Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter Oct 18, 2023
A huge blast in Gaza has destroyed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, killing hundreds of people. The exact death toll is still unknown.
Details of who is responsible for the explosion are being hotly debated by all parties, and this is still a developing story with a lot of details yet to be revealed. But what I’d like to quickly document as things unfold is the highly unusual number of mass media reporters I’ve been seeing who haven’t hesitated to point to Israel as the probable culprit.
After noting that Israel is blaming the blast on a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), MSNBC foreign correspondent Raf Sanchez quickly pointed out that PIJ rockets don’t tend to do that kind of damage, but Israeli missiles do. He also noted that Israel has an extensive history of lying about this sort of thing.
"What we do know for sure is that this appears to be a truly explosive event in what was already a truly explosive situation we are seeing mass protests in the occupied West Bank…this has the potential to really set things on fire " @rafsanchez w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/05RCVkOG6l
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) October 17, 2023
“The Israeli military at this point is not providing any evidence to back up its claims that this was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket; they are citing intelligence that they have not yet made public,” Sanchez said. “We should also say that this kind of death toll is not what you normally associate with Palestinian rockets. These rockets are dangerous, they are deadly, they do not tend to kill hundreds of people in a single strike in the way that Israeli high explosives — especially these bunker buster bombs that are used to target these Hamas tunnels under Gaza City — do have the potential to kill hundreds of people.”
“And we should say finally that there are instances in the past where the Israeli military has said things in the immediate aftermath of an incident that have turned out not to be true in the long run,” Sanchez added. “And the one example I’ll give you is that when the Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military initially said that she was killed by Palestinian gunmen, and it was only months and months later that they admitted that it was likely an Israeli soldier who fired the fatal shot.”
CNN’s Clarissa Ward said essentially the same thing.
“I will say, just based on seeing these rocket attacks many times over the years, that they don’t usually have an impact like that in terms of the size of the blast, in terms of the scale of the death toll and the scale of the damage,” Ward said. “It’s also not the first time, it’s important to add, that we have seen the IDF categorically deny something before being forced to kind of do an about-face after an extensive investigation.”
Rather shocking statements from CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who says PIJ rockets wouldn’t cause this much damage, and notes that the IDF has lied before. pic.twitter.com/VgofnnkdGk
— Left I on the News (@leftiblog) October 18, 2023
BBC foreign correspondent Jon Donnison gave basically the same opinion.
“It’s hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli air strike, or several air strikes,” Donnison said from Jerusalem. “Because, you know, when we’ve seen rockets being fired out of Gaza, we never see explosions of that scale. We might see half a dozen, maybe a few more people being killed in such rocket attacks, but we’ve never seen anything on the scale of the sort of explosion on the video I was watching earlier.”
BREAKING: AL-AHLI BAPTIST HOSPITAL MASSACRE – BBC JOURNALIST STATES IT HAD TO BE ISRAEL
BBC's John Donnison: "It's hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli air strike, or several air strikes" pic.twitter.com/Gxx4evC9DW
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) October 17, 2023
That’s three mass media reporters that I’ve seen just in my random information-gathering meanderings — not on their personal social media accounts, but live on air.
It’s highly unusual to see this degree of skepticism in the western press right off the bat when it goes against the information interests of Israel specifically or the US power alliance more generally. Typically we’ve been seeing the media uncritically report unverified claims about Palestinian militants while expressing rigorous skepticism solely toward any information which might benefit the Palestinian resistance, so there’s clearly something about this particular story which makes mass media reporters remarkably reluctant to push the Israeli narrative.
Maybe they’re getting information in their group chats which has caused them to keep Israel’s claims about the hospital bombing at arm’s length, or maybe they’re just looking at the facts and deciding this narrative is too flimsy to get behind. If it looks like Israel’s version of events will fall apart after investigation, they’re not going to want to stake their reputation and their pride on pushing it with their usual gusto during an Israeli military operation that is facing unusually intense scrutiny from the entire world.
Israel does after all have an extensive history of attacking hospitals and healthcare facilities, including in this current operation in Gaza, including apparently bombing this exact same hospital just a few days ago. ReliefWeb, which is run by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, recently published a report on the numerous Israeli strikes that have hit hospitals, ambulances and healthcare workers between October 12 and October 15, and listed among the hospitals hit is the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City — the same hospital that was just destroyed a few days later.
Citing “Al Jazeera V and Personal Communication,” ReliefWeb reports the following:
“14 October 2023: In Gaza city city and governorate, Ahli Arab Hospital was hit by Israeli airstrikes, partially damaging two floors and damaging the ultrasound and mammography room. Four people were injured.”
Israel: You guys need to evacuate that hospital or you'll get killed.
Palestinians: We can't evacuate the hospital, it's a hospital.
*powerful missile hits hospital*
Israel: …
Israel: …
Israel: It was the Palestinians.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 17, 2023
It’s also probably worth noting that according to the World Health Organization this hospital was one of the twenty hospitals which the IDF had ordered to evacuate because of the aggressions it was planning to inflict on that part of Gaza.
Again, information is still coming in and this developing story could possibly wind up looking very different from what it looks like right now. But if I was an Israel apologist, I don’t think I’d find the current winds in the mass media very encouraging.
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Dr Davis Cohen quoted Mark Regev
the attack was a mistake it was not ordered by IDF top brass
THE BBC PRO ISRAEL STANCE UNDER ATTACK
TIME TO DISBAND THE BBC
Back in the 1930s Lord Rothschild gave letters of introduction to the BBC for his Apostles,
those left wing homosexuals who did so much harm to Britain’s W W 2 war effort.
Many of these men had appalling records of abusing boys, but this was ignored by the BBC.
A highly publicised comedy show called “Round the Horne was full of cheap homosexual innuendo and double meanings,
similarly the children’s show Captain Pugwash had the hero’s called ” Roger the cabin boy” and “Seaman Staines” among other homosexual gags, but the
tots programme ” Teletubbies” blatently had one of the creatures wearing make up and carrying a handbag, the BBC admitted after many enquires that the creature was homosexual,
this is a pre school tots programme.
Sydney Cooke who took over running many homosexual rings across the UK after the death of Sir Anthony Blunt, told while in prison of many high fliers at the BBC
who were boy abusers, some such as Jimmy Saville came to the BBC with a warning from his ex employers Mecca Ballrooms that Jimmy was a predatory homosexual,
the BBC tried to hide this up by saying he only abused girls which was a complete lie, but along with Wilfred Bramble Allan “fluff” Freeman Boy George Frankie Howard Danny La Rue and Cliff Richard were advised to see the famous sex therapist Dr Ruth Seiffert at the Maudesley psychiatric hospital in London, Cliff Richard was so blatent about being a teenage rent boy and his activities that the BBC actually banned his records for some time in spite of the usual financial kickbacks, BBC DJ Pete Murray complained to the BBC that almost all their DJs were exploiting kids from care homes and lost his job over making the complaint.
The ex BBC board member Graham jones, said on the Conspiracy hour that many BBC employees would go to party nights at a Brighton Hotel where young boys were bussed in for their sexual amusement, the spiritualist newspaper the “Psychic News” actually went bankrupt because every employee was homosexual and they were only pushing homosexual mediums for the churches through the newspaper and spending the magazines money on these Brighton Boys Club nights called “Pink ballets”and famous names Colin Fry and Keith Hudson were among those regularly abusing boys at the Hotel.
The Psychic News was run by David Miller who had sexual convictions in his own name so used the name Tony Ortzen,
“Brighton Boys Club” ( BBC ) nights was a thinly veiled jibe at the BBC, Graham Jones said at the BBC internally it was known as the Boy Buggerers Club.
Such stars as Terry Wogan David Frost and David Icke worked closely with Jimmy Saville said nothing about his activities, until The Truthseeker .Co UK broke the news the day after his death, as they knew Rupert Murdoch was monitoring all emails and snail mail at work and at home for the BBC where employees knew they would lose their job and possible be imprisoned for breaking the official secrets act on speaking out.
Rupert Murdoch was caught opening mail and reading emails of the murdered schoolgirl Milie Dowler, he also monitored communications from soldiers letters home from Iraq
and any potential whistleblowers were coincidentally killed by friendly fire.
Fred Seaman was an Evangelical preacher in Kings Lynn Norfolk, he also ran a small printing press where he was the first to print the homosexual magazine ” BumBoys”
with explicit naked photos of young boys from care homes, after his caution by police, it turned out much other interesting information, which was duplicated in Operation Ore
the Longford papers and the Nene report into the sexual abuse of boys through the care system came out, these was D noticed by Tony Blair as it implicated many in the New Labour party in homosexual abuse.
Cabinet member John Prescott would joke to secretaries that he was the only heterosexual in the party.
New Labour had a remit to grow the homosexual community by 5% per year, New labour was a Mossad front party run by boy abuser Pater Mandelson, money was channelled through Israeli banks from Rothschild and allegedly David Aaronovitch David Abrahams and Tony’s boyfriend and handler Lord Levy for a war on Iraq on non existent WMD’s etc.,
and the jew run BBC was complicit in this mass murder.
The BBC has always had a senior director who is jewish, or pro jew, one head of the BBC said the most appalling racist statement to the press that the BBC was ” hideously white”
this racism extends to blurring over what is happening in Palestine.
The Nene report documented homosexual abuse in 16 London care homes, implicating several at New Labour some Conservatives but many at the BBC
the daily independent TV news show UKcolumn described this abuse as on ” an industrial scale”.
The BBC sacked popular children’s conjuror Paul Daniels, as they said he was ” too heterosexual” often gently flirting on stage with his pretty wife Debbie Mc gee,
he was replaced with the homosexual abuser Derren Brown, they also sacked singer Tom Jones from a BBC panel game for the same reason, A comedian recently lost his BBC job and broke conditions of his contract by going public and saying they BBC did not like him being a white Anglo Saxon heterosexual.
We pay a license fee for Jewish propaganda pro=homosexual perversion and a rubbish news.
The BBC is anti British, pro Israel and heterophobic, time to close it methinks.
I said this the other day. I think the US hit this hospital, and Putin says ‘show us the evidence’?
Why is Putin pushing this point, because he knows who did it. While the F35 is a pile of junk, there’s zero risk flying this bath tub to Gaza and dropping a huge fecking bomb on a hospital. The narrative here, is that Palistinian civilians need to be freed and protected from Hamas.
Putin has announced that Russian planes will permenetly patrol neutral areas of the Black Sea, and these planes are armed with hypersonic missiles. I would imagine they’ll fly fairly close to the North Turkish coastline.
As I’ve been saying, Putin needs to watch his back, so these planes will be there on station to sink US carriers.
This is what we know, but behind the scenes, Russia will have spelt out its red lines.
Alternative media sheeple say Israel and Russia are on good terms, even though Nazi Israel has been in deep helping their UKrainian Nazi brethren. I don’t buy this line. Putin could equally hit Israel, and there’s a good reason for this.
Israel is on the cusp of civil war. Ultra hard right Nazi factions are taking control after Nazi Bibi stripped out what was supposed to be a democracy. Gaza crisis is being used as a cover for coup, and Russia knows this, and Putin knows these Nazi Jews could use nukes (assuming they have them?) not only against Iran, but against many other Middles Eastern states, Turkey, and even Russia, because of Russian success against Nazi UKraine.
Just as Nazi Britain carries out acts of International terrorism, for the NWO NATO Nazi sect, of which Israel is a full member without being a signatory, much like UKraine, Putin understands, and as I’ve been saying all along, UKraine is just one square on the board.
The US makes its move, two carriers to the Med, Israeli Nazis make their moves, and Russia counters with hypersonic armed planes permenetly flying over the South Black Sea.
If these missiles are a counter to US carriers, they be nukes. The object won’t be a scratch mission, but to actually sink them.
Biden and his Nazi regime needs to be seen as dynamic and relevant for the next 13 months or so. Again, assuming there will be an election.
Of course the killer jews did this,just like they did the 9/11 attack.
They keep the lie going long enough until the next news cycle…by which time its old news..
Dozens of their lies have been discovered with their 6 million BS….but they don’t make the MSM.
The fake holocau$t has paid for their German Dolphin submarines….about 650 million each.
The story was….pay up or else..which means,either pay up or have your exports blocked to the USA.They did this to French and Dutch Rail too.
A very lucrative business is blackmail.
Guess what….the jews are in the process of destroying the US…the crunch will come when these illegal immigrants start having their customary huge families.
That treacherous Marrano Biden should be placed on a rack….the good news is,he appears to be fading fast….If the American public could see what goes on in his 747,the trash would be gone tomorrow….him and his spivvy suits.
This is one problem the Conspiracy runs into–the more wogged-up the West becomes, the less its personnel are willing to side with the (Zionist) bully, perceived as White, with the “occupied” ones perceived as dark, “like me”, thinks the brown journalist
Moshe Solomons
knicknamed ” the decent jew ”
said on radio the IDF were not told to bomb the hospital
it had no official mandate from the top
oh dear problems for some one
hands will be slapped
A certain Indian ex Goldman Sachs banker, the husband of a wealthy tax evader, and a Roland Rat lookalike assures us Israel had nothing to do with the atrocity and I believe him…
They would probably deny dropping white phosphorus in Gaza too.
Well, the ‘official story’ peddled these days is propaganda for a western audience. The global East and South no longer believe it.
Our leaders believe it was a stray Arab rocket…
They are putting the blame on Israel because they need the Muslim world agitated so they can bring on a wider regional war. This is actually to Israel’s benefit.
When Israel mobilises its reserves it causes mayhem to the Israeli economy. They’ve just mobilised 360 thousand.
Israel wants a massive regional war, especially with Iran and Hezbollah. They’ll do whatever it takes to bring it about, including atrocities like bombing hospitals etc.
ZOG continuing their ‘pity for nonwhites’ news.The degenerate humanitarian-altruistic masses of western white morons care more about brown anti-white Palestinian Muslims than in the survival of their own declining race on this planet of billions of simians & mongrels.
Interesting to see you take the side of the evil animals, followers of the child rapist. Nazis will Nazi after all.
Just another website to erase from my history…
Search images for “israel hospital”, sort newest / day old, notice the cars look exactly like Maui, glass melted, rubber tires melted, plastic bumpers melted, leaves still on trees! Just like Maui, just like California, theyr frying the cars from a dew aircraft.
Also notice how much rust is on the fried cars, those cars are fully rusted, impossible after just one day. Those cars were fried a month ago. Its all staged, made for tv.
Mossad, by way of deception.
The news hafto tell the truth 1%of the time or their owners (jews) would lose money if noone watched. To keep the zombies watching. All lies cant even predict weather. Even when its controlled.
Hello some one on here is using difoferent names to keep using the term natzi natzi
i think he may need professional helpcan anyone help ?
w w 2 ended in 1945
Young Global Traitors of Klaus Schwabs WEF
will punish them on order to their master .
kill, destroy the warmonger WEF !
@ CARL JONES
you can be asured that israhell has hidden stored remotecontroled
nukes in Theran, Beirut, Berlin, Paris, London,New York, Wash DC
and many other places for their Samson option .
the WHOLE WORLD HOSTAGE !
@PAUL FULLER
so every british soldier; SAS; MI5+6 agent
is a traitor to english,welsh, scottish people !
and the fame about british Common Wealth
IS BULLSHIT !