2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict

The Houthis, known for their disruptive tactics, have formally notified the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that they are enforcing a comprehensive air blockade on all flights to and from Israeli airports. The ban took effect on May 4, 2025, at 22:42 Sana’a time (19:42 UTC), with the group urging all international airlines to treat the notice as binding and to immediately halt operations involving Israeli airspace to protect aircraft and passengers.Citing their stated commitment to civil aviation safety, the Houthis called on ICAO and IATA to act in accordance with aviation regulations—specifically Doc 9554-AN/932 and Annexes 11 and 15—to issue the necessary airspace alerts (NOTAMs) and coordinate with relevant air traffic service (ATS) providers to implement the ban.
@flightradar24 shows business as usual in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"I have said many times that whoever attacks the State of Israel — their blood is on their own head. Yesterday I said that the Houthi attack would not be met with a one-time ‘bang’ and it’s over — but with ‘bangs’.
So yesterday we delivered a bang, a heavy strike on the port of Hudaydah. Today, our planes struck the Sana’a airport — the airport that enables the terror army and aerial access to the terror state, and allows the launching of missiles against us.

Our choice of when, how, and what to strike — that is a calculation we make each time. And this also applies to the Houthis’ patron — Iran. Without their approval and long-term support, the Houthis could not carry out their wicked missile campaign against us.
President Trump said this a month and a half ago. I say it again today — we will settle accounts with anyone who attacks the State of Israel.

I want to take this opportunity to commend the Chief of Staff, you, the Air Force Commander, our intelligence, our incredible air and ground crews, our excellent pilots, and everyone who supports them. Congratulations on a flawless execution."

Defense Minister Israel Katz:
"The Houthi terror organization attempted to strike Ben Gurion Airport, and in response, we destroyed the Sana’a airport today.
In addition, we struck other targets, continuing yesterday’s attacks on the port of Hudaydah and additional national infrastructure that we targeted.

Whoever harms us — we will hit them sevenfold.

This is also a warning message to the head of the Iranian octopus: ‘You bear direct responsibility for every attack by the Houthi arm of the octopus against the State of Israel — and you will fully bear the consequences.’"
 
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Saw a bit of Palestinian propaganda on twitter (nitter) that was so stupid that I had to share it
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It's some nobody account and only got a couple hundred views, but it was pretty funny and actually feeds into the pro-Israel narrative more than the pro-Palestine one... if it weren't obviously fake.

Hs anyone here read "One Day in October," compiled by Yair Agmon and Oriya Mevorach?


I think this is an effect of people becoming adjusted to the climate inside their cultural bubble. In your bubble, you may always get patted on the back for observing what an evil genocide country Israel is. This becomes the baseline experience for you. Then you venture outside your bubble and declare Israel an evil genocide country and people call you an idiot. You feel abused and persecuted. You think, "I'm not being allowed to criticize Israel, those people are censoring me," when in fact you're just receiving pushback, the same pushback that a Zionist would receive if he expressed his thoughts within your bubble.

It's like people who accuse the NYT of being a Zionist mouthpiece. They're so used to hearing "Israel is 100% bad" all the time that when the NYT tells them "Israel is 80% bad" what they hear is "Israel is good."

If you spend all your time in a 90-degree heat, you're going to start shivering as the temperature approaches 70.
Last year around the Bushnell self-immolation I was at some Democratic Party event and a group of people were talking about how it was suspicious that the news weren't covering it more.

Literally less than a year ago and one block away a man had self-immolated. I asked them if any of them had heard of it, much less knew what he was protesting. Obviously they did not.

In most cases of suicide journalists still have enough ethics to not valorize or glamorize them. This is because it incentivizes suicide. But there are two causes that make journalists feel like even this can be thrown out, Palestine and trannies. And if the editor tells them, "no, this violates the most basic guidelines on suicide from experts," the journalists will go to some other platform to complain about how they are being silenced by feminists/Jews TERFs/Zionists and of course the totally powerless trannies/Muslims will quickly organize a hate campaign against the paper.
 
I read One Day in October. Brutal read. The image of the guy holding off the people at the shelter window (wtf those shelters cannot have been current code) while his wife runs away with the baby has stuck with me.

It’s available on Amazon or directly from Koren I think.
Those bomb shelters were designed to protect at a minimum against shrapnel/nearby explosions I believe
 
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