(RepublicanInformer.com)- If a Black family was kidnapped by Neo-Nazis, it would be all over the news and President Joe Biden would be using it as an example of how half of America is racist, right?
So why is it that the White House has been totally silent about the shocking story of a Texas family reportedly being kidnapped by a criminal cartel gang during a trip to Mexico?
Gunmen from one of Mexico’s most violent and dangerous drug cartels reportedly kidnapped three members of a Texas family as they were traveling through a border state in Mexico, heading back to the United States. The kidnapping is understood to have occurred in a region controlled by Cartel Del Noreste.
The report says that the kidnapping occurred on June 13. 39-year-old Gladys Cristinia Perez Sanchez was traveling with her 16-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter. The family was traveling back to Laredo, heading back from Sabinas Hidalgo, when they were accosted and kidnapped.
The kidnapping became obvious when relatives called authorities and said that their family members didn’t arrive back in the United States at the time they said they would, and that they couldn’t reach them on their cell phones.
Relatives shared information with Breitbart Texas, explaining that the family had visited Sabinas Hidalgo regularly once or twice a month to visit a relative who was sick. Another relative of the family explained how he know several people who were stopped by gunmen from the cartel on the highway connecting Nuevo Laredo and Nuevo Leon.
According to the conservative news outlet, there has been an increasing number of kidnappings occurring on the highway recently, with unsuspecting motorists being the primary targets. It remains unknown just how many people have been kidnapped at this point.
The White House has not discussed this issue or expressed concern about the presence of these gangs on the border. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that she will visit the border ahead of former President Donald Trump’s visit, and we may have to wait until her inevitable press conference to see if she has anything to say about criminal gangs abducting Americans…
From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. Here is a sampling of laws from various states.
Amateur Baseball
Georgia - It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race.
Barbers
Georgia - No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls.
Bathroom Facilities, Male
Alabama - Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities.
The Blind
Louisiana - The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race.
Burial
Georgia - The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons.
Buses
Alabama - All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races.
Child Custody
South Carolina - It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro.
Circus Tickets
Louisiana - All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of...more than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its patrons not less than two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers, and not less than two entrances to the said performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the case of outside or tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet apart.
Cohabitation
Florida - Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
Education
Florida - The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately.
Mississippi - Separate schools shall be maintained for the children of the white and colored races.
Missouri - Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.
New Mexico - Separate rooms [shall] be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and [when] said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent.
Texas - [The County Board of Education] shall provide schools of two kinds; those for white children and those for colored children.
Fishing, Boating, and Bathing
Oklahoma - The [Conservation] Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing, boating and bathing.
Hospital Entrances
Mississippi - There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of white and colored patients separate entrances for white and colored patients and visitors, and such entrances shall be used by the race only for which they are prepared.
Housing
Louisiana - Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a negro person or negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Intermarriage
Arizona - The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void.
Florida - All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited.
Georgia - It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.
Maryland - All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, or between a white person and a member of the Malay race; or between the negro a nd a member of the Malay race; or between a person of Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, and a member of the Malay race, are forever prohibited, and shall be void.
Mississippi - The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void.
Missouri - All marriages between...white persons and negroes or white persons and Mongolians...are prohibited and declared absolutely void...No person having one-eighth part or more of negro blood shall be permitted to marry any white person, nor shall any white person be permitted to marry any negro or person having one-eighth part or more of negro blood.
Wyoming - All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.
Juvenile Delinquents
Florida - There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together or worked together.
Libraries
North Carolina - The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals.
Texas - Any white person of such county may use the county free library under the rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioners court and may be entitled to all the privileges thereof. Said court shall make proper provision for the negroes of said county to be served through a separate branch or branches of the county free library, which shall be administered by [a] custodian of the negro race under the supervision of the county librarian.
Lunch Counters
South Carolina - No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter.
Mental Hospitals
Georgia - The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together.
Militia
North Carolina - The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization.No organization of colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available, and while white permitted to be organized, colored troops shall be under the command of white officers.
Mining
Oklahoma - The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building.
Nurses
Alabama - No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed.
Parks
Georgia - It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of colored persons.
Pool and Billiard Rooms
Alabama - It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.
Prisons
Mississippi - The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts.
Promotion of Equality
Mississippi - Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine or not exceeding five hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both.
Railroads
Alabama - The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs.
Maryland - All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers.
Virginia - The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith, shall be the sole judges of his race.
Reform Schools
Kentucky - The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other.
Restaurants
Alabama - It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment.
Georgia - All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license.
Teaching
Oklahoma - Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
Telephone Booths
Oklahoma - The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to require telephone companies...to maintain separate booths for white and colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That the Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said separate booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and vicinity to be served after due hearing as now provided by law in other complaints filed with the Corporation Commission.
Textbooks
North Carolina - Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them.
Theaters
Virginia - Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate...certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof , or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons.
Transportation
North Carolina - The...Utilities Commission...is empowered and directed to require the establishment of separate waiting rooms at all stations for the white and colored races.
Wine and Beer
Georgia - All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time.
Joe Biden Claims Republicans Support Jim Crow Laws In Racist Rant
(RepublicanInformer.com)- This week, President Joe Biden went full-on crazy, wrongly claiming that Republicans were promoting a new “Jim Crow era” by refusing to support the Democrats’ radical “For the People Act.” Biden promoted the false narrative that GOP Senators were blocking “voting rights” legislation when they blocked a debate on the Democrats’ proposed election reforms and refused to acknowledge the danger that their radical agenda poses to American democracy.
It followed a vote of 50-50 on whether an open debate on the proposed legislation should take place. It was ten votes short of the 60 required to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. It means that the Democrats either need to change the legislation and work with Republicans to come up with something acceptable and fair, or that they may use the Budget Reconciliation process to bypass bipartisanship and push it through on a simple majority vote.
If the Democrats force through extremist new legislation that changes the way Americans votes and makes it easier for illegal votes to be counted, it could cause permanent damage to the nation’s political system and democracy.
Biden wrongly claimed that a “Democratic stand to protect our democracy” met a wall of opposition from the Republicans. He repeatedly referred to the bill as legislation to “protect the right to vote,” but did not offer any evidence of Republicans opposing any citizen having the opportunity or right to vote.
In fact, the United States already enshrines the right to vote in its constitution and laws, and this has not been changed recently.
Isn’t it racist for Biden to suggest that Black Americans don’t know how to vote like everybody else?
Republicans have plenty of concerns about the new legislation. Not only would it implement mass mail-in voting nationally – which is the system that allowed President Joe Biden to win in states where there are still major concerns about the legitimacy of the counts – but it would also strip states of the right to choose their own election laws.
We have four more years of this. Hold on tight. The Democrats could be about to end American democracy.
China Works “Deal” With Hilton To Build Over Bulldozed Mosque
(RepublicanInformer.com)- One thing that Democrats and Republicans are fairly united on these days is the issue of the Uyghur Muslim genocide in China. While the Democrats, including President Biden, may not see eye to eye on how to deal with China, most politicians condemn the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of putting Uyghur Muslims into “re-education camps”…but Hilton Hotels don’t seem to be quite as bothered by it.
Bitter Winter, a human rights magazine, claimed in a piece published online on June 23 that Hilton Hotels, the U.S.-based hospitality firm, is expected to build a hotel on the site of an Uyghur mosque. The mosque was demolished by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang region as part of an ongoing campaign to remove non-communist ideological symbols from the country.
Bitter Winter said that the site of the former mosque was purchased by a local developer in an action, and a contract was signed with Hampton Hotel, which is owned by Hilton, to build a new hotel on the site.
The outlet cited a report from The Telegraph, a British newspaper, which also reported earlier this month that the Chinese authorities pulled down the Hotan Duling Mosque as part of a plan to replace the religious facilities with new hotels.
The Telegraph said that the land was sold in a public auction in 2019.
CAIR, the Council for American Islamic Relations, which is often criticized for being a front group of the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote to the Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. CEO Christopher Nassetta this month and urged him to recover the plans immediately, citing the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims.
Perhaps the message would be more powerful coming from an organization that hasn’t been declared a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates and recognized for being a “co-conspirator” in operations funding terrorist group Hamas…
Trump Adviser Says Constitution Does Not Prevent Trump From Reinstatement
(RepublicanInformer.com)- Well, here’s an incredible story.
You know how the left-wing media lost its collective mind when reports suggested that former President Donald Trump was discussing the possibility of being reinstated as president after forensic audits prove that widespread fraud and misconduct altered the results of the last election?
Well, despite claims that the Constitution doesn’t allow for presidents to be reinstated, a renowned attorney, Boris Epshteyn, just said otherwise.
During an interview, the former strategic adviser to President Donald Trump said it is not out of the realm of possibility for the 45th President of the United States to return to the White House if audits prove that fraud altered the results of the last election.
Epshteyn said that the United States Constitution is a “negative rights document,” meaning that it does not prohibit the decertification of an election after it happens, and Trump could well be reinstated as a result.
It comes as the former president ramps up talk about election fraud, warning that new evidence is coming out “FAST and FURIOUS.”
Democrats and the media are already terrified of the results of ongoing forensic audits. Business Insider wrongly claimed that the audit, which they put in quote marks, is a “partisan and amateurish endeavor” that shouldn’t be trusted.
…why?
The audit is being conducted by three outside agencies, all independent, and the counting of the ballots is being livestreamed 24 hours per day online. If anybody wants to see this audit taking place, they can, and it is the most open audit to ever be held in American history.
It’s so successful that Pennsylvania Republican legislators are also talking about establishing an audit of their own.
Epshteyn also said that under the 12th Amendment and Article II, states have the right to decertify election result.
If he is right, and if the audits prove fraud, then perhaps we could see President Donald Trump returning to the White House before 2025 after all…
(RepublicanInformer.com)- According to a report from The National Pulse, Dr. Anthony Fauci may not have been telling the truth when he said that the release and redaction of his personal emails following a recent Freedom of Information Act request was “completely out of” his control.
He made the claim during an interview on the New York Times podcast “Sway,” saying that he didn’t know who was responsible for redacting certain emails. Specifically, he was talking about an email exchange with far-left Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Fauci insisted that he does not know who redacted his emails, and that when people ask for his emails, he doesn’t decide which ones to send and which ones to redact.
“It’s completely out of my control,” he told the podcast.
But after doing some digging, the National Pulse revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services said otherwise after a Freedom of Information Act request was made by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The HHS attempted to delay the request until a judge ordered the department to release the first batch of emails within one month.
Judicial Watch, a conservative-leaning legal watchdog, described how the Department of Health and Human Services said that the reason for the delay in releasing the emails was because Dr. Anthony Fauci needed time to review every one of his emails before they were released to the public.
You can read what Judicial Watch says here.
So how can Fauci say that it’s not under his control when it literally is entirely under his control?
It appears to be a total lie either by Dr. Anthony Fauci, or by the Department of Health and Human Services.
A few hours after the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza on May 21, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a "victory message" praising "the cooperation between the West Bank, Gaza, and Israeli Arabs for showing the path for the Palestinians in the future." Israel, he said, "will now be weaker in light of the rising power of the Palestinians and the jihad organizations."
The Iranian leader called for Israel to be indicted for its "shocking crimes," and said its actions had caused a "wave of hatred around the world" which had spilled over to its allies, in particular the United States. He also urged Muslims to pressure their governments to donate money to rebuild Gaza.
During the 11 days of fighting in May between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip, senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders maintained telephone contacts with Iran's top brass, including Khamenei and the heads of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and PIJ leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah spoke with Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the IRGC, who promised, on behalf of the Islamic Republic, that "Iran would not desert the Palestinians and will stand by their side and support them with all the means at its disposal, up until the final, impending destruction of the enemy [Israel]."
Both Nakhalah and Haniyeh traveled to Iran to attend the Jan. 7, 2020 funeral of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Haniyeh delivered a eulogy, and he and Nakhalah were given places of honor right behind Khameini, President Hassan Rouhani, and president-elect Ebrahim Raisi.
Following the May conflict, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani's successor as commander of the Quds Force, sent letters to the "commanders of the Palestinian resistance," including Hamas military commander Muhammad Deif. In one letter to Deif, the "Living Martyr" [because of his many battle wounds], Ghaani praised the resistance organizations' deployment for the campaign and "preparing the tools necessary for the crushing victory," despite the harsh conditions.
Ghaani, in the spirit of the Supreme Leader's remarks, also praised the cohesion of the Palestinian people, "the Muslims in Palestine--in Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank and the Palestinian cities occupied since 1948" (referring to the Arab riots in Acre, Lod, Ramla, Haifa and Jaffa). He stated that the Palestinians "demonstrated that they are a dynamic and living nation making its way toward victory."
In his letter to the commander of PIJ's military wing, Ghaani praised the organization's firm stance, that "destroyed the arrogance of the Zionist enemy and demonstrated that Jerusalem is not alone in the campaign." He also wrote that PIJ had weapons "beyond the imagination of the Zionist enemy." He blessed Soleimani's memory and his contribution to the "resistance" struggle, and vowed to continue in his path.
During the rocket barrages on Israel, PIJ revealed an improved Kassam rocket, each of which had been "signed" in memory of Soleimani. After the round of fighting, Iran unveiled an unmanned aerial craft called "Gaza" and a radar system called "Quds" to demonstrate their solidarity with the Palestinians.
PIJ's spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Abu Hamza, issued a statement at the end of the campaign in which he praised Iran and the rest of the "Axis of Resistance" for helping to fight in Gaza. Their weapons, as well as their provided expertise, he said, brought strength and abilities to the resistance brigades (Muqawama), both materially and technically. "You share our victory, and together we will victoriously enter al-Aqsa [mosque]," he said. PIJ leader Al-Nakhalah sent a congratulatory letter to the Iranian Supreme Leader noting Iran's support of the organization and its role "in the victory achieved."
Hezbollah's response
In a May 25 speech marking "Resistance and Liberation Day," commemorating Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah praised "leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements and their military wings" for their "brilliant moves" during the Gaza war.
"The final goal is Palestine. The resistance victory in May 2000 was dedicated to Palestine and was a strategic turning point in the struggle with Israel. From now on, we will celebrate two great victories in May--the 25th of the year 2000, and the 21st in 2021-- marking Gaza's victory," said Nasrallah.
The Hezbollah leader said Israel's "dangerous activity in Jerusalem" had pushed the leaders of the Palestinian organizations to take a "historic, decisive and new stance." The war, he said, had erupted as a response to "the foolishness of Israel's leadership, its arrogance, underestimating the resistance, and miscalculations." Gaza, he added, had surprised both its friends and its enemies with its decision to "fulfill its threat in response to Israel's Judaizing of al-Quds [Jerusalem]."
He warned that in future, "activity in al-Quds against Islamic holy sites" by Israel would spark a regional war.
Echoing Khamenei's statement about Palestinian unity, Nasrallah said that one of the Gaza terror groups' most important achievements during the conflict "was the mobilization of Palestinians inside 1948 lands, which terrified Israel." Israel, he said, had failed to predict the response of the "1948 Arabs."
The conflict had also impacted the normalization trend between Israel and Arab states, the Hezbollah leader said.
Nasrallah said that the "Sword of Jerusalem," as Hamas called the conflict, had severely damaged the normalization process between Israel and the Arab states. The Trump administration's peace plan had "collapsed and disappeared" since "Israel's real face and its apartheid regime were exposed," he said.
Nasrallah also stressed the steadfast stance of the "Axis of Resistance" in the various countries that constituted the "backbone that supported the victory in Palestine," and particularly emphasized the support of Iraqi Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and the Houthis of Yemen.
A joint command center in Beirut
Meanwhile, sources close to Hezbollah revealed that the IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah had established a joint military operations center in Beirut during the Gaza war. Ibrahim al-Amin, editor-in-chief of the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, said during an interview with Al-Manar TV on June 2 that officers from all three groups coordinated the military confrontation in Gaza, adding that the commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, had visited Lebanon twice to attend the command center meetings.
Hezbollah transmitted weaponry and ammunition to Gaza, and also moved Hamas and PIJ officers out of the Strip during the fighting, according to Al-Amin. The "Islamic Resistance" also provided the Palestinian factions with the needed data about the movements of the Israeli "occupation" military, he said.
During the war, Hezbollah did not respond militarily, satisfying itself with organizing demonstrations near the border fence with Israel and in several areas of Lebanon. Hezbollah also allowed limited and symbolic rocket fire into Israel to show support and solidarity with the Palestinians during the war.
Hezbollah's response reflects its sensitive and complicated situation in Lebanon following the massive explosion at the port of Beirut on Aug. 4, 2020, and the country's dire economic situation. Furthermore, Hezbollah continues to be involved militarily in Syria and is subject to domestic criticism on this issue as well. An all-out confrontation with Israel is also impossible, of course, without a green light from Tehran.
As the Gaza operation unfolded, Iran held nuclear talks in Vienna with the remaining signatories of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement regarding the possibility of returning to the JCPOA framework. Thus, a round of escalation in Lebanon involving Hezbollah would not serve Iran's broader interests now.
Iran does not want to put the issue of its malign activity in the region on the agenda during the nuclear talks, giving the United States the option to disrupt the negotiations. If an agreement is signed and the United States rejoins the JCPOA, which it left under Trump in 2018, Iran will then feel freer (and richer) to unleash its Axis of Resistance throughout the Middle East.
Hezbollah's lessons from the Gaza war
For offensive operations, Hezbollah will seek to:
1. Strengthen its rocket and missile arm and accelerate its guided-missile project. In its view, rocket and missile weaponry is a "tiebreaker" and changes the rules of the game against Israel; it identifies Israel's home front as a central weak point. This process is the continuation of the implementation of the Iranian doctrine of asymmetrical warfare.
2. Disrupt Israel's missile defense systems.
3. Prepare for the occupation of territory in the Galilee, including the use of invasion tunnels. In this context, it was recently reported that Hezbollah had established a network of tunnels spanning hundreds of kilometers, including command and control complexes, from Beirut to southern Lebanon, aimed at attacking IDF forces in the event of a ground maneuver in Lebanese territory.
In light of Israel's new ability to identify tunnels and the damage done by the IDF to Hamas's tunnels in Gaza during the May conflict, Hezbollah may be required to rethink their use during combat.
4. Damage Israeli facilities and strategic economic and military infrastructures.
For defensive operations, Hezbollah will seek to:
1. Design a new deterrence equation vis-a-vis Israel: "Activity in Jerusalem will lead to a regional war," warning Israel not to repeat the "Gaza miscalculation" with Lebanon.
2. Obtain anti-aircraft systems. Hezbollah will make efforts with Iran to place improved and concealed anti-aircraft systems in Lebanon to protect against possible airstrikes in Lebanese territory.
3. Protect against targeted killings of senior Hezbollah figures.
Iranian aid will continue and even increase
Iranian aid to Hamas and PIJ is constant and flows through various channels, regardless of the economic situation in Iran and Lebanon. The know-how and weaponry Iran transfers to Hamas through the Quds Force and Hezbollah--as well as training in Lebanon (as Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem admitted) or on Iranian soil--also have a decisive influence on how Hamas and PIJ conduct their operations.
This includes setting objectives (strategic infrastructure and energy infrastructure), efforts to overcome Israel's Iron Dome with Hezbollah's support, and the maritime activities that were exposed in the latest conflict.
In this context, the Hamas naval force and attempts to damage the Israeli gas rigs in the Mediterranean must be mentioned. Here we see an effort by Hamas and PIJ, supported by Iran and Hezbollah, to copy the capabilities of the Houthis in Yemen in their attacks against Saudi Arabia, and the Shi'ite militias in Iraq in attacks against the United States.
These efforts involve long-range attack drones, GPS-guided, unmanned suicide vessels, underwater guided weapons and long-range missiles. The Houthis are using these capabilities against oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and against civilian infrastructure such as airports, power plants and desalination facilities.
The Iranian objective is to duplicate the military capabilities it develops from arena to arena (as in the case of roadside bombs [IEDs] that originated with Hezbollah in Lebanon and were used in attacks against coalition forces in Iraq). Yemen serves today as the largest testing ground for new weapons in the region.
Lebanese Hezbollah advisers serve as instructors in aerial weaponry (ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aircraft and drones) as well as naval weaponry (unmanned underwater vehicles [UUV], explosive-laden boats, and submarine platforms). Iran seeks to develop these capabilities and test them in the military arena against Israeli civilian targets, strategic infrastructure and military targets.
In the 2021 fighting, Hamas attempted to launch drones, unmanned aircraft, and naval weapons alongside more traditional Iranian-backed techniques such as Kornet anti-tank missiles, which were supplied to Gaza by Iran, as well as "Sayyad" sniper rifles, an Iranian knock-off an Austrian sniper rifle, the Steyr HS.50.
In the event of a comprehensive conflict in the north, Hezbollah, which refrained from involvement in the Gaza war, may be expected to bring to bear against Israel air and sea capabilities similar to those of the Houthis.
In the end, the Gaza war, like other operations in Gaza and Lebanon, constitutes a "Divine event" for Iran, proving the justice of its ways and that Israel can be eliminated with patience and endurance.
Iran's resistance and revolution all begin with Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's activist interpretation of Shi'ite Islam and the revolution in Shi'ism that he led are constantly being validated, especially for Iran's current leaders.
They connect Khomeini's teachings to the successes in the Iranian national-ideological dimension (confronting sanctions, surviving the Trump administration and ex-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu); maintaining an active military nuclear program; overthrowing Saddam Hussein; Shi'ite revival in Iraq; the "victories" of the Palestinian organizations and Hezbollah against Israel (with Iran's support); and in the religious dimension (the "Mahdi hand" and Divine intervention).
All of these achievements strengthen and shape their belief in the righteousness of their path and the rationale which demonstrates resilience and the need for continued resistance by the Iranian people.
Iran believes that the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and the Palestinian resilience in Jerusalem and Gaza follow Khomeini's previous "prophecies" about the collapse of the Soviet Union (Communism) and Saddam's fall. They believe his prophecy regarding the destruction of Israel will eventually be fulfilled, and that Iran has the power to bring it about.
Iran's current leader, Khamenei, follows in his predecessor's footsteps. He stated in September 2015 that Israel would not exist in 25 years. In this regard, Khamenei's recent Quds Day speech, prior to the clashes in Jerusalem and the subsequent Gaza war, is touted as "prophetic" and demonstrates that the Supreme Leader's prophecies of Israel's annihilation are materializing.
For Iran, "Palestine" is only one part of a complex strategy of building the Axis of Resistance from the Persian Gulf to Lebanon, aimed at Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon; each arena has its own blueprint, a toolbox of hostile insurgency actions, and the guidance of Hezbollah, the Quds Force and well-trained militias.
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's newly elected president, who is part of the system and who was shaped by it, will further strengthen this predicament by defying the West, calling for the destruction of Israel (using Jerusalem as a common denominator), and pursuing regional hegemony through subversion, ballistic missiles, and Iran's nuclear program.
Originally published at JNS.org - reposted with permission.
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