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Democracy Now | FEBRUARY 07, 2024
..as the Palestinian fighters made their way across these various Israeli communities and overtook the Gaza Division and took many, many military personnel prisoner and brought them back to Gaza, was the Israeli government engage in sustained counteraction, including with Apache attack helicopters, with drones. When the military did finally arrive in some of these communities — and, mind you, it was hours and hours before any official Israeli security forces were responding to some of these civilian areas — they engaged in widespread firefights. At Kibbutz Be’eri, we know that eyewitnesses have said that Israel forces shelled a house, likely killing at least a dozen Israelis who were being held captive by Palestinian fighters. And so, the Israeli government then was reeling from the shock of having these crucial military bases overrun, communities being flooded with Palestinian fighters.
And within hours of these attacks happening, the Netanyahu government began to craft a very deliberate propaganda campaign to sell the United States, other Western leaders and the global public on a scorched-earth war of annihilation against Gaza. And this campaign kicked into such high gear immediately. And what they did, what was central to this, is that the Israelis began showing President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, the heads of state of NATO countries and other Western nations images and videos that they then proceeded to tell an unverified story about what they depicted. And the characterization from Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was that this was the greatest act of violence against Jewish people since the Holocaust, that the tactics that Hamas used included rape, beheading of babies, mutilation of bodies, torture of families, the bounding of children in groups, including in a nursery in one of the kibbutzes, and then engaging in mass execution of small children, setting children on fire. And President Biden, Secretary Blinken and many Western leaders then started to repeat these claims.
A new al-Jazeera documentary finally offers the most definitive story of that fateful day – and I talk through the shocking claims of real atrocities and false claims with journalist Richard Sanders.
Watch the documentary here: https://i-unit.io/October7
MARCH 8, 2024
US Media and Factcheckers Fail to Note Israel’s Refutation of ‘Beheaded Babies’ Stories
DAVID KNOX
In late November, the Washington Post(11/22/23) factchecked President Joe Biden’s repeated claims that babies had been beheaded during Hamas’s October 7 attack in Israel.
Biden’s remarks during a November 15 news conference triggered the factcheck:
Hamas has already said publicly that they plan on attacking Israel again, like they did before, to where they were cutting babies’ heads off to burning women and children alive.
Despite acknowledging a lack of confirmation of such atrocities, the Post stopped short of branding Biden’s statements false, and declined to dole out any of its iconic Pinocchios.
“It’s too soon in the Israel/Gaza war to make a definitive assessment,” Post Factchecker Glenn Kessler wrote, noting that even the most basic facts weren’t yet known.
“The Israeli prime minister’s office has said about 1,200 people were killed on October 7, down from an initial estimate of 1,400,” he said, “but it’s unclear how many were civilians or soldiers.”
An authoritative count
That statement isn’t true. While the exact number killed amid the extreme violence and chaos of October 7 may never be finalized, an authoritative count of civilian deaths—as well as data that definitively refutes claims babies were beheaded—was available to anyone with access to the internet little more than a month after the attack.
New Israeli report alleging ‘systematic and intentional rape’ by Hamas relies on debunked Western media reports
MAX BLUMENTHAL·FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The contents of the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Center’s paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports. Among its most heavily cited sources is a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.
Israel and its friends have struggled to bring credibility to allegations of systematic rape by Hamas members on October 7th – once again, a testimony falls apart.
bAdam Rasgon and
New video has surfaced that undercuts the account of an Israeli military paramedic who said two teenagers killed in the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7 were sexually assaulted.
The unnamed paramedic, from an Israeli commando unit, was among dozens of people interviewed for a Dec. 28 article by The New York Times that examined sexual violence on Oct. 7. He said he discovered the bodies of two partially clothed teenage girls in a home in Kibbutz Be’eri that bore signs of sexual violence.
[NOTE: assertions in the Times article have been debunked on multiple occasions – for example here, here, and here.]
CONFIRMED: Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to STAND DOWN for 7 HOURS during the Hamas invasion.
I sat down with Jewish Charity leader, Cecily Routman, who received intel directly from her Israeli Rabbi and other top level government sources.
While I do not agree with equating the Palestinians to “rabid dogs”, I understand why Israel wanted Gaza completely wiped from the face of the earth- they only needed a reason to do so, or else the UN would have intervened due to the war crimes and genocide.
It wouldn’t be the first time a nation’s leaders sacrificed their own citizens to start a war.
Maybe it really is Israel’s 9/11.
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Cecily Routman: “Israel as the most sophisticated intelligence in the world. There is no way the government didn’t know that that was going to happen.”
Routman explained that Rabbi Chananya Weissman “sent out a missive that, indeed, the IDF was given stand down orders – both the army and the air force – seven hours to stand down while those attacks took place. And this allowed the terrorists to come in and begin slaughtering and torturing the citizens,” she said.
CONFIRMED: Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to STAND DOWN for 7 HOURS during the Hamas invasion.
I sat down with Jewish Charity leader, Cecily Routman, who received intel directly from her Israeli Rabbi and other top level government sources.
While I do not agree with… pic.twitter.com/2liNmdJ7fZ
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) October 15, 2023
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US Officials Expect Israel to Launch Ground Invasion of Lebanon
February 29, 2024
US officials believe that Israel is planning to launch a ground invasion into Lebanon in late spring or early summer if a diplomatic solution is not reached, CNN reported on Thursday. …
US officials have acknowledged that a war in Lebanon would benefit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is expected to face a political reckoning for allowing the October 7 attack to happen once Israeli operations in Gaza are over.
“Once the war is over, his expiration date arrives,” an administration official said. “So he needs to maintain the impression, maintain the narrative that Israel is still in the middle of a campaign, to try to stave off efforts to remove him.”
On Friday December 1st 2023 The New York Times reported that “Israel knew” of the Hamas attack 1 year in advance suggesting that Israeli intelligence allowed this attack to happen in order to justify their “retaliation” at the Gaza Strip.
by Dave DeCamp
The majority of Israelis believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wartime decision-making is primarily motivated by his own personal interest, according to a survey conducted by Israel’s Channel 13.
The survey found that 53% of respondents believed Netanyahu was acting for himself, and only 33% said he was acting for the good of the country.
The Channel 13 survey found that if elections were held in Israel today, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity party would win more seats in the Knesset than any other party, with Netanyahu’s Likud party coming in second. Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, would then be tasked to form a government, and Netanyahu would be ousted as prime minister.
Other polling has shown the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign once the brutal Israeli campaign in Gaza is over, giving him the incentive to continue the assault and provoke a wider regional war that could bring in the US. …
US officials recently told The Washington Post that they fear Netanyahu might view a full-blown war in Lebanon as key to his political survival. US officials have said they’re putting pressure on Netanyahu not to provoke a major regional war, but the escalations have continued, and the US still continues to provide Israel with unconditional military aid.
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate address new revelations in mainstream Israeli media of widespread friendly fire orders on October 7 which led to the killing of many Israeli noncombatants inside the so-called Gaza envelope.
Hannibal Car Lot:
Vehicles stacked up near the southern Israeli town of Netivot, near Gaza, in November. They were destroyed soon after Palestinian fighters began taking captives on 7 October. A new investigation by Israeli journalists has concluded that 70 such vehicles were blown up by Israeli fire. UPI
The military “instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive… “some 70 vehicles” driven by Palestinian fighters returning to Gaza were blown up by Israeli helicopter gunships, drones or tanks. Many of these vehicles contained Israeli captives. …
Survivors of Nova Music Festival Sue Israeli Security Establishment for Failing to Protect Them
Israeli officials had information about a possible Hamas attack the night before October 7 but didn’t say anything to the festival organizers