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I respect your sincerity and depth of feeling and Israel itself. But this situation has to be seen in the context of the rest of the world and the currents driving the past hundred years. I have no doubt that this conflict was ignited by the globalists running the rest of the wars. Their attack on us has been ubiquitous but covert until now but has gone white hot for 3 years. I need not convince your readers about this. And (to me at least) the most stunning aspect of these three years was Israel's cooperation and it's leaders' failure to defend it. Even with their background, they were bribed or threatened into being one of the critical nodes of the worldwide genocide. Lastly, and this is, for me, a weaker point, is your failure to acknowledge the long, dark history of israeli atrocities against the rest. Although I understand your dire need now, denying that it's a murky situation lessens your credibility for sophisticated observers.

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I have no problem with your decision to write this passionate article that means so much to you personally.

It made me reflect on why I subscribed to you--your coverage of the CVD jab was and I'm sure still is excellent work.

What I want to know is--when you cover the toxic shots, do you ever write about Israel? I see you do a lot of coverage on the FDA and the CDC--focusing on the U.S. However, Israel bragged about being the most vaxxed nation in the world, and I'm wondering if you've written critically about your own nation on this topic? If so, just point me to a couple of examples in your archive. Thank you.

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Should Israel hammer the whole population as revenge against an evil organization within that population? It strikes me as a neck for an eye. The vast majority of civilians (universally) just want to live their lives. An attack on the general population will draw in other countries against Israel which will only escalate unless the voices of cooler heads rises up. Israel’s counterattack seems more like revenge and genocide (designed to politically boost Netanyahu than a measured response. Blessed are the peacemakers.

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I have many Jewish friends including some that are from Israel or have lived there. What is happening is a great tragedy and I pray for your people.

However, from an outsiders standpoint, is it really possible that this attack could have been carried out with the normal extraordinary surveillance and security that the IDF and the Mossad are so famous for? I ask because the leaders of all countries, including the US and Israel, have sold out their populations to the jab. I have heard various things about the political situation Bibi was facing as well as unpopular changes to the constitution being presented, that I assume would facilitate the great reset. I don’t follow Israeli politics however so what I heard might be off base. Hopefully you can provide some insight.

Thanks and praying you and the other Israeli citizens stay safe.

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Glad you got it off your chest. You know enough to be careful with your words...”Gaza is now fully associated with Hamas...” that’s a dishonest way of saying that you see everyone in Gaza as Hamas. Yet that is something that cannot be true and you know it. I’m just trying to get you to be clearer in your language. Then you do what the Nazis did and use dehumanising language. I’m sure we all learned from different sources how important this is in the process towards promoting the holocaust - I learned it from Primo Levi. My advice is that you should read more on the subject and write less. You are, of course free to ignore this advice. Either way, you should be clear what your words as you have written them mean, which is a call to collective punishment of the people of Gaza. If that’s not true, say it.

There are evil people and they do evil things. We must condemn those acts and those that carry them out. Only that. Israelis deserve to live in peace. The people of Gaza deserve to live in peace. All the best.

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I'm glad you like Israel. I've been there myself. I feel closer to Israelis than to Palestinians.

Israel is not America though, and this is not America's war. America should not be taking sides or funding any foreign battles with US tax dollars.

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The first two paragraphs of your post is MY story actually. I went to the US with my mother and brother in 1967 as a ten year old. We repatriated to Norway in 69, much to my dismay. I returned to the US in 1978, and stayed for 13 years before returning to Norway (which I'm now glad I did seeing what has happened in the US the past 20+ years.

You should read what Seymour Hersh wrote the other day about Netanyahu: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/netanyahu-is-finished

Hamas is an Israeli government creation, and there are elements within that government that only know hatred. I view this war as a false flag event designed to give the Israeli government an opportunity to erase Gaza.

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Etana Hecht

Thank you. Praying for Israel. We know the truth.

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by Etana Hecht

Thank you so much. Praying for Israel and Jerusalem

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I would have expected a little more objectivity. I will unsubscribe

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Oct 15, 2023·edited Oct 15, 2023

Hamas was created and financed by your beloved apartheid Bibi because he viewed Hamas religious extremists as smaller threat than Arafat’s secular PLO. In addition, like Bibi and US government, Hamas was opposed to UN two-state solution, which Bibi and his extremist supporters sabotaged for decades.

Genocidal Israel is entering very dark and well-deserved clouds....

See more on that by recent articles by Seymour Hirsh in Sub-stack.

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¨Did you know that Hamas was really created by the Mossad of Israel for the strategic purpose of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state? Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories.¨

I don't have the link to this article but if you do your own research on G o o, you will find other information. I am not defending Hamas actions that were horrible.

The Mossad didn't see it coming. Impossible. Where was IDF that Saturday morning?

This last Saturday event is similar to the 911 Inside Job, a PsyOp Operation to create war, terror and control.

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US government is now totally supporting TWO Nazi-dominated governments. This will not end up good...

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God has promised. You will prevail. God's will be done in the coming days, weeks and months of chaos and turmoil and unrest. Praying for Israel.

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Defense minister announces ‘complete siege’ of Gaza: No power, food or fuel. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says he has ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, as Israel fights the Hamas terror group. “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.

Who is behaving like a human animal? A sad day for the world.

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SECURITY EXPERTS BLAME ISRAEL GOVERNMENT FOR ATTACK : THEY HAD SOURCES INSIDE

Posted by Yudi Sherman October 11, 2023

¨Security experts are blaming Israel’s government for Saturday’s invasion in which Muslim forces from Gaza massacred over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped at least one hundred hostages.

So far no investigations have been launched into how the invaders were able to cross Israel’s heavily fortified border unimpeded, nor why it took Israel’s highly trained security forces over six hours to respond to calls for help.

Since 2005, when Israel expelled all Jewish residents from Gaza and ceded the territory to Muslims, Israel has been building sophisticated defense systems along the border. Foreseeing a possible above-ground invasion, Israel spent $220 million to develop an advanced security system “with no margin of error.” This includes barbed wire fences and a 23-foot high wall. Motion sensors are embedded in the ground along the electronic fences, which are accompanied by watchtowers armed with remote-control machine guns. The border is also patrolled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, and Humvees operated by highly trained troops. Hundreds of night-vision cameras placed along the border constantly transmit to command centers which are operational 24/7.

Also deployed along the Gaza border is at least one semi-autonomous robotic vehicle called the Jaguar, equipped with dozens of cameras, sensors, transmitters and a 7.62mm MAG machine gun. The Jaguar sports a remote-controlled PA system and can self-destruct if captured by the enemy.

To stave off underground invasions, a 40-mile-long underground “smart fence” equipped with hundreds of AI-powered cameras, radar, and other sensors. The fence can detect infiltration by sea and is connected to a remote-controlled weapons system. One hundred and forty thousand tons of steel and concrete were reportedly used to build the barrier.

Israel’s Gazan border security also includes Sky Dew, a giant airborne balloon designed to help the Israel Air Force detect threats such as missiles and aircraft.

Video footage from Saturday’s invasion shows Muslim forces using a single bulldozer to dismantle a barbed wire fence. Media operatives have tried to claim that the invaders were able to cross the border after first dropping bombs on observation towers, somehow evading detection by Sky Dew, UAVs, electronic sensors and patrols. There is also no explanation for how the loss of transmission escaped notice by the military and intelligence units in the command centers.

Those units conduct regular drills and maneuvers. According to one military commander who was stationed at the Gaza border, one of those drills is a daily “dawn alert” during which both the night and day shifts inspect the border’s defenses. The Muslim forces, who invaded during the dawn hours, would have stumbled into a massive surveillance exercise by hypervigilant troops.

“In the 40 or more years that I’ve been following Israel one way or another, I’ve never seen this happen,” commented Trump-appointed former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “I’ve never seen the border breached in this manner. Usually, even one person from Gaza gets close to the border, they’re intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. This is just something I’ve never seen before. It’s of course a large intelligence failure.”

Israeli officials have also not addressed how hours after the attack began and Israel’s forces had been alerted, the invaders were able to return the way they came, taking hostages on dirt bikes back to Gaza.

“It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said CIA counterterrorism veteran Marc Polymeropoulos.

Security experts are also baffled as to how Israel’s intelligence network, which includes the feared Mossad and the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, could have been ignorant of the operation.

“I’m truly astonished for something of this magnitude to go down and for the Israelis to have no clue that this is about to happen. I’m just speechless,” said Senior Fellow Colin Clarke at the global security research tank Soufan Center. “They have had sources inside these Palestinian groups for years.”

“Israel has exquisite, world-class intelligence collection and analysis capabilities and would have a far better picture of what’s going on in its own backyard. This one falls squarely on the Israelis,” he added.

Former Kerem Shalom Battalion Commander Yoram Erez wrote: "Something here doesn't add up to me!!! This is a mystery that I can't find an answer to since yesterday?

"I happen to know how things work in Gaza and on the border. I was the commander of the Kerem Shalom sector (Rafiah), I was in charge of Kissuf sector, I know the perimeter fence very well, I know how the army works there. I was in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, I was in charge of the Jibaliya refugee camp, I would make ambushes on the fence and deep in the area. I met Gazans, ate and breathed Gaza.

"The obstacle is built so that even a fox cannot pass it:

"Alerts are set according to 3 levels of pressure. It must alert when it is cut. There are, 24/7, forces that are responsible for arriving within a few minutes, if not seconds, to the point where there is an alert in the fence.

"Every day they do at least one penetration drill. Each subdivision has a standby squad whose role is to increase the force in an emergency situation. Observations scattered along the border cover every inch of it.

"The female observers are champions at identification. They don't miss. They detect movement even before it even approaches the obstacle - day and night. At problematic points (dead areas) they place a tank with observation and detection capabilities, and a terrifying firepower. In some cases snipers are deployed in the field.

"Every day before dawn there is a ‘dawn alert’ procedure. At this hour all the forces are awake (in this case also the hour when hundreds of terrorists entered Israel). The night shift alternates with the day shift. The commander of each force inspects the axis to make sure there were no infiltrations during the night.

"Trackers that move on the axis know how to recognize traces. They know who crossed the fence, how much and even when.

"Each scenario has a clear procedure. For example, a procedure for infiltrating terrorists, a procedure for taking hostages. Everything is written in blood and has been proving itself for years.

"There are several other layers of security that this is not the place to talk about. In short, we are talking about an obstacle that proves itself for years and years.

"So how the hell does a Palestinian tractor move towards the fence without anyone reacting to it?

"How did the tractor manage to sabotage the fence for a long hour and open access to Israel without anyone reacting to it?

"How did hundreds of terrorists and civilians cross the barrier without anyone on our side lifting a finger?

"How did terrorists arrive on foot and in vehicles, armed from head to toe, to dozens of Israeli settlements, without any reaction from our side?

"How did hundreds of terrorists stay in Israeli territory for long hours, shoot hundreds of Israelis, loot property, without there being even a single reaction on our side?

"How did it happen that hundreds of terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis, woke women, children, babies, old people from their deaths, surprised soldiers, officers when they were not ready, and kidnapped them to Gaza, without anyone stopping them?

"How is it that one bullet was not fired?

"How did all this happen under our noses?

"Where did an entire division go?

"Where did 3 brigades go?

"Who swallowed 9 battalions?

"What happened to 36 companies?

"Where did an entire regular infantry brigade go that usually outnumbers the elite?

"Where were all the reserve battalions that augment the regular army?

"Where did thousands of soldiers go???

"Someone here needs to provide explanations!!"

https://frontline.news/post/security-experts-blame-israel-government-for-attack-they-had-sources-inside

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