Well, I had planned a different topic for my next article, but then:
so I thought a few words might be appropriate. I don’t intend to give a complete timeline or thorough account of the conflict, as others have already done that quite well, however there are certain ‘inflection points’ that have caused significant public outrage on the Palestinian or Israeli side, that are not quite as straightforward as they may at first appear, and hint at unseen influences. First, a brief overview.
On Thursday October 7th, 2023, the 50-year anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in which Israel defeated the combined militaries of several regional neighbours, the Palestinian resistance forces, “Hamas” launched a significant attack named “Al-Aqsa Flood” from the Gaza strip against the Israeli military, the IDF, firing over 5000 rockets into Israel, overwhelming the border guards and opening a significant corridor into Israeli-controlled territory, through which armed Palestinian militants poured.
Initial reports of the conflict discharged via social media presented textual, photographic and video testimony of the sort of free-for-all slaughter that one might expect from two bitter, long-standing opponents, especially when one of them had been on the losing side for some time and was suddenly presented an opportunity for a tactical victory. With the advantage of surprise, Hamas rapidly gained territory, took control of a number of Israeli towns, and inflicted more Israeli military casualties in a few days than in the last decade combined.
It could be said that compared to the losses suffered by their fighters, the damage done to Israel’s military mythos as an ‘invincible’, ultra-modern regional power was even worse. Hamas, with extremely limited resources (compared to the IDF), prepared some creative and complex tactics using drones, paragliders, and rapid assault forces that were devastatingly effective.
Currently, the Israeli government’s official story is that the effectiveness of Hamas’ tactics were due to an intelligence failure that allowed the IDF to be taken by surprise. Numerous commentators have pointed out several major plot holes in this story, primarily:
Israel has a reputation worldwide for having some of the keenest and most active domestic and foreign intelligence organisations (IDF military intelligence, Shin Bet, and Mossad), with significant infiltration into Palestinian militant groups. The Israelis even have a name for their network of informants: sayanim.
Israel has significant expertise in cyber-security and surveillance technologies; they are considered one of the world leaders in this industry, and Information Technology comprises a significant portion of their export industry.
The Gaza border is considered to be one of the most heavily surveilled and controlled areas on Earth, with both above and below ground fences, watchtowers, cameras, automated movement detection sensors, ‘no-go’ lethal force deterrence capability, and backed up with satellite surveillance.
Such an intelligence failure is unprecedented in Israel’s history, at a time when its capabilities have never been greater.
Although some have drawn attention to possible political infighting regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption scandals as a contributor to the alleged intelligence failure, this situation can also be considered an incentive for both of the two main scenarios that explain the unfolding of events in a more plausible way, popularly abbreviated by the acronyms MIHOP and LIHOP.
Made It Happen On Purpose (MIHOP)
This scenario posits that Israel, or a secret faction within Israel, actually masterminded the entire attack, through control of Hamas, who acted as their proxy force. The most common item of evidence used to support this scenario is the admission by various Israeli officials that they ‘created’ Hamas as a controlled opposition group to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) led by the influential and beloved Yasser Arafat.
The primary difference between the PLO and Hamas is their political ideology. After some initial skirmishes, the PLO advocated a moderate, non-violent approach and diplomatic resolution to the Israeli-Palestine situation, whereas Hamas, founded in 1987 by Sunni Islam spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, did not exclude violence as a means of attaining Palestinian political goals.
Non-violent approaches to political goals have always proved more ‘problematic’ for autocratic or opponent powers, some classic examples being Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. Thus, it’s quite likely that Hamas would have been the preferred target for influence and manipulation by the Israeli government’s intelligence services. To what extent they encouraged and funded Hamas’ ascendancy and infiltrated its ranks is beyond the scope of this article, but I will say that I consider Israel’s over-the-top assassination of Sheikh Yassin in 2004 - the killing of a quadriplegic priest with a helicopter gunship - as evidence that Israeli influence over Hamas was gained ‘in stages’, suggesting that Hamas in its current form is likely a secondary ponerogenic union1.
Much of the rest of the arguments for the MIHOP hypothesis can actually be equally applied to the LIHOP hypothesis, to which our attention will now turn.
Let It Happen On Purpose (LIHOP)
This scenario posits that Israel, or a secret faction within Israel, withheld known intelligence about the forthcoming attack in order to increase the attack’s effectiveness, and even issued ‘stand down’ orders and used its influence within Hamas to direct the attack towards certain times and places. With statements by Egypt that they warned Israel three days in advance that Hamas was planning “something big”, and confirmation by the United States that they were aware of Egypt’s warnings to Israel, the probability of an “intelligence failure” decreases to near-zero, and provides significant evidence for the LIHOP hypothesis.
Such a scenario could overlap with Netanyahu’s domestic political goals (the public usually rallies around the leader during a national crisis) and explains how Israel could supposedly be ‘caught off guard’, while also providing a plausible explanation for certain of Hamas’ tactics such as the killing and kidnapping of civilians and the brutality of certain massacres that otherwise undermined their cause.
Some of these actions by Hamas ignited fierce debate over whether or not it is justifiable to ‘fight fire with fire’ in the face of a history of overwhelming IDF violence and cruelty against innocent Palestinian civilians. There is little doubt that there would have been a significant degree of bloodlust among some factions of Hamas’ fighters, and indiscriminate bloodshed is indeed reprehensible and deserves condemnation. However, when we examine the details of the big ‘inflection point’ incidents of barbaric brutality, these situations are revealed as not quite as clear as an immediate black-and-white moral condemnation might assume. The first of these was the ‘Israeli Rave Massacre’.
The Israeli Rave Massacre
In a very unfortunate coincidence of events, an outdoor rave party was held on the same day that Hamas launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation. Although the event was held only a few kilometres from the Gaza border and was within striking range of Hamas’ rockets, organisers approved the location of the party - initially to be held elsewhere, some distance from Gaza - only two days before the event:
Universo Paralello was not [originally] intended to take place at the Re’im site, with organizers moving it to this location only two days before it started, when another site in southern Israel fell through.
Posted on Twitter/X was a transcript of an audio recording of the testimony of a survivor of the massacre:
We drove towards the main road, where we saw many cars standing in what looked like a traffic jam, at the end there were policemen and soldiers forming a roadblock and blocking the road.
This was not a police checkpoint, these were terrorists impersonators.
They waited until there were a lot of people standing in traffic then pulled out a machine-gun and started spraying the cars with bullets, at least 300 dead.
So a ‘surprise attack’ by Hamas was well-informed enough to set up fake roadblocks - complete with fake police/IDF uniforms - wait for the appropriate moment to cause the greatest number of casualties, and then cold-bloodedly murder a huge group of civilians despite the location of the festival being organised just two days before?
The only logical conclusion here is that whoever massacred these people had access to quickly changing information, most likely from the Israeli government.
Shani Louk Is Still Alive
Not long after the news of the rave massacre story broke, pictures began to circulate of a 22-year-old German tourist named Shani Louk, who was allegedly, “raped and murdered” by Hamas, causing scenes like the below:
Yet, only a few days later, it was discovered that Louk was very much alive, and had been taken to a hospital in Gaza, presumably by the men in the photograph. Although we have yet to hear any testimony from her directly, this again points to conflicting motivations and intentions from the various factions within Hamas. It could be that she escaped the main assailants at the rave massacre like other eyewitnesses, yet was injured and discovered by a different group later on.
The way her story was echoed around the mainstream media with little fact-checking hints that in the push for propaganda seen thus far, very little of it has been pre-prepared (eg. seemingly prescient stories that contain information from ‘unnamed intelligence sources’), and suggests a tightly-controlled, highly secretive and compartmentalised operation, that even ‘favoured’ contacts in the media were given no details about in advance. This would be consistent with a LIHOP scenario that could become extremely damaging for the Israeli government if it became publicly known.
The Al-Ahli Hospital Bombing
Minutes after the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza was bombed, resulting in at least 400 civilian deaths, an Israeli official posted the following on Twitter/X:
The tweet/Xweet was deleted only a few minutes later, and the IDF denied any involvement and blamed the bombing on a misfired rocket launch by Hamas. Amidst global outrage at such a blatant lie, further underlined by the fact that the IDF actually warned the hospital before the blast, the IDF then produced a suspect voice recording of two alleged ‘Hamas militants’ discussing the bombing, despite the extraordinary “intelligence failure” only days beforehand. Analysts have since pointed to numerous aspects of the recording that appear to show it was fabricated, and world credulity towards Israel plummeted to new lows, to the point that some mainstream media outlets appear to be actively refuting Israel’s story.
Yet, the United States intelligence community announced via the Washington Post that Israel is “not responsible”, despite the evidence overwhelmingly pointing towards Israel as the culprit.
By Way of Deception
The picture that seems to be emerging from this evidence, and much more besides, is that there is a certain faction within the Israeli government, intelligence and military command structures that is utterly psychopathic; they are willing to do or say anything in order to get their way. Murdering their own citizens, fabricating outrageous propaganda, bombing hospitals; it’s all in a day’s work for those that exercise unshakeable control over the current Israeli regime.
What’s more, they seem to have reached a point where they are no longer that concerned about their goals for genocide and ethnic cleansing being exposed.
An Israeli army officer says live on CNN:
”The war is not just with Hamas but with all the civilians."
Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant says:
“Fifteen years ago, as Head of the Southern Command, I came close to 'breaking the neck' [destroying] of Hamas. I was stopped by the political echelon. This phenomenon will not continue. We will change reality on the ground in Gaza for the next 50 years. What was before, will be no more. We will operate at full force.”
In a separate statement regarding actions to be taken upon Gaza, Gallant says:
“No food, No electricity, No fuel, No water. We’re fighting human animals.”
And in January of 2023, Israel’s prime minister said:
“These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlement in all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria."
Then, there is this gem of a rant by a Likud party politician being interviewed on Russia Today:
“Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel! Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us, and Russia will pay the price! Russia also! [..]
We’re going to win this war. Afterwards, we’re not forgetting what you are doing, we’re not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure that Ukraine wins, we will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done. You, and Russia, and you and all of the enemies of Israel and you and all the people who are now making everything they can to support genocide of the Jews in Israel. We are not forgetting, we’re not forgetting, remember exactly what I’m saying now: you will pay the price!
I’m sure I don’t need to point out to even a casual observer of world events just how unhinged that rant is.
It appears that Israel’s deceptions are failing. The rest of the world is treating them with an increasingly skeptical attitude, and the ‘special treatment’ Israel has become accustomed to, mostly as a result of the Holocaust, is dissipating like fog under the morning sun. People around the world are seeing that there’s now very little difference between the behaviour of the Nazis towards European Jews and Israeli government behaviour towards Palestinians, and no amount of lies can prevent that.
Yet, the situation did not develop in a vacuum. Without the influence of psychopathic individuals, Israel could never have become the monstrous, barbaric state it is today perceived as. And thus, if any hope remains for Israel, Jews, and the Jewish religion, it is with the quarantine of psychopathic individuals from positions of power. Given the current fanatical, ideological, or at the very least hysterical, perspective of most Israelis today though, the chances of this happening are vanishingly small.
So, with virtually no hope of internal, self-chosen reform, we are left with the “Berlin” scenario, in which Israel will be forced to reform by having its pathological leadership pulled out by the roots. The only caveat is that last time this scenario occurred, the dying regime didn’t have access to nuclear weapons, of which it is estimated that Israel has somewhere between 100-200.
Yet, Israel’s “Samson option” might not be quite the scenario of last resort that it envisages in this new era of hypersonic weapons, advanced electronic warfare and next-generation air defence systems. The combined resources of Eurasia are likely to meet any threat to ongoing human civilisation and progress with some interesting surprises. Ultimately, the psychopath’s blind, sadistic, mindless destruction is always trumped by human creativity, community and love.
For those of us who must witness the madness and joy of the present time, a time of epochal human change, it remains only to do as much as we can, as well as we can, and then to, “wait and see!”
In the meantime, be well, dear reader, wherever you are!
R.
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See Lobaczewski A., Political Ponerology, pp. 161-167 (Otto, North Carolina: Red Pill Press, 2022 ed.) for the differences between primary and secondary ponerogenic unions.
Très instructif, j'ai partagé sur mes réseaux sociaux... Merci