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By Peloni

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April 16, 2020 | 9,440 Comments »

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  1. Latest Iranian spy arrested in Israel was a reservist and Iron Dome operator. He reportedly provided Iran with base coordinates and personnel details. He should face the death penalty.

  4. I see that Iran lobbed a ballistic missile towards the Old City today. Thank G_d the Iron Dome intercepted it, although there were several injuries from schrapnel.
    If they do that again, wouldn’t it just be a crying shame if they hit Al Aqsa or the golden pimple on Har Habayit, or maybe both?

  5. Hezbollah fired several dozen rockets into northern israel. This was following israel’s call for mass evacuation from southern Lebanon. Most missiles were intercepted for hit empty fields.

  7. U.S. President Donald Trump says he is hearing that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is not alive.

    “I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he should do something very smart for his country, and that’s surrender.” – NBC

  8. AI Overview The Chocolate Soldier” refers primarily to the 1908 Oscar Straus operetta based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man. It is also a 1941 MGM musical film starring Nelson Eddy and Risë Stevens, and a 19th-century idiom for a soldier who looks good but is too cowardly to fight.
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    1908 Operetta (Der tapfere Soldat): A highly successful Viennese operetta. It centers on Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who carries chocolates instead of bullets.
    1941 Film: Directed by Roy Del Ruth, this film combines music from the Straus operetta with a plot loosely adapted from Ferenc Molnár’s play The Guardsman. It follows an opera singer who suspects his wife of infidelity and disguises himself to test her loyalty.
    Idiom and Origin: The phrase originated from Shaw’s 1894 play, Arms and the Man, where the protagonist is nicknamed the “chocolate cream soldier” due to his preference for sweets over war.
    Cultural Reference: A “chocolate soldier” was a popular chocolate-flavored beverage produced in the 1950s-1990s.
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    This is all so dark, well, maybe 70 percent, so I decided to milk this for all it’s worth.

  9. “The next Godzilla movie, titled Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, is scheduled for a theatrical release on March 26, 2027. It will be the sixth installment in Legendary’s “Monsterverse” series of giant monster films. The movie will be directed by Grant Sputore and written by Dave Callaham. The cast includes Dan Stevens, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Sam Neill, Matthew Modine, and Delroy Lindo. “

    Wow! I can hardly wait. It’s been so peaceful and boring lately..

  11. Khamenei’s luxury London homes purchased with loan from Israeli-British-owned company
    Shomrim investigation: Mojtaba Khamenei’s 2013 purchase of a luxury mansion and 12 homes on London’s ‘Billionaires’ Row’ was backed by a £36 million loan from an investment company owned by two British-Israeli brothers born in Ramat Gan.

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry411r1e9wg

  13. Massive missile attack from Lebanon. Word has been give that the next 24 hrs will shape the entire Lebanon front going forward with many long range attacks further north than previous.

  14. Spain’s ambassador is permanently recalled from Israel. Perhaps they should change their name from Spain back to Al-Andalus which was the name given to the territory of Spain and Portugal under the first Muslim occupation which lasted from the 8th til the 15th Centuries, til Spain was freed from its Muslim tyranny with the fall of Granada in 1492.

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