A drone fired from Lebanon that exploded in the central seaside town of Caesarea early on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home, his office said. The premier and his wife were not present and no injuries were reported.

It was not immediately clear if the home suffered any damage.

The short statement from Netanyahu’s office came after the IDF said that “a building had been hit” in the upscale town famous for its swanky villas and Roman ruins and amphitheater.

The IDF said the drone was one of three launched from Lebanon, the other two were shot down.

The military said it was investigating the incident that apparently saw several failures of Israel’s warning system.

No warning sirens were sounded in Caesarea ahead of the drone impact and explosion. Footage posted to social media appeared to show attack helicopters in the air that were apparently hunting the drone further to the north.

However, sirens did sound in Glilot north of Tel Aviv, which houses a major IDF intelligence base and the Mossad headquarters. Those sirens were not accompanied by warnings on the Home Front Command’s app or other platforms.

The drones and the interceptions also triggered warning sirens down Israel’s coast in the minutes ahead of the impact.

“We heard helicopters above us and there was a feeling that there was some sort of incident but there were no sirens so we were not too worried,” one Caesarea resident told Channel 12. “But then suddenly a large explosion was heard and it was not clear to us if it was from an interception or a drone impact — but it was clear that it was a real incident with no prior warning.”

“It was very worrying, luckily there are no casualties,” he said.
Ofek Mor, another resident, told Ynet of hearing the drone overhead.

“Suddenly we heard a buzzing sound, it was not clear what was happening, then there was a huge explosion, very strong,” he said. “It is walking distance from my house, we got here and very quickly we understood what had happened.”

Continued @ https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-drone-targets-netanyahus-house-in-caesarea-pm-wife-not-home-no-injuries/

I am surprised he has lasted this long with all the people he has killed. Sorry, but that is how I feel.
Bibi has killed 4,5 leaders responsible for the 1 attack. How many leaders did they have

He refuses to listen to our President, yet expects us to support him. The Israel people protest against him. They do no like him either.

Yup ......count me amongst them .

Hope they rise up on both sides to stop the religious minorities.

Last month, just before six young Israeli hostages were murdered by their kidnappers in a tunnel in Gaza after almost a year in Hamas captivity, it was reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu asked the state to expand security for his son Yair – an unemployed adult who lives in Miami.

The gap between what increasingly appears to be Netanyahu's disregard for the lives of hostages and his concern for the welfare of his own family (while Yair's contemporaries are called to their third and fourth rounds of reserve duty) brings to mind Franz Kafka, the centenary of whose death is marked this year.

In Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa, an ordinary young man, wakes up one morning and discovers that he has become a giant insect. Coincidentally, something similar happened to me – and to you, dear readers. For decades, I was a citizen, with a set of rights and obligations clearly defined by law. The authorities worked for me, and they knew it. To my amazement, I discovered that within a short period of time, I was transformed into a subject; my role is now to serve the government and stand out of its way.

This realization was triggered by the conduct of Transport Minister Miri Regev, who was recently tasked with planning the official October 7 memorial ceremony, even as the rate of motor accidents is rising and Israeli roads are uniquely jammed.
Regev announced that she would move forward with the ceremony arrangements, dismissing critics – including those personally affected by the massacre – as mere "background noise." The regime wants a ceremony? It will have a ceremony! And the citizens will act as smiling cooperative background extras.

Two ceremonies were held that day. The official pre-recorded event was preceded by a live event initiated by survivors and families of victims and funded by their supporters, which had more viewers. But Kafka does not rest! The government has since decided to hold yet another official event, this time around the Hebrew date of the attack, some three weeks after October 7. Once again, our venerable Transport Minister showed who's in charge. Israel's economy may be in tatters, but what's a million shekels between friends?

Or, take demonstrations – a basic right in democracies, as long as they remain within the bounds of the law. Armed incursions into military bases clearly do not meet this standard, yet none of those who stormed two bases several months ago to protest the arrest of soldiers accused of sodomizing a captive have been detained.

Meanwhile, anti-government protestors are regularly taken in, sometimes for the sin of wearing a t-shirt with a slogan that displeases a police officer – a public servant whose authority is granted solely to maintain law and order."
Judges release these "cotton criminals," believing that neither the state nor its officials are above the law. Yet one must wonder how much longer this final safeguard of citizens' rights will hold before it, too, crumbles.

Kafka doesn't explain what caused Gregor Samsa's transformation, but it is all too clear how we, the citizens, became subjects. In the November 2022 elections, the Netanyahu bloc secured just 30,000 more votes than its opponents – around 0.6 percent of those who cast ballots. Surplus vote agreements, sectoral voting patterns, and the egos of politicians like Merav Michaeli combined to create a solid bloc of 64 out of 120 Knesset members, recently expanded to 68 with the addition of Gideon Sa'ar and his faction. The members of this coalition diligently guard each other's interests and treat elections as though – just like in Russia and elsewhere – democracy begins and ends at the ballot box.

In "The Trial," another work by Kafka, Citizen K, an ordinary person, falls victim to a system determined to follow its cruel course to the bitter end – K's end, not the system's. Anyone seeking to understand the meaning of "Kafkaesque" need not read the book. Just look around, and be very afraid.

The writer is a former ambassador.

Source : Haaretz

Link : https://archive.md/rOJU3

Yes, abortion is absolutely a big issue but the basis of a woman's right to choose is rights. Not just basic human rights but rights of free self governing peoples which to me is the most important thing at stake. If the Repukes win there will be very few democracies in the world in 10 years. Abortion will not only be a crime here, it will be a crime in most of the world in 10 years if we lose. If our democracy fails Authoritarians will not just be trending they absolutely will run amok and we will be a world full of countries with Kings and a rich minority ruling class in a truly dystopian not so distant future. These fucks got a taste between 1930 and 1945 and if not for our Democracy the world would have fallen then. We are the line in the proverbial sand.

It is such irony that the MAGA fools have been convinced that Democrats will impose a government of the type that they will no longer have any freedoms at all when it is truly the Devil dancing at their party.

For many of them, politics is like wrestling and booing the "bad guys" - i.e., Democrats. Many of them are simpletons who "know" and rebel against what they are damn sure they are not. No further analysis required.

They don't have the reach.

How many Hamas & Hezbollah leaders is the IDF allowed to kill? Let us know the number.

On the 14th October my whole area was sent to the shelters twice from missiles and rockets .....im not far from Caesarea.
Their missiles have reached Tel Aviv .

Read ....

Assassination Attempt on Netanyahu Could Shape Israel's Actions in Lebanon and Iran
Saturday's drone strike targeting Netanyahu's house highlights Iran's and Hezbollah's sophisticated intelligence-gathering capabilities ■ It's hard to predict how Sinwar's killing will affect a cease-fire deal to bring Israeli hostages home

This will apparently be a stormier week than usual in the Middle East, even by the standard of recent events. Hezbollah, possibly with Iranian assistance, launched a drone from Lebanon on Saturday morning that exploded and caused damage near the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea.
This may lead to an Israeli response against Hezbollah or Iran. Israel is anyway preparing for its counterstrike in Iran, following that country's ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1. There are leaked reports from the U.S. indicating the extent of Israel's preparations for this attack.

The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been pushed out of the news headlines. For now, it seems unlikely that Sinwar's death will be used for an attempt to put fresh winds in the sails of the negotiations over a hostage deal, even as the condition of the 101 civilians and soldiers held in the Gaza Strip grows more desperate.

Three explosive drones were launched from Lebanon, at Caesarea and the Glilot army base. Two of them were intercepted by the air force. The third landed close to Netanyahu's house, causing it some damage. (Censors in Israel delayed the release of this information for over an hour until this was published on media outlets in Qatar and Saudi Arabia; their judgment is becoming increasingly bizarre.) The prime minister and his family were not in the house when the drone exploded.

Beyond the obvious jokes about the Netanyahus' fondness for receiving exorbitant compensation from state coffers, one should not ignore the attendant significance of this incident. Hezbollah, and perhaps the entire Iranian axis, possesses precise weapons and is willing to risk harming senior Israeli figures.

The hit also attests to a precise, well-thought-out ability to collect intelligence. Following the string of assassinations attributed to Israel in Tehran, Beirut and the Gaza Strip, settling scores seems to be the highest priority for the axis. The guarding of senior officials in Israel and overseas will need to adapt accordingly, including a limitation on public appearances during wartime.
The attack in Caesarea, like the recent drone attack in which four Golani Brigade soldiers were killed at the Regavim base, has exposed the difficulty of Israel's air defense systems in contending with these drones. Saturday's drone attack was followed by massive rocket fire at northern Israel throughout the morning and midday. One civilian was killed and four were wounded by rocket strikes in Shlomi and Kiryat Ata.

Continued @ https://archive.md/Et0HF
Source : Haaretz .

Skills, then. Aim.

Amazing to see DU members openly rooting for Netanyahu's assassination in this thread.

As they say, practice makes perfect.

. . . is a very terrified ayatollah, looking to the sky and wondering how soon he will be meeting his buddy Sinwar in the depths of hell.

עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי

what the repercussions for us and the rest of the world would be should that
happen ?

you write עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ......do you have any family over here ?

Why do you think your President sent us the THAAD missile defense battery ???

Iran has the capability of flooding our skies with missiles and overwhelming our defense systems .
Hezbullah is already putting the Iron Dome under stress .

עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי........brave words from a long distance .

that someone who claims the right to use any tactic in any manner desired might have one of those tactics come his way?

My husband, son, and I lived in Israel 1995-1996. Part of that time we lived in Caesaria. There are some very wealthy areas in Caesaria with spectacular homes. The people in Caesaria were very nice to my family and me. I hate to think of anyone there being hurt. While I do not like Netanyahu, (and that's putting it mildly,) I am upset that the other families in Caesaria were at risk. I can't believe there were no sirens! I hope they do a thorough investigation and find out why there wasn't a warning to seek shelter. The houses are pretty close together, (unless you are uber-wealthy like Netanyahu,) and it would be very easy to hit other homes with 3 drones coming in. My thoughts are with the family whose house was hit. Housing is/was really expensive in Israel.

I wish with all my heart that there could be peace. Thank you for letting me know, and I will be thinking of the Israeli people.

This has to end .
Now is the time for a ceasefire .

Peace ???
All I could think of when I read that was Rabin's words ......."" We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. ""

For the uninformed :

Speech by Yitzhak Rabin at the White House

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

This signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles, here today, is not so easy neither for myself, as a soldier in Israel's wars, nor for the people of Israel, not to the Jewish people in the Diaspora who are watching us now with great hope, mixed with apprehension. It is certainly not easy for the families of the victims of the wars, violence, terror, whose pain will never heal. For the many thousands who have defended our lives in their own, and even sacrificed their lives for our own for them, this ceremony has come too late. Today, on the eve of an opportunity opportunity for peace and perhaps an end of vioence and wars we remember each and every one of them with everlasting love.

We have come from Jerusalem, the ancient and eternal capital of the Jewish people. We have come from an anguished and grieving land. We have come from a people, a home, a family, that has not known a single year not a single month in which mothers have not wept for their sons. We have come to try and put an end to the hostilities, so that our children, our children's children, will no longer experience the painful cost of war, violence and terror. We have come to secure their lives and to ease the sorrow and the painful memories of the past to hope and pray for peace.

Let me say to you, the Palestinians: We are destined to live together on the same soil, in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians -

We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, to live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance, and saying again to you: Enough. Let us pray that a day will come when we all will say: Farewell to the arms.

We wish to open a new chapter in the sad book of our lives together a chapter of mutual recognition, of good neighborliness, of mutual respect, of understanding. We hope to embark on a new era in the history of the Middle East. Today, here in Washington, at the White House, we will begin a new reckoning in relations between peoples, between parents tired of war, between children who will not know war.

President of the United States, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Our inner strength, our high moral values, have been derived for thousands of years from the Book of Books, in one of which, Koheleth, we read:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.'

Ladies and Gentlemen, the time for peace has come.

In two days, the Jewish people will celebrate the beginning of a new year. I believe, I hope, I pray, that the new year will bring a message of redemption for all peoples: a good year for you, for all of you. A good year for Israelis and Palestinians. A good year for all the peoples of the Middle East. A good year for our American friends, who so want peace and are helping to achieve it, for Presidents and members of previous administrations, especially for you, President Clinton, and your staff, for all citizens of the world: may peace come to all your homes.

In the Jewish tradition, it is customary to conclude our prayers with the word 'Amen'. With your permission, men of peace, I shall conclude with words taken from the prayer recited by Jews daily, and whoever of you volunteer, I would ask the entire audience to join me in saying 'Amen':

"He maketh peace in His high places. He shall make peace for us and for all of Israel. And they shall say: Amen.&quot translation from Hebrew)

Source : Haaretz
Link : https://archive.md/INhKD

Only Bibi isnt Rabin ......and Im greatly afraid we will be experiencing much more blood and tears before this is over.

I remember his words of peace and compassion. He was an extraordinary man. I thought Rabin would achieve peace for Israel. He had a unique ability to be strong, but to also show empathy at the same time. His murder ended that hope. You are right, my friend, a cease-fire needs to come soon before everything completely spirals out of control. I am afraid for both the Israelis and the Palestinians. I want everyone to be safe. I want everyone to have a future. No more blood and tears, just peace. Thank you for sharing Rabin's beautiful words. Take care, my friend. I will be thinking of you all.

And Sarah is a Human Shield.

I couldn't help it!

1. Bibi. A few ayatollahs.

2. The decades of mistrust built up on all sides in the conflict.

3. Weaponisation of both sides by outside power blocks.

Other than those things, I can see peace happening any day now.