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Arthur Blomme
art at integralshift.ca
Thu Oct 26 10:52:49 PDT 2023
Hi Ted
You provide an interesting argument here but framing it as a conspiracy
theory does not do justice to history. Dr. Chossudovsky demonstrates
here how the Israeli false flag attack is part of a broader Military
Intelligence agenda.
Time to wake up to the evil of fascist war mongers.
Art
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“Justified Vengeance” and the Invasion of Gaza: Palestine Is Portrayed
as “The Aggressor”
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The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader Israeli
Military-Intelligence Agenda
Michel Chossudovsky
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*Author’s Introduction*
There is a complex history behind Israel’s October 2023 plan to *“Wipe
Gaza off the Map.”*
It’s genocide, an absolute slaughter:
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“We are going to attack Gaza City very broadly soon,” Israel’s
chief military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said in a
nationally broadcast address, without giving a timetable for the
attack.”
It’s a criminal undertaking based on Israel’s doctrine of
*“Justified Vengeance”* which was first formulated in 2001.
(See below: my January 2009 article published at the very outset of
Israel’s 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza under “*Operation Cast Led”) *
*The “Justified Vengeance”* doctrine propounds in no uncertain terms
that**(despite its limited military capabilities) *Palestine rather than
Israel is “the aggressor” *and that Israel has the right to defend itself.
It is now established that the Hamas October 7, 2023 attack was a
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operation
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out by a “faction” within Hamas, in
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Mossad and U.S. intelligence”:
“U.S. intelligence say they weren’t aware of an impending Hamas attack.
Did Netanyahu and his vast military and intelligence apparatus
(Mossad et al) have foreknowledge of the Hamas attack which has
resulted in countless deaths of Israelis and Palestinians.
Was a carefully formulated Israeli plan to wage *an all out war
against Palestinians* envisaged *prior*to the launching by Hamas of
“Operation Al-Aqsa Storm”?
This was not a failure of Israeli Intelligence, as conveyed by the
media. Quite the opposite”
*The History of False Flags: “The Green Light to Terror” (1997), The
“Bloodshed as a Justification” to Wage War*
The late *Prof. Tanya Reinhart
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the formulation in 1997 of a False Flag Agenda
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*“The Green Light to Terror”* which consisted in promoting (engineering)
suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, citing *“the Bloodshed as a
Justification”*to wage war on Palestine:
“…This is the “green light to terror” theme which the Military
Intelligence (Ama”n) has been promoting since 1997, when its
anti-Oslo line was consolidated. *This theme was since repeated
again and again by military circles, and eventually became the
mantra of Israeli propaganda… *
The ‘Foreign Report’ (Jane’s information) of July 12, 2001 disclosed
that *the Israeli army (under Sharon’s government) has updated its
plans for an “all-out assault to smash the Palestinian authority” *
The blueprint, titled *“The Destruction of the Palestinian Authority
and Disarmament of All Armed Forces”*, was presented to the Israeli
government by chief of staff Shaul Mofaz, on July 8 [2001].
The assault would be launched, at the government’s discretion,
*after a big suicide bomb attack in Israel, causing widespread
deaths and injuries, citing the bloodshed as justification.”*(Tanya
Reinhart,
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22, 2001)
*Ariel Sharon: “A 1948 Style Solution”*
According to the Prof. Tanya Reinhart:
“Mass expulsion could occur at some later stage of the ground
invasion [2002- ], were the Israelis to open up Gaza’s borders to
allow for an exodus of population … Expulsion was referred to by
Ariel Sharon as the “*a 1948 style solution”. For Sharon *“it is
only necessary to find another state for the Palestinians”. -‘Jordan
is Palestine’ – was the phrase that Sharon coined.” (Tanya Reinhart
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op cit)
*The “Hamas-Mossad Partnership”*
What is now unfolding in Gaza is part of a longstanding intelligence
agenda, which has been on the drawing board of successive Israeli
governments for more than twenty years. Founded in 1987 with the support
of Israel, “The Hamas-Mossad partnership” is confirmed by Netanyahu:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state
*has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. …
*This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza
from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (March 2019 Statement
quoted by Haaretz
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October 9, 2023, emphasis added)
*“Support” and “Money” for Hamas*
*“Transferring Money to Hamas”* on behalf of Netanyahu is confirmed by a
Times of Israel October 8, 2023 Report:
“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian
Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a
Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an
organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt,
*and which was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of
dollars from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.” *(emphasis added)
*Benjamin Netanyahu’s *position defined several years prior to the
October 7, 2023 “*State of Readiness For War” *consists in the
*total appropriation* of Palestine Lands as well as *the outright
exclusion*of the Palestinian people from their homeland:
“These are the basic lines of the national government headed by
me:*The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to
all areas of the Land of Israel*. The government will promote and
develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel — in the
Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria.” (January 2023)
*The Role of Mossad*
The doctrine of *“Justified Vengeance”*initiated in 2001, is the
cornerstone of Israel’s intelligence narrative. It provides a
justification to carry out acts of genocide, with the support of the
International community, first in Gaza, then in the West Bank.
“With an annual budget of about $3billion and 7,000 staff, *Mossad
is the second-largest espionage agency in the Western world after
the CIA
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These official figures are meaningless, intelligence agencies do not
reveal the sources of their funding or the size of their staff (which
are in excess of the figures quoted above).
*Mossad*(Foreign Intelligence) together with *Shin Bet* (Domestic
National Security) and *Aman*(Military Intelligence) is the main actor
in the conduct of “false flag operations”. It’s covert capabilities are
extensive. It has over the years infiltrated both Hamas and the
Palestinian National Authority, It also exerts –in liaison with US
intelligence– control over Al Qaeda operatives, ISIS and Daesh
throughout the Middle East.
Mossad’s mandate is to create “divisions” within the Palestinian
Resistance Movement, while *sustaining fear and routine terrorist false
flag events*against innocent Israeli civilians, which sustains the
legitimacy of the “Justified Vengeance” narrative.
*Chronology*
Let us briefly review the history, the various stages following the:
*Failure of Oslo I and II (1993-95) and The Assassination of Yitzhak
Rabin (1995) *
*2001. “Operation Justified Vengeance”*
Presented in July 2001 to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon by IDF
chief of staff *Shaul Mofaz*, under the title:
*“The Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and Disarmament of
All Armed Forces”.*
See the Analysis of Tanya Reinhart and the Jane Report quoted above and
in the article below).
“Operation Justified Vengeance” was also referred to as the *“Dagan
Plan”*, named after the late*General Meir Dagan*, who headed Mossad,
Israel’s foreign intelligence agency from 2002-2011.
The longer term objective of *“Operation Justified Vengeance” (2001)*was
and remains the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.
*2002. Decision to Build the Infamous Apartheid Wall by Sharon
Government*
*2004. The Assassination of Yasser Arafat*
It was ordered by the Israeli Cabinet in 2003. It was approved by the US
which vetoed a United Nations Security Resolution condemning the 2003
Israeli Cabinet decision. It was undertaken by Mossad. (See details in
article below)
*2005. The Removal, Under Orders of PM Ariel Sharon of All Jewish
Settlements in Gaza.*
Proposed in 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, *implemented in August
2005*and completed in September 2005.
A Jewish population of over 7,000 was relocated. This relocation was
required to transform the Gaza Strip into *“An Open Air Prison”*
*2006. The Hamas Election Victory in January 2006.*
Without Arafat, the Israeli military-intelligence architects knew that
Fatah under*Mahmoud Abbas*would loose the elections.
*2008-2009. “Operation Cast Lead”*
In 2008 the *“Bloodshed Justification”*was an essential component of the
military-intelligence agenda, which was first formulated in the 2001
“Operation Justified Vengeance”:
*“The Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and Disarmament of
All Armed Forces”*
The killing of Palestinian civilians was justified on “humanitarian
grounds.” as formulated in the “Operation Justified Vengeance Report”.
*—Michel Chossudovsky*, May 15, 2021, October 23, 2023
Below is my article published in early January 2009, at the height of
the *2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead *
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*The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence
Agenda*
*by Michel Chossudovsky*, January 2009
*“Operation Cast Lead”*
The aerial bombings and the ongoing ground invasion of Gaza by Israeli
ground forces must be analysed in a historical context. Operation “Cast
Lead” [2008] is a carefully planned undertaking, which is part of a
broader military-intelligence agenda first formulated by the government
of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001:
“Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud
Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the
operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to
negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.”(Barak Ravid, Operation
“Cast Lead”: Israeli Air Force strike followed months of planning,
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December 27, 2008)
It was Israel which broke the truce on the day of the US presidential
elections, November 4:
“Israel used this distraction to break the ceasefire between itself
and Hamas by bombing the Gaza strip. Israel claimed this violation
of the ceasefire was to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels into
Israeli territory.
The very next day, Israel launched a terrorizing siege of Gaza,
cutting off food, fuel, medical supplies and other necessities in an
attempt to “subdue” the Palestinians while at the same time engaging
in armed incursions.
In response, Hamas and others in Gaza again resorted to firing
crude, homemade, and mainly inaccurate rockets into Israel. During
the past seven years, these rockets have been responsible for the
deaths of 17 Israelis. Over the same time span, Israeli Blitzkrieg
assaults have killed thousands of Palestinians, drawing worldwide
protest but falling on deaf ears at the UN.” (Shamus Cooke, The
Massacre in Palestine and the Threat of a Wider War, Global
Research, December 2008)
*Planned Humanitarian Disaster*
On December 8, [2008] US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was
in Tel Aviv for discussions with his Israeli counterparts including the
director of Mossad, Meir Dagan.
“Operation Cast Lead” was initiated two days day after Christmas. It was
coupled with a carefully designed international Public Relations
campaign under the auspices of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Hamas’ military targets are not the main objective. Operation “Cast
Lead” is intended, quite deliberately, to trigger civilian casualities.
What we are dealing with is a “planned humanitarian disaster” in Gaza in
a densly populated urban area. (See map below)
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The longer term objective of this plan, as formulated by Israeli policy
makers, is the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestinian lands:
“Terrorize the civilian population, assuring maximal destruction of
property and cultural resources… The daily life of the Palestinians
must be rendered unbearable: They should be locked up in cities and
towns, prevented from exercising normal economic life, cut off from
workplaces, schools and hospitals, This will encourage emigration
and weaken the resistance to future expulsions” Ur Shlonsky, quoted
by Ghali Hassan, Gaza: The World’s Largest Prison
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Global Research, 2005)
*“Operation Justified Vengeance”*
A turning point has been reached. Operation “Cast Lead” is part of the
broader military-intelligence operation initiated at the outset of the
Ariel Sharon government in 2001. It was under Sharon’s “Operation
Justified Vengeance” that F-16 fighter planes were initially used to
bomb Palestinian cities.
“Operation Justified Vengeance” was presented in July 2001 to the
Israeli government of Ariel Sharon by IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz,
under the title “The Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and
Disarmament of All Armed Forces”.
“A contingency plan, codenamed Operation Justified Vengeance, was
drawn up last June [2001] to reoccupy all of the West Bank and
possibly the Gaza Strip at a likely cost of “hundreds” of Israeli
casualties.” (Washington Times, 19 March 2002).
According to Jane’s ‘Foreign Report’ (July 12, 2001) the Israeli army
under Sharon had updated its plans for an “all-out assault to smash the
Palestinian authority, force out leader Yasser Arafat and kill or detain
its army”.
*“Bloodshed Justification”*
The “Bloodshed Justification” was an essential component of the
military-intelligence agenda. The killing of Palestinian civilians was
justified on “humanitarian grounds.” Israeli military operations were
carefully timed to coincide with the suicide attacks:
*The assault would be launched, at the government’s discretion,
after a big suicide bomb attack in Israel, causing widespread deaths
and injuries, citing the bloodshed as justification. *(Tanya
Reinhart, Evil Unleashed, Israel’s move to destroy the Palestinian
Authority is a calculated plan, long in the making
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Global Research, December 2001, emphasis added)
*The Dagan Plan *
“Operation Justified Vengeance” was also referred to as the “Dagan
Plan”, named after General (ret.) Meir Dagan, who currently heads
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency.
Reserve *General Meir Dagan*was Sharon’s national security adviser
during the 2000 election campaign. The plan was apparently drawn up
prior to Sharon’s election as Prime Minister in February 2001.
“According to Alex Fishman writing in Yediot Aharonot, the Dagan Plan
consisted in destroying the Palestinian authority and putting Yasser
Arafat ‘out of the game’.” (Ellis Shulman, “Operation Justified
Vengeance”: a Secret Plan to Destroy the Palestinian Authority
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March 2001):
“As reported in the Foreign Report [Jane] and disclosed locally by
Maariv, Israel’s invasion plan — reportedly dubbed Justified
Vengeance — *would be launched immediately following the next
high-casualty suicide bombing, would last about a month and is
expected to result in the death of hundreds of Israelis and
thousands of Palestinians. *(Ibid, emphasis added)
The “Dagan Plan” envisaged the so-called *“cantonization” of Palestinian
territories whereby the West Bank and Gaza would be totally cut off from
one other, with separate “governments*” in each of the territories.
Under this scenario, already envisaged in 2001, Israel would:
“negotiate separately with Palestinian forces that are dominant in
each territory-Palestinian forces responsible for security,
intelligence, and even for the Tanzim (Fatah).” The plan thus
closely resembles the idea of “cantonization” of Palestinian
territories, put forth by a number of ministers.” Sylvain Cypel, The
infamous ‘Dagan Plan’ Sharon’s plan for getting rid of Arafat
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Le Monde, December 17, 2001)
The Dagan Plan has established continuity in the military-intelligence
agenda. In the wake of the 2000 elections, Meir Dagan was assigned a key
role. “He became Sharon’s “go-between” in security issues with
President’s Bush’s special envoys Zinni and Mitchell.” He was
subsequently appointed Director of the Mossad by Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon in August 2002. In the post-Sharon period, he remained head of
Mossad. He was reconfirmed in his position as Director of Israeli
Intelligence by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in June 2008.
Meir Dagan, in coordination with his US counterparts, has been in charge
of various military-intelligence operations. It is worth noting that
Meir Dagan as a young Colonel had worked closely with defense minister
Ariel Sharon in the raids on Palestinian settlements in Beirut in 1982.
The 2009 ground invasion of Gaza, in many regards, bear a canny
resemblance to the 1982 military operation led by Sharon and Dagan.
*Continuity: From Sharon to Olmert *
It is important to focus on a number of key events which have led up to
the killings in Gaza under “Operation Cast Lead”:
*1. The assassination in November 2004 of Yasser Arafat.*
This assassination had been on the drawing board since 1996 under
*“Operation Fields of Thorns”*.
According to an October 2000 document
“prepared by the security services, at the request of then Prime
Minister Ehud Barak, stated that ‘Arafat, the person, is a severe
threat to the security of the state [of Israel] and the damage which
will result from his disappearance is less than the damage caused by
his existence'”. (Tanya Reinhart, Evil Unleashed, Israel’s move to
destroy the Palestinian Authority is a calculated plan, long in the
making
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Global Research, December 2001. Details of the document were
published in Ma’ariv, July 6, 2001.).
*Arafat’s assassination was ordered in 2003 by the Israeli cabinet.*It
was approved by the US which vetoed a United Nations Security Resolution
condemning the 2003 Israeli Cabinet decision. Reacting to increased
Palestinian attacks, in August 2003, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul
Mofaz declared “all out war” on the militants whom he vowed “marked for
death.”
“In mid September, Israel’s government passed a law to get rid of
Arafat. Israel’s cabinet for political security affairs declared it
“a decision to remove Arafat as an obstacle to peace.” Mofaz
threatened; *“we will choose the right way and the right time to
kill Arafat.”*Palestinian Minister Saeb Erekat told CNN he thought
Arafat was the next target. CNN asked Sharon spokesman Ra’anan
Gissan if the vote meant expulsion of Arafat. Gissan clarified; “It
doesn’t mean that. The Cabinet has today resolved to remove this
obstacle. The time, the method, the ways by which this will take
place will be decided separately, and the security services will
monitor the situation and make the recommendation about proper
action.” (See Trish Shuh, Road Map for a Decease Plan,
www.mehrnews.com November 9 2005)
The assassination of Arafat was part of the 2001 Dagan Plan.
In all likelihood, it was carried out by Israeli Intelligence. It was
intended to destroy the Palestinian Authority, foment divisions within
Fatah as well as between Fatah and Hamas. Mahmoud Abbas is a Palestinian
quisling.
He was installed as leader of Fatah, with the approval of Israel and the
US, which finance the Palestinian Authority’s paramilitary and security
forces.
*2. The Removal, Under the Orders of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in
2005, of All Jewish Settlements in Gaza.*
A Jewish population of over 7,000 was relocated.
“It is my intention [Sharon] to carry out an evacuation – sorry, a
relocation – of settlements that cause us problems and of places
that we will not hold onto anyway in a final settlement, like the
Gaza settlements…. *I am working on the assumption that in the
future there will be no Jews in Gaza,”*Sharon said.” (CBC, March
2004
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The issue of the settlements in Gaza was presented as part of
Washington’s “road map to peace”.
Celebrated by the Palestinians as a “victory”, this measure was not
directed against the Jewish settlers. Quite the opposite: *It was part
of the overall covert operation, which consisted in transforming Gaza
into a concentration camp.*As long as Jewish settlers were living inside
Gaza, the objective of sustaining a large barricaded prison territory
could not be achieved. The Implementation of “Operation Cast Lead”
required “no Jews in Gaza”.
*3. The Building of the Infamous Apartheid Wall*
This was decided upon at the beginning of the Sharon government in 2002.
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*4. The Hamas Election Victory in January 2006.*
Without Arafat, the Israeli military-intelligence architects knew that
Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas would loose the elections. This was part of
the scenario, which had been envisaged and analyzed well in advance.
With Hamas in charge in Gaza, using the pretext that Hamas is a
terrorist organization, Israel would carry out the process of
“cantonization” as formulated under *the Dagan plan. *Fatah under
Mahmoud Abbas would remain formally in charge of the West Bank. The duly
elected Hamas government would be confined to the Gaza strip.
*Ground Attack, 2008-2009*
On January 3, [2009] Israeli tanks and infantry entered Gaza in an all
out ground offensive:
“The ground operation was preceded by several hours of heavy
artillery fire after dark, igniting targets in flames that burst
into the night sky. Machine gun fire rattled as bright tracer rounds
flashed through the darkness and the crash of hundreds of shells
sent up streaks of fire. (AP, January 3, 2009)
Israeli sources have pointed to a lengthy drawn out military operation.
It “won’t be easy and it won’t be short,” said Defense Minister Ehud
Barak in a TV address.
Israel is not seeking to oblige Hamas “to cooperate”. What we are
dealing with is the implementation of the “Dagan Plan” as initially
formulated in 2001, which called for:
*“an invasion of Palestinian-controlled territory by some 30,000
Israeli soldiers,*with the clearly defined mission of destroying the
infrastructure of the Palestinian leadership and collecting weaponry
currently possessed by the various Palestinian forces, and expelling
or killing its military leadership. (Ellis Shulman, op cit, emphasis
added)
*Nakba 2.0: Mass Expulsion and a Ground Invasion Contemplated*
The broader question is whether Israel in consultation with Washington
is intent upon triggering a wider war.
*Mass expulsion could occur at some later stage of the ground
invasion, were the Israelis to open up Gaza’s borders to allow for
an exodus of population.*
Expulsion was referred to by Ariel Sharon as the “*a 1948 style
solution”. For Sharon*
“it is only necessary to find another state for the Palestinians.
-‘Jordan is Palestine’ – was the phrase that Sharon coined.” (Tanya
Reinhart, op cit)
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On 10/24/23 9:50 a.m., Ted Schmidt wrote:
>
> Although such conspiratorial beliefs were most common among sharp
> critics of Israel, they actually attained far broader acceptance.
> Charlie Kirk is the leader of a large pro-Israel conservative
> organization, and in an interview, he set forth
> <https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/10/17/charlie_kirk_did_someone_in_israel_tell_army_to_stand_down_during_attack_thats_a_legitimate_non-conspiracy_question.html> exactly
> those same dark suspicions.
>
> https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1713595086037004449
>
> For many months, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin
> Netanyahu had been facing enormous public demonstrations by his bitter
> political opponents, representing a historic division in his own
> society that was even verging on civil war. So according to this
> theory, Netanyahu had deliberately allowed that attack to take place,
> hoping to use it as his “Pearl Harbor” or “9/11” to solidify his own
> political position, perhaps even providing him an excuse to expel the
> Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, thereby achieving the
> political goal of the more extreme members of his coalition by
> expanding Israel’s frontiers while permanently solving the festering
> “Palestinian problem.”
>
> Despite its apparent popularity, the likelihood of this scenario
> disintegrates upon any careful consideration. Israel probably suffered
> the worst one-day defeat in its national history, a strategic
> disaster. Even aside from the huge loss of life in such a small
> population, the tremendous Hamas success punctured the powerful myth
> of Israeli military strength, which for three generations has been the
> cornerstone of the country’s national security strategy. Such heavy
> losses suggested that the IDF had become a paper-tiger, greatly
> amplifying the lesson of its 2006 military setbacks at the hands of
> Hezbollah in Lebanon. If poorly-armed Hamas militants could achieve
> such a serious blow, all of Israel’s regional adversaries were surely
> emboldened, and this would have been obvious to any Israeli national
> security officials who might have considered such a gambit.
>
> We should also remember that Israel had been on the very verge of
> achieving normalized relations with Saudi Arabia
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-israel-netanyahu-west-bank.html>,
> the wealthiest and most influential Arab state, a prospect that has
> now completely vanished. Israeli leaders had been pursuing that
> particular objective for decades and it seems very unlikely that
> Israel’s government would have sacrificed that opportunity by
> deliberately enabling a large Hamas attack.
>
> But suppose that Netanyahu had actually been so politically desperate
> and so irrational that he had decided to allow a successful Hamas
> assault by standing down his own security defenses. How could he have
> possibly done so?
>
> Aside from its regular army, Israel has three separate intelligence
> services, Mossad, Shin Bet, and Unit 8200, all of which tend to be
> rivals. So as former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson noted
> <https://sonar21.com/understanding-israels-intelligence-failure-chats-with-stephen-gardner-and-michael-savage/>,
> Netanyahu would have needed to enlist the leadership of all three of
> those organizations in his treacherous plan to facilitate a successful
> Hamas attack, while making sure that none of the relevant
> rank-and-file officers disagreed and leaked the ultra-explosive story
> to the fiercely anti-Netanyahu media. This seems an impossibility.
>
> Moreover, as already mentioned, Israeli society has recently been
> extremely divided, with the bulk of the nation’s elites lined up
> against Netanyahu and trying to drive him from office. According to
> media reports, the leadership of Mossad was squarely in the
> anti-Netanyahu camp
> <https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-mossad-military-protests-cb8742ba0b0f210953669824568eab1e> with
> claims that Mossad agents were even helping to orchestrate
> <https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-09/ty-article/.premium/leaked-u-s-documents-allege-mossad-encouraged-israels-anti-netanyahu-protests/00000187-6508-dcdb-a9af-ed297fe10000> the
> huge public demonstrations demanding his resignation. Surely if they
> had gotten the slightest hint the Netanyahu was deliberately opening
> the country to a huge Hamas attack, they would have used that fact to
> destroy him.
>
> Also, Netanyahu is running a coalition government, with many of his
> top ministers hating him and eager to undermine his reputation. Even
> his own lieutenants might welcome his fall so that they could replace
> him and rise to power and it’s difficult to believe that so deadly a
> secret could have been kept in such a political snake-pit. And now
> that so many hundreds of Israeli civilians have been killed, a single
> outraged leaker could have Netanyahu and his fellow conspirators put
> on trial or even lynched. According to Seymour Hersh’s Israeli sources
> <https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/netanyahu-is-finished>,
> Netanyahu’s long political career cannot possibly survive the
> aftermath of the military disaster his country has now suffered.
>
> Reports that an Egyptian warning of a planned Hamas attack were
> ignored may or may not be a sign of negligence; perhaps numerous
> previous warnings along similar lines had always turned out to be
> false alarms. More serious are reports that Netanyahu had recently
> redeployed
> <https://prospect.org/world/2023-10-20-west-bank-settlements-conflict-gaza/> two
> of the three Israeli battalions based on the Gaza border to the West
> Bank in order to support Jewish settlers in their aggressive actions
> against the local Palestinians. But that seems more a sign of
> complacency and incompetence than treasonous plotting.
>
> Under normal circumstances, the notion that the Hamas attack was an
> “inside job” facilitated by Israel’s own government seems so totally
> absurd I would hardly have given it a single sentence. But with so
> many on the Internet promoting the idea, it was worth explaining some
> of the obvious flaws, not that this may do much good. Kevin Barrett is
> a Muslim convert who has spent decades as an active participant in the
> 9/11 Truth movement and embraced a very wide range of other conspiracy
> theories, but when he doubted that this one was correct
> <https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-israel-just-experience-a-9-11-style-intelligence-failure/>,
> most of the commenters angrily disagreed with him, and I got the same
> reaction when I took a similar position
> <https://www.unz.com/article/on-palestine-victor-davis-hanson-jordan-peterson-and-bobby-kennedy-jr-profiles-in-cowardice/?showcomments#comment-6196904>.
>
> Based upon my experience, I’d say that 90-95% of all the so-called
> “conspiracy theories” floating around on the Internet are false or at
> least unsubstantiated. But the remaining 5-10% still provide a
> shocking catalog of important exceptions
> <https://www.unz.com/page/american-pravda-series/>, and when many
> individuals first discover the reality of these, they often begin to
> gullibly accept all too many of the others as well.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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