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- ‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza
[email protected] December 3, 2024 atrocity story, Gaza health care system, israeli airstrike, Palestinian doctors
Dr. Soma Baroud, a medical doctor and sister of the author, was killed by Israeli bombs in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on or about October 9, 2024. ((Photo: Supplied by Palestine Chronicle))
Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s powerfully touching story of his older sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended when Israel bombed the taxi she was in: “For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief…” Israel has killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors, in the past year.
by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Reposted from The Palestine Chronicle
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.”
These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters.
Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9, 2024 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
I am still unable to understand whether she was on her way to the hospital, where she worked, or leaving the hospital to go home. Does it even matter?
The news of her murder – or, more accurately assassination, as Israel has deliberately targeted and killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors – arrived through a screenshot copied from a Facebook page.
“Update: these are the names of the martyrs of the latest Israeli bombing of two taxis in the Khan Younis area ..,” the post read.
It was followed by a list of names. “Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud” was the fifth name on the list, and the 42,010th on Gaza’s ever-growing list of martyrs.
I refused to believe the news, even when more posts began popping up everywhere on social media, listing her as number five, and sometimes six in the list of martyrs of the Khan Yunis strike.
I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice would say, “Marhaba Abu Sammy. How are you, brother?” But she never picked up.
I had told her repeatedly that she does not need to bother with elaborate text or audio messages due to the unreliable internet connection and electricity. “Every morning,” I said, “just type: ‘we are fine’.” That’s all I asked of her.
But she would skip several days without writing, often due to the lack of an internet connection. Then, a message would arrive, though never brief. She wrote with a torrent of thoughts, linking up her daily struggle to survive, to her fears for her children, to poetry, to a Qur’anic verse, to one of her favorite novels, and so on.
“You know, what you said last time reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” she said on more than one occasion, before she would take the conversation into the most complex philosophical spins. I would listen, and just repeat, “Yes .. totally .. I agree .. one hundred percent.”
For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief. Her children, though grown up, felt orphaned. But her brothers, me included, felt the same way.
I wrote about Soma as a central character in my book “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter”, because she was indeed central to our lives, and to our very survival in a Gaza refugee camp.
The first born, and only daughter, she had to carry a much greater share of work and expectations than the rest of us.
She was just a child, when my eldest brother Anwar, still a toddler, died in a UNRWA clinic at the Nuseirat refugee camp due to the lack of medicine. Then, she was introduced to pain, the kind of pain that with time turned into a permanent state of grief that would never abandon her until her murder by a US-supplied Israeli bomb in Khan Younis.
Two years after the death of the first Anwar, another boy was born. They also called him Anwar, so that the legacy of the first boy may carry on. Soma cherished the newcomer, maintaining a special friendship with him for decades to come.
My father began his life as a child laborer, then a fighter in the Palestine Liberation Army, then a police officer during the Egyptian administration of Gaza, then, once again a laborer; that’s because he refused to join the Israeli-funded Gaza police force after the war of 1967, known as the Naksa.
A clever, principled man, and a self-taught intellectual, my Dad did everything he could to provide a measure of dignity for his small family; and Soma, a child, often barefoot, stood by him every step of the way.
When he decided to become a merchant, as in buying discarded and odd items in Israel and repackaging them to sell in the refugee camp, Soma was his main helper. Though her skin healed, cuts on her fingers, due to individually wrapping thousands of razors, remained a testament to the difficult life she lived.
“Soma’s little finger is worth more than a thousand men,” my father would often repeat, to remind us, ultimately five boys, that our sister will always be the main heroine in the family’s story. Now that she is a martyr, that legacy has been secured for eternity.
Years later, my parents would send her to Aleppo to obtain a medical degree. She returned to Gaza, where she spent over three decades healing the pain of others, though never her own.
She worked at Al-Shifa Hospital, at Nasser Hospital among other medical centers. Later, she obtained another certificate in family medicine, opening a clinic of her own. She did not charge the poor, and did all she could to heal those victimized by war.
Soma was a member of a generation of female doctors in Gaza that truly changed the face of medicine, collectively putting great emphasis on the rights of women to medical care and expanding the understanding of family medicine to include psychological trauma with particular emphasis on the centrality, but also the vulnerability of women in a war-torn society.
When my daughter Zarefah managed to visit her in Gaza shortly before the war, she told me that “when aunt Soma walked into the hospital, an entourage of women – doctors, nurses, and other medical staff – would surround her in total adoration.”
At one point, it felt that all of Soma’s suffering was finally paying off: a nice family home in Khan Younis, with a small olive orchard, and a few palm trees; a loving husband, himself a professor of law, and eventually the dean of law school at a reputable Gaza university; three daughters and two sons, whose educational specialties ranged from dentistry to pharmacy, to law to engineering.
Life, even under siege, at least for Soma and her family, seemed manageable. True, she was not allowed to leave the Strip for many years due to the blockade, and thus we were denied the chance to see her for years on end. True, she was tormented by loneliness and seclusion, thus her love affair and constant citation from García Márquez’s seminal novel. But at least her husband was not killed or went missing. Her beautiful house and clinic were still standing. And she was living and breathing, communicating her philosophical nuggets about life, death, memories and hope.
“If I could only find the remains of Hamdi, so that we can give him a proper burial,” she wrote to me last January, when the news circulated that her husband was executed by an Israeli quadcopter in Khan Yunis.
But since the body remained missing, she held on to some faint hope that he was still alive. Her boys, on the other hand, kept digging in the wreckage and debris of the area where Hamdi was shot, hoping to find him and to give him a proper burial. They would often be attacked by Israeli drones in the process of trying to unearth their father’s body. They would run away, and return with their shovels to carry on with the grim task.
To maximize their chances of survival, my sister’s family decided to split up between displacement camps and other family homes in southern Gaza.
This meant that Soma had to be in a constant state of moving, traveling, often long distances on foot, between towns, villages, and refugee camps, just to check on her children, following every incursion, and every massacre.
“I am exhausted,” she kept telling me. “All I want from life is for this war to end, for new cozy pajamas, my favorite book, and a comfortable bed.”
These simple and reasonable expectations looked like a mirage, especially when her home in the Qarara area, in Khan Younis, was demolished by the Israeli army last month.
“My heart aches. Everything is gone. Three decades of life, of memories, of achievement, all turned into rubble,” she wrote.
“This is not a story about stones and concrete. It is much bigger. It is a story that cannot be fully told, however long I wrote or spoke. Seven souls had lived here. We ate, drank, laughed, quarreled, and despite all the challenges of living in Gaza, we managed to carve out a happy life for our family,” she continued.
A few days before she was killed, she told me that she had been sleeping in a half-destroyed building belonging to her neighbors in Qarara. She sent me a photo taken by her son, as she sat on a makeshift chair, on which she also slept amidst the ruins. She looked tired, so very tired.
There was nothing I could say or do to convince her to leave. She insisted that she wanted to keep an eye on the rubble of what remained of her home. Her logic made no sense to me. I pleaded with her to leave. She ignored me, and instead kept sending me photos of what she had salvaged from the rubble, an old photo, a small olive tree, a birth certificate ..
My last message to her, hours before she was killed, was a promise that when the war is over, I will do everything in my power to compensate her for all of this. That the whole family would meet in Egypt, or Türkiye, and that we will shower her with gifts, and boundless family love. I finished with, “let’s start planning now. Whatever you want. You just say it. Awaiting your instructions…” She never saw the message.
Even when her name, as yet another casualty of the Israeli genocide in Gaza was mentioned in local Palestinian news, I refused to believe it. I continued to call. “Please pick up, Soma, please pick up,” I pleaded with her.
Only when a video emerged of white body bags arriving at Nasser Hospital in the back of an ambulance, I thought maybe my sister was indeed gone.
Some of the bags had the names of the others mentioned in the social media posts. Each bag was pulled out separately and placed on the ground. A group of mourners, bereaved men, women and children would rush to hug the body, screaming the same shouts of agony and despair that accompanied this ongoing genocide from the first day.
Then, another bag, with the name ‘Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud’ written across the thick white plastic. Her colleagues carried her body and gently laid it on the ground. They were about to zip the bag open to verify her identity. I looked the other way.
I refuse to see her but in the way that she wanted to be seen, a strong person, a manifestation of love, kindness and wisdom, whose “little finger is worth more than a thousand men.”
But why do I continue to check my messages with the hope that she will text me to tell me that the whole thing was a major, cruel misunderstanding and that she is okay?
My sister Soma was buried under a small mound of dirt, somewhere in Khan Yunis.
No more messages from her.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Find more of his works here.
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/my-sister-was-the-166th-doctor-to-be-murdered-in-gaza/‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza [email protected] December 3, 2024 atrocity story, Gaza health care system, israeli airstrike, Palestinian doctors Dr. Soma Baroud, a medical doctor and sister of the author, was killed by Israeli bombs in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on or about October 9, 2024. ((Photo: Supplied by Palestine Chronicle)) Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s powerfully touching story of his older sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, a trailblazing physician whose life ended when Israel bombed the taxi she was in: “For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief…” Israel has killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors, in the past year. by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Reposted from The Palestine Chronicle “Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children, who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a text message to one of her daughters. Dr. Soma Baroud was murdered on October 9, 2024 when Israeli warplanes bombed a taxi that carried her and other tired Gazans somewhere near the Bani Suhaila roundabout near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. I am still unable to understand whether she was on her way to the hospital, where she worked, or leaving the hospital to go home. Does it even matter? The news of her murder – or, more accurately assassination, as Israel has deliberately targeted and killed 986 medical workers, including 165 doctors – arrived through a screenshot copied from a Facebook page. “Update: these are the names of the martyrs of the latest Israeli bombing of two taxis in the Khan Younis area ..,” the post read. It was followed by a list of names. “Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud” was the fifth name on the list, and the 42,010th on Gaza’s ever-growing list of martyrs. I refused to believe the news, even when more posts began popping up everywhere on social media, listing her as number five, and sometimes six in the list of martyrs of the Khan Yunis strike. I kept calling her, over and over again, hoping that the line would crackle a bit, followed by a brief silence, and then her kind, motherly voice would say, “Marhaba Abu Sammy. How are you, brother?” But she never picked up. I had told her repeatedly that she does not need to bother with elaborate text or audio messages due to the unreliable internet connection and electricity. “Every morning,” I said, “just type: ‘we are fine’.” That’s all I asked of her. But she would skip several days without writing, often due to the lack of an internet connection. Then, a message would arrive, though never brief. She wrote with a torrent of thoughts, linking up her daily struggle to survive, to her fears for her children, to poetry, to a Qur’anic verse, to one of her favorite novels, and so on. “You know, what you said last time reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” she said on more than one occasion, before she would take the conversation into the most complex philosophical spins. I would listen, and just repeat, “Yes .. totally .. I agree .. one hundred percent.” For us, Soma was a larger-than-life figure. This is precisely why her sudden absence has shocked us to the point of disbelief. Her children, though grown up, felt orphaned. But her brothers, me included, felt the same way. I wrote about Soma as a central character in my book “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter”, because she was indeed central to our lives, and to our very survival in a Gaza refugee camp. The first born, and only daughter, she had to carry a much greater share of work and expectations than the rest of us. She was just a child, when my eldest brother Anwar, still a toddler, died in a UNRWA clinic at the Nuseirat refugee camp due to the lack of medicine. Then, she was introduced to pain, the kind of pain that with time turned into a permanent state of grief that would never abandon her until her murder by a US-supplied Israeli bomb in Khan Younis. Two years after the death of the first Anwar, another boy was born. They also called him Anwar, so that the legacy of the first boy may carry on. Soma cherished the newcomer, maintaining a special friendship with him for decades to come. My father began his life as a child laborer, then a fighter in the Palestine Liberation Army, then a police officer during the Egyptian administration of Gaza, then, once again a laborer; that’s because he refused to join the Israeli-funded Gaza police force after the war of 1967, known as the Naksa. A clever, principled man, and a self-taught intellectual, my Dad did everything he could to provide a measure of dignity for his small family; and Soma, a child, often barefoot, stood by him every step of the way. When he decided to become a merchant, as in buying discarded and odd items in Israel and repackaging them to sell in the refugee camp, Soma was his main helper. Though her skin healed, cuts on her fingers, due to individually wrapping thousands of razors, remained a testament to the difficult life she lived. “Soma’s little finger is worth more than a thousand men,” my father would often repeat, to remind us, ultimately five boys, that our sister will always be the main heroine in the family’s story. Now that she is a martyr, that legacy has been secured for eternity. Years later, my parents would send her to Aleppo to obtain a medical degree. She returned to Gaza, where she spent over three decades healing the pain of others, though never her own. She worked at Al-Shifa Hospital, at Nasser Hospital among other medical centers. Later, she obtained another certificate in family medicine, opening a clinic of her own. She did not charge the poor, and did all she could to heal those victimized by war. Soma was a member of a generation of female doctors in Gaza that truly changed the face of medicine, collectively putting great emphasis on the rights of women to medical care and expanding the understanding of family medicine to include psychological trauma with particular emphasis on the centrality, but also the vulnerability of women in a war-torn society. When my daughter Zarefah managed to visit her in Gaza shortly before the war, she told me that “when aunt Soma walked into the hospital, an entourage of women – doctors, nurses, and other medical staff – would surround her in total adoration.” At one point, it felt that all of Soma’s suffering was finally paying off: a nice family home in Khan Younis, with a small olive orchard, and a few palm trees; a loving husband, himself a professor of law, and eventually the dean of law school at a reputable Gaza university; three daughters and two sons, whose educational specialties ranged from dentistry to pharmacy, to law to engineering. Life, even under siege, at least for Soma and her family, seemed manageable. True, she was not allowed to leave the Strip for many years due to the blockade, and thus we were denied the chance to see her for years on end. True, she was tormented by loneliness and seclusion, thus her love affair and constant citation from García Márquez’s seminal novel. But at least her husband was not killed or went missing. Her beautiful house and clinic were still standing. And she was living and breathing, communicating her philosophical nuggets about life, death, memories and hope. “If I could only find the remains of Hamdi, so that we can give him a proper burial,” she wrote to me last January, when the news circulated that her husband was executed by an Israeli quadcopter in Khan Yunis. But since the body remained missing, she held on to some faint hope that he was still alive. Her boys, on the other hand, kept digging in the wreckage and debris of the area where Hamdi was shot, hoping to find him and to give him a proper burial. They would often be attacked by Israeli drones in the process of trying to unearth their father’s body. They would run away, and return with their shovels to carry on with the grim task. To maximize their chances of survival, my sister’s family decided to split up between displacement camps and other family homes in southern Gaza. This meant that Soma had to be in a constant state of moving, traveling, often long distances on foot, between towns, villages, and refugee camps, just to check on her children, following every incursion, and every massacre. “I am exhausted,” she kept telling me. “All I want from life is for this war to end, for new cozy pajamas, my favorite book, and a comfortable bed.” These simple and reasonable expectations looked like a mirage, especially when her home in the Qarara area, in Khan Younis, was demolished by the Israeli army last month. “My heart aches. Everything is gone. Three decades of life, of memories, of achievement, all turned into rubble,” she wrote. “This is not a story about stones and concrete. It is much bigger. It is a story that cannot be fully told, however long I wrote or spoke. Seven souls had lived here. We ate, drank, laughed, quarreled, and despite all the challenges of living in Gaza, we managed to carve out a happy life for our family,” she continued. A few days before she was killed, she told me that she had been sleeping in a half-destroyed building belonging to her neighbors in Qarara. She sent me a photo taken by her son, as she sat on a makeshift chair, on which she also slept amidst the ruins. She looked tired, so very tired. There was nothing I could say or do to convince her to leave. She insisted that she wanted to keep an eye on the rubble of what remained of her home. Her logic made no sense to me. I pleaded with her to leave. She ignored me, and instead kept sending me photos of what she had salvaged from the rubble, an old photo, a small olive tree, a birth certificate .. My last message to her, hours before she was killed, was a promise that when the war is over, I will do everything in my power to compensate her for all of this. That the whole family would meet in Egypt, or Türkiye, and that we will shower her with gifts, and boundless family love. I finished with, “let’s start planning now. Whatever you want. You just say it. Awaiting your instructions…” She never saw the message. Even when her name, as yet another casualty of the Israeli genocide in Gaza was mentioned in local Palestinian news, I refused to believe it. I continued to call. “Please pick up, Soma, please pick up,” I pleaded with her. Only when a video emerged of white body bags arriving at Nasser Hospital in the back of an ambulance, I thought maybe my sister was indeed gone. Some of the bags had the names of the others mentioned in the social media posts. Each bag was pulled out separately and placed on the ground. A group of mourners, bereaved men, women and children would rush to hug the body, screaming the same shouts of agony and despair that accompanied this ongoing genocide from the first day. Then, another bag, with the name ‘Soma Mohammed Mohammed Baroud’ written across the thick white plastic. Her colleagues carried her body and gently laid it on the ground. They were about to zip the bag open to verify her identity. I looked the other way. I refuse to see her but in the way that she wanted to be seen, a strong person, a manifestation of love, kindness and wisdom, whose “little finger is worth more than a thousand men.” But why do I continue to check my messages with the hope that she will text me to tell me that the whole thing was a major, cruel misunderstanding and that she is okay? My sister Soma was buried under a small mound of dirt, somewhere in Khan Yunis. No more messages from her. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Find more of his works here. 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The list of Trump’s Zionist Israeli Firsters racing to Armageddon in the Middle East keeps growing all week to fulfill the Masonic plot/prophecy of the Zionist vs. Islam World War III nightmare we are all now facing with Trump as the next US president. With some saying that Trump is the anti-Christ, I’m now starting to wonder.
Placing two hardcore Zionist neocon Jews Brian Hook and Howard Lutnick in charge of his admin transition team headhunting kosher Jew loyalists with input from Chabad son-in-law Jared Kushner should have clued us in where we’re fast headed, straight to an all-out Jewish State war against Islam. All week, almost every single cabinet member in Trump’s administration is a Zionist zealot in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself by eliminating by genocidal death every Palestinian from their ancient homeland.
Every one of these Israeli first, warmongering extremists that Trump has selected all point to Iran as America’s biggest enemy obstacle to protecting Israel, not America. These war lovers are clearly not lovers of America. Trump’s readymade war cabinet members are bloodthirsty doomsdayers placed in charge to ensure America is brought into World War III fighting yet another Greater Israel Project war where American soldiers will be bleeding on foreign soil in perhaps the bloodiest war in all of history.
All these men and women Trump is now surrounding himself with are doing the dirty bidding of Zionist Israel and its founder the Rothschild City of London banking cabal. Trump’s all-star cast to hell-on-earth began with hard-right, war loving, China hating, Jew loving Marco Rubio as soon-to-be boss in control shaping America’s foreign policy over the next four years. Right after October 7th last year, Rubio tweeted:
Israel has no choice but to seek the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza. There simply is no diplomatic solution or ‘measured response’ available. This tragically necessary effort will come at a horrifying price. But the price of failing to permanently eliminate this group of sadistic savages is even more horrifying.
Never mind that October 7th was another Israel inside job like 9/11. Rubio on a Fox radio show earlier this year actually likened the Israeli Zionist invasion in Rafah to the Western Allied Normandy invasion going after Hitler. You really think someone capable of contorting and twisting reality that much is capable of running America’s foreign policy without running amuck with more crafted US arrogance and unending bullshit grandstanding? In June Rubio was a lead sponsor of a bill that would prevent puppet Biden from placing conditions on Israel’s supply of US arms. If the US stopped sending bombs, the genocide would stop. But owned and controlled Senator Rubio cannot go against his higher paygrade just to save little children from being blown to pieces, hell no.
Marco Rubio also promoted bill to halt humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians, succumbing to Israeli pressure to suspend all UN aid relief into Gaza. The degrading evil these lowlifes stoop to under threat of losing AIPAC bribery or sexual blackmail for diddling little kids. Congress is full of these psychopathic degenerates. The Florida senator also engineered legislation sabotaging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, accusing it of being “the single most destructive campaign of economic warfare facing the Jewish state today.”
All week long, Trump unanimously handpicked one Zionist Israeli firster after the next, all committed to protecting Netanyahu’s selfish war criminal interests far and above protecting any interests of our own fellow American citizens struggling to feed their family. Right alongside this depraved US Secretary of State soon guiding our foreign policy, the US Secretary of Defense is even more important in protecting our national interests and safeguarding every single American citizen.
The Trump choice for this grave responsibility in two months falls into the trigger-happy hands of Fox News host since 2014, Pete Hegseth, who urged the US to bomb Iran, including its mosques, schools and hospitals. Using the same lame Israeli excuse to justify taking out thousands of innocent civilian lives, be they children, women and the infirm, to neutralize the alleged embedded enemy amongst the civilian population, Hegseth plans to resort to any measure necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Back in early 2020, prior to Iran developing underground nuclear stockpiles, war hawk Hegseth after murdering Gen. Soleimani was imploring then President Trump to go gangbusters bombing away at Iranian civilians.
What better time than now to say, we’re starting the clock, you’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. We take out key infrastructure. We take out your missile sites. We take out nuclear developments.
Since Iran nearly five years later already possesses nuclear weapons as a viable means of mutual deterrence against nuke-happy Israel with its notorious shameless Sampson option, as the stalwart, anti-Iran war dick, the prospect of Hegseth provoking a military confrontation against Israel’s archrival Iran in the coming months and years appears to already be an inevitable, done deal.
Convinced Iran is hiding nukes under its cultural historical sites, or under its schools, mosques and hospitals, identical to the oft-repeated standard Israeli claim toward Hamas and Hezbollah hiding behind its civilians, this pro-Israel war hawk wacko went on public record insisting that the US “rewrite the rules,” adamantly calculating it’s worth dropping US bombs on Iranian soil and killing innocent civilians.
Having served as a junior officer in the Army National Guard with tours fighting Greater Israel Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a stint at Guantanamo, Hegseth defended US soldiers accused of war crimes. Despite minimal administrative experience, as an ass-kissing Trump loyalist, highly critical of current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s weakened and woke DEI infested armed forces, yet another ballbuster wants to have a go at Iran, music to the ears of Israel-controlled Trump who regards this Princeton-Harvard grad as more than qualified to defend Israel, waging the Big War against all Middle East Muslims.
Like Bibi Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth pays mere “lip service” to the Israel-Palestine “two state solution,” calling it “effectively dead.” This guy’s all in for protecting Israel, regarding all Palestinians including children as [present/future] Islamic terrorists sponsored by Iran, thus worthy as expendable cannon fodder in self-defense of the supremacist Jewish State, and equally all in to bringing on biblical Armageddon prophecy.
Hegseth talks as if he is straight out of Israel’s militant, bloodthirsty Likud Party, wanting to genocide more Palestinians and Lebanese. In his own bold words, blasting Iran on his employer Fox network right after the January 3rd, 2020 US assassination of Iran’s most acclaimed, popular war hero General Qassam Soleimani, this raging war-aholic nutcase urged:
I don’t want to hit cultural sites on purpose. But if you’re using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should be on the target list.
With Hegseth an Evangelical Christian Zionist constituting the largest religious group in the US, claiming 1 out of 4 American voters, he believes biblical prophecy must be fulfilled, starting with the Rothschild bloodline banking dynasty’s successful founding of the Jewish State in 1948, convinced it was the temporal marker ushering in the “End Times” on earth, according to biblical scripture.
During his first term in office when President Trump moved the Israeli capital to Jerusalem in 2018, the birthplace of the three major monotheistic religions, Christian Zionists again interpreted it in accordance with their version of biblical prophecy as scribed in the Schofield bible. In fact, evidence indicates that US Zionist Jewish attorney Samuel Untermeyer funded Cyrus I. Schofield to reinterpret the King James version, propagating this Zionist biblical account.
The Evangelical belief that we have entered the End Times and Christian Zionists must on faith alone rabidly support Israel as their fundamental religious duty to bring forth the battle of Armageddon in northern Israel between one side led by the second coming of Christ and the other the Mark of the Beast anti-Christ, and each army’s amassed 400,000 soldiers dying in the process, it’s all according to the Zionist Schofield bible.
This is why so many millions of Christian Zionists in America are so fanatically blind in their unconditional support and acceptance of Israel’s unholy wars in the Middle East, including supporting the mass slaughter of Palestinians. Similar to how many Zionist Jews rationalize negative, woefully destructive, immoral actions as ends that always justify the means, Zionist Christians are similarly inclined. Thus, wiping out enormous numbers of Muslims isn’t such a big deal if it brings back Lord Jesus. Compliments of Michael Tracey’s twitter post, to get an idea where this ingrained Zionist dogma comes from in the next US Defense Secretary’s head, the following is an extract from Hegseth’s 2020 book American Crusade, Fight to Stay Free:
America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete…. If you love America, you should love Israel.
War lover Hegseth truly hates Iran and loves Israel. Even calling the Iran government an “evil regime.” That Trump would exploit this twisted mindset and seek out Christian Zionists as key critical members of his administration, including the one responsible for America’s self-defense in charge of our war policy, it has to be concluded as an extremely foreboding, even disastrous omen of things to come, and that World War III is more than imminent.
So, what does the President-elect do this week? He picks not one but two card-carrying Christian Zionists to fill his administration’s important posts. His other Christian Zionist is former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, chosen as Trump’s US Ambassador to Israel. Huckabee isn’t just a Christian Zionist zealot, he’s an evangelical pastor preaching the Armageddon Jesus second coming gospel having made over 100 trips to Israel. He’ll be working to ensure that President Trump keeps at least one of his campaign promises, not to the American voters, but making good on his boss’ boss Miriam Adelson for her $100 million bribe in exchange for Trump delivering the Palestinians’ West Bank to Israel. After Trump moved the Israel capital to Jerusalem, according to a July 2019 Middle East Monitor headline, an elated “Mike Huckabee hopes Trump may annex West Bank settlements.” This US Zionist has come out and matter-of-factly stated:
There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian. I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria.
Huckabee refuses to recognize Gaza or the West Bank, but only the biblical terms. So when Trump made his announcement public, to all Americans he was lying through his teeth rubbing it in when he claimed:
Mike [Huckabee] will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!
Yeah, eliminating the non-entities in Gaza and West Bank that Huckabee will not acknowledge is hardly about to bring peace, but unquestionably it will bring Armageddon, which is exactly what this insane Christian Zionist Huckabee wanted all along. These forked-tongue devils Trump and company are intent on ruining us all, not just the Palestinians. Huckabee has often declared that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Israel’s apartheid genocide occupation of Gaza and West Bank do not even exist, because they’ve always been ordained by Huckabee’s warped God as rightfully belonging to “the chosen people.” And as such, he never accepted the “two-state solution.”
Again, Christian Zionists make up a quarter of the American electorate, so placing high-profile Christian Zionists in his administration not only pays off his debt to those overwhelming numbers that fervently voted for him but also those big donor Jews like Adelson who own him.
But even more important to Trump, he is paying off his debt bondage to the Rothschild City of London clan that repeatedly bailed his ass out of past bankruptcies, and now all the powerbrokers that made certain Trump was reinstalled for a second term to obediently follow through fulfilling his paymasters’ demand that World War III happen far sooner than later. After all, culling the human herd ranks #1 as top priority for the psychopathic controllers and their minions.
Moving on to Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor which does not need Senate approval is Florida Congressman Mike Waltz, who also opposes diplomacy in favor of aggressive interventionism in the form of hardcore military action against US invented enemies Russia, China and Iran.
Waltz is another Army National Guard Greater Israel Project war veteran who fought in Afghanistan. Trump knows that choosing Zionist road warriors in his administration can be counted on to obediently line up to declare war against any and all readymade “axis-of-evil” enemies – Russia, China and Iran. Rep. Mike Waltz sits on the US Armed Services Committee and in the past has also called for the US to drop bombs on Iran, regarding the higher paygrade Israel as “the greatest ally we’ve ever known.”
According to the Rothschild owned Associated Press, the current issues facing US president’s national security advisor involve continuing support for Ukraine against Russia, with as of late a special focused concern on the strategic defense pact between Moscow and North Korea (i.e., only the US is allowed allies), and the escalating mess in the Middle East between Israel and its sworn enemy Iran that includes its so-called proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis.
These former military officers who already rushed to Israel’s aid fighting in earlier Greater Israel Project wars in the Middle East, Waltz as a Green Beret colonel no less, are instant readymade war hawks eager to deploy US boots on the ground in combat in whatever and wherever hostile hotspot direction their Synagogue of Satan superiors point them to.
With two wars raging and a third hotspot heating up in Pacific Asia, Waltz is ready to waltz into World War III headfirst in all three theaters of operation. After all, this guy comes locked and loaded in the NSA driver’s seat ready to send US boots on the ground to battle anywhere City of London wants him. This Cold War interventionist hardliner has never seen a war he doesn’t like.
Regarding the one in Ukraine, Mike Waltz wants US troops fighting alongside Kiev forces, operating US longer-range weapons striking targets deeper inside Russia. And if that’s not enough provocation to ignite WWIII directly against Russia, possessing the strongest, most armed advanced, battle-hardened military in the world, then Waltz has plenty of other warzones to fight. His pet peeve has always been China. Seems each of these Trump war lovers have a particular hankering for their favorite enemy combat zone. This Trump road warrior Mike Waltz established his favorite enemy to be Red China, permanently, deeply immersed in Cold War mindset with a particular hardon for starting a hot war against Beijing:
We are in a cold war… the Chinese Communist Party has entered a Cold War with us, seeks to supplant us, and seeks to defeat us… We need to make it very clear to China that invading Taiwan, which will then allow China to control about 50 percent of global trade and GDP, isn’t acceptable.
The fact that it was the City of London moneychangers that purposely allowed Taiwan to control over 90% of the world production of cutting-edge microchips essential for smartphones, data centers and advanced military equipment, means that among the many engineered mega-crises, creating global supply chain disruption becomes just another one of their weapons. It’s all been meticulous mapped out by nefarious globalist design to bring the world to its knees.
This military interventionist Waltz is just another globalist stooge being used to fast track WWIII. Despite the US longtime established one-China policy, Waltz wants to abandon it to arm the island of Taiwan “to the teeth” against his nemesis Communist China because that’s all part of the central bankers’ grand scheme – World War III on multiple warfronts. After selecting a Christian Zionist US ambassador to mighty Israel, US and Israel are in synch now exterminating the rest of the Palestinians as homage to the Greater Israel Project.
Next, we turn to Trump’s selection of New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She follows an already illustrious parade of globalist female US uniparty traitors -Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and now replacing Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Incoming Elise wants to jail all Americans critical of Israel for “anti-Semitism.”
In December last year, Stefanik brought the three Ivy League women presidents in to grill them in her Congressional hearings, so she could grandstand haranguing them (instrumental in getting them fired) for daring to allow their students to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly protest over US and Israel’s daily slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Like so many anti-constitutional traitors in Congress, through their blatant words and actions, they continue getting away with never upholding their sworn oaths to protect and defend the US Constitution, which in itself renders them traitors. Trump lies with every traitor he brings aboard his Israel first government:
Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.
No, she’s not, she is the exact opposite as another treasonous Trump Israel Firster. You will not be a member of this administration unless you are an Israel first and Americans last Trumper. The Biden regime treasonously places foreign invaders first over Americans’ self-interests while the Trump regime places Jews and Israel interests over and above every American’s.
A November 13th Mondoweiss article stated this about the incoming US ambassador to the UN:
In May, Stefanik delivered an address to the Israeli Knesset where she called for ‘wiping those responsible for October 7th off the face of the earth’ and ‘crushing’ the Palestine solidarity movement, which she said was motivated by ‘blood lust.’
How fair do you think this person will be at the UN? About a two-state solution and finally granting Palestinians the right to self-determination. It’s all too obvious Stefanik will use US veto power in the UN Security Council to block all resolutions promoting the sovereign free state of Palestine. And it appears Trump and his entire administration will do the same.
Stefanik, and all of the Trump appointments, show that whichever uniparty is in charge, Americans are treated last, again all part of the criminal elites’ agenda to destroy America and Americans, right along with Palestinians and Lebanese. All these traitors that invert the truth now are allowing their criminal misdeeds to define what and who they really are. It is legally, ethically and morally wrong to conflate any criticism of an apartheid murderous Jewish State regime for their endless, ghastly, unthinkable yet unprosecuted crimes, which every person of conscience must condemn who knows right from wrong.
All our government traitors are obedient to Israel first over their own country and fellow citizens they’re supposed to be serving because to keep their jobs in Washington, they must remain loyal to AIPAC bribery dictates as Israeli firsters in good standing. AIPAC operates as a foreign agency in America without registering as such, which makes it an illegal unconstitutional criminal operation.
Moreover, Robert F. Kennedy was killed fighting Israel over this very issue, moving to require AIPAC’s bribery scheme to register as a foreign agent while a half decade earlier his brother President John F. Kennedy was murdered 61 years ago this week trying to prevent Israel from developing nuclear weapons.
Israel has never been a US ally. Remember the USS Liberty. Yet criticism today of this pariah nation treated with total above the law impunity renders an honest critic of Israel a criminal. How twisted and illegal and unconstitutional is that? We’ve been invaded by Israel, City of London and their bribed traitors in America for far too long. Earlier this year, Congress passed and apparently is now enforcing a law criminalizing American citizens speaking out against Israeli genocide branding them with antisemitism charges, with Trump vowing to lock them up in what’s become Gulag Amerika.
Those that bark the loudest as US traitors serving the interests of Israel over those of America appear to be the most rewarded in Trump’s administration promotions. This inversion of constitutional law and justice is an unacceptable disgrace reflecting just how far America no longer a constitutional republic has sunk in moral turpitude and treasonous criminality.
When Israel banned the UN humanitarian relief team from supplying food, clean water and medicine to starving Gazans suffering genocide at the hands of the criminal state of Israel, Elise Stefanik actually celebrated Israel’s ban accusing the UN agency UNRWA of “instilling antisemitic hate in Palestinians.” Aggressive neocon bulldog Stefanik as yet another Israeli firster joins the most Jewish president’s administration that is betraying all Americans’ right to free speech voicing the God honest truth, yet Stefanik gets rewarded with a new important gig inflicting further veto harm at the UN Security Council.
Showing that President-elect Trump is also a traitor violating the US Constitution’s First Amendment free speech rights in his now Gulag Amerika, in September he warned:
Here is what I will do to defeat anti-Semitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America: My first week back in the Oval Office, my Administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.
So, this dangerous Israel/City of London controlled opposition polarizer is also flagrantly equating any criticism of Israel genocide as unlawful anti-Semitism hate speech. This proves that City of London and Israel both rule over America, and that the Jewish banking cabal reigns supreme over genocide pariahs Israel and America as well as apparently the entire world.
Donald Trump chose South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to become the next Secretary running the US Department of Homeland Security, who like Trump, Stefanik and his entire team of Zionist Nazis, plan to imprison all those brave enough citizens speaking the truth about pure evil in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Israel and world. Plain and simple, by its actions alone, the Jewish State is a pariah state, understandably hated by millions around the globe who know right from wrong and will continue speaking against its abominable genocidal crimes.
Trump and his traitors will not stop us from speaking the truth. US traitors refusing to uphold our constitutional rights are committing treason imprisoning people of conscience for merely speaking against evil, and the traitors complicit in genocide will be held to account for their egregious crimes as well.
Trump chose his former Director of National Intelligence and another China hawk John Ratcliffe as the new CIA Director. The anti-China list keeps growing. All are hardliner interventionists that cast aside any prospect for diplomacy, cooperation and peace. Instead, the road ahead is paved with confrontation, escalating tension and conflict, spilling over into disaster for entire global population as World War III.
Former Hawaii Representative that switched parties Tulsi Gabbard will be Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. It appears this military officer may be about his only person on his team possessing a reasonable, sound mind. Her views tend to be non-interventionist, some call “isolationist,” and without experience involving the 17 intelligence agencies she will oversee, her selection has already drawn harsh criticism from insiders accusing her of cozy relations with “dictators” Bashar Al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.
From my perspective, the leader of Syria that the US belligerent attempted to illegally overthrow for years that was aided and somewhat protected by Putin is a positive accomplishment since it defied and defeated US criminality. She took a lot of heat for her bold act of diplomacy when she met with Assad. But again, I value fair-minded diplomacy over color revolutions and war, and those entrenched in Deep State geopolitics that are the CIA, DNI, FBI and the other over a dozen other US intelligence agencies all regularly engage in criminal behavior. As an outsider and not the typical slimeball that runs these types of organizations that regularly circumvent law and ethics, likely Tulsi will receive lots of pushback and resistance if she attempts to reform America’s notoriously criminal spy industry.
As far as Robert Kennedy Jr picked to run the US Health and Human Services Agency, this is also an important positive choice. Kennedy’s stand against the deadly COVID vaccines has been heroic, and perhaps he can hold Big Pharma and fellow conspirators in the medical field, government and media accountable for their holocaust crimes against humanity. He faces an enormous challenge considering how evil and powerful his adversarial criminal organizations are stacked against him.
One troubling issue, despite Israel’s part in his father and uncle’s murders, he appears also to be owned by Israel. Nearly the unanimous lot of Trump’s administration are neocons, all pro-Israel extremists that are totally anti-Iran, anti-China and anti-Russia. As aggressive interventionist warmakers and Synagogue of Satan order-followers rushing humanity to catastrophic World War III, the future looks dark and very bleak. At least Tulsi and RFK Jr are the one bright spot in all of this and definitely represent a step in the right direction, though it seems they are unwelcome outsiders amidst a hostile danger zone full of criminals, thus facing immense adversity and opposition trying to make progress to drain the shark-infested swamp.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In Los Angeles he found himself battling the largest county child protective services in the nation within America’s thoroughly broken and corrupt child welfare system.
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https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/11/synagogue-of-satan-owns-trump-and-his-administration/Synagogue of Satan Owns Trump and His Administration Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorNovember 17, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here By Joachim Hagopian The list of Trump’s Zionist Israeli Firsters racing to Armageddon in the Middle East keeps growing all week to fulfill the Masonic plot/prophecy of the Zionist vs. Islam World War III nightmare we are all now facing with Trump as the next US president. With some saying that Trump is the anti-Christ, I’m now starting to wonder. Placing two hardcore Zionist neocon Jews Brian Hook and Howard Lutnick in charge of his admin transition team headhunting kosher Jew loyalists with input from Chabad son-in-law Jared Kushner should have clued us in where we’re fast headed, straight to an all-out Jewish State war against Islam. All week, almost every single cabinet member in Trump’s administration is a Zionist zealot in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself by eliminating by genocidal death every Palestinian from their ancient homeland. Every one of these Israeli first, warmongering extremists that Trump has selected all point to Iran as America’s biggest enemy obstacle to protecting Israel, not America. These war lovers are clearly not lovers of America. Trump’s readymade war cabinet members are bloodthirsty doomsdayers placed in charge to ensure America is brought into World War III fighting yet another Greater Israel Project war where American soldiers will be bleeding on foreign soil in perhaps the bloodiest war in all of history. All these men and women Trump is now surrounding himself with are doing the dirty bidding of Zionist Israel and its founder the Rothschild City of London banking cabal. Trump’s all-star cast to hell-on-earth began with hard-right, war loving, China hating, Jew loving Marco Rubio as soon-to-be boss in control shaping America’s foreign policy over the next four years. Right after October 7th last year, Rubio tweeted: Israel has no choice but to seek the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza. There simply is no diplomatic solution or ‘measured response’ available. This tragically necessary effort will come at a horrifying price. But the price of failing to permanently eliminate this group of sadistic savages is even more horrifying. Never mind that October 7th was another Israel inside job like 9/11. Rubio on a Fox radio show earlier this year actually likened the Israeli Zionist invasion in Rafah to the Western Allied Normandy invasion going after Hitler. You really think someone capable of contorting and twisting reality that much is capable of running America’s foreign policy without running amuck with more crafted US arrogance and unending bullshit grandstanding? In June Rubio was a lead sponsor of a bill that would prevent puppet Biden from placing conditions on Israel’s supply of US arms. If the US stopped sending bombs, the genocide would stop. But owned and controlled Senator Rubio cannot go against his higher paygrade just to save little children from being blown to pieces, hell no. Marco Rubio also promoted bill to halt humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians, succumbing to Israeli pressure to suspend all UN aid relief into Gaza. The degrading evil these lowlifes stoop to under threat of losing AIPAC bribery or sexual blackmail for diddling little kids. Congress is full of these psychopathic degenerates. The Florida senator also engineered legislation sabotaging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, accusing it of being “the single most destructive campaign of economic warfare facing the Jewish state today.” All week long, Trump unanimously handpicked one Zionist Israeli firster after the next, all committed to protecting Netanyahu’s selfish war criminal interests far and above protecting any interests of our own fellow American citizens struggling to feed their family. Right alongside this depraved US Secretary of State soon guiding our foreign policy, the US Secretary of Defense is even more important in protecting our national interests and safeguarding every single American citizen. The Trump choice for this grave responsibility in two months falls into the trigger-happy hands of Fox News host since 2014, Pete Hegseth, who urged the US to bomb Iran, including its mosques, schools and hospitals. Using the same lame Israeli excuse to justify taking out thousands of innocent civilian lives, be they children, women and the infirm, to neutralize the alleged embedded enemy amongst the civilian population, Hegseth plans to resort to any measure necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Back in early 2020, prior to Iran developing underground nuclear stockpiles, war hawk Hegseth after murdering Gen. Soleimani was imploring then President Trump to go gangbusters bombing away at Iranian civilians. What better time than now to say, we’re starting the clock, you’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. We take out key infrastructure. We take out your missile sites. We take out nuclear developments. Since Iran nearly five years later already possesses nuclear weapons as a viable means of mutual deterrence against nuke-happy Israel with its notorious shameless Sampson option, as the stalwart, anti-Iran war dick, the prospect of Hegseth provoking a military confrontation against Israel’s archrival Iran in the coming months and years appears to already be an inevitable, done deal. Convinced Iran is hiding nukes under its cultural historical sites, or under its schools, mosques and hospitals, identical to the oft-repeated standard Israeli claim toward Hamas and Hezbollah hiding behind its civilians, this pro-Israel war hawk wacko went on public record insisting that the US “rewrite the rules,” adamantly calculating it’s worth dropping US bombs on Iranian soil and killing innocent civilians. Having served as a junior officer in the Army National Guard with tours fighting Greater Israel Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a stint at Guantanamo, Hegseth defended US soldiers accused of war crimes. Despite minimal administrative experience, as an ass-kissing Trump loyalist, highly critical of current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s weakened and woke DEI infested armed forces, yet another ballbuster wants to have a go at Iran, music to the ears of Israel-controlled Trump who regards this Princeton-Harvard grad as more than qualified to defend Israel, waging the Big War against all Middle East Muslims. Like Bibi Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth pays mere “lip service” to the Israel-Palestine “two state solution,” calling it “effectively dead.” This guy’s all in for protecting Israel, regarding all Palestinians including children as [present/future] Islamic terrorists sponsored by Iran, thus worthy as expendable cannon fodder in self-defense of the supremacist Jewish State, and equally all in to bringing on biblical Armageddon prophecy. Hegseth talks as if he is straight out of Israel’s militant, bloodthirsty Likud Party, wanting to genocide more Palestinians and Lebanese. In his own bold words, blasting Iran on his employer Fox network right after the January 3rd, 2020 US assassination of Iran’s most acclaimed, popular war hero General Qassam Soleimani, this raging war-aholic nutcase urged: I don’t want to hit cultural sites on purpose. But if you’re using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should be on the target list. With Hegseth an Evangelical Christian Zionist constituting the largest religious group in the US, claiming 1 out of 4 American voters, he believes biblical prophecy must be fulfilled, starting with the Rothschild bloodline banking dynasty’s successful founding of the Jewish State in 1948, convinced it was the temporal marker ushering in the “End Times” on earth, according to biblical scripture. During his first term in office when President Trump moved the Israeli capital to Jerusalem in 2018, the birthplace of the three major monotheistic religions, Christian Zionists again interpreted it in accordance with their version of biblical prophecy as scribed in the Schofield bible. In fact, evidence indicates that US Zionist Jewish attorney Samuel Untermeyer funded Cyrus I. Schofield to reinterpret the King James version, propagating this Zionist biblical account. The Evangelical belief that we have entered the End Times and Christian Zionists must on faith alone rabidly support Israel as their fundamental religious duty to bring forth the battle of Armageddon in northern Israel between one side led by the second coming of Christ and the other the Mark of the Beast anti-Christ, and each army’s amassed 400,000 soldiers dying in the process, it’s all according to the Zionist Schofield bible. This is why so many millions of Christian Zionists in America are so fanatically blind in their unconditional support and acceptance of Israel’s unholy wars in the Middle East, including supporting the mass slaughter of Palestinians. Similar to how many Zionist Jews rationalize negative, woefully destructive, immoral actions as ends that always justify the means, Zionist Christians are similarly inclined. Thus, wiping out enormous numbers of Muslims isn’t such a big deal if it brings back Lord Jesus. Compliments of Michael Tracey’s twitter post, to get an idea where this ingrained Zionist dogma comes from in the next US Defense Secretary’s head, the following is an extract from Hegseth’s 2020 book American Crusade, Fight to Stay Free: America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete…. If you love America, you should love Israel. War lover Hegseth truly hates Iran and loves Israel. Even calling the Iran government an “evil regime.” That Trump would exploit this twisted mindset and seek out Christian Zionists as key critical members of his administration, including the one responsible for America’s self-defense in charge of our war policy, it has to be concluded as an extremely foreboding, even disastrous omen of things to come, and that World War III is more than imminent. So, what does the President-elect do this week? He picks not one but two card-carrying Christian Zionists to fill his administration’s important posts. His other Christian Zionist is former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, chosen as Trump’s US Ambassador to Israel. Huckabee isn’t just a Christian Zionist zealot, he’s an evangelical pastor preaching the Armageddon Jesus second coming gospel having made over 100 trips to Israel. He’ll be working to ensure that President Trump keeps at least one of his campaign promises, not to the American voters, but making good on his boss’ boss Miriam Adelson for her $100 million bribe in exchange for Trump delivering the Palestinians’ West Bank to Israel. After Trump moved the Israel capital to Jerusalem, according to a July 2019 Middle East Monitor headline, an elated “Mike Huckabee hopes Trump may annex West Bank settlements.” This US Zionist has come out and matter-of-factly stated: There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian. I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria. Huckabee refuses to recognize Gaza or the West Bank, but only the biblical terms. So when Trump made his announcement public, to all Americans he was lying through his teeth rubbing it in when he claimed: Mike [Huckabee] will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East! Yeah, eliminating the non-entities in Gaza and West Bank that Huckabee will not acknowledge is hardly about to bring peace, but unquestionably it will bring Armageddon, which is exactly what this insane Christian Zionist Huckabee wanted all along. These forked-tongue devils Trump and company are intent on ruining us all, not just the Palestinians. Huckabee has often declared that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Israel’s apartheid genocide occupation of Gaza and West Bank do not even exist, because they’ve always been ordained by Huckabee’s warped God as rightfully belonging to “the chosen people.” And as such, he never accepted the “two-state solution.” Again, Christian Zionists make up a quarter of the American electorate, so placing high-profile Christian Zionists in his administration not only pays off his debt to those overwhelming numbers that fervently voted for him but also those big donor Jews like Adelson who own him. But even more important to Trump, he is paying off his debt bondage to the Rothschild City of London clan that repeatedly bailed his ass out of past bankruptcies, and now all the powerbrokers that made certain Trump was reinstalled for a second term to obediently follow through fulfilling his paymasters’ demand that World War III happen far sooner than later. After all, culling the human herd ranks #1 as top priority for the psychopathic controllers and their minions. Moving on to Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor which does not need Senate approval is Florida Congressman Mike Waltz, who also opposes diplomacy in favor of aggressive interventionism in the form of hardcore military action against US invented enemies Russia, China and Iran. Waltz is another Army National Guard Greater Israel Project war veteran who fought in Afghanistan. Trump knows that choosing Zionist road warriors in his administration can be counted on to obediently line up to declare war against any and all readymade “axis-of-evil” enemies – Russia, China and Iran. Rep. Mike Waltz sits on the US Armed Services Committee and in the past has also called for the US to drop bombs on Iran, regarding the higher paygrade Israel as “the greatest ally we’ve ever known.” According to the Rothschild owned Associated Press, the current issues facing US president’s national security advisor involve continuing support for Ukraine against Russia, with as of late a special focused concern on the strategic defense pact between Moscow and North Korea (i.e., only the US is allowed allies), and the escalating mess in the Middle East between Israel and its sworn enemy Iran that includes its so-called proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. These former military officers who already rushed to Israel’s aid fighting in earlier Greater Israel Project wars in the Middle East, Waltz as a Green Beret colonel no less, are instant readymade war hawks eager to deploy US boots on the ground in combat in whatever and wherever hostile hotspot direction their Synagogue of Satan superiors point them to. With two wars raging and a third hotspot heating up in Pacific Asia, Waltz is ready to waltz into World War III headfirst in all three theaters of operation. After all, this guy comes locked and loaded in the NSA driver’s seat ready to send US boots on the ground to battle anywhere City of London wants him. This Cold War interventionist hardliner has never seen a war he doesn’t like. Regarding the one in Ukraine, Mike Waltz wants US troops fighting alongside Kiev forces, operating US longer-range weapons striking targets deeper inside Russia. And if that’s not enough provocation to ignite WWIII directly against Russia, possessing the strongest, most armed advanced, battle-hardened military in the world, then Waltz has plenty of other warzones to fight. His pet peeve has always been China. Seems each of these Trump war lovers have a particular hankering for their favorite enemy combat zone. This Trump road warrior Mike Waltz established his favorite enemy to be Red China, permanently, deeply immersed in Cold War mindset with a particular hardon for starting a hot war against Beijing: We are in a cold war… the Chinese Communist Party has entered a Cold War with us, seeks to supplant us, and seeks to defeat us… We need to make it very clear to China that invading Taiwan, which will then allow China to control about 50 percent of global trade and GDP, isn’t acceptable. The fact that it was the City of London moneychangers that purposely allowed Taiwan to control over 90% of the world production of cutting-edge microchips essential for smartphones, data centers and advanced military equipment, means that among the many engineered mega-crises, creating global supply chain disruption becomes just another one of their weapons. It’s all been meticulous mapped out by nefarious globalist design to bring the world to its knees. This military interventionist Waltz is just another globalist stooge being used to fast track WWIII. Despite the US longtime established one-China policy, Waltz wants to abandon it to arm the island of Taiwan “to the teeth” against his nemesis Communist China because that’s all part of the central bankers’ grand scheme – World War III on multiple warfronts. After selecting a Christian Zionist US ambassador to mighty Israel, US and Israel are in synch now exterminating the rest of the Palestinians as homage to the Greater Israel Project. Next, we turn to Trump’s selection of New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She follows an already illustrious parade of globalist female US uniparty traitors -Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and now replacing Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Incoming Elise wants to jail all Americans critical of Israel for “anti-Semitism.” In December last year, Stefanik brought the three Ivy League women presidents in to grill them in her Congressional hearings, so she could grandstand haranguing them (instrumental in getting them fired) for daring to allow their students to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly protest over US and Israel’s daily slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Like so many anti-constitutional traitors in Congress, through their blatant words and actions, they continue getting away with never upholding their sworn oaths to protect and defend the US Constitution, which in itself renders them traitors. Trump lies with every traitor he brings aboard his Israel first government: Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter. No, she’s not, she is the exact opposite as another treasonous Trump Israel Firster. You will not be a member of this administration unless you are an Israel first and Americans last Trumper. The Biden regime treasonously places foreign invaders first over Americans’ self-interests while the Trump regime places Jews and Israel interests over and above every American’s. A November 13th Mondoweiss article stated this about the incoming US ambassador to the UN: In May, Stefanik delivered an address to the Israeli Knesset where she called for ‘wiping those responsible for October 7th off the face of the earth’ and ‘crushing’ the Palestine solidarity movement, which she said was motivated by ‘blood lust.’ How fair do you think this person will be at the UN? About a two-state solution and finally granting Palestinians the right to self-determination. It’s all too obvious Stefanik will use US veto power in the UN Security Council to block all resolutions promoting the sovereign free state of Palestine. And it appears Trump and his entire administration will do the same. Stefanik, and all of the Trump appointments, show that whichever uniparty is in charge, Americans are treated last, again all part of the criminal elites’ agenda to destroy America and Americans, right along with Palestinians and Lebanese. All these traitors that invert the truth now are allowing their criminal misdeeds to define what and who they really are. It is legally, ethically and morally wrong to conflate any criticism of an apartheid murderous Jewish State regime for their endless, ghastly, unthinkable yet unprosecuted crimes, which every person of conscience must condemn who knows right from wrong. All our government traitors are obedient to Israel first over their own country and fellow citizens they’re supposed to be serving because to keep their jobs in Washington, they must remain loyal to AIPAC bribery dictates as Israeli firsters in good standing. AIPAC operates as a foreign agency in America without registering as such, which makes it an illegal unconstitutional criminal operation. Moreover, Robert F. Kennedy was killed fighting Israel over this very issue, moving to require AIPAC’s bribery scheme to register as a foreign agent while a half decade earlier his brother President John F. Kennedy was murdered 61 years ago this week trying to prevent Israel from developing nuclear weapons. Israel has never been a US ally. Remember the USS Liberty. Yet criticism today of this pariah nation treated with total above the law impunity renders an honest critic of Israel a criminal. How twisted and illegal and unconstitutional is that? We’ve been invaded by Israel, City of London and their bribed traitors in America for far too long. Earlier this year, Congress passed and apparently is now enforcing a law criminalizing American citizens speaking out against Israeli genocide branding them with antisemitism charges, with Trump vowing to lock them up in what’s become Gulag Amerika. Those that bark the loudest as US traitors serving the interests of Israel over those of America appear to be the most rewarded in Trump’s administration promotions. This inversion of constitutional law and justice is an unacceptable disgrace reflecting just how far America no longer a constitutional republic has sunk in moral turpitude and treasonous criminality. When Israel banned the UN humanitarian relief team from supplying food, clean water and medicine to starving Gazans suffering genocide at the hands of the criminal state of Israel, Elise Stefanik actually celebrated Israel’s ban accusing the UN agency UNRWA of “instilling antisemitic hate in Palestinians.” Aggressive neocon bulldog Stefanik as yet another Israeli firster joins the most Jewish president’s administration that is betraying all Americans’ right to free speech voicing the God honest truth, yet Stefanik gets rewarded with a new important gig inflicting further veto harm at the UN Security Council. Showing that President-elect Trump is also a traitor violating the US Constitution’s First Amendment free speech rights in his now Gulag Amerika, in September he warned: Here is what I will do to defeat anti-Semitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America: My first week back in the Oval Office, my Administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support. So, this dangerous Israel/City of London controlled opposition polarizer is also flagrantly equating any criticism of Israel genocide as unlawful anti-Semitism hate speech. This proves that City of London and Israel both rule over America, and that the Jewish banking cabal reigns supreme over genocide pariahs Israel and America as well as apparently the entire world. Donald Trump chose South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to become the next Secretary running the US Department of Homeland Security, who like Trump, Stefanik and his entire team of Zionist Nazis, plan to imprison all those brave enough citizens speaking the truth about pure evil in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Israel and world. Plain and simple, by its actions alone, the Jewish State is a pariah state, understandably hated by millions around the globe who know right from wrong and will continue speaking against its abominable genocidal crimes. Trump and his traitors will not stop us from speaking the truth. US traitors refusing to uphold our constitutional rights are committing treason imprisoning people of conscience for merely speaking against evil, and the traitors complicit in genocide will be held to account for their egregious crimes as well. Trump chose his former Director of National Intelligence and another China hawk John Ratcliffe as the new CIA Director. The anti-China list keeps growing. All are hardliner interventionists that cast aside any prospect for diplomacy, cooperation and peace. Instead, the road ahead is paved with confrontation, escalating tension and conflict, spilling over into disaster for entire global population as World War III. Former Hawaii Representative that switched parties Tulsi Gabbard will be Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. It appears this military officer may be about his only person on his team possessing a reasonable, sound mind. Her views tend to be non-interventionist, some call “isolationist,” and without experience involving the 17 intelligence agencies she will oversee, her selection has already drawn harsh criticism from insiders accusing her of cozy relations with “dictators” Bashar Al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. From my perspective, the leader of Syria that the US belligerent attempted to illegally overthrow for years that was aided and somewhat protected by Putin is a positive accomplishment since it defied and defeated US criminality. She took a lot of heat for her bold act of diplomacy when she met with Assad. But again, I value fair-minded diplomacy over color revolutions and war, and those entrenched in Deep State geopolitics that are the CIA, DNI, FBI and the other over a dozen other US intelligence agencies all regularly engage in criminal behavior. As an outsider and not the typical slimeball that runs these types of organizations that regularly circumvent law and ethics, likely Tulsi will receive lots of pushback and resistance if she attempts to reform America’s notoriously criminal spy industry. As far as Robert Kennedy Jr picked to run the US Health and Human Services Agency, this is also an important positive choice. Kennedy’s stand against the deadly COVID vaccines has been heroic, and perhaps he can hold Big Pharma and fellow conspirators in the medical field, government and media accountable for their holocaust crimes against humanity. He faces an enormous challenge considering how evil and powerful his adversarial criminal organizations are stacked against him. One troubling issue, despite Israel’s part in his father and uncle’s murders, he appears also to be owned by Israel. Nearly the unanimous lot of Trump’s administration are neocons, all pro-Israel extremists that are totally anti-Iran, anti-China and anti-Russia. As aggressive interventionist warmakers and Synagogue of Satan order-followers rushing humanity to catastrophic World War III, the future looks dark and very bleak. At least Tulsi and RFK Jr are the one bright spot in all of this and definitely represent a step in the right direction, though it seems they are unwelcome outsiders amidst a hostile danger zone full of criminals, thus facing immense adversity and opposition trying to make progress to drain the shark-infested swamp. Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. 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Taking a selfie at the Tekuma “car cemetery.” Israel says that more than 1,000 vehicles were destroyed — often with Israeli captives inside — on and soon after 7 October 2023. But the evidence shows that many of these bombings were carried out by Israel itself, under its deadly “Hannibal Directive.” Jim HollanderUPI (photo)
A year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, independent examination of hundreds of videos, a recent pro-Israel film broadcast by the BBC and Paramount+ about the Supernova rave, official Israeli figures of the dead and a little-read UN Human Rights Council report has revealed that during the October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood offensive, Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians… In fact, “Hannibal” began less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began…
By Asa Winstanley, reposted from The Electronic Intifada 7, October 2024
One year ago today Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched an unprecedented military offensive out of the Gaza Strip.
The immediate goal was to inflict a shattering blow against Israel’s army bases and militarized settlements which have besieged Gaza’s inhabitants for decades – all of which are built on land that Palestinian families were expelled from in 1948.
The bigger goal was to shatter a status quo in which Israel, the United States and their accomplices believed they had effectively sidelined the Palestinian cause, and to bring that struggle for liberation back to the forefront of world attention.
“Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” as Hamas called it, was, by any objective military measure, a stunning success.
It was said at Israel’s military headquarters that day that “the Gaza Division was overpowered,” a high-level source present later recalled to Israeli journalists. “These words still give me the chills.”
Covered from the air by armed drones and a barrage of rockets – which opened the offensive at 6:26 am exactly – Palestinian fighters launched a lightening raid over the Gaza boundary line.
The army bases were conquered for hours. Some of the settlements still had an armed Palestinian presence two days later.
The military communications infrastructure was instantly smashed. Simultaneous attacks took place by land, air and sea.
Palestinian drones took out tanks, guard posts and watchtowers.
Caught completely unprepared, most of the soldiers manning the bases were either killed or captured and taken back to Gaza as prisoners of war.
A reported 255 Israelis were captured, including soldiers and civilians. Since then, 154 of them have been released, mostly by Hamas in November’s prisoner exchange.
However, the figure of those released also includes some bodies of dead captives, mostly killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza. Of the remaining 101 prisoners, 35 have been officially declared dead by Israel. The real number is likely much higher.
Many have been killed by Israeli carpet bombing, and three escaped prisoners were shot dead by Israeli ground troops in Gaza City in December.
Al-Aqsa Flood was the first time in history that Palestinian armed groups were able to retake Palestinian territories lost since 1948, however briefly.
Israel’s response was also unprecedented, if not in its nature then undoubtedly in its scale – an undisguised genocide against the population of Gaza.
One “conservative” estimate published by the British medical journal The Lancet in July stated that as many as 186,000 Palestinians are likely to have been killed by Israel so far – almost 10 percent of Gaza’s population.
The UN says that 90 percent of people in Gaza have been driven out of their homes by Israel and that about a quarter of all structures in the strip have been destroyed.
The Western press took its lead from official Israeli disinformation. It was soon awash with lurid atrocity propaganda.
These lies about rape and beheaded babies were swiftly debunked by The Electronic Intifada and a small group of other independent media – often at the cost of being smeared by mainstream media and banned or censored by social media giants like YouTube.
Trying to paper over the cracks of its military and intelligence defeat, Israel has also been desperate to cover up another major scandal.
That Israel killed hundreds of its own people between 7 and 9 October 2023.
The regime ideologically justified this within Israeli society using a well-established national murder-suicide pact known in Israel as the “Hannibal Directive.”
The Electronic Intifada today presents a full overview of how Israel killed so many of its own people during the Palestinian offensive.
This article is based on a year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, independent examination of hundreds of videos, a recent pro-Israel film broadcast by the BBC and Paramount+ about the Supernova rave, official Israeli figures of the dead and a little-read UN Human Rights Council report.
We can conclude that during the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive:
Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians.
The use of such “Hannibal” strikes are confirmed in a UN report published in June.
Fire from Israeli helicopters, drones, tanks and even ground troops was deliberately undertaken in order to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking live Israeli captives who could be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
At the initiative of the local Gaza Division, “Hannibal” was carried out right away: less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began.
By midday, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military (the so-called “Pit” headquarters, deep under Israel’s Hakirya building in downtown Tel Aviv) to invoke the Hannibal Directive throughout the entire region, “even if this means the endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves.”
This bombing of Israeli captives by Israel continues in Gaza even today.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a December meeting with released captives and families of captives that they had been “under our bombardments” in Gaza.
Hundreds of Israelis were likely killed by Israel itself in “Hannibal” targeting incidents as well as unintentional crossfire.
Israel has been engaged in an aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people.
Killing their own people
If Hamas made a miscalculation in the planning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, it was perhaps to overestimate the value Israeli planners assigned to the lives of their own people.
In 2006, Hamas successfully captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit, exchanging him for 1,024 Palestinian prisoners in 2011 – including the current leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar. A similar exchange was made with the Lebanese resistance in 2008.
Although exchanging prisoners is a common element of conflict, Israeli leaders felt weakened and embarrassed by what they saw as compromises. So they secretly modified their policies, preparing to strike with lethal force against their own people in the event of future captures.
At the heart of these plans was the Hannibal Directive, established in secret by Israeli generals in 1986, and named after an ancient Carthaginian general who killed himself rather than be captured alive by the Roman Empire.
Initially, the doctrine was targeted at soldiers.
In 2014, captured Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin was killed in a deliberate artillery strike during Israel’s August invasion of the Gaza Strip. Up to 200 Palestinian civilians were killed in the bombardment on Rafah, including 75 children.
As a result, the secretive military doctrine was forced into the light. Despite continued obfuscation, the Israeli military admitted that the directive existed and may have been used on an Israeli solider.
Two years later, the Israeli military distanced itself from the directive, claiming that “the order as it is understood today” would be canceled. “This move was not necessarily a full change in policy but a clarification,” The Times of Israel reported in 2016.
Yet multiple Israeli press reports have now confirmed that Hannibal was not only reactivated on 7 October – if it ever truly went away – but was actually extended to captured Israeli civilians on their way to Gaza.
Bombing Israelis on the road to Gaza
Overestimating Israel’s humanity, Hamas may have been ignorant of this possibility in its two-year preparation and training for the offensive. Over the past year, the group has repeatedly agreed to exchange Israeli prisoners for Palestinian prisoners.
But aside from the Israeli captives released during the four-day pause in November (including the children and noncombatant captives) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adamantly refused to make a deal.
Instead, Israel has systematically bombed every part of the Gaza Strip – including areas where the Israeli captives are being held.
Israelis released in the November prisoner exchange have told the media that the main threat to their lives while they were held in Gaza was not Hamas, but Israeli attacks.
Chen Almog-Goldstein and three of her children were at one point held in a Gazan supermarket which was bombed by Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December admitted in a meeting with the relatives of Israeli captives held in Gaza that they had been “under our bombardments”. (Ynet) (photo)
“It was atrocious,” she told The Guardian. “It was the first time we really felt like our lives were in danger.”
The bombing “was closing up on us to the point where the Hamas guards put mattresses over us on the floor to cover us, and then they covered us with their bodies to protect us from our own forces’ shooting.”
In a town hall-style meeting with relatives of the captives, Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that captives had been “under our bombardments and our [military] activity there,” Hebrew news site Ynet reported in December.
“Every day in captivity was very hard,” one former detainee said at the angry meeting. “I was in a house when there were bombardments all around. We were sitting in tunnels and we were very afraid that, not Hamas, but Israel would kill us, and then they’ll say: ‘Hamas killed you.’”
Another released detainee said: “The fact is that I was in a hideaway that was bombed, and we had to be smuggled away, and we were injured. Not to mention that we were shot at by a helicopter when we were on our way to Gaza … You are bombing the tunnel routes exactly in the area where they [the other captives] are.”
As the second released detainee’s testimony about being shot at by a helicopter on the way to Gaza proves, the captives were also killed and attacked by Israel while Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was still happening.
Within the first hour of the offensive, Israeli forces began shooting and bombing Israeli captives on their way to Gaza.
“Hannibal at Erez”
An investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz based on documents and testimonies of soldiers found evidence that these Hannibal attacks came at least as early as 7:18 am – only 52 minutes after the start of the offensive.
The Haaretz piece was published in English in July.
But the paper lagged six months behind its competitor, Yedioth Ahronoth. In January, Yedioth’s weekend supplement 7 Days ran a landmark investigative piece laying out a timeline of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive from the Israeli military perspective.
The paper has never published an official English translation of the article. The Electronic Intifada remains the only publication in the world to release a full professional translation, which you can read here.
The 7 Days investigation found that “at midday of October 7th, the IDF [Israeli military] instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly.”
Well-sourced Israeli military and intelligence reporters Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun explained in the long piece that “the instruction was to stop ‘at any cost’ any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, using language very similar to that of the original Hannibal Directive.”
In contrast to the 7 Days investigation, the more recent Haaretz piece found that the name of the doctrine was explicitly invoked – and very early on: “One of these decisions was made at 7:18 am … ‘Hannibal at Erez.’”
Erez is the massive Israeli military checkpoint and base caging Palestinians into the north of the Gaza Strip. It had been totally overrun by Palestinian fighters and besieged Israeli troops seem to have called for an airstrike on their own position.
That the 7 Days investigation reached the conclusion Hannibal was invoked from the top of Israel’s military hierarchy is crucial.
It shows that the reactivation and expansion of the Hannibal Directive that day was not a matter of rogue individual troops or of simple chaos and confusion.
It was a matter of policy.
Orders and chaos
Hannibal was ordered from the top after the generals under the Hakirya building in Tel Aviv realized that Israeli soldiers and settlers all over the Gaza frontier region were being captured en masse.
They wanted the captives dead as soon as possible.
Israeli troops in the field had been trained in the procedure for years and immediately understood what they had to do.
A report by a UN commission quotes one tank commander who opened fire at Israeli captives coming from the settlement of Nir Oz.
“Something in my gut feeling made me think that they [his soldiers] could be on them [the vehicles heading to Gaza],” he said. “Yes, I could have killed them, but I decided that this is the right decision. I prefer stopping the abduction so they won’t be taken.”
Ending Israelis’ captivity by killing them is the Hannibal doctrine in a nutshell.
In November last year, Nof Erez, an Israeli Air Force colonel, admitted to a Hebrew-language podcast that the response to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood “was a mass Hannibal.”
There was also an incredibly chaotic situation that day. In a separate article by Yoav Zitun, the Israeli military admitted to an “immense and complex quantity” of what it called “friendly fire” incidents.
Caught entirely off guard over a Jewish holiday weekend, Israeli forces found themselves unable to communicate with each other after the Palestinians destroyed the communications infrastructure.
The 7 Days investigation found that “40 percent of the communication sites such as towers with relay antennas … near the Gaza Strip … were destroyed by Hamas” that morning.
Even the Palestinian resistance was caught off guard by the sheer scope of its own success. And, to an extent, there was a degree of chaos in the Palestinian fighters’ assault.
Collateral damage?
Soon after the initial wave of Hamas’ vanguard commandos (known as the Nukhba force, Arabic for “elite”) breached the fence in almost 50 locations, smaller armed groups – including Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – joined in.
About an hour after the offensive started, a wave of Palestinian civilians began to flow through the breaches in the fence and managed to enter their homeland. Some of these people seem to have attacked or captured Israeli noncombatants in the militarized settlements that surround Gaza.
The chaotic situation, combined with Israel’s use of its own civilians as human shields to besiege and occupy Gaza also meant that not all the Israeli casualties of the Palestinian resistance that day were combatants.
Despite efforts by the Western media and politicians to paint a picture of evil, baby-killing Palestinian “terrorists” rampaging around southern Israel slaughtering as many civilians as possible, it is clear that Israeli noncombatants were often caught in the crossfire between armed Israeli forces and the Palestinian fighters.
Pitched battles broke out all over the region. Roughly 1,000-3,000 Palestinian fighters are estimated to have been involved.
Despite the common misconception that the Israeli army was nowhere to be found that day, the UN report and the 7 Days investigation concluded that Israeli combatants were present all over the region, and from very early on.
Within the first 24 minutes of the assault, the Israeli military scrambled at least six armed aircraft: two F-16 bombers, two F-35 bombers and two of the lethal Hermes 450 drones made by Elbit Systems.
Two more aircraft – Apache attack helicopters – also arrived at the Be’eri settlement within one hour.
The UN report says that it “confirmed that at least eight Apache helicopters were dispatched to the area around the Gaza border on 7 October” and that “some 23 tanks were stationed throughout the whole border area with Gaza” (Editor’s note: in fact, Israel has no declared borders).
Human shields
But there is also no doubt that the Israelis were overwhelmed, briefly outgunned and often outsmarted by the Palestinian fighters. The battle for Kibbutz Be’eri, for example, continued over the course of three days.
Nonetheless, the presence of armed Israeli combatants embedded throughout the civilian population – often using the latter as effective human shields – speaks to the operational challenges faced by Hamas on the ground that day.
The UN report even documents some cases of Israeli “civilians” picking up weapons to engage in clashes with the Palestinian fighters.
Hamas’ deputy political leader Khalil al-Hayya said in an interview with the BBC last week that its fighters had been told not to target civilians during the assault, but that there were individual failings in sticking to that plan.
He also alluded to the military difficulties faced by Palestinians trying to distinguish who was who: “Fighters may have felt that they were in danger.”
In a video released by Hamas’ armed wing on 10 October 2023, the Al Qassam Brigades showed how they had swiftly taken over the Nahal Oz military base three days earlier, supported from the air by sophisticaled but inexpensive drone technology. The base straddles the boundary line with Gaza.
In “Our Narrative,” a document Hamas released in January, the group admitted, “Maybe some faults happened during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’s implementation due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system, and the chaos caused along the border areas with Gaza.”
One such “fault” was the fact that Hamas’ intelligence branch seems not to have anticipated the presence of the all-night “Supernova” trance music rave.
This event took place in open fields less than three miles from the Re’im military base.
Re’im was the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Gaza Division – the number one target of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive.
But the separation between Israeli settler “civilians” and Israeli combatants is not always clear cut.
Planted around the Gaza region mostly after the forced expulsion of the Palestinians by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army between 1947 and 1949, the settlements besieging Gaza were conceived by Israeli military doctrine as a belt of human shields to protect Israel’s occupation and suppress the far bigger population of Gaza.
The population of the Gaza Strip is more than 80 percent refugees – those expelled from their homes in order to make room for the new state of Israel in 1948 and after, along with their descendants.
One of these so-called “Gaza Envelope” settlements, founded in 1951, is even called “Magen” – literally the Hebrew for “shield.” Another, Nahal Oz, was established as an explicitly military settlement.
According to the Jewish National Fund, a colonial arm of the Israeli state, Nahal Oz was intended to “supply the IDF with soldiers.” It was also intended to “become a civilian center and serve as the first line of defense against potential future Arab invasions while providing a base of operations and resources for military forces operating in peripheral regions.”
UN laundering of Israeli propaganda
In June this year, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report: “Detailed findings on attacks carried out on and after 7 October 2023 in Israel.”
What little media attention it received tended to focus on how the report (along with an accompanying document focusing on Gaza) had concluded that “Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes,” as The Guardian put it.
The report’s authors described themselves as an “independent international commission of inquiry” into the offensive.
For the most part, the report does not disclose its sources. The authors say that this is due to unspecified “protection concerns.”
Nonetheless, it is clear from the instances where the report does disclose its sources that they relied almost entirely on Israeli claims. Where it does cite Palestinian sources, they are for the most part bodycam videos from killed or captured fighters. These were released by the Israeli occupation authorities and are highly likely to have been subjected to selective editing.
Therefore it is unsurprising to find that the document ends up, for the most part, siding with the debunked Israeli narrative about Palestinian atrocities. It does this to the point of absurdity at times.
In one instance, the commission of inquiry reverses the chronology of events to give the impression that a Palestinian fighter deliberately executed an Israeli baby at Kibbutz Be’eri, after they had broken into a room.
Yet, according to press reports, the death was actually the tragic result of a stray bullet. Milla Cohen, a 10-month-old baby, died when a Palestinian fighter shot through a door before he broke into a room in a settlement house to take captives.
Even worse, the UN report appears to rely heavily on the discredited Jewish extremist group ZAKA as a source, citing it once explicitly, and frequently citing it obliquely as unnamed “first responders.”
These “first responders” then tell lurid stories about supposed Palestinian “war crimes.”
And yet even the report admits that ZAKA is “not trained or equipped to manage large, complex crime scenes and may have also tainted, or even tampered with, evidence” (emphasis added).
“One first responder working for ZAKA” – who the report does not name – “provided inaccurate and exaggerated accounts of findings in media interviews.”
This may have been a reference to senior ZAKA leader Yossi Landau.
Landau was forced by Al Jazeera journalists to admit on camera – for a documentary broadcast in March – that his initial story about Palestinian fighters executing 10 Israeli children by burning them alive was a fiction.
Confronted with his own lack of evidence, Landau admitted: “When you look at them and they’re burned you don’t know exactly the ages. So you’re talking about 18 years old, 20 years old … you just don’t look on the spot … to see the ages or something like that.”
Landau was later forced to step back from his position in the group after internal disputes over money and power.
Hannibal strikes confirmed by UN
Despite the report’s authors apparently trying their best to launder Israeli atrocity propaganda into the UN system, the document does nevertheless contain an astonishing collection of evidence confirming The Electronic Intifada’s reporting over the last year that Israel itself killed many, if not most, of the Israelis that day.
Some of the evidence in the UN report is only oblique, and requires cross referencing with Hebrew-language media reports about the Hannibal doctrine and the unprecedented way it was used on 7 October 2023.
But some of it is explicit.
Over the course of three pages, the report details some of what is known about “the application of the ‘Hannibal Directive’” that day.
The commission wrote that it “documented strong indications that the ‘Hannibal Directive’ was used in several instances on 7 October, harming Israelis at the same time as striking Palestinian militants.”
In its section on the Hannibal Directive, the UN report even states that “Israeli helicopters were present at the Nova site and may have shot at targets on the ground, including civilian vehicles.” It states that “one or two helicopters” were “present over the Nova festival site in the mid-morning hours.”
This is something The Electronic Intifada first reported in November.
The UN report cites the testimony of two unnamed witnesses to back this up, including an Israeli army “reserve brigadier general, who fought against militants near a parked tank close to the Nova site” and explained that “he called the Gaza Battalion to request an attack helicopter.”
The presence of attack helicopters – and of at least one tank – in the battle for the Supernova rave site could also go some way towards explaining the high number of noncombatant casualties among the fleeing rave attendees that morning.
The Supernova rave
Held in a location less than four miles away from the massive open-air prison camp that is the Gaza Strip, Supernova was put on by an event management company calling itself the “Tribe of Nova.”
Its defenders have condemned the Palestinian fighters for attacking a “peace festival,” while the event’s critics have decried it as akin to German civilians dancing outside the gates of Auschwitz during the Nazi Holocaust.
Often referred to as the “Nova music festival” by Western media, the event on its official webpage actually named itself the “Supernova Sukkot Gathering.” A recent film about the event showed that it was more akin to the illegal raves often organized in secret locations in many Western countries.
Supernova was not illegal and was coordinated with the local Israeli police force (which was armed and present in advance to guard the event). But for reasons that are not entirely clear, the rave’s location was not announced until 6 October.
Participants in the high profile Israeli film We Will Dance Again confirmed that the Supernova location was kept secret from ticket holders until the last minute.
This (rather than any confusion about the days of the event or extension of the time, as is sometimes erroneously said online) explains why Hamas had no clue about the presence of the rave in the fields between Gaza and the biggest military base in the area – the regional headquarters at Re’im.
The Supernova deaths
The rave is often reported to be the largest single site of deaths that took place on 7 October. The UN report said that 364 out of the 3,000 total ravers were “killed either at the site, near Kibbutz Re’im or in adjacent locations.”
But a detailed breakdown of the deaths recently published by The Times of Israel (based on an Israeli TV channel’s investigation) shows that more than 60 percent of this figure actually died outside of the designated grounds of the rave.
This is important for two reasons.
Firstly, despite the fact that the film We Will Dance Again tries to paint a picture of villainous Palestinian terrorists deliberately attacking civilians, it is clear from all available evidence that the rave was not a planned target of the Hamas offensive that day.
Indeed, the secret location of the event meant that a few Palestinian fighters – perhaps some from armed factions and probably some armed civilians – stumbled on the event in the course of their assault on the military bases.
Armed clashes with the Israeli forces – including police, soldiers and at least one tank, as well as armed Israeli “civilians” present – swiftly ensued.
Israeli intelligence has concluded that the Palestinians had no prior knowledge of the rave.
Secondly, the breakdown published by The Times of Israel places the deaths of ravers outside the rave grounds as far away as Sderot (11 miles north of the Supernova site) and the Re’im military base (only 2.3 miles south)
Plotting these sites of death onto Google Earth and cross referencing them with the sites of ambushes set up by Hamas’ elite commando force – as detailed by the 7 Days investigation – shows the two often coincide.
It is therefore likely that the deaths of some of these fleeing ravers were the unintended consequences of Palestinian ambushes set up to intercept Israeli army reinforcements headed to the region.
“While many reinforcements were flowing south,” Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun wrote in the 7 Days investigation, Hamas’ commando force “had foreseen these reinforcements and took over the strategic junctions … where they awaited the forces … a lot of blood was shed at those junctions, both of soldiers and of civilians.”
The 7 Days piece also relates instances of Israeli soldiers rushing south to join the fight on their own initiative – including in their own civilian vehicles.
“Commanders who had already learned from the media or from friends that something was going on … scrambled to get to the Gaza Envelope,” Bergman and Zitun explained.
One brigade commander told the journalists that, “I came with my private vehicle to the Yad Mordechai junction [2.3 miles north of the Erez checkpoint] after I saw [the attack] on the news at home.”
Exploding houses in the settlements
Evidence of deliberate Israeli “mass Hannibal” killings of Israeli civilians at the kibbutzim and other settlements surrounding Gaza is clear and undeniable.
Video footage and press reports of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive show that many buildings in the settlements were completely destroyed, in a manner consistent with heavy weaponry only known by military experts to be in the possession of the Israeli military, and not in the possession of Palestinian fighters.
While some buildings and cars did show signs of being burned, many others were clearly bombed from the air by Israeli drones and attack helicopters or shelled by Israeli tanks.
Nof Erez, the Israeli Air Force colonel who admitted that 7 October was a “mass Hannibal” event, answered positively when asked by the interviewer if they “exploded all kinds of houses inside the settlements.”
Erez insisted that his pilots only did so with “permission” from their superior officers. “I saw numerous drones above every settlement on a computer image, which we can see in every IDF [Israeli military] command,” he explained.
Footage on Israeli TV has shown Israeli tanks present and firing in the settlement of Kibbutz Be’eri.
Most infamously, Brigadier General Barak Hiram admitted to ordering his tanks to fire at Pessi Cohen’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri – “even at the cost of the civilians,” as he told The New York Times.
Palestinian fighters from Hamas had taken 15 people captive and held them at the home, while they attempted to negotiate their exit to Gaza.
Investigations by The Electronic Intifada have concluded that most of the dead were highly likely to have been killed by Hiram’s assault.
The Electronic Intifada was the first to publish in English the eyewitness account of survivor Yasmin Porat who said that the Israeli troops arrived at the scene and “eliminated everyone” with heavy gunfire and tank shelling.
Porat, Palestinian commander Hasan Hamduna (who surrendered) and one other captive – Hadas Dagan – were the only three survivors of Barak Hiram’s massacre.
Dagan insisted in testimony to Porat – which The Electronic Intifada first reported in November last year – that everyone else in and around the building was either shot or “burned completely” by the Israeli tank fire.
The victims of this apocalypse included 12-year-old Israeli twins, Liel and Yanai Hatsroni.
Sickeningly, Liel’s photo was later used in official Israeli propaganda which falsely claimed that Hamas had massacred and burned the girl to death.
“Murdered in her home by Hamas monsters … just because she’s Jewish,” former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett lied.
Hannibal at Supernova?
What is still unclear about the Supernova rave is how many of the dead were killed by Palestinians, and whether any were killed in “Hannibal” attacks by Israel.
Unlike in the more built-up areas such as the military bases and the kibbutzim – where there is clear visual evidence of bombed buildings and conclusive eyewitness accounts – the visual situation in and around the Supernova site was more chaotic.
There were few built-up structures for Israeli aircraft or tanks to explode, as they did in the settlements.
Video and other photographic evidence does show that the fields around the exit of the site next to the armed Israeli checkpoint were intensively burned and blackened.
It is unclear whether this was the result of the helicopter or tank attacks, or the result of fires which may have caught alight after Palestinian rocket-propelled grenade strikes.
What is known is that Israeli armed forces on site set up a roadblock at the main exit, causing a massive backlog of cars waiting to leave the site. Many ravers ended up fleeing on foot, east across the fields as the firefight broke out.
While the We Will Dance Again film conspicuously fails to mention the roadblock set up by Israeli forces, an early CNN report does show the roadblock on its map of the scene, and The Times of Israel report states that it was probably set up as early as 7:00 am.
Journalist William Van Wagenen has detailed in a report for The Cradle that the roadblock likely led to Israeli forces unintentionally trapping some escaping ravers in a firefight between them and Palestinian fighters advancing on the Re’im military base from the north.
Psychoactive drugs
One thing that is clear from both We Will Dance Again and a Haaretz interview with an Israeli psychologist who has treated survivors is that the use of psychoactive drugs at the rave was widespread.
As participants arrived at the site on the night of 6 October, “everyone’s saying that they’re going to get so high,” one participant in the film recalled.
According to the Haaretz interview and to the film, ravers used ecstasy, acid, cocaine, magic mushrooms and possibly ketamine. Worse, many of the ravers had deliberately timed their dosages to kick in at sunrise – which turned out to be just before the Palestinian offensive began – with rocket salvos from Gaza starting at 6:26 am.
“This sucks so much! Everyone is high,” one participant in the film recalled feeling as the rockets soared overhead. Acid, another explained, “can make things seem much worse.”
Psychedelic drugs, the Israeli psychologist explained, can lead to a situation in which “parts of the unconscious also rise to consciousness.”
All of this makes it unlikely that many ravers were in a fit state to discern whether they were being shot at by Israelis, Palestinians or both as they ran for their lives.
Although the existence of the Hannibal Directive is an open secret inside Israel, its use on Israeli civilian targets was – as far as we know – unprecedented before 7 October 2023.
Hannibal attacks all over the south
About 105 residents were killed at Kibbutz Be’eri.
It is currently unknown how many of those were killed by Palestinians and how many by Israelis. The UN report states that “at least 57 structures in the kibbutz were destroyed or sustained damage, amounting to more than one third of all residential buildings.”
Many of these appear from the visual evidence to have been destroyed by Israel.
But one important fact to bear in mind is that Israel’s “Hannibal” massacre of Israelis at Be’eri was repeated all over the region.
We only know so much about the Pessi Cohen house massacre because two civilians survived to tell their story.
Similar incidents happened elsewhere. But in most places, there were few survivors, especially of the aerial bombardments.
An all-female tank unit commandeered a military vehicle it was untrained to use and stormed through the gates of Holit, an Israeli settlement near the boundary with Egypt and the frontier with Gaza, more than 14 miles south of the Supernova rave.
“We break into the community, crash the gate,” one of the soldiers told Israeli Channel 12. “The soldier points and tells me, ‘Shoot there, the terrorists are there.’ I ask him, ‘Are there civilians there?’ He says, ‘I don’t know, just shoot.’”
The tank commander then claims she decided not to shoot – but immediately contradicts herself: “I fire with my machine gun at a house.”
Similar to the visual evidence of Hannibal attacks on Israelis by Israel at Kibbutz Be’eri, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada last year also concluded that the same sort of house explosions took place at Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
The UN report lists a surprisingly high number of places where Hannibal attacks possibly or certainly took place.
Outside the Israeli settlement of Nirim (which lies on the path between the Palestinian city of Khan Younis and the Gaza Division’s Re’im military headquarters) one Israeli tank crew departed to Nir Oz, another nearby settlement.
Once there, the UN report states, “they noticed hundreds of people crossing into Israel and back to Gaza and they shot at them, including at vehicles laden with people, some of whom may have been hostages” (emphasis added).
The next paragraph of the report hints at the possibility of similar incidents at Nitzana, Kissufim and Holit.
How many were killed by Israel?
Despite initially claiming that 1,400 people were “murdered by Hamas” on 7 October last year, Israel soon began revising the figure downwards.
In November, the Israeli government announced that 200 out of this figure were in fact Hamas fighters. They had been so badly burned by Israeli bombings they were completely unidentifiable.
This demonstrates how indiscriminate much of Israel’s fire was that day.
The Israeli death count now stands at 1,154, according to Al Jazeera.
Of these, at least 314 are said in the UN report to have been “Israeli military personnel.”
In March, a comprehensive survey of three Israeli death tolls in Hebrew by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit put the number of armed combatants higher, totaling 372.
As well as soldiers, the Al Jazeera figure includes police, security guards (i.e. armed settlement militias) and “security personnel.”
The 7 Days investigation concluded that officers from the Shin Bet – the undercover Israeli “internal security” agency – were also sent to join the battle in the south: “In the course of the fighting, 10 of the organization’s people were killed.”
The English edition of the Haaretz database of the dead revealed the names of three of these people – Yossi Tahar, Smadar Mor Idan and Omer Gvera.
None of the three are listed in the database as combatants. It is therefore likely that the other seven dead Shin Bet combatants are also secretly listed as “civilians” on the database.
Al Jazeera’s raw data – provided by the investigative unit to The Electronic Intifada for this article – reveals that its figures of “security personnel” does indeed name eight Shin Bet officers among the dead.
The 372 declared combatants plus the two undeclared Shin Bet officers gives us 374 dead combatants – almost a third of the total dead Israelis.
Taking those away from the 1,154 total dead leaves us with a maximum of 780 dead Israeli civilians.
This means that at least 41 percent of the initial (erroneous) figure of 1,400 dead were actually combatants – mostly Israelis, but including 200 of the dead Palestinian fighters.
“Everyone in the vehicle was killed”
If a maximum of 780 unarmed Israelis died during the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive, how many of these were killed by Israel and how many by Palestinians?
The current answer to this question is that it is impossible to know without a truly independent international investigation.
And, as the UN report makes clear, Israel is blocking just such an investigation. “The commission considers that Israel is obstructing its investigations into events on and since 7 October 2023, both in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
But it is possible for us to reach some tentative conclusions.
Al Jazeera’s investigative film found that “at least 18” of the noncombatant dead were definitely killed by Israeli ground troops and that at least 27 of the Israelis in Palestinian captivity “died somewhere between their home and the Gaza fence in circumstances that have not been explained.”
But Al Jazeera’s raw data shows that these are very well-attested and deliberate Hannibal killings, such as the infamous Pessi Cohen house massacre carried out by Barak Hiram.
This doesn’t take account of several other key figures, from which we can extrapolate a possible rough idea of the order of magnitude of the overall Hannibal and unintentional “friendly fire” deaths.
A video released by Israel in October last year unintentionally gave away some very strong evidence that the Hannibal Directive was used on Israeli captives on the road to Gaza. (Israel MFA)
The 7 Days investigation states that Israeli military investigators “examined some 70 vehicles that … did not reach Gaza because on their way they had been hit by fire from a helicopter gunship, a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] or a tank, and at least in some of the cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed” (emphasis added).
It is unknown how many Israelis those 70 vehicles contained, but given what is known about other incidents, some cars probably contained several. These vehicles alone may have accounted for a very large number of Israeli civilian deaths.
Palestinian captors often packed multiple Israeli prisoners into pickup trucks, expropriated cars and even in some cases trailers dragged by tractors.
Fleeing Israelis did likewise.
One raver in the We Will Dance Again film describes desperately packing into cars to escape the Supernova site.
There were “a million people inside” the car, he recalled. “Half my body is outside,” he added, explaining that he was hanging out of the window.
Israeli combat helicopter footage released online and compiled in the Al Jazeera film shows one video of about a dozen people fleeing a packed car as they are fired on by the Israelis. Their fates are unknown.
The film shows many similar videos. It’s unclear where exactly near Gaza these incidents took place. You can watch the full film on Al Jazeera’s website or in the YouTube video embedded below (due to the platform’s age restrictions, you will need an appropriate YouTube account).
A November news report on the Israeli website *Ynet* quoted a helicopter pilot as saying that “in the first four hours from the start of the battles” alone, Israeli aircraft “attacked about 300 targets, most in Israeli territory.”
The report stated that they were commanded to “shoot at everything” near the fence with Gaza.
The reporter of the Hebrew piece was Yoav Zitun, the co-author of the 7 Days investigation, a well-sourced Israeli military reporter close to the intelligence and military establishment.
The drone operators seem to have been even more deadly than the helicopter pilots. The 7 Days piece says they often “took decisions to attack” by themselves and that by the end of the day on 7 October, “the squadron performed no fewer than 110 attacks on some 1,000 targets, most of which were inside Israel.”
If “targets” includes individual persons, it’s hard to know how many would have been Israelis. The pilots probably often did not know themselves. If a hit “target” also includes individual cars, the 1,000 targets hit could have easily resulted in hundreds of dead people.
The car “cemetery”
In November hundreds of the vehicles blown up during the Palestinian offensive were collected by Israeli troops and piled up in a scrapyard near the settlements of Tekuma and Netivot.
Photos and drone footage of the scrapyard clearly showed many of the cars were completely flattened and twisted in a manner consistent with Israeli bombing from the air.
In short, the cars looked very similar to the Palestinian cars (of both civilians and fighters) habitually bombed by Israel from the air in Gaza over the years.
Today, it seems the scrapyard has become something of a tourist attraction for Israel and its supporters – a site they refer to as a “car burial ground.” In one video shot there this past summer, an Israeli army tour guide says that the scrapyard contains “1,650 vehicles that were brought here.”
In one ambulance alone, he says, from the ash and “human dust” they recovered, the remains of 18 people were found.
Whatever the true figure of the Israelis dead from “Hannibal” attacks by Israel, it does seem entirely plausible that Israel killed hundreds of the Israelis who died during the course of the offensive.
The whitewash
For the last year, there has been a systematic cover-up by Israel.
Most of the Israeli reporting on this has been in Hebrew only. And not due to lack of access to English language media.
The lead author of the 7 Days investigation was Ronen Bergman – who is also a high profile New York Times reporter and bestselling author of several hagiographies of the Mossad and other Israeli spy agencies.
Bergman has yet to write about the Hannibal Directive in English in The New York Times or elsewhere.
Very few autopsies were carried out – not on the dead at Pessi Cohen’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri at any rate.
In the case of that particular crime, it would have likely been impossible anyway. Barak Hiram’s tank shelling meant most of his Israeli victims were burned to cinders – including 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni.
Many bodies were prematurely buried. Israeli cars destroyed in apparent “Hannibal” killings were crushed by Israeli authorities before being buried in the “cemetery” on a religious pretext.
The UN commission’s report criticizes Israel for barring them access to the country. “Israeli officials not only refused to cooperate with the commission’s investigation but also reportedly barred medical professionals and others from being in contact,” the report states.
In a whitewash “investigation” of the killings at Pessi Cohen’s house, the army in July largely cleared Barak Hiram of any wrongdoing.
The remains of the house have now been demolished by the army.
Last month, Hiram was promoted – appointed head of the humbled Gaza Division.
His predecessor, Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld had quit over his failure to prevent the 7 October 2023 offensive.
Comparing the assault with Egypt’s surprise October 1973 offensive to regain territories occupied by Israel, one high-level source who was in the “Pit” military headquarters deep under Tel Aviv that day, recalled to Bergman and Zitun the following words that were intoned.
“It is unimaginable. It’s like the Old City of Jerusalem in the War of Independence or the outposts along the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. We thought that this could never happen again.”
“This will remain a scar burnt into our flesh forever.”
With additional research by Maureen Murphy and translation from Hebrew by Dena Shunra.
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate editor with The Electronic Intifada. He is author of the book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (OR Books, 2023).
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But the evidence shows that many of these bombings were carried out by Israel itself, under its deadly “Hannibal Directive.” Jim HollanderUPI (photo) A year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, independent examination of hundreds of videos, a recent pro-Israel film broadcast by the BBC and Paramount+ about the Supernova rave, official Israeli figures of the dead and a little-read UN Human Rights Council report has revealed that during the October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood offensive, Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians… In fact, “Hannibal” began less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began… By Asa Winstanley, reposted from The Electronic Intifada 7, October 2024 One year ago today Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched an unprecedented military offensive out of the Gaza Strip. The immediate goal was to inflict a shattering blow against Israel’s army bases and militarized settlements which have besieged Gaza’s inhabitants for decades – all of which are built on land that Palestinian families were expelled from in 1948. The bigger goal was to shatter a status quo in which Israel, the United States and their accomplices believed they had effectively sidelined the Palestinian cause, and to bring that struggle for liberation back to the forefront of world attention. “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” as Hamas called it, was, by any objective military measure, a stunning success. It was said at Israel’s military headquarters that day that “the Gaza Division was overpowered,” a high-level source present later recalled to Israeli journalists. “These words still give me the chills.” Covered from the air by armed drones and a barrage of rockets – which opened the offensive at 6:26 am exactly – Palestinian fighters launched a lightening raid over the Gaza boundary line. The army bases were conquered for hours. Some of the settlements still had an armed Palestinian presence two days later. The military communications infrastructure was instantly smashed. Simultaneous attacks took place by land, air and sea. Palestinian drones took out tanks, guard posts and watchtowers. Caught completely unprepared, most of the soldiers manning the bases were either killed or captured and taken back to Gaza as prisoners of war. A reported 255 Israelis were captured, including soldiers and civilians. Since then, 154 of them have been released, mostly by Hamas in November’s prisoner exchange. However, the figure of those released also includes some bodies of dead captives, mostly killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza. Of the remaining 101 prisoners, 35 have been officially declared dead by Israel. The real number is likely much higher. Many have been killed by Israeli carpet bombing, and three escaped prisoners were shot dead by Israeli ground troops in Gaza City in December. Al-Aqsa Flood was the first time in history that Palestinian armed groups were able to retake Palestinian territories lost since 1948, however briefly. Israel’s response was also unprecedented, if not in its nature then undoubtedly in its scale – an undisguised genocide against the population of Gaza. One “conservative” estimate published by the British medical journal The Lancet in July stated that as many as 186,000 Palestinians are likely to have been killed by Israel so far – almost 10 percent of Gaza’s population. The UN says that 90 percent of people in Gaza have been driven out of their homes by Israel and that about a quarter of all structures in the strip have been destroyed. The Western press took its lead from official Israeli disinformation. It was soon awash with lurid atrocity propaganda. These lies about rape and beheaded babies were swiftly debunked by The Electronic Intifada and a small group of other independent media – often at the cost of being smeared by mainstream media and banned or censored by social media giants like YouTube. Trying to paper over the cracks of its military and intelligence defeat, Israel has also been desperate to cover up another major scandal. That Israel killed hundreds of its own people between 7 and 9 October 2023. The regime ideologically justified this within Israeli society using a well-established national murder-suicide pact known in Israel as the “Hannibal Directive.” The Electronic Intifada today presents a full overview of how Israel killed so many of its own people during the Palestinian offensive. This article is based on a year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, independent examination of hundreds of videos, a recent pro-Israel film broadcast by the BBC and Paramount+ about the Supernova rave, official Israeli figures of the dead and a little-read UN Human Rights Council report. We can conclude that during the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive: Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians. The use of such “Hannibal” strikes are confirmed in a UN report published in June. Fire from Israeli helicopters, drones, tanks and even ground troops was deliberately undertaken in order to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking live Israeli captives who could be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. At the initiative of the local Gaza Division, “Hannibal” was carried out right away: less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began. By midday, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military (the so-called “Pit” headquarters, deep under Israel’s Hakirya building in downtown Tel Aviv) to invoke the Hannibal Directive throughout the entire region, “even if this means the endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves.” This bombing of Israeli captives by Israel continues in Gaza even today. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a December meeting with released captives and families of captives that they had been “under our bombardments” in Gaza. Hundreds of Israelis were likely killed by Israel itself in “Hannibal” targeting incidents as well as unintentional crossfire. Israel has been engaged in an aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people. Killing their own people If Hamas made a miscalculation in the planning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, it was perhaps to overestimate the value Israeli planners assigned to the lives of their own people. In 2006, Hamas successfully captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit, exchanging him for 1,024 Palestinian prisoners in 2011 – including the current leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar. A similar exchange was made with the Lebanese resistance in 2008. Although exchanging prisoners is a common element of conflict, Israeli leaders felt weakened and embarrassed by what they saw as compromises. So they secretly modified their policies, preparing to strike with lethal force against their own people in the event of future captures. At the heart of these plans was the Hannibal Directive, established in secret by Israeli generals in 1986, and named after an ancient Carthaginian general who killed himself rather than be captured alive by the Roman Empire. Initially, the doctrine was targeted at soldiers. In 2014, captured Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin was killed in a deliberate artillery strike during Israel’s August invasion of the Gaza Strip. Up to 200 Palestinian civilians were killed in the bombardment on Rafah, including 75 children. As a result, the secretive military doctrine was forced into the light. Despite continued obfuscation, the Israeli military admitted that the directive existed and may have been used on an Israeli solider. Two years later, the Israeli military distanced itself from the directive, claiming that “the order as it is understood today” would be canceled. “This move was not necessarily a full change in policy but a clarification,” The Times of Israel reported in 2016. Yet multiple Israeli press reports have now confirmed that Hannibal was not only reactivated on 7 October – if it ever truly went away – but was actually extended to captured Israeli civilians on their way to Gaza. Bombing Israelis on the road to Gaza Overestimating Israel’s humanity, Hamas may have been ignorant of this possibility in its two-year preparation and training for the offensive. Over the past year, the group has repeatedly agreed to exchange Israeli prisoners for Palestinian prisoners. But aside from the Israeli captives released during the four-day pause in November (including the children and noncombatant captives) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adamantly refused to make a deal. Instead, Israel has systematically bombed every part of the Gaza Strip – including areas where the Israeli captives are being held. Israelis released in the November prisoner exchange have told the media that the main threat to their lives while they were held in Gaza was not Hamas, but Israeli attacks. Chen Almog-Goldstein and three of her children were at one point held in a Gazan supermarket which was bombed by Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December admitted in a meeting with the relatives of Israeli captives held in Gaza that they had been “under our bombardments”. (Ynet) (photo) “It was atrocious,” she told The Guardian. “It was the first time we really felt like our lives were in danger.” The bombing “was closing up on us to the point where the Hamas guards put mattresses over us on the floor to cover us, and then they covered us with their bodies to protect us from our own forces’ shooting.” In a town hall-style meeting with relatives of the captives, Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that captives had been “under our bombardments and our [military] activity there,” Hebrew news site Ynet reported in December. “Every day in captivity was very hard,” one former detainee said at the angry meeting. “I was in a house when there were bombardments all around. We were sitting in tunnels and we were very afraid that, not Hamas, but Israel would kill us, and then they’ll say: ‘Hamas killed you.’” Another released detainee said: “The fact is that I was in a hideaway that was bombed, and we had to be smuggled away, and we were injured. Not to mention that we were shot at by a helicopter when we were on our way to Gaza … You are bombing the tunnel routes exactly in the area where they [the other captives] are.” As the second released detainee’s testimony about being shot at by a helicopter on the way to Gaza proves, the captives were also killed and attacked by Israel while Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was still happening. Within the first hour of the offensive, Israeli forces began shooting and bombing Israeli captives on their way to Gaza. “Hannibal at Erez” An investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz based on documents and testimonies of soldiers found evidence that these Hannibal attacks came at least as early as 7:18 am – only 52 minutes after the start of the offensive. The Haaretz piece was published in English in July. But the paper lagged six months behind its competitor, Yedioth Ahronoth. In January, Yedioth’s weekend supplement 7 Days ran a landmark investigative piece laying out a timeline of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive from the Israeli military perspective. The paper has never published an official English translation of the article. The Electronic Intifada remains the only publication in the world to release a full professional translation, which you can read here. The 7 Days investigation found that “at midday of October 7th, the IDF [Israeli military] instructed all its fighting units to perform the Hannibal Directive in practice, although it did so without stating that name explicitly.” Well-sourced Israeli military and intelligence reporters Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun explained in the long piece that “the instruction was to stop ‘at any cost’ any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, using language very similar to that of the original Hannibal Directive.” In contrast to the 7 Days investigation, the more recent Haaretz piece found that the name of the doctrine was explicitly invoked – and very early on: “One of these decisions was made at 7:18 am … ‘Hannibal at Erez.’” Erez is the massive Israeli military checkpoint and base caging Palestinians into the north of the Gaza Strip. It had been totally overrun by Palestinian fighters and besieged Israeli troops seem to have called for an airstrike on their own position. That the 7 Days investigation reached the conclusion Hannibal was invoked from the top of Israel’s military hierarchy is crucial. It shows that the reactivation and expansion of the Hannibal Directive that day was not a matter of rogue individual troops or of simple chaos and confusion. It was a matter of policy. Orders and chaos Hannibal was ordered from the top after the generals under the Hakirya building in Tel Aviv realized that Israeli soldiers and settlers all over the Gaza frontier region were being captured en masse. They wanted the captives dead as soon as possible. Israeli troops in the field had been trained in the procedure for years and immediately understood what they had to do. A report by a UN commission quotes one tank commander who opened fire at Israeli captives coming from the settlement of Nir Oz. “Something in my gut feeling made me think that they [his soldiers] could be on them [the vehicles heading to Gaza],” he said. “Yes, I could have killed them, but I decided that this is the right decision. I prefer stopping the abduction so they won’t be taken.” Ending Israelis’ captivity by killing them is the Hannibal doctrine in a nutshell. In November last year, Nof Erez, an Israeli Air Force colonel, admitted to a Hebrew-language podcast that the response to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood “was a mass Hannibal.” There was also an incredibly chaotic situation that day. In a separate article by Yoav Zitun, the Israeli military admitted to an “immense and complex quantity” of what it called “friendly fire” incidents. Caught entirely off guard over a Jewish holiday weekend, Israeli forces found themselves unable to communicate with each other after the Palestinians destroyed the communications infrastructure. The 7 Days investigation found that “40 percent of the communication sites such as towers with relay antennas … near the Gaza Strip … were destroyed by Hamas” that morning. Even the Palestinian resistance was caught off guard by the sheer scope of its own success. And, to an extent, there was a degree of chaos in the Palestinian fighters’ assault. Collateral damage? Soon after the initial wave of Hamas’ vanguard commandos (known as the Nukhba force, Arabic for “elite”) breached the fence in almost 50 locations, smaller armed groups – including Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – joined in. About an hour after the offensive started, a wave of Palestinian civilians began to flow through the breaches in the fence and managed to enter their homeland. Some of these people seem to have attacked or captured Israeli noncombatants in the militarized settlements that surround Gaza. The chaotic situation, combined with Israel’s use of its own civilians as human shields to besiege and occupy Gaza also meant that not all the Israeli casualties of the Palestinian resistance that day were combatants. Despite efforts by the Western media and politicians to paint a picture of evil, baby-killing Palestinian “terrorists” rampaging around southern Israel slaughtering as many civilians as possible, it is clear that Israeli noncombatants were often caught in the crossfire between armed Israeli forces and the Palestinian fighters. Pitched battles broke out all over the region. Roughly 1,000-3,000 Palestinian fighters are estimated to have been involved. Despite the common misconception that the Israeli army was nowhere to be found that day, the UN report and the 7 Days investigation concluded that Israeli combatants were present all over the region, and from very early on. Within the first 24 minutes of the assault, the Israeli military scrambled at least six armed aircraft: two F-16 bombers, two F-35 bombers and two of the lethal Hermes 450 drones made by Elbit Systems. Two more aircraft – Apache attack helicopters – also arrived at the Be’eri settlement within one hour. The UN report says that it “confirmed that at least eight Apache helicopters were dispatched to the area around the Gaza border on 7 October” and that “some 23 tanks were stationed throughout the whole border area with Gaza” (Editor’s note: in fact, Israel has no declared borders). Human shields But there is also no doubt that the Israelis were overwhelmed, briefly outgunned and often outsmarted by the Palestinian fighters. The battle for Kibbutz Be’eri, for example, continued over the course of three days. Nonetheless, the presence of armed Israeli combatants embedded throughout the civilian population – often using the latter as effective human shields – speaks to the operational challenges faced by Hamas on the ground that day. The UN report even documents some cases of Israeli “civilians” picking up weapons to engage in clashes with the Palestinian fighters. Hamas’ deputy political leader Khalil al-Hayya said in an interview with the BBC last week that its fighters had been told not to target civilians during the assault, but that there were individual failings in sticking to that plan. He also alluded to the military difficulties faced by Palestinians trying to distinguish who was who: “Fighters may have felt that they were in danger.” In a video released by Hamas’ armed wing on 10 October 2023, the Al Qassam Brigades showed how they had swiftly taken over the Nahal Oz military base three days earlier, supported from the air by sophisticaled but inexpensive drone technology. The base straddles the boundary line with Gaza. In “Our Narrative,” a document Hamas released in January, the group admitted, “Maybe some faults happened during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’s implementation due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system, and the chaos caused along the border areas with Gaza.” One such “fault” was the fact that Hamas’ intelligence branch seems not to have anticipated the presence of the all-night “Supernova” trance music rave. This event took place in open fields less than three miles from the Re’im military base. Re’im was the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Gaza Division – the number one target of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive. But the separation between Israeli settler “civilians” and Israeli combatants is not always clear cut. Planted around the Gaza region mostly after the forced expulsion of the Palestinians by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army between 1947 and 1949, the settlements besieging Gaza were conceived by Israeli military doctrine as a belt of human shields to protect Israel’s occupation and suppress the far bigger population of Gaza. The population of the Gaza Strip is more than 80 percent refugees – those expelled from their homes in order to make room for the new state of Israel in 1948 and after, along with their descendants. One of these so-called “Gaza Envelope” settlements, founded in 1951, is even called “Magen” – literally the Hebrew for “shield.” Another, Nahal Oz, was established as an explicitly military settlement. According to the Jewish National Fund, a colonial arm of the Israeli state, Nahal Oz was intended to “supply the IDF with soldiers.” It was also intended to “become a civilian center and serve as the first line of defense against potential future Arab invasions while providing a base of operations and resources for military forces operating in peripheral regions.” UN laundering of Israeli propaganda In June this year, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report: “Detailed findings on attacks carried out on and after 7 October 2023 in Israel.” What little media attention it received tended to focus on how the report (along with an accompanying document focusing on Gaza) had concluded that “Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes,” as The Guardian put it. The report’s authors described themselves as an “independent international commission of inquiry” into the offensive. For the most part, the report does not disclose its sources. The authors say that this is due to unspecified “protection concerns.” Nonetheless, it is clear from the instances where the report does disclose its sources that they relied almost entirely on Israeli claims. Where it does cite Palestinian sources, they are for the most part bodycam videos from killed or captured fighters. These were released by the Israeli occupation authorities and are highly likely to have been subjected to selective editing. Therefore it is unsurprising to find that the document ends up, for the most part, siding with the debunked Israeli narrative about Palestinian atrocities. It does this to the point of absurdity at times. In one instance, the commission of inquiry reverses the chronology of events to give the impression that a Palestinian fighter deliberately executed an Israeli baby at Kibbutz Be’eri, after they had broken into a room. Yet, according to press reports, the death was actually the tragic result of a stray bullet. Milla Cohen, a 10-month-old baby, died when a Palestinian fighter shot through a door before he broke into a room in a settlement house to take captives. Even worse, the UN report appears to rely heavily on the discredited Jewish extremist group ZAKA as a source, citing it once explicitly, and frequently citing it obliquely as unnamed “first responders.” These “first responders” then tell lurid stories about supposed Palestinian “war crimes.” And yet even the report admits that ZAKA is “not trained or equipped to manage large, complex crime scenes and may have also tainted, or even tampered with, evidence” (emphasis added). “One first responder working for ZAKA” – who the report does not name – “provided inaccurate and exaggerated accounts of findings in media interviews.” This may have been a reference to senior ZAKA leader Yossi Landau. Landau was forced by Al Jazeera journalists to admit on camera – for a documentary broadcast in March – that his initial story about Palestinian fighters executing 10 Israeli children by burning them alive was a fiction. Confronted with his own lack of evidence, Landau admitted: “When you look at them and they’re burned you don’t know exactly the ages. So you’re talking about 18 years old, 20 years old … you just don’t look on the spot … to see the ages or something like that.” Landau was later forced to step back from his position in the group after internal disputes over money and power. Hannibal strikes confirmed by UN Despite the report’s authors apparently trying their best to launder Israeli atrocity propaganda into the UN system, the document does nevertheless contain an astonishing collection of evidence confirming The Electronic Intifada’s reporting over the last year that Israel itself killed many, if not most, of the Israelis that day. Some of the evidence in the UN report is only oblique, and requires cross referencing with Hebrew-language media reports about the Hannibal doctrine and the unprecedented way it was used on 7 October 2023. But some of it is explicit. Over the course of three pages, the report details some of what is known about “the application of the ‘Hannibal Directive’” that day. The commission wrote that it “documented strong indications that the ‘Hannibal Directive’ was used in several instances on 7 October, harming Israelis at the same time as striking Palestinian militants.” In its section on the Hannibal Directive, the UN report even states that “Israeli helicopters were present at the Nova site and may have shot at targets on the ground, including civilian vehicles.” It states that “one or two helicopters” were “present over the Nova festival site in the mid-morning hours.” This is something The Electronic Intifada first reported in November. The UN report cites the testimony of two unnamed witnesses to back this up, including an Israeli army “reserve brigadier general, who fought against militants near a parked tank close to the Nova site” and explained that “he called the Gaza Battalion to request an attack helicopter.” The presence of attack helicopters – and of at least one tank – in the battle for the Supernova rave site could also go some way towards explaining the high number of noncombatant casualties among the fleeing rave attendees that morning. The Supernova rave Held in a location less than four miles away from the massive open-air prison camp that is the Gaza Strip, Supernova was put on by an event management company calling itself the “Tribe of Nova.” Its defenders have condemned the Palestinian fighters for attacking a “peace festival,” while the event’s critics have decried it as akin to German civilians dancing outside the gates of Auschwitz during the Nazi Holocaust. Often referred to as the “Nova music festival” by Western media, the event on its official webpage actually named itself the “Supernova Sukkot Gathering.” A recent film about the event showed that it was more akin to the illegal raves often organized in secret locations in many Western countries. Supernova was not illegal and was coordinated with the local Israeli police force (which was armed and present in advance to guard the event). But for reasons that are not entirely clear, the rave’s location was not announced until 6 October. Participants in the high profile Israeli film We Will Dance Again confirmed that the Supernova location was kept secret from ticket holders until the last minute. This (rather than any confusion about the days of the event or extension of the time, as is sometimes erroneously said online) explains why Hamas had no clue about the presence of the rave in the fields between Gaza and the biggest military base in the area – the regional headquarters at Re’im. The Supernova deaths The rave is often reported to be the largest single site of deaths that took place on 7 October. The UN report said that 364 out of the 3,000 total ravers were “killed either at the site, near Kibbutz Re’im or in adjacent locations.” But a detailed breakdown of the deaths recently published by The Times of Israel (based on an Israeli TV channel’s investigation) shows that more than 60 percent of this figure actually died outside of the designated grounds of the rave. This is important for two reasons. Firstly, despite the fact that the film We Will Dance Again tries to paint a picture of villainous Palestinian terrorists deliberately attacking civilians, it is clear from all available evidence that the rave was not a planned target of the Hamas offensive that day. Indeed, the secret location of the event meant that a few Palestinian fighters – perhaps some from armed factions and probably some armed civilians – stumbled on the event in the course of their assault on the military bases. Armed clashes with the Israeli forces – including police, soldiers and at least one tank, as well as armed Israeli “civilians” present – swiftly ensued. Israeli intelligence has concluded that the Palestinians had no prior knowledge of the rave. Secondly, the breakdown published by The Times of Israel places the deaths of ravers outside the rave grounds as far away as Sderot (11 miles north of the Supernova site) and the Re’im military base (only 2.3 miles south) Plotting these sites of death onto Google Earth and cross referencing them with the sites of ambushes set up by Hamas’ elite commando force – as detailed by the 7 Days investigation – shows the two often coincide. It is therefore likely that the deaths of some of these fleeing ravers were the unintended consequences of Palestinian ambushes set up to intercept Israeli army reinforcements headed to the region. “While many reinforcements were flowing south,” Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun wrote in the 7 Days investigation, Hamas’ commando force “had foreseen these reinforcements and took over the strategic junctions … where they awaited the forces … a lot of blood was shed at those junctions, both of soldiers and of civilians.” The 7 Days piece also relates instances of Israeli soldiers rushing south to join the fight on their own initiative – including in their own civilian vehicles. “Commanders who had already learned from the media or from friends that something was going on … scrambled to get to the Gaza Envelope,” Bergman and Zitun explained. One brigade commander told the journalists that, “I came with my private vehicle to the Yad Mordechai junction [2.3 miles north of the Erez checkpoint] after I saw [the attack] on the news at home.” Exploding houses in the settlements Evidence of deliberate Israeli “mass Hannibal” killings of Israeli civilians at the kibbutzim and other settlements surrounding Gaza is clear and undeniable. Video footage and press reports of the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive show that many buildings in the settlements were completely destroyed, in a manner consistent with heavy weaponry only known by military experts to be in the possession of the Israeli military, and not in the possession of Palestinian fighters. While some buildings and cars did show signs of being burned, many others were clearly bombed from the air by Israeli drones and attack helicopters or shelled by Israeli tanks. Nof Erez, the Israeli Air Force colonel who admitted that 7 October was a “mass Hannibal” event, answered positively when asked by the interviewer if they “exploded all kinds of houses inside the settlements.” Erez insisted that his pilots only did so with “permission” from their superior officers. “I saw numerous drones above every settlement on a computer image, which we can see in every IDF [Israeli military] command,” he explained. Footage on Israeli TV has shown Israeli tanks present and firing in the settlement of Kibbutz Be’eri. Most infamously, Brigadier General Barak Hiram admitted to ordering his tanks to fire at Pessi Cohen’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri – “even at the cost of the civilians,” as he told The New York Times. Palestinian fighters from Hamas had taken 15 people captive and held them at the home, while they attempted to negotiate their exit to Gaza. Investigations by The Electronic Intifada have concluded that most of the dead were highly likely to have been killed by Hiram’s assault. The Electronic Intifada was the first to publish in English the eyewitness account of survivor Yasmin Porat who said that the Israeli troops arrived at the scene and “eliminated everyone” with heavy gunfire and tank shelling. Porat, Palestinian commander Hasan Hamduna (who surrendered) and one other captive – Hadas Dagan – were the only three survivors of Barak Hiram’s massacre. Dagan insisted in testimony to Porat – which The Electronic Intifada first reported in November last year – that everyone else in and around the building was either shot or “burned completely” by the Israeli tank fire. The victims of this apocalypse included 12-year-old Israeli twins, Liel and Yanai Hatsroni. Sickeningly, Liel’s photo was later used in official Israeli propaganda which falsely claimed that Hamas had massacred and burned the girl to death. “Murdered in her home by Hamas monsters … just because she’s Jewish,” former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett lied. Hannibal at Supernova? What is still unclear about the Supernova rave is how many of the dead were killed by Palestinians, and whether any were killed in “Hannibal” attacks by Israel. Unlike in the more built-up areas such as the military bases and the kibbutzim – where there is clear visual evidence of bombed buildings and conclusive eyewitness accounts – the visual situation in and around the Supernova site was more chaotic. There were few built-up structures for Israeli aircraft or tanks to explode, as they did in the settlements. Video and other photographic evidence does show that the fields around the exit of the site next to the armed Israeli checkpoint were intensively burned and blackened. It is unclear whether this was the result of the helicopter or tank attacks, or the result of fires which may have caught alight after Palestinian rocket-propelled grenade strikes. What is known is that Israeli armed forces on site set up a roadblock at the main exit, causing a massive backlog of cars waiting to leave the site. Many ravers ended up fleeing on foot, east across the fields as the firefight broke out. While the We Will Dance Again film conspicuously fails to mention the roadblock set up by Israeli forces, an early CNN report does show the roadblock on its map of the scene, and The Times of Israel report states that it was probably set up as early as 7:00 am. Journalist William Van Wagenen has detailed in a report for The Cradle that the roadblock likely led to Israeli forces unintentionally trapping some escaping ravers in a firefight between them and Palestinian fighters advancing on the Re’im military base from the north. Psychoactive drugs One thing that is clear from both We Will Dance Again and a Haaretz interview with an Israeli psychologist who has treated survivors is that the use of psychoactive drugs at the rave was widespread. As participants arrived at the site on the night of 6 October, “everyone’s saying that they’re going to get so high,” one participant in the film recalled. According to the Haaretz interview and to the film, ravers used ecstasy, acid, cocaine, magic mushrooms and possibly ketamine. Worse, many of the ravers had deliberately timed their dosages to kick in at sunrise – which turned out to be just before the Palestinian offensive began – with rocket salvos from Gaza starting at 6:26 am. “This sucks so much! Everyone is high,” one participant in the film recalled feeling as the rockets soared overhead. Acid, another explained, “can make things seem much worse.” Psychedelic drugs, the Israeli psychologist explained, can lead to a situation in which “parts of the unconscious also rise to consciousness.” All of this makes it unlikely that many ravers were in a fit state to discern whether they were being shot at by Israelis, Palestinians or both as they ran for their lives. Although the existence of the Hannibal Directive is an open secret inside Israel, its use on Israeli civilian targets was – as far as we know – unprecedented before 7 October 2023. Hannibal attacks all over the south About 105 residents were killed at Kibbutz Be’eri. It is currently unknown how many of those were killed by Palestinians and how many by Israelis. The UN report states that “at least 57 structures in the kibbutz were destroyed or sustained damage, amounting to more than one third of all residential buildings.” Many of these appear from the visual evidence to have been destroyed by Israel. But one important fact to bear in mind is that Israel’s “Hannibal” massacre of Israelis at Be’eri was repeated all over the region. We only know so much about the Pessi Cohen house massacre because two civilians survived to tell their story. Similar incidents happened elsewhere. But in most places, there were few survivors, especially of the aerial bombardments. An all-female tank unit commandeered a military vehicle it was untrained to use and stormed through the gates of Holit, an Israeli settlement near the boundary with Egypt and the frontier with Gaza, more than 14 miles south of the Supernova rave. “We break into the community, crash the gate,” one of the soldiers told Israeli Channel 12. “The soldier points and tells me, ‘Shoot there, the terrorists are there.’ I ask him, ‘Are there civilians there?’ He says, ‘I don’t know, just shoot.’” The tank commander then claims she decided not to shoot – but immediately contradicts herself: “I fire with my machine gun at a house.” Similar to the visual evidence of Hannibal attacks on Israelis by Israel at Kibbutz Be’eri, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada last year also concluded that the same sort of house explosions took place at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The UN report lists a surprisingly high number of places where Hannibal attacks possibly or certainly took place. Outside the Israeli settlement of Nirim (which lies on the path between the Palestinian city of Khan Younis and the Gaza Division’s Re’im military headquarters) one Israeli tank crew departed to Nir Oz, another nearby settlement. Once there, the UN report states, “they noticed hundreds of people crossing into Israel and back to Gaza and they shot at them, including at vehicles laden with people, some of whom may have been hostages” (emphasis added). The next paragraph of the report hints at the possibility of similar incidents at Nitzana, Kissufim and Holit. How many were killed by Israel? Despite initially claiming that 1,400 people were “murdered by Hamas” on 7 October last year, Israel soon began revising the figure downwards. In November, the Israeli government announced that 200 out of this figure were in fact Hamas fighters. They had been so badly burned by Israeli bombings they were completely unidentifiable. This demonstrates how indiscriminate much of Israel’s fire was that day. The Israeli death count now stands at 1,154, according to Al Jazeera. Of these, at least 314 are said in the UN report to have been “Israeli military personnel.” In March, a comprehensive survey of three Israeli death tolls in Hebrew by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit put the number of armed combatants higher, totaling 372. As well as soldiers, the Al Jazeera figure includes police, security guards (i.e. armed settlement militias) and “security personnel.” The 7 Days investigation concluded that officers from the Shin Bet – the undercover Israeli “internal security” agency – were also sent to join the battle in the south: “In the course of the fighting, 10 of the organization’s people were killed.” The English edition of the Haaretz database of the dead revealed the names of three of these people – Yossi Tahar, Smadar Mor Idan and Omer Gvera. None of the three are listed in the database as combatants. It is therefore likely that the other seven dead Shin Bet combatants are also secretly listed as “civilians” on the database. Al Jazeera’s raw data – provided by the investigative unit to The Electronic Intifada for this article – reveals that its figures of “security personnel” does indeed name eight Shin Bet officers among the dead. The 372 declared combatants plus the two undeclared Shin Bet officers gives us 374 dead combatants – almost a third of the total dead Israelis. Taking those away from the 1,154 total dead leaves us with a maximum of 780 dead Israeli civilians. This means that at least 41 percent of the initial (erroneous) figure of 1,400 dead were actually combatants – mostly Israelis, but including 200 of the dead Palestinian fighters. “Everyone in the vehicle was killed” If a maximum of 780 unarmed Israelis died during the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive, how many of these were killed by Israel and how many by Palestinians? The current answer to this question is that it is impossible to know without a truly independent international investigation. And, as the UN report makes clear, Israel is blocking just such an investigation. “The commission considers that Israel is obstructing its investigations into events on and since 7 October 2023, both in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territory.” But it is possible for us to reach some tentative conclusions. Al Jazeera’s investigative film found that “at least 18” of the noncombatant dead were definitely killed by Israeli ground troops and that at least 27 of the Israelis in Palestinian captivity “died somewhere between their home and the Gaza fence in circumstances that have not been explained.” But Al Jazeera’s raw data shows that these are very well-attested and deliberate Hannibal killings, such as the infamous Pessi Cohen house massacre carried out by Barak Hiram. This doesn’t take account of several other key figures, from which we can extrapolate a possible rough idea of the order of magnitude of the overall Hannibal and unintentional “friendly fire” deaths. A video released by Israel in October last year unintentionally gave away some very strong evidence that the Hannibal Directive was used on Israeli captives on the road to Gaza. (Israel MFA) The 7 Days investigation states that Israeli military investigators “examined some 70 vehicles that … did not reach Gaza because on their way they had been hit by fire from a helicopter gunship, a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] or a tank, and at least in some of the cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed” (emphasis added). It is unknown how many Israelis those 70 vehicles contained, but given what is known about other incidents, some cars probably contained several. These vehicles alone may have accounted for a very large number of Israeli civilian deaths. Palestinian captors often packed multiple Israeli prisoners into pickup trucks, expropriated cars and even in some cases trailers dragged by tractors. Fleeing Israelis did likewise. One raver in the We Will Dance Again film describes desperately packing into cars to escape the Supernova site. There were “a million people inside” the car, he recalled. “Half my body is outside,” he added, explaining that he was hanging out of the window. Israeli combat helicopter footage released online and compiled in the Al Jazeera film shows one video of about a dozen people fleeing a packed car as they are fired on by the Israelis. Their fates are unknown. The film shows many similar videos. It’s unclear where exactly near Gaza these incidents took place. You can watch the full film on Al Jazeera’s website or in the YouTube video embedded below (due to the platform’s age restrictions, you will need an appropriate YouTube account). A November news report on the Israeli website *Ynet* quoted a helicopter pilot as saying that “in the first four hours from the start of the battles” alone, Israeli aircraft “attacked about 300 targets, most in Israeli territory.” The report stated that they were commanded to “shoot at everything” near the fence with Gaza. The reporter of the Hebrew piece was Yoav Zitun, the co-author of the 7 Days investigation, a well-sourced Israeli military reporter close to the intelligence and military establishment. The drone operators seem to have been even more deadly than the helicopter pilots. The 7 Days piece says they often “took decisions to attack” by themselves and that by the end of the day on 7 October, “the squadron performed no fewer than 110 attacks on some 1,000 targets, most of which were inside Israel.” If “targets” includes individual persons, it’s hard to know how many would have been Israelis. The pilots probably often did not know themselves. If a hit “target” also includes individual cars, the 1,000 targets hit could have easily resulted in hundreds of dead people. The car “cemetery” In November hundreds of the vehicles blown up during the Palestinian offensive were collected by Israeli troops and piled up in a scrapyard near the settlements of Tekuma and Netivot. Photos and drone footage of the scrapyard clearly showed many of the cars were completely flattened and twisted in a manner consistent with Israeli bombing from the air. In short, the cars looked very similar to the Palestinian cars (of both civilians and fighters) habitually bombed by Israel from the air in Gaza over the years. Today, it seems the scrapyard has become something of a tourist attraction for Israel and its supporters – a site they refer to as a “car burial ground.” In one video shot there this past summer, an Israeli army tour guide says that the scrapyard contains “1,650 vehicles that were brought here.” In one ambulance alone, he says, from the ash and “human dust” they recovered, the remains of 18 people were found. Whatever the true figure of the Israelis dead from “Hannibal” attacks by Israel, it does seem entirely plausible that Israel killed hundreds of the Israelis who died during the course of the offensive. The whitewash For the last year, there has been a systematic cover-up by Israel. Most of the Israeli reporting on this has been in Hebrew only. And not due to lack of access to English language media. The lead author of the 7 Days investigation was Ronen Bergman – who is also a high profile New York Times reporter and bestselling author of several hagiographies of the Mossad and other Israeli spy agencies. Bergman has yet to write about the Hannibal Directive in English in The New York Times or elsewhere. Very few autopsies were carried out – not on the dead at Pessi Cohen’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri at any rate. In the case of that particular crime, it would have likely been impossible anyway. Barak Hiram’s tank shelling meant most of his Israeli victims were burned to cinders – including 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni. Many bodies were prematurely buried. Israeli cars destroyed in apparent “Hannibal” killings were crushed by Israeli authorities before being buried in the “cemetery” on a religious pretext. The UN commission’s report criticizes Israel for barring them access to the country. “Israeli officials not only refused to cooperate with the commission’s investigation but also reportedly barred medical professionals and others from being in contact,” the report states. In a whitewash “investigation” of the killings at Pessi Cohen’s house, the army in July largely cleared Barak Hiram of any wrongdoing. The remains of the house have now been demolished by the army. Last month, Hiram was promoted – appointed head of the humbled Gaza Division. His predecessor, Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld had quit over his failure to prevent the 7 October 2023 offensive. Comparing the assault with Egypt’s surprise October 1973 offensive to regain territories occupied by Israel, one high-level source who was in the “Pit” military headquarters deep under Tel Aviv that day, recalled to Bergman and Zitun the following words that were intoned. “It is unimaginable. It’s like the Old City of Jerusalem in the War of Independence or the outposts along the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. We thought that this could never happen again.” “This will remain a scar burnt into our flesh forever.” With additional research by Maureen Murphy and translation from Hebrew by Dena Shunra. Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate editor with The Electronic Intifada. He is author of the book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (OR Books, 2023). RELATED: Western media ignores Israeli confirmation of Hannibal Directive on 7 Oct Col. Douglas MacGregor: US is under the control of Israel, likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7 American Media Keep Citing Zaka — though its October 7 atrocity stories are discredited in Israel Journalism professors call on New York Times to review Oct. 7 report Israeli propagandist behind Hamas ‘mass rape’ narrative exposed as grifter, fraud More https://israelpalestinenews.org/how-israel-killed-hundreds-of-its-own-people-on-october-7/0 Comments 0 Shares 19415 Views1 - For an article covering the title "India vs Pakistan, ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan Crumbles as India Takes Command," you can structure it to appeal to a wide audience by focusing on these key areas:
1. Introduction: Setting the Stage for the Rivalry
Briefly introduce the historical rivalry between India and Pakistan, emphasizing the significance of their encounters in any sport, particularly in cricket. Mention how their clashes attract global attention, not just from the subcontinent.
2. Match Overview: India’s Dominant Performance
Highlight India’s strong performance right from the start, whether it was their bowling, fielding, or batting. Describe key moments that led to India gaining control of the match, emphasizing how their strategy was superior in this particular game.
Add quotes from captains or key players, if available, to give insights into India’s game plan and execution.
3. Pakistan’s Struggles and Collapse
Detail how Pakistan began to falter during the match. Mention the critical moments that led to their collapse—whether it was losing wickets quickly or struggling to put runs on the board.
Point out standout performances from India's side that contributed to Pakistan's downfall, like a star bowler or a crucial partnership that turned the tide.
4. Standout Players: Heroes of the Match
Focus on individual performances from both sides. For India, spotlight players who made significant contributions, whether with bat or ball. Also, briefly mention any standout moments from Pakistan’s team, despite the loss.
You can compare key statistics, such as top scorers, wicket-takers, or turning points in the game that led to India’s domination.
5. Implications for the Tournament
Discuss what this victory means for India moving forward in the Women’s T20 World Cup. How does this affect their standing in the tournament, and what challenges lie ahead?
For Pakistan, analyze the road ahead and what they can improve on in their upcoming matches.
6. Audience Reactions and Global Interest
Bring in the fan perspective. Given the magnitude of an India-Pakistan match, highlight reactions on social media or from experts. Talk about the global interest in this encounter and how it’s more than just a game for fans.
7. Conclusion: The Bigger Picture
Conclude by summarizing India’s dominant victory and its significance in the broader context of the Women’s T20 World Cup. Reflect on the impact of this match on women’s cricket and how these high-stakes games are essential for growing the sport's popularity.
By structuring the article this way, you'll cover a variety of aspects—match details, player performances, fan engagement, and future tournament implications—making it appealing to a broad audience interested in the game, the rivalry, and the wider context of women's cricket.
For an article covering the title "India vs Pakistan, ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan Crumbles as India Takes Command," you can structure it to appeal to a wide audience by focusing on these key areas: 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage for the Rivalry Briefly introduce the historical rivalry between India and Pakistan, emphasizing the significance of their encounters in any sport, particularly in cricket. Mention how their clashes attract global attention, not just from the subcontinent. 2. Match Overview: India’s Dominant Performance Highlight India’s strong performance right from the start, whether it was their bowling, fielding, or batting. Describe key moments that led to India gaining control of the match, emphasizing how their strategy was superior in this particular game. Add quotes from captains or key players, if available, to give insights into India’s game plan and execution. 3. Pakistan’s Struggles and Collapse Detail how Pakistan began to falter during the match. Mention the critical moments that led to their collapse—whether it was losing wickets quickly or struggling to put runs on the board. Point out standout performances from India's side that contributed to Pakistan's downfall, like a star bowler or a crucial partnership that turned the tide. 4. Standout Players: Heroes of the Match Focus on individual performances from both sides. For India, spotlight players who made significant contributions, whether with bat or ball. Also, briefly mention any standout moments from Pakistan’s team, despite the loss. You can compare key statistics, such as top scorers, wicket-takers, or turning points in the game that led to India’s domination. 5. Implications for the Tournament Discuss what this victory means for India moving forward in the Women’s T20 World Cup. How does this affect their standing in the tournament, and what challenges lie ahead? For Pakistan, analyze the road ahead and what they can improve on in their upcoming matches. 6. Audience Reactions and Global Interest Bring in the fan perspective. Given the magnitude of an India-Pakistan match, highlight reactions on social media or from experts. Talk about the global interest in this encounter and how it’s more than just a game for fans. 7. Conclusion: The Bigger Picture Conclude by summarizing India’s dominant victory and its significance in the broader context of the Women’s T20 World Cup. Reflect on the impact of this match on women’s cricket and how these high-stakes games are essential for growing the sport's popularity. By structuring the article this way, you'll cover a variety of aspects—match details, player performances, fan engagement, and future tournament implications—making it appealing to a broad audience interested in the game, the rivalry, and the wider context of women's cricket.0 Comments 1 Shares 4602 Views - Iran Playing Major Role in Defeating Terrorism in Middle East: Mark Taliano
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A renowned author and political commentator from Canada praised Iran’s campaign against terrorism in the Middle East and said the Islamic Republic has been fighting the phenomenon while the West’s support for terror groups in the region is well documented.
“Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East; it has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts,” Mark Taliano said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.
“The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism,” he added.
Tasnim: As you know, the resistance forces and the armies in Syria and Iraq have recently liberated last strongholds of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in the Arab countries. What do you think about the recent military achievements? Do you have a positive perspective on the security situation?
Taliano: The Axis of Resistance is defeating all of the terrorist groups, all in accordance with international law, and with a view to bringing peace and stability to the Middle East and beyond. I have a very positive view on the security situation. New alliances and trade partnerships are being formed to strengthen the resistance against the criminal, terrorist-supporting regimes that oppose trajectories of peace and stability. US-led NATO and its allies, including Israel and the Persian Gulf monarchies, need to be held to account for their high crimes against sovereign states such as Syria, Iraq, and beyond.
US imperialism is creating globalized war and poverty. Thanks to the West’s illegal invasion of Libya — imperialism under the cover of the so-called “Responsibility To Protect”, Libya, now a failed state, is host to a growing slave trade, it is a hub for terrorists, including Daesh, and it is the source of multitudes of refugees. Libya was a “successful” regime change. Gaddafi was murdered, and a nation that previously boasted of the highest Human Development Index in Africa was destroyed.
The genocidal sanctions and ultimate illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq was also a successful Regime Change, in the sense that the country, its institutions, and its infrastructure were destroyed and plundered. Fortunately, Iraq is now rebounding.
The Regime Change in Ukraine was also successful in the sense that the elected government was overthrown, and the country is now divided, impoverished, and in a state of war. Yet another imperial success story.
The totality of the impacts of illegal warfare, post 9/11, and their enduring consequences, has created an overseas holocaust as described by Dr. Gideon Polya.
Tasnim: Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), recently declared the collapse of the Takfiri terror group in Iraq and Syria. What is your assessment of Iran’s role in the anti-terrorism campaign in the Middle East?
Taliano: Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East. It has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts. The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism.
The US-led Empire seeks to label Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a “terrorist” entity in its on-going campaign to destabilize and ultimately destroy Iran. If we recall General Wesley Clark’s earlier, public statements, the Pentagon’s plan was 7 countries in 5 years, and Iran is on the list.
Tasnim: Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Hassan Nasrallah said recently that despite the US claims about fighting terrorism, it spared no effort to help Daesh forces in the Syrian town of Al-Bukamal. “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” the Hezbollah leader said. What do you think about the remarks?
Taliano: The West and its allies have been directly supporting terrorist groups since well before the war on Syria started. The terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. All of this is well documented. Daesh has been a “covert proxy” for the West in Syria. In an earlier article, I described it as a “place setter”. The West infests an area with Daesh, then destroys the area under the fake pretext of going after Daesh, and then re-occupies the area with a new batch of terrorists. In the case of Raqqa, for example, the area was destroyed, Daesh was re-located to other fronts – with US coalition air support — and now “overt proxies”, the anti-democratic SDF Kurdish forces are the new occupiers.
In Deir ez-Zor and elsewhere the US has been brokering deals between Daesh and Kurdish forces with a view to advancing its imperial projects of occupation and plunder. Recently, original documents were discovered which detail the terms of a deal between Daesh and the SDF.
Now that the terrorists are being defeated, the West’s direct support is more transparent. The Hezbollah leader is being diplomatic when he states that “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” Daesh and all of the terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West.
Mark Taliano is an author and independent investigative reporter who recently returned from a trip to Syria with the Third International Tour of Peace to Syria. In his new book titled “Voices from Syria”, he combines years of research with on-the-ground observations to present an informed and well-documented analysis that refutes mainstream media narratives about the dirty war on Syria.
All of the post-9/11 wars were sold to Western audiences through a sophisticated network of interlocking governing agencies that disseminate propaganda to both domestic and foreign audiences. But the dirty war on Syria is different. The degree of war propaganda levelled at Syria and contaminating humanity at this moment is likely unprecedented. I had studied and written about Syria for years, so I was not entirely surprised by what I saw.
(Excerpt from Preface, Mark Taliano’s book “Voices from Syria“, Global Research Montreal, 2017)
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https://marktaliano.substack.com/p/iran-playing-major-role-in-defeating?triedRedirect=trueIran Playing Major Role in Defeating Terrorism in Middle East: Mark Taliano Mark Taliano Original Link Here: Iran Playing Major Role in Defeating Terrorism in Middle East: Mark Taliano - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization A renowned author and political commentator from Canada praised Iran’s campaign against terrorism in the Middle East and said the Islamic Republic has been fighting the phenomenon while the West’s support for terror groups in the region is well documented. “Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East; it has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts,” Mark Taliano said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency. “The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism,” he added. Tasnim: As you know, the resistance forces and the armies in Syria and Iraq have recently liberated last strongholds of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in the Arab countries. What do you think about the recent military achievements? Do you have a positive perspective on the security situation? Taliano: The Axis of Resistance is defeating all of the terrorist groups, all in accordance with international law, and with a view to bringing peace and stability to the Middle East and beyond. I have a very positive view on the security situation. New alliances and trade partnerships are being formed to strengthen the resistance against the criminal, terrorist-supporting regimes that oppose trajectories of peace and stability. US-led NATO and its allies, including Israel and the Persian Gulf monarchies, need to be held to account for their high crimes against sovereign states such as Syria, Iraq, and beyond. US imperialism is creating globalized war and poverty. Thanks to the West’s illegal invasion of Libya — imperialism under the cover of the so-called “Responsibility To Protect”, Libya, now a failed state, is host to a growing slave trade, it is a hub for terrorists, including Daesh, and it is the source of multitudes of refugees. Libya was a “successful” regime change. Gaddafi was murdered, and a nation that previously boasted of the highest Human Development Index in Africa was destroyed. The genocidal sanctions and ultimate illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq was also a successful Regime Change, in the sense that the country, its institutions, and its infrastructure were destroyed and plundered. Fortunately, Iraq is now rebounding. The Regime Change in Ukraine was also successful in the sense that the elected government was overthrown, and the country is now divided, impoverished, and in a state of war. Yet another imperial success story. The totality of the impacts of illegal warfare, post 9/11, and their enduring consequences, has created an overseas holocaust as described by Dr. Gideon Polya. Tasnim: Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), recently declared the collapse of the Takfiri terror group in Iraq and Syria. What is your assessment of Iran’s role in the anti-terrorism campaign in the Middle East? Taliano: Iran has played a very important role in defeating terrorism in the Middle East. It has acted in accordance with international law, and it is to be commended for its efforts. The US Empire projects its own criminality on “prey” nations, and Iran is in the crosshairs, but Iran has been fighting and destroying terrorism, whereas the West has been supporting and growing terrorism. The US-led Empire seeks to label Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a “terrorist” entity in its on-going campaign to destabilize and ultimately destroy Iran. If we recall General Wesley Clark’s earlier, public statements, the Pentagon’s plan was 7 countries in 5 years, and Iran is on the list. Tasnim: Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Hassan Nasrallah said recently that despite the US claims about fighting terrorism, it spared no effort to help Daesh forces in the Syrian town of Al-Bukamal. “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” the Hezbollah leader said. What do you think about the remarks? Taliano: The West and its allies have been directly supporting terrorist groups since well before the war on Syria started. The terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. All of this is well documented. Daesh has been a “covert proxy” for the West in Syria. In an earlier article, I described it as a “place setter”. The West infests an area with Daesh, then destroys the area under the fake pretext of going after Daesh, and then re-occupies the area with a new batch of terrorists. In the case of Raqqa, for example, the area was destroyed, Daesh was re-located to other fronts – with US coalition air support — and now “overt proxies”, the anti-democratic SDF Kurdish forces are the new occupiers. In Deir ez-Zor and elsewhere the US has been brokering deals between Daesh and Kurdish forces with a view to advancing its imperial projects of occupation and plunder. Recently, original documents were discovered which detail the terms of a deal between Daesh and the SDF. Now that the terrorists are being defeated, the West’s direct support is more transparent. The Hezbollah leader is being diplomatic when he states that “The US helped Daesh as much as it could in Al-Bukamal short of directly engaging forces that fought to liberate the town from Daesh,” Daesh and all of the terrorists are there because of the West, not despite the West. Mark Taliano is an author and independent investigative reporter who recently returned from a trip to Syria with the Third International Tour of Peace to Syria. In his new book titled “Voices from Syria”, he combines years of research with on-the-ground observations to present an informed and well-documented analysis that refutes mainstream media narratives about the dirty war on Syria. All of the post-9/11 wars were sold to Western audiences through a sophisticated network of interlocking governing agencies that disseminate propaganda to both domestic and foreign audiences. But the dirty war on Syria is different. The degree of war propaganda levelled at Syria and contaminating humanity at this moment is likely unprecedented. I had studied and written about Syria for years, so I was not entirely surprised by what I saw. (Excerpt from Preface, Mark Taliano’s book “Voices from Syria“, Global Research Montreal, 2017) Order directly from Global Research (also available in PDF) https://marktaliano.substack.com/p/iran-playing-major-role-in-defeating?triedRedirect=true0 Comments 0 Shares 6257 Views1 - Kevin De Bruyne: The Maestro of Modern Football
Kevin De Bruyne has established himself as one of the most exceptional midfielders in football history, renowned for his unparalleled vision, incisive passing, and tactical intelligence. Playing for Manchester City and the Belgian national team, De Bruyne's ability to dictate the pace and flow of a match has earned him a reputation as a modern football maestro.
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Born on June 28, 1991, in Drongen, Belgium, De Bruyne showcased remarkable talent from an early age. He began his professional career at K.R.C. Genk, where his performances in the Belgian Pro League drew attention from top European clubs. His time at Genk culminated in winning the Belgian Cup and laying the groundwork for his transition to a more prominent stage.
In 2012, De Bruyne signed with Chelsea FC in the English Premier League. However, his initial stint at the club was marked by limited playing time, leading to a loan spell at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. It was in Germany that De Bruyne truly began to flourish, displaying his incredible passing range and vision, ultimately catching the eye of scouts across Europe.
Rise to Prominence at Manchester City
In January 2015, Kevin De Bruyne made a pivotal move to Manchester City for a then-club-record fee. This transfer would mark the beginning of a transformative era, both for De Bruyne and the club. Under the management of Pep Guardiola, he evolved into a central figure in City’s midfield, contributing to the team’s attacking prowess with his exceptional ability to read the game and create scoring opportunities.
De Bruyne's playing style is characterized by his exceptional passing accuracy, ability to deliver pinpoint crosses, and an innate understanding of space. His vision allows him to execute ambitious through balls that split defenses, often leaving forwards in ideal positions to score. This combination of skills has made him not only a prolific playmaker but also a critical goal-scoring threat.
Throughout his tenure at Manchester City, De Bruyne has been instrumental in the club's domestic and European successes, including multiple Premier League titles and EFL Cups. His standout performances in crucial matches have solidified his status as one of the best midfielders in the game, and he has earned several individual accolades, including multiple PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards.
International Success with Belgium
De Bruyne’s impact is not limited to club football. As a key player for the Belgian national team, he has been pivotal in Belgium’s recent successes on the international stage. His leadership and creativity were crucial during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where Belgium finished in third place, marking their best-ever performance in the tournament. De Bruyne’s stunning goals and assists throughout the competition showcased his ability to perform under pressure and cemented his reputation as a world-class player.
His contributions to the national team extend beyond mere statistics; De Bruyne’s tactical awareness and ability to control the midfield have made him a cornerstone of Belgium’s so-called "Golden Generation." As the team continues to compete in major tournaments, De Bruyne remains an essential figure, inspiring his teammates with his relentless work ethic and commitment to excellence.
Legacy and Future Outlook
As Kevin De Bruyne continues to dazzle fans and analysts alike, his legacy as one of football's greats is assured. His unique blend of technical ability, footballing intelligence, and leadership sets him apart in a sport increasingly defined by pace and power. De Bruyne’s influence transcends mere statistics; he embodies the artistry of football, turning matches into displays of skill and creativity.
Looking ahead, De Bruyne shows no signs of slowing down. His commitment to continuous improvement and his relentless pursuit of perfection make him a formidable force on the pitch. Whether leading Manchester City to further glory or guiding Belgium in international competitions, Kevin De Bruyne will undoubtedly continue to leave an indelible mark on the world of football for years to come.
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Kevin De Bruyne: The Maestro of Modern Football Kevin De Bruyne has established himself as one of the most exceptional midfielders in football history, renowned for his unparalleled vision, incisive passing, and tactical intelligence. Playing for Manchester City and the Belgian national team, De Bruyne's ability to dictate the pace and flow of a match has earned him a reputation as a modern football maestro. Early Life and Career Beginnings Born on June 28, 1991, in Drongen, Belgium, De Bruyne showcased remarkable talent from an early age. He began his professional career at K.R.C. Genk, where his performances in the Belgian Pro League drew attention from top European clubs. His time at Genk culminated in winning the Belgian Cup and laying the groundwork for his transition to a more prominent stage. In 2012, De Bruyne signed with Chelsea FC in the English Premier League. However, his initial stint at the club was marked by limited playing time, leading to a loan spell at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. It was in Germany that De Bruyne truly began to flourish, displaying his incredible passing range and vision, ultimately catching the eye of scouts across Europe. Rise to Prominence at Manchester City In January 2015, Kevin De Bruyne made a pivotal move to Manchester City for a then-club-record fee. This transfer would mark the beginning of a transformative era, both for De Bruyne and the club. Under the management of Pep Guardiola, he evolved into a central figure in City’s midfield, contributing to the team’s attacking prowess with his exceptional ability to read the game and create scoring opportunities. De Bruyne's playing style is characterized by his exceptional passing accuracy, ability to deliver pinpoint crosses, and an innate understanding of space. His vision allows him to execute ambitious through balls that split defenses, often leaving forwards in ideal positions to score. This combination of skills has made him not only a prolific playmaker but also a critical goal-scoring threat. Throughout his tenure at Manchester City, De Bruyne has been instrumental in the club's domestic and European successes, including multiple Premier League titles and EFL Cups. His standout performances in crucial matches have solidified his status as one of the best midfielders in the game, and he has earned several individual accolades, including multiple PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards. International Success with Belgium De Bruyne’s impact is not limited to club football. As a key player for the Belgian national team, he has been pivotal in Belgium’s recent successes on the international stage. His leadership and creativity were crucial during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where Belgium finished in third place, marking their best-ever performance in the tournament. De Bruyne’s stunning goals and assists throughout the competition showcased his ability to perform under pressure and cemented his reputation as a world-class player. His contributions to the national team extend beyond mere statistics; De Bruyne’s tactical awareness and ability to control the midfield have made him a cornerstone of Belgium’s so-called "Golden Generation." As the team continues to compete in major tournaments, De Bruyne remains an essential figure, inspiring his teammates with his relentless work ethic and commitment to excellence. Legacy and Future Outlook As Kevin De Bruyne continues to dazzle fans and analysts alike, his legacy as one of football's greats is assured. His unique blend of technical ability, footballing intelligence, and leadership sets him apart in a sport increasingly defined by pace and power. De Bruyne’s influence transcends mere statistics; he embodies the artistry of football, turning matches into displays of skill and creativity. Looking ahead, De Bruyne shows no signs of slowing down. His commitment to continuous improvement and his relentless pursuit of perfection make him a formidable force on the pitch. Whether leading Manchester City to further glory or guiding Belgium in international competitions, Kevin De Bruyne will undoubtedly continue to leave an indelible mark on the world of football for years to come. Click your program: https://amzn.to/4dFYLyF0 Comments 0 Shares 5999 Views - Neymar Jr.: The Creative Genius of Modern Football
Neymar Jr., the Brazilian forward, stands out as one of football's most captivating talents. Known for his electrifying flair, exceptional dribbling skills, and innate creativity, Neymar has left an indelible mark on the beautiful game. His journey through top clubs, including Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), highlights his evolution into one of the most influential players of his generation.
Early Life and Rise to Prominence
Born on February 5, 1992, in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior showed prodigious talent from a young age. He joined Santos FC as a teenager, where he quickly made a name for himself, dazzling fans with his skill and agility. During his time in Brazil, Neymar led Santos to win the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Libertadores, becoming the club's youngest ever goalscorer.
His success at Santos attracted the attention of Europe’s elite clubs, and in 2013, he made a high-profile move to Barcelona. At Barcelona, Neymar formed a lethal attacking trio alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, known as “MSN.” This trio dominated both domestic and international competitions, helping Barcelona secure a historic treble in 2015, which included the La Liga, Copa del Rey, and UEFA Champions League.
The Paris Saint-Germain Era
In 2017, Neymar made headlines once again with his transfer to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee of €222 million. This move marked a new chapter in his career, as he aimed to step out of Messi's shadow and become the undisputed star of his team. At PSG, Neymar continued to showcase his extraordinary skills, regularly producing moments of magic that left fans in awe. His dribbling, vision, and ability to score from almost any position make him one of the most dangerous forwards in football today.
Despite facing challenges such as injuries and criticism, Neymar's resilience shone through. He played a crucial role in PSG's domestic dominance, winning multiple Ligue 1 titles and leading the team to the final of the Champions League in 2020, where they narrowly missed out on glory.
International Glory and Impact
Neymar's impact extends beyond club football. He has been a key figure for the Brazilian national team, representing his country in several international tournaments. Neymar's flair and creativity have made him a fan favorite, and he has consistently been among Brazil's top scorers. His performances in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2014 FIFA World Cup, and 2019 Copa America showcased his ability to shine on the world stage.
In 2021, Neymar played a pivotal role in leading Brazil to victory in the Copa America, securing his first major international trophy and further solidifying his status as one of the game's greats.
Legacy and Future
As Neymar continues to dazzle on the pitch, his legacy as one of football's most gifted players is already assured. His unique playing style, characterized by flamboyant dribbling, quick footwork, and exceptional vision, has inspired countless young players around the world. Beyond his technical abilities, Neymar’s passion for the game and dedication to his craft have made him a role model for aspiring athletes.
Looking ahead, the football world eagerly anticipates what Neymar will achieve in the coming years. Whether he adds more titles to his collection or continues to break records, one thing is certain: Neymar Jr. will remain a central figure in football, captivating fans with his creativity and flair for many seasons to come.
Neymar Jr.: The Creative Genius of Modern Football Neymar Jr., the Brazilian forward, stands out as one of football's most captivating talents. Known for his electrifying flair, exceptional dribbling skills, and innate creativity, Neymar has left an indelible mark on the beautiful game. His journey through top clubs, including Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), highlights his evolution into one of the most influential players of his generation. Early Life and Rise to Prominence Born on February 5, 1992, in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior showed prodigious talent from a young age. He joined Santos FC as a teenager, where he quickly made a name for himself, dazzling fans with his skill and agility. During his time in Brazil, Neymar led Santos to win the Copa do Brasil and the Copa Libertadores, becoming the club's youngest ever goalscorer. His success at Santos attracted the attention of Europe’s elite clubs, and in 2013, he made a high-profile move to Barcelona. At Barcelona, Neymar formed a lethal attacking trio alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, known as “MSN.” This trio dominated both domestic and international competitions, helping Barcelona secure a historic treble in 2015, which included the La Liga, Copa del Rey, and UEFA Champions League. The Paris Saint-Germain Era In 2017, Neymar made headlines once again with his transfer to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee of €222 million. This move marked a new chapter in his career, as he aimed to step out of Messi's shadow and become the undisputed star of his team. At PSG, Neymar continued to showcase his extraordinary skills, regularly producing moments of magic that left fans in awe. His dribbling, vision, and ability to score from almost any position make him one of the most dangerous forwards in football today. Despite facing challenges such as injuries and criticism, Neymar's resilience shone through. He played a crucial role in PSG's domestic dominance, winning multiple Ligue 1 titles and leading the team to the final of the Champions League in 2020, where they narrowly missed out on glory. International Glory and Impact Neymar's impact extends beyond club football. He has been a key figure for the Brazilian national team, representing his country in several international tournaments. Neymar's flair and creativity have made him a fan favorite, and he has consistently been among Brazil's top scorers. His performances in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2014 FIFA World Cup, and 2019 Copa America showcased his ability to shine on the world stage. In 2021, Neymar played a pivotal role in leading Brazil to victory in the Copa America, securing his first major international trophy and further solidifying his status as one of the game's greats. Legacy and Future As Neymar continues to dazzle on the pitch, his legacy as one of football's most gifted players is already assured. His unique playing style, characterized by flamboyant dribbling, quick footwork, and exceptional vision, has inspired countless young players around the world. Beyond his technical abilities, Neymar’s passion for the game and dedication to his craft have made him a role model for aspiring athletes. Looking ahead, the football world eagerly anticipates what Neymar will achieve in the coming years. Whether he adds more titles to his collection or continues to break records, one thing is certain: Neymar Jr. will remain a central figure in football, captivating fans with his creativity and flair for many seasons to come.0 Comments 0 Shares 5914 Views
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