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This is why I am very suspicious they were unaware of an impending attack by Hamas, and they were even informed by sources one was in the works. It tells me they wanted it to happen since it provided them the excuse to rid the land of Palestinians which has always been their objective. How does one acknowledge the NAKBA and claim that's not true.

https://www.mei.edu/publications/nowhere-hide-impact-israels-digital-surveillance-regime-palestinians

"Over the course of 2020 and 2021, groundbreaking investigations revealed in stark detail Israeli authorities’ intensifying use of surveillance and predictive technologies to police and control Palestinians. Subjecting Palestinians to such scrutiny from security and military apparatuses narrows their expressive spaces and plunges them into a state of constant anxiety. This practice also carries out a commercial purpose: Occupied Palestine effectively functions as an open-air laboratory for Israel to test techniques of espionage and surveillance before selling them to repressive regimes around the world. This commerce has troubling implications, particularly as more governments have leveraged digital monitoring tools against political opponents, activists, journalists, civil society workers, and others deemed “threatening.” The case of the Palestinians, then, can be understood as an ominous example of how various actors can probe deep into private lives through the ever-watching eyes of surveillance."

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So much for Netanyahu's ability to seek peace.

"In a televised press conference on Saturday, Netanyahu called the conflict an “existential war” that must be fought until victory, despite pressure and costs, and said Gaza would be demilitarised and under Israeli security control. So Israel is fighting for it's very existence, and therefore no limits they can implement to take down their enemy.'

"Existential war is a war for existence, not for status, power, territory or resources, but for existence itself – as a nation, as a people, and ultimately as an individual. When human beings fight for those stakes, there are no limits."

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Not to mention that in 1978 Israel was attacked Oct 6, or 7, the Yom Kippur War.

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