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This hardly even counts as news, but we have further confirmation that Benjamin Netanyahu has sabotaged every deal to free the hostages, including stopping his negotiators from attending talks while US reptile Antony Blinken was blaming Hamas.
Four people have been arrested, including Netanyahu’s spokesperson, after the Israeli police, army, and intelligence services launched a joint investigation. Interestingly, they are accused of manipulating documents to make it look like Hamas was dragging out talks while smuggling the hostages to Egypt. This claim was used by Netanyahu to justify walking away from peace talks.
Netanyahu’s sabotage of talks has previously been confirmed by figures like former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz. Netanyahu is claiming ignorance of the leaked documents, however, he is not denying the leaks originate from his office. Plus, he has repeated the claims in the documents at interviews and press conferences, making his claims of ignorance laughable.
We don’t know the full details because a partial gag order is still in place, but the leaked documents are the ones that were published in the Jewish Chronicle and German tabloid Bild in articles written by fake journalists connected to Israeli intelligence.
Obviously, Israeli officials have been faking evidence since forever without police objecting. The court action shows that many Israelis are extremely pissed off about the hostage situation and turning against their leadership. We could end up seeing the bizarre situation where Israelis bring an end to the genocide, rather than the international community. This shows what a joke the international community has been, especially the West and the Middle East.
Israel’s Channel 12 recently reported that Netanyahu decided to “torpedo the deal”, doing everything in his power to ensure peace talks were unsuccessful. The story corroborates stuff we’ve already covered, but it’s worth recapping that Netanyahu had a shouting match with Yoav Gallant in July because he was more concerned with securing the Philadelphi corridor than freeing three hostages whose release had been agreed. The remains of those hostages were later found by the IDF.
How is Netanyahu’s betrayal of those hostages anything other than treason? Consider what a leader who sacrifices his own people is willing to do to civilians on the other side. It’s not hard to see how such a man could resort to genocide, is it? A man with no morality is capable of doing anything to save himself. This means Netanyahu poses a problem not just for his own people but for his allies in the West. While they have been happy to profit from genocide, Israel could collapse the global oil trade by bombing Iran’s oil facilities. The US only gets involved in conflicts to grow its wealth and power, and continued support for an out-of-control Netanyahu could achieve the opposite. Ironically, this is the one glimmer of hope that the US will abandon the Israeli prime minister.
Israelis are facing an interesting situation because they’ve used the hostages as an excuse to commit genocide for over a year. They decided they had the right to harm anyone in order to free those hostages and they went on murderous rampages in revenge.
Well, now Israelis know their prime minister is the main reason those hostages aren’t safely home with their families. Are they going to turn against Netanyahu and demand prison? Or are they going to admit this “war” was never about the hostages for them either? We’ve always known Netanyahu never gave a fuck about those hostages. It will be interesting to see how many Israelis remain on his side. Any who are should not be taken seriously by anyone.
The Israeli Hostages Families Forum did not hold back in expressing its disgust, saying: “The suspicions suggest that individuals associated with the prime minister acted to carry out one of the greatest frauds in the country’s history. This is a moral low point like no other. It is a severe blow to the remaining trust between the government and its citizens.”
Even if you are a genocidal nutjob, you must see how self-defeating this “war” is getting as the Israeli economy collapses and the hostages die. Every day we’re hearing stories of Israeli businesses going bankrupt and Israeli soldiers refusing to return to the front line. If you want this “war” to continue, not only do you not give a shit about Palestinians, you don’t give a shit about your own side either. Israeli troops have been speaking of the futility of their efforts as they clear out areas in Gaza, only for Hamas to reclaim them after they’ve left, meaning they must return and face more ambushes and booby traps.
It’s not just us cranks in the alternative media reporting the reality these days, even the sensibles in the mainstream are slowly catching up. An interesting clip from the BBC shows its reporters fleeing an area because an Israeli drone was overhead and they were afraid it was going to kill them. If we have an admission that “free the hostages” was bullshit and we have an admission that Israeli drones kill indiscriminately, it would be fucking nice to have more honest reporting. Perhaps, the BBC could start naming the killer in its headlines and using the correct terminology like “genocide”.
Israel seems to be close to a tipping point and some honest reporting might be all we need to make the genocide stop. Netanyahu might be keen to drag this out forever, but many of his people aren’t, including the soldiers he needs to do the killing. Even the men who ran civilians over with bulldozers for TikTok likes are having second thoughts now…
Originally Published: 2024-11-04 16:41:52
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