Is This a War, Politics, or Business?

Saturday, October 7th, was Israel’s “Pearl Harbour or 9/11,” the bloodiest day in its history. This is likely to lead to recriminations inside Israel and in the Middle East that will reverberate for years.  All of Israel and the world are asking:

How is it possible that Israel was unaware of Hamas’s plan? How did they get into Israel? Where were the Israeli soldiers? Why did Hamas attack the civilians? Where was the IDF, where were the police, where was the security? How did this monumental intelligence failure occur?

It seems that — the Israeli defense and intelligence services deliberately looked the other way when the attack was launched. But what Hamas did was beyond the initially planned plan. They did much more than the initial plan agreed upon by Israel.

Was the Hamas attack on Israel an INSIDE JOB by the globalists, who work in tandem with both sides of the war?

Yes, these are the terrible war crimes committed by the Hamas. But then so are Israel’s war crimes. It is not self-defense when you are attacking.

After 1.5 years of continuing propaganda in the Ukraine War, now this Hamas-Israel war has happened. Identify the real culprits that cause war and suffering on both sides, otherwise there will be more wars and sufferings. If we support ANY side in ANY conflict, then we are empowering such wars and suffering.

Asymmetric Warfare Strategy of Hamas

Hamas has homemade IEDs, rockets, and light weapons, a small number of more sophisticated weapons. Therefore, they rely on asymmetric warfare. They avoid direct confrontations and use hit-and-run attacks, ambushes, and sniper fire to minimize their own casualties and maximize the impact of their operations. Last Saturday, the tactics Hamas used in their attack on Israel have been some of their most sophisticated yet. They used air, sea, and land which is known as multi-domain operations.

 They carried out initial attacks on Israeli observation posts using drones. Then they used massive rocket attacks and overwhelmed the Israeli Iron Dome defenses. These are known as shaping operations — preparing for the next stage, the physical entry into Israel. Then they started attacking Israel from multiple directions, attacking Israeli military targets.

Under the cover of thousands of rockets fired at towns throughout the country’s south and centre, Hamas groups crossed the border. Hamas used an extensive network of underground passages to physically bypass Israeli checkpoints. They mounted surprise attacks, killing and capturing civilians and soldiers and military equipment. That was a physical infiltration. They made use of the psychological element by recording and broadcasting attacks in Israeli border communities and a music concert, as well as capturing Israeli soldiers and civilians and taking them back into the Gaza Strip.

Background Noise in Israel

Israel was going through political tensions that had rocked the country for months. The cause was a raft of legislation pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government. Netanyahu planned to officially apply Israeli law to parts of the West Bank, annex the Jordan Valley, and curtail the Israeli Supreme Court’s powers in order to secure immunity from prosecution on corruption charges. That unrest provided a “background noise” that would have distracted Israeli intelligence.

A blunder or a ploy?

Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. His ploy was to prevent Abbas in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government from advancing towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, in order to disrupt Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization. Israel held indirect negotiations with Hamas via Egypt and Hamas was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad. Therefore, Hamas grew stronger and stronger.

The prime minister made the expansion of the Abraham Accords a first-order foreign policy priority. The ultimate prize became the normalization of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ironically, defining the ‘Palestinian component’ of a grand bargain with Saudi Arabia was core to these dramatic ‘expanding the circle of peace’ ambitions. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman struck an optimistic note during an interview with Fox News in September on the pace of Saudi Israeli normalization talks: ‘Each day, we get closer’, he said.

For months, the twin challenges of managing internal political dissent while attempting to consummate a wide-ranging deal with Saudi Arabia consumed the political and national security establishments. But the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war has taken a Saudi Israeli normalization agreement off the table. While calling for an end to the escalation, Saudi Arabia has joined Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar in pinning the blame for the violence on the Israeli occupation.

Reasons for the war

The following reasons were specifically cited by Hamas as a justification for the Oct. 7 attack:

Israel allows Israeli nationalists and settlers to violate a long-standing agreement preventing Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews.

A recent incursion by settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco in 2020. The accords aimed to normalize and build peaceful relations between Israel and Arab countries across the Middle East and in Africa.

Corporates benefit from the warfare state. Everyone else pays.

War is a bargaining failure because it uses violence to ultimately force an outcome over the distribution of a good rather than coming to an agreement. Two states have a dispute over a territory. They could negotiate to split it or wage war to try to win it all.

According to an article by USA Today in 2011, the top 100 largest contractors sold 410 billion dollars’ worth of arms and services.

Corporations are the largest beneficiaries of military spending. They earn profits that are widely considered legitimate. The waging of war is a source of profits, which can contradict the goal of diplomacy in seeking to resolve conflicts. The military is unique as a government institution with no civilian counterpart and a special emphasis on secrecy. The defense industry is similarly insulated from reality.

War is good for denizens of the globalists. Corporates quickly seize the opportunity for gain. The biggest funding areas are weapons, security, and logistics/reconstruction. The biggest money is in weapons. And the U.S. is the biggest arms exporter on earth.

In the chaos of war, there is a lack of adequate government oversight. The large volume of funds is poured into the reconstruction effort in a short time frame. All of these contributed to an environment that enabled massive waste, and fraud in the reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon received over $286 billion in contracts in Fiscal Year 2019 and Fiscal Year 2020 alone. Boeing Vice President Harry Stonecipher warned politicians not to get between the companies and the cash: “Any member of Congress who doesn’t vote for the funds needed to defend this country will be looking for a new job after next November.”

What does Hamas expect from this latest attack?

The militant organization has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. It has shown the world that it is a force to be reckoned with. But does Hamas have the support of ordinary people in Gaza?

Many people in Gaza just want to get on with their lives, free from the blockade and repeated wars and conflicts. They resent the restrictions imposed on them and the fear instilled in them by Hamas rulers.

How can there be a positive outcome for Hamas or Gaza from the events this weekend?

There are at least two possible outcomes to the war:

Israel’s heavy-handed response may turn off Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to U.S. backed Israeli normalization efforts. If Israel pushes further into Gaza to eradicate the threat, this could provoke another Palestinian uprising in East Jerusalem or the West Bank. This is what Hamas expecting.

Unless it can stimulate wider Middle East involvement against Israel, then all it has done is set diplomacy back years. Israel is likely to use the full force of its military might to crush militant activity, not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the process, a huge number of innocent Palestinians and Israeli civilians are likely to be killed and homes and infrastructure will be destroyed in Israel and in Gaza.

Cost of war

Trillions of dollars were expended by America in Afghanistan and Iraq. For what?

To see the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan. Iraq uneasily survives, ravaged by sectarian war, suffering under a democracy both shambolic and violent, and heavily influenced by Iran. Thousands of American and allied military personnel and civilians died. Tens of thousands were wounded and died. Millions were displaced. The U.S. has yet to fully confront so much blood lost and hardship imposed.

Whether Israeli, Palestinian, or any other national, it is always the innocent who suffer most.

Two states fight a battle. Other states, and corporations derives unreasonable profit from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. Modern-day war profiteering among politicians has increased with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is not a war. It is all politics. It is all business.