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Editor’s note: The author of the following article makes some very interesting and historical point. It will be up to you, readers, to examine those points in light of what is actually happening in the Middle East and elsewhere. JEA
False Flag
noun
- an attack or other hostile action that obscures the identity of the participants carrying out the action while implicating another group or nation as the perpetrator (often used attributively).Evidence suggests that the covert operation was a false flag. The false flag terrorist attack lured the military into a hasty response.
First off, let’s be very clear about something: Israel has a long and extremely ugly history of orchestrating false flag attacks (see here) to achieve geopolitical goals. This is undeniable. Israel was founded by and has been led by several men who belonged to terrorist groups. For example, the man who would become the sixth Prime Minster of Israel, Menachem Begin, led the Jewish terrorist group Irgun, which carried out the infamous King David Hotel Bombing. This attack killed 91 innocent people and injured 45, and was set up to implicate Muslims. Much later, in 1974, journalist Russell Warren Howe interviewed Menachem Begin and asked him how it felt to be known as the father of terrorism in the Middle East. Begin abruptly replied, “In the Middle East? In all the world!”
The 1954 Lavon Affair bombings in Egypt were executed by Israel and were also disguised as Muslim terrorist attacks. Here is a description of this bombing campaign, which fortunately was quickly derailed:
In their 1979 book, The Untold History of Israel, Israeli journalists Jacques Derogy and Hesi Carmel relate that in 1954 Israel’s army intelligence section conceived a plan to attack British personnel seconded to King Hussein’s government in Jordan. The purpose was to sour relations between Britain and Jordan as well as between both Jordan and Britain on the one hand and Egypt, which would be blamed for such attacks.
Shortly afterward, the same Israeli army intelligence organization activated two networks of Egyptian Jews first established in 1948. These young people had been recruited in Egypt, secretly trained in Israel, and then sent back to their homes in Cairo and Alexandria to await orders to carry out acts of sabotage in case of war between Egypt and Israel.
Now the networks were to explode small incendiary bombs in American installations in Egypt, presumably to set off a chain of mutual recriminations to spoil the budding Eisenhower-Nasser courtship. After completing their sabotage of American installations, the same networks next were to bomb public places in Cairo and Alexandria, actions that Nasser would attribute to the Muslim Brotherhood, which supported the deposed General Naguib, and thus create a climate of Egyptian instability during the British-Egyptian Canal Zone negotiations.
In 1967 Israel attacked the USS Liberty with three torpedo boats and several unmarked planes, apparently in an attempt to trick the United States into waging war on Israel’s Arab enemies during the Six Day War. Israel confirmed the ship was American before launching its assault. Israel killed 34 American Sailors and injured 174, but this deliberate attack by our “ally” was swept under the rug by the U.S. government for some reason. Perhaps the American government’s muted response to the Israeli attack had something to do with this: There is evidence that a few years earlier Israel assassinated JFK.
Let’s go back a little further into history. Rich, powerful Jews were involved in starting both world wars and one of their main goals in this was to create an independent Jewish state. They achieved this goal, after a great deal of suffering and death. An estimated 80 million people died in WWII. In 1948 the state of Israel was born. Was it worth it?
Since its birth from the ashes of WWII, Israel has committed serious human rights abuses and horrific war crimes in public view. And Israel is committing heinous war crimes now in Gaza, live, in front of the whole world. So in addition to its rarely-discussed history of false flag attacks, Israel has a lengthy, abhorrent record of criminal violence that is much more widely known…
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