Hamas false flag, 7 October 2023, Levant gas

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This reminds me of 9/11…
There was a huge spike in put options (going short) on Wall Street in EIS (an exchange-traded fund that tracks Israeli shares) on 2 October 2023, seemingly by traders that knew of the coming Hamas false flag.

The volume of 227,000 short transactions on October 2 was huge, compared to a few thousand a day on average.


Short-selling Israeli shares, makes a profit if the shares go down, which they predictably did after the supposed Hamas attack on 7 October.
The value of EIS fell by 7.1% on October 11 (the first day the US market was open after the attack), so the short sellers probably made millions of dollars.

There were also spikes in short selling on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) in the week before the attack: https://archive.ph/YSiVs

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It looks like the Abu Dhabi royals are really taking control of the media…
Donald Trump’s sleazy buddy Jeff Zucker, who as CNN president helped get Trump crowned president, is now working for Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brother of the de facto dictator of the UAE and deputy PM of the UAE, to buy the “reputable” Daily Telegraph (including Spectator magazine).
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan already owns the currently best European soccer club, Manchester City.

Zucker, Bin Zayed and former Goldman Sachs partner Gerry Cardinale are partners in this bid through their joint venture, RedBird IMI.
Other bidders for the Daily Telegraph include hedge fund billionaire and GB News co-owner Paul Marshall, Rupert Murdoch’s News UK and Lord Rothermere’s DMGT.

Other RedBird “investments” include - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and LeBron James: https://archive.is/tInv6

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It sometimes seems that I’m the only one posting about the UAE, not true of course. Just look what I’ve found here…
The Tamar gas field is owned by Chevron Mediterranean Limited (25%), and Mubadala Energy (11%), owned by the UAE government (that’s the Abu Dhabi royals).
Chevron and NewMed Energy have also partnered in the Aphrodite gas field, in which third partner the Anglo-Dutch Shell Plc owns 35%.

In October, BP Inc (British Petroleum) announced that its $2 billion deals with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. to jointly buy a 50% stake in Israeli gas producer NewMed Energy remains on track. Newmed owns a 30% share in the Aphrodite gas field, and a 45% stake in the Leviathan gas field.
Through this deal, Abu Dhabi would get a stake of 25% of NewMed’s stakes in Leviathan and Aphrodite: https://behindthenews.co.za/the-geopoli ... rt-series/
(https://archive.is/7cXoW)


What makes this even stranger is that it was the UAE that proposed the UN resolution for a ceasefire that was predictably blocked by a veto by the US, with the UK cynically refraining from voting.
So this gave the UAE (with its huge influence over the White House) a good name, while it gave the US a bad reputation:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/ ... resolution


While the United Arab Emirates is hosting the UN COP28 climate talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Abu Dhabi for a chat with dictator Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Later that day, Putin arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he was pictured with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

John Kerry at the COP28 explained how WEF young global leader Putin has advanced the climate change agenda (really: technocracy):

I think by virtue of what he’s done in Ukraine, his presence may encourage people to do what Europe has done, which is the most rapid move to a different kind of fuel as a result of his actions. He’s single handedly accelerated the transformation of Europe more than anybody else by weaponizing gas.

https://archive.is/isgwK

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forcing developing nations in Africa, Asia and Central and South America to “leapfrog” renewable energy by limiting access to fossil fuels ultimately comes back to impeding their ability to prosper economically.

While this is true, the Financial Times “forgets” 2 more important motives for the green agenda:
1) implementing the technocratic surveillance state, and
2) reducing energy supply (also by obstructing oil and gas exploration in these never-developing countries) to increase the prices of oil and gas (of which oil companies profit…).

While the UAE also gets a good name for hosting COP28, UAE’s Blue Carbon company is dealing in carbon credits, so as another stake in the outcome of COP28.
The founder and chair of Blue Carbon is Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum, a member of Abu Dhabi’s royal family.

Blue Carbon is negotiating buying about a tenth of Liberia’s land mass, a fifth of Zimbabwe’s, and swaths of Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania.
Blue Carbon intends to sell the acquired emission reductions linked to forest conservation I as carbon credits (both to the UAE government and abroad).

See John Msimuko (Zambian Secretary), Josiane Sadaka (CEO Blue Carbon, second row); Eng. Collins Nzovu (Zambian Minister) and Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, during signing of the MOU.


I don’t believe that this is the major carbon scam that FT insinuates, as the (other) main countries buying these carbon credits are: South Korea, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore, who have been buying future emission reductions from countries including Ghana, Vietnam and Senegal.
Of these countries, besides the UAE, only Switzerland looks to be a top player in the world order. And obviously Ahmed Al Maktoum was involved in at least one (other) major corruption scandal (see below): https://archive.is/izvv3


Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum is a low member of the ruling Royal Family of Abu Dhabi, whose website explains:

The Private Office has a portfolio of privately held group companies that focus mainly on Infrastructure Development, Energy Projects, LNG Terminal Development, Commodity & Oil Trading, Water Desalination, Water Recirculation as well as Education and Agricultural Projects.
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We currently own the largest emergency power plant installed in West Africa. The Private Office is undergoing development of over c. 2000 MW of Power Plants across many countries in Africa, Asia and other jurisdiction in the developing regions. We also deliver integrated and unbundled solutions in supplying LNG. With the help of our partnerships, we carry out the business of the complete supply chain of LNG and supplying natural gas.

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So with his main business in energy, the more he restricts the supply of energy, the more profit he makes: https://archive.is/Yyvk7


Another interesting scandal involving Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum (and Russia, was this why Puttin visited Abu Dhabi?).
Russia awarded none other than Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum the exclusive rights to sell the untested Sputnik V COVID vaccine to a host of never-developing countries.

See Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum being welcomed by a government delegation in Guyana.


The Sputnik V COVID vaccine was sold for $9.95 a dose to Slovakia and Hungary.
The Abu Dhabi royals’ Aurugulf and Chimera Investments sold the Sputnik V COVID vaccine for $19 per dose to Ghana, $24 to Guyana and $22.50 per dose to Pakistan.
So for example for the 3.4 million, $19 per dose to Ghana, compared to Russia’s $9.95 asking price, Aurugulf made a cool $30 million (for reselling the vaccine): https://archive.is/dnSYm

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The Tamar gas field is owned by Chevron Mediterranean Limited (25%), and Mubadala Energy (11%), owned by the UAE government (that’s the Abu Dhabi royals).

What makes this even stranger is that it was the UAE that proposed the UN resolution for a ceasefire that was predictably blocked by a veto by the US, with the UK cynically refraining from voting.

Some “alternative” media are reporting on the Ben Gurion Canal that is probably a “fake” story. If I understand correctly this project was already dismissed more than 50 years ago, because it is too expensive (at least for Israel). There is another alternative project for the Suez canal that is actually in development…
Apparently the UAE, that hypocritically proposed the UN ceasefire, is at the same time investing its oil billions in a railroad to boast Israel’s economy (while our wonderful media point their fingers at China, I find the UAE link more interesting)…


It’s the High-speed railway to Eilat that will both transport Israelis, but it will also transport goods between Eilat (on the Israeli Red Sea coast) and China, the "Red-Med" rail project.
It will cross another developed railway in the MENA region (where the 2 Silk Roads “meet” in the Middle East). As Israel doesn’t have the funds, China will fund the project through state-owned Import-Export Bank together with a Dubai-based investment company, with a Chinese construction company to lead development.

Zhenhua Port Machinery Company, a Chinese state-owned construction company, was also awarded a large infrastructure project for UAE's Dubai Port World Sokhna: https://www.refworld.org/docid/543f97124.html
(https://archive.is/STHhE)


After the UAE announced its “normalisation” with Israel in 2020, it signed an agreement to send oil to Europe via the already existing Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline linking the Israeli port of Eilat to Ashkelon (13 km north of Gaza), where it would be loaded onto Europe-bound tankers.

The Dubai Ports Authority also signed an agreement with Israel to open a direct shipping route to Eilat. This will give a boost to the "Red-Med" railway project that has been in the making since 2014 (in which the UAE is a shareholder): https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210 ... terntives/


There is even another alternative railway planned as an alternative for the Suez canal, the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) that has been planned by Russia, Iran and India since 2002, “a multimodal ship, rail and road-based transport network stretching 7,200 km, from Mumbai, western India to Moscow via Iran and the Caspian Sea”.

More recently, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Oman, and Syria have joined the project. INSTC is expected to cut transport costs by between 30-60%, and reduce the transit time from west India to western Russia from 40 to 20 days: https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2 ... -corridor/
(https://archive.is/es5YL)

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I was expecting this to happen, but I still have a hard time understanding the Yemeni Houthis. Are these controlled by the same order as the rest of the Middle East?
All through the UAE/Saudi-led coalition war against Yemen from 2015 to 2022, the Houthis let ships travel through the Red Sea unharmed. Then since the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza started in October 2023, they have been attacking ships.

So last night (on the orders of the UAE oil sheiks?), the US and UK, with support from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Bahrain, bombed targets in Sanaa, Hodeidah and other Yemeni cities.
Germany, Denmark, New Zealand and South Korea spoke in support of the bombings.

But no public support from the UAE and Saudi Arabia (?): https://www.palestinechronicle.com/us-u ... live-blog/
(https://archive.is/qCFv9)


For more on the genocide of Yemen: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewto ... f=7&t=1146

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I thought that Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul was one of the motives for the 7 October false flag attack…

Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a key component of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul, in a 8-7 vote, to limit the court’s power over government decisions because of the “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the State of Israel as a democratic country”.
It also struck down another component of the judicial overhaul, in a 12-3 vote, that it has the authority to overturn the “Basic Laws”, legislation that serves as Israel’s Constitution.

Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overhaul law sparked mass anti-government protests and international condemnation.
Opponents condemned the law as a power grab by Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, opening the door to appointments of corrupt cronies to important positions: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/01/israels ... rhaul.html

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This certainly makes it more probable that a significant amount of the reported 1200 killed (including soldiers) by Hamas terrorists were killed by the Israeli army. I still haven’t seen any reasonable estimate of how many of these 1200 were murdered by the IDF.

More than 1 in 6 of the Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip have been either accidentally killed or killed by their own soldiers.
Of the total of 172 Israeli soldiers that were killed since the end of October, 29 soldiers were killed accidentally or by friendly fire: https://archive.is/dDMYY


I don’t know how to verify these stories on the heroic Israeli soldiers murdering unarmed Palestinians in Gaza at point blank range. But it does look remarkably similar to the stories on the original 7 October attack by the savage Hamas terrorists: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war- ... executions

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was very close to Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Bibi would prepare the coming of the Moshiach (or some similar prophecy)…
https://youtu.be/EgeWVgNGeAA


For some reason, the previous Turkish produced video “forgets” the Chabad links to Erdogan…

Donald Trump said that most of his dealings with Bayrock had been with Chabad buddy Tevfik Arif (technically not a Jew), instead of Chabad-Lubavitcher Felix Sater.
The Kazakh born Tevfik Arif (Tofic Arifov) is now a Turkish citizen. Arif was closely associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch "Kazakh trio" - Alexander Mashkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov.
Mashkevitch is the most interesting of this trio: a friend of long-time former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev a member of the World Jewish Congress, president of metal and mining Eurasian National Resources Corporation (ENRC), and a strategic partner of Bayrock.

The main investors of the Doyen Group remain anonymous, except for three people:
- Fettah Tamince, a relative of Turkish President Erdogan, who owns Star Media Group and the hotel chain Rixos (together with Tevfik Arif);
- Erick Thohir, an Indonesian billionaire who bought Inter Milan;
- Tevfik Arif.

See Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Tevfik’s son, Arif “Arif” Efendi in Yalta, Ukraine.


Tefviks brother, Refik Arif, partnered with Sitki Ayan in a deal involving a gas pipeline from Iran to Europe. Part of the pipeline would go through Turkmenistan, in which Calik Holding was involved, where Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak was CEO until 2013.
Sitki Ayan is a childhood friend of President Erdogan, and is so close that he calls the president by his first name in public and occasionally joins him on official trips abroad. President Erdogan and his son Bilal were caught on tape discussing bribes to be received with Sitki Ayan: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewto ... 4305#p4305

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Don’t talk about the UAE…
In December, PM Benjamin Netanyahu told MPs of the Knesset that the UAE and Saudi Arabia will finance the Gaza Strip’s reconstruction, that is expected to cost more than $4.5 billion!

UAE Ambassador to the UN Lana Nusseibeh, whose Palestinian grandfather worked for the British oppressor of Palestine, responded:

The message is going to be very clear: We need to see a viable two-state solution plan, a road map that is serious before we talk about the next day and rebuilding the infrastructure of Gaza.

The road map is: the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority and a grouping of countries that have leverage on the both of them sitting around the table and saying, ‘That’s the endgame we’re going to work to. The work starts here. This is the timeline, and it starts now.’

… we’re not going to be as fully invested in the rebuild, and with Israel it will also have an effect. That’s not the trajectory we signed the Abraham Accords on.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231224095 ... ding-gaza/


Every CNN article on Israel is reviewed by CNN’s bureau in Jerusalem before publication. CNN also hired (former) Israeli soldier Tamar Michaelis at the start of the assault on Gaza.

Every single Israel-Palestine-related line for reporting must seek approval from the [Jerusalem] bureau — or, when the bureau is not staffed, from a select few handpicked by the bureau and senior management — from which lines are most often edited with a very specific nuance.

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In general, the Israeli army’s censor dictates subjects that are off-limits for news organisations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit to print.
Only reporters that abide by the dictates of the censor get a press pass in Israel: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn ... reporting/


Google helps Israel spread propaganda against South Africa’s complaint at the ICJ.
https://youtu.be/BdWBiqabUm0

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The Cradle describes how civilians were murdered by the Israeli army at the Supernova festival, where supposedly the evil Hamas terrorists massacred 364 Israeli civilians (a large part of the supposed 1200 killed by Hamas). The strange thing is that it is supported by evidence that (only) blames Hamas.

We were told that the Israeli forces only came into action many hours after Hamas started its terrorist attack at 6:30 am on 7 October. In reality already by 6:42 am the Israeli cops came of which at least 17 were killed at the Nova festival.
When people tried to escape the massacre through Route 232, they were blocked by Israeli police, which led to a traffic jam that trapped many partygoers trying to leave.

As Yarin Levin, who was trying to leave the area with his friends, described:

There was a lot of confusion. The police barricaded the road, so we couldn’t go near Be’eri. We couldn’t go near Re’im, the two near kibbutzim.

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When the festivalgoers were trapped by the roadblock, a crossfire erupted between Hamas and the Israeli cops. Those trapped by the roadblock, fled east into open fields. Many hid near trees, under bushes, and in ravines. Where they were shot at by heavily armed Israeli police units.
Some partygoers that were shot at by the Israeli cops, believed that they were blocked and shot at by Hamas fighters disguised as police or soldiers: https://new.thecradle.co/articles/how-i ... a-festival
(https://archive.is/bfRHX)

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The ICJ, located at the Hague (home of corruption, slavery and genocide), decided that Israel must “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of the genocide convention”.

This means absolutely nothing, while the pro-Palestinian media are cheering (and the genocide will continue)…
The ICJ ruling is an important reminder that some states are above the law and beyond the reach of justice: https://expose-news.com/2024/01/26/inte ... e-in-gaza/


Dutch caretaker PM Mark Rutte asked the Netherland's legal affairs ministry on advice, "What can we say to make it look like Israel is not committing war crimes?".
This was disclosed in a court case by Oxfam Novib, Pax and The Rights Forum to stop the export of spare parts for Israeli F-35’s from the Netherlands.

Willem-Alexander’s university friend Rutte's ambition is to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general of Nato in the summer: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog ... fid=499081

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Israel has accused 12 UNRWA employees (out of 13 thousand in Gaza alone) of helping Hamas in the 7 October terrorist attack (or maybe only cheering about the attack?), without evidence of course…
The UN fired them and promises an investigation.

So now, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, UK, US, Canada, Australia, Finland and Italy are among the countries that immediately suspended (or paused) funding to UNRWA.

UNRWA is the UN agency on which most Palestinians in the Gaza strip depend for food and shelter.
Of course Israel has killed multiple UN employees with their precision bombs, besides the more than 26,000 Palestinians in Gaza (and counting): https://archive.is/UUNxm


Personally I find this accusation all the less convincing, as Israel has also accused the World Health Organization of “colluding” with Hamas by ignoring the “military use” of hospitals in the Gaza Strip: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... -talks-cia
(https://archive.is/zZ367)

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The ICJ, located at the Hague (home of corruption, slavery and genocide), decided that Israel must “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of the genocide convention”.

This is from the actual preliminary judgement of 26 January 2024 by the genocide-supporting ICJ court:

The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip

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If you read carefully the ICJ gives the Netanyahu government “the right” (or the obligation!) to “take all measures within its power to prevent and punish”. Get it?!?
It gives the Netanyahu’s Cabinet the mandate to “prevent and punish” genocide, like those terrorist Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli tanks...

So naturally, the Israeli army has continued to set “fire to homes belonging to non-combatant civilians, for the mere purpose of punishment”.

The President of the ICJ, Joan Donoghue, is a former Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton…
It could even be that South Africa filed this complaint at the ICJ court, to help Israel justify its genocidal campaign against Gaza: www.globalresearch.ca/the-icj-requires- ... de/5847666


The “Conference for Israel’s Victory” included 11 Israeli cabinet ministers and 15 members of the coalition. At the conference they were openly planning settlements in the Gaza Strip by Israeli settlers.

One of the “stars” of the conference, chairwoman of the settler organisation Nahala Daniella Weiss, repeated over and over again: “The Arabs will move”, and “The world will accept this”.

October 7 changed history. Gaza, the southern gate to Israel, will be wide open. Gazans will leave [the Strip] for all parts of the world, and the Jewish people will make the land of our forefathers flourish. Each and every clod of the Land of Israel that our soldiers have within their grasp gives us the necessary strength to fight against a cruel and eternal enemy. It is not to a foreign land that we are returning, but rather to the golden sands of our Gaza. There is no ‘day after’ — the day after is today, it’s every day in which the Jewish people is victorious and returns to settle in Gaza.

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-summit-g ... -transfer/
(https://archive.is/j6vK6)


We get all of these stories of the US and genocide Joe supplying Israel with arms to kill Gazans, but there are of course weapons companies in other countries that also profit.
The Nicaraguan government filed a complaint at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the UK, Canada, Netherlands and Germany, for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing Israel with weapons: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/pol ... to-icj-for


A charity complains that it’s forced to pay $9,000 a truck to an Egyptian company linked to Egypt’s government to get aid into Gaza, and describes this as a bribe to a state-linked agent. The fare charged by truckers is commonly just $300 a load.

We have worked around the world in times of war, earthquakes and other disasters, but we have never been treated like this by a state who is profiteering from the dispatch of humanitarian goods. It’s draining a lot of our resources and the bribe being paid is per truck.

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The money is paid to a company affiliated with the Sinai businessman, Ibrahim al-Organi.
According to media reports the Organi Group is the ultimate beneficiary of a lucrative sale of “fast-track” permits for Palestinians wishing to escape the Gaza Strip. Intermediaries have been selling exit permits at prices of $4,500-$10,000 for Palestinians and $650 to $1,200 for Egyptians: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... t-aid-gaza
(https://archive.is/jqgvU)

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Apparently you can now be imprisoned in Israel through a newly approved law, for denying the official narrative on how the evil Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 1200 mostly Israelis on 7 October:
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anyone who publishes, in writing or orally, things that deny the massacre or downplays it or publishes praise, sympathy, or identification with the actions committed by Hamas in the events of that day - will be sentenced to five years in prison.
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The denial of the massacre constitutes an attempt to rewrite history already at this stage, in an attempt to hide, minimize, and facilitate the crimes committed against the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-785169

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The Cradle describes how civilians were murdered by the Israeli army at the Supernova festival, where supposedly the evil Hamas terrorists massacred 364 Israeli civilians (a large part of the supposed 1200 killed by Hamas). The strange thing is that it is supported by evidence that (only) blames Hamas.

I think that this is the most important scandal to investigate…
The following translates an article by Israeli journalists Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun, who argue that on 7 October Israel’s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens “at any cost”, with “authority to fire at will”, even by firing on hostages, or the Hannibal Directive in practice…

Israeli air force footage and interviews with Israeli attack helicopter pilots show that they were ordered to “shoot at everything” moving between Israel’s frontier settlements and Gaza.
“Some 70 vehicles” returning to Gaza were blown up by Israeli helicopter gunships, drones or tanks. Many of these cars contained hostages.

At the Be’eri kibbutz a tank was shooting at houses in which Israeli civilians were held captive. At the same time 500 present Israeli soldiers were waiting (to let Hamas escape?).
https://youtu.be/bjGL0HFTgiU
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/as ... -7-october
(https://archive.is/qjyFA)


Clare Daly complained about the support for the Gaza genocide at the European Parliament, her microphone was silenced…
https://youtu.be/2DriIOA9zXo

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When Israel started its assault on Gaza in October, they have been pushing the Palestinians surviving there south, closer and closer to the border crossing with Egypt. Now that Israel will start their attack on Rafah, the Gazans really have nowhere left to hide.
Although Israel has “promised” that they will now let the Palestinians cross north (from where most of them came) through a “safe corridor”…

Now Egypt has started constructing an 8-square-mile walled open prison in the Sinai Desert, on the other side of the border with Rafah, for the expected flood of Palestinians.
In this open prison 100,000 Palestinians could be locked up that would only be allowed to leave if they emigrate to another country (I guess most of them will wind up in Europe…): https://archive.is/qAFCZ

I one of those strange coincidences, Egypt started constructing this open prison directly after CIA director William Burns had visited Egypt: https://archive.is/Z8PjG


I guess that this is even more relevant…

The first is by the Misgav Institute, headed by former Netanyahu National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat. Misgav’s former chairpersons and founding associates include: Yoaz Hendel (chair 2012-19, former Minister of Communications); Moshe Yaalon (former Defence Minister); Moshe Arens (also a former Defence Minister).
On 17 October, the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published its paper calling for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population”, noting that, “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government”.

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That’s quite a surprise, the Dutch court of appeals ruled that the Netherlands must stop delivering parts for F-35 fighter jets (a.k.a. JSF) to Israel, as there is a "clear risk" the planes would be used to violate international humanitarian law.

Dutch caretaker trade minister Geoffrey van Leeuwen said the government would respect the court's ruling "in full", but would appeal to the Supreme Court: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... -to-israel

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Now Egypt has started constructing an 8-square-mile walled open prison in the Sinai Desert, on the other side of the border with Rafah, for the expected flood of Palestinians.

I don’t know who (or what) controls the Yemeni Houthis, but their attacks on ships in the Red Sea has reduced the traffic in the Suez canal, which has delivered a blow to Egypt’s fragile economy. With the US army bombing Yemen, like Abu Dhabi wants, Biden’s re-election seems guaranteed.
It would be a little too obvious if Egypt is now suddenly rewarded for its role in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?!? But this is exactly what is happening.

The almighty United Arab Emirates has agreed to invest a whopping $35 billion in the Egyptian coast town of Ras el-Hekma town, promising a minimum of $150 billion investment in total, easily the largest investment (or should we say bribe?) in Egypt in history.
The future Ras el-Hekma will include residential neighbourhoods, tourist resorts, schools, universities, an industrial zone, a financial district, an international marina for tourist yachts and even an international airport. The current residents of the Ras el-Hekma area will simply be relocated…

The Egyptian state will get 35% of the profits from this project, with the majority of shares held by the UAE consortium.

It is also expected that the IMF in the near future will approve a more than $10 billion bailout deal for Egypt: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/midd ... peninsula-
(https://archive.is/QsRMd)


Three weeks after the World Food Programme (WFP) already had stopped delivering aid it has now formally announced “to pause“ aid deliveries to northern Gaza altogether, basically because the starvation is too severe…
The “pause” 3 weeks ago came after a strike on a UNRWA truck carrying aid to northern Gaza, reportedly by Israeli naval forces…

The UNRWA has also announced to “pause” aid deliveries to northern Gaza, where it is not “possible to conduct proper humanitarian operations”, in large part because of the famine…
But UNRWA had already stopped delivering aid to northern Gaza for more than a month, as the Israeli authorities had not granted permits!

The head of the WFP in Gaza, Matthew Hollingworth, said this amount of aid was “not enough to prevent a famine and we know levels of hunger in Gaza are getting at that level now”.
Was he really talking about the aid more than 3 weeks ago?!?

As explained by UNRWA’s Tamara Alrifai, “The desperate behaviour of hungry and exhausted people is preventing the safe and regular passage of our trucks”.

I sometimes think that I can’t be shocked anymore after what I’ve seen.
But are these psychopaths now really stopping aid “because” the starvation is too severe?!?

UNRWA has also warned that it could be forced to cease all operations in the Middle East, amid a funding crisis (remember western “democracies” stopped funding because Israel accused UNRWA employees of working with Hamas?): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... ivil-order

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Israel has accused 12 UNRWA employees (out of 13 thousand in Gaza alone) of helping Hamas in the 7 October terrorist attack (or maybe only cheering about the attack?), without evidence of course…
The UN fired them and promises an investigation.

So now, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, UK, US, Canada, Australia, Finland and Italy are among the countries that immediately suspended (or paused) funding to UNRWA.

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This video shows some of the evidence that the Israeli army killed many of the civilians on 7 October 2023, mostly based on Israeli sources.
No estimate on how many civilians were killed by the Israeli army, but other than that it is very convincing. Unfortunately no links to the referenced articles in the description of the video…
https://youtu.be/fCjTki-OgKQ


Why wasn’t Hamas more careful about exposing their 7 October attack?!?
Hours before the attack on 7 October by Hamas (?), Israel learned that “hundreds of Hamas fighters switched to Israeli SIM cards on their phones”. Terrorists walking around with the surveillance equipment called mobile phones could of course been easily located, but don’t think about that too much…

On the night of 6 October, Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence) received a "significant signal" suggesting that a Hamas ground attack on Israeli territory was imminent. Israeli army and intelligence officials, including Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, held an emergency meeting at 3 am on 7 October but decided to “reassess the situation” later: https://thecradle.co/articles/hamas-act ... ood-report

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Now Egypt has started constructing an 8-square-mile walled open prison in the Sinai Desert, on the other side of the border with Rafah, for the expected flood of Palestinians.

It is also expected that the IMF in the near future will approve a more than $10 billion bailout deal for Egypt

The IMF has admitted (!) that they are handing out the $10 billion loan to Egypt, to help them accommodate the refugees from Gaza, as IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack told reporters on 22 February:

With respect to the question on the potential impact pressures from refugees from Gaza, what we do see in Egypt is that there is a need to have a very comprehensive support package for Egypt. And we're working … to ensure that Egypt does not have any residual financing needs and also to ensure that the program is able to, you know, ensure macroeconomic and financial stability in Egypt.

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This week, Chevron announced plans to expand production at Israel's Tamar field, in a move that will increase gas exports to Egypt with 4 billion cubic meters in the coming years: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23572


When Palestinians in north Gaza were hoping that they could get some food on Thursday, the Israeli army mercilessly fired at them, killing more than 100 and injuring another 750, which the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned as a “massacre”.

Jadallah al-Shafei, nurse at al-Shifa Hospital, said that:

The majority of the victims suffered gunshots and shrapnel in the head and upper parts of their bodies. They were hit by direct artillery shelling, drone missiles and gun firing.

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The Israeli army “initially tried to pin the blame on the crowd” saying that they were killed by being crushed and trampled when aid trucks arrived, but because this was contradicted by the facts:

And then, after some pushing the Israelis went on to say that their troops felt threatened, that hundreds of troops approached their troops in a way they posed a threat to them so they responded by opening fire.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/2 ... g-food-aid