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[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

Connecting the dots reveals a chilling trajectory.

My friend Yaniv made a brilliant observation: the hijacked commercial airliner altered its course precisely as it approached Jordanian airspace.

A clear look at the flight path exposes its true vector- straight toward the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, a primary hub hosting U.S. military aircraft in the region.

This specific strategic installation has faced repeated missile and drone incursions by Iran, sustaining damage to both infrastructure and American service personnel. The timing coincides remarkably with coordinated efforts to sabotage another key facility housing U.S. fighter jets at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom.

Consequently, once the co-pilot seized control, the aircraft was already hurtling on a direct heading toward Muwaffaq Salti, pointing squarely toward a high-casualty strategic strike. It was only after several minutes of relentless flight toward the base that courageous passengers intervened to halt the catastrophe.

[𝄃𝄃𝄂𝄂𝄀𝄁𝄃𝄂𝄂𝄃-⚪ Yaniv Erlich יניב ארליך @the_yaniv]

יש לי היפותזה לגבי המיקום המוזר של תחילת האירוע בפליי דובאי היום ואולי זה קשור למשהו הרבה הרבה יותר גדול.

נתחיל מזה שמיקום האירוע הוא מוזר מאד. המטוס נראה ברום הגובה שלו (בערך 33 אלף רגל), באזור מדברי ונידח.

בוא נבחן כמה היפתוזות אפשריות:
- נניח שהטייס רצה להתאבד עם המטוס לתוך הקרקע בנקודה אקראית. את זה היה הרבה יותר כדאי לעשות בזמן ההנמכה או ההמראה, בכדי להגדיל את סיכויי ההצלחה (בונוס מבחינת המפגע בהנמכה: לפגוע באנשים על הקרקע בישראל). לכן לא עושה הגיון.

- אילו רצה לחטוף מטוס, אין שום היגיון בנקודה הזאת. חטיפות צריכות צוות של חוטפים שיכולים להשתלט על בני הערובה. לנחות ככה פתאום בירדן או ערב הסעודית לא היה נותן לו שום אפשרות לנהל משא ומתן. אנשים היו פותחים את הדלתות חירום וגולשים החוצה. הסיכוי היחיד שלו בתור חוטף בודד זה לקחת את המטוס לאיראן, אבל זה היה צריך לקרות הרבה יותר מוקדם (מעל המפרץ הפרסי או כווית). גם לא עושה הגיון.

- אולי קפץ לו פתאום הג׳ננה? אולר או סכין זה לא ציוד לטייס. הבן אדם תיכנן את הזוועה הזאת לפני כן. לא נראה לי שפתאום מעל המדבר נהייתה לו התגלות.

- האפשרות שנראית לי סבירה היא שהמפגע רצה לקחת את המטוס לתוך הבסיס האסטרטגי מוואפק סלטי שמארח את חיל האוויר האמריקאי יש שם כמויות של F-35 ושלל מטוסים אמריקאים. וככה הוא היה עושה גם מגה פיגוע נגד ישראל וגם מיני 9.11 לאמריקאים.

זה מצטרף לדיווח היום של רה״מ בריטניה שמאשש את הדיווח לניסיון הפיגוע האיראני ב RAF Fairford, שגם הוא בסיס אסטרטגי אמריקאי. אם כל זה נכון, האיראנים הכינו לנו ולאמריקאים שבוע סיוט מהסרטים של פגיעה בכמה בסיסים אסטרטגיים באמצעות טרוריסטים. בינתיים הכל נמנע כתוצאה ממזל ואומץ של אזרחים מהשורה. מי יודע אם יש להם עוד משהו בקנה...

[Laplacїan 🇱🇹🇺🇦🇩🇰🇮🇱 @laplacian28]

Would they attack any mosques? If not, why not? 😏

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

'Look at how much coverage Gaza got': Iranians cannot understand why slaughter of up to 30,000 protesters went almost unnoticed in the West, says NATALIE LISBONA as she breaks down new footage of Ayatollah's January 'bloodbath' on latest Deep Dive podcast https://t.co/umBuXdo4R4

[Boulevard Voltaire @BVoltaire]

Lycée Jean-Geiler-de-Kaysersberg, à Strasbourg. Un blocus lycéen a donné lieu à un départ de feu au pied de l’église Sainte-Madeleine ce matin.

[Israel Military Channel @IsraelMilitaryC]

These individuals that were eliminated by the IDF were presented as journalists, but they were actually active members of Hamas and other terror groups.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Douglas Murray: “What happened in the skies above Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning stands as a metaphor for three years of war.

The Israelis saw an existential threat, took matters into their own hands, and decided their own course.

The rest of the West will have to decide whether it will follow the Israeli model or let its own future be dictated by terror and the hijacking of its entire society.”

[Olivier Schmitt @Olivier1Schmitt]

New report from the Finnish National Defence University with many fascinating chapters (I really liked the ones on estimating casualties, on C2 and on Russian military science).
👉 https://t.co/KD9CcnLWWO

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Fire rises from attacked schools across Bordeaux as the riots by second and third-generation migrants continue spreading across France

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Fascinating video which really demonstrates how war is evolving. Drone escorts like this I think will be critical to enable maneuver in the future.

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

Video from Ukraine's 475th Assault Regiment "Code 9.2" of two turtle tanks engaging Russian positions. The tanks sustain multiple FPV and mine strikes. They are escorted by a Vampire heavy bomber drone, FPV, and Mavic.
https://t.co/8lq9KyYKQe

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Netanyahu on Britain:

We gave the Brits the intel that there was going to be an attack, an Iranian-sponsored attack, and pretty much the next day they slapped sanctions on us.

So it’s wild. I mean, the caving in, the collapse before the Islamist-Marxist alliance is very dangerous for the future of the West.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

What a day. What a moment. What a beautiful reminder to choose life. The professionalism of flydubai, the heroism of the pilot, and the courage and spirit of the passengers on FZ1073 turned this fifth day of Sukkot into a day we will remember. God blessed us with peace. And tonight, flights from the UAE continue back and forth as normal to Israel. Life continues. Peace continues. Nothing will stop us from building, connecting, and believing in a better future.

God bless a nation that always finds a reason to smile, celebrate, and cherish life.

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

🚨 MI5 has issued an unprecedented public warning about a new Chinese spy threat targeting British academics

The Security Service says a Chinese institute is secretly trying to exploit the expertise of universities and other research bodies to help Beijing build more powerful espionage tools

In a highly unusual alert, it strongly advises everyone involved in UK academia to cut ties with this company – or risk criminal charges under national security legislation⬇️

https://t.co/sUkR9f8aAw

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

You can't get Israelis to stay in their seats when the plane lands. The seatbelt sign is still on, and they're already in the aisle, pulling bags out of the overhead bin and calling their mother to say they've arrived. So I really don't know why this guy thought 170 of them would sit quietly while he tried to crash the plane.

Every flight to Tel Aviv also has at least five passengers who are sure they could fly it better than the pilot. Today one of them finally got into the cockpit.

Thank God everyone landed safely, and for once the clapping when we touched down was fully deserved. Now please, just this one time, stay in your seats until the plane comes to a complete stop. 😉

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

Political debate in the Irish Parliament is now not far off "Who's worse, the Jews or the Prods?"

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

Western Universities are assisting China with technology that is being used for espionage, including AI, covert communication.

The Chinese government has a massive global espionage campaign stealing western technology. But many times it just pays Universities to assist with the development. Insane when you think about it. Would we have handed advanced technology to the USSR or Nazi Germany?

[Michael Savage @michaelsavage]

NEW: The BBC has permanently pulled a story that linked a trend for bare nails with “white supremacist standards of beauty”.

It had kicked off a US/UK backlash...

Bosses have concluded the article did not meet editorial standards.

Story: https://t.co/EVef6WWLKP

[Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler]

When I lived in Tel Aviv when I was working in tech, a crazy man started yelling in Arabic in a supermarket

We later found out he was just mentally unwell, it wasn’t terrorism

But no one knew in that moment, and instead of running away, all the men ran INTO the supermarket

Those are the same types of men who were on the FlyDubai flight today

Those are the men of Israel

If you want to make Israelis and Jews at large unwelcome in your society, you can live with what it will become

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

He asked ten times for the suitcase so he could change before meeting the Prime Minister. But Netanyahu didn’t care.

Yaniv came off the replacement flight into Ben Gurion still in the shirt he wore in the cockpit. The blood stains were the attacker’s. He apologized for it like a man late to a wedding. Netanyahu pulled him in, called him the honor and the hero, and asked how he’d done it.

Yaniv didn’t give a speech. He said we’re a nation of lions. Then he introduced his wife Meital and his daughters, because that’s what you do when you’ve just pulled a diving aircraft out of a hole and the first thing on your mind is not to look sloppy for the country’s leader.

The plane was about an hour from home when the lights went out and someone screamed. The stabbed captain got the door open before he went down. Yaniv went in, pulled the man off the instruments, called two others, and hauled the yoke back because the nose was pointed at the ground. He later said he knew what to do because he had watched Air Crash Investigation.

That’s a civilian deciding, in a split second under immense pressure and chaos, that the aircraft was not going to finish the job.

Western capitals will spend the next week talking about procedures and statements. What this video actually shows is the thing the West lacks in equal measure.

Israelis still move toward the door. They still put their hands on a man who is trying to kill everyone on the aircraft, then worry about a suitcase, then stand there with their children while the Prime Minister touches the blood and doesn’t flinch. That instinct is why our people are still here. The rest of the West keeps waiting for someone else to open the door.

I’m so proud, more than ever today, to be an Israeli. The world can hate us all it likes. We fight to save innocent lives no matter what the cost. Our enemies kill innocent lives for a false god and a fake prophet. And the rest sit terrified of shadows, watching their own demise, shouting at the only people who refuse to die at the hands of savages.

Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱💪🏼