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The good news is that World War III has been postponed due to events beyond the Zionists' control. The bad news is that they're still trying to figure out how to blow up Al-Aqsa and build a gay disco called The Pink Heifer.

That, anyway, seems to be the considered opinion of this week’s False Flag Weekly News commentator, Dr. E. Michael Jones. Below are excerpts from our conversation.

Kevin Barrett: So here's our big story. And no, I'm not going to play that song again. Send us money and we won't play that song again.

Here's the aircraft carrier. Two of them actually, the Ford and the Eisenhower. Each one has 5,000 sailors on board. Today a few cheap anti-ship missiles probably within reach not only of mid-level powers, not only the serious regional powers like Iran, for example, but even maybe an individual, a wealthy Gulf individual, could probably take out one of these things with 5,000 people on board. There go 10,000 dead Americans into Davy Jones' locker. Is sending these aircraft carriers right off the coast of Gaza and telling them to say “quack quack” as stupid as I think it is?

E. Michael Jones: It's the principle of showing the flag. That's always the principle. If the Greeks don't pay their debt, the British Navy shows up and bombards Athens, and then they pay their debt. That's the way it works. The trouble is that the game has shifted to the point that missiles now have made the aircraft carrier obsolete. Now, I don't think that Hamas has a missile that can sink an aircraft carrier…

Kevin Barrett: But “Hamas” in quotation marks, spoken with a thick Hebrew accent, probably does.

E. Michael Jones: What we do know is that Putin just made a comment. He said “we have a Kinzhal missile” that can sink an aircraft carrier. It's not a threat, just a statement of fact.

(The Americans) want to intimidate Hamas into giving up. But the problem is that the Israeli air force has already done what the American aircraft carrier can do— they've already bombed Gaza. So the Americans could fly in and bomb the rubble again if they wanted to. But the main issue now is whether there's going to be a ground invasion. And at this point the United States has announced that they have 2 000 troops ready to…enter the tunnels. As I've said before, I don't think the Israelis are willing to enter the tunnels that Hamas has dug. I'm saying this based on what happened in 2006 when it was Hezbollah in the tunnels in Lebanon. Hezbollah had anti-tank missiles that stopped the Merkava tanks, and the Israelis would not go into the tunnels. So I don't think anything's changed here. The aircraft carrier is, in this respect, irrelevant. They can only do what has already been done, and that doesn't need to be done at this point.

Kevin Barrett: Well, if they send Americans into the tunnels to die for the Zionists, I for one am going to be even more annoyed than I already am. But some folks like Bernard over at Moon of Alabama say this aircraft carrier here couldn't possibly be for use against Hamas (but is instead intended to escalate the war on Syria.)

E. Michael Jones: I don't think so. I think that the whole point of Biden's visit was to be the good cop in the good cop bad cop scenario. And I think this is why the Israelis attacked the hospital, in order to narrow his ability to maneuver diplomatically.

Kevin Barrett: Okay, let’s move on to the Gaza Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital explosion story…It was just so insane. It's shocking to me that people were buying the Zionist version of it.

What actually happened apparently was that a huge Israeli airburst bomb went off above the hospital. And in front of the hospital there were hundreds of Palestinian refugees that Israel had chased out of their homes. And they were sheltering there, thinking it was safe. So Israel just did an airburst right above them and killed hundreds of people who were not even protected by the building. And this confused some people because the hospital itself didn't get flattened. But it was actually the people outside the hospital that got killed, for the most part.

The mainstream media has been split on this. A lot of them are parroting this ridiculous Zionist cover story that they recorded Hamas saying it was actually Islamic Jihad that did it. But it turns out that's a complete joke. The recording is blatantly inauthentic. It's almost like a parody. So even the mainstream is starting to question this, as Caitlin Johnson pointed out. And the pushback is getting pretty extreme.

So, Mike, let's talk a little bit about the hospital bombing. Why did the Zionists repeatedly tell us they were going to bomb this hospital, send a bunch of non-warheaded rockets to “knock on the door” to show that they were going to bomb it, then did bomb it with an airburst, killing hundreds of people who were sheltering outside? And then they admitted it and bragged about it on Twitter, and then deleted the tweet, then made up a completely transparent bogus cover story, and somehow forced Joe Biden and about half of the mainstream media to parrot this transparently ludicrous cover story?

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, that’s what's called having your cake and eating it too: They got the effect of it (and the blame-the-Resistance propaganda narrative.) When they realized that it's caused huge amounts of international protest, they denied that it happened and cooked up this story of a Hamas rocket that sort of went off track. And Biden buys into it. So the question is, did it limit his ability (to broker a deal)? Because he clearly came with the idea that he was going to be the broker.

That was the whole point of the first (post-October 7 US diplomatic visit) when Blinken showed up and said “I come not only as United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.” Well, you just lost all your credibility.

Kevin Barrett: And then he starts rambling about the Holocaust, as he always does.

E. Michael Jones: Everywhere he goes, every time he gives a speech, he immediately says, “I have relatives who died in the Holocaust.” It's wearing a little thin now. But I think he lost. They had to reestablish that notion that the United States is a kind of broker between two sides. And I think that's why Netanyahu wanted to attack the hospital to force him over toward the Israeli side.

But it looks as if they did the same thing (attempt to broker a deal) anyway. So today the story is that Biden is going to give a speech: The trucks are lined up, the humanitarian aid is going to go in because Biden brokered a deal. So it's like two steps forward, one step back, as far as I can tell.

Kevin Barrett: I agree that Biden is trying to be the good cop, but he's trying to be the good cop both to Israel and to all the people who are completely outraged by these kinds of slaughters. The Israelis have killed, I can't even keep track of the body count now, but it's been like 3,500, and the wounded count is well over 10,000. I don't know if it's up to 15,000 or higher by now. So this is just a massacre. And Biden tries to be the good cop by going along with Israel's ludicrous lies while taking credit for getting some humanitarian aid in.

E. Michael Jones: He's doing both at the same time. The only question is, was there something else that got deleted because of the attack on the hospital?Was there something else he was going to do? The other question is, is there going to be a ground invasion? Did that get taken off the table now because of his visit? We still don't hear about the ground invasion.

Kevin Barrett: Joe Biden spoke out against it.

There's a pattern here, (we see it) over and over and over. Every important thing that the Zionists have ever done, they've lied about. When are people going to notice this?

E. Michael Jones: Norman Finkelstein just published a whole series of quotes where basically they've already admitted that they attack hospitals. They've already done it so many times, why wouldn't they do it again this time?

Kevin Barrett: Before the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, they'd already like blown up like 18 hospitals, many with no warning.

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, I think that’s what we're seeing here. On the other side, I don't know whether we're going to cover this, but Ben Shapiro is freaking out over this thing, and Mark Levin too, and there's another guy by the name of Rabbi Dov Fisher. Rabbi Fisher brought an interesting point to the table here: He brought up Dresden. And he said—this is the Holocaust narrative, obviously, since in order to bring anything to a conclusion, you have to throw the Holocaust card down on the table to end the discussion—that “there are no innocent people in Gaza. There are no such thing as innocent civilians in Gaza, because Gaza voted for Hamas.” So it completely throws the idea of non-combatants out the window. It's the Jewish idea and the Nazi idea of (?). You know, kill your family, kill everyone.

Kevin Barrett: They're going to have to kill billions then, because the entire MENA region, where I am—the whole region—everybody here pretty much unanimously sides with the Palestinian resistance. So are they going to kill billions of us?

E. Michael Jones: Well, they're going to have to. But he (Rabbi Dov Fisher) concludes and completes the circle by saying it's exactly the same as Dresden. In other words, “the attack on Dresden was justified because those people voted for Hitler.” So now it comes down to: If you vote, if the city you live in elected someone, then there are no such thing as innocent non-combatants any more.

Kevin Barrett: Right. So that means that if Israel elected Netanyahu, every Jew on earth should go straight to the gas chambers.

E. Michael Jones: This is the type of thinking. It all goes back to the Holocaust. In other words, they are taking their plans from the way the Americans conducted their war on Germany. That's the way the Jews are talking. And the people in the State Department are pushing back against it because they understand where that's going to lead.

Kevin Barrett: It's really undermining the Zionist credibility. And bit by bit people are waking up. And one of these days Richie Allen is going to wake up to this. And a lot of other people are waking up already.

So let's get into the historical context here a little bit. Just a couple of items to look at. First, the red heifer stuff. Here is a Mint Press article from back in September that I included for historical context. We don't hear much about this in the mainstream media, or even most of the alternative media, but the Israeli government is actually on board with this radical, millenarian-messianic, I would argue satanic, settler plan to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is the Islamic world's oldest and greatest architectural monument and the avatar of Islamic spirituality and ecumenism, and “rebuild” a blood-sacrifice temple. The Israeli government has actually paid for five pink heifers.

E. Michael Jones: Well, I think that you're the one who said that this was the proximate cause of Al-Aqsa flood, when those 800 rabbis or settlers went into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But the question is, why are they doing that? What's the problem here? Well, I think the problem is guilt, if you want my humble opinion. Because al-Aqsa is built on the foundation of the Temple. And ever since Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 AD, the Jews have no way of expiating guilt. They had to burn animals, animal sacrifice, to expiate guilt.

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, like the scapegoat ritual, right? Driving the goat out. Or worse, they do a sacrifice.

E. Michael Jones: And so for a 2,000 year period, they've had great success in projecting their guilt onto other people, which is exactly what they did with the attack on the hospital. They're good at doing that. But I don't think it works.

I said this in an article I just wrote: There is a specter haunting Israel. And the one who articulated it was Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister. He said “no Jewish kingdom has lasted longer than 80 years.” Now, people yell at me when I say that. I didn't say it, he said it!

Kevin Barrett: So we're getting close to the expiration date.

E. Michael Jones: That's right. We're five years away from the expiration date. And then Barak goes into detail about how after 80 years, the country is falling apart internally. And he quotes other historical examples: Communism didn't last 80 years. That was a Jewish kingdom. He mentioned the United States Civil War. 80 years after the founding of the government, there was a civil war. That, I think, is what's happening in Israel right now.

And whether I think it or not, Ehud Barak thinks it. And if he thinks it, there have got to be a lot of other people who feel: “Well, we better build this temple in the next five years because otherwise we'll all die in our sins. We won't be able to expiate guilt. We'll all go to hell or wherever we go, because we didn't rebuild the temple and have animal sacrifice.”

Kevin Barrett: Right. Well, with all of the sins around the creation of Zionism through a policy of systematic big lies and terrorism, they're going to have to kill and bleed a lot of heifers.

Here’s more historical context from Ron Unz, a terrific article on the anthrax attacks. It's important to remember that the anthrax aspect of the 9/11-anthrax false flag had Zionist fingerprints all over it, as did, of course, the 9/11 aspect. And Ron does a good job in this article of bringing in the fact that it could have easily been solved right at the beginning. Philip Zack and his girlfriend, two former workers at Fort Detrick, almost certainly were involved in writing a letter demonstrating foreknowledge of the attack.

And now the Zionists are on their way to killing God knows how many more and telling more big lies.

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, the big question is, are the American soldiers going to go into the tunnel as proxy warriors for the Israelis who don't want to do it?

Kevin Barrett: Well, if the American soldiers want to die for a pink heifer, you know, whatever.

E. Michael Jones: Or the gay disco or whatever. I think that this is wearing thin. I'm getting tweets from people saying “not going to die for Israel.” Soldiers saying “not going to die for Israel,” that type of thing. I don't see it happening. They've cried wolf too many times.

Kevin Barrett Well, Mike, if they don't want to die for the Pink Heifer or for the gay disco, would they die for a gay disco named the Pink Heifer? Can you imagine? There's the logo and a neon sign, The Pink Heifer. Wouldn't that be a great name for a gay disco?

E. Michael Jones: Yes, yes. You can start one in Morocco.

We Regret to Inform You That World War 3 Has Been Postponed Due to Unforseen Circumstances Beyond Zionist Control

E Michael Jones: If the humanitarian aid comes in, if the United States, the Biden administration has taken control, that means there will be no ground invasion. If there's no ground invasion, then everyone stands back, and then you can have some type of peaceful exchange of hostages.

Kevin Barrett: And Netanyahu's career ends. So he doesn't want that to happen.

E. Michael Jones: I think it's in his interest to prolong the war. I think it's in his interest to have one more atrocity after another, because I think it's the only way he can hold on to power.

To get back to Ehud Barak, the country is completely divided. The only way Bibi can rule is by creating an external threat. That's always the way it is with people like this. Now the question is how deep does this go? And that's why I wanted to bring in a kind of theological dimension to this. Because if they're thinking that we only have five years left, there's an element of desperation involved here that would probably support Netanyahu, as opposed to the people who maybe don't feel that way and want to have some type of ceasefire and move back to try to deal with this in a rational behavior rather than with military force.

Kevin Barrett: I agree. I also think it's really important that people in the West should listen to what Hamas says, because that's totally systematically suppressed from the Western media, even the alternative media. Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas’s deputy chief, has been giving these long interviews. You can watch them in Arabic on Al Jazeera, and you can probably find some of it on Al Jazeera English, and get Hamas' perspective on all of this. And what you discover is that they never intended to massacre Israeli civilians. Hamas is a much more reasonable and calculating and ultimately peace-loving group than they're given credit for.

And Hamas has always been willing to have a ceasefire. Even though Hamas, like everybody else who's paying attention, believes that there shouldn't be any Jewish state there, if Israel goes back to the pre-1967 borders, they're willing to have a ceasefire, lay down their weapons, and work politically and peacefully—if Israel just goes back to those 1967 borders like the entire international community wants them to do.

So anyway, people really should listen to Hamas. Don't just take these cherry-picked snippets attributed to Hamas by various Zionist sources. Go actually listen to what Hamas says and get that side of the story directly.

E Michael Jones: I think the other thing that we need to talk about is diplomatic pressure from China and Russia. At the moment when the tanks were massing for the ground offensive, already moved up to the border— at that point they said they were going to postpone it because of the weather, because it rained there or something like that.

It may have been the fact that Putin said that we have a Kinzhal missile that can hit that aircraft carrier, and at the same time that China basically pulled out and sided with Hamas and said that there had to be some type of peaceful solution—I think that that may have caused them to pull back.

I don't think it (a Gaza ground invasion and subsequent World War III) going to happen.

Kevin Barrett: So you're saying no ground invasion?

E. Michael Jones: That's what I'm saying. I think that's always been the red line, hasn't it? Wasn’t Iran threatening that “if there's a ground invasion, we’ll get involved?”

I think the United States said, “well, we don't want that, they're talking to each other.” After Blinken stopped saying he has relatives who died in the Holocaust, maybe he talked to someone about “maybe we should do something about this threat of a ground invasion and Iranian response.”

So that was the crucial moment, I think that they blinked. It's happened before. I don't know whether it was the result of the Soleimani murder, when Iran fired missiles at a United States base in Iraq, and at that point it was Trump's position, “okay, you've got to counter this,” and Netanyahu was egging him on, and at that point Hassan Nasrallah said “if you do that, we are going to fire 250,000 missiles into Israel.” And at that point, Netanyahu backed down.

I think we tend to miss these moments because nobody wants to talk about them in the mainstream media. But I think that that was such a moment.

So I said before, they're not going to go in on a ground invasion. And it still hasn't happened. And now there's humanitarian aid that has basically ended the blockade. I think this is the result of international pressure, including pressure from the United States.

Kevin Barrett: So World War III may not be quite as imminent as my headline suggested.

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The good news is that World War III has been postponed due to events beyond the Zionists' control. The bad news is that they're still trying to figure out how to blow up Al-Aqsa and build a gay disco called The Pink Heifer.

That, anyway, seems to be the considered opinion of this week’s False Flag Weekly News commentator, Dr. E. Michael Jones. Below are excerpts from our conversation.

Kevin Barrett: So here's our big story. And no, I'm not going to play that song again. Send us money and we won't play that song again.

Here's the aircraft carrier. Two of them actually, the Ford and the Eisenhower. Each one has 5,000 sailors on board. Today a few cheap anti-ship missiles probably within reach not only of mid-level powers, not only the serious regional powers like Iran, for example, but even maybe an individual, a wealthy Gulf individual, could probably take out one of these things with 5,000 people on board. There go 10,000 dead Americans into Davy Jones' locker. Is sending these aircraft carriers right off the coast of Gaza and telling them to say “quack quack” as stupid as I think it is?

E. Michael Jones: It's the principle of showing the flag. That's always the principle. If the Greeks don't pay their debt, the British Navy shows up and bombards Athens, and then they pay their debt. That's the way it works. The trouble is that the game has shifted to the point that missiles now have made the aircraft carrier obsolete. Now, I don't think that Hamas has a missile that can sink an aircraft carrier…

Kevin Barrett: But “Hamas” in quotation marks, spoken with a thick Hebrew accent, probably does.

E. Michael Jones: What we do know is that Putin just made a comment. He said “we have a Kinzhal missile” that can sink an aircraft carrier. It's not a threat, just a statement of fact.

(The Americans) want to intimidate Hamas into giving up. But the problem is that the Israeli air force has already done what the American aircraft carrier can do— they've already bombed Gaza. So the Americans could fly in and bomb the rubble again if they wanted to. But the main issue now is whether there's going to be a ground invasion. And at this point the United States has announced that they have 2 000 troops ready to…enter the tunnels. As I've said before, I don't think the Israelis are willing to enter the tunnels that Hamas has dug. I'm saying this based on what happened in 2006 when it was Hezbollah in the tunnels in Lebanon. Hezbollah had anti-tank missiles that stopped the Merkava tanks, and the Israelis would not go into the tunnels. So I don't think anything's changed here. The aircraft carrier is, in this respect, irrelevant. They can only do what has already been done, and that doesn't need to be done at this point.

Kevin Barrett: Well, if they send Americans into the tunnels to die for the Zionists, I for one am going to be even more annoyed than I already am. But some folks like Bernard over at Moon of Alabama say this aircraft carrier here couldn't possibly be for use against Hamas (but is instead intended to escalate the war on Syria.)

E. Michael Jones: I don't think so. I think that the whole point of Biden's visit was to be the good cop in the good cop bad cop scenario. And I think this is why the Israelis attacked the hospital, in order to narrow his ability to maneuver diplomatically.

Kevin Barrett: Okay, let’s move on to the Gaza Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital explosion story…It was just so insane. It's shocking to me that people were buying the Zionist version of it.

What actually happened apparently was that a huge Israeli airburst bomb went off above the hospital. And in front of the hospital there were hundreds of Palestinian refugees that Israel had chased out of their homes. And they were sheltering there, thinking it was safe. So Israel just did an airburst right above them and killed hundreds of people who were not even protected by the building. And this confused some people because the hospital itself didn't get flattened. But it was actually the people outside the hospital that got killed, for the most part.

The mainstream media has been split on this. A lot of them are parroting this ridiculous Zionist cover story that they recorded Hamas saying it was actually Islamic Jihad that did it. But it turns out that's a complete joke. The recording is blatantly inauthentic. It's almost like a parody. So even the mainstream is starting to question this, as Caitlin Johnson pointed out. And the pushback is getting pretty extreme.

So, Mike, let's talk a little bit about the hospital bombing. Why did the Zionists repeatedly tell us they were going to bomb this hospital, send a bunch of non-warheaded rockets to “knock on the door” to show that they were going to bomb it, then did bomb it with an airburst, killing hundreds of people who were sheltering outside? And then they admitted it and bragged about it on Twitter, and then deleted the tweet, then made up a completely transparent bogus cover story, and somehow forced Joe Biden and about half of the mainstream media to parrot this transparently ludicrous cover story?

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, that’s what's called having your cake and eating it too: They got the effect of it (and the blame-the-Resistance propaganda narrative.) When they realized that it's caused huge amounts of international protest, they denied that it happened and cooked up this story of a Hamas rocket that sort of went off track. And Biden buys into it. So the question is, did it limit his ability (to broker a deal)? Because he clearly came with the idea that he was going to be the broker.

That was the whole point of the first (post-October 7 US diplomatic visit) when Blinken showed up and said “I come not only as United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.” Well, you just lost all your credibility.

Kevin Barrett: And then he starts rambling about the Holocaust, as he always does.

E. Michael Jones: Everywhere he goes, every time he gives a speech, he immediately says, “I have relatives who died in the Holocaust.” It's wearing a little thin now. But I think he lost. They had to reestablish that notion that the United States is a kind of broker between two sides. And I think that's why Netanyahu wanted to attack the hospital to force him over toward the Israeli side.

But it looks as if they did the same thing (attempt to broker a deal) anyway. So today the story is that Biden is going to give a speech: The trucks are lined up, the humanitarian aid is going to go in because Biden brokered a deal. So it's like two steps forward, one step back, as far as I can tell.

Kevin Barrett: I agree that Biden is trying to be the good cop, but he's trying to be the good cop both to Israel and to all the people who are completely outraged by these kinds of slaughters. The Israelis have killed, I can't even keep track of the body count now, but it's been like 3,500, and the wounded count is well over 10,000. I don't know if it's up to 15,000 or higher by now. So this is just a massacre. And Biden tries to be the good cop by going along with Israel's ludicrous lies while taking credit for getting some humanitarian aid in.

E. Michael Jones: He's doing both at the same time. The only question is, was there something else that got deleted because of the attack on the hospital?Was there something else he was going to do? The other question is, is there going to be a ground invasion? Did that get taken off the table now because of his visit? We still don't hear about the ground invasion.

Kevin Barrett: Joe Biden spoke out against it.

There's a pattern here, (we see it) over and over and over. Every important thing that the Zionists have ever done, they've lied about. When are people going to notice this?

E. Michael Jones: Norman Finkelstein just published a whole series of quotes where basically they've already admitted that they attack hospitals. They've already done it so many times, why wouldn't they do it again this time?

Kevin Barrett: Before the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, they'd already like blown up like 18 hospitals, many with no warning.

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, I think that’s what we're seeing here. On the other side, I don't know whether we're going to cover this, but Ben Shapiro is freaking out over this thing, and Mark Levin too, and there's another guy by the name of Rabbi Dov Fisher. Rabbi Fisher brought an interesting point to the table here: He brought up Dresden. And he said—this is the Holocaust narrative, obviously, since in order to bring anything to a conclusion, you have to throw the Holocaust card down on the table to end the discussion—that “there are no innocent people in Gaza. There are no such thing as innocent civilians in Gaza, because Gaza voted for Hamas.” So it completely throws the idea of non-combatants out the window. It's the Jewish idea and the Nazi idea of (?). You know, kill your family, kill everyone.

Kevin Barrett: They're going to have to kill billions then, because the entire MENA region, where I am—the whole region—everybody here pretty much unanimously sides with the Palestinian resistance. So are they going to kill billions of us?

E. Michael Jones: Well, they're going to have to. But he (Rabbi Dov Fisher) concludes and completes the circle by saying it's exactly the same as Dresden. In other words, “the attack on Dresden was justified because those people voted for Hitler.” So now it comes down to: If you vote, if the city you live in elected someone, then there are no such thing as innocent non-combatants any more.

Kevin Barrett: Right. So that means that if Israel elected Netanyahu, every Jew on earth should go straight to the gas chambers.

E. Michael Jones: This is the type of thinking. It all goes back to the Holocaust. In other words, they are taking their plans from the way the Americans conducted their war on Germany. That's the way the Jews are talking. And the people in the State Department are pushing back against it because they understand where that's going to lead.

Kevin Barrett: It's really undermining the Zionist credibility. And bit by bit people are waking up. And one of these days Richie Allen is going to wake up to this. And a lot of other people are waking up already.

So let's get into the historical context here a little bit. Just a couple of items to look at. First, the red heifer stuff. Here is a Mint Press article from back in September that I included for historical context. We don't hear much about this in the mainstream media, or even most of the alternative media, but the Israeli government is actually on board with this radical, millenarian-messianic, I would argue satanic, settler plan to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is the Islamic world's oldest and greatest architectural monument and the avatar of Islamic spirituality and ecumenism, and “rebuild” a blood-sacrifice temple. The Israeli government has actually paid for five pink heifers.

E. Michael Jones: Well, I think that you're the one who said that this was the proximate cause of Al-Aqsa flood, when those 800 rabbis or settlers went into the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But the question is, why are they doing that? What's the problem here? Well, I think the problem is guilt, if you want my humble opinion. Because al-Aqsa is built on the foundation of the Temple. And ever since Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 AD, the Jews have no way of expiating guilt. They had to burn animals, animal sacrifice, to expiate guilt.

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, like the scapegoat ritual, right? Driving the goat out. Or worse, they do a sacrifice.

E. Michael Jones: And so for a 2,000 year period, they've had great success in projecting their guilt onto other people, which is exactly what they did with the attack on the hospital. They're good at doing that. But I don't think it works.

I said this in an article I just wrote: There is a specter haunting Israel. And the one who articulated it was Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister. He said “no Jewish kingdom has lasted longer than 80 years.” Now, people yell at me when I say that. I didn't say it, he said it!

Kevin Barrett: So we're getting close to the expiration date.

E. Michael Jones: That's right. We're five years away from the expiration date. And then Barak goes into detail about how after 80 years, the country is falling apart internally. And he quotes other historical examples: Communism didn't last 80 years. That was a Jewish kingdom. He mentioned the United States Civil War. 80 years after the founding of the government, there was a civil war. That, I think, is what's happening in Israel right now.

And whether I think it or not, Ehud Barak thinks it. And if he thinks it, there have got to be a lot of other people who feel: “Well, we better build this temple in the next five years because otherwise we'll all die in our sins. We won't be able to expiate guilt. We'll all go to hell or wherever we go, because we didn't rebuild the temple and have animal sacrifice.”

Kevin Barrett: Right. Well, with all of the sins around the creation of Zionism through a policy of systematic big lies and terrorism, they're going to have to kill and bleed a lot of heifers.

Here’s more historical context from Ron Unz, a terrific article on the anthrax attacks. It's important to remember that the anthrax aspect of the 9/11-anthrax false flag had Zionist fingerprints all over it, as did, of course, the 9/11 aspect. And Ron does a good job in this article of bringing in the fact that it could have easily been solved right at the beginning. Philip Zack and his girlfriend, two former workers at Fort Detrick, almost certainly were involved in writing a letter demonstrating foreknowledge of the attack.

And now the Zionists are on their way to killing God knows how many more and telling more big lies.

E. Michael Jones: Yeah, the big question is, are the American soldiers going to go into the tunnel as proxy warriors for the Israelis who don't want to do it?

Kevin Barrett: Well, if the American soldiers want to die for a pink heifer, you know, whatever.

E. Michael Jones: Or the gay disco or whatever. I think that this is wearing thin. I'm getting tweets from people saying “not going to die for Israel.” Soldiers saying “not going to die for Israel,” that type of thing. I don't see it happening. They've cried wolf too many times.

Kevin Barrett Well, Mike, if they don't want to die for the Pink Heifer or for the gay disco, would they die for a gay disco named the Pink Heifer? Can you imagine? There's the logo and a neon sign, The Pink Heifer. Wouldn't that be a great name for a gay disco?

E. Michael Jones: Yes, yes. You can start one in Morocco.

We Regret to Inform You That World War 3 Has Been Postponed Due to Unforseen Circumstances Beyond Zionist Control

E Michael Jones: If the humanitarian aid comes in, if the United States, the Biden administration has taken control, that means there will be no ground invasion. If there's no ground invasion, then everyone stands back, and then you can have some type of peaceful exchange of hostages.

Kevin Barrett: And Netanyahu's career ends. So he doesn't want that to happen.

E. Michael Jones: I think it's in his interest to prolong the war. I think it's in his interest to have one more atrocity after another, because I think it's the only way he can hold on to power.

To get back to Ehud Barak, the country is completely divided. The only way Bibi can rule is by creating an external threat. That's always the way it is with people like this. Now the question is how deep does this go? And that's why I wanted to bring in a kind of theological dimension to this. Because if they're thinking that we only have five years left, there's an element of desperation involved here that would probably support Netanyahu, as opposed to the people who maybe don't feel that way and want to have some type of ceasefire and move back to try to deal with this in a rational behavior rather than with military force.

Kevin Barrett: I agree. I also think it's really important that people in the West should listen to what Hamas says, because that's totally systematically suppressed from the Western media, even the alternative media. Saleh al-Arouri, Hamas’s deputy chief, has been giving these long interviews. You can watch them in Arabic on Al Jazeera, and you can probably find some of it on Al Jazeera English, and get Hamas' perspective on all of this. And what you discover is that they never intended to massacre Israeli civilians. Hamas is a much more reasonable and calculating and ultimately peace-loving group than they're given credit for.

And Hamas has always been willing to have a ceasefire. Even though Hamas, like everybody else who's paying attention, believes that there shouldn't be any Jewish state there, if Israel goes back to the pre-1967 borders, they're willing to have a ceasefire, lay down their weapons, and work politically and peacefully—if Israel just goes back to those 1967 borders like the entire international community wants them to do.

So anyway, people really should listen to Hamas. Don't just take these cherry-picked snippets attributed to Hamas by various Zionist sources. Go actually listen to what Hamas says and get that side of the story directly.

E Michael Jones: I think the other thing that we need to talk about is diplomatic pressure from China and Russia. At the moment when the tanks were massing for the ground offensive, already moved up to the border— at that point they said they were going to postpone it because of the weather, because it rained there or something like that.

It may have been the fact that Putin said that we have a Kinzhal missile that can hit that aircraft carrier, and at the same time that China basically pulled out and sided with Hamas and said that there had to be some type of peaceful solution—I think that that may have caused them to pull back.

I don't think it (a Gaza ground invasion and subsequent World War III) going to happen.

Kevin Barrett: So you're saying no ground invasion?

E. Michael Jones: That's what I'm saying. I think that's always been the red line, hasn't it? Wasn’t Iran threatening that “if there's a ground invasion, we’ll get involved?”

I think the United States said, “well, we don't want that, they're talking to each other.” After Blinken stopped saying he has relatives who died in the Holocaust, maybe he talked to someone about “maybe we should do something about this threat of a ground invasion and Iranian response.”

So that was the crucial moment, I think that they blinked. It's happened before. I don't know whether it was the result of the Soleimani murder, when Iran fired missiles at a United States base in Iraq, and at that point it was Trump's position, “okay, you've got to counter this,” and Netanyahu was egging him on, and at that point Hassan Nasrallah said “if you do that, we are going to fire 250,000 missiles into Israel.” And at that point, Netanyahu backed down.

I think we tend to miss these moments because nobody wants to talk about them in the mainstream media. But I think that that was such a moment.

So I said before, they're not going to go in on a ground invasion. And it still hasn't happened. And now there's humanitarian aid that has basically ended the blockade. I think this is the result of international pressure, including pressure from the United States.

Kevin Barrett: So World War III may not be quite as imminent as my headline suggested.

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Richie Allen opened my segment on his show yesterday: “I'm beginning to wonder about the attack on the (Baptist) Hospital yesterday. I'm beginning to wonder if Israel actually didn't do it, and that a broken clock is right twice a day and that it may in fact have been an accident….I really can't imagine what Israel had to gain by doing that with the world's media traveling across the Atlantic with Biden. Why would they do that? Nothing to gain. I can't see any gain.”

I answered:

“They're not bombing anything in Gaza that has any military significance at all. They're just torturing and killing civilians. I think (the hospital bombing) sent a strong message to Biden that ‘we own you.’ Biden was on the way there with the world's Zionist controlled mainstream press corps with him and they just tugged on his puppet strings and they tugged on the mainstream media's puppet strings.”

Richie Allen is not exactly a credulous dupe. But he should have noticed that the Zionist lies about their murderous bombing of the al-Ahli Hospital were even more transparently mendacious than usual. Even some MSM journalists are getting it, as Caitlin Johnstone points out here and here. Alex Thompson of the UK’s Channel 4:

“So what of Israel’s explanation? Sensing a major problem they worked through the night to get their version out. Press conference first thing. Conclusion: an Islamic Jihad rocket caused it all.”

“They present what they say is two Hamas operatives talking about the attack. Hamas call this an obvious fabrication. Two independent Arab journalists told us the same thing, because of the language, accent, dialect, syntax and tone. None of which is, they say, credible.”

“Equally, Israel claims the Islamic Jihad failed missile was fired from here: a cemetery very close to the hospital. But look again at the video of the event — the trajectory of the missile doesn’t line up with that location. Too high. Too horizontal. Confusingly, the Israelis’ presentation also says the missile was fired from a location down in the southwest; it can’t be both.”

Caitlin Johnstone:

I mean, if people were saying I bombed a hospital, and I knew I didn’t, the last thing I’d do is publish an audio file of me pretending to be two guys talking about how Caitlin definitely didn’t bomb the hospital.

Picture a recording of me doing two blokey-sounding voices going,

“Hello my evil friend!”

“Hello!”

“Did you hear that Caitlin definitely did not bomb that hospital?”

“She didn’t?”

“No! It turns out it was we, the Evil Bad Guys!”

“We did it?”

“Yes, it was us!”

Even more thunderingly obvious, as Chris Hedges points out, is that the Palestinians don’t have bombs nearly that big or rockets nearly that fast:

I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Islamic Jihad that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had these kinds of missiles, huge buildings in Israel would be rubble with hundreds of dead. They don’t. 

The whistling sound, audible on the video moments before the explosion, appears to comes from the high velocity of a missile. This sound gives it away. No Palestinian rocket makes this noise. And then there is the speed of the missile. Palestinian rockets are slow and lumbering, clearly visible as they arch in the sky and then tumble in free fall towards their targets. They do not strike with precision or travel at close to supersonic speed. They are incapable of killing hundreds of people.

The Israeli military dropped “roof knocking” rockets with no warheads on the hospital in the days leading up to the Oct. 17 strike, the familiar warning given by Israel to evacuate buildings, according to al-Ahli hospital officials. Hospital officials also said they had received calls from Israel saying “we warned you to evacuate twice.” Israel has demanded that all hospitals in northern Gaza be evacuated.

So to sum up: Israel repeatedly announced they were going to do it, did it on-camera with a rocket/bomb that only they have, took credit for it…then scrubbed the credit-taking tweet, manufactured a laughably bogus tape of two “Hamas” guys (who might as well have had thick Hebrew accents) saying Islamic Jihad did it, and forced Joe Biden and much of the Western press corps to regurgitate what everyone paying attention knew were shameless baldface lies.

In his new essay “Israel’s Culture of Deceit,” Chris Hedges, former New York Times Mideast correspondent, makes a pretty good stab at explaining that practically everything Israel has ever said about anything important has been an outrageous, baldface lie. Yet Hedges barely scratches the surface. (He misses JFK, 9/11, and so much more.)

Though Zionist lies eventually get exposed, by then the damage has already been done. The Zionists are playing on one of humanity’s biggest weaknesses, first impression bias: “a limitation in human information processing that causes us to make quick and incomplete observations…based on the first piece of information we perceive.” If they can instill even a shred of doubt—“maybe Israel didn’t bomb that hospital”—they succeed in neutralizing the massive outrage that is the normal and natural response to such a horrendous crime. By the time the truth is made absolutely clear, the moment for powerful emotional reactions has passed. Thanks to their ability to play people like Richie Allen, as well as a whole lot of folks who aren’t that sharp, the Zionists get away with their crimes, time after time after time.

Such calculated mendacity is the PR strategy of clinical psychopaths. And indeed, Zionists, as a group, treat other groups the way psychopaths treat other people. For an in-depth analysis, see Laurent Guyénot’s article “Israel: The Psychopathic Nation.”

After studying this issue for years, I have concluded that the only hope for the planet is for medical science to invent surgical procedures for eliminating psychopathy and excising the mendacity center from people’s brains…and for every Zionist on Earth to line up for treatment.

*Note: My old friend Steven F. recommends an article that can clear up some of Richie’s confusion about the forensic evidence: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-19-video-evidence-points-to-israeli-air-burst-bomb-striking-al-ahli-hospital-grounds.html 

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Richie Allen opened my segment on his show yesterday: “I'm beginning to wonder about the attack on the (Baptist) Hospital yesterday. I'm beginning to wonder if Israel actually didn't do it, and that a broken clock is right twice a day and that it may in fact have been an accident….I really can't imagine what Israel had to gain by doing that with the world's media traveling across the Atlantic with Biden. Why would they do that? Nothing to gain. I can't see any gain.”

I answered:

“They're not bombing anything in Gaza that has any military significance at all. They're just torturing and killing civilians. I think (the hospital bombing) sent a strong message to Biden that ‘we own you.’ Biden was on the way there with the world's Zionist controlled mainstream press corps with him and they just tugged on his puppet strings and they tugged on the mainstream media's puppet strings.”

Richie Allen is not exactly a credulous dupe. But he should have noticed that the Zionist lies about their murderous bombing of the al-Ahli Hospital were even more transparently mendacious than usual. Even some MSM journalists are getting it, as Caitlin Johnstone points out here and here. Alex Thompson of the UK’s Channel 4:

“So what of Israel’s explanation? Sensing a major problem they worked through the night to get their version out. Press conference first thing. Conclusion: an Islamic Jihad rocket caused it all.”

“They present what they say is two Hamas operatives talking about the attack. Hamas call this an obvious fabrication. Two independent Arab journalists told us the same thing, because of the language, accent, dialect, syntax and tone. None of which is, they say, credible.”

“Equally, Israel claims the Islamic Jihad failed missile was fired from here: a cemetery very close to the hospital. But look again at the video of the event — the trajectory of the missile doesn’t line up with that location. Too high. Too horizontal. Confusingly, the Israelis’ presentation also says the missile was fired from a location down in the southwest; it can’t be both.”

Caitlin Johnstone:

I mean, if people were saying I bombed a hospital, and I knew I didn’t, the last thing I’d do is publish an audio file of me pretending to be two guys talking about how Caitlin definitely didn’t bomb the hospital.

Picture a recording of me doing two blokey-sounding voices going,

“Hello my evil friend!”

“Hello!”

“Did you hear that Caitlin definitely did not bomb that hospital?”

“She didn’t?”

“No! It turns out it was we, the Evil Bad Guys!”

“We did it?”

“Yes, it was us!”

Even more thunderingly obvious, as Chris Hedges points out, is that the Palestinians don’t have bombs nearly that big or rockets nearly that fast:

I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Islamic Jihad that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had these kinds of missiles, huge buildings in Israel would be rubble with hundreds of dead. They don’t. 

The whistling sound, audible on the video moments before the explosion, appears to comes from the high velocity of a missile. This sound gives it away. No Palestinian rocket makes this noise. And then there is the speed of the missile. Palestinian rockets are slow and lumbering, clearly visible as they arch in the sky and then tumble in free fall towards their targets. They do not strike with precision or travel at close to supersonic speed. They are incapable of killing hundreds of people.

The Israeli military dropped “roof knocking” rockets with no warheads on the hospital in the days leading up to the Oct. 17 strike, the familiar warning given by Israel to evacuate buildings, according to al-Ahli hospital officials. Hospital officials also said they had received calls from Israel saying “we warned you to evacuate twice.” Israel has demanded that all hospitals in northern Gaza be evacuated.

So to sum up: Israel repeatedly announced they were going to do it, did it on-camera with a rocket/bomb that only they have, took credit for it…then scrubbed the credit-taking tweet, manufactured a laughably bogus tape of two “Hamas” guys (who might as well have had thick Hebrew accents) saying Islamic Jihad did it, and forced Joe Biden and much of the Western press corps to regurgitate what everyone paying attention knew were shameless baldface lies.

In his new essay “Israel’s Culture of Deceit,” Chris Hedges, former New York Times Mideast correspondent, makes a pretty good stab at explaining that practically everything Israel has ever said about anything important has been an outrageous, baldface lie. Yet Hedges barely scratches the surface. (He misses JFK, 9/11, and so much more.)

Though Zionist lies eventually get exposed, by then the damage has already been done. The Zionists are playing on one of humanity’s biggest weaknesses, first impression bias: “a limitation in human information processing that causes us to make quick and incomplete observations…based on the first piece of information we perceive.” If they can instill even a shred of doubt—“maybe Israel didn’t bomb that hospital”—they succeed in neutralizing the massive outrage that is the normal and natural response to such a horrendous crime. By the time the truth is made absolutely clear, the moment for powerful emotional reactions has passed. Thanks to their ability to play people like Richie Allen, as well as a whole lot of folks who aren’t that sharp, the Zionists get away with their crimes, time after time after time.

Such calculated mendacity is the PR strategy of clinical psychopaths. And indeed, Zionists, as a group, treat other groups the way psychopaths treat other people. For an in-depth analysis, see Laurent Guyénot’s article “Israel: The Psychopathic Nation.”

After studying this issue for years, I have concluded that the only hope for the planet is for medical science to invent surgical procedures for eliminating psychopathy and excising the mendacity center from people’s brains…and for every Zionist on Earth to line up for treatment.

*Note: My old friend Steven F. recommends an article that can clear up some of Richie’s confusion about the forensic evidence: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-19-video-evidence-points-to-israeli-air-burst-bomb-striking-al-ahli-hospital-grounds.html 

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Singer-songwriter David Rovics, author of the classic "(9/11) Reichstag Fire," joins us just minutes after Israel blew up the al-Ahli Baptist hospital, killing more than 500 doctors, nurses, and patients. Though everyone knows that Israel did it, almost certainly deliberately—the Palestinians don’t have bombs that powerful, and Israel routinely slaughters civilians en masse for sport—Western media continues to gaslight its audience with rabid pro-genocide propaganda echoing Israel’s obscene claims that the Palestinians blew up their own hospital. And now Biden has joined the chorus of big lies.

After trying to wrap our heads around the evil of Zionist genocide, we turn to David's new article "The Gaza Ghetto Uprising." In it he points out:

“Living in the ‘West,’ consuming what passes for mainstream media in the West, it would be almost as hard to understand the motives and methods of the Jewish Fighting Organization in 1943 by reading Nazi propaganda as it would be to understand Hamas today through the western media’s distorted lens.”

Calling Western media the heirs of Goebbels may be an insult to Goebbels. When will Americans figure out that the Israelis and Israeli-owned Western MSM lie like they breathe?

Al-Aqsa Storm was never about killing civilians. It was originally intended to target IDF border outposts, grab a few (preferably military) hostages, and return to Gaza. When IDF resistance collapsed unexpectedly Hamas opportunistically just kept going, looking for military targets and hostages. There were no massacres of unarmed civilians by Hamas. They were under strict orders not to harm civilians. The only large-scale massacres of civilians were by the IDF, whose doctrine is to use overwhelming firepower to annihilate both hostages and hostage-takers (hostages being a political liability). The majority of Israeli civilian dead were killed by the IDF. See: Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says.

US MSM, led by the more serious outlets (WaPo and NYT) are gradually moving toward more truthful, revisionist accounts. Unfortunately propaganda is all about first impressions, so once again, genocidal terrorists have been portrayed as victims, while moral and ethical resistance fighters have been slandered in service to genocide.

Note: I will appear on the Richie Allen Show today at 5:25 pm UK/Morocco time (12:25 Eastern).

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Singer-songwriter David Rovics, author of the classic "(9/11) Reichstag Fire," joins us just minutes after Israel blew up the al-Ahli Baptist hospital, killing more than 500 doctors, nurses, and patients. Though everyone knows that Israel did it, almost certainly deliberately—the Palestinians don’t have bombs that powerful, and Israel routinely slaughters civilians en masse for sport—Western media continues to gaslight its audience with rabid pro-genocide propaganda echoing Israel’s obscene claims that the Palestinians blew up their own hospital. And now Biden has joined the chorus of big lies.

After trying to wrap our heads around the evil of Zionist genocide, we turn to David's new article "The Gaza Ghetto Uprising." In it he points out:

“Living in the ‘West,’ consuming what passes for mainstream media in the West, it would be almost as hard to understand the motives and methods of the Jewish Fighting Organization in 1943 by reading Nazi propaganda as it would be to understand Hamas today through the western media’s distorted lens.”

Calling Western media the heirs of Goebbels may be an insult to Goebbels. When will Americans figure out that the Israelis and Israeli-owned Western MSM lie like they breathe?

Al-Aqsa Storm was never about killing civilians. It was originally intended to target IDF border outposts, grab a few (preferably military) hostages, and return to Gaza. When IDF resistance collapsed unexpectedly Hamas opportunistically just kept going, looking for military targets and hostages. There were no massacres of unarmed civilians by Hamas. They were under strict orders not to harm civilians. The only large-scale massacres of civilians were by the IDF, whose doctrine is to use overwhelming firepower to annihilate both hostages and hostage-takers (hostages being a political liability). The majority of Israeli civilian dead were killed by the IDF. See: Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says.

US MSM, led by the more serious outlets (WaPo and NYT) are gradually moving toward more truthful, revisionist accounts. Unfortunately propaganda is all about first impressions, so once again, genocidal terrorists have been portrayed as victims, while moral and ethical resistance fighters have been slandered in service to genocide.

Note: I will appear on the Richie Allen Show today at 5:25 pm UK/Morocco time (12:25 Eastern).

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State Department whistleblower J. Michael Springmann is a Washington, DC lawyer. The author of Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World knows a thing or two about false flags.

So it isn’t easy to win a debate with “J-Mike,” especially on the topic of false flags. But I did my best on this week’s False Flag Weekly News.

J. Michael Springmann argues that the Hamas incursion into Israel looks like a LIHOP (let it happen on purpose) false flag. Somebody on the Israeli side, Springmann says, must have opened the door and let Hamas in. High on the suspects list, he says, is Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. The purpose: strengthen the Israeli right while uniting the nation and providing PR cover to clobber—if not exterminate—the Palestinians.

What’s the evidence for a LIHOP interpretation of Operation al-Aqsa Storm?

Bibi Ignores Warning

First, as the Times of Israel reported, “Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big.’” According to the Times, Egypt’s intelligence chief, Gen. Abbas Kamel, contacted Netanyahu directly with an urgent warning: “An Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning ‘something big’ — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister.”

Despite the repeated warnings from Egypt about Gaza, the Netanyahu government was “focused on the West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is made up of supporters of West Bank settlers who have demanded a security crackdown there in the face of a rising tide of violence over the last 18 months.” (Netanyahu, of course, denies that he was warned at all.)

According to the LIHOP interpretation, Netanyahu deliberately ignored the warnings, and sent security forces away from Gaza into the West Bank, because he knew the Gaza attack was in the works and wanted it to succeed. The alternative explanation, as we’ll see, involves an amalgamation of arrogance and incompetence.

CIA Scribe Hints at LIHOP

Another bit of circumstantial evidence for the false flag interpretation is a peculiar Washington Post article by the CIA’s unofficial scribe, David Ignatius, who compares Israel’s “strange blindness” pre-al-Aqsa-Storm to America’s “strange blindness” pre-9/11. Reading between the lines, we understand that Ignatius knows, but cannot directly state in public, that America’s defenses stood down pre-9/11 to allow that false flag attack to succeed, and is strongly implying that the same thing happened in Israel with respect to al-Aqsa Storm.

Why would Ignatius encode that message in a Washington Post article? To communicate to his faction, the CIA-based anti-neocon realists, the truth of the situation so they can make decisions accordingly? (Such incendiary accusations are best voiced indirectly.)

If Ignatius writes by and for the sane people in the CIA, Israeli author and journalist Ronan Bergman does the same for Mossad. So what does Bergman say about the surprising success of al-Aqsa Storm?

Mossad Scribe Blames SNAFUs

In his New York Times article “How Israel’s Feared Security Services Failed to Stop Hamas’s Attack,” Bergman says Israeli soldiers guarding the border were sent an alert shortly before the incursion, but for still-unclear reasons either didn’t get it or didn’t read it. Next,

“Hamas…sent drones to disable some of the Israeli military’s cellular communications stations and surveillance towers along the border, preventing the duty officers from monitoring the area remotely with video cameras. The drones also destroyed remote-controlled machine guns that Israel had installed on its border fortifications. That made it easier for Hamas assailants to approach and blow up parts of the border fence and bulldoze it in several places with surprising ease, allowing thousands of Palestinians to walk through the gaps.”

Bergman blames arrogance and incompetence:

Two of the officials said that the Israeli border surveillance system was almost entirely reliant on cameras, sensors and machine guns that are operated remotely.

Israeli commanders had grown overly confident in the system’s impregnability. They thought that the combination of remote surveillance and arms, barriers above ground and a subterranean wall to block Hamas from digging tunnels into Israel made mass infiltration unlikely, reducing the need for significant numbers of soldiers to be physically stationed along border line itself.

According to Bergman, the key to the attack’s success was Hamas’s brilliant use of drones to disable Israeli command-and-communications:

But the remote-control system had a vulnerability: It could also be destroyed remotely.

Hamas took advantage of that weakness by sending aerial drones to attack the cellular towers that transmitted signals to and from the surveillance system, according to the officials and also drone footage circulated by Hamas on Saturday and analyzed by The New York Times.

Without cellular signals, the system was useless. Soldiers stationed in control rooms behind the front lines did not receive alarms that the fence separating Gaza and Israel had been breached, and could not watch video showing them where the Hamas attackers were bulldozing the barricades. In addition, the barrier turned out to be easier to break through than Israeli officials had expected.

Israeli Inside Job or Hamas Intelligence Triumph?

One more bit of evidence for an “inside job” interpretation is Hamas’s statement that it infiltrated the IDF and got inside help. This has been borne out, according to US MSM reports, of headcam footage from a slain Palestinian fighter showing that his squad had insider knowledge of where to go and what to do as it attacked an Israeli border command post.

But was Hamas handed that insider knowledge on a silver platter by Bibi Netanyahu himself? Not likely. According to Press TV reports based on Hamas sources, Palestinians have used traditional spycraft to “turn” IDF personnel and collect intelligence. If we choose to frame that as “Palestinians being double-crossed by Israelis who give the Palestinians accurate intelligence to be used in a successful attack that Israel actually wants,” we had better be sure that Israel could be confident that it would ultimately benefit from a successful Hamas attack. Did Israel really have grounds for such confidence?

A 9/11-Style Provocation to Justify Finishing Off the Palestinians?

The narrative “Israel wanted its own 9/11 so it could finish the Nakba” has superficial plausibility. For years, some of the world’s leading experts on Occupied Palestine, including former BBC Mideast correspondent Alan Hart, have warned us that such a scenario was in the works:

What will Zionism's in-Israel leaders do when they conclude that with bombs and bullets and repressive measure of all kinds they cannot break the will of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians to continue their struggle? My guess is that they will create a pretext to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan or wherever. If that happens, the West Bank will be soaked in blood, mostly Palestinian blood, and honest reporters will describe it as a Zionist holocaust. (source)

That Zionist holocaust (Nakba Part 2) has already begun—but centered on Gaza, not the West Bank. As I write this on October 15, already over 2,330 Palestinians have been killed and over 6,500 injured since the beginning of al-Aqsa Storm. And the Israelis have not even entered Gaza yet.

Could Israel Expect a False-Flag Driven Holocaust to Succeed?

But to believe that Israel stood down and deliberately allowed al-Aqsa Storm to succeed requires us to believe that the Israeli leadership felt confident that it would emerge from the slaughter in a substantially better position than it had been in prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Would that have been a reasonable expectation?

I don’t think so. First, while Israel may have concluded that it “cannot break the will of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians,” it isn’t obvious why it needed to break their will any time soon. Prior to October 7, Israel was on track to normalize with Saudi Arabia, which in turn was making peace with Iran under Chinese tutelage. A relatively calm and peaceful region, in which the unhappy Palestinians were largely forgotten, would have allowed Israel to continue its vicious but gradual encroachments on Palestine without significant pushback.

By breaking that logjam, al-Aqsa Storm benefits Palestine, not Israel. Overnight, the MENA region has gone from acquiescing to Israel’s crimes to resisting them. Millions of Muslims are hitting the streets.

The Saudis and Iranians are still on the same page, only now it’s “defend al-Aqsa, stop the genocide of Palestine.” Lebanon and Syria are ready to open a second front if necessary. Iraq stands firmly with the Palestinians. Jordanians and Lebanese are climbing the border walls to join the fight. Turkey is contemplating ice-cold revenge for the Marmi Marmara massacre in the form of breaking the Gaza blockade to stop the genocide. And Russia, disgusted by Israel’s embrace of Ukro-Nazis, has moved firmly into the pro-Palestine camp…where China has always been.

As Lucas Leiroz wrote at SouthFront: “Unrestricted support for Israel appears to remain solely with the US and its proxies. This makes the Palestinian conflict yet another center of tension in the current process of geopolitical transition to a multipolar world.” The uncertainties associated with that transition should have undermined any confidence Israeli decision-makers might have had that they could incite a big war, successfully accelerate their ethnic cleansing, and emerge in a better strategic position than they would have been without major hostilities.

Thanks to al-Aqsa Storm, Israel finds itself—more than ever before—on the wrong side of history. The last settler-colonial domino after British Kenya, French Algeria, Rhodesia, and South Africa, apartheid Israel has only survived due to US global hegemony and the Lobby’s dominance of the US government, media, and financial sector. The demise of US hegemony means the likely end of Israel. In recent years the US has been handed an escalating series of losses: Iraq, Afghanistan, and (as was more or less admitted under cover of al-Aqsa Storm) Ukraine. Israel’s wagon is hitched to a caravan that’s sinking into quicksand.

But What About the Blanket of 9/11-Style Hate Propaganda?

Those who see al-Aqsa Storm as an Israeli false flag are misled by Western media, which portray Hamas’s incursion into Israel as a terrorist rampage. Inundated by dubious stories of baby-beheadings, music festival massacres, lovely young women assaulted and kidnapped, and on and on, it seems obvious to the false-flag-savvy that such an atrocity exhibition is a PR triumph for Israel, and a PR disaster for Palestine. Since Israel benefits from the PR fallout, they conclude, Israel must have orchestrated or allowed al-Aqsa Flood.

This analysis fails to distinguish between what actually happened (a Palestinian attack on Israeli military facilities with a secondary mission of taking prisoners who could serve as hostages to get Palestinian prisoners released) and the false and distorted Western media portrayal (baby beheadings, etc.) So yes, the whole thing was orchestrated by Israel…if what you mean by “the whole thing” is the Zionist propaganda you have been witnessing on your screens.

Take Ben Shapiro…please. That repulsive little Zionist turd posted a picture of what looked like an oversized turd in a diaper and claimed it was a dead Israeli baby burned to a crisp by Hamas.

As it turned out, I was wrong. Shapiro created the image not by crapping his diaper, but by using AI to insert a turd in place of a puppy:

I don’t really understand why Shapiro replaced the puppy with a gigantic turd. Maybe his psychoanalyst knows. Anyway, if he were a more competent Zio-propagandist-for-genocide, he could have used that cute little puppy much more effectively, to wit:

Or better yet, “If you don’t give Israel money, Ben Shapiro will keep churning out this excruciating stuff.”

Anyway…

If you accept Zionist propaganda at face value, by believing what you see in the [[[Western media]]], you may say: “Oh my God, these horrible Hamas atrocities, like killing and roasting that poor little Jewish baby, are so AWFUL that…” [A: BLUE-PILLED MORON] “We must stand with Israel and give it everything it needs to drop white phosphorous on Palestinian babies” [OR: B: PINK-PILLED SEMILITERATE] “Hamas must be an evil and quite possibly Israeli-supported group, and the whole thing smells like a false flag.”

The reality—that Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian Resistance are heroes who have the blessings of international law in their just war against Israeli soldiers and settlers—is obvious to everyone who lives outside of the Western media bubble. And the near-universal non-Western perception that they scored a huge victory, and may even have saved their cause, with the brilliantly organized and executed al-Aqsa Storm, is the best explanation of what transpired.

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State Department whistleblower J. Michael Springmann is a Washington, DC lawyer. The author of Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World knows a thing or two about false flags.

So it isn’t easy to win a debate with “J-Mike,” especially on the topic of false flags. But I did my best on this week’s False Flag Weekly News.

J. Michael Springmann argues that the Hamas incursion into Israel looks like a LIHOP (let it happen on purpose) false flag. Somebody on the Israeli side, Springmann says, must have opened the door and let Hamas in. High on the suspects list, he says, is Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. The purpose: strengthen the Israeli right while uniting the nation and providing PR cover to clobber—if not exterminate—the Palestinians.

What’s the evidence for a LIHOP interpretation of Operation al-Aqsa Storm?

Bibi Ignores Warning

First, as the Times of Israel reported, “Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big.’” According to the Times, Egypt’s intelligence chief, Gen. Abbas Kamel, contacted Netanyahu directly with an urgent warning: “An Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning ‘something big’ — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister.”

Despite the repeated warnings from Egypt about Gaza, the Netanyahu government was “focused on the West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is made up of supporters of West Bank settlers who have demanded a security crackdown there in the face of a rising tide of violence over the last 18 months.” (Netanyahu, of course, denies that he was warned at all.)

According to the LIHOP interpretation, Netanyahu deliberately ignored the warnings, and sent security forces away from Gaza into the West Bank, because he knew the Gaza attack was in the works and wanted it to succeed. The alternative explanation, as we’ll see, involves an amalgamation of arrogance and incompetence.

CIA Scribe Hints at LIHOP

Another bit of circumstantial evidence for the false flag interpretation is a peculiar Washington Post article by the CIA’s unofficial scribe, David Ignatius, who compares Israel’s “strange blindness” pre-al-Aqsa-Storm to America’s “strange blindness” pre-9/11. Reading between the lines, we understand that Ignatius knows, but cannot directly state in public, that America’s defenses stood down pre-9/11 to allow that false flag attack to succeed, and is strongly implying that the same thing happened in Israel with respect to al-Aqsa Storm.

Why would Ignatius encode that message in a Washington Post article? To communicate to his faction, the CIA-based anti-neocon realists, the truth of the situation so they can make decisions accordingly? (Such incendiary accusations are best voiced indirectly.)

If Ignatius writes by and for the sane people in the CIA, Israeli author and journalist Ronan Bergman does the same for Mossad. So what does Bergman say about the surprising success of al-Aqsa Storm?

Mossad Scribe Blames SNAFUs

In his New York Times article “How Israel’s Feared Security Services Failed to Stop Hamas’s Attack,” Bergman says Israeli soldiers guarding the border were sent an alert shortly before the incursion, but for still-unclear reasons either didn’t get it or didn’t read it. Next,

“Hamas…sent drones to disable some of the Israeli military’s cellular communications stations and surveillance towers along the border, preventing the duty officers from monitoring the area remotely with video cameras. The drones also destroyed remote-controlled machine guns that Israel had installed on its border fortifications. That made it easier for Hamas assailants to approach and blow up parts of the border fence and bulldoze it in several places with surprising ease, allowing thousands of Palestinians to walk through the gaps.”

Bergman blames arrogance and incompetence:

Two of the officials said that the Israeli border surveillance system was almost entirely reliant on cameras, sensors and machine guns that are operated remotely.

Israeli commanders had grown overly confident in the system’s impregnability. They thought that the combination of remote surveillance and arms, barriers above ground and a subterranean wall to block Hamas from digging tunnels into Israel made mass infiltration unlikely, reducing the need for significant numbers of soldiers to be physically stationed along border line itself.

According to Bergman, the key to the attack’s success was Hamas’s brilliant use of drones to disable Israeli command-and-communications:

But the remote-control system had a vulnerability: It could also be destroyed remotely.

Hamas took advantage of that weakness by sending aerial drones to attack the cellular towers that transmitted signals to and from the surveillance system, according to the officials and also drone footage circulated by Hamas on Saturday and analyzed by The New York Times.

Without cellular signals, the system was useless. Soldiers stationed in control rooms behind the front lines did not receive alarms that the fence separating Gaza and Israel had been breached, and could not watch video showing them where the Hamas attackers were bulldozing the barricades. In addition, the barrier turned out to be easier to break through than Israeli officials had expected.

Israeli Inside Job or Hamas Intelligence Triumph?

One more bit of evidence for an “inside job” interpretation is Hamas’s statement that it infiltrated the IDF and got inside help. This has been borne out, according to US MSM reports, of headcam footage from a slain Palestinian fighter showing that his squad had insider knowledge of where to go and what to do as it attacked an Israeli border command post.

But was Hamas handed that insider knowledge on a silver platter by Bibi Netanyahu himself? Not likely. According to Press TV reports based on Hamas sources, Palestinians have used traditional spycraft to “turn” IDF personnel and collect intelligence. If we choose to frame that as “Palestinians being double-crossed by Israelis who give the Palestinians accurate intelligence to be used in a successful attack that Israel actually wants,” we had better be sure that Israel could be confident that it would ultimately benefit from a successful Hamas attack. Did Israel really have grounds for such confidence?

A 9/11-Style Provocation to Justify Finishing Off the Palestinians?

The narrative “Israel wanted its own 9/11 so it could finish the Nakba” has superficial plausibility. For years, some of the world’s leading experts on Occupied Palestine, including former BBC Mideast correspondent Alan Hart, have warned us that such a scenario was in the works:

What will Zionism's in-Israel leaders do when they conclude that with bombs and bullets and repressive measure of all kinds they cannot break the will of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians to continue their struggle? My guess is that they will create a pretext to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan or wherever. If that happens, the West Bank will be soaked in blood, mostly Palestinian blood, and honest reporters will describe it as a Zionist holocaust. (source)

That Zionist holocaust (Nakba Part 2) has already begun—but centered on Gaza, not the West Bank. As I write this on October 15, already over 2,330 Palestinians have been killed and over 6,500 injured since the beginning of al-Aqsa Storm. And the Israelis have not even entered Gaza yet.

Could Israel Expect a False-Flag Driven Holocaust to Succeed?

But to believe that Israel stood down and deliberately allowed al-Aqsa Storm to succeed requires us to believe that the Israeli leadership felt confident that it would emerge from the slaughter in a substantially better position than it had been in prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Would that have been a reasonable expectation?

I don’t think so. First, while Israel may have concluded that it “cannot break the will of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians,” it isn’t obvious why it needed to break their will any time soon. Prior to October 7, Israel was on track to normalize with Saudi Arabia, which in turn was making peace with Iran under Chinese tutelage. A relatively calm and peaceful region, in which the unhappy Palestinians were largely forgotten, would have allowed Israel to continue its vicious but gradual encroachments on Palestine without significant pushback.

By breaking that logjam, al-Aqsa Storm benefits Palestine, not Israel. Overnight, the MENA region has gone from acquiescing to Israel’s crimes to resisting them. Millions of Muslims are hitting the streets.

The Saudis and Iranians are still on the same page, only now it’s “defend al-Aqsa, stop the genocide of Palestine.” Lebanon and Syria are ready to open a second front if necessary. Iraq stands firmly with the Palestinians. Jordanians and Lebanese are climbing the border walls to join the fight. Turkey is contemplating ice-cold revenge for the Marmi Marmara massacre in the form of breaking the Gaza blockade to stop the genocide. And Russia, disgusted by Israel’s embrace of Ukro-Nazis, has moved firmly into the pro-Palestine camp…where China has always been.

As Lucas Leiroz wrote at SouthFront: “Unrestricted support for Israel appears to remain solely with the US and its proxies. This makes the Palestinian conflict yet another center of tension in the current process of geopolitical transition to a multipolar world.” The uncertainties associated with that transition should have undermined any confidence Israeli decision-makers might have had that they could incite a big war, successfully accelerate their ethnic cleansing, and emerge in a better strategic position than they would have been without major hostilities.

Thanks to al-Aqsa Storm, Israel finds itself—more than ever before—on the wrong side of history. The last settler-colonial domino after British Kenya, French Algeria, Rhodesia, and South Africa, apartheid Israel has only survived due to US global hegemony and the Lobby’s dominance of the US government, media, and financial sector. The demise of US hegemony means the likely end of Israel. In recent years the US has been handed an escalating series of losses: Iraq, Afghanistan, and (as was more or less admitted under cover of al-Aqsa Storm) Ukraine. Israel’s wagon is hitched to a caravan that’s sinking into quicksand.

But What About the Blanket of 9/11-Style Hate Propaganda?

Those who see al-Aqsa Storm as an Israeli false flag are misled by Western media, which portray Hamas’s incursion into Israel as a terrorist rampage. Inundated by dubious stories of baby-beheadings, music festival massacres, lovely young women assaulted and kidnapped, and on and on, it seems obvious to the false-flag-savvy that such an atrocity exhibition is a PR triumph for Israel, and a PR disaster for Palestine. Since Israel benefits from the PR fallout, they conclude, Israel must have orchestrated or allowed al-Aqsa Flood.

This analysis fails to distinguish between what actually happened (a Palestinian attack on Israeli military facilities with a secondary mission of taking prisoners who could serve as hostages to get Palestinian prisoners released) and the false and distorted Western media portrayal (baby beheadings, etc.) So yes, the whole thing was orchestrated by Israel…if what you mean by “the whole thing” is the Zionist propaganda you have been witnessing on your screens.

Take Ben Shapiro…please. That repulsive little Zionist turd posted a picture of what looked like an oversized turd in a diaper and claimed it was a dead Israeli baby burned to a crisp by Hamas.

As it turned out, I was wrong. Shapiro created the image not by crapping his diaper, but by using AI to insert a turd in place of a puppy:

I don’t really understand why Shapiro replaced the puppy with a gigantic turd. Maybe his psychoanalyst knows. Anyway, if he were a more competent Zio-propagandist-for-genocide, he could have used that cute little puppy much more effectively, to wit:

Or better yet, “If you don’t give Israel money, Ben Shapiro will keep churning out this excruciating stuff.”

Anyway…

If you accept Zionist propaganda at face value, by believing what you see in the [[[Western media]]], you may say: “Oh my God, these horrible Hamas atrocities, like killing and roasting that poor little Jewish baby, are so AWFUL that…” [A: BLUE-PILLED MORON] “We must stand with Israel and give it everything it needs to drop white phosphorous on Palestinian babies” [OR: B: PINK-PILLED SEMILITERATE] “Hamas must be an evil and quite possibly Israeli-supported group, and the whole thing smells like a false flag.”

The reality—that Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian Resistance are heroes who have the blessings of international law in their just war against Israeli soldiers and settlers—is obvious to everyone who lives outside of the Western media bubble. And the near-universal non-Western perception that they scored a huge victory, and may even have saved their cause, with the brilliantly organized and executed al-Aqsa Storm, is the best explanation of what transpired.

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe

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Sam Husseini is a legendary gadfly journalist whose approach could be described as “Seymour Hersh meets We Are Change.” He has been thrown out of a Trump-Putin press conference,  suspended from the National Press Club for asking the Saudi ambassador pointed questions, and more recently stonewalled by the State Department for enquiring about COVID origins.

Sam Husseini’s latest article is “‘Will You Urge Israel to Not Starve and Slaughter People?’ — State Department Ignores Series of my Questions.” He notes: “The first 15 minutes of the State Department briefing today were completely surreal propaganda. One would have no idea that Israel had ever hurt a fly.”

Sam Husseini has had bylines at CounterPunch, antiwar.com, The Nation, Salon, Consortium News. FAIR, and elsewhere. He’s founder of VotePact.org.

Millions of Muslims stage protests worldwide to decry Israeli atrocities against Palestinians

Press TV's rolling coverage of the "global day of jihad" 10-13-2023 demonstrations in support of Palestine. My commentary starts around the 34'30" mark.

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