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Eric Holder says
"After we win this war... we will make sure that Ukraine wins.
And how will they do that? By using the US politicians they own through bribes and Epstein tapes to send in US troops?
It is weird how the IDF intercepted this particular discussion but somehow missed all the discussions that might’ve warned them of the original Hamas attack, but I digress.
During the spring, Netanyahu led a conservative takeover of Israel’s government following a disastrous leftist cycle. One of the new conservative government’s first projects was to prune back a law allowing Israel’s Supreme Court to overturn any democratically-passed legislation that the Court felt was inconsistent with Israel’s values — a blank check. The reform — which was ultimately successful — was opposed by none less than the U.S. deep state and one Joseph Robinette Biden.
And, although officially denied, leaked documents showed the conservative reforms were also opposed by members of Israel’s own top security agency, Mossad:
To pull the threads together, what I think Patrick is suggesting (without explicitly saying so) is that the U.S. deep state, working with the Israeli deep state, engineered October 7th. They did it to punish Netanyahu for the Supreme Court reforms, and to purge Israel’s new conservative government. The deepstate termites may have accomplished it by sabotaging Israel’s security software, on which the country is almost completely dependent.
Admittedly, it’s a bold, 9/11-level conspiracy theory, but so far it’s the only fact-based theory going.
💣 Soon it will be politically too late for Israel to invade Gaza on the ground, and an invasion is looking less and less likely, for three reasons. First, the U.S. is stepping up pressure on Israel to postpone the Gazan ground invasion, for the obvious rationale that I predicted. The New York Times made the case this morning at the top of the fold:
It’s the hostages. On the Israeli side, the Times of Israel broke the bad news to the Israeli public:
The longer the delay, the less likely politically possible it will be for Israel to invade Gaza at all. And if, at the end of the day, Israel does not invade Gaza after the October 7th attacks, Israel’s conservative government will undoubtedly fall, delighting U.S. and Israeli deep state color revolutionaries who failed to abolish Netanyahu with nationwide protests in the summer.
Remember the Chuck Schumer rule: they have seven ways from Sunday to get back at you.
Second, Israel’s internal leftist forces are starting to stretch and get ready to take advantage of the situation in the domestic politics arena. In other words, the period of unity is coming to a close. Israel’s papers this weekend were packed with swelling criticism of Netanyahu, neatly summarized in this Haaretz example:
Prime Minister Netanyahu faces irresistible public pressure to start the invasion, but on the other hand, the United States — his most critical ally, needed to hold off opportunistic enemies while Israel fights with Hamas — is flat telling him not to do it. I would bet my next paycheck that when Biden flew around the globe for a one-hour face-to-face meeting last week it was to warn Bibi not to invade.
Third, Israel’s other enemies are lining up to invade Israel when Israel invades Gaza. All last week, pressure continued mounting along Israel’s northern border, as other regional enemies waited with barely-concealed glee for Israel to commit its forces to Gaza in the south. For example, Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah spent last week steadily increasing rocket attacks from the north, while Iran and Israel traded threats. ..
Officially, Israel will not explain the delay, not even to its own officers. Four senior Israeli defense officials told the Times they did not even know the reason for the repeated postponements. My guess is that’s because the delay is due to politics and not military strategy.
The Case For "Inside Job" Picks Up: Did Israel Confiscate Guns At The Border Sept 1?
A Former Soldier's Righteous Rage
Clip here:
https://twitter.com/VincentCrypt46/status/1716088629024461046
The Case For "Inside Job" Picks Up: Did Israel Confiscate Guns At The Border Sept 1?
OK, maybe it was Mossad that allowed or even orchestrated the massacre of 1400 Israelis just to get at Netanyahu.
OK, maybe it was Mossad that allowed or even orchestrated the massacre of 1400 Israelis just to get at Netanyahu.
1. Reichstag Fire (1933)
Country Involved: Germany
Description: The Reichstag building in Berlin, which housed the German Parliament, was set on fire. The Nazis blamed the Communists for the act, which led to the suspension of civil liberties and the arrest of Communist Party members.
Outcome: The event facilitated Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the consolidation of Nazi rule.
Source: "The Reichstag Fire," History.com
2. Operation Northwoods (1962) - Not Executed
Country Involved: United States
Description: A proposed plan by the U.S. Department of Defense to stage acts of terrorism on U.S. soil and blame it on Cuba to justify military intervention.
Outcome: The plan was never approved or carried out.
Source: "Operation Northwoods," National Security Archive
3. Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964)
Country Involved: United States
Description: The U.S. claimed that its naval vessels were attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Outcome: The incident led to the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War, although later evidence suggested that the "attack" was either exaggerated or fabricated.
Source: "Gulf of Tonkin Incident," History.com
4. Operation Gladio (Cold War Era)
Countries Involved: NATO countries, primarily Italy
Description: A covert NATO project where secret "stay-behind" armies were involved in political subversion and false flag terrorism in Europe.
Outcome: Exposed in the 1990s, leading to investigations and public outcry.
Source: "Operation Gladio," BBC Documentary
5. Mukden Incident (1931)
Country Involved: Japan
Description: Japanese soldiers detonated a small amount of dynamite near a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden (now Shenyang).
Outcome: The incident was used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Source: "Mukden Incident," Britannica
6. Operation Ajax (1953)
Countries Involved: United States, United Kingdom
Description: Orchestrated protests and acts of sabotage to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, falsely attributing these acts to Communists.
Outcome: Led to the overthrow of Mossadegh and the reinstatement of the Shah.
Source: "Operation Ajax," CIA Archives
7. Operation Susannah (1954)
Country Involved: Israel
Description: Also known as the Lavon Affair, Israeli agents planted bombs in Egyptian, American, and British-owned targets in Egypt, intending to have them blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood or local nationalists.
Outcome: The operation was exposed, leading to a political scandal in Israel.
Source: "Operation Susannah," Jewish Virtual Library
8. Operation Himmler (1939)
Country Involved: Nazi Germany
Description: Also known as The Gleiwitz Incident, is when German operatives, dressed as Polish soldiers, attacked a German radio station near the border with Poland, and falsely blamed on Polish forces.
Outcome: Used as justification for the invasion of Poland.
Source: "Operation Himmler," WW2 Database
9. The Manchurian Incident (1931)
Country Involved: Japan
Description: Japanese soldiers staged an explosion on a railway in Manchuria and blamed it on Chinese dissidents.
Outcome: Used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
Source: "The Manchurian Incident," Britannica
10. Operation CHAOS (1967-1974)
Country Involved: United States
Description: CIA program aimed at monitoring, infiltrating, and discrediting U.S. organizations considered "subversive," including civil rights groups.
Outcome: Led to illegal surveillance and violation of civil liberties.
Source: "Operation CHAOS," CIA Archives
11. Operation Bumblebee (1950s)
Country Involved: United States
Description: U.S. Navy project that involved faking UFO sightings to cover up missile tests.
Outcome: Created public hysteria over UFOs, diverting attention from military activities.
Source: "Operation Bumblebee," Military Archives
12. Operation Valuable Fiend (1949-1950)
Countries Involved: United States, United Kingdom
Description: CIA and MI6 orchestrated a plan to infiltrate Albania and overthrow its Communist regime, using agents posing as anti-Communist Albanians.
Outcome: The operation failed but was used to justify anti-Communist activities in the region.
Source: "Operation Valuable Fiend," CIA Archives
13. The Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Country Involved: United States
Description: CIA-trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba, aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro. The U.S. initially denied involvement.
Outcome: The invasion failed, leading to a diplomatic crisis.
Source: "Bay of Pigs Invasion," History.com
14. The Mainila Incident (1939)
Country Involved: Soviet Union
Description: The Soviet Union shelled the Russian village of Mainila and blamed it on Finland.
Outcome: Used as a pretext for the Winter War against Finland.
Source: "The Mainila Incident," Winter War Archives
15. Operation Condor (1970s-1980s)
Countries Involved: Several South American countries with U.S. support
Description: A campaign of political repression involving assassinations and intelligence operations, often falsely attributed to leftist groups.
Outcome: Led to the deaths and disappearances of thousands of people.
Source: "Operation Condor," National Security Archive
16. The Nero Decree (1945)
Country Involved: Nazi Germany
Description: A plan to destroy German infrastructure to blame the Allies and demoralize the German population.
Outcome: The plan was never fully executed due to internal opposition.
Source: "The Nero Decree," WW2 Facts
17. Operation Gladio B (1990s-Present)
Countries Involved: United States, NATO countries
Description: An extension of Operation Gladio involving the infiltration and instigation of terrorist activities in Asia, falsely attributed to Islamist groups.
Outcome: Ongoing; details are largely classified.
Source: "Operation Gladio B," The Corbett Report
18. The USS Liberty Incident (1967)
Countries Involved: Israel, United States
Description: Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy ship, during the Six-Day War. Israel claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.
Outcome: Strained U.S.-Israel relations; Israel paid reparations but many questions remain.
Source: "The USS Liberty Incident," Naval History and Heritage Command
19. The Informbiro Period (1948–1955)
Country Involved: Yugoslavia
Description: Yugoslav authorities orchestrated purges and show trials, blaming them on Soviet influence to consolidate power.
Outcome: Strengthened Tito's rule and distanced Yugoslavia from the Soviet Union.
Source: "The Informbiro Period," Encyclopaedia Britannica
20. Operation Washtub (1950s)
Country Involved: United States
Description: A covert CIA operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua to suggest a communist invasion.
Outcome: Unclear, as details remain classified.
Source: "Operation Washtub," CIA Archives
21. The Trust Operation (1921–1927)
Country Involved: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet secret police created a fake anti-Bolshevik organization to identify and arrest opposition members.
Outcome: Successful in arresting and executing many anti-Bolshevik figures.
Source: "The Trust Operation," Soviet Archives
22. Operation Anthropoid (1942)
Countries Involved: Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom
Description: Czech and Slovak soldiers, trained by the British, assassinated SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. The operation was falsely attributed to local resistance.
Outcome: Led to severe reprisals but boosted Czech morale.
Source: "Operation Anthropoid," BBC History
I think this one is not exactly a false flag, in that Hamas really slaughtered 1400 Israelis. But it was allowed to happen
So Netanyahu had good reason to allow that hideous attack—to get Israelis to forget about the toll of “vaccination” and their anger over his attempt to seize control of Israel’s courts. Of course, such “wag the dog” manipulation has been used forever to get people to forget news inconvenient to the government—as (say) Ronald Reagan scored his smashing military triumph in Grenada, to “save the medical students” there (though they were in no danger), and thereby change the subject from the 241 Marines killed in Lebanon (where they’d been sent for no good reason); and as Bill Clinton bombed civilian neighborhoods in Belgrade, to halt what “our free press” portrayed as Serbian “genocide,” and thereby change the subject from the scandal over his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
Nobody really cares about "failed vaccine" all that much anyway
Admittedly, it’s a bold, 9/11-level conspiracy theory, but so far it’s the only fact-based theory going.
Why isn't Israel more focused on the Hamas leaders in Qatar?
Hamas committed crimes against humanity - not Jews, humanity - on Oct. 7. Why are its top officials living in luxury in Qatar's skyscrapers and villas?
Osama bin Laden was Saudi. Not Afghan.
But after bin Laden planned the Sept. 11 attacks from camps in Afghanistan, no one doubted the United States could demand Afghanistan’s Taliban government evict him - and attack Afghanistan if the Talibs refused.
The leaders of Hamas are Palestinian. Not Qatari.
Yet two weeks after a Hamas attack on Israel that in its barbarity dwarfed Sept. 11, they continue to live in luxury in Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf city-state.
As it prepares to invade the Gaza Strip, home to the Hamas fighters who slaughtered over 1,400 Israeli civilians, Israel seems to have forgotten its claim on Qatar, home to the men behind that slaughter.
In a conflict that is both necessary and has no good answers, focusing pressure on Qatar and attacking Hamas’s leaders there directly may be Israel’s cleanest short-term play, giving it the best hope of holding the moral high ground.
(Why? And how might Israel handle Qatar? Answers below the paywall.)
(Welcome to Qatar, American servicemen and -ladies. You’ll enjoy the pleasant 130-degree desert heat, the camels, and the proximity to one of the world’s most vicious terrorist groups!)
Until now, Qatar was probably best known for hosting the 2022 World Cup and for being less cool than Dubai, its high-flying, model-hosting neighbor to the east.
A thumb-shaped peninsula 40 miles wide and 100 miles long, Qatar has 2.7 million residents, but only 315,000 citizens, about 1/25000th of the world’s population. It also has 11 percent of the world’s proven natural gas reserves, giving it hydrocarbons - and money - to burn.
Like Kuwait and other super-rich ministates of the Gulf, Qatar’s main preoccupation is its continued existence. For a generation, its leaders have walked a fine line, trying to convince its neighbors that it can play the role of a semi-honest broker in the Muslim world. Qatar is Sunni Muslim, but it works with Iran, which is Shia, as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are hardline Sunni.
Qatar has also made itself a crucial ally to the American military by hosting a huge American air field, the Al Udeid Air Base. With over 11,000 airmen and soldiers, Al Udeid has become the largest United States military installation in the Middle East.
Amazingly, Qatar built its relationship with the United States even as it actively supported Hamas and other Islamist terror groups.
To some extent, Qatar has spent the last 20 years playing the same game Saudi Arabia once did. It funds terror groups (always outside its borders, of course) to keep its Muslim bonafides, while at the same time helping the United States knock them down.
The Saudis realized the limits of these schemes after Sept. 11, and Qatar’s support for radical Islam and its relationship with Iran grew to frustrate Saudi Arabia so deeply that in 2017 it blockaded Qatar. But the Saudis never invaded - how could they, given the huge American base 20 miles from central Doha? - and in 2021 they dropped the blockade.
But of all the games Qatar played, helping Hamas was in some ways the lowest risk.
Arab and Muslim countries have little choice but to support Palestinians against Israel. And under Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Israel itself allowed Qatar to funnel money to Hamas for most of the last decade.
Netanyahu knew that as long as Hamas - whose charter demands the destruction of Israel - controlled Gaza, Israel would not face serious pressure to make peace with Palestinians. His plan was to keep life in Gaza barely tolerable as Israel continued to prosper and moved settlers into the other Palestinian territories West Bank (and negotiate a broader peace with other Arab countries).
The slaughter of Oct. 7 - in which Hamas terrorists killed the equivalent of 50,000 Americans - has blown up Netanyahu’s cynical scheme. (I know some conservative and Israeli readers complain about this framing of the situation, but the truth is what it is.)
So, no, Israel can no longer live with Hamas. It must destroy the group, or die trying.
But as Israel tries, it must ensure that the world doesn’t entirely turn against it.
And it must at least give the civilians of Gaza a chance to leave Hamas behind. Not that they will, necessarily. They may hate Jews more than they love life. Then again, they may not.
Part of the answer to those puzzles lies in Qatar. Israel must keep the focus on the atrocities of Oct. 7, the atrocities that started this war, and on the men behind them.
It must demand that Qatar no longer harbor the leadership of Hamas - Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political chief, and the rest of the officials who, directly or indirectly, ordered the beheadings and ritual executions and slaughter of more than 1,000 people.
Haniyeh and the rest can take their chances in Gaza with the people they claim to represent. (Israel should even guarantee their safe passage.) They can turn themselves in and try the International Civilian Court. Or they can submit directly to Israeli justice, the way that Adolf Eichmann and other Nazis did in the decades after the Nuremberg courts closed.
Whatever choice they make, they’ll have more of a chance than the Jews their men slaughtered two weeks ago.
Bibi Netanyahu is in a bad position to make this demand. Doing so will throw the spotlight on the way he worked with Qatar to help Hamas. But he must, and if he will not, the Israeli government must find a leader who can.
Of course, Qatar will not agree to those conditions (though if the United States puts enough pressure on it, it might tell the Hamas leadership to head across the Gulf to Iran - a step that Haniyeh would surely prefer not to take as it would make Hamas even more dependent on Iran).
But simply by asking, Israel will put the spotlight on the atrocities, the men who ordered them, and the regimes that support those men. And it will also put Qatar on public notice that it intends to assassinate every leader of Hamas it can find, and that if Qatar will not evict them Qatar’s own civilians will be at risk.
Those actions wouldn’t be unethical, much less illegal. They are exactly the tack the United States took in Afghanistan 22 years ago.
Lie down with terrorists, wake up dead.
He's former Mossad, very unlikely conspiracy theory
The Pentagon has said there are 'no limits' on how Israel uses its US-provided weapons despite the massive child death toll
Losing wars of aggression has consequences.
Losing wars of aggression has consequences.
Yeah - that's the rule for everyone else.
But the Jew haters have special rules for Israel.
Like we're finally seeing with Democrats. Ugly factions always rear their heads, and will do what ever it takes to get in power, and to get rid of those that threaten that. He's old guard, the new guard stands with the Pink Haired Woke Lilly Boy's nonsense.
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I expect it was allowed to happen to distract everyone from other issues (like the death of 8 year old Israeli toxxine poster boy Yonatan Erlichman from a heart attack) and to provide justification for stomping on Gaza.
Not that Hamas isn't guilty. The murder of random civilians for political reasons is the very definition of terrorism. Hamas must be wiped out.