Wow. I've been a reader for some time now, and It's very revealing that some people who a week ago knew that all governments lie and lie continuously, this week are falling for the same propaganda they exposed before, just because different buttons were pushed. Context and history-free take.
January 6 had the obvious advantage to the Democrats in that it rushed confirmation of the electoral tally, ignoring objections that would have led to investigations. That’s why I believe it was orchestrated.
Today, while thousands of Middle Eastern and Chinese border crossers are being “lost” into the United States, THIS is what the FBI is doing.
The International LEFT which is now imbedded in the former Democrat party has over 100 years of experience in destroying societies and over throwing elected and unelected governments.
We are at war with a group of fanatics who have been hell bent on destroying America and it’s people.
If the people of America don’t wake up soon we as a free country and people will no longer exist.
Good article, lots to digest. As I recently reflected on how the Democratic Party has changed so much in recent years I remembered something that garnered a lot of chatter several years ago when it happened (I believe during the Obama administration):
The Democratic Party removed God from its platform. 🧐
SECURITY EXPERTS BLAME ISRAEL GOVERNMENT FOR ATTACK : THEY HAD SOURCES INSIDE
Posted by Yudi Sherman October 11, 2023
¨Security experts are blaming Israel’s government for Saturday’s invasion in which Muslim forces from Gaza massacred over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped at least one hundred hostages.
So far no investigations have been launched into how the invaders were able to cross Israel’s heavily fortified border unimpeded, nor why it took Israel’s highly trained security forces over six hours to respond to calls for help.
Since 2005, when Israel expelled all Jewish residents from Gaza and ceded the territory to Muslims, Israel has been building sophisticated defense systems along the border. Foreseeing a possible above-ground invasion, Israel spent $220 million to develop an advanced security system “with no margin of error.” This includes barbed wire fences and a 23-foot high wall. Motion sensors are embedded in the ground along the electronic fences, which are accompanied by watchtowers armed with remote-control machine guns. The border is also patrolled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, and Humvees operated by highly trained troops. Hundreds of night-vision cameras placed along the border constantly transmit to command centers which are operational 24/7.
Also deployed along the Gaza border is at least one semi-autonomous robotic vehicle called the Jaguar, equipped with dozens of cameras, sensors, transmitters and a 7.62mm MAG machine gun. The Jaguar sports a remote-controlled PA system and can self-destruct if captured by the enemy.
To stave off underground invasions, a 40-mile-long underground “smart fence” equipped with hundreds of AI-powered cameras, radar, and other sensors. The fence can detect infiltration by sea and is connected to a remote-controlled weapons system. One hundred and forty thousand tons of steel and concrete were reportedly used to build the barrier.
Israel’s Gazan border security also includes Sky Dew, a giant airborne balloon designed to help the Israel Air Force detect threats such as missiles and aircraft.
Video footage from Saturday’s invasion shows Muslim forces using a single bulldozer to dismantle a barbed wire fence. Media operatives have tried to claim that the invaders were able to cross the border after first dropping bombs on observation towers, somehow evading detection by Sky Dew, UAVs, electronic sensors and patrols. There is also no explanation for how the loss of transmission escaped notice by the military and intelligence units in the command centers.
Those units conduct regular drills and maneuvers. According to one military commander who was stationed at the Gaza border, one of those drills is a daily “dawn alert” during which both the night and day shifts inspect the border’s defenses. The Muslim forces, who invaded during the dawn hours, would have stumbled into a massive surveillance exercise by hypervigilant troops.
“In the 40 or more years that I’ve been following Israel one way or another, I’ve never seen this happen,” commented Trump-appointed former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “I’ve never seen the border breached in this manner. Usually, even one person from Gaza gets close to the border, they’re intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. This is just something I’ve never seen before. It’s of course a large intelligence failure.”
Israeli officials have also not addressed how hours after the attack began and Israel’s forces had been alerted, the invaders were able to return the way they came, taking hostages on dirt bikes back to Gaza.
“It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said CIA counterterrorism veteran Marc Polymeropoulos.
Security experts are also baffled as to how Israel’s intelligence network, which includes the feared Mossad and the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, could have been ignorant of the operation.
“I’m truly astonished for something of this magnitude to go down and for the Israelis to have no clue that this is about to happen. I’m just speechless,” said Senior Fellow Colin Clarke at the global security research tank Soufan Center. “They have had sources inside these Palestinian groups for years.”
“Israel has exquisite, world-class intelligence collection and analysis capabilities and would have a far better picture of what’s going on in its own backyard. This one falls squarely on the Israelis,” he added.
Former Kerem Shalom Battalion Commander Yoram Erez wrote: "Something here doesn't add up to me!!! This is a mystery that I can't find an answer to since yesterday?
"I happen to know how things work in Gaza and on the border. I was the commander of the Kerem Shalom sector (Rafiah), I was in charge of Kissuf sector, I know the perimeter fence very well, I know how the army works there. I was in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, I was in charge of the Jibaliya refugee camp, I would make ambushes on the fence and deep in the area. I met Gazans, ate and breathed Gaza.
"The obstacle is built so that even a fox cannot pass it:
"Alerts are set according to 3 levels of pressure. It must alert when it is cut. There are, 24/7, forces that are responsible for arriving within a few minutes, if not seconds, to the point where there is an alert in the fence.
"Every day they do at least one penetration drill. Each subdivision has a standby squad whose role is to increase the force in an emergency situation. Observations scattered along the border cover every inch of it.
"The female observers are champions at identification. They don't miss. They detect movement even before it even approaches the obstacle - day and night. At problematic points (dead areas) they place a tank with observation and detection capabilities, and a terrifying firepower. In some cases snipers are deployed in the field.
"Every day before dawn there is a ‘dawn alert’ procedure. At this hour all the forces are awake (in this case also the hour when hundreds of terrorists entered Israel). The night shift alternates with the day shift. The commander of each force inspects the axis to make sure there were no infiltrations during the night.
"Trackers that move on the axis know how to recognize traces. They know who crossed the fence, how much and even when.
"Each scenario has a clear procedure. For example, a procedure for infiltrating terrorists, a procedure for taking hostages. Everything is written in blood and has been proving itself for years.
"There are several other layers of security that this is not the place to talk about. In short, we are talking about an obstacle that proves itself for years and years.
"So how the hell does a Palestinian tractor move towards the fence without anyone reacting to it?
"How did the tractor manage to sabotage the fence for a long hour and open access to Israel without anyone reacting to it?
"How did hundreds of terrorists and civilians cross the barrier without anyone on our side lifting a finger?
"How did terrorists arrive on foot and in vehicles, armed from head to toe, to dozens of Israeli settlements, without any reaction from our side?
"How did hundreds of terrorists stay in Israeli territory for long hours, shoot hundreds of Israelis, loot property, without there being even a single reaction on our side?
"How did it happen that hundreds of terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis, woke women, children, babies, old people from their deaths, surprised soldiers, officers when they were not ready, and kidnapped them to Gaza, without anyone stopping them?
"How is it that one bullet was not fired?
"How did all this happen under our noses?
"Where did an entire division go?
"Where did 3 brigades go?
"Who swallowed 9 battalions?
"What happened to 36 companies?
"Where did an entire regular infantry brigade go that usually outnumbers the elite?
"Where were all the reserve battalions that augment the regular army?
It is stunning to see the reactions on the left. They have been excusing criminal and depraved behavior for years. Now they show that there is no level of depravity that will condemn rather than try to justify.
I am also stunned to read some of these comments. How are you looking for context in a massacre of women and children?
Sorry, Sasha, but I had to stop reading before I could finish. It doesn't matter if we look "weak" to nations such as Russia or China. I think saying otherwise is neocon talk, and I was under the impression that Trump supporters hated neocons as much as genuine leftists did. What's more, compare the body counts--even with over 600 dead, the IDF has killed far more civilians over the last decade than Hamas, and I will bet my bottom dollar that before this is over they'll have bombed Gaza to rubble again and slaughtered at least twice the number of Palestinians as Israelis. Violence begets violence, and while I don't believe it is ever justifiable to kill civilians, well, when you blockade the Gaza Strip for 15 years give or take, frequently bomb the place, limit how much food gets in, how much electricity they have, etc (I very much recommend listening to Glenn Greenwald or Kim Iversen or Jimmy Dore on this to learn more) and you keep the ones who want to leave from leaving...well, then as a resident of the Gaza Strip, you have only two options. Option 1: just take all of this suffering without doing anything about it. Option 2: fight back because you have nothing to lose.
The United States does similar things to many countries in the name of the same war on terror that you mention here, and it's very understandable why the survivors of all that bombing see America as the enemy, possibly wanting revenge badly enough to join groups like ISIS, being so full of rage that they're beyond caring whether or not civilians die at their hands. The moral of the story is this: whether you're the United States, or Israel, or whoever, if you go a long time making life miserable for people in other countries and/or killing lots of those people, eventually you will experience blowback. I'm not saying that this makes anything and everything done by Hamas or Al Qaeda or whoever justified. But I *am* going to say that if your family gets massacred because they happened to live too close to some terrorists who were being targeted (or if there were no terrorists at all and they just bombed the area because they saw military aged males there, which Matt Taibbi and others have written about them doing), maybe you're too emotional to have a very good moral compass after that. You just want revenge. Am I willing to consider that maybe Israeli survivors of these attacks will similarly be too emotional to have a very good moral compass, and sympathize with their plight as well regardless of whether I approve of what they ultimately do to others? Yes. Yes I am. But at the end of the day, I feel most sorry for the people who have suffered the most, and that's still the Palestinians.
Sasha, love the article but why cater to the wokeism of capitalizing Black, Brown and not White. This psyop tactic feeds the lies of systemic white privilege nonsense. Non compliance would dictate its all or none in this regard.
"A powerful, if delicate coalition was forming, preparing to make a stand to save the republic from the deep state. Events in the Middle East have predictably destroyed the momentum. People who admired each other last week eye each other now with suspicion. Terrible luck, I guess.
"Inversionism:
"Happened literally over night and will persist going forward into the elections.
"Once relatively unified over draconian COVID insanity and the vaccine war crimes, now divided over which people in Israel we should defend unquestioningly.
"The only people we should be blindly defending are the Israeli and Palestinian civilians and their individual rights as human beings, but instead we're defending the establishment government narratives and war criminals.
"I don't know how many more contrived conflicts and manufactured controversies it will take until we all finally wake up and just say no, we're not participating in the charade anymore.
"Some of us have felt like this for years with it being very frustrating to see the same patterns happening over and over, constantly trying to remind people about recent history and how backwards it all is, finally getting some agreement, and then the constant reversion back to old perceptions when something big enough happens.
"COVID has helped a lot of people see how the elites are malicious, subversive, and participating in a grand conspiracies against humanity, but every time something really big event goes down, fear and ideology takes over and they revert back to their old ways of servitude, trust, and giving the same ol' criminals the benefit of the doubt and trusting the narratives they present us.
"It's quite simple. Question everything and assume conspiracy. There is a death cult of multiple ethnicities and many different publicly claimed religions that is trying to invert reality on multiple for a subversive anti-human agenda.
"Don't fall for it. Be team humanity, anti-elites."
¨Did you know that Hamas was really created by the Mossad of Israel for the strategic purpose of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state? Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories.¨
I don't have the link to this article but if you do your own research on G o o, you will find other information. I am not defending Hamas actions that were horrible.
The Mossad didn't see it coming. Impossible.
This last Saturday event is similar to the 911 Agenda, a PsyOp Operation to create war, terror and control.
...¨ Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”. Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.” The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an “Islamic University” in Gaza. “The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza.” At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks), the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression. In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities. And when the Intifada (“uprising”) began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): “God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution”, proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization. Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993. The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin’s death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement. The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians who were already poverty stricken and living in metal sheds, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections. Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison (“on humanitarian grounds”) where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997. Arafat was helpless in the face of these events. Moreover, because he had supported Saddam Hussein during the1991 Gulf war (while the Hamas had cautiously abstained from taking sides), the Gulf states decided to cut off their financing of the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, between February and April 1998, Sheik Ahmad Yassin was able to raise several hundred million dollars, from those same countries. The budget of the Hamas was said to be greater than that of the Palestinian Authority. These new sources of funding enabled the Islamists to effectively pursue their various charitable activities. It is estimated that one Palestinian out of three is the recipient of financial aid from the Hamas. And in this regard, Israel has done nothing to curb the inflow of money into the occupied territories. The Hamas had built its strength through its various acts of sabotage of the peace process, in a way which was compatible with the interests of the Israeli government. In turn, the latter sought in a number of ways, to prevent the application of the Oslo accords. In other words, Hamas was fulfilling the functions for which it was originally created: to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State. And in this regard, Hamas and Ariel Sharon, see eye to eye; they are exactly on the same wave length.¨
Wow. I've been a reader for some time now, and It's very revealing that some people who a week ago knew that all governments lie and lie continuously, this week are falling for the same propaganda they exposed before, just because different buttons were pushed. Context and history-free take.
January 6 had the obvious advantage to the Democrats in that it rushed confirmation of the electoral tally, ignoring objections that would have led to investigations. That’s why I believe it was orchestrated.
Today, while thousands of Middle Eastern and Chinese border crossers are being “lost” into the United States, THIS is what the FBI is doing.
https://www.newsweek.com/2023/10/13/exclusive-fbi-targets-trump-followers-as-2024-election-nears-1831836.html
Synopsis: “We really have ti be careful here so that what we’re doing doesn’t look like what we’re doing.”
The International LEFT which is now imbedded in the former Democrat party has over 100 years of experience in destroying societies and over throwing elected and unelected governments.
We are at war with a group of fanatics who have been hell bent on destroying America and it’s people.
If the people of America don’t wake up soon we as a free country and people will no longer exist.
Those who would compare January 6, to any major event like 911, WW-II, Vietnam... are more than just stone cold liars; they are morons.
Good article, lots to digest. As I recently reflected on how the Democratic Party has changed so much in recent years I remembered something that garnered a lot of chatter several years ago when it happened (I believe during the Obama administration):
The Democratic Party removed God from its platform. 🧐
Sasha, in this article you knocked it out of the park. I was really tearful reading this article,
and I know you poured your soul into it because it feels and reads like it. I cannot comment now, but will be back on later. Thanks be to God for you.
SECURITY EXPERTS BLAME ISRAEL GOVERNMENT FOR ATTACK : THEY HAD SOURCES INSIDE
Posted by Yudi Sherman October 11, 2023
¨Security experts are blaming Israel’s government for Saturday’s invasion in which Muslim forces from Gaza massacred over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped at least one hundred hostages.
So far no investigations have been launched into how the invaders were able to cross Israel’s heavily fortified border unimpeded, nor why it took Israel’s highly trained security forces over six hours to respond to calls for help.
Since 2005, when Israel expelled all Jewish residents from Gaza and ceded the territory to Muslims, Israel has been building sophisticated defense systems along the border. Foreseeing a possible above-ground invasion, Israel spent $220 million to develop an advanced security system “with no margin of error.” This includes barbed wire fences and a 23-foot high wall. Motion sensors are embedded in the ground along the electronic fences, which are accompanied by watchtowers armed with remote-control machine guns. The border is also patrolled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, and Humvees operated by highly trained troops. Hundreds of night-vision cameras placed along the border constantly transmit to command centers which are operational 24/7.
Also deployed along the Gaza border is at least one semi-autonomous robotic vehicle called the Jaguar, equipped with dozens of cameras, sensors, transmitters and a 7.62mm MAG machine gun. The Jaguar sports a remote-controlled PA system and can self-destruct if captured by the enemy.
To stave off underground invasions, a 40-mile-long underground “smart fence” equipped with hundreds of AI-powered cameras, radar, and other sensors. The fence can detect infiltration by sea and is connected to a remote-controlled weapons system. One hundred and forty thousand tons of steel and concrete were reportedly used to build the barrier.
Israel’s Gazan border security also includes Sky Dew, a giant airborne balloon designed to help the Israel Air Force detect threats such as missiles and aircraft.
Video footage from Saturday’s invasion shows Muslim forces using a single bulldozer to dismantle a barbed wire fence. Media operatives have tried to claim that the invaders were able to cross the border after first dropping bombs on observation towers, somehow evading detection by Sky Dew, UAVs, electronic sensors and patrols. There is also no explanation for how the loss of transmission escaped notice by the military and intelligence units in the command centers.
Those units conduct regular drills and maneuvers. According to one military commander who was stationed at the Gaza border, one of those drills is a daily “dawn alert” during which both the night and day shifts inspect the border’s defenses. The Muslim forces, who invaded during the dawn hours, would have stumbled into a massive surveillance exercise by hypervigilant troops.
“In the 40 or more years that I’ve been following Israel one way or another, I’ve never seen this happen,” commented Trump-appointed former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “I’ve never seen the border breached in this manner. Usually, even one person from Gaza gets close to the border, they’re intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. This is just something I’ve never seen before. It’s of course a large intelligence failure.”
Israeli officials have also not addressed how hours after the attack began and Israel’s forces had been alerted, the invaders were able to return the way they came, taking hostages on dirt bikes back to Gaza.
“It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said CIA counterterrorism veteran Marc Polymeropoulos.
Security experts are also baffled as to how Israel’s intelligence network, which includes the feared Mossad and the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, could have been ignorant of the operation.
“I’m truly astonished for something of this magnitude to go down and for the Israelis to have no clue that this is about to happen. I’m just speechless,” said Senior Fellow Colin Clarke at the global security research tank Soufan Center. “They have had sources inside these Palestinian groups for years.”
“Israel has exquisite, world-class intelligence collection and analysis capabilities and would have a far better picture of what’s going on in its own backyard. This one falls squarely on the Israelis,” he added.
Former Kerem Shalom Battalion Commander Yoram Erez wrote: "Something here doesn't add up to me!!! This is a mystery that I can't find an answer to since yesterday?
"I happen to know how things work in Gaza and on the border. I was the commander of the Kerem Shalom sector (Rafiah), I was in charge of Kissuf sector, I know the perimeter fence very well, I know how the army works there. I was in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, I was in charge of the Jibaliya refugee camp, I would make ambushes on the fence and deep in the area. I met Gazans, ate and breathed Gaza.
"The obstacle is built so that even a fox cannot pass it:
"Alerts are set according to 3 levels of pressure. It must alert when it is cut. There are, 24/7, forces that are responsible for arriving within a few minutes, if not seconds, to the point where there is an alert in the fence.
"Every day they do at least one penetration drill. Each subdivision has a standby squad whose role is to increase the force in an emergency situation. Observations scattered along the border cover every inch of it.
"The female observers are champions at identification. They don't miss. They detect movement even before it even approaches the obstacle - day and night. At problematic points (dead areas) they place a tank with observation and detection capabilities, and a terrifying firepower. In some cases snipers are deployed in the field.
"Every day before dawn there is a ‘dawn alert’ procedure. At this hour all the forces are awake (in this case also the hour when hundreds of terrorists entered Israel). The night shift alternates with the day shift. The commander of each force inspects the axis to make sure there were no infiltrations during the night.
"Trackers that move on the axis know how to recognize traces. They know who crossed the fence, how much and even when.
"Each scenario has a clear procedure. For example, a procedure for infiltrating terrorists, a procedure for taking hostages. Everything is written in blood and has been proving itself for years.
"There are several other layers of security that this is not the place to talk about. In short, we are talking about an obstacle that proves itself for years and years.
"So how the hell does a Palestinian tractor move towards the fence without anyone reacting to it?
"How did the tractor manage to sabotage the fence for a long hour and open access to Israel without anyone reacting to it?
"How did hundreds of terrorists and civilians cross the barrier without anyone on our side lifting a finger?
"How did terrorists arrive on foot and in vehicles, armed from head to toe, to dozens of Israeli settlements, without any reaction from our side?
"How did hundreds of terrorists stay in Israeli territory for long hours, shoot hundreds of Israelis, loot property, without there being even a single reaction on our side?
"How did it happen that hundreds of terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis, woke women, children, babies, old people from their deaths, surprised soldiers, officers when they were not ready, and kidnapped them to Gaza, without anyone stopping them?
"How is it that one bullet was not fired?
"How did all this happen under our noses?
"Where did an entire division go?
"Where did 3 brigades go?
"Who swallowed 9 battalions?
"What happened to 36 companies?
"Where did an entire regular infantry brigade go that usually outnumbers the elite?
"Where were all the reserve battalions that augment the regular army?
"Where did thousands of soldiers go???
"Someone here needs to provide explanations!!"
https://frontline.news/post/security-experts-blame-israel-government-for-attack-they-had-sources-inside
It is stunning to see the reactions on the left. They have been excusing criminal and depraved behavior for years. Now they show that there is no level of depravity that will condemn rather than try to justify.
I am also stunned to read some of these comments. How are you looking for context in a massacre of women and children?
We're at the level of German soldiers bayoneting babies in World War One.
We're being militarized just in time for Biden to run for re-election as a war president beyond criticism.
And many people are eager to go along.
Sorry, Sasha, but I had to stop reading before I could finish. It doesn't matter if we look "weak" to nations such as Russia or China. I think saying otherwise is neocon talk, and I was under the impression that Trump supporters hated neocons as much as genuine leftists did. What's more, compare the body counts--even with over 600 dead, the IDF has killed far more civilians over the last decade than Hamas, and I will bet my bottom dollar that before this is over they'll have bombed Gaza to rubble again and slaughtered at least twice the number of Palestinians as Israelis. Violence begets violence, and while I don't believe it is ever justifiable to kill civilians, well, when you blockade the Gaza Strip for 15 years give or take, frequently bomb the place, limit how much food gets in, how much electricity they have, etc (I very much recommend listening to Glenn Greenwald or Kim Iversen or Jimmy Dore on this to learn more) and you keep the ones who want to leave from leaving...well, then as a resident of the Gaza Strip, you have only two options. Option 1: just take all of this suffering without doing anything about it. Option 2: fight back because you have nothing to lose.
The United States does similar things to many countries in the name of the same war on terror that you mention here, and it's very understandable why the survivors of all that bombing see America as the enemy, possibly wanting revenge badly enough to join groups like ISIS, being so full of rage that they're beyond caring whether or not civilians die at their hands. The moral of the story is this: whether you're the United States, or Israel, or whoever, if you go a long time making life miserable for people in other countries and/or killing lots of those people, eventually you will experience blowback. I'm not saying that this makes anything and everything done by Hamas or Al Qaeda or whoever justified. But I *am* going to say that if your family gets massacred because they happened to live too close to some terrorists who were being targeted (or if there were no terrorists at all and they just bombed the area because they saw military aged males there, which Matt Taibbi and others have written about them doing), maybe you're too emotional to have a very good moral compass after that. You just want revenge. Am I willing to consider that maybe Israeli survivors of these attacks will similarly be too emotional to have a very good moral compass, and sympathize with their plight as well regardless of whether I approve of what they ultimately do to others? Yes. Yes I am. But at the end of the day, I feel most sorry for the people who have suffered the most, and that's still the Palestinians.
Sasha, love the article but why cater to the wokeism of capitalizing Black, Brown and not White. This psyop tactic feeds the lies of systemic white privilege nonsense. Non compliance would dictate its all or none in this regard.
On January 6, Pence should have said that he could not certify the election because of to many irregularities. Was he just fearful?
I have been posting this comment from Bret Weinstein on multiple threads. I suggest that everyone consider what he says because we are being played.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"A powerful, if delicate coalition was forming, preparing to make a stand to save the republic from the deep state. Events in the Middle East have predictably destroyed the momentum. People who admired each other last week eye each other now with suspicion. Terrible luck, I guess.
"Inversionism:
"Happened literally over night and will persist going forward into the elections.
"Once relatively unified over draconian COVID insanity and the vaccine war crimes, now divided over which people in Israel we should defend unquestioningly.
"The only people we should be blindly defending are the Israeli and Palestinian civilians and their individual rights as human beings, but instead we're defending the establishment government narratives and war criminals.
"I don't know how many more contrived conflicts and manufactured controversies it will take until we all finally wake up and just say no, we're not participating in the charade anymore.
"Some of us have felt like this for years with it being very frustrating to see the same patterns happening over and over, constantly trying to remind people about recent history and how backwards it all is, finally getting some agreement, and then the constant reversion back to old perceptions when something big enough happens.
"COVID has helped a lot of people see how the elites are malicious, subversive, and participating in a grand conspiracies against humanity, but every time something really big event goes down, fear and ideology takes over and they revert back to their old ways of servitude, trust, and giving the same ol' criminals the benefit of the doubt and trusting the narratives they present us.
"It's quite simple. Question everything and assume conspiracy. There is a death cult of multiple ethnicities and many different publicly claimed religions that is trying to invert reality on multiple for a subversive anti-human agenda.
"Don't fall for it. Be team humanity, anti-elites."
¨Did you know that Hamas was really created by the Mossad of Israel for the strategic purpose of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state? Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories.¨
I don't have the link to this article but if you do your own research on G o o, you will find other information. I am not defending Hamas actions that were horrible.
The Mossad didn't see it coming. Impossible.
This last Saturday event is similar to the 911 Agenda, a PsyOp Operation to create war, terror and control.
...¨ Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”. Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.” The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an “Islamic University” in Gaza. “The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza.” At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks), the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression. In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities. And when the Intifada (“uprising”) began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): “God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution”, proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization. Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993. The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin’s death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement. The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians who were already poverty stricken and living in metal sheds, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections. Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison (“on humanitarian grounds”) where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997. Arafat was helpless in the face of these events. Moreover, because he had supported Saddam Hussein during the1991 Gulf war (while the Hamas had cautiously abstained from taking sides), the Gulf states decided to cut off their financing of the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, between February and April 1998, Sheik Ahmad Yassin was able to raise several hundred million dollars, from those same countries. The budget of the Hamas was said to be greater than that of the Palestinian Authority. These new sources of funding enabled the Islamists to effectively pursue their various charitable activities. It is estimated that one Palestinian out of three is the recipient of financial aid from the Hamas. And in this regard, Israel has done nothing to curb the inflow of money into the occupied territories. The Hamas had built its strength through its various acts of sabotage of the peace process, in a way which was compatible with the interests of the Israeli government. In turn, the latter sought in a number of ways, to prevent the application of the Oslo accords. In other words, Hamas was fulfilling the functions for which it was originally created: to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State. And in this regard, Hamas and Ariel Sharon, see eye to eye; they are exactly on the same wave length.¨
Sasha: I pray for an era where we can, as you say, not only at long last, be told the truth, but that we will recognize it when we see it and hear it.
Thank you for doing your part.
The war fever now is worse than after 9/11. The news media fan it.
Once again our elites are leading us to disaster. It's the one thing they do well.