Thoughts on Israel - Hamas- Gaza
So 9 days after Israels 9/11, the fireworks in my brain are subsiding enough to try and generate a coherent post. Unfortunately my burned out brain cant come up with a better title.
What we should all know by now is that early in the morning on 10/7 , which is 1 day after the 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and a religious holiday, Hamas launched thousands of rockets, many of which escaped the Iron Dome. 1,500 terrorists penetrated Israels billion dollar Iron Wall in 15 spots, supplemented by motorized paraglider’s which could have easily been shot down like pigeons, and perhaps some passaging through underground tunnels. From there they proceeded to massacre Rave attendees and residences of Kibbutzim while taking almost 200 hostages
Despite their intentions to commit war crimes with a high risk of being killed or captured they were kind enough to be wearing bodycams to document their crimes so that they could be used by Israel to justify and get support for their retaliatory actions against Gaza
There was little or no documented IDF response to stop the massacre for 6 hours, despite the crime occurring only an hours drive from Tel Aviv , and besides, they have helicopters to transport troops rapidly.
Supposedly Israel had warnings , from US, Egypt and internally which they chose to ignore. An explanation for this as well as for the tardy response of the IDF is lacking
Just as a reminder, Israel Defense Forces, with 173,000 active personnel, 193 fighter jets, 38 attack helicopters and 1,760 tanks on standby, on a territory only a bit larger than half of tiny Taiwan. I am sure a Chinese surprise invasion on Taiwan would be met with a far more rapid response
Possible Motive?
From March 22, 2023
A far-right minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government (Minister of National Missions Orit Strock) said that a law repealing legislation that ordered the evacuation of four West Bank settlements was a step on the way to re-occupying and resettling the Gaza Strip, a move that she acknowledged would cause “many casualties.”
It should be noted that on October 5th over 800 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound during Jewish Sukkot holiday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/over-800-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound-sukkot?amp=
This was perhaps meant to provoke Palestinians and motivate Hamas Fighters who were in advanced stages of preparation. It also provided the excuse to redeploy IDF forces on Gaza border to the West Bank leaving Gaza border mostly undefended (60-80% open).
Understanding what Hamas leaders expected to gain from their actions is hard to fathom. Surely they knew this would provoke a fierce response and even in the best case situation there would be massive damage and loss of life in Gaza with no obvious benefits.
ISRAEL’S DEFENSE MINISTER Yoav Gallant said that he had ordered “a complete siege of the Gaza Strip,” which is home to 2.2 million Palestinians, nearly half of them children. “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” he said. “We are fighting human animals, and we act accordingly.”
I guess this is why Israel claims there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, because they are not considered humans.
If Hamas had just limited themselves to attacking military targets they might have achieved at least some respect, but they basically chose dishonor and suicide. Just following orders?
Israel has engaged in a massive bombing campaign while ordering the evacuation of 1.1 million residents in the North to the South in advance of a ground operation . Over 2,500 killed (~450,000 adjusted for US population), mostly civilians, and many children.
The only apparent winner in all this was Bibi who was in serious political trouble with massive demonstrations against his judicial reforms that even the US has criticized. The Supreme Court is the key to preventing excesses by the Government, much like in the US, but unlike the US Israel does not have a constitution.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65086871.amp
Now nobody is paying as much attention to that and people seem to be more or less united in making Hamas pay for their crimes, although there are some protests and unhappiness with Bibis failure to prevent the attacks, but this might be limited to leftists.
It should be noted that the Israel Government now is controlled by conservative and rightwing parties. Most Kibbutz residents and Rave Attendees are Leftists or at least not conservatives.
Another winner is the Military Intelligence Industrial Complex, with funding for Ukraine drying up they now have a new source of funding for Israel and possibly new Middle East Wars down the road.
Not to mention expected calls for upgrading Homeland Security, and perhaps new legislation that beefs up the Censorship Industrial Complex in Israel and at home
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi confirmed Sunday that he is drafting regulations that will empower him to order police to arrest journalists for factual reporting and target anyone he believes has damaged national morale during Israel's ongoing war against Gaza.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/shlomo-kahri
It is clear at this point that like 9/11 the government is exploiting the attack to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from
Gaza, much like they cleansed the Negev of Palestinians 75 years ago. Many of those 750,000 who left Negev ended up as refugees in Gaza.
Those leaving Gaza today if Egypt opens the border will end up as refugees in the Sinai. While its not clear this will be successful Bibi might be able to get away with annexing the Northern part of Gaza and shrinking the open air prison.
The stated objective will be the extermination of Hamas. However, its very likely some of Hamas will try to pass themselves off as Palestinian civilians, and some may get away with it and try to rebuild Hamas. Assuming the population does not get exiled to Egypt Israel may be able to have the PA resume control of Gaza and root out the rest of Hamas with their security forces
Regardless, some new terrorist group will no doubt be born from Hamas ashes. After all, Terrorism helps feed the MIC beast and Hamas and Al Qaeda were all creations of Western and Israel intelligence agencies. Indeed, even Irans Islamist government was a creation of the West so as to depose the Shah, at least according to William Engdahl
http://www.aryamehr.org/eng/carter/wieng/carter.pdf
What people don’t understand is the biggest fear of Israel and the West going back to the 70’s was that of a Secular Arab leader who could unite the Muslims in the Middle East. Guys like Nasser, Saddam and the Shah were all Secular Leaders.
The Oded Yinon Plan first published in 1980 was a plan to destabilize and splinter the countries of the Middle East . The 1982 invasion of Lebanon followed
An idea hatched before the 1979 Jerusalem Terrorism Conference which Bibi was involved with , along with George H W Bush , to weaponize Islam. Islamic Nationalism （Political Islam) was seen as a solution to the threat of a Unified Muslim Republic because Sectarian differences within Islam would prohibit Unification of the different sects.
Iran was first after pulling the Ayatollah from Baghdad and getting him up to speed in France, while the BBC pumped propaganda into Iran as part of the psyops that mobilized Iranians and allowed the Shah to be removed.
The Iran Military stood down, no doubt after being promised continued military support, covert as it would be, from the West.
Irans other purpose was to fight a long war with Iraq, as we knew we could goad our good friend Saddam into attacking . We then funded and armed both sides in a long war helping to depopulate snd weaken both Iraq and Iran, which proved useful a couple of years after the Iraq-Iran War ended and we fought Saddams depleted Army in the 1st Gulf War.
The Gulf War was justified by the story Saddam was pulling Kuwait babies out of incubators.
At least he didn’t behead 40 babies like Hamas. Oh Wait
At the sane time the Ayatollah was being groomed Operation Cyclone was in place in Afghanistan which led to the creation of Al Qaeda, and also the eventual take over of the newly created Taliban after the departure of the Soviets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
Hamas was created during this period , which coincided with the 1st Intifada in 1987. Israel thought to weaken Arafats PLO with Hamas, which was affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood tied to British intelligence.
Its interesting that the Muslim Brotherhood has a legal presence in London and Hamas leader is HQ in Qatar , which was a former British Protectorate and no doubt still an asset of British Intelligence
So I digress. Getting back to today. It remains to be seen how things play out in terms of a broader war with Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. I wont speculate here, too many possibilities. The presence of US Aircraft Carriers near Lebanon sets up a False Flag possibility. Remember the USS Liberty
It also sets up the possibility for a repeat of 9/11 on US soil at some point.
If Israels 9/11 is a test to gage Americans gullibility to buy lies for more war following another 9/11 event, I think we failed it. Half of Democrats and 80% of Republicans have totally bought into Israels 9/11 which has stirred up their blood lust. Militarism is a Faith as wicked as the Scientism that brought us COVID insanity.
Interesting that Bibi was Prime Minister of Israel during Covid and implemented lockdowns while offering up Israelis as guinea pigs for Pfizer injections. Trump did something similar.
So after Bibi’s return Israelis are rewarded with their own 9/11. What might Americans expect with Trumps return?
Its interesting to remember that George W. Bush, who presided over the first 9/11 , Anthrax Attacks (setting up the PREP Act) and the Great Financial Crisis also played a big role in Hamas taking control of Gaza and turning Gaza into an Open Air Prison. His coup attempt failed in 2007 leading Fatah to get kicked out of Gaza and leaving Hamas in full control So Bush gets an assist for Israels 9/11.
“I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming,” Condoleezza Rice told reporters. “I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’s strong showing.”
Reminds you of 9/11, doesn’t it
“I don’t think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon.”
Nobody in Israel has tried to pretend they could not imagine Hamas doing what they did, but then again it was impossible for Hamas to do what they did if they weren’t allowed to.
You can read more about Bush and Hamas here
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804
I’ll leave you with this
It also cost us $8 Trillion Dollars.
We don’t want to do this again , but former Fed Chairman Janet Yellen say we can afford it.
That was really the purpose of the Federal Reserve. Funding Wars and the Military Industrial Complex. One year after being formed World War I broke out, a pretty pointless War. JP Morgan started loaning money to Britain for the War and before long Britain became too big to fail, they owed JP Morgan too much money. So we entered the War to bail out JP Morgan and other foolish bankers that were part of the Federal Reserve System
The rest is history. This is our 111th year with the Federal Reserve. Most of that at War, Hot or Cold. Oh yeah, and $33 trillion in debt mostly due to Wars,
In 1913 we had 25,000 banks. Today its only 4,000. Money supply M1 was $11.6 billion. Today its $18.3 trillion (over 1500 x ) . We have lost over $2.2 trillion in the past year. I mentioned in my Money Creation post (linked below) that bad things tend to happen when the money supply drops by large amounts. We can have another Financial Collapse, or we can fund another War. There is no 3rd option.
A Financial Collapse wouldn’t be an awful thing, it doesn’t have to be an Armageddon. We don’t have to let the Big Banks swallow our wealth. Emergency Powers can be used for the Greater Good and we can change the rules of this Reality Monopoly Game. We can let those big banks fail and nationalize them temporarily while we break them up into small pieces to promote competition and restructure the financial system. Their losses are just paper losses or borrowed chips in a Casino , but the assets are solid.
But they wont do that so it looks like its more War.
https://pete843.substack.com/p/understanding-the-coming-financial
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Great post, and the title's fine and appropriate, which I guess is why you ended up going with it. Interesting the targets of Hamas' slaughter were largely Bibi opponents. On the other hand, Democrats and narrative supporters are disproportionately damaged by the jabs. So while it's worthy of note, and might mean something, it also might not. I doubt those behind the Covid hysteria like to see critical-thinking contrarians spared while sheeple suffer the most. it's all so interesting and fascinating, as well as sad and depressing. I hope, at 72, I get to see a lot more unfold - another incentive to try to stay healthy and fit. Even as a teen, I could see authorities tend to be the worst people, and can't be trusted. And that most people are hopelessly obtuse and naive. Turns out it's even worse than I thought. The founders understood both those truisms and did what they could to address them. Amazing and lucky we had a period of mostly good and wise leaders at such an important time. As they feared, their protections won't last. They never do - if you haven't read John Glubb's "The Fate of Empires" I'm certain you'd be glad if you did. Only 23 pages, easy to find the PDF. We boomers are SO LUCKY to have lived in such uncharacteristically good times.
Mr. Lincoln that was excellent!