Relapses of the Past – Part III

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Relapses of the Past – Part III

What’s going on? This is in the upvote, which in terms of politics is always up to date. But as a rule, one never ever gets unambiguous and definite answers.

The conflict in the Middle East, which broke out on October 7, 2023 more and more sets in a mysterious political fog. The question is: is there a surprise in the attack that Hamas has launched on Israel? A question that, in the spirit of traditional political stalling, remains hanging without a proper answer. What makes us skeptical, are the hysterical attempts to shift the blame.

On Oct. 29th at about 1 a.m. local time, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized intelligence chiefs in the country on the X-social network, saying he had not been informed of Hamas’ planned attack. Ten hours later, as reported by BTA, the Israeli prime minister drew his comments and published an apology.

The main question is whether or not there is a surprise in the attack? Ifthe truth is, it is hard to say. We are witnesses of not many virtuoso political games with nothing characteristic of the sphere of diplomacy vitality. Therefore, the need to clarify the following not insignificant issues arises:

Firstly, the wandering around the surprise attack raises the suspicion that there was a warning from the services. It is simply unbelievable that the famous Israeli intelligence has slept through Hamas’ months-long preparations for this attack. Why hasn’t the Israeli cabinet taken the necessary protection measures? What is behind this inaction? In the spirit of the world’s conspiracy theories, it can be argued that Israel is looking for a meek pretext for the destruction of the Palestinian resistance. It was not in vain that rom the first hours of the attack it was classified—no more, no less as war, and accompanied by an awe-inspiring threat of total annihilation.

Secondly, perhaps we are witnessing a conspiracy orchestrated by the political hawks in Israel who want to deal with the Palestinians and are therefore withholding vital information, sparing it to the Prime Minister.

Thirdly, it is possible to make a bolder assumption – that, despite timely information, Israel did not have an adequate response, could not defend themselves and they do not want to admit it, because this is a bad attestation with heavy, and perhaps disastrous consequences. The choral repentance at the highest level for the slept over attack, without drastic consequences for most of the penitent senior management echelon, also breeds skepticism. What is the reason for suppressing the possible truth?

A possible confessed weakness would activate all its enemies against Israel – all together and one by one. That is not a good alternative at all. Since its creation in 1948, the country has been fighting for survival. And its success is largely due to the fact that the surrounding, entirely hostile to Israel, Arab world cannot find the formula for action. The formula for overcoming the internal Arab contradictions, painstakingly stoked from the outside – i.e. by the so-called “Great Powers”.

Maybe that is why B. Netanyahu finds himself in the controversial situation of accepting the public’s anger while at the same time denying the responsibility for the intelligence and operational errors related to the Hamas attack in southern Israel. A political scandal emerges. There is no rupture in the war cabinet created after the attack. And all this sacrifice of the Israeli prime minister is to conceal the actual reasons that led to the admission of the attack, which is probably not a surprise to the Jewish political elite. In this respect, it is indicative that all senior officials – from the heads of the army and the internal intelligence service “Shin Bet” to the Finance Minister –all admit their failures. The fact that the Finance Minister is also involved in the confession causes reflection.

Why the financial minister? What does he have to do with this? It is very simple- the money for the modernization of both the army and the intelligence services comes from the financial ministry.

All are somehow, quite conspicuously, and in a coordinated manner surprised by the attack of Hamas. From Israel itself with its fearsome special services and government circles, passing through Qatar, Hamas’s main financial source, to the United States, whose largest military base, Al Udead, is located in Qatar.

In addition, B. Netanyahu as a new Stalin prototype, fleeing the embarrassment of the concrete situation, calls for the answers of the “surprise attack” to be left until after the war, when there will be time to ask difficult questions, including the ones asked to him.
The current situation in Israel resembles another one, displayed during World War II. On November 14, 1940. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) launched a massive air raid on Coventry, a city in central England located 25 km from Birmingham. 1,200 people were killed. The city was totally destroyed. The railway infrastructure and 12 aircraft factories were destroyed, as a result of which the production of aircraft decreased by 20%.

The British writer Robert Harris states in his book “Enigma” that Winston Churchill knew about the planned German air raid, but did not increase air defenses for fear that the Germans would guess that their ciphers were deciphered.

Today it can be argued that as early as November 11 (1940), W. Churchill really knew about the attack. The German-drafted air operation, code-named the Moonlight Sonata, was planned for the next full moon, which fell on November 15. But the British neither knew what the goal was, nor were they able to take neutralizing measures, because they mainly relied on electronic countermeasures for air defense, known as „cold water”, which, as already known, did not work. Thus, upon the innocent and unsuspecting Coventry a fiery hell poured that had nothing to do with the elegiac sensual fantasy of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 14 sonata.

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