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Debunking The Conspiracy Theory That Netanyahu Wanted Last Weekend’s Attacks To Happen

BY ANDREW KORYBKO | OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hamas’ sneak attack on Israel over the weekend prompted speculation among some on social media that the latter knew about these plans in advance but allegedly had an interest in letting them happen. According to proponents of this conspiracy theory, embattled Prime Minister Netanyahu wanted to unite his politically divided people and/or establish the pretext for destroying Hamas, ergo why he supposedly let these attacks unfold. That doesn’t make much sense though if one really thinks about it.

It’s fashionable nowadays to claim that leaders sometimes provoke foreign conflicts to distract from domestic political problems, but that’s arguably not the case with the latest Israeli-Hamas war. In fact, Netanyahu was pursuing the exact opposite approach up until last weekend as suggested by credible reports over the months that he was engaged in secret talks with Saudi Arabia over recognizing Israel. This was aimed at uniting Israelis around him and unlocking their country’s geo-economic potential.

Had these efforts borne fruit, then not only would his fiercest opponents have been forced to praise him for this diplomatic achievement, but Israel could then have profited from its central role in the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) that was unveiled last month. Both goals required Saudi recognition of Israel, which Netanyahu hoped to obtain without recognizing Palestine’s independence, but that’s now in doubt since Riyadh might freeze these talks after Israel’s bombing of Gaza.

Those who claim that he knew about Hamas’ plans in advance but still let them happen are either unaware of his secret talks with Saudi Arabia, downplay their grand strategic importance, or think that they were all a ruse in preparation of this convoluted plot to establish the pretext for destroying Hamas. About that dimension of their conspiracy theory, it’s difficult to imagine that security-obsessed Netanyahu would let his country’s enemies inflict such unprecedented damage to Israel for that purpose.

He could always have simply exploited comparatively minor rocket fire to justify a disproportionate bombing campaign against that group without having to first lose literally hundreds of civilians and soldiers. Hamas’ breaching of the border barrier was also a strong blow to the Israeli psyche from which its people might never recover after having assumed that its construction would forever protect them. The same goes for that group doubling the territory under its control during the climax of its attacks.

Observers can still be opposed to the border barrier in particular, Israeli policy towards Palestine in general, and Netanyahu personally while also acknowledging that he’s such a security-obsessed leader that it doesn’t make sense to claim that he’d let Hamas powerfully undermine all three for any reason. He looks extremely weak after what happened, Israeli policy towards Palestine is now questioned from both sides like never before, and the border barrier is no longer deemed to be a credible defense.

These three outcomes represent the sum of Netanyahu’s worst nightmares, not to mention the likely failure of his plans to obtain Saudi recognition of Israel that would in turn unlock his country’s geo-economic potential via IMEC, all of which indisputably contradict Israeli interests. It remains unclear exactly how all of Israel’s security systems failed at the same time during last weekend’s attacks, nor has anyone explained the intelligence failures up until then either, but that’s indeed what happened.

The conspiracy theory speculating that Netanyahu knew about all this in advance but still let it happen doesn’t stand up to scrutiny as proven in this piece and is pretty much only predicated on the false perception that Israel’s intelligence services are omnipotent. They’re run by humans though and are therefore naturally imperfect, yet those who claim otherwise impart godlike power to the Mossad. This gives Israel too much credit while denying Hamas’ independent ability to organize attacks of this scale.

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  1. The “false flags” aspects of “Hamas” breach of Israeli security and alleged intelligence failures make necessary such an opinion piece as this.

    Past little rock-ettes that did little damage were leveraged into a ‘free pass’ for Israel to bring down the heavy on Palestine. This larger attack is sufficient to garner pathos in support of even heavier retaliation.

    Whose weapons were used by Hamas?

    What did Mossad know in advance of the acquisition of the weapons?

    How can we discount the motives of Netanyahu and his cohorts who make war by way of deception? There are so many examples of such guile that it strains credulity to make the claim that Israel was taken by surprise.

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    rediscover911com's avatar Comment by rediscover911com | October 9, 2023 | Reply

  2. The bullshit piled on in this report covers up the fact that Israel has one of the best communications intercept capabilities in the world. There is no possible way cell phone, pc, and landline communications between Hamas planners and field cadre were missed. A retired NSA agent with 30 years experience, who designed the NSA’s metadata capture technology known as Thin Thread prior to 911. But NSA scrapped it for the more expensive system Trail Blazer. After 911 Binney went to the Inspector General and asked for an investigation into NSA’s failure to uncover the 911 plot. Binney charged the NSA with covering up the intercepts they had which could have prevented the 911 attack.

    President Netanyahu, like President Bush on 911, has also denied prior knowledge of the Palestinian uprising orchestrated by Hamas on 10-7 that left no doubts on the minds of people like Binney or myself, that Israeli intelligence had access to intercepts prior to the attack.
    But the war now raging in Israel must be put in the context of the global strategic situation that is changing daily.
    The world is divided into two competing systems. One is represented by the unipolar world view that says there is but one hegemon in the world with a rules based order that all other nations must conform to. And while they might compete among each other in a zero sum game of winners and losers, they must obey the rules based order dictated by the US/UK/NATO axis.

    The other arrangement that has emerged since 2013, that has the globalists panicked, is the one the BRICS+ nations represent. Because of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s stand against NATO, which nations in the global south view as an oppressor. Emboldened by Russia and China, they are standing up to IMF looting. To them, the BRICS+ represent a wayout from the past. A chance to build a better future for the people their nations. They want to shed their colonial pasts and the unipolar world order with it, to embrace a multi-polar world order in which diversity, equality and a shared future become the new normal. This development has freaked out the London and Wall Street financial community. They have watched as Saudi Arabia reconciled with Iran, mediated by China. China’s influence has broadened in the world because it is seen by everyone but NATO members as representative of peace and development, while the US and UK are viewed as enforcers of war and colonialism.
    How the British oligarchy and its American Jr partner respond can be summed up in two words. Geopolitical Escalation to the point whereby crisis management allows the elites to ram through measures they could not rely on legislative bodies to pass.
    The players in Israel are being played by London in order to escalate the crisis that could easily spread to the rest of the gulf region to prevent China’s Belt and Road from gaining momentum. The British are especially concerned of losing its grip on the Gulf States since Saudi Arabia and Iran reconciled and agreed to join the BRICS in January together with Egypt and the UAE.

    If people can’t figure this out on their own it’s not because they aren’t capable. All they have to do is widen their epistemology to love for mankind and look at history from that standpoint. They will learn that mankind through the ages has been divided into two camps. One that is run by City Builders. And the other by Empire. What we are witnessing in the world today is the breaking apart of a global Empire that was formed in 1760 with the convergence of the British and Dutch empires into what became the British Empire. The Revolution that was won by the Americans and then again in the war of 1812, forced the British to take another tact if it was ever going to reconquer its former American colonies. Britain finally succeeded 200 years later with the help of a treasonous action in 1963 to eliminate JFK. But they still haven’t been able to win over all the people. While millions have become underlings of Empire, there are still a percentage of citizens who, if they stand up and take responsibility for their nation’s future, can make a difference. Not by pessimism, but by taking action to change the destructive behavior of their friends and neighbors. Organizing to put the world on a new trajectory that brings peace to the world through development.

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    Thomas Lee Simpson's avatar Comment by Thomas Lee Simpson | October 9, 2023 | Reply

  3. I dont concur with this writer dismissing the notion that he calls conspiracy theory on social media that Netanyahu allowed the Hamas attack to happen which is what I think is what happened as there is no way Israel ‘ top surveillance apparatus did not pick up on this ‘invasion’ or that their state of the Art Iron dome did not function to protect them from the thousands of Missiles
    I get the sense that this writer is trying to protect Netanyahu and pretend it was all unexpected!!! Israel and Netanyahu got what they have been drooling for- a final catastrophic solution to Gaza and its Resistance
    And I am so sick of people dredging up the story about Israel creating Hamas implying they are still working with Israel which is ludicrous as many of them like I said before were assassinated or killed along with their families whose homes Israel bombed in entire apartment buildings
    Israel having secret talks and agreements with Gulf Arab Traitor States us irrelevant here

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    Maisoon's avatar Comment by Maisoon | October 9, 2023 | Reply

  4. I guess we’re supposed to believe that Israel and Netanyahu ignored the warnings put out by their own counter-terrorism expert Yigal Carmon, who in his more recent life was a counter-terrorism adviser to prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin. In his more distant life, Colonel Yigal Carmon was a servant in the Israeli Military Intelligence Service at Aman from 1968 to 1988.

    On August 31 Carmon published a report entitled “Signs of Possible War September – October” in the infamous MEMRI outlet that he himself founded along with Meyrav Wurmser, wife of David Wurmser.

    “A little over a month ago the former counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli Prime Ministers authored a prescient essay, outlining an invasion of the Hamas terrorist movement into Israel.

    The counter-terrorism adviser, Yigal Carmon, the founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), wrote on August 31 the “Signs Of Possible War In September-October.”

    Carmon noted “There has also been an increase in efforts by Iran and Hezbollah to smuggle weapons into the West Bank, similar to the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.”

    https://archive.ph/3QBzQ

    The MEMRI article entitled “Signs Of Possible War In September-October” that Yigal Carmon wrote at the end of August is here:

    https://www.memri.org/reports/signs-possible-war-september-october

    On the day the actual hostilities began, MEMRI published an article entitled “MEMRI’s Early Warning About Today’s Attack In Israel” reemphasizing what their earlier article had said. That article can be found here:

    https://www.memri.org/reports/memris-early-warning-about-todays-attack-israel

    MEMRI’s history as a pure Zionist propaganda outlet that “translates” things intentionally incorrectly (to induce responses and produce outcomes) is pretty well known, but I will include a few links here.

    Brian Whitaker wrote an article for The Guardian all the way back in 2002 – soon after the September 11, 2001 event – which Yigal Carmon responded to and an email exchange between the two was then produced:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/28/israel2

    Juan Cole has covered MEMRI well. There is a lot of information about MEMRI available for those who care to look. This SourceWatch page is filled with information and more links:

    https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

    Returning to Yigal Carmon, one of his closest associates over the years has been Steve Emerson, the “pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism” who rates with Pamela Gellar in his anti-Muslimness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Emerson

    Media Monitors Network did an excellent piece on Emerson back in spring of 2007, where they revealed that Emerson has

    “close ties to the Israeli Mossad according to The Jerusalem Post (9/17/1994).

    Emerson has yet to disclose key facts regarding his activities, including his source of funding. While he criticizes Muslim-American organizations that disclose their operating and financial details, Emerson shrouds his own in guarded secrecy.

    Vince Cannistraro, a former Chief of Operations and Analysis at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center said of Emerson’s closest associates Steve Pomerantz, Oliver Revell and Yigal Carmon: ‘They’re Israeli-funded. How do I know that? Because they tried to recruit me.’

    Of Emerson himself, Cannistraro says, ‘word has got around on what he (Emerson) is, that he’s a paid polemicist, not a journalist’ (Weekly Planet, May 1998); he characterizes him as ‘dishonest’ and ‘Joseph McCarthy-like’ (The Forward, 1/26/96).

    https://archive.ph/BGCBE#selection-923.1-931.246

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    dan's avatar Comment by dan | October 9, 2023 | Reply


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