The irruption in Israel caught many of us off guard. But to some extents it was a long-expected flashpoint escalation meant to begin the denouement of the Ukrainian conflict, by taking heat off from it. There are many circulating accounts of all the things that seem “off” about Hamas’ attack, so I won’t recount every single point here as most of you have likely read them in multiple places; things like the very implausible breach of Israel’s high tech gates and defenses, to the unprecedented failures of Mossad and Shin Bet, to Netanyahu’s eerily scripted invocation of ‘Pearl Harbor’, which is very telling considering that Pearl Harbor was also a falseflag attack with the purpose of bringing the U.S. into WW2.

I wasn't sure where to post this, world news it isn't, so here seems to be a good catch-all comm.

It's a collection of speculations and theories surrounding the war in Palestine and its possible origins.

  • gumshoe@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    going based on memory alone but I believe the FDR administration had prior warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor and specifically saw it as a flashpoint to change public opinion on US entry into the war

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      While I wouldn't call Pearl Harbour a false flag per se, it certainly served the purpose of one and likely could have been prevented. Same as 9/11 three generations later.

      The US capitalist class did have plans to enter the war as well (specifically the Council on Foreign Relations), but needed some sort of trigger to get the citizens on board. Pearl Harbour definitely served that purpose. Although I haven't looked in to that time period in detail so I can't really say more than that at the moment.

    • FightingGirlfriend@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think you can make the argument that the US might have known Pearl Harbour could be a target, and would have been a good excuse to get involved in the war. But the attack itself, coupled with a general offensive across pretty much all of east asia, was not something anyone thought could be possible. Not at the level they did, anyway. The attack itself did very little actual long term damage (sorry to all the people who died) to the yanks fighting capabilities though.