What to Know About Israel’s War on Hamas | Crossroads

Good evening and welcome to Crossroads. For the first time since 1973, Israel has officially declared war. Now this is in response to terrorist raids where Hamas killed hundreds of civilians with death tolls still rising, videos circulated of terrorist fighters parading dead women on the backs of their trucks while making Islamist chants, as well as videos of people dancing in an open-air rave while Hamas terrorists flew in and on buggies connected to parachutes. Many ran screaming through the desert as they were fired on. Hamas fighters then went house to house where they indiscriminately killed men, women, and children. Israel then mounted a full military retaliation. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told civilians in Gaza to flee to other countries. Alleged Hamas strongholds were bombed, videos circulated of cities really burning. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated in a video posted to X that the first objective is to clear out hostile forces. Next is going to be an operation to, quote, exact an immense price from the enemy, including in the Gaza Strip. And third will be an operation to, quote, reinforce other fronts so that nobody should mistakenly join this war. Now that third objective is likely in response to talk elsewhere that groups, that terrorist groups may try to actually join this. The Taliban, for example, had signaled its intent to attack. Hamas sent out warnings to other Islamist regimes, calling them to break ties with Israel. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar have joined to blame Israel for the Hamas attacks. Now the United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, has so far stood by Israel and they're condemning Hamas, suggesting that it's committed to the Abraham Accord and it's really still in place. But Shiites elsewhere came out in large rallies in Yemen and Bahrain in support of Palestine, suggesting that factional disputes could still be divided, regardless really of where the national leaders stand on this. Now as for the Biden administration, it is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Many Democrats, including most of the establishment media, they are pro-Palestine, or at least they were until now. We'll see how that goes. Yet they're now facing the cognitive dissonance of whether they back the attack tied to Iran and likely to Russia by proxy. It doesn't bode well for the Ukraine war narrative. Iran is also very closely tied with North Korea as well. It was unveiled, for example, in 2017 that North Korea had similar invasion plans against South Korea using paragliders, similar to what we just witnessed in Israel. Now the opposition bloc around Russia is likewise the opposition bloc tied in with Palestine, which had been a proxy force through Yasser Arafat, aligned with the old Soviet Union. That was the so-called red-green alliance of Soviet-backed terrorism. This has continued under Iran, yet tied to the new global alliance alongside Russia, China, and North Korea. And it's going to be difficult for the pro-Ukraine lobby to oppose Russia on one side, yet still support the proxy forces of Iranian and Russian terror. Now on the other side, many Republicans are pro-Israel, yet many others are wary of the whole conflict with concerns that may drag the United States into a third world war. President Donald Trump warned about such an agenda previously. He claimed that former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, wanted him to attack Iran. Milley of course denies this claim, but the alleged document proving otherwise, well that's now the central piece in the classified documents case against Trump. The case where he's accused of taking classified documents home. Trump's being accused of showing that document where Milley wanted war with Iran to reporters. But Trump had also suggested it was Milley's idea to abandon U.S. military equipment to the Taliban. And Milley was also accused of communicating with China behind the president's back. Now believe whichever side you want, but many Trump supporters, for them, this is taken as evidence that war with Iran was on the table. And possibly the interest of the CCP as well to drag America into five conflicts, as they've been saying is the goal. Then there's the conflicting narratives of, well, if we support Ukraine, then does the Biden administration hold the same standard for Israel? Will Iran be treated differently in a proxy war than Russia is treated in a direct war? Then there's the other problem of financing. President Joe Biden is being blamed for bankrolling these attacks on Israel. Now this ties to his administration recently freeing up $6 billion to fund, well in funds to Iran. Then the, although the full numbers are actually higher than this, Senator Ted Cruz criticized Biden for giving over $40 billion to Iran in cash and an oil sanctions relief. And Wall Street journalists since revealed Iran did in fact help plan the recent terror attacks in Israel. It reported that Iranian forces have been working with Hamas on these attacks since August. And August was when Biden freed up that money. And on top of that, also Iranian officials had given the green light for the terror attacks in a meeting in Beirut last Monday. With all this in context, many critics are now questioning why the Biden administration is not freezing the billions of dollars that had been unlocked for Iran to use. President Trump warned about this on August 17th. Watch this. Crooked Joe Biden just agreed to pay a $6 billion ransom to the Iranian dictatorship in exchange for hostages. This is yet another Biden surrender and a further blistering humiliation of the United States of America to the world stage. But even worse, this decision will be extremely deadly. Biden is giving $6 billion to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. Just as when Obama sent the Iranian regime pallets of cash for hostages in the dark of night. Remember, plane loads of cash. Biden's ransom payment will be immediately used to stoke violence, bloodshed and mayhem throughout the Middle East and all around the world, costing countless innocent lives. So now that this is actually happening, why is the Biden administration not refreezing the cash to Iran? Well, it's possible the Biden administration can't afford to do it. Now the other big elephant in the room right now is that the coalition of countries tied in with it also have a monopoly on gas and oil. Russia controls energy for Europe, but oil and gas is also a problem as well. Biden right now is being accused of draining U.S. strategic oil reserves in order to artificially lower gas prices ahead of the elections. Middle East oil producers have likewise been able to corner the global supply. Politico, for example, they're now reporting that a renewal of sanctions on Iran could derail its thawing relations with Saudi Arabia and send global fuel prices soaring. Problems don't end there either. There are also questions of whether U.S. weapons made their way to Hamas terrorists through Afghanistan or through Ukraine. Russia is being accused of spreading disinformation that U.S. military supplies to Ukraine are being sent to Hamas. But the possibility, unfortunately, is not far out. CBS News, they reported previously and then deleted a claim that only 30% of U.S. military aid for Ukraine was actually reaching the front lines. And there's concern that some officials in Ukraine have been reselling equipment and weapons. Now, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has been probing corruption on this and recently replaced the country's defense minister because of it. But regardless of whether Ukrainian aid is making its way to Hamas, there are reports that U.S. arms left for the Taliban have fallen into the hands of Palestinian terrorists. When Biden pulled the United States out of Afghanistan, he left more than $7 billion in military equipment functional for the Taliban. The Middle East Monitor had reported in June that some of the small arms, things like rifles and so on, had been spotted in the hands of terrorists in the Gaza Strip, where Palestine is. And there's evidence now of this as well. Now, Donald Trump Jr. posted a video of Palestinians celebrating the terror attacks, and he noted the guns weren't the typical Kalashnikov variant seen in the region. Instead, he noted, they look a whole lot like American M4s and other guns that were abandoned for the Taliban. Now, regardless of how things move forward, as things currently stand, the United States is supporting Israel in this conflict, including how it could go forward. Netanyahu issued a statement today telling Israel to prepare for a drawn-out war. The Biden administration has pledged rock-solid support and has likewise begun moving warships to the region, suggesting the U.S. is going to help if needed. Republicans seem to be on board as well, for the most part. But of course, all of this is still developing. This very realistically could turn into a war that the U.S. could very possibly get pulled into. But we'll be covering it here as the situation develops. Now, in other news, the current conflict should be understood in context of Russia and what's called the Red-Green Alliance. I'll be explaining what this is after the break. Well, everyone, that's it for YouTube for the rest of the episode. Come join us on Epic TV. We have some important stuff to go into. We'll be talking about the history of the Red-Green Alliance and how this really kind of axis of evil, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, still controls a lot of the movement of global terrorism. We'll be explaining the context of what you're watching and what's really behind a lot of it and what their goals are. 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