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Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:49pm On Dec 22, 2025
Netanyahu:

“We are aware that Iran is conducting military exercises.
We are monitoring the matter and making the necessary preparations.

I want to make it clear that any action against ISRAEL will be met with THE HARSHEST RESPONSE.”

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:45pm On Dec 22, 2025
Hezbollah's Wallet Woes: When One Billion Just Isn't Enough

Iran has continued transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah throughout the past year to aid post-war reconstruction. However, Hezbollah's leadership deems this insufficient.

- In recent months, Hezbollah negotiated with Iran's IRGC Quds Force, demanding nearly $2 billion annually.

- Iran offered only $1 billion, which was ultimately agreed upon.
- Funds arrive regularly and precisely (mostly by air), enabling Hezbollah to pay high monthly salaries (by Lebanese standards) and maintain manpower, recruitment, and training without cuts.
- The organization buys weapons from Syrian tribes (not the state) and shows no economic strain in many units.

Despite reliable payments, dissatisfaction persists within Hezbollah ranks because rebuilding the massive weapons arsenal—destroyed by Israel after two decades of stockpiling—is extremely expensive
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:42pm On Dec 22, 2025
U.S. Set to Block Import and Sale of New Chinese DJI Drones Over Security Concerns

A provision in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act requires a U.S. national security agency to conduct a risk assessment of DJI (and Autel) drones by December 23, 2025.

If no assessment is completed—as appears likely, since none has started—DJI will automatically be added to the FCC's Covered List. This would block the import, sale, and marketing of new DJI drones and related products in the U.S. due to security concerns.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:39pm On Dec 22, 2025
The White House:
Effective immediately, leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects being constructed in the United States will be paused due to national security concerns.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:36pm On Dec 22, 2025
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced today that Russia has pledged "full support" to Venezuela to counter the U.S. blockade in the Caribbean. 

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:36pm On Dec 22, 2025
WSJ:

President Trump is set to unveil plans for a new class of massive warships—dubbed "battleships" by Trump himself—as the cornerstone of his "Golden Fleet" to supercharge the U.S. Navy and counter China's dominance at sea.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HolinessForever:
Dramatic assassination in the heart of Moscow: Russian general killed in car bombing

Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, was killed today when an explosive device detonated beneath his vehicle in Moscow.

Russian investigators say the bomb was planted under the car. One of the primary lines of inquiry points to possible involvement by Ukrainian intelligence, though no official confirmation has been issued.

The killing is the latest in a series of targeted attacks against senior Russian military figures since the outbreak of the war.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 10:33pm On Dec 22, 2025
China is likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles across its latest three silo fields and has no desire for arms control talks, according to a draft Pentagon report which highlighted Beijing's growing military ambitions.

China is expanding and modernizing its weapons stockpile faster than any other nuclear-armed power.

Beijing has described the reports of a military buildup as efforts to "smear and defame China and deliberately mislead the international community." -

Reuters

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:26pm On Dec 22, 2025
Russian Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Armed Forces General Staff, was killed today in a car BOMB EXPLOSION on Yasenevaya Street in southern Moscow.

An EXPLOSIVE device detonated under his vehicle this morning. Russia's Investigative Committee has confirmed his death and opened a murder investigation.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:22pm On Dec 22, 2025
Mike Huckabee:
"Ahmad Al-Sharaa knows that his way to survival
is PEACE with ISRAEL"

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:21pm On Dec 22, 2025
US Ambassador:
"Iran did not understand the message of the bombing in Fordow"

This was said in response to the rebuilding Iran is currently doing.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:19pm On Dec 22, 2025
China accuses the US of violating international law following the confiscation of ships.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:18pm On Dec 22, 2025
The Al-Manar channel, associated with Hezbollah, reports three deaths as a result of an ISRAELI attack on a car in the area of the Al-Qanitra village in the Sidon region.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:16pm On Dec 22, 2025
The eighth, most dangerous front: How Turkey went from ally to strategic threat - opinion

“Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland warns a “Turkish front” is emerging, arguing Ankara under Erdogan is now Israel’s most dangerous strategic threat and requires a policy refocus.”

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:13pm On Dec 22, 2025
According to a report from Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib, ISRAELI drones are currently flying above the following southern Lebanese villages:

- Nabatieh
- Yohmor al-Shaqif
- Zawtar al-Sharqiya
- Zawtar al-Gharbiya
- Houmine al-Fawqa
- Jarjouh
- Arabsalim
- Dweir
- Ain Qana
- Jebchit
- Harouf
- Deir al-Zahrani
- Roumine
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:11pm On Dec 22, 2025
Western intelligence agencies warn of Iranian activity

Western intelligence agencies have recently identified an Iranian attempt to rearm their missile capability through China. Some of the equipment destroyed in a previous Israeli mission against Iran is said to be acquired from China - particularly those which aid fuel capability.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:10pm On Dec 22, 2025
President Donald Trump will make an announcement with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Navy John Phelan Monday at 4:30 pm ET, an hour after receiving his intelligence briefing.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:08pm On Dec 22, 2025
The engines in Lebanon and Syria are heating up...

Everyone is threatening everyone, the Shiites against the Sunnis, the Christians against the Shiites, in the middle militias from the Caucasus mountains, and the US against the Shiites.


There is not a single Lebanese who is not afraid tonight and in the coming nights of an explosion that could come,
from the east = Syria
from the south = Israel

Literally, Lebanon is sitting on a powder keg.

Abu Saleh
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:07pm On Dec 22, 2025
Senator Lindsey Graham

There is no political support anywhere in Israel for having Türkiye involved in the stabilizing force.
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 5:00pm On Dec 22, 2025
Senator Lindsey Graham:
'There is credible evidence that Iran is returning to uranium enrichment'

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said at a press conference during his visit to Israel that "we eliminated Iran's nuclear program but we did not eliminate their aspirations. They still want to destroy all Jews."


He added: "They are building more ballistic missiles that can hit ISRAEL and Europe - there is evidence of that. There is credible evidence that Iran is returning to enrichment business and trying to build more ballistic missiles to act against ISRAEL and Europe.

We need to strike them before they do."

Ynet
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 4:57pm On Dec 22, 2025
Netanyahu and Trump secretly planned a possible attack on Iran starting from February 2025, while publicly signaling diplomacy as part of a deception campaign against Tehran.

The preparations continued because "if the talks fail, we are ready to proceed," and the leaks regarding tensions between the US and Israel were deliberate:

"It's good that this was the general perception."

Source: Washington Post
Foreign Affairs › Gaza Doctor Murdered Israeli Hostage By Injecting Air Into Her Veins by HolinessForever(op): 10:13pm On Dec 21, 2025
DOCTOR KILLED MY GIRL

The father of an Israeli woman abducted on October 7 has revealed his daughter was murdered in Gaza by a civilian doctor - and that he was later sent a video showing the moment she was killed.

In the footage, Avi Marciano said a medical worker is seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter's veins as she lies on a bed inside Shifa Hospital, begging for her life.

Marciano, who was speaking publicly to a small crowd for the first time, said that by the end of the clip 'she was sweating and showing no signs of life'.

His daughter was later identified as Cpl Noa Marciano, who the IDF said had suffered injuries during heavy bombing and gunfire but none that were considered life-threatening.

As Israeli forces advanced towards where Noa was being held, her captors moved her to Gaza City, where she was later killed.

Marciano said the video was sent to him on Telegram and showed clearly how his daughter died while in Hamas captivity.

He added that what he went through was the 'biggest nightmare you could ever imagine', saying there are mornings he still wakes to the image of her murder replaying in his mind.

Noa was my eldest daughter and there's not a day when I don't miss her,' he said.


Noa was one of seven female soldiers to be kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 and the only one not to have returned alive.

Her body was recovered from a building adjacent to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City by the IDF in November 2023, and returned to Israel for burial.


It comes after the Daily Mail revealed the inside of Gaza's terror tunnels where many of the 254 hostages taken by Hamas were held captive.
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Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:42pm On Dec 18, 2025

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:25pm On Dec 18, 2025
5 ISRAELI food startups producing honey, eggs, fish, meat and milk in the lab without the help of any animal.
That could solve the problem of hunger in many countries if their operations are scaled up.

(Nas Daily)

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:23pm On Dec 18, 2025
That’s FRIENDSHIP and ALLIANCE

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:21pm On Dec 18, 2025
As part of a strategic effort to strengthen ISRAEL'S multilayered air-defense system, production of the Iron Dome will be expanded. Behind the batteries that appear unchanged lies a quiet revolution: upgraded radar, advanced algorithms, improved interceptors, and a complementary laser capability.

The Iron Dome of late 2025 is a fundamentally different system - honed through an accelerated arms race and a real-time “battle laboratory.”

(Alma Research Center)

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:19pm On Dec 18, 2025
At this time, numerous first responders are responding to a major aviation emergency following the crash of a private jet earlier this at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.

The aircraft has been identified as a 1981 Cessna Citation II, tail number N257BW, reportedly owned by NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.


There were six occupants onboard at the time of the crash. Local media reports indicate that five fatalities have been confirmed so far.


According to flight-tracking data, the aircraft returned toward the airport shortly after takeoff before the incident occurred. This remains a developing situation, and further details will be released as they become available.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:15pm On Dec 18, 2025
The United States has decided to impose sanctions on two judges at The Hague.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated:

“They are directly involved in political and illegitimate actions against Israel. The United States has been clear: we will continue to respond with significant consequences to counter the International Criminal Court’s lawfare, abuse of authority, and blatant disregard for the sovereignty of the United States and Israel.”
Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:14pm On Dec 18, 2025
Who would have imagined that my town would become home to NVIDIA’s future R&grin center?

The U.S. chipmaker is planning a 160,000-square-meter campus near Haifa, expected to create approximately 10,000 jobs - more than doubling the company’s presence in Israel.

Amir T

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:11pm On Dec 18, 2025
All Arab and Western efforts against Hezbollah in recent months have failed—period. Did anyone truly expect otherwise?

In the coming hours, the Prime Minister of Egypt is expected to arrive in Beirut, likely for what may be the final attempt before the end of the year. He will deliver harsh and unequivocal messages to Hezbollah.
According to insiders, this is a dramatic moment with a clear ultimatum: surrender the weapons, or lose all support.

(Abu Saleh)

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:09pm On Dec 18, 2025
Thai F-16 air strikes have reportedly hit the Cambodian city of Poipet.

Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by HolinessForever: 7:09pm On Dec 18, 2025
IDF:
Earlier today (Thursday), IDF troops operating in the Southern Gaza Strip identified a terrorist who crossed the yellow line and approached the troops, posing an immediate threat to them.

Following the identification, the IAF ELIMINATED the TERRORIST.

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