(Dobbs) A Conspiracy Theory: Israel Staged the Massacres on October 7th
We live in a world where black is white and white is black.
We have holocaust deniers. We have man-on-the-moon deniers. We have 9/11 deniers. We have vaccine deniers. We have election deniers. We have January 6th deniers. Now, we have massacre deniers.
They don’t deny that there was a massacre of Jews on October 7th in Israel. What they deny is that Hamas did it.
We live in a world where supportable facts, documented facts, give way to alternative facts. We live in a world where too many people buy into groundless conspiracy theories— who was really behind 9/11, did Bill Gates really put a microchip in every dose of covid vaccine— and too many more who don’t push back. We live in a world where black is white and white is black.
The Washington Post a week ago had a report about a spreading belief that the attacks against Israel— the rapes, the mutilations, the massacres of some 1,200 people and the kidnappings of hundreds more, some of whom are still held prisoner in Gaza— were staged by Israel.
One woman, an American in South Carolina, is quoted in the Post claiming that the October 7th attacks were a “false flag” operation. That’s what you call it when someone carries out a malevolent act but puts the blame on someone else. In this case— along with a growing number of cynical citizens from both left and right who are gullible enough to believe some of the rot on social media— this woman charges that with American help, Israel planned and executed the attacks but made it look like Hamas was the culprit so the Israelis could invade Gaza and carry out genocide against Palestinians.
It’s no surprise that we’ve also heard echoes of this concocted conspiracy from the leadership ranks of Hamas.
The head of the terrorist group’s “Council on International Relations” told Britain’s Sky News, “We have not killed any civilians,” as if all the photos and videos and eyewitness accounts from that deadly day are counterfeit. It’s another case of “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” You should note, he did not deny that Hamas carried out killings. Just not, he claims, against civilians.
The ferocity of Israel’s strikes has raised questions around the world, but there is a difference between responding to the massacre as Israel thinks it must, and as the skeptics charge, being responsible for it. How cynical do you have to be to believe that Israel would sacrifice part of its own population in the interest of wiping out another population. And consider the incongruity of the whole charge of genocide. As I wrote earlier this month, although Israel has killed more than 1% of Gaza’s population and that is a tragedy much of the world will not forgive, it hasn’t killed the other 99%. If it had set out to commit genocide, it would have done it by now.
What you can’t put aside are the mountains of evidence, in the forms of eyewitness testimony and photos and videos, that Hamas committed those attacks, not Israel. What you can’t put aside are the celebrations by Hamas leaders themselves in the wake of the attacks and their pledges that there will be more. What you can’t put aside is the moral implausibility of Israel not only massacring its own citizens but taking some 250 of them hostage and handing them over to Hamas to languish, and sometimes die, in the tunnels under Gaza.
But some people, in the U.S. and elsewhere, aren’t perceptive enough to figure that out. As an example, the city council in Oakland, California, debated a resolution in late November calling for a ceasefire in the war. During the debate, one woman declared to the council, “There have not been beheadings of babies and rapes. Israel murdered their own people on October 7.”
Antisemitism most likely is behind this denial movement. Along with 9/11, the October 7th attacks are the most empirically chronicled terrorist strikes in history. We know that most of the al-Qaeda fanatics who planned and executed 9/11 were Saudis. We know it was terrorists from Hamas who committed the massacres on October 7th. Yet the deniers in each case, although they can’t offer a shred of proof, insist that Jews were to blame for both. One accusation posted on X was, “Zionist Rothschild cabal et al was behind both the 9-11 and Oct. 7 false flags.” It’s worth noting that the conspiracy quacks in QAnon also lay blame for the pandemic on a Jewish quest to control the world.
This is antisemitism in its rawest form. When people shout, as some did at that Oakland city council meeting, that “antisemitism isn’t real,” you know it is.
Discrediting hard facts with unfounded disinformation isn’t new. The most infamous practitioner is Donald Trump: the election was rigged, Obama wasn’t born in America, Nikki Haley’s foreign-born parents disqualify her to serve. He has used the internet to amplify every lie. Now, evil-minded users of artificial intelligence are making things even worse. If someone says it’s day, AI can make it sound like they said it’s night.
What actually happened on October 7th, and who did it, can be doctored and distorted the same way.
Denial and disinformation wouldn’t have much impact if there wasn’t an audience for them. But there is. That’s what gives the massacre deniers traction, and it’s giving holocaust deniers new traction. As harmful as they are, there is no way for more principled parties to shut them down. It’s the way of the world, 2024. The best we can do is to use our own eyes, and our own brains, and our own common sense. They will lead us to the truth every time.
Over more than five decades Greg Dobbs has been a correspondent for two television networks including ABC News, a political columnist for The Denver Post and syndicated columnist for Scripps newspapers, a moderator on Rocky Mountain PBS, and author of two books, including one about the life of a foreign correspondent called “Life in the Wrong Lane.” He also co-authored a book about the seminal year for baby boomers, called “1969: Are You Still Listening?” He has covered presidencies, politics, and the U.S. space program at home, and wars, natural disasters, and other crises around the globe, from Afghanistan to South Africa, from Iran to Egypt, from the Soviet Union to Saudi Arabia, from Nicaragua to Namibia, from Vietnam to Venezuela, from Libya to Liberia, from Panama to Poland. Dobbs has won three Emmys, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and as a 37-year resident of Colorado, a place in the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame.
Thanks Greg. When Kellyanne Conway treated us to alternate facts in talking about T’s lies about attendance at his 2017 inaugural we were already skiing downhill to truth’s toilet bowl.
These lies only make the reality worse, and in this instance i agree-- pure Jew hatred.
What happened on 911? An Israeli-Neocon False Flag Operation is what happened...
1. The Project for a New American Century was written in Israel in 1996 under the name - A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. Requires a new Pearl Harbor for their plan. This is an update of the Yinon Plan of 1982- the Greater Israel Project. From the Nile to the Euphrates River...
2. Zionist Jew Silverstein purchased WTC 6 weeks prior. First time the WTC was ever put into Private Hands. Friends with Israeli Prime Ministers & Intelligence Services, along with Fed Reserve President & World Bank Presidents.
3. Zionist Jew Frank Lowy paid $127 million in May 2001 for a 99-year lease on the retail area beneath the New York World Trade Center. Member of the Golani Brigade & fought in the Israeli war of independence.
4. Zionist Jew Ronald S. Lauder was key individual who lobbied for the privatization of the WTC. Lauder has funded a school for the Mossad in Herzliya, Israel.
5. Airline Security Company at BOTH the Boston & Newark airports on 9-11 was a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company (ICTS). Most employees were ex- Shin Bet Israeli agents.
6. Security at the WTC was run by Kroll Associates, owned by Jules Kroll & Jerome Hauer (BOTH Jews). Hauers mother involved in the creation & maintenance of the State of Israel.
7. Zionist Jew Philip Zelikow (Jewish Dual Citizen of Israel) wrote the fraudulent 9 11 Commission Report.
8. Zionist Jew, Richard Perle, Chairman of Pentagons Defense Policy Board, was expelled from Sen. Henry Jacksons office in the 1970s after NSA caught him passing highly classified documents to Israel.
9. Dual Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff was assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the Justice Department; later, Director of Homeland Security.
10. Israeli messaging service Odigo sent AT LEAST 2 Israelis prior warnings on 9 11, 2 hours prior to attack. Odigo has offices in New York & in Herzliya, Israel. Herzliya happens to be the Head Quarters of Mossad.
11. Zionist Jew Pete Zalewski was the air traffic controller responsible for 2 of the planes on 911 & another plane full of top Pakistani military officials whose plane (Egyptian Fl990) crashed 2 years prior to 911.
12. Israeli Mossad Jews caught & arrested filming & celebrating WTC prior to & after 1st plane hits WTC. Jumping up & down, lighting lighters & holding them up in air.
13. Ted Olsen's wife supposedly placed an impossible cell phone call from on the plane during 9 11, Ted Olsen was Israeli Spy Jonathon Pollard's attorney.
14. Israeli Mossad Jews caught with explosives near George Washington Bridge on 9 11.
15. Zionist Jew Alan D. Ratners Metals Management merged with the SIMS group & the Hugo Neu Corporation & sold over 50,000 tons of crime scene evidence.
16. Over 60 Israeli spies arrested on 9/11 & days afterwards.
17. Zionist Jew Adam Pearlman is the AlQaeda spokesman. Lived with grandfather prior to joining AlQaeda, grandfather on board of ADL & huge Israeli supporter. His father helped run the Hippie Movement in SoCal then moved family to run a Kosher farm.
18. S.I.T.E. website releases AlQaeda tapes but is owned by an Iraqi Jew who was in Israeli IDF. Her father was an Iraqi Jew & was sentenced to hanging after being caught SPYING FOR ISRAEL in the 1967 war.
19. Zionist Jew Dov Zakheim was CEO of SPC International which developed Remote Control Flying Technology & leases Boeing 767 refuel tankers, the same planes used on 9 11. He also authored PNAC & was Comptroller of Pentagon when $2.3 Trillion went missing.
20. According to FBI, in the Year 2000 Israeli Mossad had penetrated secret communications throughout the Clinton administration, even Presidential phone lines.
21. After 9 11 Israeli Prime Minister Sharon said: We Jews own America & the Americans know it.
22. Popular Mechanics so-called (Debunking 9 11 Lies) article had as its senior researcher Benjamin Chertoff, the cousin of Dept of Homeland Security Head Michael Chertoff at the time, Israeli dual citizen.
23. Israeli Mossad pretends to be Al Qaeda in Palestine but is caught by the Palestinian Authority in 2002.
24. On Oct 10, 2001, just 30 days after 911, 2 MOSSAD agents, armed with Glock automatics, 9 grenades, explosives, wiring and detonators, were arrested in the Mexican Congressional building. El Diario reported they were carrying fake Pakistani passports. After intense diplomatic pre$$ure, including a special envoy from Tel Aviv, the 2 were quietly released, deported to Israel and the story, which had dominated Mexican media and press for days, completely vanished. There were 3 key Mexican govt officials, "Ladinos", involved in the negotiations: in the foreign affairs, defense and judicial depts.
25. November 2, 2001: FBI Fury As Israeli citizens With US Nuke Plans & Valid Israeli Passports Escape custody.
26. Israeli citizen Philip Zelikow led the 9 11 Commission Report.
27. US Army released on 10 Sept 2001 a study on Israel, which said: Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS Army Officers say: Wildcard. Ruthless & cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces & make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.
28. "In fact, the entire AIPAC apparatus, the largest lobbying organization in Washington (happened to be jewish), is currently engaged in a “full court press,” to stop congress from pushing for the release of the real report. Is this because the real report accuses Israel, not Saudi Arabia, and AIPAC wants the Murdoch/Sperry story to stand?"
29. "The real report, called “shocking” by the legislators, who have called for President Obama to declassify the entire report, proves that there was no al-Qaeda involvement, no reason to invade Afghanistan or Iraq and no reason to hunt CIA operative, Colonel Tim Osman, also known as “Osama bin Laden.”"
30. "In 2007, the FBI flew a team to Bangkok to interview former Soviet nuclear intelligence specialist Dimitri Khalezov. Khalezov told the FBI that, in the morning of September 12, 2001, he attended a breakfast gathering with Mossad Operations Chief Mike Harari and his son along with other Israeli operatives.
Khalezov reported to the FBI that this gathering was to celebrate the 9/11 attacks, not as Netanyahu had said, as a “fortunate happenstance for Israel” but as a Mossad attack on the United States."
31. "Thus far, the initial report to congress on the Bush falsification does not qualify as a leak. Only Bush stands accused, the 9/11 perpetrators are still safe, their identities still protected by security protocols maintained by President Obama, despite congressional demands."?
32. Israeli Mossad Motto: "By way of Deception, thou shalt do war." (Motto Removed prior to 9 11).
33. “Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 2002
34. Ehud Barak, the prime minister of Israel until March of 2001, came to the U.S. shortly after leaving office. He came, ostensibly, to work as a special advisor for Electronic Data Systems and as a consultant with SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company focused on "security related" work. SCP Partners did business with Metallurg Holding, Inc., as well as Advanced Metallurgical Group, both sharing the same Wayne, PA address. AMG specializes in the production of the same super-thermite used to collapse the three skyscrapers on 9/11.