Premeditated Destruction

There are many critics of Israel’s policy regarding Gaza.

Frequently they praise the supposed sneak attack that Hamas undertook on October 7 against various Israeli kibbutzim.

I’m not sure why these critics go down this pathway.

Maybe they look at this attack by Hamas as an indication of Israel’s weakness.

Or maybe they view this attack as proof that Israel’s so-called invulnerability is false.

Maybe they want it that way.

I do not share their views.

I have felt from the beginning that this attack by Hamas was foreseen and permitted by high-level Israeli leadership.

The Gazza strip is one of the most heavily surveilled areas on the planet. In the age of technology, it doesn’t seem likely to me that Israel was taken by surprise. To suggest such is an insult to Israeli intelligence, ability, and preparedness.

I don’t think the Israelis are that dumb.

I have always felt that this attack by Hamas was permitted to serve as a false flag in order to justify the final solution against the Palestinians.

It seems to me a natural progression from Benjamin Netanyahu’s modus operandi.

Usually when he goes down in the polls he likes to justify an incursion into Gaza or the West Bank in order to boost support.

He has been doing this for over a decade now.

In this case, though, he had the full support of Israeli leadership.

I think they had planned this false flag thoroughly in advance for well over a year.

Why do I think this?

Well, let me tell you about an experience of mine in my local town.

About 10 years ago, a supermarket chain, very popular in Texas, H-E-B, had purchased some land abutting on the same street that runs by my office.

They wanted to put in gas pumps in order to sell gasoline to the public.

They also wanted to have the main entrance to the store face the street that my office is on. Public traffic would enter the store parking lot through my local street.

This was not a major street. The area was initially residential, and so had residential grade streets in size and quality.

The street was not built for tractor trailers and heavy traffic.

In addition to that, I and a few other doctors on the street were concerned about the unsightliness of having gas pumps so close to our offices.

So we decided to protest at a city meeting, which had been called for that purpose – to decide whether gas pumps could be put in and whether there should be access to the local street upon which our offices were located.

Prior to the city meeting, on the Saturday before, I noticed that there was heavy machinery lined up and ready to go near where the gas pumps were scheduled to go in.

Nevertheless, we went to the meeting and protested.

I told the city that they had to stick up for the little guy.

After the meeting, one of my fellow doctors asked me if I thought we would win.

I told him that we didn’t stand a chance. I told him that this was a done deal because the heavy machinery was already there and ready to go.

Sure enough, we lost.

However, when the meeting was over, we got to meet with one of the officials from the supermarket chain, H-E-B.

He wanted to address our concerns by showing us the plans of what H-E-B had planned.

So, a few days later, we met with him at one of the doctor’s offices on our street.

In addition to showing us the plans, which were quite nice, he let us know that they had been meeting with the city for six months to a year ahead of time.

When he told me that, I became a smarter man.

So that’s how it works, I said to myself. This is how the corporations and the big boys work.

Here I had thought that the purpose of the city meeting was to decide whether H-E-B could go ahead and begin planning to put in these gas pumps.

But I was wrong. That’s not how the corporations and the big boys work.

They get the city and the zoning department to buy into their plans well before the regular schmuck has a scintilla of an idea of what’s going on.

Do you see what I’m getting at?

The city meeting didn’t exist to decide whether the gas pumps should be put in. The city zoning department had already decided that.

The purpose of the meeting was so that the politicians could feel good about getting our input which would mean absolutely nothing.

The major decision had already been decided in advance.

This is the way that politicians and big corporations operate.

The battle was over before it had even begun. We doctors didn’t stand a chance.

And so what I’m telling you is that when it comes to Israel and Gaza, the Palestinians never stood a chance.

The Israelis already knew what they were going to do well in advance.

They had their heavy machinery ready. If you’ve been watching the Electronic Intifada you can see, that the Israelis from the get-go had specialized bulldozers and excavators that had been equipped with special armor, and weapon systems to operate in hostile environments.

These weren’t just excavators and bulldozers that were pulled out of the civilian stockpile. Civilian demolition doesn’t require special armor and weapons.

These things had to be built, and that takes time especially when you need a lot of them.

Yes, Mr. Smartass, I understand that Israelis have been building these dozers since the 1980s. Maybe so but we’re not talking about taking down a few Palestinian homes. We are talking about erasing miles and miles of Palestinian existence.

What I am saying is this:

The Israelis (and their little friends in the United States) already had a plan for destroying Gazza.

The attack on Gaza was not spontaneously formulated after October 7th.

It was planned from the get-go.

And that my friend is disingenuous premeditated destruction.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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