We were not lied. We were forced to keep mum about it. Many in the western world lament this barbarity and demand an end to it. Sadly, our leaders are either too meek to stop it, or openly feed it.
"NEW YORK: I am sitting in the auditorium at The New York Times. It is the first time I have been back in nearly two decades. It will be the last. The newspaper is a pale reflection of what it was when I worked there, beset by numerous journalistic fiascos, rudderless leadership and myopic cheerleading of the military debacles in the Middle East, Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, where one of the Times contributions to the mass slaughter of Palestinians was an editorial refusing to back an unconditional ceasefire. Many seated in the auditorium are culpable. …"
(Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He writes an online column for the website ScheerPost. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.)
Only the ignorant were lied to. Those of us who have kept up to date with the Palestinian struggle knew this would come. Now we have to stand up and speak out and challenge those who choose to be complicit in this. We need to inform people of the threat from the Zionist movement.
Deborah, I am impressed by your lengthy and detailed replies but in going over the events of the past you seem to have lost sight of what is happening in the present. It matters little what Chris Hedges says, or you say, about past events. The evidence of genocide by Israel is clear and compelling. Just look at photos of Gaza; it is decimated.
Let me repeat what Chris Hedges said. although I'm sure it's much worse now:
"Israel has razed 77 percent of healthcare facilities in Gaza, 68 percent of telecommunication infrastructure, nearly all municipal and governmental buildings, commercial, industrial and agricultural centers, almost half of all roads, over 60 percent of Gaza’s 439,000 homes, 68 percent of residential buildings — the bombing of the Al-Taj tower in Gaza City on Oct. 25, killed 101 people, including 44 children and 37 women, and injured hundreds — and obliterated refugee camps. The attack on the Jabalia refugee camp on Oct. 25 killed at least 126 civilians, including 69 children, and injured 280. Israel has damaged or destroyed Gaza’s universities, all of which are now closed, and 60 percent of other educational facilities, including 13 libraries. It has also destroyed at least 195 heritage sites, including 208 mosques, churches, and Gaza’s Central Archives that held 150 years of historical records and documents.."
May I point out that Gaza has no fighter jets, no bombers, no tanks, no warships, no precision guided munitions, and no long-range artillery. Just a glance at recent photos of Gaza show it is almost completely destroyed. It is a massacre.
Now I understand why the Knesset so quickly passed a law allowing the ban on foreign media, so that Al Jazeera is no longer allowed to be broadcast there.
I've been a follower since they broadcast Collateral Murder and the follow-up interview with the US soldier who was on the ground very shortly after the Hero US helicopter fliers took out a Reuters journalist and his photographer, then shot up the poor bastard who tried to evacuate the wounded to a hospital. I wonder, is the US Army's "Investigation" of that incident progressing?
If Israel had been willing, in good faith, to have a two state solution we wouldn't be in this situation. Unfortunately, Israel was not willing to give up a single inch of the land they have stolen. They want it all and are willing to commit genocide to get it. I might add that neither the British, or any other colonial power, had the right to give away Palestinian land.
Thank you Jonathan for a courageous piece of journalism, as you well know you will never please Zionist and their special interests groups, but as you have so bodily done with this piece that ought not stop true journalism, again Thank you Jonathan.
A number of commentators state below that they knew these details already: Feral Finster "None of this is any secret", Diana van Eyk " as the public discovers these lies", Min Molloy "I knew most of the information".
So, rather than it being a "Myth-busting documentary [which] finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October", this is what the Aljazeera documentary actually said -
On 7 October 2023, 1200 Hamas gunmen breached the Gaza-Israel barrier, launching a deadly assault. They killed over 1000 Israelis and foreigners, committing brutal acts, including burning and executing children. Some details were found to be exaggerated or false. The assault was meticulously planned and caught Israeli forces off guard, leading to significant casualties and allowing Hamas to temporarily control Israeli settlements near Gaza. The attack included coordinated tactics such as disabling Israeli defences and attacking military bases. Despite expectations of high casualties, Hamas suffered fewer losses than anticipated and gained control over Israeli towns, leading to further violence and civilian deaths.
The attackers exhibited chaos and disorganisation, focusing on looting and taking hostages rather than strategic military objectives. The Israeli response involved airstrikes and ground operations, resulting in casualties among both armed militants and unarmed civilians. There are conflicting accounts of the events, with allegations of atrocities on both sides, including claims of murdered babies, mutilated bodies, and widespread rape. However, the veracity of some of these claims is questionable, and there are calls for a proper forensic investigation to ascertain the truth.
There are conflicting accounts of atrocities, including rape, murder, and mutilation, with some evidence suggesting manipulation or exaggeration for political purposes. The incident fuels further conflict and deepens the humanitarian crisis in the region. Both sides have presented narratives to justify their actions, while innocent civilians bear the brunt of the violence.
So much for the Aljazeera documentary. It didn't cover Jonathan's claim that "We were lied INTO the Gaza genocide". That's my emphasis, because most people have not considered that one side's wrongdoing absolves the other from obligations in war, although I have been arguing against those fewer but shrill voices that scream it's all Hamas' fault.
I have argued on Substack that Israel's action have the hallmarks of genocide - and South Africa's 84-page case is very powerful https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf - but would here point out that the ICJ, by the finest margin and with important qualifiers that Israel must take provisional measures to prevent it, has not declared it genocide. Since Jonathan's post is about evidence and facts deliberately twisted and even concealed, at some stage you must permit a court of law to decide.
I will address Jonathan's accusation under one of his other posts that the BBC and Guardian have lied.
From an initial skim-read, it looks like Chomsky's argument in his The Common Good that controlled opposition is a strategy used by governments, corporations, or other powerful entities to manage dissent and maintain control, to give the appearance of dissent while actually serving the interests of those in power.
But as I say, I will read it in full, and come back here after a cuppa ...
Ok, I see what he's saying, Levi, and he even quotes Chomsky!
Selective exposure, narrative avalanches, astroturfing, gatekeeping, absurdist agents, controlled political parties, infiltrators, and saboteurs, these tactics aim to erode informed consent, perpetuating conditions that benefit the powerful. In resisting, individuals confront a moral imperative to reclaim humanity against encroachments. The call to resist isn't a choice but a duty. While resistance may lead to conflict, it begins with mental liberation from the mirage of dissent. Transcending societal programming reclaims autonomy. Or else risk perpetuating subjugation.
Leaving aside the Nietzschean 'I am superman because I'm not alienated or colonised or kept in ignorance like the rest of you', the Carberry-Chomsky-Cook case assumes there is a mastermind behind "MSM", which would be an entertaining conspiracy theory TV thriller. Media companies are not in cahoots but in competition with each other, and some have it in their mandate to hold the government to account. That the very media organs targeted as evil, complicit and "acolytes" by both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine are WaPo, NYT, CNN, BBC, and Guardian is irony lost on both.
As for the government, Carberry boldly declares that the government has chatbots and sockpuppet accounts to sway public opinion, which, interestingly, is a major part of the plot to the UK's Channel 4 drama The Undeclared War. I am, of course, one of those real people operating numerous sockpuppet social media accounts.
Eventually, the ad hominems have to stop and the arguments have to be addressed: 7 October wasn't an Orson Welles screenplay-turned-radio announcement, and it wasn't pounced upon by a secret cabal in Davos who pull the strings. Hamas did commit an atrocity on 7 October, that doesn't justify Israel's slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian non-combatants, which isn't the fault of the [Ctrl+F mentioned 28 times] West.
PS. apologies for not getting back to you after my cup of tea, Levi, I really wanted to finish watching From Russia With Love.
Israel was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
Israel recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without Israel's help.
They limited access to the information gained from monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network to a select few insiders.
Israel claims that they stopped monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network altogether, no one was monitoring (nonsense!). With this monitoring, sophisticated equipment could have pin pointed where Hamas was concentrated and where it was headed. This is huge! Hamas radio traffic would have become volcanic during the jail break, a true Red Alert.
Of course they have to make the excuse that they no longer had this ability. They said their surveillance was sabotaged by Hamas and thus Israel was blinded. Also, the destruction by Hamas of key surveillance cameras itself would set off a Red Alert!
In the weeks and months before Oct 7th Israel had to intentionally ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (this happened!).
They had to ignore that Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (Hamas had detailed in writing how they would cause complacency. It was in the Hamas Oct 7th plans, and Israel read them).
******They had to remove the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.****** This was paramount, if Israel wanted Oct 7th to be successful!
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be a credible accident, it was premeditated.
Israel betrayed and slaughtered their own and then commenced to commit Genocide.
Your conspiracy theory, Levi, would make for a great James Bond plot. Hmm, not even 007 could have prevented this apocalypse. Maybe one of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters could (perhaps Eli Cohen?).
If there's any validity in your theory, Levi, the evidence will be uncovered, because there have been a number of retired and ex-IDF personnel who've spoken against this war. When there's a formal investigation, by the next Israeli government keen to distance itself from Netanyahu, then there'll be many Israeli families wanting to know how many "Hannibal Directive" Blue-on-Blue kills there were, and who. The larger conspiracy would destroy Israel, were it found to be true.
Reverting to Carberry, you may be interested that Anders Puck Nielsen has provided a strategy that governments use to control dissent when conspiracies abound, or in times of crisis when evidence is thin on the ground (such as the Aljazeera documentary points to). The context is the recent terrorist bombing in Russia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovjFeP2kEQ - and starting at 06:40 he predicts the Kremlin will surreptitiously push both false flag and Ukraine-did-it theories, despite both being lies, which will benefit Putin by diverting attention away from government incompetence, and paint Putin either as an evil mastermind to be feared and thus obeyed, or a victim of Ukraine & the West and thus to be supported.
So, Levi, in the absence of evidence, I subscribe to Hanlon's Razor: there's no need to ascribe to conspiracy what is adequately explained by incompetence :-)
I see, you are not conspiring with others to avoid acknowledging the obvious. You are not conspiring at all, your behavior is "adequately explained" :-)
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ps. incompetence is a favorite cover story for criminals (plural) activity
Again, thank you Jonathan. The complicity of MSM cannot be overstated, and needs to be clearly delineated as so many are still under its spell. I am upping my monthly subscription.
A late night phone call from a security guard at Fort Knox (where US keeps gold) to the Head of Security (HOS).
Guard: "All the surveillance cameras have gone down at Fort Knox."
HOS: "Thanks, don't worry about it. We'll fix it in the morning."
That scenario would never happen, even in Israel. The loss of surveillance cameras would be a Red Alert trigger. Period. Everything available would descend on Fort Knox, there is a US military base right there.
So, I say that this article contains a lot of misleading stuff:
From the above article:
"But for many long hours – with Israel caught entirely off-guard, and with its surveillance systems neutralised – Hamas did not face the military counter-strike it expected. "
The loss of surveillance itself is cause for Red Alert.
Let us not forget that it is far easier for a small, really small, team of Insiders (Israelis) to disable their own surveillance system with a few pushes of buttons.
And did this article mention that the majority of Israeli troops had been removed around Gaza just prior to Oct 7th and sent temporarily to the West Bank. That is a Huge red flag. Huge!
Israel had Hamas' detailed jail break plan for a full year. Israel knew what to do to create a false-flag.
We were not lied. We were forced to keep mum about it. Many in the western world lament this barbarity and demand an end to it. Sadly, our leaders are either too meek to stop it, or openly feed it.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for The New York Times
By EDITOR April 12, 2024
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost
"NEW YORK: I am sitting in the auditorium at The New York Times. It is the first time I have been back in nearly two decades. It will be the last. The newspaper is a pale reflection of what it was when I worked there, beset by numerous journalistic fiascos, rudderless leadership and myopic cheerleading of the military debacles in the Middle East, Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, where one of the Times contributions to the mass slaughter of Palestinians was an editorial refusing to back an unconditional ceasefire. Many seated in the auditorium are culpable. …"
(Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He writes an online column for the website ScheerPost. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.)
https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/12/chris-hedges-requiem-for-the-new-york-times/
Only the ignorant were lied to. Those of us who have kept up to date with the Palestinian struggle knew this would come. Now we have to stand up and speak out and challenge those who choose to be complicit in this. We need to inform people of the threat from the Zionist movement.
Deborah, I am impressed by your lengthy and detailed replies but in going over the events of the past you seem to have lost sight of what is happening in the present. It matters little what Chris Hedges says, or you say, about past events. The evidence of genocide by Israel is clear and compelling. Just look at photos of Gaza; it is decimated.
Let me repeat what Chris Hedges said. although I'm sure it's much worse now:
"Israel has razed 77 percent of healthcare facilities in Gaza, 68 percent of telecommunication infrastructure, nearly all municipal and governmental buildings, commercial, industrial and agricultural centers, almost half of all roads, over 60 percent of Gaza’s 439,000 homes, 68 percent of residential buildings — the bombing of the Al-Taj tower in Gaza City on Oct. 25, killed 101 people, including 44 children and 37 women, and injured hundreds — and obliterated refugee camps. The attack on the Jabalia refugee camp on Oct. 25 killed at least 126 civilians, including 69 children, and injured 280. Israel has damaged or destroyed Gaza’s universities, all of which are now closed, and 60 percent of other educational facilities, including 13 libraries. It has also destroyed at least 195 heritage sites, including 208 mosques, churches, and Gaza’s Central Archives that held 150 years of historical records and documents.."
May I point out that Gaza has no fighter jets, no bombers, no tanks, no warships, no precision guided munitions, and no long-range artillery. Just a glance at recent photos of Gaza show it is almost completely destroyed. It is a massacre.
thank you for this, very accurate insight
Why have American Presidents and Senators been talking about it for the last 50 years?
Now I understand why the Knesset so quickly passed a law allowing the ban on foreign media, so that Al Jazeera is no longer allowed to be broadcast there.
I've been a follower since they broadcast Collateral Murder and the follow-up interview with the US soldier who was on the ground very shortly after the Hero US helicopter fliers took out a Reuters journalist and his photographer, then shot up the poor bastard who tried to evacuate the wounded to a hospital. I wonder, is the US Army's "Investigation" of that incident progressing?
Israel has a long history of playing the victim to cover up its own crimes as documented here: https://open.substack.com/pub/generalgrievance/p/how-zionist-bullies-victim-wash-their?r=z5j1k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
If Israel had been willing, in good faith, to have a two state solution we wouldn't be in this situation. Unfortunately, Israel was not willing to give up a single inch of the land they have stolen. They want it all and are willing to commit genocide to get it. I might add that neither the British, or any other colonial power, had the right to give away Palestinian land.
ONE THING we know about Jews is THEY LIE.
Oh and they love Genocide so long as it isnt them.
Thank you Jonathan for a courageous piece of journalism, as you well know you will never please Zionist and their special interests groups, but as you have so bodily done with this piece that ought not stop true journalism, again Thank you Jonathan.
Thank you Jonathan for your honest joyrnalism.
Owen jones is the biggest prick imaginable who hates women. Enough said about him I think.
A number of commentators state below that they knew these details already: Feral Finster "None of this is any secret", Diana van Eyk " as the public discovers these lies", Min Molloy "I knew most of the information".
So, rather than it being a "Myth-busting documentary [which] finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October", this is what the Aljazeera documentary actually said -
On 7 October 2023, 1200 Hamas gunmen breached the Gaza-Israel barrier, launching a deadly assault. They killed over 1000 Israelis and foreigners, committing brutal acts, including burning and executing children. Some details were found to be exaggerated or false. The assault was meticulously planned and caught Israeli forces off guard, leading to significant casualties and allowing Hamas to temporarily control Israeli settlements near Gaza. The attack included coordinated tactics such as disabling Israeli defences and attacking military bases. Despite expectations of high casualties, Hamas suffered fewer losses than anticipated and gained control over Israeli towns, leading to further violence and civilian deaths.
The attackers exhibited chaos and disorganisation, focusing on looting and taking hostages rather than strategic military objectives. The Israeli response involved airstrikes and ground operations, resulting in casualties among both armed militants and unarmed civilians. There are conflicting accounts of the events, with allegations of atrocities on both sides, including claims of murdered babies, mutilated bodies, and widespread rape. However, the veracity of some of these claims is questionable, and there are calls for a proper forensic investigation to ascertain the truth.
There are conflicting accounts of atrocities, including rape, murder, and mutilation, with some evidence suggesting manipulation or exaggeration for political purposes. The incident fuels further conflict and deepens the humanitarian crisis in the region. Both sides have presented narratives to justify their actions, while innocent civilians bear the brunt of the violence.
So much for the Aljazeera documentary. It didn't cover Jonathan's claim that "We were lied INTO the Gaza genocide". That's my emphasis, because most people have not considered that one side's wrongdoing absolves the other from obligations in war, although I have been arguing against those fewer but shrill voices that scream it's all Hamas' fault.
I have argued on Substack that Israel's action have the hallmarks of genocide - and South Africa's 84-page case is very powerful https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf - but would here point out that the ICJ, by the finest margin and with important qualifiers that Israel must take provisional measures to prevent it, has not declared it genocide. Since Jonathan's post is about evidence and facts deliberately twisted and even concealed, at some stage you must permit a court of law to decide.
I will address Jonathan's accusation under one of his other posts that the BBC and Guardian have lied.
Mirage of Dissent:
The Mechanics of Controlled Opposition
Joel F. Carberry
2023
https://ia800503.us.archive.org/5/items/mirage-of-dissent-the-mechanics-of-controlled-opposition/Mirage%20of%20Dissent_The%20Mechanics%20of%20Controlled%20Opposition.pdf
Thanks Levi, I will read it in full.
From an initial skim-read, it looks like Chomsky's argument in his The Common Good that controlled opposition is a strategy used by governments, corporations, or other powerful entities to manage dissent and maintain control, to give the appearance of dissent while actually serving the interests of those in power.
But as I say, I will read it in full, and come back here after a cuppa ...
Ok, I see what he's saying, Levi, and he even quotes Chomsky!
Selective exposure, narrative avalanches, astroturfing, gatekeeping, absurdist agents, controlled political parties, infiltrators, and saboteurs, these tactics aim to erode informed consent, perpetuating conditions that benefit the powerful. In resisting, individuals confront a moral imperative to reclaim humanity against encroachments. The call to resist isn't a choice but a duty. While resistance may lead to conflict, it begins with mental liberation from the mirage of dissent. Transcending societal programming reclaims autonomy. Or else risk perpetuating subjugation.
Leaving aside the Nietzschean 'I am superman because I'm not alienated or colonised or kept in ignorance like the rest of you', the Carberry-Chomsky-Cook case assumes there is a mastermind behind "MSM", which would be an entertaining conspiracy theory TV thriller. Media companies are not in cahoots but in competition with each other, and some have it in their mandate to hold the government to account. That the very media organs targeted as evil, complicit and "acolytes" by both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine are WaPo, NYT, CNN, BBC, and Guardian is irony lost on both.
As for the government, Carberry boldly declares that the government has chatbots and sockpuppet accounts to sway public opinion, which, interestingly, is a major part of the plot to the UK's Channel 4 drama The Undeclared War. I am, of course, one of those real people operating numerous sockpuppet social media accounts.
Eventually, the ad hominems have to stop and the arguments have to be addressed: 7 October wasn't an Orson Welles screenplay-turned-radio announcement, and it wasn't pounced upon by a secret cabal in Davos who pull the strings. Hamas did commit an atrocity on 7 October, that doesn't justify Israel's slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian non-combatants, which isn't the fault of the [Ctrl+F mentioned 28 times] West.
PS. apologies for not getting back to you after my cup of tea, Levi, I really wanted to finish watching From Russia With Love.
Israel was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
Israel recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without Israel's help.
They limited access to the information gained from monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network to a select few insiders.
Israel claims that they stopped monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network altogether, no one was monitoring (nonsense!). With this monitoring, sophisticated equipment could have pin pointed where Hamas was concentrated and where it was headed. This is huge! Hamas radio traffic would have become volcanic during the jail break, a true Red Alert.
Of course they have to make the excuse that they no longer had this ability. They said their surveillance was sabotaged by Hamas and thus Israel was blinded. Also, the destruction by Hamas of key surveillance cameras itself would set off a Red Alert!
In the weeks and months before Oct 7th Israel had to intentionally ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (this happened!).
They had to ignore that Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (Hamas had detailed in writing how they would cause complacency. It was in the Hamas Oct 7th plans, and Israel read them).
******They had to remove the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.****** This was paramount, if Israel wanted Oct 7th to be successful!
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be a credible accident, it was premeditated.
Israel betrayed and slaughtered their own and then commenced to commit Genocide.
Your conspiracy theory, Levi, would make for a great James Bond plot. Hmm, not even 007 could have prevented this apocalypse. Maybe one of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters could (perhaps Eli Cohen?).
If there's any validity in your theory, Levi, the evidence will be uncovered, because there have been a number of retired and ex-IDF personnel who've spoken against this war. When there's a formal investigation, by the next Israeli government keen to distance itself from Netanyahu, then there'll be many Israeli families wanting to know how many "Hannibal Directive" Blue-on-Blue kills there were, and who. The larger conspiracy would destroy Israel, were it found to be true.
Reverting to Carberry, you may be interested that Anders Puck Nielsen has provided a strategy that governments use to control dissent when conspiracies abound, or in times of crisis when evidence is thin on the ground (such as the Aljazeera documentary points to). The context is the recent terrorist bombing in Russia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovjFeP2kEQ - and starting at 06:40 he predicts the Kremlin will surreptitiously push both false flag and Ukraine-did-it theories, despite both being lies, which will benefit Putin by diverting attention away from government incompetence, and paint Putin either as an evil mastermind to be feared and thus obeyed, or a victim of Ukraine & the West and thus to be supported.
So, Levi, in the absence of evidence, I subscribe to Hanlon's Razor: there's no need to ascribe to conspiracy what is adequately explained by incompetence :-)
I see, you are not conspiring with others to avoid acknowledging the obvious. You are not conspiring at all, your behavior is "adequately explained" :-)
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ps. incompetence is a favorite cover story for criminals (plural) activity
Here is one, want others?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-blames-anthrax-fiasco-on-no-one
Should be one of my most favorite notorious quotes (but there are so many to choose from!):
" It’s a claim [of incompetence] that some experts rejected as an attempt to whitewash sloppy military practices.
In other words, "it wasn't *that* incompetence it was *the other* incompetence". :-)
Again, thank you Jonathan. The complicity of MSM cannot be overstated, and needs to be clearly delineated as so many are still under its spell. I am upping my monthly subscription.
Many thanks, Anne. I really appreciate your support.
Imagine:
A late night phone call from a security guard at Fort Knox (where US keeps gold) to the Head of Security (HOS).
Guard: "All the surveillance cameras have gone down at Fort Knox."
HOS: "Thanks, don't worry about it. We'll fix it in the morning."
That scenario would never happen, even in Israel. The loss of surveillance cameras would be a Red Alert trigger. Period. Everything available would descend on Fort Knox, there is a US military base right there.
So, I say that this article contains a lot of misleading stuff:
From the above article:
"But for many long hours – with Israel caught entirely off-guard, and with its surveillance systems neutralised – Hamas did not face the military counter-strike it expected. "
The loss of surveillance itself is cause for Red Alert.
Let us not forget that it is far easier for a small, really small, team of Insiders (Israelis) to disable their own surveillance system with a few pushes of buttons.
And did this article mention that the majority of Israeli troops had been removed around Gaza just prior to Oct 7th and sent temporarily to the West Bank. That is a Huge red flag. Huge!
Israel had Hamas' detailed jail break plan for a full year. Israel knew what to do to create a false-flag.