Craig Murray – craigmurray.org.uk Oct 23, 2023
I want to look at two questions – what will happen internationally, and what is happening in western societies.
Israel plainly is on the course of further escalation and intends to kill many thousands more Palestinians. More than 2,000 Palestinian children alone have now been killed by Israeli aerial attack in the last fortnight.
Gaza has no defence from bombs and missiles, and there is no military reason why Israel cannot keep this up for months and simply rely upon aerial massacre. We are perhaps within a week of thirst, starvation and disease killing even more people per day than bombardment.
The population of Gaza are simply defenceless. Only international intervention can stop Israel from doing whatever it wishes, and those countries which have influence with Israel are actively abetting and encouraging the genocide.
The question is, what is Israel’s aim? Do they intend to reduce the Gaza Strip still further, annexing half or more of it? Will starvation and horror enable the international community to force Egypt to accept the expulsion of the population of Gaza into the Sinai Desert as a “humanitarian” move?
That appears to be the end game: expulsion of population and territorial expansion into Gaza. That would require a ground invasion, but probably not until after even more intense aerial bombardment to eliminate all resistance. This territorial ambition of course accords with the violent expansion of illegal settlement in the West Bank which is currently under way, with the world paying almost no attention. It is very hard indeed to comprehend the passivity of Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas at the moment.
Netanyahu’s political stock within Israel is so low, that the only way he can recover is by making a major step towards the complete genocide of the Palestinian people and the achievement of Greater Israel. Netanyahu now knows that there is no violence against Palestinians so extreme that the western political elite will not support it under the mantra of “Israel’s right to self-defence”.
I do not see any salvation for Gaza coming from Hezbollah. If Hezbollah were to employ their vaunted missile strike capabilities, the moment to do it would be now when the Israeli armour is drawn up in massive parks outside Gaza, a perfect target even for longer range missiles of limited accuracy. Once dispersed into Gaza the armour would be far harder for Hezbollah to hit at range.
Hezbollah is even better equipped now to fight a defensive war in Lebanon than it was when it defeated the Israeli advance in 2006. But it is not configured or equipped to fight an aggressive ground war into Israel, which would be a disaster. It also has to worry about hostile militias in its rear. If Hezbollah can provoke an Israeli incursion into Southern Lebanon, that would enable it to inflict substantial casualties, but Israel is not going to do that in a way that detracts from its capabilities in Gaza.
Iran has greatly improved its diplomatic position in the last year. The Chinese-brokered lessening of hostility with Saudi Arabia has potential to revolutionise Middle Eastern politics, and the benefits of this will not lightly be laid aside by Tehran. Iran had also made real progress with the Biden administration in overcoming the blind hostility of the Trump years.
Iran has no desire to throw away these gains. That is why it seems to me extremely improbable that Iran had endorsed the 7 October attacks by Hamas. Iran is now restraining Hezbollah. But there are limits to the patience of Iran. The extraordinary truth is that Iran is probably the only state under discussion here with a genuine humanitarian concern for the lives of Palestinians. If the genocide unfolds as horribly as I anticipate, Iran can be pushed too far.
That said, I offer just a cautionary footnote that Saudi Arabia is not, under MBS, quite the reliable US/Israeli puppet it has historically been. I do not have much time for MBS, as you know, but his high opinion of the importance of the Al Saud and their leadership role among arabs, makes him a different proposition to his predecessor.
Saudi Arabia has leverage. The Biden administration has gone all in on regional domination, sending two aircraft carrier groups into a situation which should it escalate, could send oil prices to highest-ever levels, with Russia blocked from the market. Biden is risking a huge gas price hike in an election year.
Biden’s calculation, or that of his security services, is that nobody can or will intervene to save the Palestinians. They judge the genocide as containable. That is an extraordinary gamble.
There has been an extraordinary amount of vitriol aimed at Qatar by pro-Israel commentators, for hosting the Hamas office and leadership. This is extraordinarily ignorant.
Qatar hosts Hamas, just as Qatar hosted the Taliban Information Office, at the direct request of the United States. It provides a means of dialogue between the United States and Hamas (exactly as it did with the Taliban) both at deniable level, and through third parties, including of course the government of Qatar. Thus when Blinken arrived in Qatar one day and the Iranian foreign minister the next, these were in fact “proximity talks” involving Hamas.
How do I know? Well, at Julian’s request, I visited Qatar about five years ago to discuss whether Julian, and Wikileaks, might potentially relocate to Qatar, which Julian had described as “the new Switzerland” in terms of being a neutral diplomatic venue.
It was explained to me by the Qataris, at a very senior level, that Qatar hosted the Taliban Information Office and Hamas because the United States government had asked them to do so. Qatar hosted a major US military base and depended on US support against a Saudi takeover. If I could generate a request from then President Trump for Qatar to host Wikileaks, then they would do so. Otherwise, no.
So I know what I am talking about.
One tiny but good result of this brokering in Qatar was the release of two American national hostages. British diplomats have told me that discussions in Qatar have so far held back the Israeli ground offensive, but I am not convinced that Israel really wished to do this yet. They are having sadistic fun shooting children in a barrel.
Qatar has also been the origin of deals allowing in a tiny amount of aid to Gaza, but this is so small as to be almost irrelevant. It is performative humanitarianism by the West.
I have frequently praised China for the fact that their economic dominance has been unaccompanied by any aggressive desire for world hegemony, but this also has its downside. China sees no benefit in assisting the Palestinians in practice. Hopeful reports of China sending warships refer simply to pre-planned exercises, largely in the Gulf. That China is carrying out such joint exercises with Gulf states is indeed part of a long term increasing of influence, but is not relevant to the immediate reality.
Russia of course has its hands full in Ukraine. It is allowing its Syrian bases to be used as a conduit following increased Israeli bombing of Syrian airports, but there is not a great deal more that it can do. Erdoğan is genuinely furious at what is happening in Gaza, but Turkey is struggling to find any way to apply pressure, barring linkage to Ukraine shipping issues (which Erdoğan is considering).
That is a very rough and ready tour d’horizon, but the net effect is that I see no current hope for averting the atrocity which is unfolding before our horrified eyes.
Most of our eyes are indeed horrified. The gap between the western political and media elites and their people on this issue is simply enormous. Western leaders have not only failed to restrain Israel, they have almost unanimously egged Netanyahu on, with the continued repetition of the phrase “Israel’s right to self-defence” as justification for the mass bombing, removal and starvation of an entire civilian population.
The western leadership glee in vetoing every attempt at a ceasefire resolution at the UN is astonishing.
Massive demonstrations have been taking place across Europe against this unspeakable massacre, and the knee-jerk reaction of politicians at their isolation from public opinion has been to try to make such shows of dissent illegal. In the UK people have been arrested for displaying Palestinian flags. In Germany pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been entirely banned. Something similar has been attempted in France, with predictable failure.
I have myself attended pro-Palestinian demonstrations in three different countries, and the most striking thing on each occasion was the strong support of passers-by, and the number of people spontaneously coming out to join the demo as it passed.
A wave of racism has been unleashed in the UK and elsewhere. I am astonished by the Islamophobia and racial hatred released online, with no apparent comeback. UK Ministers claim to be alarmed at the “terrorist sympathies” of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, yet it is perfectly legal to call for Palestinians to be exterminated, to compare them to different types of animal and vermin, and suggest they should be driven into the sea. That does not horrify ministers at all.
I am personally now subject to a police investigation for “terrorism” merely for suggesting that the Palestinians too have a right to self-defence and may offer armed resistance to genocide – a right they enjoy beyond doubt in international law. Remember, Israel has formally declared war. Is it the position in British law that the only belief it is legal to hold and express, is that in this war the Palestinians must simply line up quietly to be killed?
The step change in western authoritarianism is likely to be met by blowback.
After 20 years, we had finally come through the vicious cycle of the “War on Terror”, where terrorism, repression and institutionalised Islamophobia all boosted each other across the western world. Outrage at the appalling genocide in Gaza is very likely to result in isolated incidences of, also appalling, Islamist-inspired violence in Western countries, including the UK, particularly because of the UK’s military support of Israel.
That consequential terrorism in itself will be cited by the political elite as justifying their stance. And so the vicious cycle will restart. This will of course be welcome to the agents of the security state, whose power, budgets and prestige will be boosted. Once again we have to be on the lookout for radicalisation and real terrorism, but also for agent-provocateur-led terrorism and for false flag terrorism.
If we descend back into that nightmare again, the direct cause will be elite support for the genocide of the Palestinian people and the Islamophobic narrative. The major cause of terrorism here is Israel, the terrorist apartheid state.
Yes.
Hamas carried out the talmudic zionists’ false flag against innocent israeli civilians to justify the genocide of 2.3 million innocent Palestinian civilians.
israel will use mini nuke missile against Hezbollah
as they already did with civilian target Beirut port .
that the MSM always silenced and lied about a
fertilizer explosion . the Murrey building bombing
in Oklahoma city also was a FBI sponsered mininuke !
ONLY IDIOTS TRUST IN STATE SINCE STATE
SPONSERED TERRORBOMBINGS IN LONDON;
PARIS; MADRID; BALI;WACO;ISLAMABAD;
BEIRUT; DJAKARTA; DAR ES SALAM ,
FUKUSHIMA etc .
narinder patel on October 25, 2023 at 8:19 am
GENOCIDE ? CHURCHILLS THEFT OF THE INDIAN HARVEST KILLED 5 MILLION PEOPLE
Mohandas K Gandhi was born on October 2 1869 to a poor family in Gujurat India
a highly intelligent boy he enjoyed school lessons and read as much as he could
however an arranged marriage when he was aged 13 to a local girl aged 14
meant he missed lot of schooling.
He later studied law at the Inner Temple London, but back in India he could not make a living so moved to South Africa, and it was his 21 years here that he formulated his political ideas.
The Hindus have a word ” Ahimsa” which means non violence to all living things
and he used non violent resistance in many civil rights campaigns.
But it was in 1915 he returned to India aged 45 and set about organising peasants farmers and labourers to protest about excessive taxation and discrimination.
Appointed leader of the Indian National Congress he initiated campaigns for womens rights easing poverty, building bridges between Hindus and Muslims and ending Untouchability but most of all
speaking about ” Swarai” or self rule for India, to identify with the millions of the rural poor he adopted the simple home spun woven Dhoti.
He lived with the poorest and ate what they ate, and was an inspiration to other world leaders
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who lived in a tent said “when the poorest of my people has a house, only then will i have one” and Adolf Hitler said to his vegetarian chef” i will not eat anthing that my men at the front do not have ”
Gandhi led demonstrations against the harshness of British taxation, the same reason the British lost America, all demonstrations, were ruled by the Sanskrit word Satyagraha, which means always hold on to the truth, and by nonviolence.
The British dictator Winston Churchill’s theft of the 1943 Bengal harvest caused the deaths of millions, and Air Chief Hugh Dowding begged Churchill to help them with tears in his eyes
Churchill’s reply went on record “they are a beastly people who breed like rabbits”
The stolen harvest was taken by British ships to Russia and wartime seamen told me
each food delivery they made they saw the food was still there rotting on the docks
Stalin had said “Hungry men fight harder ”
The totally incompetent Lord Mountbatten was chosen to oversee Indian Independence
Pakistan was given to Muslims, while the Hindus kept India, the huge violence which followed
the upheaval meant Gandhi visited troubled areas and went on hunger strikes.
IN 1919 British law officer Reginald Dyer shamefully gave the order to open fire on an assembly of unarmed Indians many were women with children peacefully gathered for Satyagraha in Delhi.
In w w 2 Gandhi opposed providing any help to Britain with its war on the people of Germany
Churchill demanded revenge and over 1000 indians were killed, Gandhi and his political allies were again imprisoned, however over 2 million Indians did volunteer to fight against Germany.
Churchill exerted a lot of pressure for India to enter his war, but Gandhi was resolute in non violence, Churchill spoke in privy to Lord Lindemans and Lord Moran about an assassination
and In January 1948 Gandhi was shot during a prayer vigil by a Hindu extremist.
Gandhi must rank as one of the greatest men of the century, he proved the futility of war
initiated by government but always fought by other peoples kids.
Frisbee on October 25, 2023 at 8:52 am
It does not matter your voice is just an annoying sound that they will put up with for a while. They have everything in place your all daluded if you think you’re going to change the world 😆. The voice of the people is like a smelly fart specially to those who haven’t brushed their teeth in the morning.
We are all gazan now look around you, you are enslaved. The people can not do nothing, the have setups, armies, police, you name it the have it. What does do the people have nothing who are the people? Who represents the people? I will tell you, the same people who represent/champion your enslavement. All we have now is to pray.
lewis jones on October 25, 2023 at 9:23 am
“What is Israel’s aim?”–who said there had to be an aim, or any rationality? If you study serial killers you find that some people get all their pleasure from killing; it is an activity in itself, and a lot of serial killers are Jews. Two of them were called Leopold and Loeb and were from rich families and were very proud of the “intellectual” side of their activity. Bowie wrote an album about “art murders” and the Jewess in Berlin who created a “suicide cult” for young male Germans. The Jewish Sackler family took pleasure in killing Whites by means of their addictive drug oxycontin (spelling?). Their aim specifically involved White people. It is possible Europeans wanted Jews over at the Jordan so they’d be killing someone else, but, of course, they know how to multi-task
Kelete Asfaha on October 25, 2023 at 10:57 am
The establishment of the state-of-the-art Israel 1948 was the strategy of Rothschild and Rockefeller! The so called state of Israel [The Synagogue] of Satan is a fabricated Issue, it does not to do with Jews, the Jews are the Victem of Rothschild. Period!
phyllis costa on October 25, 2023 at 1:39 pm
Yes, the terrorists are the zionists everywhere. The Palestinians are the victims.These babylonians radhanites were terrorists them and are still terrorists now. No, there is no archeological evidence of previous temples in mount olive. The radhanites are nomads like many other tribes they may have lived in the Palestine during those times but as usual caused much chaos and were pushed out to settle in all over Europe and elsewhere and again causing chaos. Yes, the old bible ( which is about myths and fables, all to influence and control its followers) was fraudulently translated with many edits to it And . The new bible was fraudulently rewritten. And one 1000 years was added to the history of Egypt, Greed, Russia and Rome and it all seems to only benefit these babylonians and influence the gullible christians. I have read the protocols of the elders of zion and it too has had many edits to reflect the current ills/taking over around the world. May the goods civilians of the world regardless of their ethnicity, race or religious faiths be protected from these evil doers . The biblical psychopath nutyahoo, along with the CIA, M16, Mossad among other evils doers have to be charged with crimes against humanity at large and punished accordingly.
phyllis costa on October 25, 2023 at 1:46 pm
Yes, the terrorists are the zionists everywhere. The Palestinians are the victims among many others arund the world. These babylonians radhanites were terrorists them and are still terrorists now. No, there is no archeological evidence of previous temples in mount olive. The radhanites are nomads like many other tribes they may have lived in the Palestine during those times but as usual caused much chaos and were pushed out to settle in all over Europe and elsewhere and again causing chaos. Yes, the old bible ( which is about myths and fables, all to influence and control its followers) was fraudulently translated with many edits to it And . The new bible was fraudulently rewritten. And one 1000 years was added to the history of Egypt, Greece, Russia and Rome and it all seems to only benefit these babylonians and influence the gullible christians. I have read the protocols of the elders of zion and it too has had many edits to reflect the current ills/taking over around the world. May the goods civilians of the world regardless of their ethnicity, race or religious faiths be protected from these evil doers . The biblical psychopath nutyahoo, along with the CIA, M16, Mossad among other evils doers have to be charged with crimes against humanity at large and punished accordingly.
antiJHWH on October 25, 2023 at 2:02 pm
EUROPEANS WAKE UP !
what they do since 75 years + now to the palestinian
people they will do in future to europeans + yankees .
antiJHWH on October 25, 2023 at 2:19 pm
there is only one terrorist in all european, asian,
american states : MOSSAD with his sajanim .
Fred B on October 25, 2023 at 5:33 pm
“ALL” of our political leaders during Covid were actors on a stage reading from scripts and playing their roles to the best of their acting abilities. Just like actors they never listened to one thing from the audience no matter the facts and all of the experts. After the biggest organized FRAUD in human history, one has to wonder exactly what entitles anyone with any common sense to think that with any other clearly manufactured crisis such as the easily ignitable Mid East hostilities, that the sociopathic bastards have not just moved to the next Act in the NWO the globalist reality theater, likely to be called in future propaganda documentaries, “Saving the Planet Through Globalism”. The sociopathic bastards have clearly demonstrated that they will throw trillions away to crash the economy, and without any pangs of conscience turn a blind eye even to the slaughter of millions of people to advance their agendas. What each of them are doing now is carefully following the scripts and directions given to them by their globalist masters?
Every single Western nation is in fact a globalist “regime” with appointed (not really elected) globalist leaders. No one can argue that the US, the UK, and the EU are not. They are all under globalist administrations and so is the Vatican and the guts of the Catholic hierarchy which I know to be an inconvertible fact. None of our visible leaders and authorities in our governments, our courts, leading corporations, or in the media are any more than actors playing various roles. They are all on stage following script and have to ignore the jeers and rotten tomatoes hurled at them by us sitting in the audience. All that matters to them is that we believe that what is going on is real and not orchestrated.
The globalist leaders of the West and likely also of the East want to fuel the hostilities in the ME and elsewhere to a Defcon 1 level simply to usher us further and further completely into their one-world-order clutches. If the globalist were interested in suppressing the hostilities, then the leading globalist administrations of the West would simply tell Israel to get out of Gaza. But notice. They are fanning the flames of war.
Good comment….”They are fanning the flames of war.” / indeed / same story with the cv 19 depop shots….
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JRtcMP0IX8hB/ “The use of wireless networks to track and trace the public and cause illness – Todd calendar & Maria Zee”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YFKHKN9bbuOJ/ A Must Watch “Payload – The vax + 5G + AI connection”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mgt9XqdbvqiZ/ Fluvid-19 (New Documentary Oct 2022) – Highly Recommended Viewing
20 October 2023 https://www.bitchute.com/video/1Nj313ghqef0/ “The issue of excess deaths caused by the vaxx has been raised in the Irish and British parliaments
This is a positive turn of events. Hopefully this will eventually lead to justice being served on those criminals who are complicit in this unprecedented crime. It’s a start anyway and a step in the right direction, because this is not going to go away. We will not allow this criminality to just fade away into history and be forgotten about.👍”
CIA O