It has been clear for a while for any objective observer, that the 1,000 dead and 40 babies some with their heads chopped off, that Nutty Yahoo and the Zionist state were/are propagandising while lying through their back teeth about the whole event for maximum benefit to his political future.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but Iâm considering the possibility that the Hamas âterroristsâ that charged through the hole in the wall, were actually Israeli special ops or perhaps Arabs in the pay of Mossad.
Iâd be happy to hear the thoughts of others but not the AI bot just banned by @admin 
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This has occurred to me, and thereâs also the issue of their origins. However, Iâm more inclined to believe that this was grassroots and allowed to proceed because it suited âthe agendaâ. Everyone knows Bibi is toast the moment he not the boss. The courts are looming, and it wonât go away. Heâs certainly nuts enough to try something like this to stand at the end and claim he has paid his debt etc.
But at what cost?
If it was a false flag, then Israel hasnât done well at all. Theyâve lost their image of strength, theyâve lost the kibbutz and theyâve lost many dual citizens too. Their economy is struggling and the army isnât designed for long term campaigns. More for picking on unarmed folksâŚ
For once, I think the issue of false flag is irrelevant for now. After all, if youâre being sent to war for foreign religious nutters, the fact of how it started is moot at that point.
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This idea of Israel losing and reasserting its âstrengthâ is a cyclical thing - Itâs of a piece with the ânew anti-semitismâ - the upstart state periodically uses these notions as a catalyst to inflict more suffering on its neighbours, and to inch ever closer to realising the project âfrom the river to the seaâ. Norman Finkelstein refers to it as the âdeterrence factorâ:
Israelâs âlarger concernâ in Cast Lead, New York Times Middle East
correspondent Ethan Bronner reported, quoting Israeli sources, was to âreestablish Israeli deterrence,â because âits enemies are less afraid of it than they
once were, or should be.â(4). Preserving its deterrence capacity looms large in
Israeli strategic doctrine.
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Our Norm has some good material on his substack, lots of historical background including extracts from Chomskyâs âFateful Triangleâ (from when he was OK!).
Hereâs some historical background completely different, a 2004 Jerusalem Post interview with an advisor to Ariel Sharon. He predicts the current butchery but seems to think it will have to be done by boys and men. [page 4] His only concern is for their ability to be ânormal human beingsâ afterwards . . . (no, you couldnât make it up could you). I believe Goering said something very similar at the start of operation Barbarossa but we canât go there can we.
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This is why I referred to the footage as having a Charlie Hebdo look to it. Not quite sure how the work was distributed.
The beheaded babies trope is still going strong in some quarters but I believe v2.0 was released not long ago. United Hatzallah were the source.
A baby was found in an oven, baked to death by Hamas terrorists, leading Israeli first responder @EliBeerUH recounted to an @RJC gathering last night.
â Dovid Efune (@Efune) October 29, 2023
His group was among the first to respond to and witness the Oct 7 atrocities.
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Thanks for the reminder of Charlie Hebdo. It was amazing how the video was debunked, easily, indisputably, and the there just happened to be the guy(s) on a roof filming the whole charade in good quality, and yet the tewworwist trope continues unabated.
On the beheaded babies, I questioned David Scottâs reporting on UK Column where despite the reporting of âinternational reporters taken to the sceneâ there was only one foreign reporter on the alleged scene. She did not see anything, but was, âTold by an IDF commander âŚâ, and shown some body bags with who knows what inside?
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Going back to the opening questionâŚthings gradually getting a bit clearer.
Scott Ritter saying it was a precisely carried out military operation by Hamas.
Much engagement with IDF that were around; however Israeli intelligence was sidelined by taking out the command and control facilities. This left more of a square fight which Hamas won. Arriving forces couldnât tell who was who.
Ritter says up to a third of Israelis killed were military and police. 200 of the 1400 deaths were Palestinian fighters. That would seem to leave about 700 Israel civilians.
Just to fill in - sorry for duplication of Ritterâs full article below, which is worth reading - in lieu of a quick summary of Ritterâs accounting for the seemingly accepted 1400 (total) deathsâŚ
âMoreover, it turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasnât Hamas or other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself. Recently released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Reâim, the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters. Many of the vehicles that the Israeli government has shown as an example of Hamas perfidy were destroyed by the Israeli Apache helicopters.
Likewise, the Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the âReâim massacre,â citing a death toll of some 112 civilians it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding or being held hostage by Hamas fighters. It took two days for the Israeli military to recapture Reâim. It only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupantsâ home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and killing.â
Has anyone got links to any of these events to hand? Iâve shied away from going through all the horror.
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13/11/23 The October 7 Hamas Assault on Israel
The Most Successful Military Raid of this Century
There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world todayâyou canât solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simpleâany solution which has nothing to do with the problem involved is, literally, no solution at all.
Israel has characterized the attack carried out by Hamas on the various Israeli military bases and militarized settlements, or Kibbutz, which in their totality comprised an important part of the Gaza barrier system, as a massive act of terrorism, likening it to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States. Israel supports this characterization by citing the number of persons killed (some 1,200, a downward revision issued by Israel after realizing that 200 of the dead were Palestinian fighters) and detailing a wide variety of atrocities it claims were perpetrated by Hamas, including mass rape, the beheading of children, and the wonton murder of unarmed Israeli civilians.
The problem with the Israeli claims is that they are demonstrably false or misleading. Nearly a third of the Israeli casualties consisted of military, security, and police officers. Moreover, it turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasnât Hamas or other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself. Recently released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Reâim, the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters. Many of the vehicles that the Israeli government has shown as an example of Hamas perfidy were destroyed by the Israeli Apache helicopters.
Likewise, the Israeli government has widely publicized what it is calling the âReâim massacre,â citing a death toll of some 112 civilians it claims were murdered by Hamas. However, eyewitness accounts from both surviving Israeli civilians and military personnel involved in the fighting show that the vast majority of those killed died from fire from Israeli soldiers and tanks directed at buildings where the civilians were either hiding or being held hostage by Hamas fighters. It took two days for the Israeli military to recapture Reâim. It only did so after tanks fired into the civilian residences, collapsing them onto their occupants, and often setting them ablaze, causing the bodies of those inside to be consumed by fire. The Israeli government has publicized how it has had to make use of the services of forensic archeologists to identify human remains at the Kibbutz, implying that Hamas had burned the occupantsâ home. But the fact is it was Israeli tanks that did the destruction and killing.
This scene was repeated in other Kibbutzes along the Gaza barrier system.
The Israeli government treats the Kibbutz as being purely civilian, and yet has publicized how armed security teams of several Kibbutzesâdrawn from the so-called âcivilianâ residentsâwere able to mobilize in time to successfully repel the Hamas attackers. The reality is that every Kibbutz had to be treated by Hamas as an armed encampment, and as such assaulted as if it were a military objective, for the simple fact that they wereâall of them.
Moreover, until Israel relocated several battalions of IDF forces to the West Bank, each Kibbutz had been reinforced by a squad of around 20 IDF soldiers who were billeted in the Kibbutz. Given that Hamas had planned this attack for well over a year, Hamas had to assume that these 20 IDF soldiers were still located in each Kibbutz, and act accordingly.
Scott Ritter will discuss this article on Ep. 114 of Ask the Inspector.
The Israeli government has had to walk back its claims that Hamas beheaded 40 children and has provided no credible evidence that Hamas was involved in the rape or sexual assault of a single Israeli female. Eyewitness accounts describe the Hamas fighters as disciplined, determined, and deadly in the attack, and yet courteous and gentle when dealing with civilian captives.
The question arises as to why the Israeli government would go out of its way to manufacture a narrative designed to support the false and misleading characterization of the October 7 attack by Hamas on the Gaza barrier system as an act of terrorism.
The answer is as disturbing as it is clearâbecause what happened on October 7 was not a terrorist attack, but a military raid. The difference between the two terms is night and dayâby labeling the events of October 7 as acts of terrorism, Israel transfers blame for the huge losses away from its military, security, and intelligence services, and onto Hamas. If Israel were, however, to acknowledge that what Hamas did was in fact a raidâa military operationâthen the competency of the Israeli military, security, and intelligence services would be called into question, as would the political leadership responsible for overseeing and directing their operations.
And if youâre Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this is the last thing you want.
Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life. He was already facing a crisis of his own making, having pushed for legislation which re-wrote Israeli Basic Law in a way which placed the Israeli judiciary under the control of the Knesset, effectively terminating its status as a separate but equal branch of government (so much for Israel being the âgreatest democracy in the Middle Eastâ). This act brought Israel on the verge of a civil war, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets to denounce Netanyahu. What makes Netanyahuâs actions even more despicable is that it represented little more than a naked power play designed to prevent the Israeli court system from trying him on several credible allegations of corruption which, if Netanyahu were found guilty (a distinct probability), would have put him in jail for many years.
Netanyahu had billed himself as Israelâs top defender, a specialist on the threats facing Israel abroad, and how to best respond to them. He has openly advocated a military confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu is also a proponent of political Zionism in its most extreme application and has promoted the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which use tactics that forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes and villages, as part of an overall plan to create a âgreater Israelâ that mirrors that of Biblical times.
Part of Netanyahuâs strategy to accomplish this dream of a âgreater Israelâ is to weaken the Palestinian people and their government to the point of irrelevancy, thereby preventing them from achieving their dream of obtaining an independent Palestinian state. To facilitate this strategy, Netanyahu has, over the course of the past two decades, promoted the growth of Hamas as a political organization. The purpose of this support is simpleâby promoting Hamas, Netanyahu weakens the Palestinian Authority, the governing body of Palestinian people, headed by its President, Mahmoud Abbas.
Netanyahuâs plan was workingâin September 2020 Netanyahu signed the Abaraham Accords, a series of bilateral agreements brokered by the administration of then-President Donald Trump that sought the normalization of relations between Israel and several Gulf Arab States, all at the expense of an independent Palestinian nation. Prior to the Hamas attack on October 7, Israel was on the cusp of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, an act which would have proven to be the final nail in the coffin of Palestinian statehood.
One of the main reasons for Israelâs progress in this regard was its success in creating a political divide between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
On October 7, however, this success was washed away by the victory that Hamas achieved over the IDF. The precise means by which this victory took place is the subject for another time. But the basic elements of this victory are well-established.
Hamas effectively neutralized Israelâs vaunted intelligence services, blinding them to the possibility of an attack of this scope and scale.
When the attack occurred, Hamas was able to strike with precision the very surveillance and communication nodes the IDF relied upon to mobilize a response in case of an attack.
Hamas defeated those Israeli soldiers stationed along the barrier wall in a stand-up fight. Two battalions of the Golani Brigade were routed, as were elements of other vaunted IDF units.
Hamas struck the Headquarters of the Gaza Division, the local intelligence hub, and other major command and control facilities with brutal precision, turning what should have been a five-minute response time into many hoursâmore than enough time for Hamas to carry out one of its primary objectivesâthe taking of hostages. This they did with extreme proficiency, returning to Gaza with more than 230 Israeli soldiers and civilians.
The Marine Corps defines a raid as âan operation, usually small scale, involving a swift penetration of hostile territory to secure information, confuse the enemy, or to destroy his installations. It ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the assigned mission.â
This is precisely what Hamas did on October 7.
What were the objectives of this raid? According to Hamas, the purpose behind the October 7 raid were threefold.
First, to reassert the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland not defined by the Abaraham Accords.
Second, to release the more than 10,000 Palestinians held prisoner by Israel, most without having been charged with a crime, and none with any notion of due process.
Third, to return the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Islamâs third holiest place, which had been desecrated repeatedly by Israeli security forces over the past years.
To accomplish these goals, the October 7 raid needed to create the necessary conditions for victory. This was achieved by humiliating Israel sufficiently to provoke a predictable outcomeâthe implementation of the Dahiya Doctrine of collective punishment against the civilian population of Gaza, combined with a ground attack on Gaza that would lure the IDF into what was in effect a Hamas ambush.
The taking of hostages was meant to provide Hamas with negotiating leverage for the release of the 10,000 prisoners held by Israel.
The Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza has resulted in international revulsion against Israel as the world recoils from the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding before their very eyes. The streets of major cities around the world are full of angry protestors demonstrating on behalf of the Palestinian peopleâand Palestinian statehood. The United States is now stating that a two-state solutionâsomething the Abrahams Accord was designed to preventâis now the only way forward for peace in the Middle East.
The United States would never have said this on October 6.
The fact that the United States has taken this stance is because of the Hamas raid of October 7.
Israel is in negotiations with the United States and others about a possible prisoner exchange involving the Hamas hostages and certain categories of political prisonersâwomen and childrenâheld by Israel (yes, you read that rightâchildren. And now you know the wisdom of Hamasâ decision to take Israeli children hostage.)
Such a possibility would never have occurred if it werenât for the Hamas raid of October 7.
And in Saudi Arabia, the largest gathering of Islamic nations in modern history has convened to discuss the Gaza crisis. One of the top agenda items is the issue of the Al Aqsa Mosque and ending Israeli desecration.
This was a discussion that would never have taken place if it were not for the Hamas raid of October 7.
It goes without saying that the Hamas raid of October 7 unleashed a firestorm of brutal recrimination in the form of bombs, shells, and bullets on the civilian population of Gaza. These are people who, for nearly eight decades, have been denied a homeland of their own by the Israelis, who violently evicted the Palestinians from the land currently called Israel in one of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing in modern historyâthe Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948.
These are people who have suffered untold deprivation at the hand of their Israeli occupiers while awaiting the moment they will see their dream of a Palestinian homeland come true. They know that a Palestinian homeland cannot be realized so long as Israel is governed by those who embrace the notion of a Greater (Eretz) Israel, and that the only way to remove such people is by defeating them politically, and the only way to trigger their political defeat is to defeat them militarily.
Hamas is accomplishing this.
But there is a price to payâa heavy price. The French lost 20,000 civilians killed to achieve the liberation of Normandy in the Summer of 1944.
So far, the Palestinian civilians of Gaza have lost 12,000 civilians killed in the effort led by Hamas to militarily defeat their Israeli occupiers.
That price will go higher in the days and weeks to come.
But it is a price that must be paid if there is to be any chance of a Palestinian homeland.
The sacrifice of the Palestinian people has compelled an Arab and Islamic world which, with few exceptions, has been mute over the depravations carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people. Who did nothing as the cause of Palestinian statehood was mooted by the Abraham Accords.
Only because of the suffering of the Palestinian people is anyone paying attention to the cause of Palestinian statehood today.
Or the welfare of the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Or the sanctity of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
These were all stated objectives of Hamas in launching their attack of October 7.
And all objectives are being accomplished as we speak.
Only because of the actions of Hamas and the sacrifices of the Palestinian people.
Which makes the October 7 assault on Israel by Hamas the most successful military raid of this century.
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Perhaps a little late to add to this thread, but Iâve been thinking. There is one possible scenario that has not been mentioned anywhere as far as Iâm aware. To recap, the theories that have been mentioned, some by Ritter, some elsewhere are:
a) Hamas planned and executed it all and the Israeliâs were caught off guard
b) Hamas planned it and the Israeliâs let it happen as an excuse to âdefend themselvesâ
c) Hamas planned it and Israhell ignored the warnings given by Egypt and others
d) It was a false flag operation with Hamas as the puppets and Israelâs full knowledge and planning
On the principle of what we are being told/shown is never the full picture or even perhaps the real picture, I have another possibility. Couple the that knowledge the âIron Domeâ has been a fiction as far as stopping any possible aerial attack, with the Israeliâs mastering of fabricated propaganda.
Then one (well, me anyway) wonders is the whole âa cat couldnât get with 300 feet of the wall without the alarms going offâ trope maybe also just make believe? Perhaps the watch towers are there just for show and to shoot a few innocent Palestinians now and again? Perhaps then Nutty Yahoo and his CIA buddies came up with several scenarios (widely publicised by many mainstream sources) as per a) and b) above to muddy the waters and of course deflect failure of âthe wallâ. Had they not come up with those two excuses, it might have become obvious that the impenetrability of the wall was simply fiction to make Israeliâs feel safe and the Palestinians to give up hope?
Should I take off my tin foil hat now?
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Relatively inexpensive cameras can detect movement (human or feline) and relay an alert, so the basic infrastructure for the Israeli defensive structures is very likely as described. Perhaps without the hyperbole. The weak link, as with all this technology, is reliable power supply to drive the devices and the WiFi. A few well-targeted hits on backup generators would knock that out for a defined stretch of âwallâ and allow penetration. Iâve read that some links in the chain use(d) AI and that is no less fallible than human monitoring BUT much much quicker.
To the extent that no system is immune to failure, yes, the defensive line is/was as much hype as it is fact. The invincibility of the IDF, the superiority of NATO weapons (never mind the quality, just feel this price tag!) and many other aspects of Western Empire have been exposed in the last couple of years, and the trend continues to accelerate.
Israeli tech is highly rated and widely used, mostly on the software side. All products have the added value of branding and I suspect this has taken a massive hit that will take a long time and a great deal of re-establishing of trust to piece back together. And in the meantime all those mobilised troops are not doing their usual jobs and the Israeli economy is in freefall.
If someone, presumably Satanyahoo, let this happen, either supreme arrogance or blind desperation have been the critical drivers. Heâs not going to last much longer but what/who will replace himâŚ?
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Max Blumenthalâs update on his examination of the evidence of October 7th.
October 7 testimonies reveal Israelâs military âshellingâ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
Here he discussed it with Chris Hedges (H/T to TLN) - yesterday, so likely there is some updated info not in the older written piece. Blumenthal himself says he thought the Oct 27 piece was âfinalâ when he wrote it; but then of courseâŚ
The Chris Hedges Report with reporter Max Blumenthal on how the Israeli military launched a series of attacks on Oct. 7 designed to kill Hamas gunmen along with their Israeli hostages.
The Oct 7 picture is gradually getting clearerâŚbut in the discussion with Hedges, Blumenthal brings in some wider historical perspectives, making the response since Oct 7 seem more like the continuation of the great Zionist project from 1948.
As Blumenthal points out, Zionism is a colonial-settler project and in history, that always has meant getting rid of the indigenous population.
This could also explain the apparent treachery shown by the Israeli commanders towards its own hostages and other trapped forces (though self-interest is also a possible explanation).
Blumenthal gives links to Haaretz accounts - which unfortunately Google doesnât seem to translate properly - and also tells of his analysis of Israeli civilian discussions on the Oct 7 response, which seem to show approval of a wipe-out strategy. Blumenthal observes this has been fueled by the false propaganda narratives concerning Hamasâ largely military actions, which was so successful that it persists long (and wide, ie still all over the west) after the facts have been seen to totally debunk it.
For the time-pressed, my recommendation is the video (unusual for me 
) with the Oct 27 link as backup to the info.
UPDATE: The Real NewsNetwork seems to have published a transcript of the Nov 17 discussion between Hedges and Blumenthal.
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