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The Israelis responsible even had the intelligence that the Hamas attack was imminent (they even had the Hamas plans and saw them running to the fence barrier on the morning of the 7th) but dismissed it all thinking it incredible.
The failure of the Israeli defence forces was astonishing. Hamas expected to suffer 80% casualties and that only 20% of them would return alive. In fact the figures were reversed. And it was the Israeli military posts they attacked that suffered the incredible losses. Hamas had no plans for the unexpected situation they found themselves in.
Hamas crimes, yes, but no evidence of rape, no beheaded or oven-burned babies.
The mutilated bodies, those stabbed and burned and run over, appear to have been Palestinian, not Israeli.
Israeli tanks and Apache helicopters fired into houses and cars killing Israelis as well as Hamas.
Like the propaganda following Germany’s 1914 invasion of Belgium – stories of bayoneting women and children . . . .
Like the 1939 lie by Hitler that Poland had attacked Germany . . . .
Like the Gulf of Tonkin lie to justify the Vietnam war . . . .
Like the lie of Iraqis in Kuwait throwing babies from incubators prior to the 2003 Gulf war . . . .
Like the lie of weapons of mass destruction to justify the 1993 Iraq war . . . .
. . . . The October 7 dehumanizing lies serve to justify the slaughter under way in Gaza (and of course to deflect from the utter failure of the Israeli defence force on that morning.)
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