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Oct 18, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023

Also, weren't the Israelis the ones who supposedly had all this Secret Squirrel Intelligence about how Iraq was just chock-full of WMDs? Didn't Netanyahu himself testify as much before Congress?

Weren't we duly assured at the time that Shin Bet is all-seeing, all-knowing?

Do remind me, how did that one turn out?

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At the end of the day, Hamas simply does not have the ordinance to cause such damage.

Israel is scrambling to create a passable cover story.

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So they can hear this “chatter” but missed at least a years worth of planning and A DIRECT WARNING FROM THE EGYPTIAN PM TO THE ISRAELI PM DAYS BEFOREHAND? (As reported in the times of Israel on the day of the attack)

How convenient! Israel’s “9/11” alright!

Netanyahu needed an excuse to genocide the Palestinians as he was facing massive societal unrest domestically - including the military - over his judicial reforms.

And america LOVES war. We can afford two! That’s what the fed said! We’ve got plenty of money for war but can’t feed the poor! Tupac was right.

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How convenient or as Church Lady would say "well isn't that special?"

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Caitlin is almost always way ahead of the game. But here she only gingerly approaches the possibility that Israel allowed Hamas to conduct its attack on Oct. 7 so as to create the pretext for a "murderous rampage." This is what folks in the 9/11 Truth movement call LIHOP -- let it happen on purpose.

I expect Caitlin to realize that the terrible truth in Israel's case (as well as the case of 9/11) is MIHOP -- made it happen on purpose. The Canadian website globalresearch.ca, which has been in the forefront of 9/11 Truth, is now publishing a variety of analyses that substantiate this conclusion about the inception of the Hamas attack.

For example, it is now established that Israel was instrumental in creating Hamas back in 1987 as a part of the strategy, in Netanyahu's words, "to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.." There is every reason to believe that Hamas is infiltrated by Israeli agents.

Testimonies of Israelis who survived the Hamas attack are now surfacing that credit their Hamas attackers with treating them "humanely" and also establish that Israeli forces shot their own civilians. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861; https://new.thecradle.co/articles/survivor-of-hamas-assault-says-israeli-army-undoubtedly-killed-their-own-civilians

I also would go further than Caitlin in characterizing the nature of the intended pretext. It is beyond a pretext for murderous rampage. It is a pretext for the Final Solution to the Palestinian problem.

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So let me get this straight, the recorded conversation supposedly exposes that the missile was fired from the cemetary behind the hospital, which according to this explanation means it was very close.

So now I challenge anyone to show me a feasible trajectory for this rocket, from where it was supposedly fired, to the point where it hit and took down the whole hospital , and including the charge energy of the rockets being used by Hamas, BS the charge energy required to take down the hospital, before I believe this version.

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Those same Palestinians in the recording were the deck hands on the rental yacht which blew up the Nordstream pipelines! I have a cell phone recording of them trying to figure out why one of the devices failed!!!

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Reminds me of a low-growl exchange I once overheard between my two Golden Retrievers, which led me to suspect that they were plotting to evict my cat from their midst, by suffocation, it sounded like. But both dogs were so sweet that without hard evidence, I balked at any action, and next morning, I found all three of them sharing the same large doggie bed, with a white fluffy feline warm and cozy between the two comparatively hulking strawberry-blond canines. So sad that human misconstruances and misunderstandings can't turn out like this. But then, humans set up hierarchies of privilege and lie like crazy to preserve them. All hail the glories of formal language.

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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

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Oct 18, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023

Not to mention that it appears that the much hyped Israeli signals intelligence can ever always only Intercept communications about past events.

As to why these assured Islamic Jihad operatives didn't inconvenience their listeners by using code is left as an exercise to the imagination.

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It is rumored that IDF soldiers leaked intelligence on Israeli positions to Hamas and Netanyahu pulled soldiers from Gaza to the West Bank in order to encourage Hamas to attack, after which Israel could wipe Gaza from the map with unflinching support from the West. Is there any evidence for this rumor?

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I see elsewhere in the news Biden has fully supported Israel, whilst trying to negotiate a settlement. Rather hypocritical, I feel. The UK is no better.

Why would Palestinians accept anything which comes from US as a reasonable settlement?

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Mondoweiss - July 2015: Targeting Medical Workers

The Amnesty report describes a scene in the August onslaught:

An ambulance carrying a wounded old man, woman and three children was struck by a drone-fired missile, setting it alight and burning everyone inside including medical workers to death. Jaber Darabih, a paramedic who arrived at the scene, described the charred remains of bodies with “no legs, no hands… severely burned.” Tragically, he later discovered that his own son, a volunteer paramedic was among those killed in the ambulance.

A doctor told Amnesty patients frantically fled a Rafah hospital during the bombardment. Some of the Palestinians running for their lives “were wheeled out on beds, many had intravenous drips still attached.”

“A young boy in a plaster cast dragged himself along the ground to get away,” Amnesty wrote.

“By attacking ambulances and striking near hospitals, Israel’s army displayed a flagrant disregard for the laws of war,” Luther stated. “Deliberately attacking health facilities and medical professionals amounts to war crimes.”

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Like anyone but the already brainwashed is going to believe this recording...

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Even US and British Mainstream media reporting from the ground is pointing to the obvious:

https://twitter.com/didou/status/1714641571851665762

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Israel is magical because the Israelis are God's Chosen People. It's the only possible explanation. (Warning: sarcasm or satire may be present)

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