USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, currently en route to the eastern Mediterranean.
Avi Scharf and Anshel Pfeffer – Haaretz Oct 17, 2023
The Biden administration is deploying more offensive forces into the Middle East, to back Israel and attempt to deter Iran and Hezbollah from opening a second front on Israel’s north.
Last week, the United States deployed the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to the eastern Mediterranean. The USS Ford carries about 80 combat aircraft, electronic warfare and intelligence planes. It is accompanied by five advanced missile-guided ships, armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of hitting targets inside Iran. According to satellite images, the USS Ford is about 180 kilometers south-west of Cyprus. P-8 maritime reconnaissance aircraft with anti-submarine, anti-ship capabilities are patrolling around the group.
The carrier strike group comes with sophisticated air defense systems that could make an important contribution to protecting Israel’s strategic facilities on sea and on land. Hezbollah is believed to have an arsenal of more than 100,000 rockets and missiles.
Over the weekend, a second carrier strike group, led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, was dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean and is due to arrive later this month.
OnScene✅OnTime✅Ready✅#GeraldRFord's first deployment:
-7000 Sorties Flown
-6000 Arrested Landings
-650 Aircrew Warfare Qualifications
-32 Replenishments-at-sea
-1 Capital Ship@USNavyEurope @US_EUCOM #PresenceMatters #ReadyOnArrival #ReadyandPostured #WeAreNavalAviation pic.twitter.com/oBWgMULbez— USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) (@Warship_78) October 12, 2023
The combination of U.S. and Israeli defense systems is not new. During the 1991 Gulf War, U.S. Patriot anti-missile teams arrived in Israel to intercept Scud missiles being fired at Israel by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Since 2001, Israel and the U.S. have conducted periodic exercises in which they jointly undertake a range of interception scenarios and practice integrating the two countries’ different systems.
The U.S. fleet, if it is brought into action, will provide an additional layer of defense to Israel’s (which includes Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Patriots, the Arrow and the Arrow 3). Without a doubt, they will help a lot in the event that a second front opens against Hezbollah.
But by placing them off the coast of Lebanon, the U.S. is also giving itself a lever to restrain Israel if the Biden administration feels that its operations in Gaza or Lebanon are becoming excessive. There is a precedent for this two-pronged goal. During the Gulf War, the U.S. sent Patriots to Israel in exchange for Israel’s agreement not to attack Iraq itself in response to the Scud fire. Washington believed that such a move might endanger the integrity of the international coalition the U.S. had created to oppose Iraq, which included Arab countries.
Since the Hamas attack on October 7, the U.S. has dispatched a large number of jets to the Middle East in order to “bolster the U.S. defense posture,” as the U.S Central Command has put it.
A squadron of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle bombers based in Britain was deployed over the weekend at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base east of the Jordanian capital of Amman. Another squadron of A-10 attack planes has also been deployed there.
An impressive airlift to Israel should be added to this list. According to online aviation tracking websites, at least 11 U.S. C-17 heavy-transport aircraft landed over the past 10 days at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and Israeli Air Force’s Nevatim base. Two of them were also used by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during their visits here.
In addition, an Israeli cargo plane made two flights to Dover Air Force Base in the U.S. According to an Israel Defense Forces spokesman, it carried “advanced ammunition designed to allow significant strikes and to prepare for additional scenarios.” According to reports from the U.S., Washington has provided Israel with additional Iron Dome interceptors, advanced guided weaponry and bunker-busting bombs.
Watch: An Israeli cargo plane lands, delivering an initial shipment of advanced weaponry from the United States to Israel. pic.twitter.com/TEv2g9gXyW
— Ministry of Defense (@Israel_MOD) October 11, 2023
Six additional planes, operated on behalf of The U.S. Transportation Command, have also landed in Israel and are apparently being used to help to evacuate citizens and government employees and their families.
In addition to fighter and transport aircraft, two Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the U.S. and British air forces have been operating off the coast of Israel in recent days. Coming from the U.S. and Britain, these are SIGINT (signal intelligence) aircraft used for gathering intel across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including eavesdropping, geolocation and electronic warfare.
More fake news. Why are they putting two carriers in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea?
To threaten Russian Crimea? To make a carrier, a false flag target? They could put carriers off the Iranian coast, but they wouldn’t get a scratch, they’d get sunk, and Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s Putin who should be worrying, because if Crimea and the Kersh bridge gets hit/destroyed, Putin will be out on his ear.
There’s a saying, and it’s very true. He who hesitates is lost. Russia needs a bad ass nasty fecker in the Kremlin. We’re way past any peace deals, this is last man standing, and we don’t want it to be a Nazi.
This US involvement is not backed by the american people
i hear folk in the UK also do not back the jews
My neighbours speak hebrew he said Rothschild did not fully approve Nutenyahus
encouraging them in, this has caused a huge row and nutenyahu may very soon be history
CALL FOR DIRECT ACTION
Step one Boycott all jewish supermarkets
Step two Do not pat rothschilds BBC licence fee
Step three Paint slogans up at night exposing israeli atrocities
Step four Attack synagogues and jewish homes and vehices
Step five Refuse to allow your kids to be signed up to fight another world war for the jews
Step six Kill all fifth columnists like carl jones and sadiq khan
Step seven Educate your neighbours
oohh Nutenyahu has upset Rothchild
hes done it now, rothschild is as furious with nutty
as when his pal Tony Blair was caught nobbing Rupert Murdochs lovely wife
wendy deng.
and rothschild had to sort out the row between his mates.
Nutty has gone way too far, but at least now he can demand the supid americans to come in
and of course they will demand our boys go too
i wonder how many to have the guts to say NO
most of the crew on that ship are poofs
so no loss if its sunk
it may even be a god idea
There has been big discussions recently
with the Welsh LBGT community
on sex with animals.
How do you tell if an animal is giving consent ?
Making love to sheep has long been a busy pastime here
personally i think sheep-shagging is a filthy vile disgusting abusive thing,
damn nice though.
Thanks Carl Jones
jewish plans for the attack
yes they planned it
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2023/10/holocaust-nazi-jews-versus-ordinary-jews.html
I wonder if there are very many people left who still believe that Israel is a vassal of the USA and not the reverse…
The LBGT links to its child brothels
see here
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-cia-runs-pedophile-rings.html
Roll on Judgement Day, we will see the devil`s children destroyed……….
Matthew 25:46.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
We shouldn’t be surprised by this latest installment of the genocide against the Palestinians after NATO got its arsed kicked in Ukraine Gaza was a primary target for some “freedom and democracy”. Apparently navy Seals are operating there helping its “greatest ally”. Of course none of this is going to end well especially as the economic collapse is a lot nearer than people think and will not finance the clowns three front wars.
CIA-Mossad/KGB could stage black op ‘attack’ on some US Naval vessel & then blame it on Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran etc..thus providing the pretext for WWIII.
i live in brighton
the homosexual capital of the UK
in places like Kemptown you can but boys in school uniform
the homos here like their meat young
but recently the migrant gangs have ben importing in
their own boys, so the local rent boys have gone on strike
and although we have ateachers strike doctors strike and rail strikes
all you hear about is oh poor homosexuals.
Some of these imported boys ae in the twenties and even thirties
but starve themselves to fit into school uniforms
to stand on street corners, itsa very sick world here
and the LBGT child sex agenda just makes it worse
There are more poofters here than in the US navy
As always, Israhell’s lap dog, the US comes to their defense. Without US intervention and arms the litter box called Israhell would be wiped off the face of the earth within a day.
Is the USA involving itself in these wars a suicide?
Their can be little doubt that the civilian population in Gaza is being killed by U.S. provided hardware. Apparently the U.S. establishment is so busy sucking Israeli c*ck that it has forgotten the lesson of 9/11: that paybacks are hell.
Yes, as a 16yr old, this was a regular joke with the older rams, but the truth is, bestiality is a global pastime. It’s not specific to just Wales, but I note your deep seated (pun intended) prejudices.
I must be raking some Nazi nerves on here. lol
Get rid of Netenyahu and inherit someone worse
Get rid of Bidet and inherit someone worse
It is how things are going now, and always went, since time began.
@Jack Witchity
“I wonder if there are very many people left who still believe that Israel is a vassal of the USA and not the reverse…”
On a local bus service I got talking to a reasonably intelligent man on the Gaza situation. You can often tell a receptive ear by the space the listener gives you to make your point. Anyway, I was able to give a very brief critique, touching upon 9/11, in the space of about two minutes as we waited to get off the bus. I gave him something to digest anyway. I must say, I find it incredibly rare for that intelligent space to open in which I can speak about things I believe really matter. I have some good natured friends, but that “space” is never there.
After I got off the bus I was hassled by a bible basher (again) who said I was going to hell if I didn’t take a leaflet off him. After being pestered for the last time by him, I let him have it with both barrels. A nearby drug addict, thinking I was “the bully”, intervened on his behalf. So my total exchanges averaged back down to the normal after I had to deal with these two…
Carl Jones we do want to be Nazis. The bad guys won in WW2. The final solution was to send the hews to the Hewish Oblast in the far east beyond the Urals. I guess you are for clown world.
we have a turd brained simpleton on here who rattles on continualy about
nazis nazis nazis
some tell him the war was over in 1946
there are none but lots of communists and jews
Carl Jones–I bet you are the only person in the world who can swing a sheep-shagging discussion back to the topic of German National Socialism of 1933 to 1945
It is beyond infuriating that the Jewnited States would be supporting Israhell in any way, but the cuntry not only supports Israhell, it is a willing rape puppet giving Israhell stunning liberties to have its depraved, satanic way in any manner it wishes. The only arms that should ever be delivered to Israhell should be screaming in at high velocity, set hot and heavy, to turn that shit-hole full of demons into cinders to thank the Jew for 9/11, for the USS Liberty, for Beirut, for 7/7, for robbing and raping the citizens with their criminal enterprise “central banking” system, for subverting every western institution and causing untold degradation and destruction.
Instead, the Americunt idiot cheers on Israhell and pledges their full support, too dangerously stupid to have a clue those vermin are their enemy and oppressor. 19 out of 20 people in the Jew-S-S-A “stand” with Israhell, many actually pray for them in such a twist of bitter irony, praying for the race of satanic scum whose law directs them to degrade and destroy everyone and everything not of their satanic tribe of homicidal maniacs. It’s like praying you get aggressive cancer,, beaten with tire irons, every cent taken from you, and gang-raped by randy syphilitic baboons, then saying, “Thank you, Shlomo, may I have another?”
Anyone who supports Israel is either a hopeless imbecile stupid to the point of retardation or a maniacal psychopath. There is no Option C with that.