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<p>Hi Ted</p>
<p>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. <br>
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<p>Time to wake up to the evil of fascist war mongers.</p>
<p>Art<br>
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<p
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is a complex history behind Israel’s October 2023
plan to </span><strong>“Wipe Gaza off the Map.”</strong></p>
<p
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genocide, an absolute slaughter:</p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"> “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.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>It’s
a criminal undertaking based on Israel’s doctrine
of </span><strong>“Justified Vengeance”</strong><span> which
was first formulated in 2001.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>(See
below: my January 2009 article published at the
very outset of Israel’s 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza
under “</span><strong>Operation Cast Led”) </strong><span> </span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>The
“Justified Vengeance”</strong><span> doctrine
propounds in no uncertain terms that</span><strong> </strong><span>(despite
its limited military capabilities) </span><strong>Palestine
rather than Israel is “the aggressor” </strong><span>and
that Israel has the right to defend itself.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>It
is now established that the Hamas October 7, 2023
attack was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/0e4e40e4-34c4-4619-abc0-85abfb09e3b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">a </a><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/0e4e40e4-34c4-4619-abc0-85abfb09e3b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">false flag
operation</a></strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/0e4e40e4-34c4-4619-abc0-85abfb09e3b8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;"> carried out
by a “faction” within Hamas, in</a><span>
liaison with Mossad and U.S. intelligence”:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“U.S.
intelligence say they weren’t aware of an
impending Hamas attack. </p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Was
a carefully formulated Israeli plan to wage </span><strong>an
all out war against Palestinians</strong><span> envisaged
</span><strong>prior</strong><span> to
the launching by Hamas of “Operation Al-Aqsa
Storm”?</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">This
was not a failure of Israeli Intelligence, as
conveyed by the media. Quite the opposite”</p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>The
History of False Flags: “The Green Light to
Terror” (1997), The “Bloodshed as a Justification”
to Wage War</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
late </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/abbf1dc5-4c9f-4f18-baca-17fe55e8df8d?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Prof. Tanya
Reinhart</a></strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/abbf1dc5-4c9f-4f18-baca-17fe55e8df8d?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;"> confirms
the formulation in 1997 of a False Flag Agenda</a><span> entitled
</span><strong>“The Green Light to Terror”</strong><span> which
consisted in promoting (engineering) suicide
attacks against Israeli civilians, citing </span><strong>“the
Bloodshed as a Justification”</strong><span> to
wage war on Palestine: </span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“…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. </span><strong>This theme was
since repeated again and again by military
circles, and eventually became the mantra of
Israeli propaganda… </strong></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
‘Foreign Report’ (Jane’s information) of July
12, 2001 disclosed that </span><strong>the
Israeli army (under Sharon’s government) has
updated its plans for an “all-out assault to
smash the Palestinian authority” </strong></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
blueprint, titled </span><strong>“The
Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and
Disarmament of All Armed Forces”</strong><span>,
was presented to the Israeli government by chief
of staff Shaul Mofaz, on July 8 [2001].</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
assault would be launched, at the government’s
discretion, </span><strong>after a big suicide
bomb attack in Israel, causing widespread deaths
and injuries, citing the bloodshed as
justification.”</strong><span> (</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/abbf1dc5-4c9f-4f18-baca-17fe55e8df8d?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Tanya
Reinhart,</a><span> December 22, 2001)</span></p>
</blockquote>
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Sharon: “A 1948 Style Solution”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">According
to the Prof. Tanya Reinhart: </p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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 “</span><strong>a 1948 style
solution”. For Sharon </strong><span>“it is only
necessary to find another state for the
Palestinians”. -‘Jordan is Palestine’ – was the
phrase that Sharon coined.” (</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/abbf1dc5-4c9f-4f18-baca-17fe55e8df8d?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Tanya
Reinhart</a><span>, op cit)</span></p>
</blockquote>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>The
“Hamas-Mossad Partnership”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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: </p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“Anyone
who wants to thwart the establishment of a
Palestinian state </span><strong>has to support
bolstering Hamas and transferring money to
Hamas. … </strong><span>This is part of our
strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza
from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (March
2019 Statement quoted by </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b7f0a246-5ffe-47c2-a462-77715c8d67d0?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Haaretz</a><span>,
October 9, 2023, emphasis added)</span></p>
</blockquote>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>“Support”
and “Money” for Hamas</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>“Transferring
Money to Hamas”</strong><span> on behalf of
Netanyahu is confirmed by a Times of Israel
October 8, 2023 Report: </span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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, </span><strong>and
which was allowed to receive suitcases
containing millions of dollars from Qatar
through the Gaza crossings.” </strong><span>(emphasis
added)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Benjamin
Netanyahu’s </strong><span>position defined
several years prior to the October 7, 2023 “</span><strong>State
of Readiness For War” </strong><span>consists in
the </span><strong>total appropriation</strong><span> of
Palestine Lands as well as </span><strong>the
outright exclusion</strong><span> of the
Palestinian people from their homeland:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“These
are the basic lines of the national government
headed by me:</span><strong> The Jewish people
have an exclusive and unquestionable right to
all areas of the Land of Israel</strong><span>.
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)</span></p>
</blockquote>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>The
Role of Mossad</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
doctrine of </span><strong>“Justified Vengeance”</strong><span>
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. </span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span> “With
an annual budget of about $3billion and 7,000
staff, </span><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a66c3ac2-e4bf-4890-8ff8-fffbc7998a5b?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Mossad is
the second-largest espionage agency in the
Western world after the CIA</a></strong><span>.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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).</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Mossad</strong><span>
(Foreign Intelligence) together with </span><strong>Shin
Bet</strong><span> (Domestic National Security)
and </span><strong>Aman</strong><span> (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.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Mossad’s
mandate is to create “divisions” within the
Palestinian Resistance Movement, while </span><strong>sustaining
fear and routine terrorist false flag events</strong><span>
against innocent Israeli civilians, which sustains
the legitimacy of the “Justified Vengeance”
narrative. </span></p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Chronology</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Let
us briefly review the history, the various stages
following the:</p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Failure
of Oslo I and II (1993-95) and The Assassination
of Yitzhak Rabin (1995) </strong></h2>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2001.
“Operation Justified Vengeance”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Presented
in July 2001 to the Israeli government of Ariel
Sharon by IDF chief of staff </span><strong>Shaul
Mofaz</strong><span>, under the title:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>“The
Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and
Disarmament of All Armed Forces”.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">See
the Analysis of Tanya Reinhart and the Jane Report
quoted above and in the article below).</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>“Operation
Justified Vengeance” was also referred to as the </span><strong>“Dagan
Plan”</strong><span>, named after the late</span><strong>
General Meir Dagan</strong><span>, who headed
Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency from
2002-2011. </span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
longer term objective of </span><strong>“Operation
Justified Vengeance” (2001)</strong><span> was and
remains the expulsion of Palestinians from their
homeland. </span></p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2002.
Decision to Build the Infamous Apartheid Wall by
Sharon Government</strong></h2>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2004. The
Assassination of Yasser Arafat</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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)</p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2005. The
Removal, Under Orders of PM Ariel Sharon of All
Jewish Settlements in Gaza.</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Proposed
in 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, </span><strong>implemented
in August 2005</strong><span> and completed in
September 2005. </span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>A
Jewish population of over 7,000 was relocated.
This relocation was required to transform the Gaza
Strip into </span><strong>“An Open Air Prison”</strong></p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2006. The
Hamas Election Victory in January 2006.</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Without
Arafat, the Israeli military-intelligence
architects knew that Fatah under</span><strong>
Mahmoud Abbas</strong><span> would loose the
elections.</span></p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2008-2009. “Operation
Cast Lead”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
2008 the </span><strong>“Bloodshed Justification”</strong><span>
was an essential component of the
military-intelligence agenda, which was
first formulated in the 2001
“Operation Justified Vengeance”: </span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>“The
Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and
Disarmament of All Armed Forces”</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
killing of Palestinian civilians was justified on
“humanitarian grounds.” as formulated in the
“Operation Justified Vengeance Report”. </p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>—Michel
Chossudovsky</strong><span>, May 15, 2021,
October 23, 2023</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Below
is my article published in early January 2009, at
the height of the </span><strong>2008-2009
Operation Cast Lead </strong></p>
<div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">
<hr
style="background: #e0e0e0; border: none; height: 1px; margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;"></div>
<h1 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>The
Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader Israeli
Military-Intelligence Agenda</strong></h1>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>by
Michel Chossudovsky</strong><span>, January 2009</span></p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>“Operation
Cast Lead”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d2913656-d15e-43cc-8969-5b195625520e?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Operation
“Cast Lead”: Israeli Air Force strike followed
months of planning,</a><span> Haaretz, December
27, 2008)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">It
was Israel which broke the truce on the day of the
US presidential elections, November 4:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">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)</p>
</blockquote>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Planned
Humanitarian Disaster</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Hamas’
military targets are not the main objective.
Operation “Cast Lead” is intended, quite
deliberately, to trigger civilian casualities.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">What
we are dealing with is a “planned humanitarian
disaster” in Gaza in a densly populated urban area.
(See map below)</p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
longer term objective of this plan, as formulated by
Israeli policy makers, is the expulsion of
Palestinians from Palestinian lands:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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,
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ce977975-4128-4787-afdc-ed5a184250aa?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Gaza: The
World’s Largest Prison</a><span>, Global
Research, 2005)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>“Operation
Justified Vengeance”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“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”.</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“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).</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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”.</p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>“Bloodshed
Justification”</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>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. </strong><span>(Tanya
Reinhart, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bfc4bc67-20b0-43f3-9889-7aed430fc4ac?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Evil
Unleashed, Israel’s move to destroy the
Palestinian Authority is a calculated plan, long
in the making</a><span>, Global Research,
December 2001, emphasis added)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>The
Dagan Plan </strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Reserve
</span><strong>General Meir Dagan</strong><span> 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,
</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/fa402de0-8136-4afd-852d-b1365d5442df?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">“Operation
Justified Vengeance”: a Secret Plan to Destroy the
Palestinian Authority</a><span>, March 2001):</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“As
reported in the Foreign Report [Jane] and
disclosed locally by Maariv, Israel’s invasion
plan — reportedly dubbed Justified Vengeance — </span><strong>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. </strong><span>(Ibid, emphasis
added)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
“Dagan Plan” envisaged the so-called </span><strong>“cantonization”
of Palestinian territories whereby the West Bank
and Gaza would be totally cut off from one other,
with separate “governments</strong><span>” in each
of the territories. Under this scenario, already
envisaged in 2001, Israel would:</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span> “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, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c0a80f32-4313-408c-8aaa-d016f1b9e288?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">The infamous
‘Dagan Plan’ Sharon’s plan for getting rid of
Arafat</a><span>, Le Monde, December 17, 2001)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Continuity:
From Sharon to Olmert </strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">It
is important to focus on a number of key events
which have led up to the killings in Gaza under
“Operation Cast Lead”:</p>
<h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>1.
The assassination in November 2004 of Yasser
Arafat.</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>This
assassination had been on the drawing board since
1996 under </span><strong>“Operation Fields of
Thorns”</strong><span>.</span></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">According
to an October 2000 document</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bfc4bc67-20b0-43f3-9889-7aed430fc4ac?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">Evil
Unleashed, Israel’s move to destroy the
Palestinian Authority is a calculated plan, long
in the making</a><span>, Global Research,
December 2001. Details of the document were
published in Ma’ariv, July 6, 2001.).</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Arafat’s
assassination was ordered in 2003 by the Israeli
cabinet.</strong><span> 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.”</span></p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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; </span><strong>“we
will choose the right way and the right time to
kill Arafat.”</strong><span> 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,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mehrnews.com">www.mehrnews.com</a> November 9 2005)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
assassination of Arafat was part of the 2001 Dagan
Plan.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>2.
The Removal, Under the Orders of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon in 2005, of All Jewish Settlements in
Gaza.</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">A
Jewish population of over 7,000 was relocated.</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“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…. </span><strong>I
am working on the assumption that in the future
there will be no Jews in Gaza,”</strong><span>
Sharon said.” (</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a85ee06c-47ab-4c2a-aaad-8529fb3f41d8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
rel=""
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;">CBC, March
2004</a><span>)</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
issue of the settlements in Gaza was presented as
part of Washington’s “road map to peace”.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Celebrated
by the Palestinians as a “victory”, this measure
was not directed against the Jewish settlers.
Quite the opposite: </span><strong>It was part
of the overall covert operation, which consisted
in transforming Gaza into a concentration camp.</strong><span>
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”.</span></p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>3.
The Building of the Infamous Apartheid Wall</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">This
was decided upon at the beginning of the Sharon
government in 2002. (See Map below)</p>
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The Hamas Election Victory in January 2006.</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>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 </span><strong>the Dagan plan. </strong><span>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.</span></p>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Ground
Attack, 2008-2009</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">On
January 3, [2009] Israeli tanks and infantry entered
Gaza in an all out ground offensive:</p>
<blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“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)</p>
</blockquote>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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:</p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>“an
invasion of Palestinian-controlled territory by
some 30,000 Israeli soldiers,</strong><span>
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)</span></p>
</blockquote>
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2.0: Mass Expulsion and a Ground Invasion
Contemplated</strong></h2>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
broader question is whether Israel in consultation
with Washington is intent upon triggering a wider
war.</p>
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<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Expulsion
was referred to by Ariel Sharon as the “</span><strong>a
1948 style solution”. For Sharon</strong></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“it
is only necessary to find another state for the
Palestinians. -‘Jordan is Palestine’ – was the
phrase that Sharon coined.” (Tanya Reinhart, op
cit)</p>
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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 <a
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moz-do-not-send="true">set forth</a> exactly those same dark
suspicions.</span></p>
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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.”</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_8"
style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_9"
style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">We
should also remember that Israel had been on the very verge
of <a
title="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-israel-netanyahu-west-bank.html"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-israel-netanyahu-west-bank.html"
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moz-do-not-send="true">achieving normalized relations with
Saudi Arabia</a>, 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.</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_10"
style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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?</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_11"
style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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 <a
title="https://sonar21.com/understanding-israels-intelligence-failure-chats-with-stephen-gardner-and-michael-savage/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">noted</a>, 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.</span></p>
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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 <a
title="https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-mossad-military-protests-cb8742ba0b0f210953669824568eab1e"
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moz-do-not-send="true">squarely in the anti-Netanyahu camp</a> with
claims that <a
title="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"
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moz-do-not-send="true">Mossad agents were even helping to
orchestrate</a> 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.</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_13"
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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 <a
title="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/netanyahu-is-finished"
href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/netanyahu-is-finished"
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moz-do-not-send="true">Seymour Hersh’s Israeli sources</a>,
Netanyahu’s long political career cannot possibly survive the
aftermath of the military disaster his country has now
suffered.</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_14"
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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 <a
title="https://prospect.org/world/2023-10-20-west-bank-settlements-conflict-gaza/"
href="https://prospect.org/world/2023-10-20-west-bank-settlements-conflict-gaza/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">had recently redeployed</a> 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.</span></p>
<p id="m_-341733502364841577m_4663034519645224594p_1_15"
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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 <a
title="https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-israel-just-experience-a-9-11-style-intelligence-failure/"
href="https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-israel-just-experience-a-9-11-style-intelligence-failure/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">doubted that this one was correct</a>,
most of the commenters angrily disagreed with him, and I got
the same reaction when <a
title="https://www.unz.com/article/on-palestine-victor-davis-hanson-jordan-peterson-and-bobby-kennedy-jr-profiles-in-cowardice/?showcomments#comment-6196904"
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moz-do-not-send="true">I took a similar position</a>.</span></p>
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">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
title="https://www.unz.com/page/american-pravda-series/"
href="https://www.unz.com/page/american-pravda-series/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">a shocking catalog of important
exceptions</a>, and when many individuals first discover the
reality of these, they often begin to gullibly accept all too
many of the others as well.</span></p>
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