News Roundup & Comment October 18, 2024

Looking for news headlines you won’t find elsewhere?  Crosstalk is the program for just that.  Here’s a sample of what Jim covered this week:

–Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7th massacre in Israel, is dead.  Sinwar was killed by an infantry soldier who was only 9 months into his service.

–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the U.S. that Israel is willing to strike Iranian military targets, not nuclear or oil targets.

–Israel’s military suffered one of the worst attacks since October 7th.  That’s the Hezbollah drone strike at a base dozens of miles from the Lebanon border where four IDF soldiers were killed and 58 others were wounded.

–The U.S. has deployed the THAAD missile defense system along with a 100 member crew to bolster Israel’s defense against a possible third direct strike from Iran.

–Israeli forces on Monday killed Hezbollah’s anti-tank missile commander Muhammad Kamel Naeem just days after his elite fighting brigade launched a lethal rocket attack on northern Israel that also killed a couple of civilians.

–Hezbollah is facing a very serious financial problem as they are unable to pay rank and file members who’ve fled their homes and need to feed their families. 

–The Israeli Defense Forces captured a Hezbollah weapons cache a few dozen meters from a U.N. international force in Lebanon. 

–The U.S. embassy in Beirut issued a warning to Americans living in Lebanon    urging them to leave the country immediately.

–The Biden/Harris administration is quietly threatening an arms embargo against Israel citing humanitarian concerns. 

–Turkey’s President Erdogan has urged Russia, Iran and Syria to unite in protecting Syria’s territorial integrity against Israel.

–Iran’s illicit oil revenue has swelled to nearly 200 billion dollars under the Biden/Harris administration.

–Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that 10,000 North Korean troops are being readied to join Russian forces in their fight against Ukraine. 

–The E.U. has imposed sanctions on seven Iranian officials and entities, including airlines, for supplying ballistic missiles and drones to Russia for use against Ukraine in its invasion.

–North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has officially cut off sections of roads leading to South Korea, including vital rail links, by blowing them up.

–Audio cuts from the Bret Baier/Kamala Harris interview.

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