If you could give me the share screen, then I can do the presentation.
You do it.
You do it from right there, Russ.
You do it from right there.
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You go ahead and do it.
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All right, we're good.
It's a great pleasure to introduce another vending colleague, Russ Winter.
Well known for his blog, Winter Watch, which I highly recommend.
Russ, today is going to take a second look at October 7th because the modes of Israeli deception are restricted to 9-11, the attack on the USS Liberty and other atrocities with which you're familiar.
Russ, yes, go to full screen or slideshow.
The screen is yours.
Okay, so we're just going to start off with, I like memes nowadays.
I think memes kind of lighten things up a little bit and oftentimes make the point.
And so today's meme says, whenever I'm feeling down, I just remind myself that a trillion dollars worth of propaganda didn't work on me.
So am I coming through?
Yeah, we can hear you good, Russ.
You are, Russ.
All fine.
Okay, so we've got October 7th.
What Israel doesn't want you to know.
Number one, Israel warned Israel, Egypt warned Israel twice.
Israel beefed up Hamas with $200 million worth of cash prior to their incursion into Gaza.
And I think a lot of that went to sort of pay off and infiltrate Hamas itself to set up some of these operations and get a measure of some control over Hamas itself.
Two-thirds of IDF troops were pulled from Gaza's border three days before.
Israel invoked the Hannibal Directive, killing their own to prevent hostage taking.
And actually, the Hannibal Directive, as I'm going to show, was quite extensive.
It's been kind of downplayed somewhat.
So you see all these images, and then if you see the Hasbara types, they sort of deny that those are real images.
But then you have the Israeli media itself pretty much admitting to it, including the Ministry of Defense himself saying, yeah, to a degree, we did the Hannibal Directive.
Bodies removed, removed to the music festival.
No explanation given.
The border surveillance footage was deleted.
Now, that was really strange.
So there's all this talk about all the evidence of these guys streaming through the fences in Gaza.
But in reality, there's very, very little footage.
There's a little bit when you get into Israel itself, which I'm going to show you.
Some of it doesn't make any sense.
So that's the classic, where's the CTV, CCTV, where's the surveillance, which is just anytime you see one of these major false flag events or fake stage deceptions, surveillance footage in the modern era with a very modern military and one of the best, I don't think it's one of the best armies in the world, but they're certainly capable of guarding their borders.
Just didn't happen.
And then there were seven lies about beheaded babies and mass rape were pushed.
Once again, none confirmed.
So if you wanted a pretext, Gaza was the goal.
Former Israeli PM Yav Galant admits Israel killed its own with Hannibal Directive on October 7th and blamed Hamas.
Helicopters, drones, and tanks were used.
Well, the only problem with that gallant is that the Hamas was not really that well armed.
They largely carried AK-47s.
They carried some RPGs.
So they weren't really equipped to overrun Israel at all, you know, and run amok for hours on end.
Just wasn't possible given the capabilities of these forces.
So here we have the famous bulldozer just mysteriously shows up, a noisy bulldozer mysteriously shows up that morning and pushes over the fence.
Nice clean cut.
The fence is just pushed over nice and neatly.
And you can see a brood of guys behind there ready to stream through to do their operation.
Ben Swan writes, Charlie Kirk was exactly right to question whether or not Israel had a stand down order on October 7th.
So I think that actually this scene that I'm going to show you where Charlie Kirk was talking about October 7th ties into what transpired with him a lot.
I think that they had to kind of deal with him.
And yet YouTube has now removed that video from its entire platform.
But here's what they didn't want you to see.
So here we go.
This is what Charlie Kirk himself said, the great martyr and hero.
YouTube has now taken down a video in which Charlie Kirk questioned whether or not on October 7th, the Israeli government issued a so-called stand down order.
Was there a stand down order?
Was there a stand down order?
Six hours?
I don't believe it.
Israel's size is New Jersey.
When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza border, it's 45 minutes.
Six hours.
They're live streaming the killing of Jews.
Did somebody in the government say stand down?
Well, the reality is, is that Charlie Kirk, in his questioning, was exactly right.
Last year, we put together a series of videos specifically about October 7th.
And in it, we talked specifically about this issue.
Was there a stand down order that was issued by the Israeli government that prevented the military from going in and rescuing people, taking them out of this situation where they were being held by Hamas?
Again, what Charlie Kirk said there was correct, but here's the proof that backs it up.
That once the Hamas attacks began, the time it took the Israeli army and rescue teams to arrive, fight, and rescue Israelis at the different kupluts communities and sites being attacked.
Well, that ranged anywhere from four hours to more than 20 hours.
Even the New York Times has reported, quote, thousands of soldiers were less than 40 minutes from the towns that were under attack.
So why did it take so long for help to arrive?
And we've discussed how days before the festival, two entire brigades of soldiers were taken away from the area of the Gaza border and then sent to the West Bank.
And you might think that immediately upon receiving information of a devastating attack on party goers, military authorities would alert units to immediately exit their bases, race to the site of the conflict, and go on the counterattack, right?
But that's not what happened.
Heretz reported, quote, at 7 a.m., the party organizer called Lieutenant Colonel Elad Zandani, the man tasked with approving the festival, and told him that terrorists were shooting the party goers.
He suggested that they fend for themselves.
The first IDF forces arrived at the party scene at 3 p.m.
That's eight hours for response time for one of the most efficient, capable, and well-militarized security forces in the world.
So supposedly the most deadly aspect of the attack was this rave.
And I hadn't heard this part before.
It just keeps reinforcing to me what this event really was.
Seven o'clock it occurs, and finally the Israeli forces show up at three o'clock.
That's not plausible.
That's not plausible at all.
That's not even remotely believable.
Here's another clip.
Numerous Hamas strung along several kilometers of roadway without interdiction.
Israel has a mesdar, they're called a mestari Avi, units of Israelis who disguise as Palestinian Arabs for Muslim for Mosadops and operate as infiltration agents.
Big, big part of Israeli operations that nobody really wants to talk about.
So when you see a lot of these clips, I would suggest a lot of these actors are Mr. Avim.
So here we have a clip along a highway.
Somebody's driving down the highway, standing there in the middle of the highway, comes a Hamas guy, supposedly, or Mr. Maram, starts firing at them, keeps driving.
Drive further on, you know, a couple hundred meters more down the road, more firing on the highway.
So this is occurring at 7:40, almost 40 minutes after the pouring over the border.
And there these guys are just strung for a kilometer or two along the highway with no interdiction whatsoever.
Here's more.
Not likely.
Not likely that you'd have that widespread of an operation just standing around highways in broad daylight with the alert having gone out that there's an attack underway and no interdiction.
Nobody flying over, no aircraft flying over, no recon flying over, no helicopters flying over, Apaches, no vehicle intervictions, just guys randomly standing around on the highway, randomly shooting Israelis as they drove by.
Highly improbable.
A former Israeli soldier testified on October 7th today that on October the 7th, troops were unexpectedly ordered to cancel all border patrols and stand down between 5.20 and 9 a.m., despite Gaza being one of the most heavily surveilled areas of the world.
All stations, I don't know why, I don't know how.
Something along those lines.
No patrol on the fence.
And this is at 5.20 in the morning.
All stations are to hold their positions.
And sure enough, an hour later, at 6:30 a.m., suddenly sirens.
So you know how we said October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel, that that was actually at least half engineered by Benjamin Netanyahu because he made sure that Hamas, which is the way more radical and militant group in Palestine, was the one that was.
I would say it was 90% engineered by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Funded over the PLO, which were secular and not as militaristic.
So he wanted to make sure Hamas was propped up so that they can always say, We can't negotiate their terms.
So he made sure they kept funding Hamas and not the PLO.
And so when the attack happened, where were they?
Where the most surveilled place in the world is Gaza, and Israel didn't respond for hours and hours to the attacks.
Tiny Israel, not a lot of distance to drive.
Very tiny.
The IDF told the ravers to go ahead.
It's totally cool to rave next to the people.
Go ahead, that's right.
Even though the security people warned the Israel military we shouldn't have this rave, they said, go ahead with it because they wanted this to happen so they could use this as a pretext, the October 7th attacks to go in and wipe out the people of Gaza and take over their land.
That's what this was always about.
The Israelis know this, by the way, and but they'll hide it from you because they still want your money.
So here, Israel Expose tweets out this video of this IDF soldier telling the truth about it.
He says that we received orders from the Golani Brigade commander on October 7th to cancel all patrols along the Gaza border from 5:20 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Israeli soldier testifies to the Knesset committee.
So they were told to stand down.
And let's listen to it.
So I'm just going to play this.
News Fist Havening TV got the English translation of this.
So let's, you can turn this down and I'll just say so 6:30 in the morning on October 7th, you're at the outpost.
For us, October 7th starts before 6:30, says this guy.
I was a soldier in the mortar platoon of the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion.
And that night, myself, Yodam Surah, and Sergeant Tamar Ben Yehuda, may he rest in peace.
The three of us were pulling an all-nighter on Sabbath and holidays.
We let ourselves pull an all-nighter until the dawn stand to.
And you know, we in the mortar platoon have time to sleep until the next stand to.
So at 5:20 a.m., we were sitting by the radio so as not to wake the radio operator.
And my deputy battalion commander, who was also seriously injured, and thank God he survived, suddenly gets on the radio with a strange message.
All stations, I don't know why, I don't know how, something along those lines.
No patrol on the fence.
And this is at 5:20 in the morning.
All stations are to hold their positions.
So, in terms of ground forces, we don't have anything.
Hang on, let me back this up.
So, in terms of ground forces and Orev, we don't have anything significant.
The brigade issued a directive for our forces pending a situation assessment until 9 a.m.
So they're given a directive to stand down.
Don't go do your patrols.
Why would they do that?
Wait, I can't.
There's a bunch of them saying it.
What's that?
There's a bunch of IDFs saying this when this happened.
This is the most surveilled place on earth.
Yeah, how in the hell would this happen?
It's all people from the IDF going, what is this?
What exactly?
So no vehicle is to approach Burma.
I'll say it again until 9 in the morning, pending the situation assessment, no vehicle is to go down to Burma.
We're in rear staging areas.
A brigade-level arrangement.
I don't know exactly why.
I don't ask too many questions.
That's the directive.
That's what we do.
A little before it all begins.
And Tolmer gives us this look like, what?
And you know, we're simple soldiers, just combatants, not commanders or officers who can ask questions.
So, when they were given this directive to not do your patrol and stand down, they were looking at each other like, what?
But they're not officers, so they just have to follow orders.
That's what he's saying.
It's an order from the deputy, it's an order from the deputy battalion chief, deputy battalion commander.
We take orders and don't ask questions.
A routine passing of an order.
And sure enough, an hour later, at 6:30 a.m., suddenly, sirens.
I've been living with this since October 7th.
That's what he says.
And I was very afraid to talk about this.
And when I got to the Knesset, which is like the Israeli parliament, when I got to the Knesset, it was after a period when I asked some senior army officers what actually happened.
And there were some who initially told me: listen, there was a sniper threat from Nukba on the fence.
So we didn't want to send soldiers so they wouldn't get hit.
So that's a lie.
And then over time, it kind of dawned on me.
And I said, wait, if there's a sniper threat, how can it be that I, how about it be that I, who am only 200 meters from the fence, how can it be that I am only 200 meters from the fence, don't know that there's a threat?
So if there really is a threat, I would be the first guy to know this.
So they just made the story up later in the Knesset.
This guy's a sniper himself.
He's right on the front line and he had no idea that there was a sniper threat, but then they just happened to mention it as later on as the rationale.
There's a saying, Abraham Lincoln has a saying: no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
And I think that definitely applies to the Israelis.
Hamas followed its own blueprints that Israel already had in its possession with shocking precision.
So Israel literally had the attack blueprints, but were they taken seriously by the IDF?
Again, yes.
The plans were diligently studied.
In fact, a presentation on the planned attack was given to senior officers in the IDF's Gaza division.
The presentation concluded with this sentence: This invasion constitutes the gravest threat that IDF forces are facing in the defense of Israel.
So, in response to all of this, did Israel's intelligence apparatus actually enhance or beef up their surveillance of the Hamas militants along the Gaza border?
Well, actually, not only is the answer no, but stunningly, they did the exact opposite.
They decided to entirely stop monitoring Hamas's handheld radio traffic because they saw it as a waste of effort.
Even though, during that same time in 2022, Israelis living in the kibbutz communities near the Gaza border, most of whom have some type of military training because of Israel's mandatory IDF service laws, they were, according to Israeli media, picking up clear evidence that Hamas was practicing the breaching of the fence and conquering Kibbutzim and seizing hostages and destroying everything in their past.
Then, in April of 2023, again, this is still six months before the attack, the IDF, according to Israeli media, actually did something even more surprising.
They restricted the ability of Israeli citizens living along the border to monitor Hamas's wireless traffic.
In September of 2023, that's less than a month before the attack.
The head of the IDF's Devil's Advocate Intelligence Unit, which challenges prevailing narratives within Israel's military, twice alerted senior decision makers in both the army and the political spheres about Hamas's plans for a large-scale cross-border military operation.
He reiterated those warnings in person at intelligence branch strategic assessment sessions on September 26 and September 27th.
This is just days before the attack.
During this period, again, just days before the Al-Aqsa flood attack, Israeli civilians residing in the kibbutzim near the Gaza border were witnessing with their own eye constant and enormous Hamas training exercises.
The army reportedly turned a blind eye.
One of these Israelis, Bin Shoshan, worked as a tour guide in the southeastern Israeli region surrounding Gaza in a radio interview just days before October 7th.
She remarked, quote, Hamas has been training for weeks right up against the border.
Reasons, any significantly large gatherings on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza require Israeli military approval.
Again, this is a part of the story that virtually no American media network will talk about.
According to Israeli media reports, Lieutenant Colonel Sahir Foger, an operations officer at the IDF's Gaza division, opposed the approval of the Nova Party based on a couple of things.
The last-minute nature of its event application, the intensifying Hamas drills at the border, and because if something were to happen, more soldiers were on holiday.
It was the Jewish holiday of Sukui.
The Lieutenant Colonel explained his opposition to the party's approval to his superiors, and he was instructed to allow the event to happen.
Israeli newspaper Heretz reported that other Gaza division officers privately told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of that party.
In February of 2024, Okana Federman, the head of security of the Nova Festival, gave an interview to Israel's Channel 14 where he made a statement that has not been reported on by any American media.
He said this, quote, I had a guard at the festival who had served in the Reim Division near the Gaza border.
And a week before the festival, he sent me a voice message basically warning me, saying, quote, Okana, something is going to happen over Sukkudi.
I just wanted to let you know there were a lot of warnings.
I passed the voice message on to the local IDF officials, and they told me everything was all right after the attack.
Federman called his friend in the IDF and asked him exactly what he knew, saying, quote, you were speaking in codes.
Tell me exactly what they showed you.
He told me, Okana, they told me there was going to be an invasion and that they were planning to take over settlements.
I just wasn't allowed to tell you that.
And that's what happened.
If he knew what he knew, a driver on the Gaza border, what did those above him know?
Because he is a small screw in the system.
Okay, here's General Slan kind of early on, kind of weighing in on this unlikely nature of this incursion into Israel.
Either Netanyahu was aware, and I, you know, I'm not going to allege that right now, his southern zone, and I have called for this, his southern zone commander, the commander of the IDF and the commander or the leader of his intelligence forces, they should all be removed from those positions pending the outcome of a major serious investigation to determine what caused the breakdown.
So this is deflection, obviously.
So it's a little bit like 9-11 where incompetence is just kind of ignored or there needs to be an investigation.
People need to be removed.
Then nothing happens.
So it's a bit of a deflection, but he zeroes in on some truths here.
Of security on the 7th of October, because now, fast forward to, you know, we're getting ready to go into the third month of this thing.
Doesn't look like it has any happy ending, and it looks like it's going to go on and on.
And we have all kinds of weapon systems being used against US forces now throughout that region.
So this thing is getting really bad.
And it's because there was a decision made to have a security stand down on the 7th of October for seven hours on the southern zone of Israel up against the defense line of Gaza Strip.
And I'm telling you folks, that wasn't done out of happenstance.
That's not a coincidence.
Somebody made that decision.
Don't know whether it's Netanyahu that made it.
the southern zone commander who made it.
Somebody made it because there's no way in the world for the security breakdown that the Israelis had on that day.
You were telling me when we were at lunch that you've been there.
You didn't have a terrorist.
You've been up on the tower.
I've walked it.
I know what their intelligence.
I know what their security system is made of.
And I know that the levels that they go through.
They have multiple layers of defenses.
They have multiple layers of electronic detection systems.
They have drones.
They have balloons.
They have people watching them from all sorts of cameras.
It is one of the most secure borders in the world, if not the most secure.
This is a major scandal.
Oh, it's a huge scandal.
And that's why I say, like, we, you know, we've got to fight this war and we've got to figure out, you know, we've got to be very careful about we don't get dragged into something that we don't want.
And there is a lot of people.
So the report on this new document that the IDF obtained said the following.
So this newly surfaced document reveals that Israeli defense forces and Israeli intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas's plan to raid Israel, including the number of hostages to be taken and specific instructions for their treatment while in captivity.
The document, which is based on information from military intelligence's 8200 unit, began circulating on September 19th, less than three weeks before the October 7th massacre.
Its contents were brought to the attention of at least some senior intelligence officials, but apparently ignored.
Why were they ignored?
Why were they ignored?
Is anyone asking these questions?
Seriously, I'm curious why all of these powerful people in the Israeli military and the Israeli government had all these warnings, had the battle plan a year in advance, had another document detailing what was going to happen weeks in advance, and they didn't prepare for it.
That's strange, isn't it?
Okay, well, there's more.
All right.
So the raid targets described in the document, which include IDF command and control headquarters, base synagogues, squadron headquarters, communications headquarters, and soldiers' quarters, closely mirrored the locations hit by Hamas forces during the early morning hours of October 7th.
And again, that document detailed how many hostages Hamas was planning to.
Yeah, basically, it's the IDF's own plan for carrying out this event, including the targets and the number of hostages, right?
Right down to the man.
Very detailed operation carried out by the IDF itself.
To take, to kidnap, to hold in captivity in the Gaza Strip between 200 to 250 hostages.
And that was the number that they eventually kidnapped.
So now we have this damning testimony from an IDF soldier who was on duty on October 7th.
And this testimony is reported on in Channel 7 in Israel.
So Israeli media to some extent is covering this.
No one in the US seems to have any interest in covering it.
The dissident has reported on it, but that hasn't gotten much attention.
This was reported days ago.
Luckily, I found this report and felt that it was important to share with you all.
So, Shalom Shadrit, who is a Golani fighter who took part in the battles on October 7th, suggests that Israeli or Israel intentionally allowed the attack to happen.
Well, that's a big accusation.
So, the force at the Pega post, where this IDF soldier was stationed, was supposed to protect the kibbutz Bari, which was one of the targets of the, you know, Hamas terrorists who showed up and killed innocent people.
Reporting on the testimony, Israel's Channel 7 reported that at 5:20 a.m. on October 7th, this IDF soldier said, We were playing on the phone, and suddenly a strange message came up from my deputy commander.
And what he says on the radio is something like this: quote: I don't know why, but an order was given that there would be no patrols in the Gaza fence until 9 a.m.
The Israeli newspaper Haratz has confirmed the IDF's application of the Hannibal Directive during the October 7th attacks, meaning that no one, Hamas militants, Israeli soldiers, or civilians should be allowed to depart Israel for Gaza.
Essentially, the directive states that everyone is a target instructing Israeli soldiers to shoot Israeli citizens and missiles.
So, on October 7th, you reported that it was the Israeli military that attacked their own people and their own soldiers, right?
Okay.
Yes.
And, you know, followed up on this with several other reports that were way ahead of the Israeli media on the Israeli military killing Israeli citizens in large numbers on October 7th and doing so deliberately.
And so, when you reported that at your website, the Gray Zone, you got smeared by Horetz, which is the Israeli newspaper.
And it says master class and manipulation, exposing Max Blumenthal's lies about Israel on October 7th.
The Gray Zone editor has a history of denying war crimes.
So it's no surprise he provided a piece that very selectively uses facts, includes purposely edited quotes to change their meaning, and grossly plays down their atrocities.
Now, why is this important?
Why do I bring this up?
Well, here's one more.
I'll show you why.
You also, you got smeared by the Washington Post.
The Washington Post published not one, but two live-filled smears of us for helping expose the Hannibal directive scandal.
First, by the anti-Palestinian neocon, what is it?
Her name, Liz Dwaskin.
Liza.
Oh, Liza Dwaskin.
I can't believe she would lie.
Look how pretty she is.
Pretty means innocence.
I bet she just works with the security agencies teaching them breathing techniques and yoga.
Come on.
Nothing about deceiving her own people, right?
Along with everyone else.
You go, then by the mendacious CIA stenographer Joseph Men, who falsely insinuated Iran and Russia were directing our factual reporting while clamoring for the criminal prosecution of our editor, Wyatt Reed.
Wow.
Where's the accountability for these journalists?
Well, there isn't going to be any.
But why did, so why do I bring all this up, this old reporting of yours, and the fact that you were smeared for being accurate?
Because now Horetz is also echoing what your reporting said back in October.
Now, after smearing you for months and months, now IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7th to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive.
There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information.
Documents and testimonies obtained by Heretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well.
So, what they did was, by the way, the best way to prevent your own soldiers from being captured is to kill them, obviously.
That's what the so that's what the Hannibal directive is.
And it got invented in like 1986 after Hamas had captured some Israeli soldiers and the soldiers didn't shoot at them because they didn't want to kill their own people.
Well, then they came, then the Israelis were like, Hey, hey, hey, go ahead and kill our own people.
That's called the Hannibal Directive.
And not only did they kill their own soldiers, Max, they also killed their own civilians, correct?
Deliberately, because you know, one civilian, one um Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was captured in 2006, was exchanged five years later for 1,200 Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian captives.
So, for the Israelis, that's just politically devastating.
So, so, yeah, so they would rather slaughter their own soldiers and civilians.
So, here, here is a colonel from the IDF, and it's translated.
This is what he says happened on October 7th.
So, this is so this guy's name is Naf Erez.
Yeah, he's an Israeli colonel.
And he said it was a mass Hannibal, meaning the Hannibal directive.
It was a mass.
So, it wasn't just they just killed a few, they killed mass of people.
That's how I'm interpreting it.
Is that how you interpret that?
Absolutely, and that's that's what was corroborated in this new Haaretz report, which I basically already reported back in October.
So, here, I'll play this for you.
This is this is an Israeli colonel.
Here we go.
What we saw here on October 7th was mass Hannibal.
There were many openings in the fence, thousands of people in many different vehicles, thousands of people in many different vehicles with hostages and without.
So, this woman who survived the attacks has also accused the Israeli army of invoking the directive.
They killed hostages.
Hang on, let me back it up.
He says, understand, they killed hostages, they were killed in the crossfire.
Understand, there was very, very heavy crossfire.
So, our forces, the Israeli army, may have shot them undoubtedly.
She says, Yes, undoubtedly.
That's a survivor.
When they tried to eliminate the abductors, Hamas, yes, they eliminated everyone, including the hostages.
So, the Israeli army just came in and wiped out every thousands of people in cars.
That's why they buried all those cars.
Remember, we did that story where they buried the car, they buried them, which is because what so let's take a look at the cars.
That's always an interesting topic.
So, Charlie Kirk's neck stopped at 36, and this was caused by AK-47s.
So that's the wreckage of the cars at the festival, the Rave Festival.
That was not caused by AK-47s, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's some footage of it.
Let's patch you helicopters.
The chaotic early hours of October 7, Israeli forces scrambled to engage Hamas fighters.
Apache helicotter gunships fired onto cars driving towards Gaza, aware that some of them were carrying captives.
I'm in the air with one of them, and I just said that there are tanks.
And then what do we do?
There are tanks that are running through the tank.
There's a good thing, and it's a very powerful thing.
I think that I'm in the air with one of them, and I'm not going to talk.
Yes, I'm not going to talk.
Without guidance, some pilots said they joined local WhatsApp groups to help pick targets.
The idea that pilots have to get information from WhatsApp groups is truly remarkable to design the initiative.
The people are looking for any way that they can get the information.
This is an outrage.
I mean, what kind of a way is that to fight a modern war?
At least 70 vehicles were hit by attack helicopters.
To me, it's inexcusable for a helicopter or any weapon system to be engaging any target if you don't know what that target is.
My concern is: with this footage, we cannot tell whether the Hamas government or civilians will possibly host it.
I don't believe the helicopter pilot or the machine gun operator will be able to tell either.
These big rounds have a certain area fact, and obviously come at a certain rate.
That if you shoot at a group of people, you're most likely going to kill everyone.
You are knowingly putting your own civilians at risk.
The I unit compiled a detailed list of those killed on October 7.
It found that 27 captives died somewhere between their homes and the Gaza fence.
The circumstances of those deaths have not been explained.
12 more civilian deaths took place in Beri Kibbutz after an attack by police and army forces on a house there containing captives.
Israel's General 12 spoke to survivors.
The investigative unit asked the Israeli army for comment on its actions on October 7.
They did not reply.
Peter Charlie, Al Jazeera.
Let's ask me to Justin Schlossberg.
He's a co-founder of the Institute for Journalism and Social Change.
Ultimately, here's Hamas.
Take the mask off.
And I thought this is kind of a very good clip.
Kind of applies to this Charlie Kirk situation.
From Anonymous, good comments.
Out of respect for the family, can you please stop?
That phrase worked.
Didn't answer anything, but it shut people up.
After the Kennedy assassination, there were doubts, there were inconsistencies, there were unanswered questions and, more often than not, questioning wasn't framed as curiosity.
It was framed as cruelty, as bad manners, as something decent people simply didn't do out of respect for the family, of course.
And slowly something dangerous happened.
A national concern was reduced to a private emotion and public truth took a back seat to perceive politeness.
I heard that phrase again this week.
Please don't ask questions out of respect for the family, including the work family.
And that stopped me.
Because families grieve, but institutions operate.
They hire, they fire, they profit, they influence.
And when institutions wrap themselves in grief language, they're not asking for respect, they're asking for immunity.
Here's the truth.
A free society does not owe silence to power, it owes itself clarity.
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We got time for a little bit of a sideline story.
That I thought was interesting because it ties into this emotional appeal routine that gets used in these situations where they try to shame somebody or or appeal to victimhood status.
And some of you may have seen the interview with Pierce Morgan and and Nick Funtes, and Nick Funtes they they, they did a gotcha on him and they went back and looked at some of his clips and in one of his clips he kind of said Hitler was cool.
Now what he was referring to were the uniforms, the swag, the imagery, things like that.
I mean no, I mean nobody would deny that this, that the Hitler and the Nazis had a lot of swag.
I mean that's just almost just a basic fact.
It's not necessarily an endorsement to say that, to say that.
So they, they brought that in the equation and and and Nick just kind of said, so what?
Yeah I, I think they, I think I thought Hitler was cool.
And then they bring this guy named Daniel Finkelstein on to do a shame routine.
And I kind of looked in the background of mr Finkelstein and what he did is he said he comes on and he says me mom, me mom died in the holocaust and specifically what he's referring to was his grandmother.
So here's Pierce Morgan says, I don't know any right-minded person who believes that Jewish people weaponize the holocaust for their personal gain.
And then here's Pierce Jewish friend one minute later, buy my book about the holocaust, which is basically what he did.
He came on and said, buy my book and gave kind of minimal background about what happened.
And here's uh Nick's response, those family members, oh my gosh yeah we, we got all that.
We, you know.
Me mom, me mom, like we're you know.
I don't even know who this person is.
Why is this person talking to me?
This old British guy is saying me mom got killed by Hitler.
When you say Hitler's very Okay, so here's the story of Mimom.
That's what's so remarkable about these events.
There's usually a little bit more to the story.
So Finkelstein's mom, Mirjem, was a Jewish activist.
They moved from Berlin to Amsterdam in 1933.
And then in June 1943, Finkelstein, meaning the mom and his sisters and his grandmother were taken by the Nazis to Westerbork transit camp and then the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
And that's where Anne Frank was.
Now, anybody that is a student in World War II knows that things got really bad at the end of the war.
There's a lot of hunger, a lot of malnutrition, a lot of typhus, a lot of disease.
And the conditions for all Europeans is bad.
It didn't matter who you were.
You know, you could have been a Jew in a concentration camp.
You could have been a German in a nearby village.
And part of the reason is illustrated in this clip here.
And this shows U.S. fighters strafing German farmers.
That's a farmer down there.
Another farmer.
Horse-drawn cart with his animal.
Just murdering these farmers.
Another farmer.
Rails, you know, hitting rail on sidings.
So it appeared, you know, so the wrecking of Germany's basic infrastructure doesn't seem to even be part of the conversation.
It's just kind of, well, let's blame it on Hitler.
So what happened at the end of the war, there was a prisoner exchange, they call it a prisoner exchange, is actually in January 1945, they loaded up a bunch of trains and sent it down to the Swiss border.
And on those trains was Finkelstein's family, his sisters, his mother, and his grandmother.
They got out of Bergen-Belsen.
The mother was very ill, the grandmother that is, and died of malnutrition and starvation after their arrival in Switzerland.
So the whole story here is that Germany was wrecked.
They were trying to get people out, trying to get them into safety or getting them into care under impossible situations.
And Dan Finkelstein seems to feel necessary to assert the story into his attack on Nick Fuentes without any kind of context about what had happened.
So yeah, his grandmother didn't survive the ordeal.
And then he adds another story talking about his dad's family in Lvov in Ukraine.
And this is also largely unreported history because what in reality happened during Operation Barbarossa in June, July of 1941, very documented.
You can read the Jewish Telegraph Agency.
I have the link there.
Russia helped 1,750,000 Jews to escape the Nazis.
And largely at Lvov, where his family is from, they got him out of there.
They took the Jews and shipped them east into safety.
Well, this is misreported by Finkelstein as Dahn sent his family to a gulag, which would be way out of character for that period.
They did not send these people to Gulag.
So you got a double entrendre of misrepresentations of lies tied into this emotional appeal around this guy's family.
And that didn't really take that much research for me to figure that one out.
So that's just kind of how these people roll.
Jews roll.
They just kind of pull up whatever they want out of their asses and just throw it at people.
Case in point being the October 7th excursions.
So that's all I got for my screen share.
Back to you.
Hello?
Yeah, Russ.
I'm trying to get the camera to work here.
Very good.
Very, very good, Russ.
I thought you made excellent use of the clips.
It's astonishing that Jimmy Dore is a comedian, provides more accurate information about more central subjects than any of the major networks, which, as you well know, are now turning into Zionist propaganda outlets.
They've taken control of TikTok.
They got a former IDF as their censor there.
You got this Barry Weiss buying up CBS.
He's now appointed an ultra Zionist as the head of the CBS Evening News, the anchor.
It's just outrageous.
I thought your clips were excellent, very well chosen, completely convincing, making your point virtually beyond debate.
Any final thoughts?
That guy deserves some mention is Ben Swan, who I think probably could have been one of the greatest reporters and journalists, American journalists of all.
And he's just been put on the back, totally back on the back burner.
So that I tip my hat to him.
He's really suffered professionally because of his stances.
Anyway, that's another guy worth mentioning.
Russ, I want everyone to know Winter Watch, really a valuable blog.
Winterwatch.net, winterwatch.net.
For Russ's latest, he keeps it up daily.
Really good stuff.
Russ, a final thought from you?
No, no, that's it.
Just be aware of the unrelenting propaganda, the opening meme, you know, that you got to be proud that you're not succumbing to this propaganda.
And it's really picking up steam.
As you say, it's the CBS news purchase.
I think that the Oracle guy is going to lose a lot of money on that one.
I think that's a discussion.
Well, people are abandoning the networks and they're going to the alt news for all the right reasons.
They cannot trust the major networks any longer.
That their role as promoters of disinformation to deliberately mislead their target audience has been exposed.
Trump, I think we owe him a great debt for during the first admin calling up the fake news media.
That was the beginning of the public acquiring a general understanding of how great are the discrepancies between what's reported on the major networks and what in fact is going on in the world to which you have added immeasurably about October 7th, Russ.