Hannibal Isn't Just a Lecter, but also a Directive...
In the words of former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, "This is a nightmare scenario."
Johnson was referring to the overall situation in the Middle East and to the general Islamist response to Tel-Aviv's disproportionate 'retort' to Hamas' 7-Oct attack, especially following Turkish President Erdoğan's recent speech in front of a massive crowd that must have neared one million.
"Nightmarish" is so very apt, and to all that's currently taking place, including Ukraine, which is now so very far from the public eye. Poor Zeeskyy. I wonder how alone such a person feels after they've completely destroyed their country and wiped out generations of men; not many gravitate toward such people... Maybe he deserves some upcoming attention?
But, for now, back to the nightmare: "Nightmarish" fits so well because those in power, and those with the loudest voices—or control over them—all seem to be asleep.
The elites may call it a cauchemar and the Pentagon may label it a Russian-induced delirium while Washington seeks to pin a traumatic vision on China as allies abstain but follow suit anyhow, for they claim it's an hallucination, though India is in a bit of a bind, now being chummy with Israel but somewhat dependent on Arab states...
Any hoot, what it boils down to is denial.
And as I like to say: Denial is a strange thing, as the only way to effectively deny that one is in denial is by agreeing that one is in denial.
And with denial comes taking for granted that what held true in yesteryears must still hold true today; one can always count on certain things, like gravity.
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Gravity is a theory.
This often gets distorted to suit anti-science views that usually promote religious ones, as if one day "gravity" may be proven wrong, at which point apples will no longer fall on heads. Who knows what they'll do? Maybe Jesus knows?
Mix that knowledge with time travel, and Baseball and Basketball may never exist, but we'd surely avoid the bloody Soccer versus Football Great Wars of 2056 and the murderous Cricket Wicketing that followed the highly-controversial ICC CWC 2062 four-wickets win by the Pakistan region of India against its Bangladesh region.
For hawkish neocons: no worries. I doubt that gravity is responsible for war. Instead of dropping things on each other we'd surely act in concordance to what's allowed by the theory that's better than gravity, having replaced it.
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The thing about gravity that makes it proper to consider it a "theory" in spite of the ridiculous interpretations this can illicit is not its effects, which are felt each time an apple hits a head, but about the whole that it is; we haven't a real clue what it is although we can calculate much about it in ways that contradict that.
Having observed a boson that behaves like the predicted Higgs-Boson helped to explain aspects that no one really understands, validating work done within a framework identified as science that can only exist in the hypothetical, un-tested world and, therefore, fails to qualify as scientific.
Which means that Google and FaceBook should shame the physics nerds worldwide, or that Popper popped his limits when he failed to realize the true nature of mathematics as a valid mode of inquiry rather than a purely explicative one?
Nonetheless, gravity holds planets in place but we surmount its mind-blowing strength, simply, each time we pick up that apple that's fallen on our head and say: "Bad, Mackie! Bad, bad, bad, Mackie! Someone needs a spanking!"
What?!
The really real wrong would be an automatic desire to turn such an apple into applesauce.
And, yet, so-called apple people applaud that?
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Those leading the US are, inarguably, pro-Zionist; they have to be to have gotten that far, period. Otherwise, they get Ralph-Nadered into the far sidelines, some may get JFK-ed, who knows?
One thing's for sure: These people just don't get apples. Especially those that fall. All they can think of is that those must be the archangel's apples.
And there's only one answer possible for those: Gravity-pleasing missiles and bombs for applesauce!
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Just a reminder: People aren't apples.
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Although Indian-Jews are a real thing even if some are suspected of having been duped (below), Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswami aren't those Indian types of Jews though both are clear Zionists.
I've nothing against Zionists per se, except those who are adamant about building "their place" on top of other people's places, and who employ truly nasty means to do so.
Those coexistence Zionists who choose talks and negotiations while sharing an apple pie made with love, care, and a bit more Crisco than called for over mowing a metaphorical lawn in order to make applesauce, I've got nothing but respect for those types of Zionists.
They're rare but there. But so very rare.
Which is why I fail to see how one can be anti-Semitic because one is anti-Zionist, per the acceptable definition of Zionism.
Which also seems to call for a genocide if displacement fails to yield the desired results.
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The aspartame in the applesauce are the Christian Zionists?
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Seeing how they're going about things, anyone who wondered whether the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) cared at all about recovering, alive, any of the hostages taken by Hamas on 7-Oct-2023 during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood were, in fact, very right to do so; for the most part, Tel-Aviv cares little to naught about any Israeli hostages.
Otherwise, why would the IDF, on top of having, inarguably, used white phosphorous on Gaza, leaving nowhere safe for civilians to hide, these not having access to a single bunker or bomb shelter, simultaneously wage such a ferocious and unrelenting 'conventional' bombing campaign on the whole of Gaza, including in the south, in Rafah, where Palestinians have been told to flee to?
And why would there even be talks of flooding the underground tunnels employed by Hamas with nerve gas?
"Palestinian groups expect Israel to flood Hamas tunnels with a type of nerve gas or chemical weapon under the surveillance of US Delta Force commandos as part of a surprise attack on the Gaza Strip, a senior Arab source familiar with the Palestinian groups told Middle East Eye." (Source)
The fact that this was made public via Arab sources does put the entire 'nerve gas' operation into question, suggesting that it is some sort of psyop, but one that—it makes more sense to think—could have emanated from Israel in order to discredit such claims despite the reality of such plans.
Plus, in recent days, besides accounts of Special Ops having been witnessed in the area and that highly-credible claims emerged that some have already entered Gaza alongside the IDF, though their efforts ended badly, we also know that Delta Forces are on the ground; during his visit to Israel last week, US President Biden accidentally shared a photograph that showed the faces of three Delta Force commandos with Israeli officials. The post was later deleted.
Meanwhile, on 11-Oct, we were told that the US had merely "sent a team of hostage rescue experts to advise the Israeli military on a potential rescue plan."
On 12-Oct, Politico assured readers that "[t]he Biden administration has ruled out sending military personnel, including special forces, into Gaza as part of an attempt to free American hostages there."
On the 18th, we were told that the US Special Ops soldiers aiding the IDF were veterans operating independently.
But, on 24-Oct, RealClear Politics reprinted, with very little pushback, a transcript of retired Col. Douglas Macgregor's conversation with Tucker Carlson on X, in which he confirmed that "US Special Ops forces had entered Gaza, to reconnoiter, to plan for where they might want to go to free hostages and make an impact," said Macgregor, also specifying, "and they were shot to pieces and took heavy losses, as I understand it."
Tossing aside tribal idiocy, which dictates which info is taken seriously by each side and what past history each is apt to recall, being someone who doesn't adhere to such forms, making it a goal to combat such mindsets, I can attest to Macgregor's accuracy on such matters, having yet gotten from him anything resembling the propaganda that plagues the mainstream.
That being said, US officials have made it clear that all US advisers are there merely to offer a word of wisdom and advice to Israeli PM Netanyahu and his Yahu military chiefs, reminding them of the hard lessons learned by the US and allies in Iraq's Fallujah, but that all plans and all final decisions were Israel's alone. Further, those who've taken command of US efforts are the same people that were involved in Mosul, which was flattened despite the number of civilians present—these killed in the allies' bombing campaigns—as doing so was deemed the most effective and best way to defeat ISIL.
Which brings us back to Israel's current bombing campaign, and how little has been done to safely avoid civilian deaths or to retrieve any hostages despite claims to the contrary, officials avoiding the most obvious course possible, which is the one that coincides with Hamas' reason for having taken hostages in the first place: the Palestinian group was hoping to exchange the estimated 222 to 239 Israeli hostages taken for the more than 10,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, the vast majority being held without due process of law, oftentimes for no valid, legal reason whatsoever.
According to White House spokesperson John Kirby, who refused to provide an official number in a recent 30-Oct press briefing, less than ten US citizens are presently suspected of being held hostage.
Kirby also confirmed that the US has "no boots on the ground" and that it "has no intentions to do that," emphasizing that "these are Israeli operations; they get to decide what the aims and strategies are; they get to decide what their tactics are; they get to decide how they're going to go after Hamas. [The US is] doing everything [it] can to support [the Israelis]."
In other words: The fate of US hostages is up to Israel.
No matter my claims and beliefs as regards US patriotism and the 'value' ascribed to a US citizen—so long as these are overseas and in danger?—something seems discomfortingly lax and unusually un-American about the attention these are given and the lack of specificity provided about any of them.
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The show of support for Palestinians that's seen across the globe is... well, overwhelming, I suppose. I can't quite explain why, but, unlike images of any other protests, to date, seeing those of pro-Palestinian protests have invariably resulted in a swell of emotions and for tears to be shed.
Maybe 'cause I'm a sap? Perhaps because it's about Palestine, on the surface, but about so much more at the very core of what's expressed?
A major change is underway. One that I didn't think sappy little me would ever see, so clearly, in my lifetime.
The forces against which the fight was fixed seemed an impossible one, but, collectively, united, it becomes as effortless as lifting the apple that's been thrown on our heads and beaten into them, too.
Chant our protest song: "Bad, Mackie!, Bad, bad..."
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The complex of tunnels in which, we can assume, the hostages are being held makes a swift Special Ops retrieval a pipe dream and the stuff of Hollywood that's to be taken as seriously as any Marvel movie.
Simultaneously, I find it troubling that anyone can possibly fail to see the genocide that lies behind Zionist aims; those who are calling for it make more sense to me if only because these, at least, appear to be in touch with reality.
The 'lawn mowing' that's been inflicted by Israel reflects all that has lead us to this now, but understanding all that's responsible for tomorrow necessitates an honest view of that past and of the pains and struggles we've been indoctrinated to accept. That said, carpet-bombing Gaza to get rid of Hamas is the most undiplomatic, cowardly and bullying way to go about things given the reality that gave birth to Hamas, not to mention the well-established Zionist hand that played a role in their creation in order to divide Palestinians, and the Western way to go about things notwithstanding.
As I'd mentioned, to better understand Hamas, one has to think of it in terms of a movement and not as a group; it exists beyond its structures.
Despite the reductive references to all that is Hamas to the abused "terrorist" label, including its important social branches that aim to provide for the needy Gazans, it's hard to imagine that Zionists aren't in some way aware of this, for at Hamas' heart and soul is "resistance", and it's resistance that's come to define Palestinian identity in the dignity it provides them and the hope it continues to fuel.
Awareness of the true, boundless and shared spirit that now is Hamas is the only thing that can justify the claims that "there will be no ceasefire until Hamas ceases to be a threat to Israel."
Hence, presenting what is unleashed on the Palestinians—the West Bank is, concurrently, opportunistically attacked—as a fight for "liberation" that pits "good over evil; light over darkness" should loudly herald the long-planned genocide that's underway even if held back as Americans scramble to mobilize material into the area.
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Zionists are driven by ideology. A biblical one to boot.
Indeed, as some have remarked: preaching biblical prophecy and possible end times if in a suit and backed by Western money... all's very sane, folks! It's the one's doing so for other religions, especially the non-tax-exempt ones, those are the kooks, also known as terrorists if speaking Arab.
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When did Arabs become the Jews of the world?
Or are they becoming the n-word of the world?
Which is worst?
Personally: Who gives a crap about such questions if "an end to human suffering" is the answer sought?
The Palestinians have suffered too much for too long; somethings, unlike gravity, should not be taken for granted.
Nor should some symbols ever present certain paradoxes.
Wearing such a star only communicates how grossly incapable one is to draw the line between what has been endured and what is inflicted.
"Never again" didn't refer to Auschwitz, nor Jews, as far as I was concerned, but to the terrible inhumanity inflicted on a people, such acts riddling our human history. The inexcusable suffering wrought onto the Jews and others by the Nazis, that, that was meant to be the "final lesson" humans needed to make sure such horrors were never again to materialise, I thought.
Yet, from Rwanda to East-Timor to Palestine and everything in between, how naive I was...
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Two highly-controversial measures adopted by Israel assert those notions mentioned above as fact, but it's an important and overlooked factor that's made these two despicable measures easier to adopt and to apply at times, which is: the type of "Jew" that's most likely to be taken hostage.
What type of Jews are these? Those who are considered to be "fake" Jews, or left-leaning ones who question Zionism.
Those who question Zionism tend to live in the outskirts if they haven't left Israel altogether, which is why a great part of Israel—not all—happily cheers on the destruction of Gaza and of Palestinians, having been conditioned to see them as a dangerous and threatening pest.
Fake Jews equally live in the outskirts, in contested areas, mainly; these include the converted, and those brought to Israel by Shavei Israel, an organisation that, essentially, convinces people to move to Israel and convert to Judaism; it also focuses on 'finding' members of the "lost tribes", which include the, questionable, Bnei Menashe Jews of India (from Manipur and Mizoram), many of which are now said to be in the front lines in Israel's 'war' against Palestine.
The Bnei Menashe is a Tibeto-Burmese community comprised of members of the Kuki and Mizo tribes of north-east India who've been convinced, both by a tribal member's dream and the Shavei Israel organisation, that they're part of the "lost tribe" of Jews who had to flee due to wars and persecution.
Genetic testing fails to satisfactorily prove this link, which would date back to BCE days. Conversely, neither is the link disproved. There are 10,000 who are said to identify as the Bnei Menashe people, of which 5,000 are estimated to be in Israel, the 5,000 others awaiting their turn, several hundred of them making their way to Israel each year.
Incidentally, the Manipur violence that erupted in India in the spring of this year, lasting well into the summer, that was mainly between the Meitei majority and Kuki hill people, though Hindutva pushers wanted it made clear that any issues relating to a religious minority weren't in play.
Israeli social scientist Lev Grinberg explained the case to the BBC, stating that “right-wing Jewish groups wanted such conversions of distant people to boost the population in areas disputed by the Palestinians.” (Source)
The two measures adopted are:
1. Dahiya Doctrine
2. Hannibal Directive
In the briefest, most raw way possible, these translate into: Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit for tat, and 'we don't give a f*** about hostages'.
Israel Defence Force (IDF) chief Gadi Eizenkot explained the concept referred to as the "Dahiya Doctrine":
“We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This is a plan that has already been authorised.”
This puts into question any claims made regarding "human shields"... from their perspective, anyways.
That was in 2008. In recent days, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari shortened it to: “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy."
Some have tried to justify the clear-and-present use of the doctrine by calling it "psychological warfare" and claiming that it was being done to scare people away from Hamas targets.
Others have inferred some form of deterrence whilst showing every sign that they've yet grasped what is the most obvious one of all: peace.
Only a genocide, or the desire to drive a people from their land, can justify one's preference for such brutality
Only a fruity mind can see what I would describe as a spiritually-beneficial religion being involved in any of the Zionists' reasons for such acts.
Judaism has absolutely nothing do with what's been unfurling in Palestine and the savage occupation that I would describe as anything but Jewish in any relevant sense of the term.
So, while "terrorist" gets distorted and applied to desperate folks who are seeing their end time coming, for no biblically-logical reason whatsoever that they can see, too many seem to forget that an Adam needs an Eve if eating that apple is to make any negative sense, for who's to be jealous of that serpent's slippery slides into forbidden valleys and tunnels?
Adam may have planted the Apple Fig Tree of Hope, but Eve is responsible for the Adam & Sons Landscaping company.
In other words, dress it up how you may, nothing makes sense except "hatred", "eradication", and "applesauce" if attempting to see any sense in the result of that brutal, inhumane doctrine.
The second, known as the Hannibal Directive–after the Carthaginian Emperor Hannibal, who poisoned himself rather than let Roman troops kidnap him, we are told–is also known as the slightly more controversial IDF protocol.
The Israeli newspaper, Maariv, explained the concept as an imperative “to act in every possible way to prevent the kidnapping and imprisonment of soldiers… including putting abductees at risk.”
This was meant to be taken in the following manner:
Recall any non-Mott's-backed Hollywood film where there is a standoff between an evil person—which, symbolically, represents a Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or North Korean individual or entity, even if played by Danny Trejo—and the force for good and Washington values, normally played by a blond-and-blue-eyed Brad Pittish-type, like me.
Now, the Trejo dude, he's holding a gun to the head of a Palki Sharma character—played by Jennifer Aniston—that he's holding in front of him, using the smart-and-sexy journalist to shield himself from the Pitt hero's line of fire, his Glock aimed right at Trejo's apple.
The evil Trejo calls out: "Drop your weapon or I'll make applesauce out of this delightful Indian person's head."
Most people would find it reasonable for Pitt to put down his weapon and for others, including the most lethal of snipers, to hold off on taking a shot so long as the weapon is pressed against the hostage's head given the uncontrolled impulse that's sure to follow in nearly all but the rare instances.
The Hannibal Directive says: Screw that! Just take the shot.
However, many have remarked that the Hannibal Directive seems to now be largely understood as allowing for the killing of soldiers and civilians in order to avoid them being held captive. In other words, it's better to see a dead Israeli than one that's turned into a hostage that can be used to demand things out of Tel-Aviv. What a humiliating show of weakness that is! Like humans bending backwards to please a snake.
That said, albeit it's something that came clear in the early days, a surviving witness testifying as such, it's something I avoided discussing as there's never any sense in trying to get people to accept point C when A and B already prove to be too much for some to swallow.
Hence, this being confirmed and well-established although it's full-depth has yet to be measured and its reality has yet to be widely acknowledged: the IDF is far more responsible for the many deaths caused on 7-Oct than what any Western power and media are willing to admit.
When they finally did react, the IDF appears to have gone all out on using that "however" definition of the directive rather than the more Hollywood "bad boy" version of it.
What's highly overlooked are all the military targets that were successfully hit, these being the al-Qassam brigades' and the Islamic Jihad's primary target.
Rumour has it, though from credible sources, that the Palestinian fighters found themselves with a big opening even after having hit the military sites, and went back for civilian hostages, feeling emboldened.
Crossfire and tank shelling ensued, indiscriminately, so long as it was aimed at knocking out "terrorists", as the IDF had finally woken up.
Regardless of the sequence of events, what's corroborated and substantiated is the "crossfire" and "tank shelling" and the IDF's role in many killings, these being those at the Kfar Aza and Be'eri Kibbutz and at the music festival, reports indicate.
The beheadings and all that raping is now established to be pure propaganda, a game that President Biden jumped eagerly into, claiming to have seen pictures that never existed. And the more well-established that all is, the more insufferably indignant the Israeli officials become, screaming anti-Semitism as loud as they can.
Hamas isn't without fault, guilt, and due condemnation, nonetheless.
But they seem to care far more for people, as a whole, however misguided some of their desperate acts may be. This is evidenced in the whole that is Hamas, not just their fighting branch, as well as in the care given to the hostages, being well-fed—no applesauce or threats of—per the claim of those released, one being the elderly woman providing a globally-shared moment that sparked hope for humanity, having the anti-Semitic gall to shake her captor's hand, saying "Shalom" before going off with the Red Cross; this infuriated the Zionists to no end.
So, that Hannibal Directive. Is that what justified the death of many by the IDF on that horrific 7-Oct day, as well as in the fighting that's ensued since?
Or is it fear and the excuse provided by such a directive, the more vague it remains the better, so long as it's the wrong kind of Jews dying along with Palestinians?
Israel's army isn't all that it can be, in so many ways. And if the US Marines and Special Forces weren't prepared to deal with the every-pile-of-rubble-presents-a-lethal-danger aspect of a ground invasion among the ruins of Fallujah, which explains Mosul, then the IDF sure as hell isn't either, filling one with the reflexive need to turn anything that moves into applesauce in order to keep one's head intact...
That picture of Mosul (below), after the allied-forces had bombed it, a campaign in which more than 10,000 civilians were butchered in order to defeat that which Western savagery had created, it'll never stop bothering me. So I make sure to look at it on occasion.
Sadly, it's now easy to confuse Gaza with Mosul.
The same people responsible for the military decisions taken there being the ones advising Israel today.
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