2 IDF soldiers killed in southern Lebanon

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Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, 21, Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, (Facebook)

The casualties included two soldiers who were seriously wounded and one officer who sustained moderate injuries.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that Hezbollah fired more than 50 rockets toward Israeli forces in southern Lebanon overnight, while Israeli troops continued operations in the Nabatieh area and struck dozens of Hezbollah targets that the military said violated the ceasefire agreement.

As fighting continued, the military released the names of two soldiers killed in separate combat incidents in southern Lebanon: Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, of Herzliya, and Staff Sgt. Nir Ben Ari, 21, of Kerem Maharal.

Klein, an armored corps soldier in Battalion 52 of the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade, was killed in an incident that also claimed the lives of Battalion 52 commander Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Shimhon and two additional soldiers whose names have not yet been cleared for publication.

Ben Ari, a fighter in the Maglan Unit of the Commando Brigade, was killed in a separate incident in which 13 other soldiers were wounded.

Ben Ari was due to celebrate his 22nd birthday in nine days and was expected to begin his discharge leave at the end of the month. He is survived by two brothers, Guy and Shay, and a sister, Shir.

Friends said he had recently purchased a ticket for a trip to Thailand planned for mid-August.

Manny Baruch, a close friend of the family told Walla that others suggested Ben Ari did not need to return to duty because he was close to completing his service. Ben Ari responded: “This is my team. I’m not leaving my team.”

Klein, a graduate of HaYovel High School and a former basketball player, is survived by his parents, Einat and Eran, and siblings Ido and Tamar.

Herzliya Mayor Yariv Fisher paid tribute to him, saying: “We will remember his smile, his way, and his tremendous sacrifice.”

The casualties included two soldiers who were seriously wounded and one officer who sustained moderate injuries. The injured troops were evacuated for medical treatment and their families were notified.

A senior IDF officer said Israeli forces continue to hold positions along the “yellow line” in southern Lebanon and are currently focused on operations around Nabatieh.

The officer said dozens of Hezbollah terrorists are surrounded in the area, which the military views as a key Hezbollah stronghold.

The military said overnight strikes targeted Hezbollah rocket-launching positions, weapons depots, command centers and terrorists.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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