Israel's 9/11
The similarities are uncanny...
It’s only been a few days since Hamas attacked Israel. It’s being called Israel’s 9/11. I agree.
On October 7, the terrorist organization, Hamas, was able to breach IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) barriers and conduct attacks on innocent Israeli citizens, taking hostages and killing many more. Latest reports indicate 1,300 Israelis were murdered and over 3,000 have been injured.
As the world tried to make sense of this senseless aggression, even more horrific details emerged…
On October 10, NBC reported this in an article titled, “At least 40 babies killed, beheaded in Israeli kibbutz outside Gaza Strip, reports say”
Israel Defense Forces Major General Itai Veruv described the scene in Kfar Aza as a "massacre" Tuesday, calling it unlike something Israel has witnessed in "recent history."
“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield, it’s a massacre,” Veruv told The Times of Israel. “You see the babies, their mothers and their fathers, in their bedrooms, and in their protected rooms, and how the terrorists killed them ... It's something that I never saw in my life."
Beheaded infants?? The public is understandably outraged. But how are we to understand what we are being told under these circumstances? How much of what is being reported is factual?
Today, NBC in a follow-up piece admits that reports of decapitated infants cannot be confirmed.
Let’s look at how Reuters covered the story on October 9th, two days after the massacre of innocent Israelis, in an article “How Hamas duped Israel as it planned devastating attack”:
Here are the key statements in the Reuters article. Citing unnamed sources in Israeli intelligence and one close to Hamas:
.“Saturday's assault, the worst breach in Israel's defences since Arab armies waged war in 1973, followed two years of subterfuge by Hamas that involved keeping its military plans under wraps and convincing Israel it did not want a fight.”
"Hamas used an unprecedented intelligence tactic to mislead Israel over the last months, by giving a public impression that it was not willing to go into a fight or confrontation with Israel while preparing for this massive operation,"
Israel concedes it was caught off guard by an attack timed to coincide with the Jewish Sabbath and a religious holiday.
Israel has long prided itself on its ability to infiltrate and monitor Islamist groups. As a consequence, the source close to Hamas said, a crucial part of the plan was to avoid leaks.
Many Hamas leaders were unaware of the plans and, while training, the 1,000 fighters deployed in the assault had no inkling of the exact purpose of the exercises, the source added.
When the day came, the operation was divided into four parts, the Hamas source said, describing the various elements.
The first move was a barrage of 3,000 rockets fired from Gaza that coincided with incursions by fighters who flew hang gliders, or motorised paragliders, over the border, the source said. Israel has previously said 2,500 rockets were fired at first.
Once the fighters on hang-gliders were on the ground, they secured the terrain so an elite commando unit could storm the fortified electronic and cement wall built by Israel to prevent infiltration.
The fighters used explosives to breach the barriers and then sped across on motorbikes. Bulldozers widened the gaps and more fighters entered in four-wheel drives, scenes that witnesses described.
A commando unit attacked the Israeli army's southern Gaza headquarters and jammed its communications, preventing personnel from calling commanders or each other, the source said.
Dennis Ross, a former Middle East negotiator who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israel had been distracted by violence in the West Bank, leading to a "thin, under-prepared presence in the south."
"Hamas probably succeeded beyond their expectation. Now they will have to deal with an Israel determined to decimate them," he said
To summarize Reuters:
Hamas was able to keep the preparation for this horrific attack from the eyes and ears of arguably the most sophisticated surveillance and best intelligence organizations in the world.
Israel Defense Forces were caught off guard because Hamas diabolically chose to attack during the Sabbath and on a religious holiday. Moreover, the southern border with Gaza was left unprepared
Hamas fighters on hang gliders secured the area so that a fortified wall could be breached by an “elite” commando unit. This led to an attack on Israeli headquarters in the area, and Hamas was able to prevent communication of the attacks to Israeli command.
Prior to the ground attack, Hamas had been able to position and arm a large number of rocket launchers and train 1,000 fighters without detection. Hamas was able to trick the IDF by giving them the impression that they were not interested in conflict using “an unprecedented intelligence tactic”.
Because of their success, Hamas should now expect to be decimated.
The loss of so many innocent Israeli lives is tragic, but is this really the story we are being asked to accept? Hamas kept their plans under wraps for two years? Since when is the Mossad interested in “public impressions”?
Efrat Fenigson, an Israeli journalist who served with the IDF on the border with Gaza 25 years ago also challenges the narrative being constructed around this event.
In this 100 minute long conversation with Dark Horse podcast host, Bret Weinstein, Fenigson explains her issues with the story the public is being told. Big points:
It is absurd that an attack of this magnitude could have been planned and executed without IDF detection.
Hamas breached the border with Israel in fifteen different places. Surely one of the incursions would have triggered an immediate and automatic response.
Border patrols say that they attempted to report the attack up the chain of command but their calls were not answered.
Israeli fighter pilots tweeted that they had engaged Hamas fighters yet people on the ground saw no evidence of this anywhere in the skies.
For months a former Israeli general had been warning the government that defensive forces at the border were inadequate. His warnings went unheeded and he was shadow-banned by Israeli media.
If their intention was to leverage the release of Hamas prisoners, it would make far more sense to capture Israeli citizens, not kill them too. What was the real intent of such acts if not to instigate a devastating response from Israel?
The overarching theme of this discussion is how the oversimplified version of the story points to the very real possibility that the IDF was fully aware that Hamas was planning this incursion into Israeli territory and let it happen to justify a shock and awe campaign against their strongholds in Palestine as well as bigger targets on the world stage.
Does this sound vaguely familiar to you?
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