Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

[Dill]

(10-08-2023, 11:10 PM)pally Wrote: to further add to that conspiracy idea...an attack on Israel certainly would take the pressure off of Netanyahu's internal domestic problems.  Can't worry about what he is doing to their Justice Department when there is a war to fight.

It's true that the attack takes pressure of N's domestic problems--for now, but it has at least as much potential to exacerbate them, once the dust settles.

On Morning Joe right now, there is an NYT reporter in Israel * (also apparently an Israeli citizen) complaining about the sluggish response of the IDF, and what she calls a "total silence" from the government about the failed defense. Apparently there were supposed to be military units protecting the concert which was attacked, but they were a day late mustering. That enhances the conspiracy theory, I suppose. But I think complacency is a better explanation. And when the families of the slain start questioning the government, no one in Israel will call it blaming the IDF instead of Hamas. It will be seen as a call for accountability from N's. government.

On the other channel, Fox is calling this attack Israel's 9/11. It's about as likely that N and the IDF stepped back a bit to increase the damage for PR purposes as it is likely that Bush and Cheney allowed jets to crash into the Twin Towers so they'd have a pretext for invading Iraq. 

So, next to impossible for the same reasons, e.g. hundreds of people would have to be in on it, and they'd all be ok with killing their own innocents for an uncertain result, etc.

Conspiracy theories arise, in part, from a general inability to incorporate social/structural forces into explanation of such events, reducing causes to a few individual actors and their evil motivations, then selecting known facts to that to produce a hidden pattern.

*There is also the leader of a Jewish American organization who opines that the current paralysis of the House hurts the US ability to respond on Israel's side.