Was October 7th Allowed to Happen To Further The Greater Israel Agenda? Did The Hannibal Directive Ever End?
Part 4 of The McGwire's series on Oct 7th, detailing developments along the narratives of an Israeli Intelligence Stand Down, The Hannibal Directive (which never ended), and The Greater Israel Agenda
Since I published part 3 of this series on December 3rd, my central thesis points developed have been further substantiated.
- Repeated Warnings From Multiple Intelligence Sources, Internal and External, Were Ignored By Netanyahu
- The Hannibal Directive — Israel Killed Its Own Citizens on Oct 7th - Netanyahu Doesn’t Care About The Hostages [Hannibal Directive Never Ended]
- The Greater Israel Agenda Would Be The Motive Driving An Intelligence Stand Down, The Attack Gives A Convenient Pretext For Ethnic Cleansing and Israeli Annexation of Gaza and West Bank
Part 1 of this series provided evidence of Israeli leadership ignoring intelligence of an impending attack, then slaughtering their own civilians when the attack did occur… then blaming these deaths on Hamas.
The notion that Israeli forces were responsible for many deaths of Israeli citizens on Oct 7th was dismissed as a conspiracy theory when I first published part 1. By Part 2, veteran Israeli pilot colonel Nof Erez had gone on record describing Oct 7th as a “Mass Hannibal” event, saying the IDF ran simulations for hostage situations in which the army would prefer hostages killed than be taken alive to Gaza, in scenarios similar to Oct 7th, with much less hostages. Because the simulations around the Hannibal directive involved lesser amounts of hostages, Col. Erez described Oct 7th as a “Mass” Hannibal event.
In Part 1 I covered Israeli intelligence and border surveillance units speaking to Israeli media saying they had been warning their superiors for months of an attack, providing detailed intel along the way. I coupled this information with the reality of Israel’s prior support for Hamas, with the explicit aim of preventing Palestinian statehood.
Netanyahu in 2019, as quoted in the2019 Jerusalem Post article, “Netanyahu: Money to Hamas Part of Strategy to Keep Palestinians Divided”:'Whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for' transferring the funds to Gaza [Hamas], because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state."
My thesis was that Israeli leadership had existing motivations to allow Oct 7th to happen and purposely fail to act on intelligence indicating an attack was to occur, and that leadership indeed do just that. The motivation for allowing Hamas’s attack to take place was the pretext for retaliation, in the form of depopulating Gaza and paving the way for expanding Israel’s territory and establishing Jewish settlements in Gaza - in line with the Greater Israel agenda.
In the course of writing this piece, Substack started crashing when it got too big, so I have broken this Part 4 up into 2 pieces. The immediate next article I publish will follow up this one, originally apart of this draft, focusing on Israel’s war on the UN.
Prime Minister Netanyahu had previously claimed that reports of warnings before October 7 were false.
…The information was obtained in response to a Freedom of Information request by the "Success" movement.
Statement published to X
Within the first month of the war, the Prime Minister claimed that he had not received any alerts regarding any threat to the state’s security before the October 7 attack….
The post sparked controversy and was deleted the next morning. That evening, Netanyahu made another official statement, reiterating that he had not received any prior warnings from high-level security personnel.
Additionally, along the lines of the Hannibal Directive, Netanyahu has been exposed by Israeli military officers, members of the war cabinet, and intelligence officials as having abandoned the hostages.
Since March, Netanyahu has been being called out by Israeli sources for sabotaging Hostage talks. The families of the hostages have grown more and more enraged as the monhts have dragged on, and it becomes clearer and clearer that Netanyahu is “sacrificing” the hostages, as the Hostages and Missing Families Forum recently described at the end of May when Netanyahu torpedoed Biden’s hostage swap proposal, which Biden claims came from Israel.
After covering the major updates in relation to the intelligence stand down and Hannibal directive narratives, I will move to covering that which relates to the meta narrative of the desire for colonizing a greater Israel, such as Israel aggressively moving to expand settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
Other facets of this “war” will be covered, such as Netanyahu’s declining popularity and the growing protests in Israel led by family members of the hostages (appropriately) accusing Netanyahu of not prioritizing a hostage deal, which ties in with the Hannibal directive. As I have grown fond of saying, The Hannibal Directive never ended.
Series Recap: Evidence Israel Ignored Intelligence That Foreshadowed The Attack, Motive For an “Intelligence Stand Down”, and The Hannibal Directive
Israeli Observers and Junior Intelligence Officer Threatened With Court Martial For Repeatedly Warning of Oct 7th
Israel Ignored Intelligence That Foreshadowed The Attack
Israel Was on The Brink Of Civil War Before October 7th As a Result of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
Israel Intentionally Killed Own Civilians on Oct 7th, Hannibal Directive — Israel Not Caring About The Lives of Hostages After October 7th, Seemingly Preferring Them Dead - Same Motive / Spirit as Hannibal directive
Growing Disapproval for Netanyahu, Bibi’s Popularity Shrinks Even Further as Trust Evaporates
Protests Have Continued, Gaining Steam in March, April, and May…. Led by Family and Friends of Israeli Hostages, Protesting for the Israeli Government To Do an Exchange Deal and Get the Hostages Returned.
After the Haaretz article exposing Netanyahu for sabotaging hostage talks, Israeli protests occurred, larger and bigger than ever.
Netanyahu’s Popularity Continuing to Decline After Part 3’s Publication on December 3rd
The Greater Israel Movement, Further Validation of the “Convenient to a Pre-Existing Depopulation Agenda” Narrative
Genocidal Rhetoric by Prominent Israeli Politicians, Religious Figures
Series Recap: Evidence Israel Ignored Intelligence That Foreshadowed The Attack, Motive For an “Intelligence Stand Down”, and The Hannibal Directive
To Recap The Series:In part one of my Oct 7th series, I began covering evidence that pointed to a so called “intelligence stand down”, a passive false flag in which their intelligence command purposefully ignored advance indications of the attack, in order to allow it to happen - with the motive being that it would be weaponized to further the Zionist expansion agenda, expedite the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians needed to expand settlements, and further diminish the Palestinian people’s aspirations for statehood.
In the wake of October 7th, many critical thinkers and so called conspiracy theorists began to ask questions like, “How did the world’s premier intelligence agency get taken by surprise by hamas paragliders flying over the most heavily surveilled border in the world?”
…This article will move on to cover the evidence that points to a possible intelligence stand-down that allowed the attack happen, and explore the motive for why Israeli leadership might have allowed the attack to happen - the central theme of this article
This article will also explore evidence that the IDF fired on Israeli citizens on Oct 7th - the casualties of which would be blamed on Hamas of course…
I will save developments validating the notion that the IDF fired on and killed Israeli citizens on October 7th, and then blamed those deaths on Hamas, for the next section. Another subsequent section will revisit the proposed (obvious) motive for the “intelligence stand down” to allow the attack - being pretty self explanatory in the title of the first article… convenient to a pre-existing depopulation agenda. A Greater Israel.
The failure of Oct 7th, the lack of regard for the Israeli hostages by Israeli leadership, combined with the geopolitical and economic fallout from the manner in which the war is being conducted, had catalyzed Netanyahu’s approval ratings to plummet - with trust in the prime minister plummeting to abysmal lows.
Just one month after I published part 3, a survey revealed that “Just 15 Percent Of Israelis Would Keep Netanyahu As Prime Minister After War: Survey”, as reported by The Hill. Over the past few months, protests have continued to gain momentum, led by families and friends of the hostages, accusing Netanyahu of not doing enough to negotiate a return. This is the culmination of months of declining popularity for Netanyahu amidst actions that betray the Israeli hostages and confirmations from Israeli defense officials that Netanyahu has been sabotaging hostage negotiations.
As mentioned earlier in the series,the majority of Israelis were concerned about civil war before Oct 7th, as Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul splintered Israeli political society. Many point to the tense political situation in Israel prior to Oct 7th as potentially playing into Netanyahu’s motives to ignore intelligence indicating an attack.
Netanyahu isn’t the only entity whose popularity has been generally declining since Oct 7th. Israel has been losing support, both internationally as well as in America. On March 5th it was reported: “US Opinion Of Israel Lowest In Two Decades: Poll”
Similarly, Biden’s continued support for Netanyahu has seen his approval ratings plummet to lows - largely a result of the war in Gaza, and Biden’s foreign policy around it.
Before I dive into the developments that point to an Israeli intelligence stand down having allowed the attack to happen, I feel the need to recap and emphasize some key points that I’ve realized didn’t get proper emphasis earlier in the series.
First off:Multiple low level IDF “observers” / “look outs” / Intelligence officers were EVEN THREATENED WITH COURT MARTIAL for repeatedly warning senior intelligence officials, the initial coverage of which by the Jerusalem Post was featured in Part 2. This will be returned to.
These observers from the Nahal Oz Base who were warning of the Oct 7th attack for months prior, were actually taken hostage. A video of the Nahal Oz observers in Hamas captivity was recently released in May by the “The Hostages and Missing Families Forum”,a coalition formed by families and friends of the Israeli hostages.
While the video went viral in May, I did not see many talking about how this was the same group of observers whose repeated warnings of Oct 7th were dismissed… they were even threatened with court martial. This will be returned to.
The video was released in attempt to pressure Netanyahu to negotiate for the release of the hostages.
A new video showing Hamas fighters holding captive soldiers on 7 October was released by prisoners’ families to pressure the Israeli government
Israel’s war cabinet approved a resumption of indirect prisoner talks with the Palestinian resistance on 23 May, coming after the release of a video showing female captives being held by Hamas’ armed wing on 7 October.
A source told Hebrew media that Tel Aviv’s negotiating team was given new directives to try to make a breakthrough in the prisoner talks.
...The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released the video to pressure the Israeli government toward a deal that returns their relatives to Israel. Representatives of the prisoners’ families have repeatedly accused Netanyahu’s government of deliberately sabotaging talks.
These renewed hostages talks did not last long, and were sabotaged like previous negotiations.
“He said the only way to make Netanyahu do this is to make him understand that it’s going to be politically good for him, that if he sees polls that say that the Israeli public wants to see the hostages home more than it wants the continuation of the war, then he will make a deal that will bring all the hostages home,” he added. “We were shocked by this.”
After Netanyahu’s aid told Hostage relatives that a deal would likely not be made, a week after announcing the resumption of hostage negotiations,Biden on May 31st had presented a peace deal which he said originated from Israel / Israeli officials. Netanyahu and Israel would end up rejecting this peace plan after Hamas showed acceptance.
Israel has proposed a new three-phase ceasefire deal and plan for the day after the war, President Joe Biden said on Friday afternoon during a special address from the White House.
Hamas did take it.. Israel did not
Hamas Welcomed the Hostage Deal / Peace Plan, While Israel Rejected It… Despite the Deal Originating From Israel.
ZeiSquirrel: “As suspected the "deal" Genocide Joe presented was just a PR propaganda ploy to shift blame and keep the Gaza genocide going, but it backfired because Hamas yet again reiterated that it was open to it as it's the deal they have presented all along, whileIsraeli again rejected it”
Einav Tsengaoker, mother of Matan the abductee, in a statement at Shaar Begin: … "Netanyahu's office announcements from yesterday and today did not publicly confirm the outline presented by Biden last night, on the contrary: there is once again entrenchment and hardening of positions which mean: giving up on the abductees. We demand that Netanyahu remove all reservations, and go public and stand publicly behind the Israeli proposal presented by Biden. Go public and approve this deal."
More from Meinav Tsengauker in the statement of the families at Shaar Begin: "Biden spoke last night because he knows that Netanyahu may torpedo this deal as well. After months of Netanyahu thwarting deals, Biden wanted the public to know what was really on the table. And we are worried even now, that Netanyahu will again try to torpedo the deal."
The question is… why has Netanyahu been sabotaging Hostage talks?
I foreshadowed in Part 2, in November, well before the families of the Israeli hostages began rallying protests demanding Netanyahu make a hostage deal, and well before Israeli sources began admitting Netanyahu was sabotaging hostage swap talks….:
On top of the support for Hamas, on top of the intelligence failure that allowed the attack, and the possible killing of Israeli citizens, - the lack of regard for the hostages in Hamas’s after the attack was insult to injury for worried family members of victims, or any Israeli citizen who entertained the notion their government cared about them and would do everything to protect them.
Considering I found Netanyahu’s sabotaging predictable, allow me to hypothesize why Netanyahu has been sabotaging hostage talks:
The Hannibal directive never ended.
The underlying basis of the Hannibal directive would logically continue to apply after the hostages are in Hama’s possession in Gaza. In Israeli leadership’s eyes, hostages are a liability that give Hamas political leverage, and the Israeli state would prefer them to die.
While the video of the hostages from Nahal Oz went viral in May, and many were talking about the Israeli government’s incorrect subtitles, rape statements in the captions that were mistranslations…. I saw little discussion of howsome of these captured female observers from the Nahal Oz base were actually the same ones warning for months that the Oct 7 attack was going to happen.
I think the Israeli Hostages and Missing Families forum released the video partially because these were the hostages that were warning the attack was going to happen before it happened.
At least three months prior to the attack, surveillance soldiers serving on a base in Nahal Oz reported signs that something unusual was underway at the already-tumultuous Gaza border, situated a kilometer from them The activity reported by the soldiers included information on Hamas operatives conducting training sessions multiple times a day, digging holes and placing explosives along the border. ****According to the accounts of the soldiers, no action was taken by those who received the reports.….****
…Rotenberg recalled frequently seeing many Palestinians dressed in civilian clothing approach the border fence with maps, examining the ground around it and digging holes. One time, when she passed the information on, she was told that they were farmers, and there was nothing to worry about.
Rotenberg was asleep when the attack began, and of the surveillance soldiers who were in the living quarters that morning, she is the only one to have survived. Desiatnik, who was on duty, was the only other surveillance soldier at the base not killed or abducted. 'It’s infuriating,' she told Kan of the intelligence failure. 'We saw what was happening, we told them about it, and we were the ones who were murdered.'
As you will see in the excerpt below from Part 1, Israel was already preparing for ‘All-out war’, and Hamas was threatening it, for months before October 7th…. Yet senior Israeli intelligence repeatedly refused to consider the possibility that Hamas was planning an attack as warnings and intelligence indicating just that.
The Nahal Oz observers were repeatedly ignored, as were the “repeated” warnings from Egypt’s intelligence agency which included a call directly to Netanyahu from Egypt’s intelligence chief.
In Part 1, I began discussing indications an attack was imminent in the section titled:“Like Covid - Early Warning Signs Missed, Delayed Interception and Response to Threat”
For starters, Hamas was warning in August of an 'all-out war'if Israeli assassinations continued… so you would think security would have been being taken extra seriously on the border.
“The Israel military has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to more quickly select targets for air strikes and manage wartime logistics, as Israel seeks to prepare for a possible “all-out war,” against Iran, Syria and the Palestinian resistance factions, Bloomberg reported on 17 July [months before October 7th…]. “
But that was just one significant, public indication Hamas was planning something, or at least that subsequent intelligence related to Hamas attack plans should be taken seriously….[behind the scenes] Israeli intelligence and leadership had more even more indications of an imminent attack….
”…an Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning “something big” — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister[to Netanyahu!].”
Israeli Leadership Didn’t just Ignore Hamas’ Threats of All-Out War, or Egyptian Intelligence’s Warnings of an Imminent Attack, but Warnings From Within its Own Ranks Were Ignored..
On October 26th, The Times of Israel reported that “Survivors of massacre on IDF base say they passed information up the chain of command on digging, mapping, training near the fence long before mass onslaught, but were ignored”.
That last article above is the one already cited when referring to the female observers at the Nahal Oz base, in relation to the recent viral video of some of the female observers / surveillance soldiers at Nahal Oz in Hamas’ captivity.
The Nahal Oz observers were not only repeatedly ignored, but they were even threatened with court martial when they went to a senior commander upon feeling like they weren’t be listened to [details below].
The Times of Israel article describes several of the Nahal Oz soldiers repeatedly warning their superiors of an attack and passing intelligence up the chain of command, just to be ignored and dismissed repeatedly. I did not include every article from part 1 related to the internal warnings of the attack in this excerpt, if one wishes for more reading, you can find the link to part one above, which contains more stories related to the matter, from early on into the war.
To summarize - The Key Points in Part 1 Were
Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders propped up Hamas intentionally to prevent Palestinian statehood
Egyptian intelligence repeatedly warned Israel an attack was imminent - This included Egypt’s security chief personally warning Netanyahu
Alongside foreign intelligence agency tips, multiple internal intelligence sources indicating an attack were ignored, and dismissed.
These indications were dismissed despite both Israel and Hamas openly preparing for “all-out war”
Here is a sample of thedevelopments included in part 2 concerning the warnings and intelligence that could and should have incited preparation and prevented the October 7th attack:
Another “conspiracy theory” of my [initial] article was further validated recently, as an IDF intel officer has stepped forward to add to the growing body of indications that Israeli leadership had ignored serious intelligence indicating an impending Hamas attack.
“A junior Israeli officer in the elite 8200 intelligence unit warned over Hamas's plan of a mass infiltration event and was ignored by her commanders and threatened with court martial.”
The officer claims to have warned for the past 12 months about a scenario that involves a mass intrusion event by Hamas, foreshadowing what occurred on October 7.
She turned to her commanders, but they did nothing. "You are imagining it," her commanders were quoted by N12 as telling her. Last week, Channel 12's Weekend News program published new testimonies of female observers who served near the Gaza border. ….Those female observers felt that they were not being listened to and that what they were seeing was not being counted.
There were those who decided to alert one of the senior commanders in the sector, and this is the response they received from him: ‘I don't want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother me with these things again, you will stand trial.’ ”
Yes, you read that right. A SENIOR ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL THREATENED THE JUNIOR ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AND THE FEMALE OBSEVERS WARNING OF THE ATTACK WITH COURT MARTIAL, FOR REPEATEDLY WARNING OF THE IMPENDING ATTACK GIVEN SOLID INTELLIGENCE INDICATING “a scenario that involves a mass intrusion event by Hamas”.
Israeli Observers and Junior Israeli Intelligence Officer (Unit 8200) Threatened With Court Martial For Repeatedly Warning of Oct 7th
I mean, what the $&@%?. Seriously. This wasn’t just the one intelligence officer threatened with court martial either, as implied by this Jerusalem Post headline shown above.
Senior leadership ignored repeated warnings, over a year leading up to the attack, from multiple sources within Israel’s intelligence infrastructure.
The Jerusalem Post implied in their twitter caption it was just one officer threatened with court martial, but upon further review it was clearly plural, referring also to the female observers(the same ones mentioned earlier, at the Nahal Oz base) which could be deduced from their own article and the quote by the commander threatening the court martial. The plurality was later acknowledged by the Jerusalem Post in a later article (see below).
While the Jerusalem Post’s story description reads: “A junior Israeli officer in the elite 8200 intelligence unit warned over Hamas's plan of a mass infiltration event and was ignored by her commanders and threatened with court martial.” …It actually wasn’t just that one intelligence officer threatened with court martial. The subtitle even contextually hints at this:
“This is the response they[The female observers] received from him: "I don't want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother me with these things again, you will stand trial."“
The whole group of observers warning of the attack was threatened with disciplinary action - for doing their job and providing solid intelligence indicating an attack was being planned.
A senior Israeli military intelligence officer dismissed a detailed warning predicting Hamas’s raid of October 7, calling it an “imaginary scenario”, said two people familiar with the discussions.
Sentries on Israel’s border with Gaza, many of them female soldiers who watch and analyse a constant feed of video and other data gathered near the electronic fence surrounding the enclave, sent a detailed report weeks before the attack to the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the southern command, both people said.
2 days after I published part 3, on Dec. 5th, The Jerusalem Post followed up on the court martial story, suggesting that sources within the IDF and Israeli intelligence assisted Hamas in planning the attack.
Data taken from technology (laptops, phones, tablets) and written notebooks detailed plans for a slew of military targets and key points in Israel to attack, well into Israeli territory….. The report alleges that Hamas was able to spend years drawing detailed maps thanks to the help of sources inside Israel, citing an IDF conclusion drawn from data found on phones, notebooks, and documents seized by terrorists. “Compiling such a map could only have been done using ‘inside knowledge’ – almost certainly from a Hamas spy,” the report cited an unnamed IDF intelligence source as saying...
OBSERVERS WARNED BUT WERE THREATENED IN RESPONSE
A New York Times report alleges that the IDF retrieved a 40-page "game plan" for Hamas' planned attack but that it was dismissed on the grounds that security forces believed it was beyond the terror organization's bandwidth.Military officials also ignored reports from observers—mostly women—[******Can’t Make This Shit Up*********] and even threatened to court martial them over their claims.[******Can’t Make This Shit Up********]
IDF lookouts who had warned their commanders that they were concerned about the situation along the Gaza border in the months before the October 7 attack were told to stop bothering them and were even threatened with a court-martial, N12 reported last month.
According to a report by Israeli media, the lookouts warned that they had seen unusual training and other actions taking place next to the border, with more and more people suddenly getting near the fence in the months leading up to the attack.
....The observers felt that they weren't being heard; one of them decided to go directly to a senior commander in the area and was told"I don't want to hear again about this nonsense. If you all bother us again with these things, you'll be court-martialed."
I don’t believe I can emphasize enough how much of a red flag it is that multiple Israeli units were being threatened with court martial for doing their job and reporting of intelligence indicating a potential attack.. ESPECIALLY as Hamas and Israel had begun publicly preparing for what they called “all out war” in July.
I am sorry if this section feels redundant. I just feel that this element of intelligence leadership not only dismissing warnings of Oct 7th, but also threatening the Israel observers and intelligence officer issuing the warnings with court martial, needs to be emphasized — All while Israel was preparing for “all-out war”
Military officials also ignored reports from observers—mostly women— and even threatened to court martial them over their claims [that Hamas was planning an attack].
Here is more reporting by World Israel News on the intelligence officers / soldiers threatened with court martial:
As already stated, some of the female observers at Nahal Oz who were warning of the attack, and threatened with court martial for doing so, fell victim to it:
Reemphasizing: A critical article featured in part 1 of this series describes how these observers at Nahal Oz were repeatedly reporting signs of an impending attack, for at least nine months before the attack:
The soldiers gather information through a variety of cameras, sensors and maps, and are expected to be acutely aware of every small change that happens in the 15-30 kilometers of land that they are each responsible for monitoring. Once relevant information has been gathered by the surveillance soldiers, it is passed up the chain of command, including to intelligence officials who then determine what steps need to be taken. However, according to the accounts of two surveillance soldiers stationed on a base in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, the signs of what was to come on October 7 were never taken seriously. In a segment aired on Kan News on Wednesday evening, two soldiers, Yael Rotenberg and Maya Desiatnik, recounted their experiences in the months before the attack and up until 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7.
Rotenberg recalled frequently seeing many Palestinians dressed in civilian clothing approach the border fence with maps, examining the ground around it and digging holes. One time, when she passed the information on, she was told that they were farmers, and there was nothing to worry about. Rotenberg was asleep when the attack began, and of the surveillance soldiers who were in the living quarters that morning, she is the only one to have survived. Desiatnik, who was on duty, was the only other surveillance soldier at the base not killed or abducted. 'It’s infuriating,' she told Kan of the intelligence failure.
We saw what was happening, we told them about it, and we were the ones who were murdered.' The Hamas terrorists would train at the border fence nonstop, Desiatnik told Kan. At first, it was once a week, then once a day, and then nearly constantly. In addition to passing on information about the frequency of the training going on at the fence, the surveillance soldier said she collected evidence of the content of the training, which included how to drive a tank and how to cross into Israel via a tunnel.
As the activity on the border increased, she realized that 'it was just a matter of time' until something happened. Former tatzpitaniyot Amit Yerushalmi and Noa Melman corroborated the accounts of the two survivors in an interview published by Channel 12 on Thursday morning. Yerushalmi had finished her mandatory service a month prior to October 7, and had observed the increased activity on the Gaza border in the months leading up to her release.
'We sat on shifts and saw the convoy of vans. We saw the training, people shooting and rolling, practicing taking over a tank. The training went from once a week to twice a week, from every day to several times a day,'she told Channel 12.'We saw patrols along the border, people with cameras and binoculars. It happened 300 meters from the fence. There were a lot of disturbances, people went down to the fence and detonated an outrageous amount of explosives, the amount of explosives was crazy.'Like Rotenberg and Desiatnik, Yerushalmi said that she passed the information along, but that nobody seemed to take it seriously. 'I saw what was happening, I wrote everything down on the computer and passed it on. I don’t know what happened with it, we don’t actually know what they do with the information.'
Melman finished her mandatory service some nine months ago, but told Channel 12 that even then, there were indications of what was to come, including a mock border fence set up by Hamas in order for the terrorists to practice, again and again, blowing up the border and crossing over to the other side.
….In the weeks before October 7, Rotenberg noticed that the efforts of the Hamas soldiers were concentrated at two specific points of the area she was responsible for tracking. However, she continued to hear from her commanders that it wasn’t important and that there was nothing that could be done about it."
Desiatnik, who was on duty, was the only other surveillance soldier at the base not killed or abducted. 'It’s infuriating,' she told Kan of the intelligence failure.
'We saw what was happening, we told them about it, and we were the ones who were murdered.'
In January of 2024 BBC reported on these Nahal Oz female observers, some of whom were murdered despite their warnings:
In the months leading up to the 7 October attacks by Hamas, they[female observers on the border] did begin to see things: practice raids, mock hostage-taking, and farmers behaving strangely on the other side of the fence.
Noa, not her real name, says they would pass information about what they were seeing to intelligence and higher-ranking officers, but were powerless to do more. "We were just the eyes," she says.
It was clear to some of these women that Hamas was planning something big - that there was, in Noa's words, a "balloon that was going to burst".
The BBC has now spoken to these young women about the escalation in suspicious activity they observed, the reports they filed, and what they saw as a lack of response from senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers.
We have also seen WhatsApp messages the women sent in the months before 7 October, talking about incidents at the border. To some of them it became a dark joke: who would be on duty when the inevitable attack came?
These women were not the only ones raising the alarm, and as more testimony is gathered, anger at the Israeli state - and questions over its response - are mounting.
…As Hamas attacked, the women at Nahal Oz, a base about a kilometre from the Gaza border, began to say goodbye to one another on their shared WhatsApp group.
Noa, who was not on duty and was reading the messages from home, remembers thinking "this is it". The attack they had long feared was now actually happening.
And now, just recently in May the IDF has acknowledged that Netanyahu was warned 4 times in 2023 that Hamas was regarding Israel’s internal division as providing potential opportunity for an attack. The IDF did this in response to a public information request.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received four communiques from the Military Intelligence Directorate in the spring and summer of 2023 warning him about how the country’s enemies were viewing the upheaval in Israeli society at the time, the Israel Defense Forces revealed on Thursday.
In response to a freedom of information request filed by the Hatzlacha nonprofit on the matter, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that “during 2023, between March and July, four different warning letters were passed by the intelligence directorate, which showed how Israel’s enemies… viewed the harm to cohesion in the State of Israel and the IDF in particular.”
Hatzlacha, which describes itself as aiming to promote a fair society in Israel, said that seven months ago, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, it filed a request for the information regarding warnings given to Netanyahu before the unprecedented attack.
Israel’s military and intelligence officials were given a highly detailed warning that Hamas was actively training to take over kibbutzim on the Gaza border and overrun military posts with the aim of inflicting substantial fatalities, according to reports in the Israeli media.
The claim made by Israel’s Channel 12 on Monday evening was based on leaked emails from the Israeli military’s 8200 cyber-intelligence unit discussing the warnings.
Those emails revealed that a senior officer who reviewed the intelligence considered the danger of a massive surprise attack by Hamas across the Gaza border to be “an imaginary scenario”.
The hugely embarrassing leak describes in shocking detail what would turn out to be key elements of Hamas’s planning for its massacre of 1,200 Israelis on 7 October, including that Israel spotters were aware of senior Hamas officials present as observers during training preparations.
According to the leaked emails, Hamas went as far as giving the mocked-up kibbutz used in training a name and even practised raising a flag over its synagogue.
Plans were also intercepted that discussed overrunning a border military base and killing all of its occupants…
In another subsequent email, a colleague of the soldier who gave the initial warning said they emphatically disagreed with this assessment, while V herself suggested they were seeing a concrete “operational plan without a timetable for implementation” and that Hamas was planning for a “big event”.
Other very senior officers, including the head of the 8200 unit, have suggested in briefings to Israeli journalists that they were not shown V’s warning, despite the email chain discussing it.
….According to this telling of events, V’s direct commander backed up her assessment, insisting it was a real exercise and not a display. The warnings were reiterated by the soldiers involved a few weeks before 7 October when an unnamed senior intelligence officer visited their base and the intelligence was presented to him.
Now the question is, since Israel and Hamas were BOTH preparing for “all-out war” in the months leading up to October 7th, as pointed out in Part 1…… WHY THE #%&$ WOULDN’T ISRAELI LEADERSHIP TAKE INTELLIGENCE INDICATING AN ATTACK SERIOUSLY…. let alone repeated intelligence from multiple sources, internally within the nation’s security forces, as well as externally (Egyptian and US intelligence as well).
Moreover……. WHY WOULD INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS AND OBSERVERS WARNING OF THE ATTACK BE THREATENED WITH COURT MARTIAL FOR DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY AND WARNING OF THE ATTACK BASED OFF SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AND ASSESSMENT?
Many dismiss talk of intelligence failure as simply a result of arrogance and hubris, which maybe would satisfy to potentially explain a dismissal of intelligence from one or two source, but..
When you have multiple internal and external intelligence sources repeatedly warning for a year an attack was being planned.. With internal intelligence providing detailed intel indicating why junior intelligence thought that an attack was on the horizon, with details of the training, and even the attack plans..
and those internal sources were threatened with court martial for continuing to warn despite prior warnings falling on deaf and dismissive ears..
It is hard to simply write off the intelligence failure as an incidental failure, a series of unfortunate coincidences.
Especially when in the months prior to October 7, Israel was already publicly integrating AI with their military in preparation for “all-out war”, and Hamas was threatening “all-out war”.
Why would contingencies and countermeasures NOT be put in place in the event the indications of an attack turned out to be true - even if senior leadership found it improbable?
It is a simple question. And I cannot find anything but a simple answer. Israeli leadership wanted the attack to happen.
Originally in part one, I forgot to even include the story of US intelligence warning Israel of “potential for violence” by Hamas in the days leading up to the attack. This was in addition to Egypt’s intelligence chief personally warning Netanyahu among other repeated warnings by Egypt’s intelligence agency to Israel.
"The US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel warning the Biden administration of an increased risk for Palestinian-Israeli conflict…
One update from September 28 warned, based on multiple streams of intelligence, that the terror group Hamas was poised to escalate rocket-attacks across the border. An October 5 wire from the CIA warned generally of the increasing possibility of violence by Hamas. Then, on October 6, the day before the attack, US officials circulated reporting from Israel indicating unusual activity by Hamas — indications that are now clear: an attack was imminent.
InPart One, I sought to answer this question of why Israel would not act on, and repeatedly dismiss intelligence from various sources indicating an attack.
Remember, as mentioned above in my recapping of part 1 of this series, Egyptian intelligence “repeatedly” warning Israel of an imminent attack by Hamas, of “something big”.Moreover, thisincludedEgypt’s intelligence chief personally warning Netanyahu. But despite Israel and Hamas openly preparing for “all-out” war in the months leading up to October 7th, Israeli leadership did NOTHING to act upon repeated warnings from within its own ranks nor from foreign intelligence agencies. Why would they not prepare for a potential attack in case the intelligence was true? Especially since Israel was already preparing for “all-out war” as Hamas threatened it.
I know I am repeating myself…
But how can Israeli leadership say they were caught off guard by October 7th?
Again…… Just to emphasize how ludicrous this intelligence failure was……. not only did Israel ignore or fail to act on repeated intelligence from within Israel’s own ranks, as well as external intelligence agencies, but leadership went as far as even THREATENING TO COURT MARTIAL THOSE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WARNING OF THE ATTACK.
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE…. outside of the scenario where Israeli leadership wanted the attack to happen to provide a pretext for going scorched Earth on Gaza and taking more territory, advancing the Greater Israel agenda.
The Greater Israel Movement motive aligns with Israel’s actions and intentions to drive the remaining Palestinians out of Gaza.
This Greater Israel motive directly tiesinto the leaked Israeli military documents from October, covered in Part 1 of this series, which described a plan for Israel to drive the remaining Gazan population into the Sinai desert for Egypt to deal with, with the intention to never allow them to return - to permanently “resettle” the Gazans in Egypt.
The developments concerning the displacement of Palestinians, the proposed motive for an intelligence stand-down, will be consolidated towards the end of the article - For now, lets jump into the developments around the Intelligence Stand-down narrative that have occurred since I published Part 3 in December.
In February, it was admitted by the IDF that dozens to hundreds of SIM cards, or some Israeli media reports say around 1000 SIM cards (variations in reporting from Israeli media, IDF has claimed only dozens not hundreds contrary to initial reports), were activated before the attack, which triggered an emergency meeting among defense officials the night before the Oct 7th attack.
This emergency meeting the night before Oct 7th by top Israeli defense officials was a focus of the lawsuit initiated by the Nova Festival survivors against the Israeli state - the first of its kind. The survivors of the Nova festival massacre are suing the Israeli military, the Shin Bet, and the Israeli police, alleging negligence. The Nova festival survivors lawsuit is one of the developments that occurred after I published part 3.
The Nova festival survivor lawsuit does not even discuss the fact that the Israeli military were responsible for many of the Israeli civilian deaths initially blamed on Hamas, let alone the Hannibal directive, which suggests those deaths were intentional. When I wrote part 1, I covered the indications that Israel was behind many of the deaths blamed on Hamas, but left ambiguity as to whether it was intentional and deliberate, or incidental / happenstance.
With the Hannibal directive having come into the spotlight along with more details of October 7th, and Israel’s actions since, there is a strong case to be made that Israel not only had no consideration for the lives of the hostages in the military’s response, but that they actually preferred the hostages dead, considering them a liability. But the Hannibal directive and disregard for hostages before and after Oct 7th will be discussed in a latter section.
This first section below will discuss the developments related to intelligence being ignored prior to the attack, and the failure of prevention, before moving on to the failure of the response, and the greater narrative of the Greater Israel agenda fueling the negligence.
I have had to split this part 4 into part 4 and part 5 due to length (Substack started crashing on me). If you enjoy this piece, be sure to go on to read the subsequent article which will immediately follow this one.
Israel Ignored Intelligence That Foreshadowed The Attack
Before evidence had even emerged supporting the line of thought that Israel had allowed the Oct 7th attack to happen, many found it suspicious that Israeli intelligence had not seen the attack coming. Now we know, Israeli intelligence *did* see the attack coming.
This suspicion that the attack was intentionally allowed to happen was not restrained to just anti-Zionists, but even shared by many Israelis. In part one of this series I featured a former soldier who served along the border, who knew the technological capabilities of Israel’s surveillance apparatus, and doubted the official story because the logistics of the intelligence failure did not make sense to him.
In Mid-October, Charlie Kirk asked, “"Was there a standdownorder? Six hours?! 6 hours to respond to the Hamas attack? I don't believe it... They're live streaming the killing of Jews. Did somebody in the government say standdown?"“
"The whole country is a fortress... I’ve been to that Gaza border, you cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19 year old with an... automatic machine gun.. an IDF soldier. The whole country is surveilled...
We don't talk about Israeli politics very often, and most Americans don't know this. The last 9 months [before Oct 7th], Israel has been on the brink of civil war.It is not an exaggeration. This judicial stuff.. there were hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets because Bibi Netanyahu is basically redefining the Israeli constitution. That's not an exaggeration.. He said the judicial branch has too much power..
There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu where they anticipated 10,000's of people... That's all gone now. Netanyahu has an emergency government mandate to lead... I'm not going to go so far as to say Netanyahu knew or there was intelligence, but I think some questions need to be answered. Was there a stand down order? Was there a stand down order? 6 hours? 6 hours to respond to the Hamas attack? I don't believe it. Israel's the size of New Jersey. When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza border - it's 45 minutes. —— [But] 6 hours. They're live streaming the killing of jews. [and it takes 6 hours to respond]. Did someone in the government say, "stand down"? That is a legitimate question"
Since Kirk’s statement in October, his questions have only become more relevant- considering developments that have further pointed to an “intelligence stand down”, the notion that senior Israeli intelligence deliberately ignored the signs of an impending attack and allowed the attack to be carried out. Speaking of the brewing possibility of Civil war in Israel before October 7th… Charlie Kirk wasn’t exaggerating.
Over half of Israelis were concerned of a civil war breaking out before Oct 7th, according to a poll from last July. Israel’s political climate was fracturing heavily as a result of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul.
Israel Was on The Brink Of Civil War Before October 7th As a Result of Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
Over half of Israelis (56 percent) are concerned about a civil war breaking out due to societal divisions surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan, according to a poll published by Channel 13 on 26 July.
Only 39 percent of respondents said they were unconcerned about a civil war, while 9 percent said they were unsure. …Numerous prominent military officials, politicians, and media commentators have warned in recent months of the dangers of a civil war breaking out due to unrest surrounding the government's judicial reform plan, and these warnings have intensified as the legislation was finally voted on and passed on 23 July. ..
In March, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on the government to halt judicial reform, saying the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger to the country.
"The deepening split is seeping into the military and defense institutions - this is a clear, immediate, and real danger to Israel's security," Gallant said in a televised statement.
In August, the former IDF military intelligence chief called Netanyahu a “danger to Israel’s security” due to Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul that had put the country on the brink of civil war. This sentiment would be echo’d by others after October 7th, including by a former Israeli prime minister, and a former US ambassador to Israeli, almost verbatim.
As a result of the internal tension in Israel, the Pentagon sent a top official, as thousands of Israeli army reservist boycotted their duties in the months prior to October 7th.
Last month, the Knesset successfully passed the first overhaul law into legislation, the reasonableness bill – which limits the ability of the judiciary to review decisions made by government or elected officials.
As a result, thousands of Israeli army reservists made good on promises to boycott their duties, and high-ranking military officials have warned of a deterioration in the army’s readiness for combat.
Israel’s air force chief has suspended a number of senior military reserve forces amid ongoing protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan, Israeli media reported on 19 August.
Air Force Major General Tomer Bar agreed to suspend the service of several brigadier generals, without identifying them or revealing the number of dismissed officers.
The announcement came a day after the Israeli navy suspended two high-ranking reservists, Rear Admiral Ofer Doron and Rear Admiral Eyal Segev…. after they announced plans to end volunteer reserve duties. The two men said that they refused to serve in “a dictatorship.”
The internal turmoil in Israel was causing the the Israeli currency, the Shekel, to decline, and the country began experiencing an “unprecedented” exodus of Israelis seeking to leave the country.
Israel's internal crisis is pushing large numbers of settlers to leave the country…
European embassies in Tel Aviv are reporting an unprecedented increase in requests by Israeli citizens to obtain European passports and visas as Israel continues to experience its worst internal crisis since the initial occupation of Palestine over seven decades ago.
With the political atmosphere so tense, Netanyahu was becoming concerned he would be undermined by fellow politicians, such as Defense minister Gallant.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been forbidden from meeting with US government officials during his current trip to Washington by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Netanyahu reportedly imposed a veto with the directive, "if I’m not invited to Washington, no one gets a meeting there."
One month before October 7th, it was reported that foreign investment had already declined by SIXTY PERCENT (60%) relative to previous years, largely as a result of this political tension from Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan.
The point of all this is to say that before October 7th, Israel had become very politically unstable, with a level of internal tension not seen since the creation of Israel. Tensions have been skyrocketing past few months as well with massive Israeli protests starting in February and growing into March, April, and May - led by the families and friends of the Israeli hostages, who have been demanding that Netanyahu make a deal to return the hostages.
Before Oct 7th,Netanyahu was scared to allow / disallowed the defense minister, Gallant, to meet with US officials without him being present, the majority of Israelis were afraid of civil war, and Israeli citizens were leaving or looking to leave the country in “unprecedented” numbers.
Allowing October 7th to happen may not have been just to serve the greater Israel agenda of fully colonizing Palestine, although that is the general impetus of it in my opinion, but other political motivations could be at play. Ie:Netanyahu had his personal motivations for an intelligence stand down, alongside the Greater Israel motivation that Netanyahu shares with many others.
The idea of an intelligence stand down has been growing amongst Israelis, as many blame Netanyahu for the intelligence failure. Not everyone assumes it was a result of incompetency.
“Many Israelis blame the prime minister for allowing Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to happen”
In the recent revelations by the IDF that Netanyahu received 4 warning letters from the IDF before October 7th,Channel 13 news in Israel reported in May; “The IDF confirms: Netanyahu received four warning letters from the IDF before October 7 - regarding the perceived damage to Israeli unity among the enemy and its effect on the army “
In essence, the IDF was warning Netanyahu that Hamas was looking to capitalize off Israel’s internal division, and elements of the IDF and Israeli intelligence knew that Hamas was looking at the internal strife as a potential opportunity to catch Israel off guard. Netanyahu didn’t ignore 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 warning letters from the IDF.
This reminded me of a line from a rap I created in January upon a flash of inspiration, based off my prior articles in this series. I have produced others since, but this one below is directly based on the first 3 parts of this article series.
Israeli intelligence official threatened with court martial for continuing to warn of an impending assault?
Look, I’m not saying Hamas isn’t at fault, I’m saying the 5 year old picking his families body parts up isn’t, innocence of the individual is default
Ya gotta question what they feeding ya Low level Israeli personnel have gone to the media, for months they were begging their superias, ‘Please take us serious, why aren’t you hearing us’
‘Heres intelligence of Hamas planning a boarder attack’
Yet israeli leadership ignored not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4,but many Israeli soldiers and intel agents offering detailed indications of what was about to go down at the border, yet it was all slammed down in short order, as if leadership wanted an opportunity for retaliation, the fingerprints of a quote on quote intelligence stand down
Since I published parts one, two, and three of my Oct 7th series, more indications have come forth that further add to the speculation that Israeli intelligence leadership allowed the attack to happen.
Here is a clip by ABC News from December, the same day I published Part 3:
"We're going to have to get to the bottom of it after the war."
"All of these questions, we're going to have to get to the bottom of it after the war," Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
So what has happened since I wrote part 3 in relation to the intelligence stand down narrative? Here are some major stories that have caught my eye in the months since.
“The Shin Bet also received signals from Gaza that were not correctly interpreted – and that it might have been possible to prevent or at least reduce the scale of the massacres,” the Israeli daily said.
According to the report, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar was present at the agency headquarters in Tel Aviv the night before Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
“The head of the Shin Bet rushed to the organization's headquarters in Tel Aviv following signs from the Gaza Strip about something happening, and held consultations throughout the night,” the report added.
Due to the SIM card revelations from Feb., we now know that the hundreds of Israeli SIM card activations in Gaza the night before the attack triggered, or at least contributed to emergency “consultations throughout the night”. In the course of writing this, it has been revealed that the appearance of Ali Al Qadhi, a “Hamas operative with a rank equivalent to that of company commander”, triggered the consultations.
The investigation concluded that leaders in the army refused to consider or prepare for the possibility of a Hamas ground invasion of Israel and instead focused on the threat from Hamas missile attacks.
…Analysts also observed suspicious behavior on the night of 6 October, just hours before the attack, when Qadhi “began meeting with Nukhba activists without any reasonable explanation from the IDF and the command,” says the source.
Shortly after 11 pm, a soldier from Military Intelligence burst into the Gaza Division’s operations room, shouting, “Ali Al Qadhi is behaving suspiciously!” Haaretz says the soldier was “calling out a name familiar to everybody there – Qadhi, a Hamas operative from the Jabalya area, with a rank equivalent to that of company commander. The female spotters recognized him from a distance.”
The warnings led top Israeli army and intelligence officials to hold emergency meetings early the next morning, including one in person at 3 am attended by Shin Bet chief Ronan Bar. However, the military leadership issued no warnings to the soldiers, including many female spotters manning military outposts along the Gaza border, nor to residents living in nearby settlements (kibbutzim).
The army also issued no warnings to the organizers of the Nova festival, where thousands of partygoers were enjoying a rave at a location near the Gaza border and Re’im military base.
Despite these emergency consultations, and the serious concern of “something happening”,no preparations were made to deal with the potentiality of an assault being carried out, despite the emergency consultations for indications of exactly that. Furthermore, the Nova festival goers were given no warning.
Topdefense officials held urgent consultations the night before October 7 about a possible Hamas attack. But no one in the IDF notified the the Nova festival organizers or the party-goers, hundreds of whom were mown down – and for nine hours, no one came to save them
Shortly after these emergency consultations were initially revealed by Israeli media, the Nova festival survivors sued the IDF, Shin Bet, and Israeli police, seeking damages as a result of their negligence.
The Nova Festival survivor lawsuit against Israeli defence forces, initiated in late December, focused on the consultations which demonstrated they had intelligence of a possible attack, intel that top defense officials felt merited emergency meetings.
The lawsuit takes aim at the lack of response or action taken to prepare for an attack, despite the intel. And as mentioned, no warning was given to the Nova festival of the possible security risk, which the lawsuit alleges was part of the negligence. The lawsuit did not involve the killing of civilians at the festival by Israeli forces.
"The disaster could have been avoided at so many points in time," representatives for the survivors told Israeli media.
….The largest lawsuit of its kind against Israeli security forces
This is the largest tort claim ever filed in Israel against the state, the IDF, the Israel Police and the Shin Bet for their omissions and negligence, Israeli media reported.
Before all this Oct 7th fallout, X had already partnered with an Israeli tech firm months before in August of 2023, to provide ID verification… The Israeli tech firm was of course a companyfounded by two former Shin Bet members - Au10TIX.
…Since the purge in January, which garnered attention and saw many of the accounts being reinstated (including mine), the censorship has continued…
But back to the Nova survivors suing Israeli Security Forces, including the Shin Bet…..
While “the lawsuit does not address evidence that Israeli forces killed many of the partygoers who died at the event through helicopter airstrikes”, the lawsuit does take aim at the lack of preparation by the Army, Police, and Shin bet, and the failure to respond once the threat was known and confirmed.
There were 2 emergency meetings by top Israeli defense officials, hours before the Oct 7th attack took place, one around midnight the night before on October 6th, one around 3am. Yet despite the meetings, no action was taken to alert the Nova festival goers, or to prepare for the eventuality of an attack.
“Forty two survivors of the Nova music festival in Re'im on 7 October have filed a lawsuit placing responsibility on the Israeli government for the tragic events of the festival, Israeli media reported on 1 January.
Some 42 survivors of the Nova music festival are seeking NIS 200 million ($55 million) in damages, blaming the state, the army, the police and the Shin Bet for their omissions and negligence…
The lawsuit blames the Israeli army for not having sufficient forces to adequately protect the concert…. organized with approval from senior army officials. “
The lawsuit further blames the army for failing to notify concert organizers when signs of a possible Hamas attack emerged late the night before, on Friday 6 October.
Senior Shin Bet and army officials held two emergency meetings, one by phone around midnight on Friday night, and one in person at 3 am Saturday. However, the officials failed to notify the concert organizers…
"All the defendants had to do was make a phone call to the responsible parties on their behalf in order for them to disperse the party in view of the notifications received on the night [between 10/6/23 - 10/7/23],”the lawyers filing the lawsuit on behalf of the victims said.
"The disaster could have been avoided at so many points in time," representatives for the survivors told Israeli media.
"One phone call separated the plaintiffs' lives and the integrity of their bodies and souls from the destruction of their lives," the 42 victims involved in the lawsuit wrote. The concert was located near the Re’im military base, home to the Israeli army’s Gaza Division…
Notice the Re’im military base is located near the festival. Yet it took hours for the military to respond to the attack…
We now know that official findings from an Israeli police report on the Nova Festival attack “suggest that the intended target was Re’im, a settlement and military base located just down the road - on Route 232 - from the Nova site....”
Additionally, the Jerusalem Post described how "a senior operations officer of the Gaza Division opposed the holding of the Nova festival, viewing it as an unnecessary security risk.” yet:
Despite his warnings and warnings of additional officers, permission to hold the party was granted and no one in the army or the police informed the approximately 3,500 participants of the Nova party about security concerns nor of thesigns of a potential Hamas attack that emerged on 6 October.
"It is incomprehensible," the court wrote, “how the defendants did not order the party to be dispersed immediately.”
The Shin bet and local police were first to arrive as ground forces, whom also seem to be responsible for friendly fire deaths, this will be discussed more later.
A few days after the above article, it was reported that several ministers were upset at the military’s plan to investigate the Oct 7th failures, albeit, the reasons for them being upset were to do with who was going to be involved with the investigation, and their role in disengaging from Gaza in 2005.
A bitter dispute over who should participate in an IDF investigation into security failures contributing to the October 7 massacre broke out at the security cabinet as it was ending its debate about Israel’s plan for the “day after.”…
At issue was opposition to an IDF plan for an internal investigatory committee that ….would be tasked with investigating the military failures that contributed to the Hamas-led October 7 attack…
…Some of the ministers in the meeting were upset that Mofaz and Farkash were part of the team. Both men had held top military roles during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza and in the lead-up to the Second Lebanon War.
But none of that Jpost article was directly dealing with the intelligence failure that resulted in Oct 7th, but rather the 2005 disengagement from Gaza. I just felt it is relevant, given it involved a dispute over investigating the Oct 7th failure, and the blame game going on.
In this case Ben Smotrich and Ben Gvir, radical zionists allied with Netanyahu, were upset of the IDF’s internal investigation into Oct 7. Remember, the IDF warned Netanyahu 4 times that Hamas was looking to take advantage of internal Israeli political upheaval affecting the military.
Developments of this internal investigation are found later in the article.
While on the subject of the Nova festival - A month after the lawsuit by the Nova survivors was initiated, THE NOVA FESTIVAL SECURITY CHIEF WENT ON RECORD TO SAY THAT HE RECEIVED A WARNING A WEEK BEFORE THE ATTACK, from a guard at the festival who served in the Re’im divison.
Chief of security at the Nova music festival, which was taking place near the Gaza-Israel border on 7 October, told Hebrew outlet Channel 14 that he received a warning about the Hamas operation a week ahead of the attacks.
Elkana Federman told Channel 14 that authorities ignored him when he relayed the warning.
“I had a guard at the festival who had served in the Re’im Division [near Gaza border], and a week before the festival he sent me a voice message … basically warning me, saying, ‘Elkana, something is going to happen over Sukkot (Jewish holiday). I just wanted to let you know, there are a lot of warnings,’” Federman said.
“I passed the voice message on, and they told me everything was all right, that the army would be able to handle whatever needed to be handled and that there were always alerts and that everything was fine. I did my part, I’m just a security officer, not a high army guy who can change something in my purview,” he added.
After 7 October, Federman was in the hospital and called the man who had given him the warning.
“I told him 'I wanted to talk to you about that recording you sent me a week before the festival; you were speaking in codes. Tell me exactly what they said to you. He told me, 'Elkana, they told me there was going to be an invasion, and that they were planning to take over towns. I just wasn't allowed to tell you that,'” Federman told the Hebrew outlet.
Read that again.Seriously.
After 7 October, Federman was in the hospital and called the man who had given him the warning.
“I told him 'I wanted to talk to you about that recording you sent me a week before the festival; you were speaking in codes. Tell me exactly what they said to you. He told me, 'Elkana, they told me there was going to be an invasion, and that they were planning to take over towns. I just wasn't allowed to tell you that,'” Federman told the Hebrew outlet.
So one of the guards of the Nova festival, with ties to the Re’im division, tried to warn the chief of security of the festival a week before hand, elaborating in retrospect that “they told me there was going to be an invasion, and that they were planning to take over towns. I just wasn't allowed to tell you that,”…. Who is “They?”
What?!? Who is the “they” that told the Nova Security guard there was going to be an invasion?Clearly forces in the Israeli government, who understood an actual threat had emerged. Yet the former soldier “wasn’t allowed” to tell the chief of security of the security threat? Why? Was he also threatened with court martial? [That is just me being snarky.]
The Cradle would go on to contextualize the Festival’s security chief’s statements:
This is the latest of a growing number of reports that Israeli authorities ignored multiple warnings about Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
In late November, Financial Times (FT) said that a detailed report by low-ranking officers was sent to senior officials in the army weeks before the attack. The army report warned Hamas was training to “blow up border posts at several locations, enter Israeli territory, and take over kibbutzim.” [included in part 2]
The officers also provided video footage of Hamas practicing taking prisoners.
The Times of Israel reported in October 2023 that warnings provided by low-level surveillance soldiers were ignored by their superiors for months. [the Nahal Oz Base female observers]
The negligence doesn’t stop there.
In late February, it was reported that hundreds of Israeli Sim Cards were activated before Oct. 7th, which the Jerusalem Post noted, “could have very well been an indication of a potential invasion.”
Dozens to hundreds of Hamas members activated Israeli SIM cards in the early morning hours of October 7, just before the massacre began, Israeli censorship cleared for publication on Monday – four months later. IDF intelligence and the Shin Bet noted the activity in real time.
This could have very well been an indication of a potential invasion.
These SIM card activations helped trigger a meeting of top defense officials in the early hours of Oct 7th, according to Haaretz. The “emergency consultations” throughout the night of Oct 6th, mentioned earlier in the previous referenced December article, “Israel’s Shin Bet Ignored Crucial Intel Before 7 October”, are referring to the same events.
This relates to the lawsuit against the military, Shin Bet, and Israeli police by the Nova festival survivors, as the “emergency consultations” are part of the lawsuit as referenced above.
■ This was a sign of unusual activity, which triggered a meeting of top defense officials during early hours ■
We now also know, due to Haaretz’s May investigation, already referenced, that there were other indications behind the emergency consultations besides the SIM card activations - namely the unusual spotting of Hamas commander Ali Al Qadhi.
…Hours before the Hamas-led attack on October 7, Israeli intelligence services recognized over 1,000 of Israeli SIMs were activated in Gaza.
According to the latest released findings, hundreds of the Nuhkba special operatives within the terrorist organization Hamas had been those to switch SIM cards in their phones at exactly midnight.
These signals were caught by Israeli intelligence
Before the news of the SIM card activations broke, I noticed that a Labour candidate in the UK had echoed the accusatory narrative that Israel allowed the Oct 7th massacre to happen in order to set a pretext for invading Gaza.
This demonstrates that the idea of an intelligence stand down was growing, and it isn’t hard to image why.
Israeldeliberately allowed 1,400 of its citizens to be massacred on October 7 in order to give it the 'green light' to invade Gaza, a Labour by-election candidate has claimed.
….He told the meeting: 'The Egyptians are saying that they warned Israel ten days earlier... Americans warned them a day before [that] there's something happening... They deliberately took the security off, they allowed... that massacre that gives them the green light to do whatever they bloody want.'
I think the Labour candidate hit the nail on the head, obviously. I suspect he apologized due to political pressure / motives, in an effort for damage control.
Why, in April, would Israel refuse to comply with an investigation the UN had opened into Oct 7th?
An independent investigation into Hamas' alleged atrocities during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood might address reports Israel killed many of its own civilians and soldiers under the Hannibal Directive.
A UN-mandated commission of inquiry probing violations of international human rights law accused Israel on 16 April of obstructing its efforts to collect evidence from the victims of Hamas' attack on Israeli military bases and settlements on 7 October.
"So far as the government of Israel is concerned, we have not only seen a lack of cooperation but active obstruction of our efforts to receive evidence from Israeli witnesses and victims to the events that occurred in southern Israel," said Chris Sidoti, a member of a commission of inquiry established to investigate human rights abuses committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
"We have contact with many, but we would like to have contact with more."
Sidoti pleaded with the Israeli government, as well as victims and witnesses of the attack, to cooperate with the commission to conduct its investigation….
Israeli officials may fear a thorough and independent investigation of the events of 7 October due to clear evidence that allegations of Hamas atrocities were fabricated and that Israeli forces themselves killed many, if not most, of the Israeli civilians who died that day.
Israeli forces used attack helicopters, tanks, and drones to fire missiles and high-caliber machine guns to devastate their own settlements (kibbutzim), military bases, and border areas to repel the Hamas assault.
Under the Hannibal Directive, this included Israeli forces killing their own civilians and soldiers, including burning many alive, to prevent Hamas from taking them captive back to Gaza.
Perhaps this was to hide details of the Israeli reaction / response on Oct 7th (The Hannibal directive, fabrications of sexual assault allegations) but nonetheless.
While a couple intelligence officials have resigned and taken responsibility for “failure to prevent”, Netanyahu has not. As described in part one, Netanyahu tried to shift all blame to the Shin Bet and other parties, while refusing to accept any of the blame. This has culminated in several resignations of Israeli officials.
Whatever the case, whether the intelligence failure was accidental or intentional, Netanyahu has refused to take responsibility like some of those around him. Some intelligence officials have begun to resign in recent months.
..Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has aggressively tried to blame others for the October 7 failure and to prevent any probes into the failure which might study his role and strategic decisions in handling Hamas since he was reelected prime minister in 2009. Gallant very belatedly took more responsibility than Netanyahu, but questions linger on his future in office.
…While the major had responsibility for downplaying the threat of a Hamas invasion, that was part of a much larger trend and strategic framing of Hamas as a non-threat.
Some have even accused Netanyahu of using Hamas as an indirect “asset” with which to weaken the Palestinian Authority, while not fully preparing for the potential risks of such a path.
Also, the major is far from the only IDF officer who dismissed the Hamas invasion threat.
In April, the Israeli army intel chief resigned over the Oct 7th failure.
Haliva is the first senior official to resign over his role in failing to stop the operation.
Several reports have surfaced in recent months that say Israel neglected crucial intelligence that could have prevented Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
In late December, Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Israel’s Shin Bet security service received crucial intelligence that could have prevented the attack. According to the report, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar was present at the agency headquarters in Tel Aviv the night before Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
“The head of the Shin Bet rushed to the organization's headquarters in Tel Aviv following signs from the Gaza Strip about something happening, and held consultations throughout the night,” the report added.
According to another Israeli media report cited by Yedioth Ahronoth, the Shin Bet had received information from one of its undercover agents inside the Gaza Strip months before the attack saying that Hamas was planning something “major the week after Yom Kippur."
The information “was not marked as significant"...
“The Israeli military has been conducting its own investigation into the failures that led to oct 7th. However the investigation does not target figures outside of the military, with calls for an independent investigation shut down by politicians who feared they would be targeted. Netanyahu has also eluded taking responsibility, instead shifting the blame onto military figures. Surveys show most Israeli's blame him for the events, with suspicions that he is prolonging the war in Gaza in order to avoid a formal state inquiry.”
Curiously, Israel has denied cooperating with the UN to investigate October 7th. This could be in attempt to avoid details that point to an intelligence stand down, or details that pertain to the Hannibal directive and Israeli friendly fire - or both.
Just recently in April, “A UN-mandated commission of inquiry… accused Israel on 16 April of obstructing its efforts to collect evidence from the victims of Hamas' attack on Israeli military bases and settlements on 7 October.”
As we will discuss, anti-Netanyahu protests led by the family members of Israeli hostages began gaining steam in February, turning into a massive uproar in March and April - continuing into June. The Israeli protestors, led by family and friends of Israeli hostages trapped in Gaza, have been demanding a hostage deal to be prioritized, accusing Netanyahu of essentially not caring about a hostage deal. This was part of my thesis developed in earlier parts of this series (Hannibal directive never ended).
As Anti-Netanyahu momentum grew, even Trump, a pro-Israel Zionist, recently called out Netanyahu in late April for not preventing Oct 7th, saying about the tragedy that “Everything was there to stop that. And a lot of people knew about it, you know, thousands and thousands of people know about it… I will say this, Bibi Netanyahu rightfull has been criticized for what took place on October 7”
Former President Donald Trump has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in which around 1,200 people were butchered “should have never happened.”…
“They have the most sophisticated equipment,” said Trump, 77, of Israeli security forces. “They had — everything was there to stop that. And a lot of people knew about it, you know, thousands and thousands of people knew about it, but Israel didn’t know about it, and I think he’s being blamed for that very strongly, being blamed.”
“I will say this,” he added. “Bibi Netanyahu rightfully has been criticized for what took place on October 7.”
…During his administration, Trump had been very cozy with Netanyahu and oversaw the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the brokering of the Abraham Accords in which the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan normalized relations with Israel. …Earlier this month, Trump mused that Israel is “losing the PR war” and fretted about harrowing images coming out of the Gaza Strip amid the brutal conflict.
Also in May, Haaretz published an investigation that described the IDF ran an exercise simulating a Hamas border assault, in a similar manner to what was seen on Oct 7th…and the exercise exposed to the IDF how the Israeli army was unprepared to respond to such a border assault.
Most importantly, rather than running the exercise over until the IDF felt confident on how to respond to such an attack, military leadership shifted to focusing on preparing for Hamas missile attacks.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an investigation on 9 May, providing further details of the alleged intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to launch Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October successfully.
The investigation concluded that leaders in the army refused to consider or prepare for the possibility of a Hamas ground invasion of Israel and instead focused on the threat from Hamas missile attacks. ....
Haaretz states that during the Hamas attack on 7 October, the “border fence was revealed to be semi-imaginary” and that fighters from Hamas’ elite Nukhba brigade breached it at 44 different points.
According to the Haaretz report, the Israeli army held two exercises in previous years to prepare for the possibility of Hamas breaching the border before the fence’s completion.
The first was in 2016 and involved responding to a Hamas raid that would use cars, motorcycles, and paragliders to breach the fence into Israel and then move toward the southern settlements (kibbutzim), around which army soldiers were deployed.
However, a security source who participated in the exercise stated that it was soon stopped without any clear plan to prevent such an attack.
“After a few hours, Edelstein decided to stop when the ‘enemy’ had already reached the Ad Halom junction in the north [near Ashdod] and others had reached Kiryat Gat in the south – without the Southern Command and the Gaza Division knowing how to respond,” the source said.
Despite the failure of the exercise, the army leadership opposed holding a second training in 2019 and insisted on focusing on Hamas’ missile capabilities.
Any officers warning of a possible Hamas ground invasion were either ignored or ridiculed...
So essentially, the IDF was had run a training exercise involving Hamas breaching the border using cars, motorcycles, and paragliders - as they had on October 7th, and the training exercise the IDF conducted in 2016 exposed the fact that the Israeli military did not have an adequate plan to respond to such an attack…and instead of working on the scenario / exercise to patch the vulnerability, the Israeli military leadership chose to focus only on preparing for a missile attack, despite the fact that the exercise of a ground invasion revealed how Israel was unprepared to deal with a ground invasion……
Combine that information with the fact that intelligence indicating an impending ground invasion were continually ignored, as discussed extensively.
Was October 7th’s security / intelligence failure really just a result of incompetence?
As mentioned towards the beginning, recently in May the IDF stated they sent Netanyahu 4 warnings in 2023 that Hamas was viewing Israel’s internal strife as a potential opportunity to catch the defense forces off guard.
Many Israelis blame the prime minister for allowing Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to happen
Israeli media reported on 24 May that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had received four warnings before Hamas carried out its military operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October.
Israeli Channel 13 reported Thursday that “Netanyahu received four warnings or reports from the Military Intelligence Agency, Aman, during the past year, 2023, indicating the existence of security risks, before October 7th.”
“The Israeli army spokesman indicated that, between March and July 2023, the Aman Military Intelligence Division sent four warning messages to Netanyahu that the country’s enemies are exploiting the ongoing internal divisions to prepare for any military operations to attempt to harm Israel,” the channel added.
Netanyahu has denied such foreknowledge, saying that all reports or intelligence briefings he received showed that “Hamas is deterred and wants to reach a settlement.”
Israeli intelligence issued multiple reports suggesting Hamas was planning to invade Israeli settlements and military bases surrounding Gaza. However, these reports were ignored by higher-level intelligence officials, including warnings issued in the weeks and days ahead of 7 October.
These reports, as well as the ease with which Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border fence and the slow response of the air force and army, have led some Israelis to speculate that Netanyahu and others in Israeli intelligence and the military welcomed a Hamas attack. The events of 7 October, including many false claims of Hamas atrocities, such as rape and beheading babies, have given Israel a pretext to wage its brutal war on Gaza.
…Far-right religious elements in Israel, led by prominent ministers in Netanyahu’s government, have long called for a war on Gaza to forcibly expel its population and build Jewish settlements in its place.
In a moment we will discuss the massive Anti-Netanyahu protests being led by the family members of the hostages, but take note that many Israelis are angry at Netanyahu for A. Propping up Hamas
B. Not preventing the attack (whether intentional or not) C. Killing Israeli civilians inthe response (intentionally, Hannibal directive)
D. Sabotaging hostage negotiations
And as the Cradle acknowledged above, some Israelis are certainly skeptical of the circumstances of the attack given various political agendas and motivations at play.
These reports, as well as the ease with which Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border fence and the slow response of the air force and army, have led some Israelis to speculate that Netanyahu and others in Israeli intelligence and the military welcomed a Hamas attack.
But lets move on from indications that there was an ‘intelligence stand down”. If you want to look at more evidence for the notion that Israel allowed Oct 7th to happen, refer to the earlier articles in this series, listed at the top of this article.
“The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions in the security establishment and possible negligence by officials, the warning signs were not acted on.”
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the IDF and intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas's plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people weeks before the October 7 massacre.
Israel Intentionally Killed Own Civilians on Oct 7th, Hannibal Directive
+ Israel Not Caring About The Lives of Hostages After October 7th, Seemingly Preferring Them Dead - Same Motive / Spirit as Hannibal Directive
As discussed, a thesis point I began developing in part 1 was the notion that Israel did not care about the hostages, and with the implication that they maybe even preferred them dead given that the motive for allowing the attack to happen would be for providing a pretext for the response (the more dead, the more Israel could attempt to justify what would happen after, what has happened since Oct 7th).
Note how Netanyahu has stated numerous times through out this war that there cannot be a Palestinian State ever, as a result of October 7th. [ 1, 2, 3,4, 5] Not that he hasn’t maintained this stance publicly throughout his career..
"On the 27th, Netanyahu was reported to tell a Likud legislators, “I am the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza and [the West Bank] after the war, ”.
Shortly after part 3’s publication, Netanyahu continued to push the idea that Oct 7th justified preventing Palestinian statehood, something Israel sought to prevent long before they funded Hamas and its rise to power
“You and your journalist friends have been blaming me for almost 30 years for putting the brakes on the Oslo Accords, and preventing the Palestinian state. That’s true,” he says.
“I’m proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state because today everybody understands what that Palestine state could have been, now that we’ve seen the little Palestinian state in Gaza. Everyone understands what would have happened if we had capitulated to international pressures and enabled a state like that in Judea and Samaria..
The Idea behind the Hannibal directive never ending is that Israel doesn’t care about the Hostages post-October 7th, just like they didn’t on October 7th. Israeli leadership doesn’t want to make peace with Hamas, they don’t want a hostage swap and a ceasefire.
This has been validated to me as I have been writing this piece.
To me, it seemed Israeli leaders prefer their own citizens to die in Hamas captivity - they want what they think will be adequate justification to render Gaza uninhabitable and displace the entire population to resettle with Jewish settlements.
By part two, this notion that Israel did not care about the hostages was backed up with the now infamous “Hannibal directive” going viral largely due to a 40-year veteran Israeli pilot Erez speaking to the media about it, saying October 7th was a “mass Hannibal” event, and describing the directive..
Note: I was repeatedly being called a conspiracy theorist when I published part 1. The Hannibal directive being discussed by the veteran Israeli pilot penetrated the zeitgeist of the independent sphere however, and as it went viral it helped legitimize and raise discussion around Israel’s reaction on Oct 7th and the death figures.
The most important development in Part 2 was probably the 40+ year veteran Israeli pilot, Col. Nof Erez, naming the Hannibal directive to the media, asserting it was a ‘Mass Hannibal’ event.:
Col. Nof Erez says the Israeli military likely killed its own civilians in multiple instances on 7 October to prevent them being taken back to Gaza as captives of Hamas
….Additionally, on November 26th, Keshet 12 News published a segment that included an Israeli soldier describing having been ordered to fire her tank inside houses with civilians inside.
‼️Q: “Are there civilians inside?”
‼️A: “I don’t know. Just shoot!”
You can watch the Keshet 12 video and others by navigating to part 2.
The Israeli pilot, colonel Nof Erez. was reminding the media of of its existence and giving his professional opinion as 40-year veteran that had ran drills and simulations practicing the Hannibal directive.
For years, the 'Hannibal procedure' was a well-kept army secret - an order that said the abduction of soldiers by enemy forces should be thwarted even if this entails shooting the abductees….
In…. 1986, three senior officers met at Northern Command headquarters and drew up one of the most controversial operational orders in the history of the Israel Defense Forces. The three were the head of Northern Command at the time…
The order they formulated had to do with the rules for opening fire in cases in which soldiers were being abducted:
"During an abduction, the major mission is to rescue our soldiers from the abductors even at the price of harming or wounding our soldiers. Light-arms fire is to be used in order to bring the abductors to the ground or to stop them. If the vehicle or the abductors do not stop, single-shot (sniper) fire should be aimed at them, deliberately, in order to hit the abductors, even if this means hitting our soldiers. In any event, everything will be done to stop the vehicle and not allow it to escape."
The IDF computer gave the order a random, though particularly exotic, code name: "Hannibal." Field commanders apprised their soldiers about the underlying meaning of the "Hannibal procedure": From the point of view of the army, a dead soldier is better than a captive soldier who himself suffers and forces the state to release thousands of captives in order to obtain his release.
For years, the army denied the existence of this directive, and the military censors did all they could to prevent it from becoming public knowledge…
Part 2’s key focus was on the Hannibal Directive being implemented on October 7th, but the development of learning that junior intelligence officers from Unit 8200 were threatened with court martial for repeatedly warning of the Oct 7th attack was a crucial update on the intelligence stand down narrative developed in part 1.
In part 1, among other indications, I highlighted a quote by Israel’s finance minister and settler leader, Bezalel Smotrich, who urged the Israeli army to “hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into significant consideration” during a cabinet meeting in the middle of the attack.
..Highlighting the disregard for the hostages by Israeli leadership: "The Guardian reported that Israel’s influential finance minister and settler leader, Bezalel Smotrich, urged the Israeli army to 'hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into significant consideration' during a cabinet meeting late on 7 October as the Hamas attack was still underway"
Smotrich, Netanyahu’s finance minister, is a figure we will have to circle back to when discussing the Greater Israel project and the extremist Zionist agenda to ethnically cleanse Palestine - which Smotrich is an outspoken proponent of. But for now, sticking on the hostages being killed by Israel…
Israel’s finance minister and settler leader, Bezalel Smotrich, who urged the Israeli army to “hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into significant consideration” [on October 7th]
Electronic Intifadapublished a long interview with Yasmin Porat, describing how she was held hostage by Palestinian militants in Kibbutz Be’eri. According to her account, the kidnappers treated her and other hostages “humanely,” believing they would be allowed to retreat safely to Gaza due to the protection of the Israeli captives. However, when the Israeli soldiers arrived, “they eliminated everyone, including the hostages. There was very, very heavy crossfire.”
Her testimony is complemented by evidence from Israeli soldiers who described how the Israeli military shot tank shells into buildings where militants and their hostages were hiding.
….….It is clear Palestinian militants were hiding in these buildings with their Israeli captives as Israeli soldiers were blasting their way in with massive tank shells in close quarters. It deserves to be investigated who caused most of the death and destruction that took place. This is especially important as these deaths are now being used to justify the destruction of Gaza and the killing of thousands of civilians there.
This foreshadowed the major discussion of the Hannibal directive.
Another story I included in part 1 indicating Israel was responsible for many of the Israeli civilian deaths on Oct 7th that were blamed on Hamas, was the coverage of the tanks firing into kibbutz houses where hostages were being held:
A separate report published in Haaretz noted that the Israeli military was “compelled to request an aerial strike” against its own facility inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza “in order to repulse the terrorists” who had seized control. That base was filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers at the time.
These reports indicate that orders came down from the military’s high command to attack homes and other areas inside Israel, even at the cost of many Israeli lives.
New first-hand accounts from witnesses of Israel’s clashes with Hamas militants on 7 October suggest that, in their desperation to contain the surprise incursion, Israeli troops indiscriminately fired on their own citizens with heavy weaponry, resulting in potentially scores of Israeli deaths from so-called “friendly fire”.
Testimonies of eye witnesses and Israeli sources compiled by The Grayzone, contradicts the Israeli account of the events that unfolded on 7 October.
An indication from Part 1 aside from the witness testimony of victims that survived the massacre as well as government responders, was the drone footage of the burned cars at the Nova festival, which revealed a level of destruction that munitions experts say Hamas was incapable of inflicting with small arms and rocket launchers. You can find the drone video of this in Part 1.
Here is a video edit I stumbled upon that features clips of the drone footage as well as footage of a Tank in a Kibbutz and footage from the Apache helis, overlayed with The Cradle headlines.
The Israeli military has released drone footage showing hundreds of scorched and damaged cars moved from the Nova music festival, providing further evidence that Israeli forces likely killed many of their own during the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, RT reported on 6 November.
Newsweek issued a “fact-check” that lied to the public falsely claiming Israeli Apache helicopters did not fire on Israeli civilians at the festival. They did. This isn’t a matter for debate. It shows how confidently the mainstream media can lie in their “fact checks”
Israeli Apache helicopters fired on the festival.
Israeli government forces have already admitted this.
A police report in November was reported on by Israeli media shortly after this “fact check” - the police report confirmed that Israelis died by an Israeli helicopter.
The police investigation found that Hamas planned to reach a bad kibbutz and other kibbutzim, and found out about the party in real time. It also emerges that a military helicopter fired at terrorists apparently also hit several celebrants
An Israeli police investigation into the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival near the Gaza border on 7 October revealed that an Israeli attack helicopter killed some of the attendees, Haaretzreported on 18 November.
According to a police source, an investigation into the incident showed that an Israeli combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at Hamas fighters and other Palestinians who crossed through the border fence from Gaza into Israel, but also fired on some of the Israelis attending the music festival. According to the police, 364 people were killed there.
The Israeli military and rescue services previously claimed that 260 Israelis were killed at the festival, all by Hamas and Palestinians in a deliberate massacre. But this is the first acknowledgement that Israeli forces killed some of their own.
Previous reports in Israeli media revealed that Israeli forces killed Israeli civilians in Be’eri, a settlement also near the Gaza border. In that case, Hamas fighters were holding Israelis captive in homes. When the Israeli military arrived, it opened fire, including by firing tank shells, killing both Israeli captives and Hamas fighters.
Of course, beyond this police report, witness testimony, basic forensics of the charred cars captured on the drone footage, more details from October 7th emerged that has additionally confirmed that the IDF air force fire on on Hamas and Captives alike.
Israel’s fleet of Hermes 450 “Zik” armed drones carried out attacks on Israeli military bases, settlements, and civilians during the Hamas attack on 7 October, according to a 14 November report from Mishpacha Magazine..
…In its 14 November report, Mishpachainterviewed members of Squadron 161, which operates Israel’s Zik drone fleet, for details of the role they played on 7 October, including in Kibbutz Be’eri.
The orthodox Jewish-focused magazine noted that Zik drones were the first aircraft to respond to the Hamas attack, and that “for the first time in history, they had to carry out strikes within Israeli territory, even on IDF [Israeli army] bases.”
“The squadron was facing a scenario they had never imagined, on an undreamt-of scale, and above all, having to carry out strikes inside Israeli territory, inside bases, inside kibbutzim, something they had never prepared for,” the magazine added.
“Who ever thought we would have to carry out strikes inside Israeli territory, and on that scale? That was a scenario we had never imagined,” stated First Lieutenant A. …The first lieutenant’s mention of “certain prioritizations that the public is not aware of” appears to be a reference to the Hannibal Directive.
In 2016, the Times of Israeldescribed how the “directive allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.”
“Some officers, however, understand the order to mean that soldiers ought to deliberately kill their comrade to stop him from being taken prisoner,” the paper added.
Once the army did arrive in kibbutz Be’eri, the soldiers were apparently quick to call in airstrikes, despite the danger this would pose to the kibbutz residents, in particular those held captive in homes, in order to avoid endangering themselves by confronting the Hamas fighters directly.
“When we were on the ground in Be’eri and directed air force aircraft to strike terrorists, there was no way we could divert aircraft elsewhere,” says one soldier who spoke with Mishpacha.
Already, we have tanks, drones, helicopters firing on Israeli civilians. We will discover that ground forces seemingly did as well.
In Part 2, after listing some other stories related to Israel’s apparent disregard for the hostages on the day of Oct 7th, I compiled the stories below to suggest that the Hannibal directive did not only apply to the hostages on the day of the attack, and simply vanish afterwards.
It seems self evident that if the motive behind the Hannibal directive was relevant on October 7th, it would be relevant after.
“The families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip have been racked with worry for their loved ones since the military stepped up ground assaults inside the Palestinian territory, a group lobbying for the families said on Saturday.”
Israel continued bombing Gaza, for weeks after the article directly aforementioned, blowing up hospitals and schools along the way in a claimed attempt to hit “Hamas Command Centers”(Hannibal directive still in play?), up until Nov 17th, when the bombing was paused as a truce began.
….Israel delayed the truce planned for the 17th, and made sure to continue bombing for hours after it was due to start, killing 52 members of one family before letting the truce official begin,.
If the Hannibal directive was the case on Oct 7 - which it very well seems to have been - the underlying motive and agenda would logically apply to the scenario after the attack as well.
Hostages are seen as a liability that the enemy can leverage in the Israeli government’s eyes, and thus better off dead.
As covered in part 2, weknow/knew the hostages were/are being kept in the tunnels - likely near or in Hamas command centers, where the tunnels would be deepest... As I stated in part 2,:
Either the Israelis’ true targets were hospitals and schools full of non-combatants, or they were aiming for Hamas Command Centers and tunnel systems with no regard for Hostages, whom Israelis knew were being kept underground. Either option has ugly implications. 10/24 — Hostage Released From Hamas Describes 'Spiderweb of Tunnels'
Antiwar reported on Dec. 20th how the legal advisor to the IDF was deploying “thousands and thousands of attacks and often attacks that require heavy firepower” to supposedly collapse and destroy tunnels used by Hamas, but “really tragically that results in a number of civilian casualties”
So again… either Israel was trying to destroy tunnels knowing Israeli hostages were being kept in tunnels, or Israel was using that as an excuse to attack civilian infrastructure and lifelines (literally) like hospitals.
In part 2 I wrote: “On top of the support for Hamas,on top of the intelligence failure that allowed the attack, and the possible killing of Israeli citizens, - the lack of regard for the hostages in Hamas’s after the attack was insult to injury for worried family members of victims, or any Israeli citizen who entertained the notion their government cared about them and would do everything to protect them.”
Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out itst fighters, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 5 December.
Citing US officials, the WSJ reported that in mid-November the Israel army completed the set-up of at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp on the Gaza coast. The pumps, which can move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour, will allegedly be used to flood the tunnels within the coming weeks.
It was not clear whether Israel would consider using the pumps before all captives held by Hamas in the besieged enclave were released. Hamas has previously said it has hidden the captives it took during its 7 October surprise attack in "safe places and tunnels."
When asked about the story, a US official toldReuters it made sense for Israel to render the tunnels inoperable and was exploring a range of ways to do that.
This idea to flood the tunnels generated lots of anger obviously, as it was well known the hostages were in the tunnels. This was the beginning of the wake up call for the family and friends of hostages in Gaza wanting to see their loved ones home. To float the idea of flooding the tunnels where you know hostages are being kept…what does that say about your priorities, and regard for the hostages? It isn’t hard to see leadership’s priorities, which do not include the return of the Israeli hostages. Ironically this came right after the first and only hostage swap, which saw around 50 hostages released.
"What I see on TV scares me a lot. I see [Israeli] bombings there, and you have no idea where the captives are. I was in a house surrounded by explosions.
We slept in tunnels, and we feared not Hamas, but Israel might kill us, and then it would have been said, 'Hamas killed you,' she said.”
Some freed Israeli hostages have said their primary fear while being held in Gaza was being killed by Israel’s relentless bombing campaign. In December, Israeli troops gunned down three Israeli hostages who were shirtless and waving a white flag in Gaza City.
In this March article by Antiwar.com it was also pointed out that “Israeli officials working on the negotiating team say Netanyahu has been purposely stalling hostage deal negotiations”
Days after the hostage deal in early December was reported in the media, the families were kicking up a storm about the proposal to flood the tunnels - “Our Husbands Are in There!”.
'Do you want to topple the rule of Hamas, to show that you have bigger balls?' one former hostage told Israel's War Cabinet
Former Hamas hostages and families of those who still remain trapped in Gaza bashed Israel's plans to reportedly flood the vast tunnel network used by the terror group underneath the besieged Strip, telling the Israeli War Cabinet their loved ones are being held there.
"My husband was separated from us three days before we returned to Israel and taken to the tunnels. And you are talking about washing the tunnels with sea water? You are shelling the route of tunnels in the exact area where they are," an unidentified former hostage told officials in a private meeting on Tuesday, according to recordings reviewed by Israeli news outlet, YNet.
"The girls ask me where is father? And I have to tell them that the bad guys don't want to yet release him," she added.
This dynamic of the hostages’ family and friends seeing that Israel’s leadership were not considering the hostages in their actions would culminate in massive protests months later, with hostage family members calling to burn the country down and remove Netanyahu if a hostage deal is not made.
Sticking on the topic of the Hannibal Directive Continued, and Netanyahu and Israeli leadership not giving a fuck about the Israeli hostages - This plan to flood the tunnels wasn’t the only time it was reported Israel was considering such measures that show the absence of any regard for the hostages.
In early February, similar to the flooding tunnels proposition, it was revealed that the military was dropping bombs on the entrances of tunnels, attempting to purposefully weaponize the Carbon monoxide from the explosions in order to suffocate those in the tunnels. And of course, the hostages are known to be being kept in tunnels.
“Military sources also revealed that Israel bombed Palestinians in Gaza merely suspected of taking Israelis captive on 7 October, including if the captives were close by"
The Israeli army knows that bombs exploding inside tunnels can disperse toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, capable of killing Palestinian resistance fighters within them, two defense sources told the Israeli magazine Mekomit.
… the testimony of a senior security source contradicts Hagari's claims. The source revealed exclusively to Mekomit that at the beginning of the war, the Air Force bombed dozens of Palestinians inside Gaza who were suspected of taking Israelis captive on 7 October, despite fears Israeli captives were in close proximity.
"We bombed Palestinians who are suspected of being kidnappers," the source said, adding that "for sure, mistakes happened, and we bombed hostages."
The Mekomit journalist then asked the source if the captives were bombed not just bombed by mistake but due to a deliberate decision by the army.
"To say 'decision' is to give too much credit to the policymakers. This is not a decision that is made at the level of the army. It is at the political level, in my opinion, and perhaps senior members of the IDF. We just bombed a bunch of actual kidnappers. More than a few dozen and less than a hundred. Absurdly, Israeli and Gazan citizens were both there."
According to the source, the Israeli captives were not necessarily being held in the homes of the Palestinians who took them. But the possibility remained, and no effort was made to confirm if captives were present in those homes before the bombings were ordered.
"The atmosphere at the beginning was painful and vindictive," he said.
“No effort was made to confirm if captives were present in those homes before bombings were ordered…”
A mother of one of 3 men whose dead bodies were recovered in Gaza accused Israel of killing her son with the poison gas mentioned above, after seeing the toxicology report. [Video of a media appearance with her talking about this]
In mid-December, the Israeli army discovered the bodies of three of the hostages kidnapped from southern Israel to the Gaza Strip on October 7: the soldiers Ron Sherman and Nik Beizer, and the civilian Elia Toledano.
Their families were initially informed that the three men had been killed in Hamas captivity, but Maayan, the mother of Sherman, soon declared otherwise “Ron was indeed murdered,” she wrote on her Facebook page on Jan. 16, but “not by Hamas.”Instead, she asserted, her son was killed by “bombings with poisonous gasses.”
Maayan made her claim after reading the inconclusive findings of a pathology report, presented to her by a delegation from the Israeli army’s casualties department and the 551st brigade, whose soldiers recovered Sherman’s body from Gaza. “The delegation told us that they don’t rule out gas poisoning as a result of IDF bombings, but they’re not certain,” she told +972 Magazine and Local Call.
Given the Hannibal Directive exists, it isn’t hard to imagine the spirit of it - that Israeli hostages are a strategic liability, and are better dead than alive - still lives on, and applies even after the October 7th attack.
If the Hannibal Directive applied on the day, it probably applied after. WHY would the Israeli army prefer hostages to die rather than make it across the border into Gaza as a hostage? Because hostages gives the Gazans' leverage politically, and forces Israeli leadership to make potential concessions due to the political pressure to save lives the Israeli leaders do not care about…(they’re just expendable pawns in the eyes of Israeli leadership after all… )….not in relation to their territorial expansion agenda. The Greater Israel Movement.
What ifwhen Israel bombs the kidnappers’ homes with no assessment of whether captives are there, when Israel bombs tunnels where hostages are known to be kept, it reveals an intention to kill hostages along with Hamas? Israeli leadership not only has shown little to no consideration for the hostages, but it seems they would prefer they die “accidentally” from '“collateral damage” (terrorism, overwhelming destructive force used indiscriminately), with the blame then attributed towards Hamas, and less public motivation for making peace.
…. Israeli captives dying from Israeli attacks being intentional, not incidental - this would be an extension of the Hannibal directive. Better off dead than as leverage as a hostage.
There are other potential motives why Israel would prefer the hostages dead, not only do they gave Hamas leverage while in Hamas’ possession, but the hostages being returned by Hamas could be a PR liability, being that hostages that were released in December had good things to say about treatment under Hamas, and condemned Israel for bombing them.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says during battles in northern Gaza’s Shejaiya this morning, Israeli troops mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat and opened fire at them, killing them.
3 months after those 3 hostages were killed by the IDF, the audio tape revealing the final moments of the hostages seeking rescue was released on March 4th.
Leaked audio from the moments when Alon Shamriz tried to get the IDF to rescue him as well as Yotam Haim and Samer Talaka, before they were wrongfully identified as terrorists and accidentally killed by the IDF, was published by Kan news on X on Sunday.
In the audio, Alon and Yotam can be heard yelling "save us" and "we're hostages." The audio then has a few shots of gunfire and is abruptly cut.
The audio was obtained from a camera attached to a dog from the Oketz unit.
A week and a half before the Israeli war cabinet blocked the Mossad chief from another attempt at Hostage negotiations, Israel had called off truce talks in Qata, due to a “dead end”
The families of the hostages and many sympathetic have felt that negotiating the release of the hostages has been lower on Israel’s priority list than it should be. This has drastically escalated after March, when Israeli officials accused Netanyahu of sabotaging Hostage talks.
But even before then, Israel’s actions spoke volumes as a state, As if Israeli leadership was / is willing to let all the remaining hostages die in the quest for vengeance and destruction of Hamas.
My thesis is Israel is actually wanting to let the hostages die, rather than simply not caring about returning the hostages. The Hannibal directive was extended past Oct 7th. The hostages are still a strategic liability for the Israeli state. Did the Hannibal directive simply stop when the clock struck midnight on Oct 7th? Did the Hannibal directive cease when the hostages made it across the Gaza boarder without being dismembered by Apache helicopters Hellfire missiles?
If Hamas loses the hostages, they lose what little leverage they have. The hostages would be serious leverage if Israeli leadership gave a shit about the hostage lives, but they don’t. They just give a shit about looking like they gave a shit, and that seems to be up in the air at this point. If all the hostages die, Israeli leadership likely feels they have the ability to go full scorched Earth.
If leadership has been making an honest attempt to convince the public they care about the lives of the hostages…. they have been FAILING. Israeli protests have steadily gained traction since January, as detailed later in the article, for a reason..
But sticking on to what led to the massive Israeli protests the past few months I am alluding to, the timeline of events of Israeli actions showing that leadership does not care about the lives of the hostages, that their return is not a priority….
After Israel's war cabinet blocked the Mossad chief from resuming hostage talks on Dec 13th, Israel began ramping up airstrikes. At the same time, Biden was ramping up lip service.
Indeed, I have to say, as with much of my other thesis points, as I write this over months (been juggling), developments keep happening that reinforce my various hypotheses.. In this case Israeli officials have come out in March to accuse Netanyahu of sabotaging Hostage deals. This includes top defense officials and members in the war cabinet.
Only 60 to 70 of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are believed to alive, but the talks are complex and have been stalled by the prime minister's dubious excuses
…most of the delays by the Israelis stem from Netanyahu's work methods and political considerations. When Barnea, Bar and Alon return from the talks, they report to Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Herzl Halevi….
Netanyahu stalls
In the autumn… defense officials and some ministers – certainly Gantz and Eisenkot (and opposition leader Yair Lapid) – increasingly believed that Netanyahu didn't consider the return of the hostages the main mission in the war.
Now, as the hostage families' nerve-racking wait for Hamas' reply continues, defense officials are increasingly unhappy with Netanyahu.According to a former senior intelligence source on Alon's team,"There are increasing signs that he's doing almost everything possible to postpone, delay and ruin the chance of a deal to release the hostages in exchange for terrorists."
By March, senior Israeli intelligence sources and defense officials were accusing Netanyahu of sabotaging Hostage talks and not caring about the hostages.
The Hannibal directive never ended.
While I wanted to foreshadow these later allegations against Netanyahu from Israeli defense officials, lets rewind back to December.
Around this time in December, the notion that IDF tanks killed hostages on October 7th was further validated with the release of video from a police helicopter that showed an Israeli tank firing on a house where 13 hostages were killed, whose deaths were initially said to be at the hands of Hamas despite their deaths actually being caused by indiscriminate Israeli fire and overkill - like many others.
The evidence continues to grow that many Israelis killed during Hamas' 7 October attack were killed by Israeli forces themselves
Video from a police helicopter shows that an Israeli tank opened fire on a house where 13 Israeli captives were killed during Hamas’ 7 October attack on military bases and settlements surrounding besieged Gaza, Israel’s 12 News reported on 18 December.
...The killing of the 13 captives by Israeli tank fire was already known due to testimony from 44-year-old Yasmin Porat, who was held with the captives in the same house before she was able to escape. But the video from the police helicopter that responded to the scene confirms this.
…The police helicopter video adds to the growing evidence that Israeli forces themselves killed many of the 1,200 Israeli soldiers and civilians who died on 7 October during the Hamas attack.
Though Liel was killed by the Israeli army, Naftali Bennett, the former Israeli Prime Minister, blamed her death on Hamas, claiming “Liel Hetzroni of Kibbutz Beeri was murdered in her home by Hamas monsters.”
While speaking to members of the foreign press on 14 October, Lt. Col. Golan …claimed that Hamas had gathered 15 people inside, including eight babies, “and they killed them, and they burned them.” ….
But when pressed by a journalist how Hamas had caused such destruction, Col. Vach reluctantly acknowledged, “Our tanks attacked, because they [Hamas] were blocked in these houses, and we need[ed] to conquer back the whole settlement. And it couldn’t be happen [sic] without the tanks.”
Many Zionists who love to apologize for and conjure up knee-jerk defenses for the Israeli government’s behavior, no matter how despicable, were insisting this was incidental, accidental friendly fire…. yet the Hannibal directive, and emerging details of the events of Oct 7th suggests otherwise, that the killing of Israeli citizens on Oct 7th by Israeli forces was intentional, not incidental.
Are the hostages killed simply collateral damage, incidentally caught in the cross fire between Israel and targets?….or were/are the Israeli hostages actually targets themselves alongside Hamas as Israeli leadership prefers them to die rather than continue to be used as leverage, in the way of the plans to obliterate and rebuild Gaza in Israel’s image?
An update in January by The Cradle covered Israeli media reports on the Hannibal directive:
An investigation from Israel's leading newspaper indicates Israel deliberately killed many of its own civilians and soldiers during Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to prevent them being taken captive back to Gaza
The Israeli military implemented the “Hannibal Directive” during Hamas’ attack on 7 October, killing some of its own civilians and soldiers to prevent Hamas from taking them as captives back to Gaza, according to an investigation by Israel’s leading newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, which will be published in full on 12 January.
The Hebrew edition of the paper wrote on 11 January that “one of the revelations revealed in the investigation is that at noon on October 7, the IDF [Israeli army] ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the ‘Hannibal Procedure’ although without clearly mentioning this explicitly by name.”
The order was to stop “at all costs any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, that is, despite the fear that some of them have abductees,” the paper wrote.
The Times of Israel described how the Hannibal procedure, or directive, "allows soldiers to use potentially massive amounts of force to prevent a soldier from falling into the hands of the enemy. This includes the possibility of endangering the life of the soldier in question in order to prevent his capture.”
A previous Haaretz investigation of the directive concluded that “from the point of view of the army, a dead soldier is better than a captive soldier who himself suffers and forces the state to release thousands of captives in order to obtain his release.”
The Cradle would go on to note that “The revelation that the Israeli military informally issued the Hannibal Directive raises questions about the deaths of many Israeli civilians who were initially presumed taken captive by Hamas on 7 October but whose bodies were later discovered near the Gaza border fence.”
Of course, it was not just the hostages dead near the border fence that were victims to murder by their own government. The Nova festival was also an area affected by the Hannibal directive, as discussed in The Cradle’s article.
The Hannibal Directive was also evident on 7 October at the Nova music festival, where Hamas allegedly massacred 364 Israeli partygoers.
Though Israeli army ground units did not respond to the Hamas attack on 7 October for many hours, the Southern District Commander of the Israeli Police, Maj. Gen. Amir Cohen gave the order, code-named “Philistine Horseman,” at 6:42 am to dispatch Border Police units to various sites to confront the Hamas attack.
These units included elite counter-terror units, known as Yamam, who were dispatched by helicopter, according to Israeli officials speaking with the New York Times.
These units apparently opened fire on partygoers as Hamas was taking people captive.
Germany’s Bildreported the testimony of Maya P., who survived the festival. Bild writes, “The terrorists who set up the road blockades came disguised as police officers and soldiers.” [These weren’t Hamas terrorists…they were police officers and soldiers…]
“People ran into them hoping to be rescued, and then they were executed,” Maya said, crying.
Another survivor, Yuval Tahupi, stated to CNN, “A police lady told us most of the terrorists are dressing like soldiers, as cops, as security guards, so don’t trust anyone.”
Both Maya and Yuval could not imagine that Israeli forces had fired on them, so they assumed Hamas fighters must have been disguised as soldiers and police.
Israeli attack helicopters also were deployed to the Nova site, opening fire on partygoers as well.
Haaretzreported that “According to a police source, an investigation into the incident also revealed that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there.”
We have talked about the evidence for both IDF tanks, Apache helicopters, and drones engaging in friendly fire on Israeli citizens. We’ve briefly talked about the Israeli ground forces firing upon Israeli citizens, which will be covered in further detail shortly, on Oct 7th.
This article has already covered the Nova Festival survivors suing the military, Shin Bet, and Policein January, as well as the statements in February by the “Chief of security” of the Nova Festival who “told Hebrew outlet Channel 14 that he received a warning about the Hamas operation a week ahead of the attacks.”, but those stories only dealt with the failure of intelligence.
The focus now is not the failure of intelligence in preventing / intercepting the attack, but the failure in response, Israeli forces killing Israeli citizens whom they were supposed to be protecting, not slaughtering.
It is now appropriate to cover additional details / evidence that have emerged to shed light on how Israel killed scores of its own civilians at the Nova festival after preventing their evacuation.
The article below is much richer than the excerpt provided below, if one wants to look more events of the Nova festival on Oct 7th, this article below is a good start for piecing together a picture. It describes how Israeli forces not only trapped the nova festival goers, blockading the escape roads and their ability to flee the scene, but also how these Israeli forces fired on the Israeli citizens trying to escape by foot, since vehicles were not an option due to traffic jams caused by Israeli police blockades, which trapped the festival goers and prevented escape by vehicle.
New evidence points to Israeli security forces, not Hamas, for causing the most fatalities at the music festival - civilian deaths that were then utilized to justify Tel Aviv's Gaza genocide.
...An Israeli police investigation reported by Haaretz indicates that Hamas was unaware of the festival in advance. The official findings suggest that the intended target was Re’im, a settlement and military base located just down the road - on Route 232 - from the Nova site.... The police investigation also indicates that Hamas fighters reached the festival site from Route 232, rather than from the Gaza border fence, further supporting the claim that the festival was not a planned target...
...Trapping Civilians: Israel Police Blocked the Vital 232 Road Exit
..However, as people exited the festival site by car and moved onto Route 232, Israeli police established roadblocks in both directions, leading to a traffic jam that trapped many partygoers in the area where fighting between Hamas and the Border Police would eventually break out.
“There was a lot of confusion. The police barricaded the road, so we couldn’t go near Be’eri. We couldn’t go near Re’im, the two near kibbutzim,”says one witness, Yarin Levin who was trying to evacuate the area with his friends.
....Another witness, Shye Weinstein, also confirms Israeli police roadblocks that blocked the main exit from the festival. He took photos of a Border Police vehicle and a heavily armed policeman in combat gear impeding the road in front of his car.
A cell phone video from a concert attendee shows Israeli police and security forces using their vehicles to block the road near the festival site and exchanging fire with Hamas fighters.
When gunfire erupted, those trapped on the road fled east into open fields, whether in their cars or by foot. Many made it past the fields and hid near trees, under bushes, and in ravines.
But body cam footage shows heavily armed Israeli police units taking up positions on the road and firing across the open field into the trees where civilians had taken cover.🚩🧐
"We pretty much knew they would probably block the road. I'm pretty sure a lot of people got killed on those roads...We drove into the field and tried to hide from them… afterwards we got a bit deeper into the fields and then they started firing sniper rifles on us from different places and also heavy artillery."
This story above was published on January 10th, right ar the time in early January when X / Twitter was purging anti-Israel accounts including my own, which was *permanently* suspended before being reinstated along with others as the Streisand effect came into swing with many drawing attention to the purge, which came right after the Nova Festival survivors sued the Israeli army, *South Africa initiated a genocide case against Israel in the ICJ*, and the Hannibal directive was being futher reported on in Israeli media and discussed as more details of Oct 7th came to light
I talk about this in detail in my recent article on Elon, as referenced earlier. I wont spend more time talking about the X censorship, purges in this article, but I do feel like the timing was not coincidental, that anti-Israel accounts were being censored in narrative damage-control efforts as Israel was losing the information war, and public opinion towards Israel was rapidly declining - Right after South Africa initiated it’s genocide case against Israel in the UN’s ICJ. Remember, X contracts with an Israeli company for data services, an Israeli company founded by former Shin Bet members.
Reuters reported on January 3rd how “17 Biden re-election campaign staffers issued a warning in an anonymous letter that Biden could lose voters over the issue.”
A second administration official resigned in protest over the president’s approach to the war, the same day more than a dozen campaign staffers in an open letter urged him to call for a ceasefire as the crisis in Gaza worsens.
While Biden aides downplay the protests’ significance, what many leading Democrats fear is that those couple of seconds are another window into collapsed support for the president on his own side that could well provide the margins to add up to his defeat.
President Biden and other senior US officials are "running out" of patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who continues to ignore US requests regarding the ongoing war in Gaza, Axios reported on 15 January.
"The situation sucks and we are stuck. The president's patience is running out," one US official told Axios.
"At every juncture, Netanyahu has given Biden the finger," US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has been in close contact with US officials about the war, told Axios. "They are pleading with the Netanyahu coalition, but getting slapped in the face over and over again."
Since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza over 100 days ago, President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have given Israel unlimited support in the form of weapons and diplomatic cover despite clear evidence Israel is engaging in genocide.
But according to four US officials with direct knowledge of the issue, US officials are increasingly upset that Netanyahu has ignored requests to transfer tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority (PA), allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, scale back military operations to stop killing so many Palestinian civilians, and allow the PA to govern Gaza following the end of the war.
But while Biden said his patience was running out… pretending to pressure Netanyahu, he maintained full support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.
In the next article (originally was part of this article, but I had to split up due to length), a major section alongside “Israel’s War on the UN” will be “Political Theater: Biden Vs. Netanyahu” “Lip Service to Pretend to Pressure Netanyahu, While Using No Leverage to Exert Any Real Pressure — Continuing Unfettered Support For Israeli War Crimes “
A running theme is that as public opinion is against the war, Biden has had to pretend to put pressure on Netanyahu while maintaining full support for Israel — while Israel is working overtime to regain narrative control. A futile effort since the terrorist state has continued to commit blatant war crimes, and has done little to obscure its genocidal agenda.
Israel has acquired systems that are designed to manage online discussions. Tel Aviv hopes the new technology can improve its sagging image, especially in the US. While Israel has been firmly backed by President Joe Biden, many of his supporters from 2020 are turning against him in 2024 due to his support for the onslaught in Gaza.
At the same time Biden was increasing his lip service to pretend to put pressure on the Israeli government to respect human rights, as public opinion for the war was on a steady decline, Israel was aiming to ramp up its online influence operations. I will elaborate on Biden’s “lip service” in the subsequent article. But to touch base back with the Hannibal directive subject and the notion that Israeli leadership doesn’t care about hostages… and how this has contributed to Netanyahu losing approval from many Israelis:
At midday on 7 October Israel’s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens “at any cost” – even by firing on them.
The military “instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly,” Israeli journalists revealed last weekend.
The revelations came in a new investigative article by Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun, two journalists with extensive sources inside Israel’s military and intelligence establishment.
…The secretive “Hannibal” doctrine is named after an ancient Carthaginian general who poisoned himself rather than be captured alive by the Roman Empire.
The order aims at stopping Israelis from being taken captive by resistance fighters who could later use them as leverage in prisoner swap deals.
….The latest revelations confirm The Electronic Intifada’s reporting since 7 October that many – if not most – of the Israeli civilians killed that day were killed by Israel itself, not Palestinian fighters…
Bergman and Zitun’s article seems to be causing waves in Israeli society, where the families of the remaining Israeli captives held in Gaza are trying to pressure the government to agree to a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Bergman is a particularly high profile Israeli journalist. As well as Yedioth Ahronoth, he writes for the New York Times Magazine and is the author of several sympathetic books about Israeli spy agencies, including Rise and Kill First.
“Kasher stridently agreed with the families that an investigation is needed immediately,” wrote Haaretz, and that this should not wait until the end of the war in Gaza.
…Bergman and Zitun’s article seems to be causing waves in Israeli society, where the families of the remaining Israeli captives held in Gaza are trying to pressure the government to agree to a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
As you can see mentioned in the above article, in January the families of the hostages were already publicly pressuring Netanyahu to make a hostage deal.
The botched response of Oct. 7th plays directly into Netanyahu’s declining popularity in Israel throughout the war as more details emerge - although as mentioned…. his popularity had already tanked immediately after October 7th. And remember, before Oct 7th, the majority of Israelis were afraid of civil war being that tensions were so high from his Judicial overhaul.
From the attack happening, to the failed responded on October 7th, to the lack of concern for the hostages after - and taking no accountability for the failure…. it is easy to see why Netanyahu’s popularity had declined. From bombing the hostages, to having no determination for Hostage negotiations (determined to sabotage them even) - Netanyahu has been regarded as selfish, and a danger to Israel, by many Israelis.
As Israeli planes resumed bombing Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters the Israeli leader's refusal to end the military offensive in Gaza "means there is no chance for the return of the (Israeli) captives.”
Netanyahu’s refusal to halt the military offensive was putting the Hostages in jeopardy, increasing the possibility of them dying from Israeli assaults and decreasing the chances of their return.
[remember, the released hostages and family members of those still hostage were raising hell in Israeli media describing the threat to the lives of the captives that Israel’s ongoing assault and refusal for a ceasefire had posed, and still does to this day]
"You have been told that Israel wants to save the hostages....
But what if you've been lied to? What if Israel's war cabinet has no intention of saving them?
An investigative journalist has made a bombshell discovery... Dan Cohen has acquired secret recordings of the Netanyahu government pressuring Israeli families to sacrifice their children in Gaza in order for the genocide to continue so that Israel can conquer and colonize Gaza for good"
The video recording featured in the later half is pretttyyy wild. The audacity of the Israeli official to tell a mother of a hostage that “this is a chess game. There are pawns”, referring to her son as an expendable pawn…
In the leaked recording, the Mother of one of the Hostages is heard speaking to to members of Netanyahu’s government: “First they need to be freed. That’s what needs to be done. Nothing else.” The response the mother received speaks volumes.
”There is a Prime Minister, whose job is to see to the whole of Israel and the general role. This is a chess game. There are pawns”, is what the mother was told when demanding a hostage deal be made priority. The mother responded:“But it’s not pawns!! IT’s not pawns. It’s children! It’s old people. It’s babies! Civilian population!”
To me, and the family and friends of the Israeli hostages, it is clear that Netanyahu and ruling Israeli leadership does not care about the Israeli hostages. As I have grown fond of saying, the Hannibal directive never ended. The geopolitical goals of the expansionist Zionists in power are more important to Israel’s ruling powers than compromising for the return of the hostages. Turning Gaza into dust to settle with Israeli settlements is the priority, not the Israeli hostages. It is also the motive I propose for why October 7th was allowed to happen.
It fits right into my initial thesis of Part 1… that October 7th, like Covid, was convenient to a pre-existing agenda, the Greater Israel agenda.. The Covid title was saying Covid was convenient to the Great Reset Agenda, but when it comes to Israel, the Greater Israel Agenda is at play. The Greater Israel’s influence on Israeli politics is not speculation, and its not close to conspiratorial thinking, it is fact - undeniable to anyone not in a state of cognitive dissonance. Netanyahu and his allies like Bezazel Smoltrich and National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have openly expressed their intentions to fully annex and settle Gaza and the West Bank, for many years.
More developments on that narrative will be discussed later in the article, but for now lets stick to the Israeli state’s regard for the hostages, and the Hannibal Directive.
The same day Dan Cohen and Propaganda and Co released the above secret recordings between the families of Israeli hostages and Netanyahu government officials, relatives of the hostages stormed the Knesset with other protestors to demand a hostage deal be made and call for early elections.
Geopolitics live reported that hostage relatives brought placards with slogan "You will not sit here while they are dying there” [Video][2][3]
The protest came a day after Netanyahu publicly rejected Hamas's offer to release all the hostages in exchange for an end to the war
Relatives of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza disrupted a meeting of the Israeli Knesset’s Finance Committee anddemanded the government do more to secure the release of their family members.
“You will not sit here while our children die,” the protesters yelled, according to The Times of Israel. Some carried pictures of their family members and chanted, “Release them now, now, now!” The protesters had to be forcibly removed from the Knesset meeting.
As Antiwar.com pointed out, these protests followed Netanyahu publicly rejecting Hamas’s offer to release the hostages.
The survey found that 53% of respondents believed Netanyahu was acting for himself, and only 33% said he was acting for the good of the country….
Other polling has shown the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign once the brutal Israeli campaign in Gaza is over, giving him the incentive to continue the assault and provoke a wider regional war that could bring in the US. Israel has been conducting major airstrikes in Lebanon and Syria, including a recent attack that killed five members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Damascus.
[this article was before Israel's strike on Iran's consulate, and Israel's escalatory tit-for-tat with Lebanon, with talks of full-blown war and invasion escalating]
A couple weeks after the above stories, Netanyahu would reject another ceasefire proposal saying that “total victory” is the “only solution”… one might even say more like the final solution.
An Israeli official said Israel would not offer a counter-proposal
When the White House proposed a new hostage deal a couple weeks later, Netanyahu said that it would only delay the assault on Rafah. [Assertions like this did not help hostage negotiations.]
Recently more protests have occurred in March, April, May, and June - and many more arrested including family of hostages, as will be discussed momentarily.
These Israeli protestors, and everyone who sympathized with them, understand Netanyahu is not prioritizing the Hostages.
Netanyahu somewhat repeated this dynamic in June, insisting that there could be no permanent ceasefire in response to Biden’s 3 step plan, which led to Israeli officials once again accusing him of unnecessarily sabotaging the peace talks.
Israeli officials are worried that recent comments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could sabotage the chances of the Gaza ceasefire proposal put forward by President Biden, Axios reported on Monday…
A permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has been Hamas’s main demand for a hostage deal. But since Biden outlined the potential agreement, Netanyahu and his close aides have said Israel would not agree to a permanent ceasefire until it achieves its goals, which include “destroying” Hamas’s capabilities.
Under the potential deal, the two sides would negotiate the terms for a permanent ceasefire during the first phase. A senior Israeli official told Axios that Netanyahu was “killing” the ambiguity by ruling out a permanent truce.
“Instead of keeping things ambiguous, his statements are pushing Hamas to ask for more clarification, making it harder to get a deal,” a second Israeli official said.
The official added that it appeared Netanyahu was trying to placate Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, who are threatening to resign and bring down the coalition government if the war cabinet agrees to the deal.
Netanyahu is and has been prioritizing his political ambitions and the ambitions of the Zionist political establishment - which wants to expand Israel’s territory in line with the Greater Israel movement - over the return of the hostages.
Many understand Netanyahu’s plans include not simply staying in power via wartime powers, but also new settlements as a result of the conquest. Indeed, him staying in power and continuing the conquest of Gaza seem to be conjoined. Smotrich and Ben Gvir threatening to leave the coalition government and topple Netanyahu’s government if Netanyahu makes a deal speaks to this.
The Greater Israel agenda is the priority. Not the hostages. Many of Anti-Netanyahu protestors in Israel focus on Netanyahu’s personal political motives to stay in power, but The Greater Israel agenda is a large component at play in this author’s opinion. And the Greater Israel agenda’s influence is so pervasive, that Netanyahu’s quest to stay in power seems to be conjoined with continuing to advance the Greater Israel agenda.
Because of the questions surrounding Netanyahu’s ambitions and motives, and others around him in positions of seniority, the idea of an internal investigation into Oct 7th and Israel’s intelligence failure has become politically charged in Israeli politics. 2/27 — Israeli Army To Launch Probe Into 7 Oct Failure — The Cradle
The investigation may not be impartial as the army is implicated in the killing of many Israeli civilians during the Palestinian resistance's Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
This statement of impartiality ties into why some Israeli ministers were upset in January when an internal military probe was being planned, referenced earlier. When those involved in the intelligence and response failure are seeking to investigate themselves, accusations of impartiality should be expected. That isn’t to say those making the accusations of impartiality aren’t impartial themselves… many are playing the blame game in Israel. Ben Gvir, for example, is a radical zionist, and he was one of the Israeli ministers condemning plans for an internal Israeli military probe of Oct 7th. Perhaps he did not want the military offsetting some of the blame that Netanyahu had cast, onto the politicians and minister themselves.
"These are people whose own actions should be under investigation - and who should not be the ones doing the investigating," Ben-Gvir said in a social media post.
In Early March, Members of Israel’s security cabinet called out the lack of effort by Netanyahu to get hostages released.
Israeli sources criticized Netanyahu's demand for a list of the names of Israeli hostages that are still alive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke off hostage deal talks because Hamas did not provide a list of all the living Israeli hostages.Sources in Israel’s security cabinet criticized Netanyahu’s demand in comments to Haaretz.
“As with the previous deal, one could assume there would eventually be proper lists of the hostages and of those no longer living. This didn’t need to be made into a deal-breaker for advancing the negotiations,” one source said.
This criticism of Netanyahu’s handling of hostage negotiations by sources in Israel’s security cabinet was a few weeks before the March 28th Haaretz article, which substantiated the already existing allegations of Netanyahu sabotaging Hostage negotiations. This article was already cited, but for the sake of emphasis: 3/28 — Netanyahu Is Sabotaging Chances for a Hostage Deal, and Defense Chiefs Are Angry - Haaretz
Did the Hannibal directive ever end?
Why would the motive inspiring the Hannibal directive dissolve after October 7th? (it wouldn’t, that is rhetorical)
In other news from March, we know Netanyahu had been considering promoting the general who executed the “Mass Hannibal Directive” to be his military secretary, his senior advisor for matters of national security.
Barack Hiram ordered tanks to open fire on Israeli civilians and Hamas fighters barricaded together in a home in kibbutz Be'eri on 7 October
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently interviewed Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram to potentially become his military secretary, Channel 12 news reported on 11 March. ... The military secretary acts as the prime minister’s senior army adviser on national security matters.
Israeli attack helicopters, drones, and tanks killed many of the 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers who died during Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The Israeli army released a statement on 5 April where it admitted that Efrat Katz, 68, was likely killed by Israeli helicopter fire that targeted a vehicle with Hamas fighters taking her captive to Gaza on 7 October. …While the army claims Katz's killing was an accident, Israeli media has elsewhere reported that the military leadership issued the Hannibal Directive on 7 October. The controversial directive orders Israeli forces to deliberately kill their own soldiers or civilians if they are being taken captive by an enemy.
This indicates that the army's killing of Katz and its killing of many other Israelis who died on 7 October may have been deliberate. Hamas wished to take Israeli captives to exchange for the thousands of Palestinians held captive in Israeli prisons.
As a result of A. More details of the October 7th security failure debacle emerging and B. Fresh coverage and recollection of Netanyahu going out of his way to ensure Hamas had funding and C. Netanyahu’s actions since October 7th showing total disregard for the hostages, lack of priority for making a hostage swap deal- Netanyahu had been steadily losing popularity in his country. Of course, he has also become the villain in the eyes of many abroad considering the crimes against humanity being perpetrated.
Protests Have Continued, Gaining Steam in March, April, May, and June — Led by Family and Friends of Israeli Hostages, Protesting for the Israeli Government To Do an Exchange Deal and Get the Hostages Returned.
Mass protests, many led by Hostage family members or released hostages, have developed in recent months calling for new elections and for remaining hostage releases to be prioritized have gathered steam.
To be quite honest, it has been nice seeing Netanyahu called out on his priorities by his own people, whom he sees as pawns in a game of chess.
“Journalist Jeremy Loffredo reports from inside Israel, where the country's tiny minority of antiwar Jewish citizens face harsh repression, ugly social consequences, and even jail time for speaking out against the military campaign in Gaza. Loffredo interviews several Israeli dissidents about the violence they have experienced since October 7, and the climate of state-enforced fear that has engulfed their society. Antiwar Israelis face jail, terrifying repression for speaking out”
The families of the hostages had even gotten so desperate to have Netanyahu hear their pleas, that they had taken to sending Biden letters en masse, asking him to push Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire, since their pleas were falling on deaf ears. (this ties in with Biden proposing a deal months later, on May 31st, right after Netanyahu told hostage families a deal would likely not be made)
Letter from 600 relatives urges US President to press for a ‘reasonable deal’ as dissatisfaction grows with Israeli prime minister
While the anti-war movement in Israel is small, a large portion of the population is discontent with the efforts to get the Israeli hostages released.
Many Israelis have been very angry at Netanyahu for not prioritizing the hostages, accusing him of putting political ambitions and personal interests ahead of the lives of Israeli captives still held by Hamas, and the interests of Israel. Over time, the protests grew more intense and extreme. By the end of March, protests led by the family members of Israeli hostages were calling on Israelis to “burn the country down” if the hostages are not released.
Clashes in Tel Aviv as Israeli protesters threaten to ‘burn country down’
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv are saying they are increasingly angry at the government’s inability to bring back the remaining Israeli captives.
Now, there was a rally held by the family members of those being held in Gaza and they say they are tired of holding peaceful rallies. They are calling on all Israelis to take to the streets and “burn the country down”.
Previously, they were calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign and for elections to be held immediately. And now they are saying he needs to be overthrown and until that happens, these protests in massive size and scale will continue.
Worth noting, It was right before this that Haaretz had just reported, using sources within the Israeli military, that the Hostages were not a priority, only destroying Hamas and Gaza. This story was already mentioned multiple times now, but I think its a crucial fulcrum point for when momentum began snowballing against Netanyahu within Israel, and it illustrates how much Israeli leadership values the hostages (or rather does not value). By this point, it was estimated that only 60-70 hostages were still alive.
Israeli officials working on the negotiating team say Netanyahu has been purposely stalling hostage deal negotiations…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sabotaging chances for a hostage deal with Hamas, Haaretz reported on Thursday.
…The mother of an Israeli who died in Gaza has alleged her son was killed by poison gas Israel pumped into the tunnels underneath the Strip, citing a toxicology report. Israeli media has reported that Israel’s military is aware that bombing the tunnels could create toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide, which risks killing captive Israelis.
The news of the estimate that only 60 or 70 hostages remain alive comes as family members of Israelis being held in Gaza are increasing the pressure on Netanyahu to reach a deal.
The Haaretz article, already introduced earlier in this article, describes how Hamas and Israeli mediators / negotiators came to working potential compromises for hostage swaps that would see Israeli hostages returned, but Netanyahu kept sabotaging the talks.
Israeli officials Gantz, Eisenkot, and Opposition leader Yair Lapid were said to have “increasingly believed that Netanyahu didn’t consider the return of the hostages the main mission in the war”.
Additionally a former senior intelligence source is quoted by Haaretz: "There are increasing signs that [Netanyahu’s] doing almost everything possible to postpone, delay and ruin the chance of a deal to release the hostages in exchange for terrorists." Another senior intelligence officer was quoted "It was clear that such a demand [by Netanyahu] was designed to put spokes in the wheels of the negotiations,”
… Most of the delays by the Israelis stem from Netanyahu's work methods and political considerations. When Barnea, Bar and Alon return from the talks, they report to Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Herzl Halevi.
…Every hour that passes increases the risk of death for the hostages.
…Netanyahu stalls
In the autumn, when Alon's team realized that 259 people were either missing or held hostage, defense officials and some ministers – certainly Gantz and Eisenkot (and opposition leader Yair Lapid) – increasingly believed that Netanyahu didn't consider the return of the hostages the main mission in the war.
Now, as the hostage families' nerve-racking wait for Hamas' reply continues, defense officials are increasingly unhappy with Netanyahu. According to a former senior intelligence source on Alon's team, "There are increasing signs that he's doing almost everything possible to postpone, delay and ruin the chance of a deal to release the hostages in exchange for terrorists."
When the government first published its five war aims, the release of the hostages was the bottom one. And even after an eight-day cease-fire was agreed in late November (over 100 hostages in exchange for over 300 Palestinian prisoners), a week passed before the deal was implemented.
Later, Netanyahu seized on any excuse not to convene the war cabinet. Or he delayed it by several days; one excuse was that convening the war cabinet wasn't a matter of life or death. Nor do his declarations about killing Hamas' leaders help achieve a deal, or his demand that Hamas give Israel an updated list of the hostages still alive.
"It was clear that such a demand was designed to put spokes in the wheels of the negotiations," said a senior intelligence officer who has taken part in prisoner exchange deals in the past.
Netanyahu also occasionally excluded Gantz and Eisenkot from the deliberations, prevented Barnea and Alon from traveling to the talks, or didn't grant them any authority – they were just conduits.
Netanyahu's maneuvers aroused such disgust that Alon once refused to attend the talks. Last Friday, Bar threatened not to attend if the delegation wasn't granted the authority to actually negotiate.
The defense chiefs are united vis-à-vis Netanyahu. They believe that the release of the hostages is a supreme moral injunction and a matter of national security, and also vital to achieve the war aims and improve Israel's strategic position in the region. This is the case even if there are differences of nuance between Alon and Shin Bet chief Bar, who will definitely be resigning after the war because of the intelligence failures before October 7. For Barnea, responsibility for the failure is very marginal.
Whatever the case, defense officials believe that if this time too the deal on the table isn't implemented, and it turns out that Netanyahu is to blame rather than an inflexible Hamas, the defense establishment's anger at the prime minister will intensify
I digress, in my opinion Netanyahu has been not only been inconsiderate of the hostages, in the assault on Gaza, in the lack of priority for their negotiations… it is not just that the hostage’s return is merely a low priority, but it is actually undesired. Ie: The hostages staying in Hamas captivity to die is preferred over a hostage deal.
For strategic reasons related to Netanyahu’s personal motives as well as the motives of those around him who are on board with the expansionist Zionist Greater Israel agenda, thehostages are considered liabilities to Israel,and if they are returned, it may complicate things for the current Israeli establishment, in that it would be harder for Israel to justify continuing the indiscriminate assault on all of Gaza with the goal of displacing the entire population and establishing Jewish settlements to expand Israel’s territory.
Among the speakers at the rally was Amos Malka, a former head of the Israel Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate, who accused Netanyahu of abandoning the hostages in Gaza.
"If the families knew how small the gap is, which Netanyahu is refusing to close in negotiations with Hamas, they would explode," said Malka. "This is more evidence of his unsuitability to serve."
In an interview with The Times of Israel, Malka clarified that while there were shared failures leading up to the current situation, the responsibility for events since October 7 lay squarely on Netanyahu's shoulders.
After Haaretz Article Exposing Netanyahu for Sabotaging Hostage Talks, Israeli Protests Grew Larger and Bigger Than Ever
…The largest anti-government protest since the country went to war in October. Protesters urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas militants and to hold early elections. …"We believe that no hostages will come back with this government because they’re busy putting sticks in the wheels of negotiations for the hostages," said Boaz Atzili, whose cousin, Aviv Atzili and his wife, Liat, were kidnapped on Oct. 7. Liat was released but Aviv was killed, and his body is in Gaza. "Netanyahu is only working in his private interests."
PROTESTERS HAVE MANY GRIEVANCES
Protesters blame Netanyahu for the failures of Oct. 7 and say the deep political divisions over his attempted judicial overhaul last year weakened Israel ahead of the attack. Some accuse him of damaging relations with the United States, Israel’s most important ally.
Netanyahu is also facing a litany of corruption charges which are slowly making their way through the courts, and critics say his decisions appear to be focused on political survival over the national interest. Opinion polls show Netanyahu and his coalition trailing far behind their rivals if elections were held today.
Unless his governing coalition falls apart sooner, Netanyahu won't face elections until spring of 2026.
Many families of hostages had refrained from publicly denouncing Netanyahu to avoid antagonizing the leadership and making the hostages' plight a political issue. But as their anger grows, some now want to change course — and they played a major role in Sunday’s anti-government protest.
The crowd on Sunday stretched for blocks around the Knesset, or parliament building, and organizers vowed to continue the demonstration for several days. They urged the government to hold new elections….
This was reminiscent of when hostage family members stormed the Knesset in January, as mentioned earlier, to demand the government does more to return their relatives
As protests took on a new level in April, following the revelations in late March that Netanyahu was sabotaging a hostage deal,the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, began warning protestors that violent demonstrations could lead to “dangerous places”. 4/3 — Shin Bet Threatens Israeli Protesters After Violent Clashes
Protests in Israel have become increasingly chaotic as Netanyahu is being accused of sabotaging prisoner release talks
The head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Ronen Bar, warned on 3 April that violent demonstrations could lead to “dangerous places,” coming as chaos continues to unfold in protests condemning the government and demanding the release of Israeli prisoners in Gaza.
….Dozens of Israelis, including the family members of prisoners being held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, swarmed the Knesset in Jerusalem on Wednesday. …Tuesday evening marked the third consecutive day that scores of protesters descended on the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem after beginning their demonstration at the Knesset….Israeli protests have increased recently. On Saturday, protests across several cities were described as the largest since 7 October.
…The surge comes as frustration with the government is at an all-time high, with many, including the prisoners' families, accusing Netanyahu of deliberately sabotaging efforts to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas…
A senior intelligence source on the team of Israeli negotiator Nitzan Alon was cited by Haaretz..."There are increasing signs that [Netanyahu is] doing almost everything possible to postpone, delay and ruin the chance of a deal to release the hostages.”"
The next day, representatives of Qatar told The Jerusalem Post that during the initial round of war negotiations, in the first week of the war, Qatar had gotten Hamas to agree to release of all civilian hostages, but Israel refused to pursue negotiations.
Qatari officials told The Jerusalem Post on 4 April about the “complex position” that the nation has been put in as it plays the key mediator in the Israeli war on Gaza…. In this round of war negotiations, Doha officials said that Israel impeded efforts toward the release of the captives in Gaza.
“We approached Israel very soon after 7 October since we were able to agree with Hamas about the release of all civilian hostages,” a senior source close to the Qatari government said. …“We were only answered by Israel on 16 October,” he said, adding that Israel was adamant about conducting a siege on Gaza in an attempt to release the captives on its own and establish deterrence.
Haim Rubinstein claims Israel rejected early Hamas offer to free all civilians if IDF didn’t enter Gaza, lays out PM’s alleged political meddling that led him to quit last month
…He knows that the moment the hostages are released, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir will leave the government because they’ll think the price was too high.” (Finance Minister Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism party, and National Security Minister Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, are far-right leaders essential to Netanyahu’s coalition and have been pushing for stronger military action in Gaza.) …“There is no doubt that Netanyahu is preventing a deal. Netanyahu knows that if he goes to elections at this time he won’t be able to form a new government, and he is motivated by cold political considerations.”
As the protests grew, so did internal tensions within Israel.
Protesters and opposition MKs accused the government of inciting the hit-and-run incident…
Transportation Minister Miri Regev accused the protesters of wanting to murder Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The writing is already on the fence; there are people there with torches to assassinate and kill the Prime Minister," said Regev in comments to N12's Meet the Press program on Saturday in reference to the protests that have been taking place in recent weeks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
"Not only the blood of 1,400 murdered people are on the hands of this government, but also the blood of the wounded now in Tel Aviv," said the Kaplan Force after the incident in Tel Aviv. "The government of the destruction of the house must go, and the people of Israel are determined to win the fight for the future of the country.”
Opposition leader Yair Lapid accused the government of inciting the hit-and-run incident on Saturday night. "We will not be deterred and will not be made to stop protesting until the hostages are returned and this terrible government falls," said Lapid.
As more hostages have died, many Israelis pin much of the blame on Netanyahu and Israeli leadership for failing to make a deal.
Protesters say Prime Minister Netanyahu is not seeking to free the captives held in Gaza and instead wishes to continue the war
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in protest of the Netanyahu government on the evening of 6 April, calling for early elections and demanding an immediate deal to secure the release of the 133 captives still held by Hamas in Gaza, Haaretz reported.
Protests took place in multiple Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be'er Sheva, Haifa, and Caesarea, and were joined by members of the captives' families...
Protesters chanted, "Police, police, who exactly are you guarding," and "Ben-Gvir is a terrorist," referring to Itamar Ben Gvir, the National Security Minister who has opposed a deal with Hamas to reach a ceasefire and release the Israeli captives.
Five protesters were run over by a driver who refused to obey police orders when encountering the demonstrators...
In Jerusalem, Sharon Sharabi, whose brother Yossi was taken captive by Hamas but killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and whose other brother Eli is still captive, said that theagreement between the state and its citizens was "violated on October 7. It doesn't matter if they are religious or secular, right-wing or left-wing, Ashkenazi or Sephardi."
Take note that the protestors were calling Ben-Gvir a terrorist, and that Ben Gvir has adamantly opposed making a hostage swap / ceasefire deal with Hamas[A hostage swap is dependent on a ceasefire deal, the two are intertwined, which is why Netanyahu’s statements that a hostage deal would only delay the assault on Rafah were counterproductive to actually making a hostage deal]
Even a former Mossad Chief attended the Israeli protest, taking aim at Netanyahu, and his political motives for failing to reach a deal with Hamas for the return of the hostages.
....Former Mossad Chief Danny Yatom said during the demonstration that Netanyahu was seeking to keep the war in Gaza going because "it seems to him that as long as the guns are roaring, it is easier for him to 'dissolve' his criminal trial," and that freeing the captives was not a priority for the prime minister...
The Cradle additionally reported on these extremely important protests:
Adina Moshe, who was taken captive by Hamas on 7 October but released following a temporary ceasefire deal in November... directed her comments at Netanyahu, saying: "I want you to know that if they don't come back, their blood is on your hands. You betrayed us... you will remain forever guilty."
... Yael Or, the niece of the captive Dror Or, blamed the government for failing to reach a deal. "Netanyahu continues to torpedo a deal for the release of the hostages as they die in captivity," she said.
Israeli defense minister Gallant, who is seen as a political rival of Netanyahu alongside Gantz, at this time in April called for a Hostage deal to be made. Gantz was one of the officials identified by Haaretz having“increasingly believed that Netanyahu didn’t consider the return of the hostages the main mission in the war”.
Gallant told Israeli army recruits that, "I think we are at an appropriate moment" to do a deal with the Islamist militants, six months into the war….
"There will be difficult decisions and we will be ready to pay the price in order to get the hostages back, and then return to fighting."..
Families and supporters of hostages have held regular protests demanding government action to bring them home.
…Gallant said Sunday that Israeli troops had been pulled out of southern Gaza "to prepare for future missions", including in neighbouring Rafah
A hostage deal did not pan out.
After all, Netanyahu has been sabotaging all Hostage negotiations. And Gallant did no favors by implicating a hostage deal would not involve a permanent ceasefire, a core demand of Hamas for a hostage swap. Gallant saying the plan was to invade Rafah, and that fighting would continue after a Hostage deal, suggests he was not serious about making a deal in my opinion. I see it as political pandering.
Israeli Hostage family member, Ila Metzger, made a statement in April speaking not just for the life of the hostages, but also the Palestinian people, comparing the actions of the Israeli state to the Nazis.
This same hostage family member, Ila Metzger, was quoted in May by the Times of Israel, repeating a sentiment many family members of the hostages have rallied around: Netanyahu’s government has abandoned the hostages.
"The Israeli government gave up on the abductees and abandoned them to die in Hamas captivity!” Ila Metzger, whose 80-year-old father-in-law Yoram Metzger is held in Gaza, said in opening remarks. “As long as [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is in power, the hostages will not return.”
In June, Ila Metzger delivered a speech urging Netanyahu to choose life over death and take the hostage swap deal Biden had recently proposed in June right before publishing this piece. Metzger said that, she has “questioned the values she grew up with”, which she assumedly sees as not valuing life, a result of seeing the evil, total disregard for human life that exists within the expansionist Zionist mindset.
Every speech, which always comes from the heart and not from the script, is opened by Ila Metzger with the words "bad evening" or "bad evening". In her last speech at Motzash, she said that she chooses life and not war, she questioned the values she grew up with. She called to stop the war and go to a deal. The heart tonight is with her and the Perry, Cooper and Popplewell families. Sign the deal and choose life
I just wanted to consolidate some of the statements by Ila Metzger, an Israeli protestor / hostage family member I have grown to admire for her bravery in standing up to Netanyahu and his regime, as well as her empathy for the Palestinian people, whom she has acknowledged are being starved by Netanyahu’s government.
In late April, Israeli protestors surrounded Ben Gvir, whom was being called a terrorist by Israeli protestors weeks earlier, as mentioned above. A few days after this, his car would be flipped over.
2 days after this event of Ben Gvir being surrounded by protestors, including family of Israeli hostages, Ben Gvir’s car was flipped over in a traffic accident.
While attention in the west has been on the American college student protests, by design, Israel has been having massive protests which the mainstream media in the West has hardly covered or drawn attention to.
A big part of why Israeli protests have been hardly talked about in America, I think, is because of how much discussion of these protests would shift the narrative.
In May, MORE Israeli officers went on record to confirm that the Hostages had basically been abandoned
— with the focus of Israeli leaders being to take out Sinwar, whom the ICC just issued an arrest warrant for alongside Israeli officials, Netanyahu and Gallant.
The Israeli government has “abandoned its goals” of recovering dozens of captives who remain inside Gaza to instead “pursue top Palestinian leaders,” Israeli military officials revealed to Middle East Eye (MEE). “Netanyahu's operations in Gaza are fundamentally aimed at ... hunting down Yahya Sinwar,” one of the Israeli officers, who is serving in Gaza, told the UK-based outlet, stressing that the war is “personal” for the premier.
“A few hostages might be exchanged. However, hostages are no longer of concern to anyone,”the sources said.
Officials in Tel Aviv are reportedly “obsessed” with capturing Sinwar and other top officials within the Qassam Brigades – the armed wing of Hamas.
Understand, the return of the hostages is not the goal of the Israeli leadership.
The Hannibal Directive never ended.
The Middle East Eye exclusive referenced in the above article is featured below.
Israel has abandoned its goals of freeing the captives in Gaza, instead seeking to establish a long-term presence with its Rafah ground offensive and pursue top Palestinian leaders, Israeli military officers have told Middle East Eye.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, three officers, one of whom is serving in Gaza, questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy in the ongoing war on Gaza…
One officer told MEE the government’s aims were unclear and the objective of rescuing captives and destroying Hamas had “collapsed”.
…Captives 'no longer of concern'
“A few hostages might be exchanged. However, hostages are no longer of concern to anyone,”the sources said.
The same day these revelations came from Israeli sources in the military, Israeli police was filmed beating up family members of the hostages still trapped in Gaza, abandoned by Netanyahu and surrounding leadership.
"I'm Yifat, and I'm Shiri Bibas's cousin. I want my family back now!
It cannot be! Did you forget there are two kids there?
What's the price? What are you even talking about? Prices? For lives, for freedom, for children? For the future of this country? Have we lost ourselves, our morals?
On such a tough day, due to our people's past, and because of the present, and for the future - take the deal.
I want my family back...
Benjamin Netanyahu, stop with the excuses, there's a deal on the table.
The Israeli government, just an hour ago, told us the ball is in Hamas's court.
Now the ball is in your hands!”
“My name is Nitzah, I'm Tal Shoham's mother, who's been abducted for too many days. You will not be able to breathe for a minute until all the hostages come back home. We are aware that our govt, the cabinet, decided to enter Rafah.
The lives of the abductees are in your hands. We want to end this nightmare.
The documentation of the arrest of Ila Metzger earlier this evening in Ayalon. The protesters report at least three more kidnapped family members who are being detained by the police
One user commented: “Israeli police now detaining the families of hostages held by Hamas ... too embarassing for Netanyahu?”
It was on May 22nd that The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released footage obtained by the IDF, showing the abduction of five female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base on October 7 [2][3], mentioned earlier in the article. This was an effort to pressure Netanyahu to resume hostage negotiations. It worked to some degree. As we will see, not well enough.
A new video showing Hamas fighters holding captive soldiers on 7 October was released by prisoners’ families to pressure the Israeli government
Israel’s war cabinet approved a resumption of indirect prisoner talks with the Palestinian resistance on 23 May, coming after the release of a video showing female captives being held by Hamas’ armed wing on 7 October….
…At the high-level meeting, Major General Nitzan Alon, one of the Israeli negotiators, presented an updated plan. This came after a previous plan for resuming talks was rejected by Netanyahu on 18 May.
…Talks have recently stalled over Hamas’ insistence that a prisoner exchange be linked to an Israeli commitment for a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of troops, and an end to the war, among the resistance group’s main terms, which it has refused to back down from.
…Representatives of the prisoners’ families have repeatedly accused Netanyahu’s government of deliberately sabotaging talks.
Two Israeli government administration experts say deep divisions in Israel’s society will bring about the end of the ‘Zionist dream’
A new study by Israeli government administration experts Eugene Kandel and Ron Tzur says that Israel will not make it to its 100th anniversary as a state, particularly due to deep divisions plaguing its society and political landscape, as reported by Haaretz.
“After the government's attempt to weaken the judiciary last year, followed by Hamas' massacre in the south, a picture of total failure in the systems, management and operations of the administration has emerged,” the two wrote.
They added that in the “business-as-usual scenario in the political configuration today, there is a considerable likelihood that Israel will not be able to exist as a sovereign Jewish state in the coming decades.”
…Many anticipated that he [Gantz] and his party had decided to part company with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, as it has become obvious that the supposedly moderating influence of Gantz on the far-right tendencies of the coalition was no longer able to serve such a purpose, if it ever did.
True to his usual, hesitant form, however, Gantz could not find in himself the courage to resign from the government on the spot. Instead, he put Netanyahu on a three-week notice as he issued an ultimatum that included six conditions for their political partnership to continue. If they are not met by June 8, the government will revert to a “pure” far-right version, without the more moderate safety net provided by his party.
…It quickly became apparent that Netanyahu was barely functioning as a leader as he presided over a government that included far-right messianic-fanatic elements with hardly any diplomatic or military experience.
…Either way, when it became apparent that Netanyahu, for his own egotistical reasons, had no interest in ending the war or securing the release of hostages, and that the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza and the utter devastation inflicted on the tiny territory had become reckless, it was surely time for National Unity to leave the government to avoid becoming complicit in its actions and tainted by its disastrous conduct.
It was actually Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, from Netanyahu’s own Likud party, who in a televised address this month confirmed what we have all known for some time: that Israel under its current prime minister has no plan for “the day after.”
He urged Netanyahu to make “tough decisions” to advance the non-Hamas governance of Gaza, whatever the personal or political cost, because what he described as the “gains” of the war were being eroded, compromising Israel’s long-term security.
In a rare demonstration of civil courage, which is a characteristic Netanyahu completely lacks, Gallant made it clear in no uncertain terms that he would not allow the establishment of Israeli military rule in the Gaza Strip because “the end of the military campaign must be a political act.”
This move by Gantz would actually result in opinion poll“For the first time in a year… show that a majority of the Israeli population would back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election if ballots were to be held today.” But that is besides that point for now. And this would quickly be contradicted in later weeks by polling that shows Netanyahu being demolished in new elections.
At the end of May, a week after making the public gesture of resuming hostage negotiations, once again families were told efforts had fallen through to make a deal
Tzachi Hanegbi said in a contentious meeting that the government… was not willing to end its military operations in Gaza to free all the hostages. Hamas’s main demand to release all the hostages has been a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal.
...Hanegbi said that there was no plan B if the hostages were not released within a few months. “We will continue to fight in Gaza and in the north, and only then will we reassess,” he said.
Netanyahu has made clear that the hostages were not his priority and that even if all of them were freed, he would continue the genocidal campaign in Gaza to “eradicate” Hamas, a goal the US does not think is realistic.
This would prompt the families of the hostages to speak out, saying Netanyahu was “sacrificing” the hostages.
Top Netanyahu aide reportedly told families moves being driven by polling; Likud MK apologizes after accusing hostage's brother of using situation to promote political agenda
…Relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip accused the government on Friday of “sacrificing” their loved ones
“The Israeli government made a conscious and deliberate decision to sacrifice the hostages,” the Hostage Family Forum said in a statement Friday.“The hostages, and the entire State of Israel, have been taken captive by those who chose political interests over their national and governmental duty.”
Hanegbi met with relatives of the hostages at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon. Among the attendees was Gil Dickmann, whose 40-year-old cousin, Carmel Gat, is among the 125 hostages still being held in Gaza.
Hanegbi "told us: ‘We understand that the only way to bring all the hostages back is through a deal that will bring an end to the war.’ And as he sees it, the Israeli government is not going to put an end to the war right now,” Dickmann told NBC News in an interview Friday.
“He said the only way to make Netanyahu do this is to make him understand that it’s going to be politically good for him, that if he sees polls that say that the Israeli public wants to see the hostages home more than it wants the continuation of the war, then he will make a deal that will bring all the hostages home,” he added. “We were shocked by this.”
The first stage will take six weeks and involves the mandatory implementation of the following points:
- Mutual truce between Israel and Hamas.
- Withdrawal of Israeli troops from all areas of Gaza City.
- Release of female hostages, as well as absolutely all elderly and wounded.
- Liberation of hundreds of Palestinians.
The second stage will include:
- Release of all surviving hostages.
- Release of all male military personnel.
- Withdrawal of Israeli troops from the entire Gaza Strip.
- Permanent ceasefire.
The third stage consists of one point:
- Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
According to Biden, this plan was proposed by Israel itself and transmitted to Hamas through Qatar.
This was when Smotrich and Ben Gvir threatened to leave the war cabinet if Netanyahu accepted this deal. Netanyahu rejected the deal, which originated in Israel, while Hamas accepted it.
Zei Squirrel commented on the Biden peace deal failure:
As suspected the "deal" Genocide Joe presented was just a PR propaganda ploy to shift blame and keep the Gaza genocide going, but it backfired because Hamas yet again reiterated that it was open to it as it's the deal they have presented all along, while Israeli again rejected it
The Hostage families were outraged that Netanyahu rejected the deal.
Einav Tsengaoker, mother of Matan the abductee, in a statement at Shaar Begin:
"Netanyahu's office announcements from yesterday and today did not publicly confirm the outline presented by Biden last night, on the contrary: there is once again entrenchment and hardening of positions which mean: giving up on the abductees. We demand that Netanyahu remove all reservations, and go public and stand publicly behind the Israeli proposal presented by Biden. Go public and approve this deal."
More from Meinav Tsengauker in the statement of the families at Shaar Begin:"Biden spoke last night because he knows that Netanyahu may torpedo this deal as well.After months of Netanyahu thwarting deals, Biden wanted the public to know what was really on the table. And we are worried even now, that Netanyahu will again try to torpedo the deal."
“Israeli leaders do not appear ready to accept the ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal they themselves proposed”
With Netanyahu being responsible for the Oct 7th security failure, refusing to take any blame alongside those around him who have already done so, and failing to negotiate a return of the hostages - it is no wonder his popularity had generally declined throughout the war. Certainly no wonder why the family and friends of the Israeli hostages despise him. And remember, Israel was already deeply divided before Oct 7th, with the majority of Israelis concerned about civil war due to Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul.
[Update: I stumbled upon an account “We Are All Hostages”, ran by Israeli hostage family, while mirroring this article into a twitter thread:
We're here to say to the diaspora: if you support hostages, support ending the war. Anything else hurts our families. Our pain is not for war propaganda. Deal & ceasefire now!
This implication by Biden echoed what many Israelis have been saying, including a former Mossad Chief as discussed earlier in the article: Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his own political agenda (implication is against the best interests of Israelis)
From my observations, the protests by the Israeli families have gotten very little attention in American media, and in discussion by Americans. I think this is by design.
If the Israeli protests were front and center... I think there would be much more hesitation to support Netanyahu & Co, even amongst those who fashion themselves pro-Israel. More may see that Netanyahu and Israel's far right are leading Israel off a cliff
Again, it is easy for the people on the right, lost in cultural conditioning and partisan expectations, to dismiss college protestors calling for a ceasefire as “blue haired marxist Hamas supporters”, but it would not be so easy to dismiss the family members of the victims of Oct 7th as Hamas. Not that Netanyahu’s allies in the Likud party haven’t tried.
Likud MK Nissim Vaturi suggests that anti-government protesters are a branch of the Hamas terrorist group.
Speaking to the Kol Brama radio station, Vaturi says that “there are a few branches of Hamas — the fighting branch of wicked terrorists who murder children, and the branch of the protests.”
A better headline would read: Likud MK: Family Members of Hostages Held By Hamas Are Hamas
Families members of Israeli hostages are Hamas for wanting a hostage deal, which would involve a ceasefire… God forbid the region experiences some peace. This account really started posting and going active on June 4th, right after Biden’s peace proposal.
As mentioned earlier in this series, hostages that have been released have stated that their biggest fear in Hamas captivity was not of Hamas, but fear of dying from Israeli attacks. Netanyahu’s actions throughout the war have jeopardized the lives of the hostages.
While the family members of the Israeli hostages, taken by Hamas, have been called a branch of Hamas for calling for a ceasefire in the name of saving Israeli hostages through a hostage deal (and the best interests of the peoples of both countries)...the irony is that those calling the family members a branch of Hamas, would rather see Israeli citizens die to achieve their political goals.
Who is more like Hamas, the Israeli hostage family members, or Netanyahu and Co?
Hostages saved by a ceasefire deal: 105 Hostages saved through military intervention: 7 Hostages killed... in IDF operations: At least 9
As you can see, the IDF has killed more hostages than they have rescued. Then again, the military goal has not been to rescue the hostages.
"You speak out against a hostage release deal while hostages are dying!"
"These are the results of military pressure"
Two days before Benny Gantz resigned from the War Cabinet, the Hostage Families account retweeted a statement by an Israeli hostage who announced she spoke with Benny Gantz, urging him to exit the war cabinet if he cannot secure a hostage deal. Einav Zanguaker said she told Gantz “Declare that you support ending this war as part of a hostage release deal. Stop Netanyahu’s Sabotage. And if you are unable to secure a hostage release deal in the next 2 days — keep your word, exit this government.”
Haaretz reported that Gantz informed the White House of his plans to quit several days ago and asked for the US’s opinion. The report said: “US officials told Gantz that while they did not intend on intervening in Israeli politics, they noted the fragile state of the hostage/cease-fire talks. His departure will only lead to added pressure from the US on Netanyahu.
Most major American Jewish organizations have stopped short of criticizing the Netanyahu government or calling for an end to the war This week, the families of Israeli hostages issued an urgent appeal to American Jewish organizations:
“We are calling upon you as the leaders of our brethren in the United States — Stand with us at this most critical moment and publicly call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the hostage release deal that is currently on the table, end this war, and prevent extremist factions from further harming and endangering our families.”
The hostage families’ statement did not mince words in blaming Netanyahu for the many months the hostages have languished in Gaza. “We are all hostage to Bibi’s actions. He is risking the lives of our soldiers. He is jeopardizing the lives of our hostages. He is endangering us all.”
…as evident in this desperate appeal from the families, most major Jewish organizations have stopped short of criticizing the Netanyahu government or explicitly calling for a deal that will end the war.
….These demonstrations have a single target: the Netanyahu government. Popular chants call for a deal now, proclaim the blood of the hostages to be on the hands of the government and demand prioritizing the hostages and ending the war. It’s clear to protesters that Netanyahu and his government have made a decision to abandon the hostages in favor of prolonging the war. The Prime Minister has avoided meeting with hostage families, and police have violently suppressed protesting family members.
"There are Members of Knesset here who opposed the [previous] deal, because of them I could have not been here [today], from this Political Party, sitting across from me. So, if any more hostages die – it’s on your hands. You are killing them. They could be here, alive, all of them."
Her boyfriend, Matan, is still held hostage by Hamas.
Gantz had just resigned from the war cabinet the day before this speech by the released Israeli hostage, and momentum continued to snowball for the protestors / Hostage families.
6/10 - Hostage Families: “Today there are people using our families to justify a military solution. Do not let them.” ”Only 7 hostages were saved through military operations. 105 were brought through a hostage release deal. The only way to bring all of our family members home is to end the war.”
On June 10th, Restart Israel[ @ restart_israel]quoted an Israeli hostage who was fortunate enough to be among those released in the November Hostage swap: Ilana Griczevski asked: "Which is more important to you - a villa in Gush Katif or the kidnapped?"
Israel’s National security minister Ben Gvir had given his answer, in action, alongside Netanyahu and Bazalel Smotrich already - but he reiterated it days later by encouraging a radizal zionist event calling for the settling of the Gaza strip and mass emigration / ethnic cleansing of Gazans.
"We are committed to returning to Gaza, we are committed to returning to northern Samaria... We are committed to settle there... Not just Gush Katif but all over Gaza... Together with settlement there must be an encouragement of emigration (of Gazans)..."
"Jerusalem will be built and Gaza will be destroyed. And we will rebuild Gush Katif, we'll build a Jewish Gaza, Jewish Rafah, Jewish Khan Younis... On this occasion we will send support to the government of Israel, to the Prime Minister of Israel, who will lead us to a complete victory over our enemies, in the south and the north, up to the Litani, up to Beirut"
The goal is to settle Gaza. It always has been. That is why the Oct 7th attack was allowed - in this author’s opinion. Many of the hostage families understand that Netanyahu and those around him have prioritized settling Gaza over making a ceasefire deal for the return of the hostages.
…The Israeli government, without the National Unity Camp, has prioritized the military objectives of the war above all – at the expense of the return of the hostages…
6/15 — AllHostages member, Shahar Mor Zahiro speech from June 15th: "Do not feed the killing machine in Gaza. The commanders are sending our children to fight in the name of blind vengeance."
"Bring them home now! Hostage deal now!"
”The line is being drawn before our eyes, between good and evil, between hope and despair, between sanctity of life and its sacrifice
We can all feel it…
"Hamas is a small weak entity that is toying with us and our loved ones by taking advantage of the primary weakness in Israel's society: It's surrender to Messianic extremism, and to the extremists of religious Zionism.
6/15 — WeAreAllHostages: “The hashtag #lethemgonow was created by the Netanyahu government in order to shift blame away from him. We want a Hostage Deal and to end the War which is killing our families. Even rescued Hostages are asking for a Deal. Be on our side, not Netanyahu's.”
"many casualties due to the firing of our forces at our forces ...which turned out to be wrong"
..The IDF is also considering the possibility of appointing an alternate to the post of commander of the Gaza Division - to which Brigadier General Barak Hiram is expected. That is, until the investigation into the hostage event in Barry is completed - which Hiram commanded"
According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, the IDF report due to be released in mid-July found “many casualties due to our forces firing on our forces.”Tel Aviv has been accused of ordering its soldiers to kill hostages rather than allow Hamas to use them in negotiations, a policy long known as the ‘Hannibal Directive.’
The IDF’s October 7 review appears to point to incompetence rather than the intentional killing of its own civilians. However, Israeli outlet Ynet’s investigation of the IDF’s conduct found Tel Aviv had ordered troops to follow the Hannibal policy.
Still, the conclusions from the forthcoming report will amount to an official admission that scores, if not more, of Israelis were killed by IDF soldiers, not Hamas.
”New report documents repeated use of so-called Hannibal Directive in which abductees were killed to prevent their capture”
After this chain of events, Gantz leaving the coalition government, the UN and IDF reports on Oct 7th, additional revelations of the intelligence failure, momentum continued to build for the hostage families resulting in protests hitting unprecedented numbers. 6/22 — LARGEST ISRAELI PROTEST RALLY SINCE OCTOBER 7
In the largest rally since Oct 7, tens of thousands are on the streets again tonight, calling for Netanyahu's immediate ousting, a ceasefire-hostage deal, and new elections.
Following this protest, in the last days of June, Netanyahu has rapidly been attacked by prominent Israelis, including a former prime minister and Mossad chief, saying he needs to go, that he is a danger to Israel.
Co-authored by six Israelis including former Prime Minister Barak and an ex-Mossad Chief, the pierce urges Congress to withdraw Netanyahu's invitation 'as large portion of Israelis have lost faith in Mr. Netanyahu's government'
A Channel 12 News poll on Monday evening predicted that if Knesset elections were held today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition parties would secure only 47 seats while opposition parties would win 73.
And as all this has momentum has been turning against Netanyahu, he has been going full steam ahead with Ben Gvir and Smotrich on expanding settlements. The Greater Israel Agenda
A recorded speech by Religious Zionism chair Bezalel Smotrich was reported in the New York Times on Friday, revealing a grand plan by the settler leader and his political partner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to change Israel's DNA.
Bezalel Smotrich aims to bankrupt the Palestinian Authority and cement Israeli rule.
For Bezalel Smotrich, the head of Israel’s far-right Religious Zionism party, these are heady times. While the rest of Israel is preoccupied with the fighting in Gaza, the fate of the hostages held by Hamas, and Hezbollah’s pummeling of the country’s north, Smotrich has been realizing his dream of creating the conditions that will bring about Israel’s annexation of the West Bank. Indeed, the war has in many ways facilitated his plans.
A few days earlier, The New York Times had published the exclusive on a leaked recording of Smotrich at a West Bank gathering on June 9th, which he described Plans to annex the West Bank, and that the goal was to prevent the West Bank becoming part of a Palestinian state:
Israeli judges have long ruled that Israel’s control of the territory is a temporary military occupation and complies with international law. A powerful minister’s recent speech, caught on tape, suggested the government is trying to change that. …In a taped recording of the speech, the official, Bezalel Smotrich, can be heard suggesting at a private event earlier this month that the goal was to prevent the West Bank from becoming part of a Palestinian state.
“I’m telling you, it’s mega-dramatic,” Mr. Smotrich told the settlers. “Such changes change a system’s DNA.”
While Mr. Smotrich’s opposition to ceding control over the West Bank is no secret, the Israeli government’s official position is that the West Bank’s status remains open to negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Israel’s rule over the territory amounts to a temporary military occupation overseen by army generals, not a permanent civilian annexation administered by Israeli civil servants.
Mr. Smotrich’s June 9 speech at a West Bank gathering may make that posture harder to maintain. In it, he outlined a carefully orchestrated program to take authority over the West Bank out of the hands of the Israeli military and turn it over to civilians working for Mr. Smotrich in the defense ministry. Parts of the plan have already been incrementallyintroduced over the past 18 months, and some authorities have already been transferred to civilians.
SMOTRICH’S ANNEXATION TAPES
Part 1: Smotrich said out loud what Netanyahu is trying to hide.
Listen to Smotrich's annexation tapes, revealed by our Settlement Watch team, where he openly admits that they are carrying out annexation behind the scenes and that Netanyahu fully supports them.
Part 2: Smotrich describes the role of the farm outposts in taking over lands and preventing Palestinian development. He says that legal work is being done in order to enable the legalization of those so that they can be supported by the government.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s plan to annex the West Bank would see over 60% of the territory becoming a part of Israel. But Palestinian experts say it is “already happening.”
…Since October 7, Smotrich’s hardline policies pushing for settlement expansion have reached new heights, with the recently leaked annexation plan raising fears about the intentions of the self-described fascist toward the Palestinians living in the West Bank.
According to Smotrich, the administrative changes he wishes to implement represent a “dramatic change” equivalent to “changing the DNA of the system.”
Before jumping into the Greater Israel Movement and Agenda, let’s explore some dynamics within Israeli politics.
Growing Disapproval for Netanyahu, Bibi’s Popularity Shrinks Even Further as Trust Evaporates
While discontentment with Netanyahu has grown, Netanyahu has grown wary of some of those around him, who he sees as opposition. Indeed, Gant, war cabinet minister, and Gallant, defense minister, have been clashing with Netanyahu for months.
The Israeli prime minister views Gantz as a rival who could replace him
Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, head of the opposition National Unity party, will travel to Washington on Sunday despite objections from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ynetreported on 2 March.
The upcoming trip has angered Netanyahu, who views Gantz as a rival and possible challenger to the prime minister post. Hebrew media cited associates of Netanyahu as saying that he has “made it clear to Minister Gantz that the State of Israel only has one prime minister.”
Gantz will undertake the trip despite government regulations, which require “every minister to clear travel in advance with the prime minister, including approval of the travel plan.”
The rift between Gantz and others has continued to grow:
Ynet added that both Gantz and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant – a Likud member himself – have “teamed up” in order to “lead to elections” and overthrow the government.
A mentioned, Gallant said in April that it was the right time to do a hostage deal, putting pressure on Netanyahu, who has been thwarting hostage negotiations and intentionally stalling, according to many Israeli’s who have access to behind-the-scenes, including some in the war cabinet.
"Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday it is the right time to do a hostage deal with Hamas, a day after the military pulled out troops from Gaza's main southern city."
Despite growing pressure from President Biden, the Israeli prime minister appears in no rush to end the war in Gaza. Some think he has political reasons for extending the stasis.
As political pressure accumulated from the hostages family members and protestors, and defense minister Gallant saying it was the right time for a hostage deal, troops were withdrawn from Gaza. This temporary withdrawal saw national security minister Ben Gvir, an opponent of hostage talks, and finance minister Smotrich, threatening Netanyahu’s ability to continue serving. This dynamic repeated with Biden’s Hostage proposal on the table in June. 4/9 — Top Israeli Officials Panic Over Wind-Down of Gaza War
The frustration follows a mass Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, which has left behind only a few hundred soldiers in the strip…
Tensions continue to boil within Israel’s government as far-fight parties are expressing frustration over the slowdown of the war in the Gaza Strip.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit party said on 8 April via his X account that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “decides to end the war without an extensive attack on Rafah in order to defeat Hamas, he will not have a mandate to continue serving as Prime Minister.”
The Religious Zionist party’s Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for the prime minister to immediately convene a meeting of the security cabinet in order to discuss the current state of the war in Gaza.
“The only forum authorized to make significant decisions in war is the full [security] cabinet, but unfortunately, this is not how things are happening,” Smotrich said in a statement.
“We are seeing decisions being made in the smaller [war] cabinet without approval, without updating the full cabinet, under international pressure that is harming the war’s momentum and our security interests,” he added.
The statements by Ben Gvir and Smotrich come one day after a withdrawal of the bulk of Israel’s troops from Gaza, which Hebrew media referred to as an official end to the Israeli ground operation in the strip, until further notice.
The National Security Minister and Defense Minister have clashed on multiple occasions in the past year regarding how to prosecute its war on Gaza and policy toward West Bank settlers..
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on 15 April, after the Israeli army began preparations to dismantle the illegal Gal Yosef outpost in the occupied West Bank.
… National Security Minister Ben Gvir has called for Defense Minister Gallant to be fired multiple times over the past year for what Ben Gvir views as Gallant's mistakes in prosecuting the war on Gaza and insufficient support for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, including their use of violence against Palestinians.
If you cancel the Rafah invasion, your government will not have the authority to continue.
While Smotrich threatened Netaynahu’s continuity of rule if he did not invade Rafah, opposition leader Gantz took the inverse approach, saying if Netanyahu continues to fail to make a hostage deal, he will no longer have permission to continue ruling, implying the Rafah invasion should not be the priority like Netanyahu’s allies have made it - the return of the hostages should be. In his statement, Gantz accused Netanyahu of abandoning the hostages.
“Entering Rafah is important in the long struggle against Hamas. The return of our abductees, abandoned by the 7.10 [Oct 7] government, is urgent and of far greater importance,” Gantz said on X.
Tensions rise in Netanyahu’s coalition government as military replacements announced:
○ On 2 May, the Israeli army announced the promotion of 5 generals to replace the recent resignations across the 'General staff', the senior command in charge of the different branches in the military.
○ The announcement has been met with criticism from Israeli ministers, lawmakers, and media, citing disapproval over allowing current government and military officials, responsible for the security failure on 7 October, to select incoming replacements.
○ There has also been condemnation over promoting generals from within the military, prior to reviewing their potential involvement in what led to the failure on 7 October.
…○ Extremist far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich publicly denounced the appointments, they attributed to War Minister Yoav Gallant, claiming that he had no jurisdiction to make new appointments given his culpability in the security failure of 7 October. They also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Gallant.
In mid-May Gallant rejected Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan, with the idea of Israeli military rule, furthering tensions.
Ben Gvir and other Israeli politicians are calling for Gallant to be fired for saying non-Hamas Palestinian rule should be established
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must formulate a plan for a post-war Gaza and reject the idea of Israeli military rule.
Gallant said that if non-Hamas Palestinian rule doesn’t get established, Hamas will be able to re-establish itself in areas where its military has been dismantled. “As long as Hamas retains control over civilian life in Gaza, it may rebuild and strengthen [itself], thus requiring the IDF to return and fight in areas where it has already operated.”
“In the absence of such an alternative, only two negative options remain: Hamas’ rule in Gaza or Israeli military rule in Gaza. The meaning of indecision is choosing one of the negative options,” Gallant added.
The Israeli defense minister said that he has repeatedly brought up the issue with the Israeli security cabinet but that his concerns have been ignored. Gallant said he would not “agree to the establishment of Israeli military rule in Gaza” and called on Netanyahu to reject the idea of a military occupation “even with the possibility of personal or political costs.”
Netanyahu has said Israel must maintain security control over Gaza indefinitely and has strongly rejected the idea of establishing a Palestinian state. Netanyahu hit back at Gallant, saying he is not “willing to replace Hamastan with Fatahstan,” referring to Fatah, the political faction that heads the Palestinian Authority.
Additionally, Antiwar.com noted that while Netanyahu had been insisting that post-war Gaza shouldn’t be harped on until after Hamas is defeated, the US believes Hamas’ defeat is unrealistic.
Netanyahu said the issue of post-war Gaza shouldn’t be discussed until Hamas is defeated, a goal that the US believes is unrealistic.
The assessment aligns with an Israeli military intelligence document that was circulated last month and said even if Israel succeeded in dismantling Hamas as an organized military force, the group would still exist as “a terror group and a guerrilla group.”
US intel has not just determined that Israel is unlikely to defeat Hamas, but elements of the Israeli military also have determined a military solution to defeating Hamas is improbable.
Former Deputy Chairman of the Israeli National Security Council, Eran Etzion, stated that "there are no military solutions" to the wars Israel is fighting in the south against Hamas and the north against Hezbollah and that the Israeli government is lying, Al-Mayadeen reported on 2 March.
War minister Benny Gantz is threatening to leave the government if the Israeli prime minister does not articulate a plan to win the war and in Gaza
…Gantz demanded that Netanyahu work to accomplish six strategic goals:
Bring home the roughly 100 Israeli captives still held by Hamas in Gaza.
Topple Hamas, demilitarize Gaza, and gain Israeli security control over the strip.
Create an international civilian governance mechanism for Gaza, including US, European, Arab, and Palestinian elements, while excluding Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Return settlers to their homes in the north and southwest of Israel who have been evacuated due to the wars with Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively.
Advance normalization with Saudi Arabia.
Pass legislation requiring Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews to serve in the army.
In his speech, Gantz vowed to “go after Hamas and all our enemies in every situation and everywhere and at all times” and that “we will not allow any outside power, friendly or hostile, to impose a Palestinian state on us.”
“But if you choose the path of the zealots and lead the whole state into the abyss, we will be forced to leave the government,” he warned, referring to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Netanyahu relies on the support of the two Jewish supremacist ministers to keep his coalition intact. Both have called for the destruction of Gaza, the expulsion of Palestinians from the enclave, and the building of Jewish settlements there.
In response to Gantz’s speech, Netanyahu accused his coalition partner of “issuing an ultimatum to the prime minister instead of issuing an ultimatum to Hamas.”
…Amid growing calls by far-right lawmakers to establish Jewish settlements in Gaza, Smotrich urged Netanyahu “to make a strategic decision on full Israeli control of Gaza,” which Gallant explicitly said he would not allow during his remarks earlier in the week.
Ben Gvir’s priority of continuing the war to “defeat Hamas” (true intention is settling Gaza) over making a deal to have the hostages returned is why Ben Gvir’s been a focus of the hostage families and protesters.
On the flip side, as discussed earlier, at the end of May Gantz put Netanyahu on a “three week notice” to make a hostage deal and create a realistic plan to end the war. Gantz would end up leaving on the ninth,with Smotrich and Ben Gvir remaining in the coalition, which had not yet lost enough seats to dissolve.
Defense minister Gallant, who is in Netanyahu’s Likud party, was echoing the pressure on Netanyahu to not persist on maintaining Israeli military control of Gaza after the war, but rather handing control to a non-Hamas Palestinian faction like the PA.
Since it is established that Smotrich and Ben Gvir, seen as Netanyahu’s allies, were threatening Netanyahu’s ability to continue serving as Prime minister if he did not follow through on invading Rafah [see above], it is appropriate to point to a short video by Dan Cohen explaining “How Israel and Mossad operate exactly like ISIS”, which discusses the the political history and context of National Security Minister Ben Gvir and finance minister Bezazel Smotrich and his “subjugation plan” (Smotrich’s name for it, not Dan Cohen’s….)
As mentioned, much of the blame has fallen on Netanyahu for October 7th, in the views of the majority of Israelis - while Netanyahu has been the “only senior Israeli official who hasn't admitted any fault — a strategy that is sparking a fierce public backlash and sending the prime minister's already tenuous support into free fall." as reported by Axios (see below)
In part 1 I pointed out that Netanyahu seemed to be being set up to be a scapegoat for the failure of October 7th, for supporting Hamas (to explicitly prevent a Palestinian state), failing to prevent the attack, and butchering the response (bad choice of words?……). While Netanyahu does bear much blame, my article implied others in Israel want him to take all the blame so they can continue business as usual with no consequences for their own role in the failures.
In part 1, I wrote:
Not only has he pissed off all of Israel’s population according to polls, but his fellow statemen have turned from him, as he is the scapegoat for the intelligence failure - not to imply he isn’t to blame, but to imply others are offsetting their own blame and wanting him to take it all.
….I digress, while Netanyahu might be the agreed upon scapegoat, what to do with Gaza after the war seems less clear. One thing is for sure. The Israeli’s haven’t stopped desiring Gaza for themselves.
The header of a section of part 2 read: “Netanyahu is the Scapegoat”, which I introduced by pointing to a tweet by Scott Horton, in which he says “Now the Washington Post confirms@ FreemansMind96 and my article about Netanyahu's support for Hamas. WAPO: "Netanyahu and Hamas depended on each other. Both may be on the way out." [Archive]
Before I published Part 1, Netanyahu’s popularity already had tanked as a result of Oct 7th.
Four out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of Hamas terrorists into Israel and the massacre that followed, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found.
While the vast majority of Israelis blamed Netanyahu for the attack, Netanyahu refused to take any responsibility, instead placing all blame on others. Axios reported in early November that "Netanyahu is the only senior Israeli official who hasn't admitted any fault — a strategy that is sparking a fierce public backlash and sending the prime minister's already tenuous support into free fall." 11/03 —Bibi's Blame Game Over Hamas Attack Draws Backlash — Axios
The history of Netanyahu’s government of supporting Hamas had already been well documented in Israeli media, and there were many anomalies that merited questioning and investigation.
On top of the support for Hamas, on top of the intelligence failure that allowed the attack, and the possible killing of Israeli citizens, - the lack of regard for the hostages in Hamas’s after the attack was insult to injury for worried family members of victims, or any Israeli citizen who entertained the notion their government cared about them and would do everything to protect them.
Netanyahu’s Popularity Continuing to Decline After Part 3’s Publication on December 3rd
Days After I published part 3, The Cradle wrote on a new poll from December 8th showing public support for Netanyahu dropping further to abysmal lows - with public support dropping to 31%.
A new opinion poll published by Hebrew daily Maariv on 8 December shows that public support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dropped to 31 percent.
If elections were held today, Netanyahu’s Likud party would lose two parliamentary seats, dropping to 18, and the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party would gain four seats. Meanwhile, former Defense Minister and Israel’s National Unity party leader Benny Gantz was shown to be the national favorite to lead as Prime Minister, with his party potentially winning 38 Knesset seats.
Netanyahu’s popularity has decreased significantly since the beginning of the war on 7 October….
Opposition leader and former premier Yair Lapid has called on Netanyahu to resign, given his mishandling of the war with Hama
At this same time in early December, former U.S Ambassador to Israel called Netanyahu a “clear and present danger” to Israel.
The opposition leader in Tel Aviv, Yair Lapid, called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign…
Galit Distel Atbaryan, a Likud member of the Knesset, sent private Telegram messages slamming the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I have a great anger toward Netanyahu, fury that is burning me from inside,” she said. “The days of this government are numbered, that’s completely clear.”
The Times of Israel describes Distel Atbaryan as “a firebrand who was seen as a Netanyahu loyalist.” She was a minister in Netanyahu’s government but resigned in the days following the Hamas attack on southern Israel.
In a second blow to Netanyahu, Lapid demanded his resignation on Israeli Channel 12. “This government isn’t functioning, we need change, Netanyahu cannot continue to be prime minister, we cannot allow ourselves to conduct a prolonged [military] campaign with a prime minister that the public has no faith in.” He continued. “Security-wise and on the society level, we cannot have a premier who has lost the trust of the public.”
After the Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed over 1,200 people, Netanyahu’s popularity among Israelis has plummeted. A poll conducted by Bar Ilan University released this week shows that less than 4 percent of Jewish Israelis trust Netanyahu.
The poll showing less than 4% of Jewish Israelis trust Netanyahu is discussed in part 1 of this series:
Recent poll reported by Haaretz - As War Rages, Israelis' Trust in Netanyahu Plummets, Polls Find ”A poll conducted by researchers at Bar Ilan University asked Israelis about trust in information and decision-making regarding the war in Gaza. Results show that under 4 percent trust Netanyahu; IDF Spokesman Hagari emerges as 'most reliable' figure"
In part 1, I covered a series of polls revealing the trend of Netanyahu losing popularity..
“Four out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of Hamas terrorists into Israel and the massacre that followed, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found.”
“Gadi Kedem, who lost six family members in the Hamas massacre. ‘I accuse Benjamin Netanyahu of leading Israel to the biggest disaster in its history,” said Kedem, a resident of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, in a video posted last Friday. “I accuse him of tearing apart the nation with the judicial coup, which dismantled and weakened the state in the face of its enemies; of forsaking the communities near the Gaza border for years; of strengthening Hamas by way of suitcases of money; of ignoring the warnings of the heads of defense organizations. The blood of my family is on his hands.’ “
The fact that Netanyahu made sure Hamas was funded was well documented, and discussion of the matter continued to spread after October 7th, hence the statement in the above excerpt by the Israeli Gadi Kedem, who lost 6 family members in the attack.
While Netanyahu lost approval throughout the war,in May it was reported that Netanyahu made a temporary comeback in approval ratings, this was after Gantz put Netanyahu’s government “on notice”.
The Israeli public is rallying behind the current premier as reports say the country's main opposition leader is expected to bolt the current government coalition
For the first time in a year, opinion polls show that a majority of the Israeli population would back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election if ballots were to be held today.
A survey presented by Channel 12 News on 29 May found that 36 percent of the electorate prefers Netanyahu over opposition leader and war cabinet member Benny Gantz when asked, “Who is better suited to serve as prime minister?”
This marks a significant month-to-month surge from April, when support for Gantz stood at 35 percent, and Netanyahu lagged behind at 29 percent.
In the new survey, the current premier is also seven points ahead of opposition leader Yair Lapid and two points ahead of former prime minister Naftali Bennett.
Israeli media says the premier is 'convinced' he can win a snap election if growing political pressure leads to the dissolution of his government
US State Secretary Anthony Blinken said on 4 May that the genocidal actions undertaken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza are "a reflection of where a large majority of Israelis are in this moment.”
Similarly, a near majority of Israel population supports occupying Gaza.
It isn’t just Netanyahu that has been generally losing support (until very recently), Israel as a state has also been steadily losing support, both internationally as well as in America. Remember, on March 5th it was reported: “US Opinion Of Israel Lowest In Two Decades: Poll”
This declining support for Israel in the US, especially amongst Biden’s democratic base, is driving factor behind the dynamic which I have simply come to think of as Biden and the Biden administration paying “lip service”, softly rebuking and condemning Netanyahu with rhetoric while continuing to enable and support him materially and funneling more weapons and money to Israel. This will be expanded on in the next article of this series, which will shift focus from Oct 7th, to the genocidal actions and intent since Oct 7th, Israel’s war on the UN, and the geopolitical dynamics and consequences of this “war”.
…“The domino effect of the resignation of the head of military intelligence may soon occur, including the Chief of Staff as well,” the Hebrew daily reported.
Despite its enthusiasm for Palestinian bloodshed, Israeli public opinion, as reflected in various polls over recent months, overwhelmingly holds Netanyahu and his administration accountable for the now obvious failures of the war.
Despite the recent poll at the end of May showing for the first time in a year that Netanyahu would win an election… Netanyahu’s popularity has declined as a result of Oct 7th, but also as a result of the failures since Oct 7th. After October 7th, it wasn’t hard to find people talking about Netanyahu supporting Hamas, and word quickly spread. Many in Israel blamed him for Oct 7th on this fact alone.
A section of Part 1 of this series was, “Qatar is to Mossad as the Wuhan Lab was to NIH — A Foreign Proxy to Funnel money into Shady Shit They Shouldn’t be Overtly be Funneling Money Into [Hamas]”, which discussed the history of Israel supporting Hamas, and its precursors, stretching back to the 1970’s.
I covered how Netanyahu was reported to have “begged” the Qataris to keep funding Hamas. You know.. the entity Israel was calling a terrorist group at the same time they were supporting them to use as a prop to weaken the PA and justify not granting Palestinian statehood. The same Hamas that carried out October 7th.
The goal of this long standing policy of Israel supporting Hamas was to divide the Palestinian people, alienate the PLA, and reduce the likelihood of a Palestinian State.
“Israeli visit disclosed by Avigdor Lieberman, who says Mossad chief and Israeli military commander were sent on the mission by Netanyahu”
None other than Mr. Netanyahu himself had send the Mossad chief and an Israeli Military Commander to “begthe Qataris to keep funneling money into Hamas.”
…Keep in mind, the entire objective of this long-standing policy of Israel supporting Hamas, both overtly and covertly, boils down to Israel wanting to disrupt and prevent Palestinian Statehood.
”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s regular allowing of Qatari funds to be transferred into Gaza, saying it is part of a broader strategy to keep Hamas and the Palestinian Authority separate …The prime minister also said that, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Read that again: “The prime minister also said that, ’whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.’" “
As I wrote in Part 1, “after Hamas’ attack, even legacy media began reminding people of the reality that Netanyahu propped up Hamas for years…. too big of a reality not to address.”
The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood…. For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.
The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, replied: “Yes, you are repeating what I have been saying for a long time. Long before the Oct 7th.. From day one Netanyahu downgraded the Palestinian Authority(PA), and almost inevitably, upgraded Hamas…. I certainly hold him responsible for the fact that the Palestinian authority was downgraded and there were intentionally, on purpose, no serious negotiations, not a genuine effort by the Israeli government to embark on meaningful negotiations for a two-state solution. It is what I have been saying for all these years.”
As Israel’s war on Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip continues escalating, a secret 2018 letter penned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the leadership in Doha exposes Tel Aviv’s diplomatic efforts to ensure tens of millions of dollars would reach Hamas every month. The decades-long policy of Netanyahu’s far-right Likud Party to directly and indirectly fund Hamas has been well documented by the US and Israeli press.
In the letter, only seen by a handful of people, Netanyahu implored the Qatari government to send Hamas another major cash infusion.
…Nevertheless, Dr. Udi Levi, the Mossad official charged with cracking down on the funding of terrorism until 2016, told Ynet “The PA said it would no longer agree to fund Hamas and rather than let the terror group collapse, Israel decided on an alternative route for its funding.”
He continued, “That was part of Israel’s policy to buy quiet. Hamas demanded that the $30 million per month would be delivered directly to the ruling faction. It was naïve to believe Hamas would provide the money to the population in Gaza.”
Levi goes on to explain that Doha was reluctant to fund Hamas as well, saying, “In 2018 Qatar was concerned that funding Hamas – which had been designated a terror organization – would create problems with international institutions.”
There were concerns within the Qatari government that continuing to send money to the group would imperil Doha with respect to international institutions. Presumably, this included the risk of running afoul of the US Treasury Department’s myriad sanctions and penalties. “There was a sense that the Americans were needed, in order to seal the deal,” Levi concedes.
Subsequently, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin “agreed to a request from Netanyahu and sent an additional letter to Doha, this time from Washington, in effect, ensuring Qatar that the funding of Hamas would not be considered funding terror.”
Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich, one of Netanyahu’s media advisers,has bragged that a key success of Netanyahu was disconnecting Gaza from the West Bank, both politically and conceptually. “[Netanyahu] basically smashed the vision of the Palestinian state in these two places… some of the achievement is related to the Qatari money reaching Hamas each month.”
Netanyahu had previously dispatched high officials, such as Mossad chief Yosi Cohen, to Doha “[begging] the Qataris to keep funneling money into Hamas” as Avigdor Lieberman, the former defense minister characterized it.
In part 1 of this series, I made the obvious, natural extrapolation of why Netanyahu and Co would not want a Palestinian state. The answer, of course, being the Greater Israel Agenda - although I did not use the term “Greater Israel” until part 3 of this series. Israel wants Gaza and the West Bank for itself. This is directly in-line with the paragraph above by the Libertarian institute, saying that “The long-standing policy of backing Hamas was part of a larger effort by Netanyahu and Likud to divide the Palestinians, weaken Fatah, preclude negotiations over a Palestinian state, and continue the de facto annexation of land in the West Bank with expanding illegal settlements.”
The Greater Israel Movement, Further Validation of the “Convenient to a Pre-Existing Depopulation Agenda” Narrative
The history of the Greater Israel Agenda goes back to the 1967 war.
As Wikipedia succinctly describes, the Movement for a Greater Israel “called on the Israeli government to keep the captured areas and to settle them with Jewish populations.”
The captured areas being the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Syria’s Golan Heights, and the Sinai peninsula- all of which have remained under Israeli control aside from the Sinai peninsula.
The movement’s official political party had ties to Nitenyahu’s Likud party, and for a time they had even merged. The official political party is not as important as is the idea of colonizing Gaza and the West Bank and establishing settlements where Palestinians live now in order to fulfil the “greater Israel” vision.
This Greater Israel agenda has proliferated throughout Israeli society, but has concentrated in the Likud party. But make no mistake, just asboth democrats and republicans in the US advance the war machine agenda, the Likud party is not the only party captured by radical Zionists, secular or not, who wish to expand Israel’s territory by annexing Palestine.
In Part 1 of this series, I detailed how an internal Israeli document written days after Oct 7th was leaked to the press - leaked at the tail end of October.
The leaked document described an Israeli plan to drive the entire population of Gaza into the Sinai desert - and to never allow them to return.
…a document written on October 13th was leaked to the press, which described Israeli plans to drive the entire population of Gaza into the Sinai desert and force Egypt to adopt them…permanently with no chance to return. A second Nakba.
English Translations of Leaked Internal Israeli Plan to Displace 2 Million Gazans into Sinai Desert, Leaked 10/28
The plan advocates the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be leveraged to assist the move
Israeli culture magazine Mekovit published on 28 October a leaked document issued by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence recommending the occupation of Gaza and total transfer of its 2.3 million inhabitants to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The document, issued on 13 October, identifies a plan to transfer of all residents of the Gaza Strip to North Sinai as the preferred option among three alternatives regarding the future of the Palestinians in Gaza at the end of the current war between Israel and the Hamas-led Palestinian resistance.
…The deported Palestinians would not be allowed to return to any areas near the Israeli border….
October 7th happens and boom: the solution is to kick the entire civilian population out of Gaza and never allow them to return so Israel can establish settlements …how convenient.
Antiwar.com’s reporting on the leaked Israeli military documents outlining the plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza:
All the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a massive ethnic cleansing operation, conducted at lightning speed and with US assistance
….According to the leaked Israeli intelligence ministrydocument, after their expulsion, Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians would initially be housed in tent cities, before permanent communities could be built in the peninsula’s north.
A military “sterile zone”, several kilometres wide, would prevent any return to Gaza. Longer term, Israel would encourage other states – especially Canada, European countries such as Greece and Spain, and North African countries – to absorb the Palestinian population in Sinai.
The ministry reportedly believes the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza into Sinai would be “liable to provide positive and long-lasting strategic results”.
For Palestinians, on the other hand, it has traumatic echoes of Israel’s mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland at Israel’s creation in 1948 – what Palestinians call their Nakba, or Catastrophe.
The international reaction to such a plan was viscerally opposed to it, and Israel has yet to go through with it, but they pushed the entire population of Palestine into Rafah, the last officially designated “safe” zone for Gazans to go to (Hasn’t stop it from being bombed repeatedly, including the viral war crimes of back-to-back bombing of displaced civilians in tents in late May 1,2,3,4))
Behind the scenes, Israeli officials term their latest ethnic cleansing proposal a “Greater Gaza Plan”. Details first leaked in the Israeli media in 2014, although reports indicate that the origins date to 2007, when the Bush administration was apparently brought on board following Hamas’ election victory in Gaza a year earlier.
At the time, Israel’s secret plan relied on carrots more than sticks. The idea was to attach Gaza to Sinai, erasing the border between the two. Washington would help secure international funding for a free trade zone in Sinai.
With unemployment at over 60 per cent, massive overcrowding in the enclave and little clean water to drink, the expectation was that Palestinians in Gaza would gradually move the centre of their lives to Sinai, settling there or moving to distant Egyptian cities….
In response to the Israeli media leaks of 2014, an official close to former president Hosni Mubarak admitted that the screws had been turned on him in 2007 to agree to annex Gaza.
…...Israel’s goal is to speed up the process of making Gaza uninhabitable.
While this Greater Gaza plan got leaked in 2014, with this specific plan tracing to 2007, The Greater Israel agenda which inspired it is far older.
The day I published part 1, Antiwar.com published the following headline, after the documents detailing a plan to the Gazan population into the Sinai were leaked two weeks prior:
Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing for Western countries to take in refugees from Gaza as Israeli officials continue to call for Palestinians to be pushed out of the enclave.
The op-ed was written by Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and Ram Ben-Barak, a member of the opposition party Yesh Atid, which is led by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
“One idea is for countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate,” the lawmakers wrote.
This was largely because Egypt was refusing to take in Palestinians, not wanting to enable their permanent displacement.
In Part 2 I asked what comes next for Gaza, pointing to the intention to settle Gaza with Jewish settlements and drive out the Palestinian people - with this being the motive for an “Intelligence stand down”, a motive for why Israeli leadership would have deliberately allowed the October 7th to happen.
But what comes next for Gaza? After all, as my last article pointed to, the entire objective of an Israeli intelligence stand-down, of allowing an attack to happen, would be to set pretext for taking Gaza. Likewise, the entire reason for the policy of wanting to prop up Hamas to deny Palestinian Statehood points to the motive of annexing Palestine.
Israeli Polling Shows Gaza Settlements Wanted, What Comes Next for Gaza After? Convenient Annexation? Wider Regional War? Prosecution of Israeli War Crimes?
And while a near majority of Israelis support Jewish Resettlement, and the settler-friendly ruling government… certainly does, Biden continues to enable Israel, no questions asked, recently removing restrictions on Israel’s access to weapons.
As you can see, I was also foreshadowing the prosecution of War Crimes.
Part 2 of this series would also caution in part that the US aiding and abetting Israel in its indiscriminate use of force against the Palestinians would not only damage the USA’s national security with the geopolitical blowback, but would also make the US culpable in prosecution of War Crimes by the ICJ
All of this killing, aided and abetted by the US, is further tarnishing America’s reputation on the world stage, both in the Global South and in much of the West as Western leaders condemn Israeli overkill.
The damage to national security is already becoming observable. Attacks have severely escalated in Syria and Iraq, with the Cradle reporting as of Nov. 17th that groups “across Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 55 times since the start of the Gaza-Israel war”
It also could implicate the US in war crimes later on.
Related: George Bush’s Hague Invasion ActHuman Rights Watch in 2002 — ”A new law supposedly protecting U.S. servicemembers from the International Criminal Court shows that the Bush administration will stop at nothing in its campaign against the court.”
After part 3, and 3, in late December South Africa initiated a case in the ICJ against Israel for genocide
'The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed,' says Wikus Van Rensburg, who is leading team of 47 lawyers and received support from US, UK for lawsuit”
After discussing polls from America showing Biden rapidly losing support among the American population as a result of the war, part 2 nearly concluded by pointing out that “Since the get-go, Israeli leadership has been expressing the desire to impose strict control over Gaza following the war.”
Israel has been quietly pushing for other governments to support a plan to push Palestinians into Egypt
US officials did push back on Netanyahu here, knowing the world would not accept an ‘indefinite’ Israeli occupation.
As Antiwar.com noted, "Bloomberg recently reported that one idea the US and Israel are considering is deploying a multinational force to a post-war Gaza that would include US and other Western troops."
Erdogan stepped forward last week saying Turkey could not accept Israel's policy of depopulating Gaza, while reiterating that Israel is a ‘terror state.’”
In part 3 I had concluded:
Netanyahu’s goal isn’t to stop Hamas, it is to prevent Palestinian statehood - that is why he funded Hamas. And the reason for preventing Palestinian statehood is to fulfill the greater Israel project. Zionists want Palestinian land for themselves.
….Why did Israel leadership ignore solid intelligence of a Hamas attack?
Was October 7th allowed to happen by radical Zionists?
How many Israelis were killed by the IDF rather than Hamas on October 7th? What is the border wall footage hiding?
Why is there a struggle within Israeli defense forces over access to evidence?
When it is made accessible to Israeli officers investigating the attack, what will be found?
“And the reason for preventing Palestinian statehood is to fulfill the greater Israel project..” Recently, a US Senator from Maryland just echoed this on the Senate floor.
3/15 — Sen. Van Hollen — "Iran has supported Hamas. But what we rarely talk about, if ever, is the inconvenient truth .... Before the October 7th attack… Netanyahu himself saw it as in his interest to keep Hamas in control in Gaza.
Don't take my word for it, he told us in his own words. Back in 2019 at a Likud party meeting, and I quote:
'Anyone who wants to prevent the creation of aPalestinian state needs to support strengthening Hamas. This is part of our strategy to dive the Palestinians between those in Gaza and those in Gaza and those Judea and Samaria”
Senator Van Hollen quoted other important articles that demonstrated the well-documented reality of Netanyahu funding Hamas to explicitly prevent a Palestinian state. The video is well worth watching.
Again, this public admission by Netanyahu that the explicit goal was to prevent a Palestinian state by ensuring Hamas had funding points to a larger motive that can be extrapolated to apply to why an intelligence failure to prevent a Hamas attack would be intentional.
Netanyahu and his ilk did not want to prevent the Palestinian state in a vacuum. They wanted to prevent a Palestinian state because they want Palestine for themselves. Understanding this is key. It would be much harder For Israel to settle Palestine if an established Palestinian state came to existence.
Senator Van Hollen came to the same conclusion, although he did not accuse Netanyahu of allowing October 7th for the purpose of fulfilling the Greater Israel agenda like me- but he did go on to reference the Greater Israel project starting around 6:35 in the above video
"....So PM Netanyahu has advanced this strategy, weakened the Palestinian Authority, and strengthened Hamas in order to prevent Palestinians from living in dignity in a state of their own.
And the reason, the reason Netanyahu and the far-right extremists... don't want a Palestinian state in the West Bank is they want it all for themselves in what they envision as a Greater Israel.
If you have Palestinians in the West Bank...you can't implement the vision of a greater Israel... "
This is a US Senator. The agenda is out in the open, in plain sight, well-documented and no-one can seriously deny what Senator Van Hollen was saying.
THE REASON ISRAEL HAS NOT WANTED TO ALLOW A PALESTINIAN STATE IS BECAUSE THEY AIM TO EXPAND THE IRAELI STATE TO INCLUDE WHERE PALESTINIANS CURRENTLY RESIDE IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK. THEY WANT THE PALESTINIANS GONE. This is why Netanyahu supported Hamas, whom they’ve had labeled a terrorist organization.
The Corbett Report recently published a piece in April titled “The Secret History of Hamas”, which echoed much of what I wrote 5 months prior in Part one of this series.
This agenda to prevent a Palestinian state is why, as I pointed out in part 1, the former Israeli Military Intelligence chief said in 2007 Israel would be ‘happy’ if Hamas takes over in Gaza. Days later, Hamas violently took over Gaza.
Israel wanted the terrorist group in power to prevent unity under the Palestinian Authority (PA), and to justify their continued occupation. The goal was to prevent Palestinian statehood. It is that simple.
And the point of much of what has been going on since October 7th up until today affirms what I quoted Declassified to say in part 1 “...Israel’s goal is to speed up the process of making Gaza uninhabitable”, so that it can be settled by Israel.
The Greater Gaza movement has influenced Israel to the point where the near majority of Israelis were found in a Nov. poll to be in support of settling Gaza and the West Bank, as recapped above from part 2 of this series.
A leaked intelligence document revealed last month that Israel has plans to ethnically cleanse and reoccupy Gaza
A significant percentage of Israelis are in favor of Jewish resettlement in the Gaza Strip following the end of the current war with Hamas, a 15 November poll carried out by Israeli Channel 12 indicates.
“44 percent of the public favors the renewal of the settlement in Gaza. In contrast, 39 percent of the public opposes the renewal of the settlement,” the survey says.
Further polls have reaffirmed relatively broad support for settling Gaza, and a lasting occuption, but polling from April has shown a majority of Israelis mistrust Netanyahu’s plans to settle Gaza. This has come after months of declining international support for Israel.
The annexation, ethnic cleansing, and establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza are among Israel's war aims
A new poll from the Israel Democracy Institute found that just a fifth of Israelis, 19 percent, believe that Israel should establish Jewish settlements in a conquered Gaza Strip when the current war ends, Haaretz reported on 22 April.
The number increased to 22.5 percent for Jewish Israelis, which the institute notes has declined by 3 percent since December 2023.
…Shortly after Israel's war on Gaza began in October, indications emerged suggesting the ethnic cleansing and annexation of Gaza and the rebuilding of the Gush Katif settlement bloc was a major war aim of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet.
Before I hash through Israel’s Genocidal actions throughout this war that seem to reaffirm my initial assertions that Israel’s goal is ethnic cleansing and then settling of Palestine, I want to compile some examples of Genocidal rhetoric through this war. But remember, actions speak louder than words, and it isn’t just those politicians spewing blatant genocidal rhetoric that are complicit in this genocide.
Genocidal Rhetoric by Prominent Israeli Politicians, Religious Figures Since Oct 7th
First off, I want to point out what should be obvious - that religious extremism underpins much of the Zionist sphere, as does the settlement expansion / Greater Israel agenda. The two are very much intertwined, although it is worth noting that MANY Zionists are secular.
If the West did not have a filter on its perception, put in place via decades of propaganda and indoctrination, radical Zionism in Israel would be seen no different than radical Islam. Netanyahu kicking off the war by referencing a biblical prophecy…should have be quite telling….
While many statements in the above clip dehumanize Palestinians as “human beasts” and “animals”, or even less than animals because it would be an “insult to animals” to call them animals, much of the dehumanizing rhetoric has been in the form of the assertion that Palestinian civilians should not be regarded as innocent like civilians always are, by default. The notion that there are no innocent Palestinians is an attempt to garner consent and apathy for the atrocities inflicted upon them.
This narrative that all Palestinians are to blame, that there are no innocent Palestinians is a clear attempt to dehumanize the Palestinians, to attempt to manufacture consent for slaughtering civilians. To excuse ethnic cleansing practices. The “there are no innocent Palestinians” narrative, is fairly transparent in its (genocidal) motive…
Cassandra Macdonald remarked on this story: “Some of thestuff I've been reading on here from respectable conservatives' would have made Hitler be like 'bro calm down.' "
I saw this headline and instantly recognized it as a genocidal propaganda piece, pushing the idea that Palestinian civilians aren’t innocent. The icing on the cake was when I saw Alan Dershowitz, “Epstein’s lawyer”, was the author, . I discuss him in my sex trafficking article in January.
Alan Dershowitz’s article actually inspired me to write a piece on this matter.
I had a bit to say about Alan Dershowitz, and his history as an Israeli Mossad agent, connections to Epstein, and James Alefantis, in my January piece on the sex trafficking circus in the room (Epstein was just the elephant).
Alan Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer that arranged his 2013 sweetheart plea deal, and was later named by one of his victims, Virginia, for years before she dropped the lawsuit against him in 2019 and walked back on some of her statements saying she “may have made a mistake”. (Some think she let him pay her off/settled out of court on condition she be retract) In 2019, Dershowitz, who many know as “Epstein’s lawyer”, made further controversy for attacking age of consent laws.
There must be criminal sanctions against sex with very young children, but it is doubtful whether such sanctions should apply to teenagers above the age of puberty, since voluntary sex is so common in their age group,” [Dershowitz] wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.”
We know for some time now that James Alefantis and David Brock are somewhat close to Lynn Rothschild. Additionally Martha's Vineyard is location where John Podesta and his crew were discussing so called "pizza related map", thing that many people thought was a code for something else. John Podesta was there in August/September 2014, time when production of Automatic at Sea was reaching its climax. Closer analysis here”
4 second clip of Alan Dershowitz telling Fox that “The lady Rothschild” (Lynn Rothschild / Forester )introduced him to Epstein - Full Interview[short clip in the substack article]
Getting back on track to genocidal rhetoric…
The day after TownHall published their genocidal headline, "There Are No 'Innocent Palestinians' , the deputy mayor of Jerusalem called for captured Palestinians to be buried alive.
Far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem describes arrested Palestinians in Gaza as 'subhuman' and invokes biblical reference
In a post on X on Friday, King, a far-right politician, said the Israeli army was eliminating “Muslim Nazis” in Gaza and suggested it needed to pick up the pace.
The post made specific reference to footage published by the Israeli army showing captured Palestinians stripped to their underwear, kneeling on the ground and being guarded by Israeli soldiers.
King, in his post that has since been deleted for violating rules on X, said: “If it were up to me, I would have dispatched D-9 bulldozers and put them behind the mounds of dirt and would have given the order to cover all these hundreds of ants, while they're still alive.”
…Israel said they were Hamas members, however it provided no evidence for the claim which could not be independently verified.
Diaa al-Kahlout, a well-known journalist at al-Araby al-Jadeed, was identified by local media as among those being held.
“They aren't human beings and not human animals. They're subhuman and that's how they should be treated,” King said, adding “Eradicate the memory of Amalek, and never forget.”
Amalek is in reference to a biblical verse, which has also been referenced recently by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for the extermination of every man, woman and child, and their livestock, belonging to an ancient enemy of the Jewish people.
King got his wish for Palestinians to be buried alive.
Hundreds of bodies have been discovered in mass graves at Gaza hospitals that were besieged for weeks by Israeli troops
Officials from Gaza's Civil Defense Department announced on 25 April that 392 bodies have been unearthed from three mass graves discovered at the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, with some showing signs of having been buried alive.
“We need forensic examination for approximately 20 bodies for people who we think were buried alive in the Nasser Medical Complex,” Palestinian Civil Defence member Mohammed Mughier told reporters on Thursday, adding that some were the bodies of children.
“Why do we have children in mass graves?” he added, stressing that the evidence shows the Israeli army committed “crimes against humanity.”
Ten of the bodies unearthed had their hands bound, while others still had medical tubes attached to them.
“There are indications of carrying out field executions against some of the victims, while the bodies of other victims carried signs of torture and others were buried alive,” officials from Gaza's Civil Defense Department said during a press conference.
“Several victims were buried in plastic bags and placed at a depth of three meters, which accelerated their decomposition,” the officials added.
The mass graves were discovered after the Israeli army withdrew from Khan Yunis on 7 April following a four-month raid of the city that decimated most infrastructure and left thousands dead.
More mass graves containing citizens (many of whom appear to have been executed) were discovered following this story, which will be discussed in the later section on Israel’s genocidal actions.
David Azoulai, the council head of the northern Israeli town of Metula, has called for Israel to make the Gaza Strip look like the infamous Nazi-operated Auschwitz concentration camp.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Azoulai said Gaza should be emptied of Palestinians and flattened…
The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz. Let it become a museum, showcasing the capabilities of the State of Israel and dissuading anyone from living in the Gaza Strip.
By the time South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ began, there was ample examples of genocidal rhetoric and declarations of genocidal intent by Israeli leaders to choose from.
1/11 — “There is an extraordinary feature in this case, that Israels political leaders, military commanders, have systematically and in explicit terms, declared their genocidal intent..." -South Africa’s Tembeka Ngcukaitobi at the ICJ
As South Africa began making their case against Israel in the ICJ, Max Blumenthal commented on how "The expressions of genocidal intent by Israeli officials and cultural leaders since October 7 are so abundant they seem unprecedented in recent history. They have essentially indicted themselves.”:
Below is a comprehensive catalog of public statements by Israeli leaders which emphasizes the overwhelming strength of South Africa's accusation of genocide against Israel.
In this document, you will find a single Biblical term invoked by everyone from Israel's Prime Minister to assorted leaders of the ascendant religious nationalist camp which signals Israel's real plans to eliminate the Palestinian population: Amalek.#IndictIsrael
https://israelquotes.com
More quotes than I can fit in this article by Israeli politicians, religious leaders, and influential figures are found in the website above, which while comprehensive is certainly far from complete, and stopped being updated in February
Even sitting US Congressmen have gotten in on the genocidal rhetoric.
U.S. Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee ... In a recently released video, Ogles can be seen walking through the U.S. Capitol, as a pro-Palestinian activist questions him on America’s support for Israel’s military.
“That’s my taxpayer dollars going to bomb those kids,” the woman said.
“You know what?” Ogles said. “I think we should kill them all if that makes you feel better.”
Similarly, at the end of March, Michigan Rep Tim Walberg said on Gaza: “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”[2]
And naturally, prominent high ranking politicians around Netanyahu have openly expressed the desire to settle Gaza and the West Bank, international law be damned.
Referenced earlier, Dan Cohen in the clip below highlights how finance minister Bezazel Smotrich and National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvirshowed affection for the greater Israel agenda and fully settling Gaza since well before began the Oct 7th attack.
Smotrich recently said to Netanyahu in late April, “If you cancel the Rafah invasion, your government will not have the authority to continue.”
Similarly, days after Smotrich demanded Netanyahu follow through on invading Rafah, or he called for “total annihilation” of Rafah and other cities in Gaza.
“There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’ – there’s no place under heaven,” Smotrich said.
Smotrich’s reference to “Amalek” was from a line in Deuteronomy, a book in the Hebrew Bible. Amalek is a nation the ancient Israelites were commanded to destroy, and in the book of Samuel, the Israelites were told to “slay both man and woman, infant and suckling.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously compared Gaza to Amalek, which has been cited as evidence of genocidal rhetoric in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
…Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel will invade the city “with or without” a hostage deal with Hamas.
Smotrich said any hostage deal with Hamas would be a “humiliating defeat” for Israel. “Don’t wave a white flag. Don’t let Sinwar humiliate us again and win the war”
Similarly, Ben Gvir’s open agenda is to ethnically cleanse Palestine.
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on 21 May that Gaza should be under full Israeli control and ethnically cleansed to pave the way for Jewish settlement.
Speaking with ultra-Orthodox news outlet Kikar HaShabbat, the national security minister said the “encouragement of voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza is the “last” and “most important” step in Israel being able to fully occupy and build settlements in the strip.
“If the emigration happens, and hundreds of thousands leave, you’ll be able to bring more and more and more people in,” the right-wing minister noted.
Ben Gvir added that he “would love to live in Gaza if possible,” should these goals be met.
Jared Kushner is on the same page as Ben Gvir, having suggested in March that Gazans be moved out of Gaza in the same breath he proclaims the value he sees in Gazan real estate.
"I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will their grandchildren what the [Israeli] Jews did" - May Golan
Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and his Yeshiva are sponsored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government
Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva (religious school) in the occupied city of Jaffa, called on the Israeli army to kill everyone in Gaza, including babies.
During a conference on 8 March, Mali said that “according to the halachic principle (a religious-ethical system of legal reasoning in Judaism), all residents of Gaza must be killed.”
When asked during the conference if babies should be killed as well, he said: “The same thing. You can't be clever with the Torah. Today he's a baby, tomorrow he's a fighter. There are no questions here. Today's terrorists were previously 8-year-old children.”
“Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, he said in reference to women in Gaza.
He referenced Jewish principles of war, stating, "The law - no soul shall live. If you don't kill them, they will kill you." When asked if babies were included, he responded, "Same, shoot them."
If you want to see more blatant calls for genocide and ethnic cleansing, go the referenced website that had compiled such quotes(no updates since Feb.) … but keep in mind, it is by no means a complete list, and it stopped being updated in February. None the less, it has many damning quotes from prominent and influential individuals demonstrating the level of genocidal rhetoric in Israeli society, and its normalization and entrenchment within the political sphere.
The actions of Israel echo the blatant calls for genocide. While the plan to drive the entire population of Gaza into Sinai to never allow them to return was leaked in October, and has not come to fruition, the agenda to displace them is still in full swing. This agenda existed before Oct 7th, and Oct 7th has served as a convenient pretext to advance the aganda forward.
This section will compile headlines after the last installation of this series that point to Israel being an unhinged terrorist state that is punishing the civilian population for the actions of their government. A government which the Palestinians have not gotten to even vote against since 2006, and even at that Hamas did not even have a majority, they only won by a plurality. Regardless, these details of the 2006 election are relatively moot, as no matter the details it should not justify terrorism, attacking the civilian population, but worth mentioning nonetheless.
Israel has been deliberately inflicting mass suffering on the Palestinian population in order to encourage “voluntary migrations” of Gazans out of Gaza. +972 Mag (Israeli media outlet) reported in November, citing Israeli military officials as the sources, on the deliberate targeting of “power targets'“ [more on this below]. This included hospitals, apartment buildings, and other civilian infrastructure.
And the goal of targeting civilian targets is to “encourage” civilians to leave.
Re: The “voluntary migrations” Netanyahu has been pushing for -
…Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party on Monday that he’s working to bring about the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and looking for countries willing to “absorb” them
…Netanyahu said the world is “already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration” and pointed to comments from former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is currently running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley said last week that Palestinians in Gaza should migrate to “pro-Hamas” countries.
To foreshadow - in March, Netanyahu suggested the US port being built to “facilitate aid”, Israel could provide security for, despite the US only building the port because Israel wouldn’t allow more aid in through the land crossing. So while Israel blocks aid over land, they want to provide security for a port to be constructed to allow aid in by sea? Why not just allow aid in over land?
Being that the US was claiming the port was for aid, it smelled like bullshit to many from the get-go, for the reason just mentioned of Israel not allowing aid in, coupled with the calls from Israel for migrating the Gazans out of the region.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari previously said in March, "We need to make sure that 1.4 million people… will move … Where? To humanitarian islands that we will create with the international community.’ “
Palestinians hit back at suggestion reportedly raised in cabinet meeting, saying that it implies plans for mass expulsions from Gaza
Before this suggestion by Netanyahu, when the port’s construction was announced, “conspiracy theorists” and journalists immediately began suspecting the port being for a purpose other than allowing aid.
It’s not like that’s seemingly been Israel’s goal for decades or anything….. Refer back to the Greater Israel movement. On Oct. 13th, the Middle East Eye foreshadowed the leaked military documents in October, speculating the plan before being validated 2 weeks later.
Since Israel began telling Palestinians to leave northern Gaza early on Friday, there's been a belief among many that the order is part of a plan to move its residents southwards, until they are forced to leave Gaza altogether and cross into Egypt as refugees.
Turkey stands with Egypt in rejecting the exile of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in the face of Israel's war Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said… on his first trip as minister to Egypt, said it is important to act to stop the conflict from spreading and to re-start peace talks centred on achieving a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians.
"We reject the policy of Palestinians' being removed from their homes in Gaza and exiled into Egypt. We are fully against it and stand with Egypt," Fidan said.
Turkey, like Egypt, did not want to enable Israel’s ethnic cleansing agenda. Hasbara tells zionists to claim Egypt and no Arab countries will take the Palestinians, because the Palestinians are bad, because they are a security threat, they’re terrorists, etc. But the reality is, these arab countries don’t want to be complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland. Albiet, mass migration of poor migrants to any country is generally coupled with negative burdens on the host country, even if some positive incentives can be found (importation of cheap labor force) — but the reason Arab countries don’t just accept Palestinians is because they do not want to enable the ethnic cleansing. Even if the leaders may not care about the issue, the people of the Arab countries do, and the leaders have to maintain approval.
The invasion of Rafah is part of the encouragement of “voluntary migrations”, as the goal of Israel for months has been to render Gaza uninhabitable, from denying aid to intentionally destroying critical infrastructure and bombing civilian targets.
Barely a week into the war, and Israel had wasted no time to kill journalists who were documenting and exposing their war crimes, hitting “the offices of 50 local and international media organisations had been targeted, including Al Jazeera, AFP, Ma'an News Agency and Al-Quds newspaper.”
It didn’t take long into the war for the UN services to be overwhelmed and overcrowded. Not even 2 weeks in and water was already running out, and 1 in 4 Palestinians were displaced, taking refuge at UN facilities.
UNRWA said that aside from overcrowding, one of the main issues they are facing is the lack of access to clean drinking water.
"If people do not die from Israeli Air Force strikes, they will die from pollution and the spread of infectious diseases," UNRWA said.
Al Jazeera reported on Oct 20th, just 2 weeks into the war, that “The UN estimates that, so far, at least 30 percent of all housing in the Gaza Strip has been either destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks, according to the Ministry of Housing in Gaza.”[By Jan. it was 50-70%)
And while the situation was already dire in the first few weeks, with lots of room to spiral faster, the US vetoed a UN ceasefire resolution on Oct 18th.
US State Department officials have privately prevented US diplomats from calling for an end to the bloodshed
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would have called for pauses in the conflict
…As Israel was escalating its attacks on Gaza last week, the State Department was discouraging its diplomats from making public statements suggesting the US wanted to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by the Huffington Post.
In messages dated 13 October, one week after violence began, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
Washington has for decades used its position as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to veto resolutions condemning Israel for violations of international law.
The lip service by the Biden administration would not start for months after October 7th, not really until December, and while the US was calling for an ambiguous “humanitarian pause”, US officials were vehemently rejecting the idea of a ceasefire. It was not until late-mid March that a ceasefire resolution was able to be passed without a US Veto. Nonetheless, the Biden administration has maintained material support for the genocidal assault while continuing to attempt to posture as if there is an effort to pushback against Netanyahu. As will be discussed in the next article, Biden ha simply been trying to do damage control for his approval ratings, with rhetoric chastising Netanyahu, while maintaining fundamental support for Netanyahu’s assault. 10/22/23 —Here is Blinken rejecting the idea of a ceasefire in Gaza when confronted about the huge number of children being slaughtered by the Israeli military (with full US support)
10/17 — Al - Ahli Hospital is bombed, IsraelWarRoom claimed it was a misfiring rocket launched by Hamas and provided evidence.
…Israel’s Digital Spokesperson immediately put out a tweet claiming Israel was responsible, having “struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza”, only to delete the tweet and replace it with one blaming it on Hamas.
Hundreds of civilians died in the Al-Ahli hospital bombing, which Israel tried to initially blame on Hamas (After already accidentally taking responsibility, shown above).
It was shortly after this, that an Israeli journalist admitted that Israel targeted an Al Jazeera journalist. Then, also just days after, an Al Jazeera Journalist, Wael Al-Dahdouh, learned his family had been killed while on the air. That journalist, who already had his entire family killed, was hit by a missile two weeks later, reporting near a school.
In May, Israel raided Al Jazeera office, and shut down their operations
At the same time Israel was expanding its war on hospitals in October, it was continuing and expanding its war on journalists.
As mentioned, by Oct 16th, 11 journalists and 50 media offices had already been targeted, and Israel killed 75% of all journalists that died in war zones last year.
Politico reported… there was “some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.”
Biden worrying about the coverage of the Israeli war was a direct result of public opinion rapidly turning against him, as reflected in these 3 polls published in the weeks prior”
Back to the Ahli hospital strike, which Al Jazeera exposed was a result of an Israeli strike… the Biden administration said they did not want an investigation into Al-Ahli hospital strike….I wonder why?
A digital investigation by Al Jazeera did not find any grounds to support the Israeli forces' claim that there is a Hamas tunnel under Gaza's Sheikh Hamad Hospital.
The same accusation the director of Al-Nasr' Children’s Hospital made of Israel targeting fleeing civilians was levied at the IDF in others raids, such as that at Al Shifa hospital, among others, as detailed below.
Al-Shifa Hospital has also been shut down amid chaotic scenes. Israeli snipers continue to shoot at anyone seen in the grounds of the hospital, according to reports
…Overnight (11-12 November), another airstrike hit Al Mahdi Hospital in Gaza City, reportedly killing two doctors and injuring others.
…Hospitals and medical personnel are specifically protected under international humanitarian law (IHL).
Israeli tanks are laying siege to the Al-Nasr and Al-Rantisi pediatric hospitals in Gaza after Israeli jets hit multiple health facilities across [Gaza]
...Hundreds of civilians remain trapped inside as the tanks have been firing on different sections of the buildings.
With Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr hospitals out of service, about 3,000 children are being deprived of oncology treatment and dialysis services. The two pediatric hospitals were also hit by Israeli airstrikes overnight...
Israeli jets hit several healthcare facilities across Gaza, including the Indonesia, Al-Aqwdah[Al-Awda], and Al-Shifa hospitals.
Gaza officials said Israel launched air strikes on or near at least three hospitals on Friday…
Qidra said Israel targeted the courtyard of Al Shifa, the biggest hospital in Gaza City
As information of these atrocities were flowing to the rest of the world, Israel was ramping up efforts to quell the information flow, aside from killing journalists and their families. As mentioned, Israel made the move to close Al Jazeera’s offices around October 20 20th, but cutting off power and internet, while targeting journalists were also major moves to stifle information flowing out of Gaza. 11/11 — Communication Services to be Cut in Gaza by Thursday, Minister Warns
The World Health Organization says 22 of 36 hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctional “due to lack of fuel, damage, attacks and insecurity”.
…Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry, said the hospital repeatedly invited international organisations to tour al-Shifa to confirm its neutrality but has not received a response.
Israel claims Hamas operates inside al-Shifa and underneath it in bunkers, however, it has released no actual evidence to support this.”
The Shifa Hospital is not only the largest hospital in Gaza but it also acts as the main headquarters for Hamas’ terrorist activity. Terrorism does not belong in a hospital and the IDF will operate to uncover any terrorist infrastructure.
While the IDF published the CGI video of a detailed "Hamas Command Center” lay-out on Oct 27th, the assault on Al-Shifa wouldn’t begin until November, coinciding with the numerous attacks on other hospitals, outlined above.
This evidence presented afterwards in attempt to show that the hospital was being used by Hamas as a base, is a complete and total joke.
No Hamas Command Center shown. On the 16th, The Israeli military spokesman claimed to have found a tunnel opening within the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, although there was no evidence it was even active, and certainly no evidence it let to a “Hamas command center”, let alone one anything like that shown in the CGI video the IDF tried to pass off as rooted in reality and concrete intelligence.
"Israel is yet to produce evidence of the tunnels... What we see in this IDF video doesn't equate to its description of the hospital as an operational command center for Hamas." — BBC [Watch below]
“They built it themselves back in 1983 when the Israeli military ruled Gaza.”
Israel has still not presented any proof that Hamas has been using the hospital or the bunker that Israel built as its “command and control.” Both local and foreign doctors have denied any such allegation and Israel rejected offers to have an international delegation inspect.
Instead it raided the hospital, after detaining and removing all journalist.
But there was never any solid evidence released by Israel of a Hamas command Center under Al-Shifa, let alone an active one.
And the pathetic evidence that Israel did release following the raid, which wasn’t impressive to begin with (2 guns hidden behind an MRI machine), seems to have to been fabricated.
Fox News, BBC videos show different number of guns at Al-Shifa Hospital than those published by Israeli army
CNN said that according to a Nov. 15 video published by Israeli army spokesperson Jonathan Concricus, an AK-47 gun was seen behind an MRI machine in one of the buildings in the Al-Shifa Hospital complex.
But when Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst visited the site, he filmed two AK-47 guns behind the MRI machine, not one as appeared in the earlier video by the Israeli army.
"It is unclear where the second AK-47 gun came from and why it is not visible in the earlier IDF clip," said CNN.
A couple of guns, literally, behind an MRI machine. Time to execute civilians and kill baby in incubators! Maybe come back later in a few months to do another raid and execute civilians and medical personnel and dump them in mass graves. (more on this in a bit… the mass graves at Al Shifa were not discovered until April)
While telling the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5km away
Although corporate news media have made it clear they don’t buy the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim that al-Shifa Hospital has been a cover for a Hamas command and control center and weapons armory, Western media have failed to report a much bigger story.
The IDF and the Israeli government already knew when they launched their propaganda campaign about al-Shifa that Hamas had no military command and control facility hidden there because it had already found the complex kilometers away.
…As the IDF leaked to The Jerusalem Post in a story published Nov. 14, the discovery was made “several days ago” of a tunnel with an elevator that reached thirty meters underground, compared with only five meters underground in other tunnels. Furthermore it had been equipped with oxygen, air conditioning and more advanced communications than seen anywhere else.
That major IDF discovery, made on or before the Nov. 11 false stories about al-Shifa, threatened to undermine the Israeli political campaign to justify the IDF’s takeover and destruction of Gaza’s hospitals on the grounds that they were “human shields” for Hamas.
…No story about the discovery of the real Hamas high command bunker has been published inside Israel or elsewhere in the nearly two weeks since the detailed Jerusalem Post piece on Nov. 14. Somehow the Israeli government and media have been able to completely suppress the discovery of the Hamas headquarters, despite the fact that a number of foreign news media have offices in Tel Aviv and the story is still available on the internet.
The article above tears apart Israel’s Al-Shifa narrative in multiple ways, but the major point is that Israel lied about Hamas operating underneath the hospital. A couple worn down tunnel entrances were presented, although no proof was given they were active. The tunnels Israel presented were likely not active, and Israel had likely built them years ago as mentioned in the Tablet Mag article on this referenced above. WAPO would even acknowledge this a month later.
- The rooms connected to the tunnel network discovered by IDF troops showed no immediate evidence of military use by Hamas.
- None of the five hospital buildings identified by Hagari appeared to be connected to the tunnel network.
- There is no evidence that the tunnels could be accessed from inside hospital wards.
So basically the allegations and claims of Hamas activity under the hospital were a big fat nothing burger. Israel raided the hospital and yet presented no real evidence of any Hamas base beneath the hospital. The claims of Hamas activity appear to be fabricated cover stories to terrorize and mass murder Palestinian civilians.
Destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals hasn’t been about defeating Hamas, it has been about defeating the hope of the Palestinian people, crushing spirits…and bodies. Not just talking about those crushed by rubble. Israel has developed a habit of running over Palestinian civilians.
Israeli forces accused of crushing Palestinians using bulldozers in the courtyard of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital.
…On Saturday, doctors and other witnesses said Israeli forces bulldozed tents housing displaced Palestinians near the hospital – one of the 11 hospitals still functioning inside Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7 – and crushed them to death.
The latest incident occurred on 29 February, when Israeli troops ran over a Palestinian shortly after being released from detention
Throughout Israel's prolonged bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops have run over Palestinian civilians with tanks and other armored military vehicles on several occasions, killing dozens in the process, according to a Euro-Med report published on 4 March.
The actions of Israel has truly been horrendous, and they cannot be explained, let alone justified, by the desire to defeat Hamas. How does executing children help defeat Hamas? How does running over homeless families defeat Hamas? Looting and vandalizing random homes? Stealing organs? Bombing starving civilians waiting in aid lines, displacement camps and tents etc, etc, etc.
Organ harvesting allegations would continue as more evidence has emerged over time. When Mass graves were discovered at hospitals in April following Israeli troop withdrawal, many bodies had organs missing.
Hundreds of bodies have been discovered in mass graves at Gaza hospitals that were besieged for weeks by Israeli troops
..392 bodies have been unearthed from three mass graves discovered at the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, with some showing signs of having been buried alive. …“We found in the Nasser Complex corpses without heads and bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen,” Gaza’s Government Media Office office also revealed.
“We found in the Nasser Complex corpses without heads and bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen,” Gaza’s Government Media Office said. “The occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick, and medical staff.”
“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands … tied and stripped of their clothes,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
Shamdasani also highlighted another mass grave being found under the Shifa hospital.
The ICC began investigating, not long before talks of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
Khan Yunis‘ Al-Nasser hospital was also stormed by Israeli troops in February. Several people were killed, including patients.
Palestinian rescue workers demanded urgent probes and international intervention following this month’s discovery of hundreds of bodies – many unidentifiable – buried in mass graves near the two hospitals.
Some of the bodies found showed signs of torture and execution. Other bodies had missing organs. Among the corpses found at the mass graves were those of children and elderly persons.
After the discovery of these mass graves, which the ICC began investigating, Turkish police ended up busting an Israeli organ-trafficking network in early May. Worth noting that allegations of Israeli organ harvesting from Palestinians has existed long before October 7th.
Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians
Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah reported on 5 May.
…Israel has long been at the center of what Bloomberg described in 2011 as a “sprawling global black market in organs where brokers use deception, violence, and coercion to buy kidneys from impoverished people, mainly in underdeveloped countries, and then sell them to critically ill patients in more-affluent nations.”
The financial newspaper added, “Many of the black-market kidneys harvested by these gangs are destined for people who live in Israel.”
The organ-trafficking network extends from former Soviet Republics such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova to Brazil, the Philippines, South Africa, and beyond, the Bloomberg investigation showed.
Accusations of Israeli involvement in organ trafficking also apply to the occupied Palestinian territories.
In 2009, Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, reported testimony that the Israeli army was kidnapping and murdering Palestinians to harvest their organs.
After this Israeli organ harvesting ring was busted, another mass grave was discovered at Al-Shifa.
Seven mass graves holding hundreds of bodies have so far been discovered in three hospitals that were decimated by the Israeli army
..“This brings the number of mass graves found inside hospitals to seven: one in Kamal Adwan Hospital, three graves in Al-Shifa Medical Complex, and three graves in the Nasser Medical Complex … 520 martyrs have been recovered from these graves so far,” the official statement details.
To return back to the timeline of Israel’s war on hospitals
Here is a Cradle article from 2 days after I published part 3 in early December, discussing one of the last hospitals operating in Southern Gaza - Al-Nasser Hospital.
Khan Yunis’ Al-Nasser hospital – one of the last few operating in the southern city – is on the brink of collapse, with “almost every inch of floor space” taken up by injured Gazans, Reuters reported.
Upon resuming the assault after the seven-day truce, Israel published a map of so-called ‘safe zones’ for Gazans to flee to, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza do not have electricity or internet to access the map. Many Gazans also reported airstrikes on some of the zones designated by Israel.
“After the seven-day truce, Israel published a map of so called ‘safe zones’ for Gazans to fleet to … Many Gazans also reported airstrikes on some of the zones designated by Israel”
A couple weeks after the article above which discussed the bombing of designated safe zones, in mid December, James Elder from UNICEF told Skynews, “Israel’s so called 'safe zones' are actually death zones, and those who tell Palestinians to go there are aware of that”
Like hospitals, Israel has had a habit of bombing safe zones, as mentioned in the Cradle article above from Dec 5th right above. Similar to how Israel has also developed a habit for committing atrocities on Palestinian civilians and Convoys on evacuation routes.
I made a satirical Call of Duty Trailer for the war in Gaza in late November that concluded by incorporating another satire video that highlighted this tragic reality of “safe zones” being bombed. Go to 5:45 to see that part.
In late April, an NBC News Investigation verified that "A clear pattern of demanding civilians evacuate to specific “safe” locations, then bombing those precise areas within 24-48 hours, killing hundreds of civilians." [1]
We will wrap around to Rafah’s invasion in a bit .. sticking on December, and the agenda to render Gaza uninhabitable in order to repopulate it and encourage “voluntary migrations”/ the depopulation of Gaza…..
While Al-Nasser is described in the above article as being one of the last functional hospitals in Southern Gaza, it wouldn’t be but 2 weeks after when no functional hospitals remained in Northern Gaza.
When you realize how little regard the Israeli state has for its own citizens in effort to achieve its goals, it isn’t hard to realize how little regard Israel has for Gazan civilians. It isn’t just simple apathy to whether they die, like Israeli hostages in Hamas possession, the Israeli state goes beyond indifference to their lives, and seemingly prefers them dead.
In November, as briefly mentioned, a report from +972 Magazine, - citing “current and former Israeli intelligence officials” determined that the massive civilian casualty figures in Gaza are due to Israel “expanding its authorizations to bomb non-military targets and the loosening of restrictions related to civilian deaths. Israel’s operations in Gaza have had a very high civilian casualty rate, but never at the scale of the current conflict." 11/30 — Report Details How Israel Intentionally Targets Civilians in Gaza
The report also explains Israel’s targeting “power targets,” which include civilian infrastructure, such as high-rise apartment buildings, banks, universities, and other public buildings. Three sources who’ve been involved in hitting power targets told +972 that the purpose is that a deliberate attack on Palestinian society will exert “civil pressure” on Hamas. Israel used to often warn people to evacuate power targets before they were hit, but that practice has become much less common. In the current war, apartment buildings full of civilians have been leveled with no warning.
The targeting of these "power targets”, civilian infrastructure, was not about hitting Hamas, but about terrorizing and inflicting additional suffering on the civilian population.
WAPO actually just reported in mid-March on that Biden knew Israel was bombing civilian targets October, due to “a briefing in October on Israel bombing buildings without having 'solid intelligence' that they were military targets”
The report said that a briefing took place at the White House on October 27, three weeks into the brutal Israeli military campaign. Due to the sheer destruction in Gaza, it was clear Israel was bombing the Strip indiscriminately, and a report from +972 Magazine published in November revealed Israel was actually intentionally hitting civilian targets.
Israeli intelligence sources told +972 that Israel targeted what it called “power targets,” which include civilian infrastructure, such as high-rise apartment buildings, banks, universities, and other public buildings. The sources said that the Israeli military would also approve strikes that kill large numbers of civilians in an attempt to target only one Hamas member.
Biden officials also acknowledged during the October 27 meeting that Israel had no clear plan on how to defeat Hamas. “We never had a clear sense that the Israelis had a definable and achievable military objective,” a source familiar with the meeting told the Post. “From the very beginning, there’s been a sense of us not knowing how the Israelis were going to do what they said they were going to do.”
A month before all hospitals were totally incapacitated in Norther Gaza, Chris Hedges wrote in November about Israel’s blatant targeting of hospitals, pointing out that the motive isn’t about taking out Hamas command centers or bases.. but about incapacitating the healthcare system of the active war zone - to impact the civilian population.
Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear. Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.
….The playbook is familiar. Flyers are dropped by Israel over a hospital telling people to leave because the hospital is a base for “Hamas terrorist activities.” Tanks and artillery shells rip away parts of the hospital walls. Ambulances are blown up by Israeli missiles. Power and water is cut. Medical supplies are blocked. There are no painkillers, antibiotics and oxygen. The most vulnerable, premature babies in incubators and the gravely ill, die. Israeli soldiers raid the hospital and force everyone out at gunpoint.
Chris Hedges continued his article, pointing out that the pattern he just described has happened at numerous hospitals.
This is what happened at Al Shifa hospital. This is what happened at Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital. This is what happened at Gaza’s main psychiatric hospital. This is what happened at Nasser Hospital. This is what happened at the other hospitals that Israel has destroyed. And this is what will happen at the few hospitals that remain.
Similarly, babies have suffered in other hospitals, such as Al Shifa, as they were either attacked, or unable to continue operating.
On November 14th,Syrian girl tweeted: “Premature babies at al-Shifa Hospital removed from incubators due to lack of electricity. Israeli fake propaganda of bringing in incubators was a lie. Siege of the hospital continues. No food or water, electricity has been allowed in. They are dying. That's what Israel wants, to depopulate Gaza...”
I commented on the matter: “Reminder they lied to you about babies being thrown out of incubators in Iraq. Meanwhile now that its Israel doing it instead of a Muslim country..”
Israeli forces ordered doctors, patients and displaced people at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate the medical compound, giving them an hour to do so and forcing some to leave by gunpoint, Al-Jazeera reported on 18 November.
Israeli forces issued the demand to evacuate in “one hour” at around 9 am local time, but it was “impossible” to evacuate everyone, a doctor in Al-Shifa told Al-Jazeera.
..“at least 35 premature babies who already for eight days now have been out of their incubators because of the lack of oxygen and the lack of electricity,” Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, said. Four babies died late on Friday and five are severely ill now, the correspondent added.
“There is no transportation means in Gaza City and the northern parts because of a lack of fuel. So people are expected to evacuate on foot. And doctors are telling us it’s impossible to evacuate with this many people on foot.” She added that doctors also did not want to abandon their patients.
The next day, Al-Shifa was raided again, 4 months after the last, deadly, raid. My perception, along with others, was that this March raide of Al-Shifa was a retaliation for the officer being sniped. As many as 80 people were detained by Israeli military, including journalists and medical staff.
Broadcast equipment to transmit video to outside world also destroyed.
An Al-Jazeera journalist was released after 12 hours of being detained as a result of the recentAl-Shifa raid, where he was beaten. When released, as reported by AJ+, he described events of the raid, which included demolishing the property of journalists, confiscating what wasn’t destroyed, stripping journalists naked, and blindfolding and interrogating all journalists at the scene.
✅The Israeli forces demolished the journalists’ tent and destroyed their cars during the storming of the Shifa complex.
✅We were forced to surrender ourselves to the occupation forces, who forced us to take off our clothes completely.
✅The Israeli forces handcuffed and blindfolded us and interrogated all the journalists present at the scene.
✅The occupation forces kept us without clothes for 12 hours, handcuffed and blindfolded.
✅The occupation forces confiscated our phones, computers, and photography equipment.
While Israel disrupting the ability of journalists to cover the events of the war is nothing shocking, as they have been doing it the entire war… including killing journalists and targeting family members of journalists… reports of Israeli forces executing around 50 civilians, including children, are a particularly insidious, evil, genocidal detail of the March Al-Shifa raid.
Israeli forces executed dozens of people and detained almost 200 during its latest assault on Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced on 19 March.
Among the dozens executed were children, the media office said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The Israeli occupation committed a bloody massacre, executing 50 citizens and arresting nearly 200 others in the Shifa Medical Complex and its surrounding in Gaza City,” the statement read.
“We also received field information about … a number of children among those executed, as well as civilians, the sick, and the displaced,” it added. Some of the facilities inside the hospital were also torched by the Israeli army, according to the statement.
…The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it killed “dozens of terrorists” in Al-Shifa Hospital, adding that it will "continue large-scale operations in the hospital.”
…...The attack on Al-Shifa Hospital came hours after Hamas’ Qassam Brigades revealed the details of a sniping operation that targeted and killed an officer in the elite Israeli Shaldag Unit who was behind Israel’s November raid) of the medical facility.
The discovery of mass graves in May at Al Shifa and other hospitals would shed more light on the matter..
Warfare Analysis remarked on March Al-Shifa assault coming right after the officer who led the November raid on Al-shifa was assassinated: “Therefore, this Israeli operation is driven by revenge for that footage. And there is no Hamas inside Shifa hospital.”
This story of the execution of civilians in the March Al-Shifa raid followed reports executions and targeting of fleeing civilians in the November Al Shifa raid.
In fact, when Israel / IDF forces shot and killed three of its own hostages in December, mentioned at the beginning of this article, were approaching them after escaping, looking to be rescued when the IDF shot and killed them… They were also waving white flags.
”The IDF sees 3 guys shirtless with white flags going slowly towards them.
So they shoot them. Nobody is watching, so screw them right?
All 3 hostages killed by IDF were shirtless & carrying a white flag. Qassam likely released them on purpose knowing IDF would kill them as IDF has been killing Palestinian civilians carrying white flags for months. Hard to distinguish b/w Palestinian civilians & hostages -1/n
The footage shows an interview with a group of Palestinian men who had their hands raised and said they were trying to locate and rescue their family members. The cameraman then went across the street, and the video shows the men walking down the street with their hands still raised and one holding a white flag.
The man came under fire, and one was killed. A Palestinian videographer who was at the scene told NBC News that the fire came from nearby Israeli tanks. NBC reported that it viewed and verified nine videos of the incident and said the killing took place in an area Israel designated as a “safe zone.”
As mentioned above, in December, there were no functional hospitals left in Gaza. In December is when Israel really began ramping up its air strikes, already being one of the most destructive air campaigns in history.
Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the second world war.
“Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne — some of the world’s heaviest-ever bombings are remembered by their place names,” said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns. “Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
Many zionists have been pointing to Dresden and other heavy bombing campaigns by western powers to justify Israel’s campaign. Similarly, Israelis and zionists have been pointing to the US campaigns in the Middle East in attempt to excuse Israel’s actions. John Kirby recently did this, attempting to excuse Israel bombing civilians because the US “did the same thing” 5/28 — NYP: John Kirby Likens Israeli Airstrike That Killed Civilians to US Bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan: ‘We Did the Same Thing
Washington swamp monsters live in such an isolated bubble where nothing the US does is ever wrong that it sometimes causes them to say the funniest things.
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history.
The Israeli military has said little about what kinds of bombs and artillery it is using in Gaza. [We now know to be dumb bombs according to a US intelligence assessment] But from blast fragments found on-site and analyses of strike footage, experts are confident that the vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made."
The more one looks into this “war”, the easier it is to see that defeating Hamas is not the objective of Israel.
Demoralizing the Palestinian people and driving them out of Gaza seems to be the objective.
Israeli officials have routinely called to make Gaza “uninhabitable” or something of that nature.
Since Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza in late October, footage has emerged of troops carrying out violent and provocative acts that appear to have little to do with furthering their stated aim of destroying Hamas.
This has included theft, destruction of businesses and properties, vandalism, and the installation of Israeli and Jewish symbols across Gaza’s neighbourhoods.
Such behaviour has been blamed on indiscipline, but analysts believe it is also a form of “psychological warfare”.
Since Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza in late October, footage has emerged of troops carrying out violent and provocative acts that appear to have little to do with furthering their stated aim of destroying Hamas.
This has included theft, destruction of businesses and properties, vandalism, and the installation of Israeli and Jewish symbols across Gaza’s neighbourhoods.
Such behaviour has been blamed on indiscipline, but analysts believe it is also a form of “psychological warfare”.
Even the Pope, by December, had condemned Israel’s actions as terrorism. His choice of words.
The oldest church in the Gaza Strip has hosted Palestinians hoping to find shelter from relentless Israeli bombing.
But on Thursday night, an air strike on the Church of Saint Porphyrius killed at least 18 of them and left the coastal enclave's Christian community distraught.
“The church is 2,000 years old and the Israelis struck it,” a survivor said. “There were no weapons in the church, it was sheltering children.”
“Are these the Israelis’ list of targets? The Christians have nothing to do with any of this. What have the Christians done?” said another.
As the Middle East Eye reported, other churches were bombed at this time early in the war, not to mention other civilian infrastructure such as schools. 189 schools had been bombed already [sounds like just about every school in Gaza…]
Right after the Pope accused Israel of “terrorism” on the 16th, Human Rights Watch said Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. Mid December. 12/18 — Human Rights Watch Says Israel Is Using Starvation as Weapon of War This was the same week when James Elder from UNICEF said, “ “Israel’s so called 'safe zones' are actually death zones, and those who tell Palestinians to go there are aware of that”, as mentioned above. In the past few months, multiple massacres of civilians have taken place in Rafah, the last standing official designated “safe zone”.
It is worth emphasizing when figures fromprominent NGO’s focused on human rights are accusing Israel of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Especially the UN, whom essentially has established and directed the modern system of international law.
Since October, The UN has called for Israel to allow aid in, warning it would be a potential war crime not to do so. Likewise, since early on, the UN has called on Israel to take efforts to prevent civilian casualties (rather than going out ones way to kill civilians),
Maybe that is why Israel has been repeatedly attacking UN buildings, personnel, and equipment. After threatening to “teach the UN a lesson” in October, and striking UN forces or sites dozens of times, Israel in January made the accusation that 12 UNRWA employees had ties to Hamas and helped in Hama’s October 7th operation.
Israel made this accusation right after the UN’s ICJ handed the verdict that Israel may be culpable for genocide, coupled with a demand for Israel to halt any and all actions that can be considered genocidal (which Israel had vowed to ignore).
As the UNRWA fired the employees and began an investigation, numerous Western countries cut funding - before any evidence was presented to the public. Of course, the allegations by Israel towards UNRWA employees came the day after the ICJ’s verdict finding Israel potentially culpable in genocide. Eventually this narrative would fall apart, and become just another one of Israel’s lies meant to facilitate the ethno-state’s genocide. This will be covered in the next article.
Repeatedly targeting and bombing UN entities before the UNRWA allegations / ICJ verdict, as well as after, coupled with the starving civilians receiving aid, speaks volumes on Israel’s genocidal intentions in my opinion. Dozens of civilians were just killed on June 5th when Israel bombed a UNRWA school.
How does one ignore what feels like a war on the UN? In the next article I will compile some of these events, which started almost immediately after the war began, and has escalated in recent months as Israel has defied the UN’s ICJ orders to not invade Rafah. The ICC has issued arrest warrants recently for Israeli leaders, as mentioned, in the course of me writing this. While the ICC is independent and not under the UN like the ICJ is, they certainly work together. In response to the ICC’s arrest warrant, US congressmen have been threatening to sanction the ICC prosecutor, with the house just recently passing a bill to do so.
All of this killing, aided and abetted by the US, is further tarnishing America’s reputation on the world stage, both in the Global South and in much of the West as Western leaders condemn Israeli overkill….
…The damage to national security is already becoming observable. Attacks have severely escalated in Syria and Iraq, with the Cradle reporting as of Nov. 17th that groups “across Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 55 times since the start of the Gaza-Israel war” It also could implicate the US in war crimes later on.
By supporting Israel’s genocidal efforts in Gaza, and undermining the ICC, I believe that the US is catalyzing it’s fall from grace on the world stage. I express this in my first rap I published, which was based off the earlier parts of this series, in which I say that “This whole business of ethnic cleansing will just expedite the reckoning of the US hegemon,”. An excerpt of the son is below:
I’m telling you it’s imperative that we get out shit together as a country if we care for it, because you look at the polling, look at the international perception of Americans, and thiswhole business of ethnic cleansing will just expedite the reckoning of the US hegemon, as BRICS rises to growing global prevalence, if you cant care about the ethics, and the lives of other people, then think of it from another agenda: historical and personal relevance —
I’m telling you, I can point you to the evidence, the way we are so quick to deploy weapons doesn’t make us safer, it just enriches the corporations and the bankers, and the global south continues to grow to hates us, and a growing portion of the world wants to erase us, like Israel does the Gazans
So where does that place us? Not sure its advantageous Were on a highway to hell and electing speed raca's Assange is in jail, cuz war is peace and the truth is fallacious
First they came for the Palestinians, we did not speak out for we were not the Gazans so it didn’t faze us Then they came for the Arabs, and we did not speak out cuz we were not Arab, But then eventually they came for us, and there was none left to speak for us
We learned about the stages of genocide in school, and i’m not trying to be alarmist but Look them up, its quite remarkable, I’m astonished- The parallels going on, the latter stages of genocide now going strong No wonder America’s reputation is tarnished I cant help but feel responsible, as an American paying for the carnage,
To end this piece, before going onto Part 5 (much of which was originally intended for this piece before it got too big) I will link my raps that I have published since the last piece of this series. As mentioned, the first rap I published was based off the first 3 parts of this series.
They raided al Shifa and killed 50 civilians execution style, including children, its fucking wild And the first raid on al Shifa in November saw similar civilian executions, the impunity is chilling, but the casefor genocide is building, as Israel keeps destroying civilian buildings.
Not even 2 weeks into the war and the UN said 30% had already been destroyed or damaged, By January it was 50 percent, damn bitch And meanwhile Trumps son in law is talking abt the coast of the Gaza strip and how it can make people damn rich, and Israel's expanding settlements aggressively, they wont quit And where do the people of Gaza, all packed in Rafah, Go? That's the question everyone's asking, no one seems to know Egypt said they dont want to take them it'll be enabling ethnic cleansing, knowing once the Gazans are let in they'll never be allowed back in Israel will be putting down settlements even as the dust is still settling But now Egypt is building a walled camp in the Sinai Where Israel has planned to push the entire population over to according to leaked military documents in October, The IDF plan said they'd never be let back in, the civilians would be fucked over Those that remain would end targets for drones bullets and bull dozers
I'm watching a genocide in real time
…They're not even trying to hide it And while Biden pretends to fight it he's been expanding military support and aid - So his rhetoric? I dont buy it
No commander in chief i can have any faith or pride in Fuck trump, fuck RFK Jr, and fuck Biden Why would i vote for anyone endorsing the assault on Gaza so many civilians have died in Still waiting for another Nuremberg trial for those complicit to be tried in
…Israel is a terrorist state, they even threatened to quote "teach the UN a lesson" how hard is it to acknowledge they're crimes, when they're constantly confessing And our leaders are at fault too, by extension Western society is sick, like there is an infection…
On polling day don’t ask me if i’ve made a selection Fuck Israel and free Palestine, Which candidate is that representing? I guess the Mossad caught them all in the Epstein Honeypot, got them stressing Blatant War crimes they’re all defending
…So ill keep praying for Gaza's future blessings, As everyone tells me I have to vote between a few Mossad henchmen I say fuck that, im not voting Free Gaza, Free Palestine, that's the expression
Its political theatre, and they’re dancing in-step
Biden is trying his hardest to act like he’s applying pressure while he does nothing, like I don’t know, stop selling them 2000 pound bunker busters to the country committing active genocide, they want us to think they’re inept, as they continue to arm a genocidal ethno-supremacist state while pretending to condemn them, like people don’t see through that shit,
Israel is in a PR disaster and Biden has the election to think after
Thats why Israel and Netanyahu funded Hamas, They wanted to divide the Palestinian state, and pit a terrorist group against the legitimized Palestinian authority
And the PA president was Mahmoud Abbas
Wikileaks files showed that Israel wanted Hamas in power in Gaza in 2007, to prevent Palestinian statehood
And Netanyahu admitted that in 2020, publicly telling the Israelis that whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for sending money to Hamas,
And I know I sound like a broken clock but this shit is crazy,
I mean prominent parts of society want to sacrifice red heifers, evangelical-Zionist goals to construct a 3rd temple, And you can stay mocking me, but it’s the world that’s gone mental religious fanatics are committing a genocide in effort to bring about biblical prophecies
And it’s so normalized they want to paint us as crazy for opposing it, I’m sorry if a little genocide got to me It’s sickening, when you observe the atrocities
And the worst part is they’ve yet to cease,
Noone knows what’s about to happen, is it gonna end like world war 2 did with the Japanese? Or will Gazans get a new lease? Will this ethnic cleansing agenda be allowed, or will the international community defeat the beast
Its wild watching mass murder for days to weeks to months on end. Aid lines keep blowing up, full of starving civilians
And Israel might pretend these are mistakes, but more and more are seeing the truth, The obvious truth, that Israel is an unhinged terrorist state, hellbent on eliminating innocent human beings, its genocide they’re seeking…
…Israel's atrocities are its undoing, and the eternal soul never dies, Israel can kill, but they cant hide When this is all said and done, I think Netanyahu will be tried in international courts for genocide And if Israel is allowed to cleanse Gaza, there will still always be free Palestine
Of course as mentioned.. since publishing this the ICC has put out an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, to be tried in international court for genocide. Make sure to read the next installation of this series, focusing on Israel’s war on the UN, and the discrepancies between Biden’s rhetoric and actions.
We convince you the ends justify the means, Wet you don't seem to realize the means are all ya got, Criminal aggression doesn't become okay because it was done with the greater good in thought, Just like blowing up a hospital of civilians isn't okay because you say their Hamas, You know what they say, the highway to hell is paved with good intentioned roman-empire styled asphalt And If you keep driving down that road its your own dumbass fault But don't get me wrong, its a trap, and we got you caught
You're ruled by demons, but we the fuckin devils We don't even keep track of the blocks our legions have leveled
Gaza is just the most recent spectacle, recent forever war Why stop after Jerusalem, we ain't Nebuchadnezzar We’ll keep going until all the cities turn to pebble, Because, the lesser of 2 evils you people always seem to settle for It’s all a trap, Red, and blue, republican or democrat, They're probably controlled by AIPAC and Corporate PACs But that's the trick, that's the trap
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