{"id":274586,"date":"2023-10-16T06:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T06:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274586"},"modified":"2023-10-17T06:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T06:54:42","slug":"gaza-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274586","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Oct 15, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It\u2019s amazing how America\u2019s thought-controlled media is able to come up with a suitable narrative almost immediately whenever there is an international incident that might be subject to multiple interpretations. Since 1948 Israel has expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, has occupied nearly all of the historic Palestine, has empowered its army to kill thousands of local people, and has more recently established an apartheid regime that even denies that Palestinian Arabs are human in the same sense that Jews are. Netanyahu-allied government minister Ayelet Shaked memorably has called for Israel not only to exterminate all Palestinian children<\/a>, whom she has described as \u201clittle snakes,\u201d but also to kill their mothers who gave birth to them. But when the Arabs strike back against the hatred that confronts them with their limited resources it is Israel that is described as the victim and the Palestinians who are dehumanized and portrayed as the \u201cterrorists.\u201d Media in the US and Europe were quick to label the Hamas offensive breaching the formidable Israeli border defenses as \u201cIsrael\u2019s 9\/11\u201d or even \u201cIsrael\u2019s Pearl Harbor\u201d to establish the context that the Israelis have been on the receiving end of an \u201cunprovoked\u201d attack by a cruel and heartless enemy.<\/p>\n

Israel has responded to the attack with a heavy bombardment of Gaza that has destroyed infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, while also cutting off food supplies, water and electricity. It has demanded that residents of north Gaza, all 1.1 million of them, evacuate to make way for a possible ground offensive but there is nowhere to go as all the borders are closed, and the United Nations is calling it a demand with \u201cdevastating humanitarian consequences.\u201d Journalist Peter Beinart has commented<\/a> \u201cThis is a monstrous crime. It\u2019s happening in plain view, with US support.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the United States government is indeed typically on the same page as Israel. President Joe Biden, citing fabricated stories about dead Jewish babies, speaks of how Israel has a \u201cduty\u201d to defend itself, while the Palestinians somehow have no right to protect themselves at all, much less to rise up against their persecutors in a struggle for freedom. And Washington has also unhesitatingly chosen to directly involve itself in the conflict, completely on the side of the Jewish state, asserting repeatedly that \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself\u201d and telling the Israelis that \u201cwe have your back\u201d while also dispatching two aircraft carrier groups to the scene of the fighting as well as the 101st<\/sup> Airborne to Jordan and increasing the readiness of Marines stationed in Kuwait. The White House could have taken more aggressive steps to encourage a ceasefire and talks but has chosen instead to issue essentially toothless calls to let the trapped civilians escape<\/a> while also backing a devastating Israeli military response.<\/p>\n

Israel is also hosting the worthless and brain dead Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin who will be providing advice<\/a> along the lines of his insightful comment that Hamas is \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cworse than ISIS.\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken is already in Jerusalem, announcing that the US is there to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s unity government \u201cas long as America exists\u201d after first saying \u201cI come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.\u201d Blinken\u2019s explicit association of his personal religion with his official role as a representative of the US government makes clear that a key element in why he is there is because he is \u201ca Jew.\u201d Perhaps he should recuse himself from policy making involving Israel as being \u201ca Jew\u201d would not appear to be a United States national interest and is likely to produce irrational responses to developing situations.<\/p>\n

If all of this sounds a lot like Ukraine it should, except that in Ukraine the US and NATO are fighting against Russia, which is being demonized for occupying what is claimed Ukrainian territory, whereas in Palestine they are supporting the occupier of actual Palestinian territory, Israel. Funny thing that, and the word \u201chypocrisy\u201d comes immediately to mind. As it turns out, however, I am somewhat on the same page as much of the media, agreeing that the Hamas incursion is something like 9\/11, though I am sure that my take would not be found acceptable to the CNN Jake Tappers of this world<\/a>. My thinking is that Israel knew in advance about 9\/11 in the United States due to its extensive spying network and chose not to share the information because it was to their advantage not to do so. Indeed, a pleased Netanyahu even stated several years later that \u201c9\/11 was a good thing because it made the United States join us in our fight.\u201d That the attacks killed 3,000 Americans did not bother the Israeli government as Israel has a long history of killing Americans when it can benefit from so doing, starting with the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 which killed 34 sailors.<\/p>\n

So too in this case in Gaza Netanyahu may have decided to encourage an unexpected development, making it like 9\/11, that would enable him to escalate and \u201cmow the grass\u201d as the Israelis put it, in the remainder of Arab Palestine. And bear in mind that the actual incident<\/a> that triggered the uprising was a rampage involving at least 800 Israeli settlers in and around the al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, beating pilgrims and destroying Palestinian shops, all without any interference from the nearby Israeli security forces. The rioting was clearly allowed and even encouraged by the government.<\/p>\n

Drawing on my experience as a former on-the-ground intelligence officer, I am somewhat convinced that this was likely more like a false flag operation rather than a case of institutional failure on the part of the Israelis. Israel had an extensive electronic and physical wall backed by soldiers and weaponry that completely surrounded Gaza on the landward side, so effective that<\/a> it was claimed that not even a mouse could get in. The Mediterranean side of Gaza was also tightly controlled by the Israeli Navy and boats to and from Gaza were completely blocked. Egypt tightly controlled the southern part of Gaza bordering on the Sinai. So Gaza was under 24\/7 complete surveillance and control at all times. Israeli military intelligence also certainly had a network of recruited informants inside Gaza who would report on any training or movements, easy enough to do when you can approach people who are starving and make them an offer they cannot refuse just for providing information on what they see and hear.<\/p>\n

And then there was a warning from the Egyptian government to Israel ten days before the Hamas attack, with Egypt\u2019s Intelligence Minister General Abbas Kamel personally calling Netanyahu and sharing intelligence suggesting that the Gazans were likely to do \u201csomething unusual, a terrible operation.\u201d Other media accounts<\/a> reveal how Hamas trained and practiced their maneuvers publicly. There were also assessments made<\/a> by US intelligence, which were shared with Israel, suggesting that something was afoot. So, given all of the evidence, there likely was no intelligence failure to anticipate and counter the Hamas attack but rather a political decision made by the Israeli government that knew what might be coming and chose to let it proceed to provide a casus belli<\/em> to destroy Gaza, vowing that \u201cEvery member of Hamas is a dead man,\u201d and then go on from there. And \u201cfrom there\u201d might well include Lebanon, Syria and Iran, possibly with the assistance of the United States to do the heavy lifting. Iran in particular is already being blamed by the usual suspects<\/a> as a party involved in the Hamas attack, so far without any evidence whatsoever, which is typical of how these stories evolve.<\/p>\n

And Israel has moved far to the right politically to such an extent that it might appreciate a little ethnic cleansing to demonstrate its seriousness. Netanyahu and other senior government officials in his cabinet have recently been making passing references to a \u201cdeveloping security situation\u201d in the country to justify the intensifying of the raids by the army against Palestinian towns and refugee camps. The new government in Israel has also placed police under the control of ultra-nationalist Jewish Power party head Itamar Ben-Gvir as National Security Minister. He has been exploiting his position to call in particular for a war to destroy Hamas in Gaza, which is precisely what is happening. Gaza might be of particular interest to Ben-Gvir and others as it uniquely shelters an armed and organized resistance in the form of Hamas, which, oddly, was founded with the support of Israel to split the Palestinian political resistance with Fatah controlling the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n

There is another issue relating to the recent fighting that one would like to know the answer to, namely how did Hamas get its weapons in the first place? Some were clearly manufactured from parts and scrap but others were sophisticated and, as Gaza is blockaded on all sides, smuggling them in becomes problematical. One argument is that they were supplied by Iran and others to be brought in by tunnels, but the tunnels on two sides would end up in Israel and on the third side in Egypt. The fourth side is the Mediterranean Sea. So how did they arrive? Is there a possible triple or even quadruple cross taking place with different parties lying to each other? And should there be concerns that after the American armada arrives off the coast of Gaza there just might be some kind of false flag incident engineered by Netanyahu that will involve Washington directly in the fighting?<\/p>\n

And there is what amounts to a related issue that should be of concern to everyone in the US and generically speaking the \u201cWestern world\u201d where human rights are at least nominally respected. The message from almost all Western governments is that Israel has a carte blanche<\/em> to do whatever it likes even when it involves war crimes to include mass forced displacement or genocide. In this case, the coordinated government-media response which is intended to protect Israel from any criticism almost immediately began circulating fabricated tales of atrocities while also delivering a hit on freedom of speech and association. President Biden, who should be trying to defuse the crisis, is instead adding fuel to the flames, saying of Hamas<\/a> that \u201cPure, unadulterated evil has been unleashed on the earth!\u201d In Florida the arch Zionist stooge Governor Ron Desantis met with Jewish leaders in a synagogue to announce draconian measures<\/a> against Iran to include sanctions on companies that are in any way linked to that country. One might point out that those businesses have done nothing wrong and Desantis also called for \u201ceradication of Hamas from the earth.\u201d His intellectual depth was at the same time revealed when he said the US should not take in<\/a> any Gazan refugees because they are \u201cantisemites.\u201d And in South Carolina, America\u2019s favorite he\/she Senator Lindsey Graham is calling for<\/a> a US attack on Iran as well as declaring the war against Hamas to be \u201ca religious war\u201d and urging the Israeli army to invade Gaza and do \u201cWhatever the hell you have to do to\u201d to \u201clevel the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Europeans are equally spineless in their deference to Israel. The Israeli president declared<\/a> the that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, and not long after that top European Union representatives met with him<\/a> to offer their unqualified support. Meanwhile in France, the spineless and feckless government of Emmanuel Macron has sought to outlaw any gathering that expresses support for Palestinian rights. And in the UK, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman has proposed criminalizing<\/a> any protest against Israeli actions or anything in support of Palestine to include banning any public display of the Palestinian national flag, which she regards as a \u201ccriminal offense toward the Jewish community in Britain.\u201d She has also said that \u201cI would encourage police to consider whether chants such as: \u2018From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u2019 should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world, and whether its use in certain contexts may amount to a racially aggravated section 5 public order offence.\u201d Berlin\u2019s Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office has also classified the use of the expression as a \u201ccriminal offense.\u201d The manner in which most Western political elites are lining up unquestionably and even enthusiastically behind Israel and its craven leaders\u2019 desire for bloody vengeance is truly shocking but comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n

Beyond the issue of Gaza itself, some in Israel are arguing that Netanyahu has personally benefitted from the unrest through the creation of the national unity government which has ended for the time being the huge demonstrations protesting his judicial reform proposals. If all of this comes together politically as it might in the next several weeks, we could be seeing the initial steps in what will develop into the complete ethnic cleansing of what was once Palestine, in line with Netanyahu\u2019s assertion that \u201cthe Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel.\u201d So all of the former Palestine is now a land to be defined by its Jewishness where Jews are in full control and are free to do whatever they want without any objection, referred to by the Israeli government as \u201can exclusive right to self-determination.\u201d And it has all possibly been brought to fruition by the enablement provided by the current developments in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is <\/em>councilforthenationalinterest.org,<\/em><\/strong> address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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