There has still been no investigation into October 7th.
In fact, there might *never* be an investigation into the events of October 7th.
Multiple times now, the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to allow an official inquest into those events.
The most recent was earlier this year. As Jewish outlet Forward.com explained: ‘Polls show that up to 90% of Israelis across all sectors of society support such an inquiry into Oct. 7, recognizing the especially burning need to figure out a failure so inexplicable and calamitous. Yet the government, in defiance of public opinion and democratic norms, has chosen to obstruct the process…’
Various excuses are offered, including that any such investigation would be detrimental to the ongoing war efforts or that the courts and the judiciary are biased against Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition and therefore can’t be trusted to conduct an objective inquiry.
The end result is that the truth about October 7th continues to be deliberately obscured, especially to Israeli citizens who’ve otherwise been kept in a nationalistic frenzy over those events.
I already wrote here on the day of the October 7th attack how notably unrealistic it was to believe that hundreds of Palestinian fighters were able to penetrate the most monitored and secured border in the world – much less to be able to rampage for so long in Israeli territory without being confronted.
We also noted the advanced warning of an attack that was given to the Israeli government by Egypt and was supposedly ignored.
Within less a week of that, the other problems with the narrative quickly emerged: including the various eyewitness accounts of Israeli forces killing their own civilians (at both Kibbutz Beeri and the Nova festival).
According to the New York Times a substantial blueprint detailing Hamas’s plan had been in the hands of Israeli officials for more than a year before the events of October 7th.
But I recently came across this BBC piece from last year, which provides interesting additional context. The piece involved the testimony of the Israeli personnel responsible for monitoring that Gaza border.
The women are interviewed by the BBC: and their account of the lead-in to those events is pretty extraordinary. I need to quote from it quite extensively here.
Here’s a taste. The article explains, ‘They are known as Israel’s eyes on the Gaza border. For years, units of young female conscripts had one job here. It was to sit in surveillance bases for hours, looking for signs of anything suspicious… In the months leading up to the 7 October attacks by Hamas, they did begin to see things: practice raids, mock hostage-taking, and farmers behaving strangely on the other side of the fence.’
It continues: ‘The look-outs we speak to describe a range of incidents they observed in real-time in the months before 7 October, leading some to have concerns that an attack was coming. “We would see them practising every day what the raid would look like,” Noa, who is still serving in the military, tells the BBC. “They even had a model tank that they were practising how to take over. They also had a model of weapons on the fence and they would also show how they would blow it up, and co-ordinate how to take over the forces and kill and kidnap…”
If that’s not extraordinary enough, it goes on: ‘Several women also describe bombs being planted and detonated near the fence – known as Israel’s Iron Wall – seemingly to test its strength. Footage from 7 October would later show large explosions before Hamas fighters race through on motorbikes.’
One of the women explained how their repeated warnings were essentially in vain: ‘…”No one gave us an answer back about what we had reported and conveyed“…’
I recommend reading the BBC article in full: it’s a fascinating insight.
There can be little doubt that the October 7th attack was a controlled/enabled event: as I asserted here on day one. And nothing like the shock or abrupt attack that it has been portrayed as.
Parties within the Israeli state clearly enabled it to happen on purpose (having helped create and sustain Hamas in the first place): and it wouldn’t be surprising if there were Israeli agents even on the Hamas side pushing it along.
Which of course explains why it took 45 minutes for any Israeli forces to intercept the enemy fighters: and also why Netanyahu’s government has shown so little interest in getting the Israeli hostages home.
In fact they’ve only consented to make this current deal for the hostages’ return because Trump really pushed for it.
Just the (in)famous image of all the burnt out cars and charred bodies on the road should’ve been enough to alert logical minds that the story wasn’t adding up – as the Hamas fighters clearly didn’t have the weapons capability to have committed those specific atrocities.
Meanwhile, as Wall of Controversy notes in his latest blog post, the more outrageous stories of beheaded babies, mass rapes, etc, were either outright debunked or never substantiated.
I debunked the beheaded babies propaganda here at the time.
Actually, the worst one was the oft-repeated ‘babies in ovens’ story. Did anyone actually believe that?
But worse than the lies themselves was the stomach-turning spectacle of various politicians, celebrities and media figures pretending to have seen the video evidence of these atrocities (presumably in the ‘special screenings’ that were arranged for various influencers, which we talked about here).
Did Hamas attack Israel on October 7th? Of course they did. Did they kill people? Clearly, yes: but all the evidence is of gunfire exchanges, murder by bullet, etc.
Not babies in ovens.
I condemned Hamas fully for their actions in the first post I published after October 7th. But, evidently, the propaganda machine knew that what Hamas did on that day wasn’t horrific enough – so all the fake stories had to be added in.
And we ended up with ‘babies in ovens’.
Hamas, at any rate, was simply playing into Israel’s trap and facilitating its agenda.
The testimony of those Israeli women monitoring the border should’ve been front page news. Instead, of course, it’s one of those news articles you have to dig around to find.
Clearly, the Israeli government will continue to obstruct any real investigation into October 7th.
Eventually there might be some investigations, but they’ll probably be highly controlled and sanitised, along the lines of the 9/11 Commission in America – which itself was admitted to be more about ‘codifying the myth’ than revealing the truth.
That 9/11 Commission also, incidentally, thoroughly whitewashed the Israeli involvement in the attack on New York: so everything essentially repeats itself.
Two years on, the horrors of October 7th have been thoroughly milked for all they could offer. It’s nothing revelatory anymore to suggest that this was probably the whole point.
I was initially sat on the fence about October 7th, but I’ve gradually some around to share the view that it was a LIHOP false flag. I mean on the one hand, like 9/11, when I also trusted the official narrative for about four years, was an immediate and devastating humiliation. It doesn’t look good when you suffer a major attack from what is essentially a minnow. If al-Qaeda can do this to you, what are your chances against Russia and China? Doubtless Russia and China weren’t fooled for a minute.
Anyway, it follows that the longer term benefits of that initial humiliation must significantly outweigh the costs. Regarding 9/11 the long-term benefits to the neocons have been obvious enough. It was a complete reset that enabled everything from the installation of mass surveillance programmes and the (prewritten) Patriot Act to the Global War of [sic] Terror.
It also makes more sense again if we view 9/11 differently and further acknowledge that the significant players were Israel-first and thus it was likely a combined US deep state-Mossad operation. Israel had everything to gain from 9/11 and literally nothing to lose. Bibi famously admitted that it was a great day for Israel.
Coming back to Oct 7th – and event marked by a single day of infamy which Bibi and his Israeli regime liken to 9/11 – the benefits were less certain than 9/11; at least to begin with. I mean what would Israel be able to achieve off the back of this horrific event? This was what I’d wondered two years ago.
Yes, they would bomb Gaza to hell, but they did that repeatedly anyway. Sure the retaliatory attack would be the largest and most vicious ever inflicted, but at the cost of such humiliation – well, it still didn’t seem worth it somehow. Two years on, however, and it appears more like Oct 7th was the launch of wider attack that next involved the final toppling of Assad to cut off supplies to the resistance, alongside carefully coordinated terrorist operations – something Israel specialises in, of course – including the pager attack on Hezbollah, followed by decapitation strikes inside Lebanon and then Iran. In short, Oct 7th was the catalysing event (as the neocons had described 9/11 in advance) to smash the entire ‘axis of resistance’ and bring to fruition the Greater Israel project.
However, the tremendous shock to me at least, is how the West has massively enabled Israel to these ends – even at the expense of its own credibility and international respectability. That our governments not only permit the first livestreamed genocide in history, but they actively assist it. As cynical as I have become about Western ‘liberal democracy’ I still would never have believed Britain (or even America, let alone France and Germany) would have had offered an open hand when it came to perpetrating a holocaust and the final solution to Israel’s Palestinian problem. This is the part that I couldn’t imagine two years ago, but here we are today, and every single day I shake my head in disbelief and horror.
Viewed in hindsight, there is actually no reason to doubt Oct 7th was probably another false flag. And I’ll drop a link here if that’s okay – it’s a segment from a Lee Camp show in which he did a neat job of presenting some of the welter of evidence that supports that conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_ZInl96Oc
Thanks for another thoughtful piece and also for the citation (always appreciated). Meanwhile, and as for the latest ceasefire, I expect nothing good can possibly come of it – for the Palestinians at least. Just look at all the precedents – it’s clearly a ploy. A partial land grab of about 60% of Gaza, a useful respite giving time for the IDF to regroup (and possibly to attack Iran), plus another reset of global opinion: Trump and Bibi the peacemakers! Genocide, what genocide? Basically, it’s a way to sweep the worst crimes of the century under the proverbial carpet and give the IDF a bit of breathing space prior to the next phase of complete ethnic cleansing. Israel didn’t come this far just to give up without a fight to the bitter end. And Bibi couldn’t care less about the hostages. This “war” on Gaza obviously was never about that. Anyway, enough! And thanks again, Saj.