It's insane for infantry to carry cellphones into combat, because cellphone locations can be tracked. But Hamas seems to be recording everything they do, and they're stopping to upload new footage as they capture it. They're taking the risk of carrying trackable devices in combat for the intended benefit of the display. I'd be very curious to hear if they're all carrying standardized, organization-issued cellphones, and I'd be very curious to see a detailed analysis of where all of the footage is appearing first. This is a deliberate information operation.
The answer is to my mind simple: this has to be solved, and it has to be solved with finality - the opinions of the press and everybody else not withstanding. Line up at the Gaza border as many Catepillar D11 dozers as you have available and after every last building in Gaza has been bombed until not one stone stands over another, begin to push the debris toward the Mediterranean. Do not stop until there is a pile of rubble five miles deep and two hundred feet high. Then open the raw land to Israeli citizens. Solved, and permanently.
Excellent analysis. Many of the comments reveal the anti-Semitism of the commenters. The terrorists didn’t do what they did, what they filmed themselves doing. It’s the tricky Israelis, see? They made them do it. Right.
We know the security apparatus failed. We don’t know why. There are a variety of explanations that should be considered, but the default explanation for the bigots, the one the like the most, is that this is an Israeli plan.
Could there have been a cyber attack? Could there be moles in the defense forces? Could there have been a massive fuck up? Could there be a political calculus? Don’t know. There will undoubtedly be investigations and controversies. We do know that Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews. And we know they’ve attacked many times before and that Iran funds them directly, with the imbecile governments in Europe and the United States contributing at least indirectly. It is reported that Hamas was created or nurtured in the 1970s by Israel to balance the PLO. More idiocy. We’ve seen that Islamist “freedom fighters “ aren’t really on our side ever. We saw this in Afghanistan with the mujahideen who became Taliban and Al
Queda. We saw it in Iraq. Currently in the USA we don’t need to wonder about our invaders. They are invited in by the power class to be a permanent underclass and facilitate social engineering and compliance.
We don’t apparently have any time for mourning. We need to blame the Jews. Islamofascist Hamas did this. They filmed it. The people in Gaza cheer murder and rape as they do in Arab enclaves in the West, who will undoubtedly try to do the same types of things again at some point. They’ve committed murder many times before. In the meantime Israel will extract revenge.
Oct 10, 2023·edited Oct 10, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Your post is well said Chris. The use of sexual violence as a weapon of war is a huge - and much neglected - subject. Read Christina Lamb's shocking 2020 book Our Bodies Their Battlefield which I reviewed here: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/life-in-the-shadows-of-metoo. Our Bodies cannot but rend the heart of anyone with a heart. Her stories of rape, torture and sadistic maiming on a massive scale are so horrific that you are left emotionally punch-drunk and numb before you reach the end of the first chapter. But as a permanent record of brutality inflicted on literally millions of women – of a kind beyond the capacity of most people even to imagine – it is an invaluable document.
As usual Chris you cut through all the noise and tell it like it really is. It is truly horrifying the methodical way in which these atrocities were carried out. For most the motive just appeared to be to kill as many Jews as possible. But the idea of using these attacks and rapes and murders as a way to claim territory because victims and descendents do not want to return is even more disgusting. Any apologists for Hamas, or for those Palestinian supporters who drove through the streets of Mississauga, Ontario. cheering and honking their horns in joy, need to have their heads examined. Funny how no police came to stop the honking in this as they did to the truckers. Have they not yet figured out who the real terrorists are. Apparently not CBC who labeled the truckers in that way, but recently sent a memo to its staff advising them not to label Hamas as terrorists. I don't know how many times l say this these days but you can.t make this stuff up.
I'm getting some serious 9/11, Mandalay Bay, Dead migrant kids washing up on Mediterranean beaches vibes from all this. I won't go so far as to say it's a false flag, but something stinks here given Israel's legendary intel apparatus. These innocent women and kids didn't deserve any of this. None of us deserve what is coming.
I really don't have words to describe the heaviness. Your explanation feels true to me, tragically so, and that's about all I know. Everything else -- all of the speculation and theories on geopolitical maneuvering, false flags, etc. -- feels hollow to me, and I can't engage in it. All I can do right now is gather the souls of those women and children into my heart.
My mother immigrated to the US after WWII (1952). She was born (1935) and raised in what is now Serbia. She is of German descent and became a displaced person, along with her mother and two brothers, during 1941 until they immigrated during 1952. The stories of rape, knife mutilation, and general gun fire killings she describes are horrific.
When I was 5 years old my parents (my father immigrated during 1947 from Greece) gave me a buzz cut and dressed me in my brother's hand-me-downs to send me to school. They were going to make sure I was as safe as possible from predators. When I ask my mom today, she says she would not do anything differently.
So yes, this sexual violence is an act of war, and very very effective.
Your conclusion that "Hamas is making sites of trauma" is, I think, absolutely correct. The goal is to create instinctive fear and revulsion, the same way animals remember the places where they were beaten or their offspring killed. It is a grim and brutal analysis and it is necessary.
Pressing the "like" button seems woefully inapproriate for this column. There are other signs that the Biden Administration has blood on their hands in this atrocity. They reinstituted the support funds for the palestinians that rewarded terrorism against Israelis. "Secretary of State Anthony Blinken deleted a tweet that called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas." Too late it signalled the "official" anti-Israeli sentiments of the current government, not to speak of reaproachement with money for Iran. the sponsors of this atrocity against civilians. Our Universities with Anti-Israeli organizations are complicit as are some members of our congress - openly! Yet, there are some who claim this to be an Israeli operation "to justify war with Iran" - really!! When will folks see terrorism for what it is : terror! And it needs to be adressed and eliminated with the same zeal that our DOJ is going after J6 trespassers.
All is very confused. Your point of view is a very interesting one, to care about.
The whole attack seems to be a False Flag operation, and they even compare it with 9/11 ("the" false flag MEDIATIC OPERATION). Time will tell. Here a video, with some other lectures, and a "verbal mistake" of the israeli militar speaker about the attack....who reminds the "verbal mistake" of GW Bush recently, who trying to vilify the russian "invasion" of Ukraine, said: "Irak" instead of Ukraine. They are lying, and they know they are lying.
I have the feeling that we only have pieces of the puzzle, and we can not see really the whole picture, if someday we perhaps can see it. Meanwhile, people die and suffer, and the psycho-de-facto-in-charge don´t care about it, people are numbers, pawns, expendable things in their game of power.
The US State Dept assures us that the unfreezing of $6billion dollars to Iran has absolutely nothing to do with the killing in Gaza. So much deception fueling so much evil.
Hamas certainly knows that Israel will show no mercy in its retaliation. The death toll in the punitive, justified response will be much, much higher than that of their brutal incursion. Israel is about to inflict their own traumatic memory on the Muslims in the region. And Hamas, so blinded by hate and willing to engage in a war of attrition, finds it acceptable. Such an incredibly evil group.
It’s even simpler. They (Hamas) are raised on a steady diet of Jew-hatred. They hate Jews and, like the Nazis, feel empowered and euphoric by harming and humiliating Jews. Anti-Semitism is not a strategy, it is pathological hatred. The only response to it is to annihilate them.
It's insane for infantry to carry cellphones into combat, because cellphone locations can be tracked. But Hamas seems to be recording everything they do, and they're stopping to upload new footage as they capture it. They're taking the risk of carrying trackable devices in combat for the intended benefit of the display. I'd be very curious to hear if they're all carrying standardized, organization-issued cellphones, and I'd be very curious to see a detailed analysis of where all of the footage is appearing first. This is a deliberate information operation.
The answer is to my mind simple: this has to be solved, and it has to be solved with finality - the opinions of the press and everybody else not withstanding. Line up at the Gaza border as many Catepillar D11 dozers as you have available and after every last building in Gaza has been bombed until not one stone stands over another, begin to push the debris toward the Mediterranean. Do not stop until there is a pile of rubble five miles deep and two hundred feet high. Then open the raw land to Israeli citizens. Solved, and permanently.
Excellent analysis. Many of the comments reveal the anti-Semitism of the commenters. The terrorists didn’t do what they did, what they filmed themselves doing. It’s the tricky Israelis, see? They made them do it. Right.
We know the security apparatus failed. We don’t know why. There are a variety of explanations that should be considered, but the default explanation for the bigots, the one the like the most, is that this is an Israeli plan.
Could there have been a cyber attack? Could there be moles in the defense forces? Could there have been a massive fuck up? Could there be a political calculus? Don’t know. There will undoubtedly be investigations and controversies. We do know that Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews. And we know they’ve attacked many times before and that Iran funds them directly, with the imbecile governments in Europe and the United States contributing at least indirectly. It is reported that Hamas was created or nurtured in the 1970s by Israel to balance the PLO. More idiocy. We’ve seen that Islamist “freedom fighters “ aren’t really on our side ever. We saw this in Afghanistan with the mujahideen who became Taliban and Al
Queda. We saw it in Iraq. Currently in the USA we don’t need to wonder about our invaders. They are invited in by the power class to be a permanent underclass and facilitate social engineering and compliance.
We don’t apparently have any time for mourning. We need to blame the Jews. Islamofascist Hamas did this. They filmed it. The people in Gaza cheer murder and rape as they do in Arab enclaves in the West, who will undoubtedly try to do the same types of things again at some point. They’ve committed murder many times before. In the meantime Israel will extract revenge.
Your post is well said Chris. The use of sexual violence as a weapon of war is a huge - and much neglected - subject. Read Christina Lamb's shocking 2020 book Our Bodies Their Battlefield which I reviewed here: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/life-in-the-shadows-of-metoo. Our Bodies cannot but rend the heart of anyone with a heart. Her stories of rape, torture and sadistic maiming on a massive scale are so horrific that you are left emotionally punch-drunk and numb before you reach the end of the first chapter. But as a permanent record of brutality inflicted on literally millions of women – of a kind beyond the capacity of most people even to imagine – it is an invaluable document.
As usual Chris you cut through all the noise and tell it like it really is. It is truly horrifying the methodical way in which these atrocities were carried out. For most the motive just appeared to be to kill as many Jews as possible. But the idea of using these attacks and rapes and murders as a way to claim territory because victims and descendents do not want to return is even more disgusting. Any apologists for Hamas, or for those Palestinian supporters who drove through the streets of Mississauga, Ontario. cheering and honking their horns in joy, need to have their heads examined. Funny how no police came to stop the honking in this as they did to the truckers. Have they not yet figured out who the real terrorists are. Apparently not CBC who labeled the truckers in that way, but recently sent a memo to its staff advising them not to label Hamas as terrorists. I don't know how many times l say this these days but you can.t make this stuff up.
I'm getting some serious 9/11, Mandalay Bay, Dead migrant kids washing up on Mediterranean beaches vibes from all this. I won't go so far as to say it's a false flag, but something stinks here given Israel's legendary intel apparatus. These innocent women and kids didn't deserve any of this. None of us deserve what is coming.
I really don't have words to describe the heaviness. Your explanation feels true to me, tragically so, and that's about all I know. Everything else -- all of the speculation and theories on geopolitical maneuvering, false flags, etc. -- feels hollow to me, and I can't engage in it. All I can do right now is gather the souls of those women and children into my heart.
My mother immigrated to the US after WWII (1952). She was born (1935) and raised in what is now Serbia. She is of German descent and became a displaced person, along with her mother and two brothers, during 1941 until they immigrated during 1952. The stories of rape, knife mutilation, and general gun fire killings she describes are horrific.
When I was 5 years old my parents (my father immigrated during 1947 from Greece) gave me a buzz cut and dressed me in my brother's hand-me-downs to send me to school. They were going to make sure I was as safe as possible from predators. When I ask my mom today, she says she would not do anything differently.
So yes, this sexual violence is an act of war, and very very effective.
Your conclusion that "Hamas is making sites of trauma" is, I think, absolutely correct. The goal is to create instinctive fear and revulsion, the same way animals remember the places where they were beaten or their offspring killed. It is a grim and brutal analysis and it is necessary.
Thank you for explaining the vile strategic thinking behind this attack. That's the first explanation that makes sense.
Pressing the "like" button seems woefully inapproriate for this column. There are other signs that the Biden Administration has blood on their hands in this atrocity. They reinstituted the support funds for the palestinians that rewarded terrorism against Israelis. "Secretary of State Anthony Blinken deleted a tweet that called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas." Too late it signalled the "official" anti-Israeli sentiments of the current government, not to speak of reaproachement with money for Iran. the sponsors of this atrocity against civilians. Our Universities with Anti-Israeli organizations are complicit as are some members of our congress - openly! Yet, there are some who claim this to be an Israeli operation "to justify war with Iran" - really!! When will folks see terrorism for what it is : terror! And it needs to be adressed and eliminated with the same zeal that our DOJ is going after J6 trespassers.
All is very confused. Your point of view is a very interesting one, to care about.
The whole attack seems to be a False Flag operation, and they even compare it with 9/11 ("the" false flag MEDIATIC OPERATION). Time will tell. Here a video, with some other lectures, and a "verbal mistake" of the israeli militar speaker about the attack....who reminds the "verbal mistake" of GW Bush recently, who trying to vilify the russian "invasion" of Ukraine, said: "Irak" instead of Ukraine. They are lying, and they know they are lying.
I have the feeling that we only have pieces of the puzzle, and we can not see really the whole picture, if someday we perhaps can see it. Meanwhile, people die and suffer, and the psycho-de-facto-in-charge don´t care about it, people are numbers, pawns, expendable things in their game of power.
The US State Dept assures us that the unfreezing of $6billion dollars to Iran has absolutely nothing to do with the killing in Gaza. So much deception fueling so much evil.
I hate that inaccurate, PC term "anti-semitism." After all, Arabs are Semites too. Let's call a spade a spade: Jew-haters and Jew-hatred.
Excellent analysis of this horror.
Hamas certainly knows that Israel will show no mercy in its retaliation. The death toll in the punitive, justified response will be much, much higher than that of their brutal incursion. Israel is about to inflict their own traumatic memory on the Muslims in the region. And Hamas, so blinded by hate and willing to engage in a war of attrition, finds it acceptable. Such an incredibly evil group.
It’s even simpler. They (Hamas) are raised on a steady diet of Jew-hatred. They hate Jews and, like the Nazis, feel empowered and euphoric by harming and humiliating Jews. Anti-Semitism is not a strategy, it is pathological hatred. The only response to it is to annihilate them.