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Why would Netanyahu and the Israeli establishment want to maintain total secrecy about what is and will happen in Gaza?

 

By Sir Charlattam

The Palestinian resistance's surprise attack on Gaza's neighbouring installations and settlements would not have been so surprising. But what do you mean by that? asked an old friend as we sipped a delicious malt scotch. Beyond the inexplicable lightning action, the expertise demonstrated by the Palestinian commandos and the supposed surprise to Israeli intelligence, there are several loose ends that would cast doubt on the latter.

It appears that many of the guard posts and military bases had only a few troops on duty and the others who were there were still asleep. It took me back to Iraq in the first week of June 2014, when apparently no one expected what was about to happen. Several brigades of men in regulation uniforms (not imitations) of the Iraqi army and ISOF counter-terrorism forces, mobilised in pick-up trucks emblazoned with government insignia, set up roadblocks on the main roads in the north heading towards Baghdad.

No one suspected a thing. Except for their faces covered in black balaclavas with red berets, no one suspected anything and when they stopped cars and detected Al Maliki regime officials or Shiite militants, they were invited to get out and after taking them behind a hill with the excuse of checking their papers, they revealed that they were from the "Islamic State" and, on summary conviction, were shot in the back of the head.

We would later learn that these groups were made up of a combination of members of resistance groups of former Baath party officials such as the “Nakshaiabandi Army” and mercenaries administered by the Mukhabarat of the petro monarchies that cooperated with the “Islamic State” hoax.

The CIA and their Israeli colleagues, who in turn managed the Kurds, had provided the resources for this operation whose objective was to have a base of operations in the east of Syria to continue operations to overthrow Bashar Al Assad.

One of the clues to the discovery of this involvement was the weapons, vehicles and equipment used by these alleged jihadists, many of which were transported on ships unloading in Turkey. Another major party involved was the Turkish MIT, a central player in colouring this hoax by giving it an Islamist tone for the media to portray.

This is a page that the US and its partners (especially Erdogan) would like to forget. For months there have been allegations that many of the weapons and equipment destined for the Nazi regime in Kiev were being diverted to other theatres, one of them in the Arabian Peninsula where several tons of equipment were allegedly unloaded without their destination being known.

Today, after the assault by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, some elements have come to light that are already making State Department and Defence officials and, of course, Biden himself, suspicious. Where did Hamas and the “Izzedim Al Qassam” Brigades get the M136 anti-tank missiles, the plastic explosives used to blow up fences and the AK-74 rifles donated by Atlanticist partners that were supposed to have arrived in Ukraine?

Another curious question: where did the drones used by Hamas come from? But it is only a material detail. The Palestinian fighters demonstrated such precise and lethal military expertise that Israeli military leaders have been struck dumb. To cover up this Israeli politico-military catastrophe, the Western media have already begun to roll out all sorts of overblown and other remarkably exaggerated stories of mass Israeli baby killings that seek to dehumanise the Palestinians and justify the carnage the air force and navy are carrying out at this very moment.

Still on a strictly military note, other observations have detected in the hands of “Hamas”, “Izzedim Al Qassam” and “Islamic Jihad” other equipment and portable weapons that were abandoned by the Americans in Afghanistan in September 2021 and somehow arrived undetected in the Gaza Strip. This last consideration seems impossible to contemplate since the Israeli navy has also closed off access to and exit from the Gaza coast by sea. The “Taliban navy” must be ruled out right away for the simple fact that there is no such thing. So how could they get in?

It is also known that the CIA left there an intelligence programme that after the fall of Mosul in 2017 was transferred -by plane- to Central Asia based on the “ISIS” format only with a refinement in the terms of its identity taken from Islamic scatology calling this hoax as “ISIS-KORASAN”. Why would it be unreasonable that part of its weapons and equipment could not be transferred by its directors who in turn are partners of Israel?

If the jailer holds the key, the alternatives to open that door in Gaza boil down to one possibility. Someone seized the opportunity that brought together Palestinian despair and anger with the internal crisis among Israelis. When the smoke clears from all this, the same Israelis who are not idiots will look at Bibi and his people because, in addition to having concentrated security resources to take care of the settlers who have been murdering West Bank Palestinians with impunity, this carnage that began on Saturday only benefits him.

Now while it is demolishing Gaza with bunker-busting bombs, indiscriminately killing civilians (as its generals announced they don't care about collateral damage), Israel is launching a ground offensive that has already caused hundreds of civilians, women and children to be killed for the proclaimed “right to defend oneself”, the government has ruled that Palestinian prisoners (regardless of whether they really are) are considered as “unlawful combatants”, i.e. they can do anything with them, just as the US did with those suspected of terrorism, justifying among other practices, torture, abuse, executions and disappearances.