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While we investigate and collate the eyewitness accounts, we might send a message to Israel that targeting children and families is terrorism no matter who is doing it. Any military response that Israel raises should be limited to military targets. No bombing of Gaza, where a million children are walled in and unable to escape. No destruction of hospitals or mosques or schools or apartment buildings. Whether or not it was Hamas that first killed civilians, it is an atrocity layered on atrocity if Israel does so.

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My deepest wish is that this analysis will convey to the general public who the real enemy is. Not Palestine, not Israel. The real culprits are embedded in the governments and secret agencies of these states, sacrificing their own citizens for a globalist political agenda. As you point out the similarities to 9/11, we must also recognize that the same psychological barriers to seeing them exist here. The media's sympathy and support of Israel as victims makes it even harder to perceive that their intelligence apparatus is involved in these atrocities. I do wish you'd mentioned US support of Hamas via Iran....

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Never forget Sheftall's razor: " Never attribute to stupidity (or incompetence) what can easily be attributed to malice" (and, no, I don't have it backwards).

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Oct 12, 2023Liked by Madhava Setty

Thanks for looking into this, Madhava. There are indeed interesting parallels, as you point out. In terms of 9/11, the cui bono is clear--the neocons got the green light to have their way in the Middle East and of course the military contractors feasted. It's not so clear yet who on the Israeli side benefits from this. Kevin Barrett, a longtime 9/11 analyst and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, actually argues against the idea that the Israelis "let it happen". (https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-israel-just-experience-a-9-11-style-intelligence-failure/) While I find his arguments reasonable, I have to say my intuition is that there is something deeper at play than mere incompetence. It's just not clear yet what the deeper game is. I watched the Dark Horse podcast as well and my intuition aligns with the comments Efrat made.

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“What if Hamas has been created either by Israel directly, or rather by the US-UK-Israel Secret Services for the “benefit” of Israel, for precisely the reason they (Hamas) are used today: to justify Israel’s all-out war for wiping out Palestine, for extending her territory, absorbing over time about as much as a third or half of the current Middle East – into Greater Israel? “

Peter Koenig

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Oct 13, 2023Liked by Madhava Setty

You provide extraordinary detail, analysis and questions. It would be a revelation if factions within Israel stood by or helped facilitate the success of Hamas to justify a larger counter attack. In any case there are atrocities on both sides, and atrocities are no justification for further atrocities. It would also be a revelation if parity existed in the media coverage of Palestinians and Israelis.

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The warmonger's stock portfolios skyrocketed yesterday.

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great analysis. the author may be accused of not "standing with Israel" lol. Hamas has no capability of pulling off this attack just as Al Queda had no capability. These attacks were organized by professional intelligence services probably western although you cannot rule out Russia and China.

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God help us all. What evil is in the world right now.

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Thank you so much, Madhava.

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Unconfirmed?

Maybe go look at the video on X released by the Israeli Prime Minister today showing the murdered infants full of bullet holes and burned beyond recognition. Call evil what it is and stop making excuses for the savagery of Jew-haters.

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My intuition says the same thing as yours, Madhava. But we shouldn't be relying on intuition. Who has the resources and the skills to do a thorough investigation that could tell us whether this is an Israeli false flag?

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Yet another highly suspicious event that points to something much bigger at play.

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Das Kapital abstractly, and those who have benefitted from Neo-Colonialism under the Hegemony of Das Kapital.

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Is a dead child killed by a bioweapon in the form of a so called vaccine any less dead than one that has been killed by a bullet? People need to WTFU and realise that we are in a spiritual war not a flesh and blood war. There is only good or evil.

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Madhava thank you for putting into words the intuition I had about the Hamas attack. Behind all wars are the international bankers. A chance to capture or destroy Iran seems the motivation. People are barely seen even as collateral damage. Just chess pieces. So shocking but after the last 3 years shock is not working on us anymore. Follow the money and the power trail.

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