On Friday, Israeli warplanes and attack helicopters carried out a flurry
of attacks against the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Air Force estimated 100
military targets in Gaza were hit, saying they all belong to Hamas.
This attack was retaliation for a pair of rockets fired out of Gaza
toward Tel Aviv. For Israel to retaliate in an excessive way is not
unusual. What is unusual is that Hamas says the rocket fire was accidental, and the Israeli Army has concurred, saying they believe the Hamas version of the events.
Which is quite a story. According to Hamas, some bungling low-level
member “messed with” a rocket launcher that was set to fire on Tel Aviv
in the event of a war, and fired them without authorization. The attack
happened in the middle of Hamas talks with Egypt, which made it doubly
embarrassing.
Gaza reports say one or more Hamas operatives were arrested over the
matter. Israel’s decision to attack Gaza anyhow seems puzzling given the
apparent circumstances, though there was a suggestion that if the
attack was deliberate, the Israeli strikes would’ve been “five times heavier.”
“Israel’s decision to attack Gaza anyhow seems puzzling”
What’s puzzling is anyone thinking Israel attacking, even though they acknowledged it was accidental, to be puzzling. More like par for the course.
Did Israel know when they attacked that it was accidental or did Israel immediately attack & decide it was accidental later on?
Israel regularly attacks Gaza whenever a major news story (NZ shooting) is poised to steal the headlines.
The attack happened in the middle of Hamas talks with Egypt? Color me a truther, but that smells like a false flag to me. How many double-agents do you think Mossad has in Hamas? And this also coincides with upcoming Israeli elections? Awful lot of coincidences piling up here.
I have always suspected that some of these “Hamas rockets into Israel” are the product of covert Israeli agents going into the desert on the Arab side and launching some flying ash can into some desert area on the Israeli side (making sure that no harm to Israel actually happens), and then with a manufactured excuse; punish the Arabs severely. That kind of a “false flag” should be right out of the IDF playbook..
The implication of this article is that it was an admitted accident that the Israelis acknowledge but decided to attack anyway. To me, that’s just as bad as a false flag attack if not worse. Not that I think anything you said is outside of the realm of possibility under normal circumstances.
It’s even worse than that. They’ve been flipping desperate Palestinian kids for decades and using them to infiltrate and sabotage groups like Hamas and the PLO. Read up on Abu Nidal. He was the original Osama and a lot of PLO heavy hitters believe he was a rat. He used his organization primarily to assassinate doves within the Arafat wing of the PLO. The US had him falsifying evidence of collusion between Saddam and Al-Qaeda in Iraq before he was mysteriously executed the day before the bombs hit Baghdad. With Israel, It’s almost always worse than you imagined.
Lavon Affair all over again?