• k_rol@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s something we all already think. They were informed of this attack either by their own intel or from US intel but didn’t do shit cause it was their ticket to full on fury.

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      Kinda like how Israel created Hamas

      “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

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        They knew. That is exactly the outcome they wanted. It’s exactly the outcome Likud continues to foster.

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    Seem clear to me that Israel did this for the same reason they helped Hamas oust more moderate PLO - backed groups - they wanted to manufacture the pretext for the genocide they’re now escalating.

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      Or, maybe, a country that had rockets fired at it nearly daily gets warned of dozens of attacks and doesn’t shut down for every one?

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        You frame your statement as though the Israeli government’s disregard for the safety of Israelis is supposed to contradict the fact that they propped up a hostile terror org to kill their citizens and create a pretext for the genocide.

        Why?

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    Likud - like any right wing movement - has a vested interest in ensuring that terror continues. Fear is the only way they can possibly stay in power.

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      Israel - like any right wing movement - has a vested interest in ensuring that terror continues. Fear is the only way they can possibly stay in power.