So the G20 summit was in India, and during this time Saudi Arabia and India made an agreement for an economic project.

Wait a second, when was this?

Early September...

And the Palestinian attack happened in early October.

So this meeting happened one month before the Palestinian attack on Israel. That's fricking weird.

Here's an article that fills in a lot of the details

https://www.eurasiareview.com/17112023-the-ben-gurion-canal-israels-potential-revolutionary-alternative-to-suez-analysis/

tldr: The Suez canal is controlled by Egypt, which is an ally of BRIC's.

Building an alternative would massively frick over Russia and China .. And also Egypt ( sorry @Aevann )

Anyways: on to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is in the process of building a brand new futuristic city. They're calling it NEOM or some shit like that

https://www.neom.com/en-us/about

WHAT DOES NEOM MEAN?
The name NEOM is derived from two words. Envisioned by His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Chairman of the NEOM Company Board of Directors, the first three letters come from the Ancient Greek prefix neo – meaning 'new'. The 'M' is the first from 'Mustaqbal', an Arabic word meaning 'future'. The M is also the first letter of the Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

Okay, cool.

Here's another article

https://www.deccanherald.com/world/all-you-need-to-know-about-neom-saudis-futuristic-desert-city-3017231

Okay, so in order to build NEOM, SA is forcibly evicting people from their land and shooting people who resist.

Where is NEOM?

Huh.

ANYWAYS so back to the beginning.

Remember that big fricking dock we just built in Gaza?

It's rated so that we can basically unload whatever the frick we want on it. Meaning, construction equipment and materials.

So remember that article about the Ben Gurion canal that Israel has been wanting to build for forever?

That had a picture in it

ayyy lmao, that runs up and carefully around Gaza

You know what would be even better? If it went right the frick through it.

lol.

lmao, even.

I made up the dock placement, but you get the point.
It doesn't fricking matter where they put it, it's in gaza and they're unloading shit with it.
Also, this is why they're starving and forcibly relocating people in Gaza right now.
To make way for the Canal.

If this project comes to fruition it is going to circumvent the Suez canal, and by extension, BRICS.

Completely kneecapping China and Russia economically.

This will likely lead to World War 3.

Oh, but first we have to fricking get rid of Palestine.

Good thing they're all fricking starving or whatever and getting forcibly relocated, idk. Aid dock, more like AIDS dock.

Also, if it wasn't completely clear already - There were rumors that the Israeli government had been warned in advance of the 10/6 attack and didn't stop it.

Well, now you know why. Trying to coerce these motherlovers to get out of the way would have been nearly impossible and also VERY EXPENSIVE.

There is no way in heck that the Palestinian government would have just let Israel buy up land and move people to build this thing.

And even if they did, the international community wouldn't have allowed it.

Now that there's a fricking war going on, Israel can just fricking level everything and turn all of the Palestinians into Refugees instead.

Anyone who doesn't make way for Suez Canal 2.0 is getting shot the frick up.

The people in the way? Gone.

The buildings in the way? Also gone.

@Aevann effort post me plz, thank you

p.s. if you still don't believe 9/11 was an inside job. well idk what to tell you.

74

/h/sandshit House Racist Founder

911roofer he/him Always a wallflower, never a wall 10mo ago (text post) Edited 10mo ago 1,158 thread views #253071

EFFORTPOST Have you heard the tragedy of Soda stream the wise? I thought not. It's not a story a redditard would tell.

65

Block /h/sandshit

65

74

73

/h/sandshit marseyflagus

Redactor0 naori/oppa Darklands shill, do not engage 1yr ago (text post) 937 thread views #211845

EFFORTPOST [Effortpost] Fatah's failure and the rise of Hamas

19

Block /h/sandshit

19

73

You may be wondering right now, why can't Palestinians support a group that's, you know, nice? Why do so many support Hamas?

To answer that, I have to tell you some of the history of Fatah, the Palestinian revolutionaries from my boomer generation and how they failed.

PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, PFLP-LMAO, etc.

Leila Khaled, airplane hikacker for the PFLP.

Besides Fatah there were countless Palestinian groups formed by refugees by the 1960s. While they ostensibly were radical Marxists out to destroy Israel, in practice they ended up as mercenaries working for one or more other Arab countries or the KGB. Much of their time was spent fighting each other on behalf of their foreign masters. Their fighters were largely drawn from the desperate poor of the refugee camps who simply signed on so their families wouldn't starve.

Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut.

These groups carried out most of the spectacular international terrorist operations that the Palestinians became known for like airplane hijackings. These attacks did little to further the Palestinian cause but alienated the world. Some were clearly designed to offend, like pushing an elderly Jewish man in a wheelchair off the side of a cruise ship. (This is not to say Fatah didn't do some really sadistic terror attacks too.)

Rome Airport after the massacre by Abu Nidal's gang, 1985.

These radical groups quickly withered away to irrelevance when the Soviet Union collapsed and the whole ecosystem of state sponsored terrorism with it. But they left a legacy for Fatah. These were the guys they didn't want to be like: corrupt, out of touch with the people, and beholden to foreign governments.

Fatah's Rise & Fall

Fatah's origin is similar to these other groups except that after the 1967 war they broke away Egyptian control. While they still relied on foreign funding they found several sponsors so they could maintain their independence.

Abu Ammar AKA Yasser Arafat with Nasser and King Hussein.

They built up their forces among the refugees in Jordan and began raiding into Israel, quickly rising to prominence on exaggerated tales of their successes. But as charismatic as Yasser Arafat was, he had difficulty controlling his own party, let alone the radical factions. By 1970 the King of Jordan had enough and drove them out in a short but bloody struggle.

King Hussein inspecting captured Israeli equipment after the Battle of Karameh, 1968. Jordanian troops were mostly responsible for the victory but Fatah got the credit.

Next the Palestinians moved into Lebanon and started raiding again. Their arrival tipped the fragile balance of power there and civil war broke out, with Fatah as one of the most powerful factions. When they seemed about to win, the Lebanese Christians invited Syria in to stop them. Eventually a stalemate held with the Palestinians mostly restricted to a zone along the Israeli border.

Fatah members in Beirut, 1979.

By now Fatah had alienated Jordan, Syria, and most of Lebanon. The next shoe to drop was Egypt, which made a separate peace with Israel and became a pariah across the Arab world. Israel would never again have to worry about a conventional attack, so their army was freed up to invade Lebanon in 1982. Fatah's pitiful military forces were crushed and the survivors agreed to leave for exile in Tunisia, the closest Arab country willing to take them in.

Israeli troops drive toward the strategically vital Beaufort Castle, 1982.

The years that followed were bleak. With no way to attack Israel, the party lost a lot of its relevance. It could do little to protect the refugee camps, which suffered terribly at the hands of the Israelis and then even worse from the Syrians. Many of the best leaders were assassinated or defected. Several increasingly pitiful attempts were made to return to Lebanon and carve out a new enclave there. Finally Arafat made an incredibly stupid blunder, siding with Saddam Hussein against the US-led coalition in Desert Storm, which outraged the Saudis and most of the world. Meanwhile the US and regional powers gave Syria the green light to crush any opposition in Lebanon, ending any hope of Fatah returning.

Note that by now Fatah has been betrayed by or betrayed every nearby Arab country except Iraq.

Intifada

In the late 1980s-early 1990s, the nadir of Fatah, an unexpected event turned the situation upside down. Remember Palestine, the country that all of this was supposed to be about? Fatah and the radical Marxists had fantasized that the refugees would build up an army and invade Israel from the outside. This was clearly delusional now as they had proven to be at best a speed bump in a full-scale war.

But now those forgotten Palestinians remaining in the occupied West Bank and Gaza rose up in the Intifada, a fiery but mostly peaceful campaign to oppose the occupation. They managed to accomplish more in a few years than Fatah ever had with all its terrorism and bloodshed.

The first Intifada.

Israel finally agreed to peace negotiations and Arafat returned to Palestine to lead it. But too much damage had already been done. Fatah was as corrupt and out of touch with the population as the rival groups it had supplanted. It got few concessions of any consequence from the Israelis. As the peace process dragged on it gradually dependent on the USA and even Israel for financial, military, and intelligence support. By the mid 2000s it had lost most of its popular support and credibility as an independent voice for the nation.

An older and less impressive Arafat with Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak, 2000.

An alternative to Fatah began to emerge during the intifada. Hamas was newer and hipper, employing the Islamist ideology that was popular with the younger generation. But more importantly, it hadn't proven itself to be a failure the way Fatah had. It didn't carry the baggage of decades of broken promises and compromises with the enemy

Most Palestinians were in such a desperate situation that in the 2006 election they preferred the wild psychos of Hamas. At least they were fighting against the Israelis, not asking them for help fighting their political opponents at home. Fatah took its loss in the election about as well as Trump did and fighting broke out. They held onto power in the West Bank but Hamas took Gaza.

Top Poster of the Day:

911roofer

Current Registered Users: 30,798

EFFORTPOST Hezbollah shows off its massive tunnel complex in a video game trailer-style reveal + I examine their main target Haifa

EFFORTPOST The real reason behind the destruction of Palestine: An alternative to the Suez Canal

EFFORTPOST Have you heard the tragedy of Soda stream the wise? I thought not. It's not a story a redditard would tell.

EFFORTPOST [Effortpost] Fatah's failure and the rise of Hamas

PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, PFLP-LMAO, etc.

Fatah's Rise & Fall

Intifada

Top Poster of the Day:

911roofer

Current Registered Users: 30,798

EFFORTPOST Hezbollah shows off its massive tunnel complex in a video game trailer-style reveal + I examine their main target Haifa

EFFORTPOST The real reason behind the destruction of Palestine: An alternative to the Suez Canal

EFFORTPOST Have you heard the tragedy of Soda stream the wise? I thought not. It's not a story a redditard would tell.

EFFORTPOST [Effortpost] Fatah's failure and the rise of Hamas

PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, PFLP-LMAO, etc.

Fatah's Rise & Fall

Intifada

Top Poster of the Day: 911roofer

Current Registered Users: 30,798

Top Poster of the Day:

911roofer