American special operations forces are on the ground in Israel helping locate the hostages Hamas brought into Gaza after the October 7 attack on southern Israel, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
“We’re actively helping the Israelis to do a number of things,” said Christopher P. Maier, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, according to The New York Times. He said the main task is to “identify hostages, including American hostages.”
Maeir did not say how many US commandos were in Israel, but US officials told the Times that several dozen had been deployed in addition to a small team that was already in Israel on October 7. Shortly after the Hamas attack, the Pentagon offered Israel special operations support.
The Times report said that the US commandos were not assigned to combat roles, and so far, there’s no indication that US troops are on the ground in Gaza as Israeli forces are pushing further into the enclave. Maier said the special operators were talking through with their Israeli counterparts “what is going to be a very complex fight going forward.”
The deployment demonstrates how deeply involved the US is in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. Due to the full-throated support, US bases in Iraq and Syria have come under attack dozens of times, and the risk of a full-blown regional conflict continues to grow.
The US seems to keep painting a larger target on its back…
The operative question is who and how is going to hit their targets.?
Not a single terrorist will ever be able to violate America’s impregnable Southern border!
Pretty soon, even God will see it.
I did not vote for this shit.
Very few people did,only those blind and ignorant fond of subjugation.
Yes, lending a big assist to the brave and godsped IDF at the extermination of a trapped and unarmed population. And all based on another of their trademark WMD’s. I don’t see how the Muslim street can stand it. And as for the West, what better proof of its suburban consumerist nihilism .
Great reply to ED
Israeli special forces are getting their butts kicked Hamas took out 22 tanks last count and their crews. Israeli and American special forces are going to be in for a very difficult slog and they will take many casualties. They are no match to the preparedness and commitment of Hamas Fighters.
Tanks aren’t “special forces.” “Special forces” is generally light infantry used for reconnaissance, small-scale raids, etc.
You and me both.
As they should. Israel is a nation dedicated to protecting the lives of one of the world’s most targeted communities, and to imply that it doesn’t simply because it dares to sometimes defend itself against terrorism and acts of genocide after surviving the largest genocide in world history and while taking every reasonable measure to reduce if not eliminate civilian casualties in their counter-terrorism and anti-genocide resulting from terrorist and genocidal organizations like Hamas that do not represent the people of “Gaza”, as barely half of the population supported a statement of attacking Israel, and in addition to not having held elections since approximately a decade ago have been putting innocent civilians in danger by hiding their weapons, personnel and equipment near them, almost always either without consent or under coercion, and then after purposefully putting them in clear and consistent danger attempting to use some of the unfortunate consequences they have specifically been attempting to create and bear full responsibility for to attempt to control both the public and the media. To imply the Biden administration should engage in any other options in this “article” is both misleading, false and dishonest. https://youtu.be/uK8viH1FJ_Y
Oh Jeez,not the holocaust again.the shoe is on the other foot now and has been since 1948 and certainly 1967. With the permission and coniveness of the US Israel has been getting away with murder for a long time.When captive slaves rise up you call them terrorists an old gambit that won’t play in world opinion any longer. Sooner I hope rather then later the US and Israel will receive their just rewards.
Exactly why I wouldn’t be surprised if Satanyahu received a “humanitarian award” or a “Nobel peace prize” right after genociding a million Palestinians. (Sarcasm)
Expell Hamas from Gaza, and the war could end right now.
Personally I would rather eliminate the Zionist State.
Death to America?
Sure, not the people of course. Only the filthy lucre that infested and violated Washington DC, turning it into a House of Ill Repute.
We The People, in order to form a more perfect union, need to rename the area around the Capitol and WH the DC Red Light District.
Truth in Advertising 😉
Why don’t you go over there and try.
You know better. No, it will not. The Zionists want all Palestinians killed, the survivors to be sent to the Sinai desert to die.
Why the hell not? Obama got one for winning the drone award and kicking out thousands of migrants.I am not sure if Kissinger did not get one.
Obama got his before he’d actually done much of anything, just for being “a transformational figure.”
That was really dumb, but not as dumb as some of the murderous filth who got it AFTER their filthy murders.
Too much death because of rapacious Capitalism and the pressure to keep this mess alive.We need to ,learn to live together with other people no matter how they govern. The US is not the be all and end all of all that is holy.
He was also quite good at prosecuting whistle blowers. More than all previous presidents combined. He also called himself “good at killing”. His drone lists included several American citizens, killed without charges, let alone trials. One a 13 year old boy.
What a quality human being. Sold his soul for some pieces of silver.Just like the rest of them.
What is this 1967 business-the Arabs threatened war and got what for.Very few civilian casualties. Jews got access to their holy sites,Egypt got Sinai back.
Not true, and you know it. It was a land grab. Also, the “business” involved Israel trying to sink the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34, wounding 171. All nicely covered up. White washed.
Neighbor, I didn’t mean to run over your daughter, but it won’t happen again. Deal?
Everything I said was true,even if you don’t like it.Go ahead and deconstruct any statement I have made.
Which “communities”? Troll. Paid troll.
Says the account that unironically posted the same approximately 4 word accusation string to 9 separate only vaguely related defenses of Israel’s moral and restrained counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations that take every reasonable measure to reduce if not eliminate civilian casualties. As I know your attempted insult would be untrue as it would pertain to my account, it only makes me wonder about the status of yours… (/s for the final part though. Countries like Turkey would actually probably have the largest collection of paid influencers, and you probably wouldn’t fit into that category: https://eu.boell.org/en/2022/03/21/turkeys-troll-networks).
The mask is off. The so called honest broker that never was.
Dude! I miss that label “honest broker.” They used to hypnotize us with it A LONG TIME AGO. I did a literature search on America serving as “honest broker.” It appears the last time it was mentioned, it was in 2018 and only to tell us that America NEVER EVER WAS–LIKE NEVER EVER! https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/13/for-palestinians-america-was-never-an-honest-broker-israel-abbas-netanyahu-middle-east-peace-process/
For many years,America’s mid east policy was concerned with access to Arabian oil.
Great Scott,for once in your miserable life I agree with you. Don’t worry it won’t happen again soon.
Shocking!
4Q-spill your bile elsewhere. Who the hell do you think you are?
The mask is off but the stench remains.
US special operations forces cannot do jackshit any more than the Israeli special operation forces…!
No special forces are quite as special as they’d like us to believe. But some special forces are pretty good at sneaking around, watching things, and reporting those things.
They are really good at killing people without a trace.
Blowing things up. Killing on their way out.
They’re not going to be doing that in Gaza; no matter how many beards they grow and cool sunglasses they wear; they stick out like sore thumbs. If Israeli intelligence services, who know the area, speak the language, and have (or had) an extensive force of quislings (errr, “collaborators”) inside Gaza can’t “sneak around, watch and report” on the goings on, good luck to our extra special forces in doing so.
As special forces things go, I didn’t do a lot of them. But what little I did included, more than once, sitting within a few feet of people and them never knowing I was there. Nothing superhuman about it. It’s just a skill that can be taught and learned — and failed at. I doubt that any US special operators would be playing the “walk into a crowd and hope they don’t figure out you’re not a local” game.
My nephew is currently part of spec ops, and I worked with them in the army. Most of them are good guys, (some are complete fucking assholes) but they’re not trained or equipped for any sort of “operation” in Gaza. If the Israelis want to pinpoint exactly where the hostages are, and sneak our guys in, and let them break down doors and shoot everyone, well, they can probably handle that, But not much of anything else in this scenario; that’s not their job. Although, I’m sure there are senior SOC officers drunk on their own koolaid who will insist they can; probably the sons of the ones who said they could “get” Aidid.
I have no idea why they’d want to use US special operators in Gaza, but they’re as fit for operations there as anywhere else. It certainly wouldn’t be “pinpoint exactly where the hostages are” stuff — that would come from IDF interrogations, communications intercepts, etc. This is reality, not a movie. The only even remotely plausible use for US specops in Gaza that I can think of would be that if the US itself was going to conduct airstrikes or naval gunfire or whatever and wanted an American doing the laser designating.
And that would be a fantasy, as the last thing the US will do is get directly involved in shooting in Gaza; we have enough people who hate us already without adding to it by assisting in the killing of civilians; given our history of “precise” and “righteous” strikes in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia that’s precisely what we’d end up doing, although Milley’s replacement would lie about it for a few days. Essentially they have no role in Gaza, shouldn;t be there, and can only cause trouble. I question whether they were “fit” for the operations they carried out in any of our wars over the last 20 years; so yeah, I guess they’d be just as “fit” for Gaza.
I wish you were right, but look at the clown in the White House and tell me he would never authorize it, and point out the commanders who would tell him it can’t be done.
Well, make up your mind — is it the last thing the US regime will do, or is it something the US regime does all the time? It would be incredibly dumb, but the US regime has a long history of doing incredibly dumb things.
If US special operators are on the ground in Palestine, my money would be on them being in the along the Lebanese and Syria borders, identifying targets that the US can say are “Iran-linked” and lob Tomahawks or whatever at. However dumb the US authorities are, they probably don’t want to do anything that might end up looking like Mogadishu in 1993.
Nah, I think they’re really that dumb, possible it’s some kind of a degenerative condition.
My mind is clear. Shooting up Gaza is the last thing the US will do. Extra Special Forces fucking up and killing innocents is something they do all the time; fortunately I can’t see them being used in Gaza, as they have no role and would be a liability there. Mostly they will stand around, grow their beards, scratch their butts. and leak stories to the press that burnish their extra special reputations.
Another oxymoron.
Ah, the SS has arrived and is helping their true superiors, the Israeli Waffen SS.
“US Special Operations Forces are in Israel Helping Locate Hostages” Seriously? I’m no military expert, but does Israel need “US Special Operations Forces” to only help “locate hostages”– And NOT KILL PEOPLE?
The answer is yes. It does. It’s called intel sharing.
Special Operations does not just go in to kill people. They have an abundance of other specialized skills.
Just think of all the Palestinians they’ll be able to root out and kill. Quite the team you’ve hitched your wagon to.
Sure, that’s my team.
Yours must be Hanas.
Hanas. Are they a new group? So many groups, it’s difficult to keep track of them all.
Alternative: you’re sloppy, or you got your head lodged – again.
Now anyone who has been trained to be one? I do. Their first mission is to kill. Their second mission is to blow things up. Their third mission is to kill on their way out. Period. The problem with our guys being there is an errant missile or two from an Israeli gunship could take them out. A “oops” deal.
Oh Good; our “extra special forces” are “helping”. Hope they have better luck finding the hostages than they did finding Aidid in Somalia, or OBL for 14 years, or Saddam Hussein’s WMD, or for that matter, finding Saddam Hussein himself for nearly SIX MONTHS, despite “twelve unsuccessful raids, together with 600 other operations against targets, including 300 interrogations.”
Because their track record SUCKS. I wouldn’t use the US Intelligence services and their “Spec Ops” lackies to find my lost puppy.
But I guess their latest “extra special ops” gear now allows them to see through 50 meters of dirt, to find hidden tunnels and determine who is in them by seeing the color of their hearts – “white” for hostages” and “black” for bad guys.
What a joke; except it’s our tax money funding these yahoos and their shenanigans.
Uncle Sam just can’t keep it in his pants, can he.
“Former Pentagon Advisor, Douglas MacGregor, stated that an American Special Force, accompanied by an Israeli
Special Force, were tragically decimated when they attempted to investigate the location of the Israeli hostages in Gaza and were subsequently fired upon”
This makes Joey Biden a war criminal who should be hung after a fair trial.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231026-ex-pentagon-adviser-us-israel-special-forces-tried-to-enter-gaza-but-were-shot-to-pieces/