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The alternative/conspiracy version would be that Netanyahu is anomalous in recent terms in being an Israeli leader facing a precarious political mandate and popular dissent and protest at home, for whom an all out war against Hamas/Iran would be politically advantageous in the short/medium term.
I can't fathom that this could be true, that a leader would purposefully allow this to happen to his people and the people in Gaza.
I think Netanyahu has blood on his hand recent and previously stirring up the extremists for his political gain and survival.
Put very well by Simon Tisdall in the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/war-netanyahu-liability-must-go-israel-palestine-hamas
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Hmm, I don't know. Isn't history absolutely littered with leaders who have developed an ability to psychologically hand-wave away thousands or even millions of deaths on both their side and the enemy's? Industrial-scale war could barely exist without this phenomenon, no?
Just to take two examples, Henry Kissinger's deliberate prolonging of the Vietnam war and George W Bush's determination to complete his father's 'unfinished business' in Iraq. Both condemned thousands to death on both sides of each conflict.
In Kissinger's own words, these are "men able to create their own reality", and my (under-informed) intuition tells me Netanyahu is in this mould.
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I can't fathom that this could be true, that a leader would purposefully allow this to happen to his people and the people in Gaza.
Putin's 1999 apartment bombings?
"On 13 September, Russian Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov made an announcement in the Duma about receiving a report that another bombing had just happened in the city of Volgodonsk. A bombing did happen in Volgodonsk—but only three days later—on 16 September."
E11_FTW
dubtap
I'm not usually prone to conspiracy theories (I think!) but the fact that I have an intuitive feeling about all this that I can't see reflected in the 'mainstream media' makes me feel that I might have unconsciously fallen into conspiracy/irrational thinking and could do with a sense check.
The narrative seems to be that this was an unprecedented and historical 'failure' of Israeli intelligence, who would normally provide pre-warning of attacks from Palestine/the occupied territories. The alternative/conspiracy version would be that Netanyahu is anomalous in recent terms in being an Israeli leader facing a precariouspolitical mandate and popular dissent and protest at home, for whom an all out war against Hamas/Iran would be politically advantageous in the short/medium term.
Is considering the idea that Israeli intelligence DID know about the planning of this offensive but calculated that it would ultimately be beneficial basically doing an anti-semitism, or is it in the realm of possibility?