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Honestly Ilana, I can not understand your post. I am not there. I am far away. Not with my heart. Not with my capabilities of be widely informed. Israel has a very dubious origin, and the people who were behind its creation (zionist, Belfour, Rotschild, the Crown), were not at the best interest of the jew folks, and even less about palestinian folks, and set this land in fire.

The Genocide the jew people suffer in the III Reich, not only in Germany, was and atrocity. Something unbelievable: how humans could do something so horrendous to other humans?

But an holocuast is not a trade mark, it must not be. It must not be a weaponized concept to shut the mouth of so many people who suffer and denunce the similaritys of that process with the processes we were living in the Covid era (as Vera Sharav denunced again and again so clear and fiercely)...and in Germany she was prosecuted for her statements, to had the boldness to aware about the increasing fascism in the whole world -promoted for the globalist elite and bankers, and the political lackeys-, just in the same way, step to step, to the Auflösung, the "Final Solution", the crimes of crimes.

The situation in Gaza (14.000 civilians murdered for an intense and indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, residential areas, UN shelters -6.100 childrens by the way), clearly remind to the world -the portion of the world who still have a mind and a heart who function properly-, of an atrocity that again is committed against an innocent population, not an army. This is not war, is clearly genocide.

I follow a wide spectrum of information sources.

I am not seeing discrimination or estigmatization of jews here, and not from the arab people I saw. The Israel regime is playing with fire and blood, and the supporters of their actions too. I could not listen one word of true, with messure, from the "leaders" of Israel, to the contrary, only hatred incitement. And are so powerful that in every corner of the world, there are less and less chances to express another vision, a dissident vision. A lack of open mind and democracy.

All the crimes allegedly Hamas did on 7th october.... seems to be, more or less the 50%, by the israeli forces (and a lot were even false news, aftermath corrected, but the propaganda against were imprinted in the minds of so many). I think there in Israel is for sure very difficult to achieve more completely and neutral information, and at least, this words are a message to you to be in your center, because I saw that you alongside those times (not only this 2 months), are in the side of messure and rationality, with compassion.

These times are letting in the world a hudge mark, a turn point. We are in a crossroad. Calm and guts are needed to find the right way forward. All around us is done against this process, to confuse us, to make us emotionals and primitives, and look for shelter by our torturers.

Never again is happen again. And this is a diabolic plan in motion.

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Carle, did you read the article or just the headline? You miss the entirety of my point and I'm not sure writing more will bring clarity. Israel is at war with Hamas, not Gaza. Therefore, the deaths of Gazan civilians are from the awful spoils of war, not genocide. Conversely, the intention of Hamas is the actual genocide of all Jews, they alone make that crystal clear, to deny it is absolutely to deny reality. This is a war for Jewish survival and nothing less. In my years of public service, only since its actual attempt upon my people have I found need to discuss the burning issue of genocide. If you had read the words of this Substack or any of my previous work, there would be no need to defend the point now. To deny the massacre of civilians at the hands of Hamas, which they recorded wearing GoPros whilst yelling Allahu Akbar, is directly akin to Holocaust denial and it is worthy of no more than to note who is promoting the libel. If you do become open to hearing the perspective of someone who lives through these events in real time and place, that's good, and the entire point of the exercise. If not, thats all I can offer you on the matter.

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Israeli Defense Minister Announces Siege On Gaza To Fight ‘Human Animals’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called for denying Palestinian people electricity, food, water and fuel as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza.

Who are those pilots dropping bombs on civilian, hospitals, ambulances. Shame on you!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-defense-minister-human-animals-gaza-palestine_n_6524220ae4b09f4b8d412e0a

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You are wrong Ilna Rachel - NETANYAHU NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED RIGHT NOW!

Bibi Netanyahu: Israel Must “Support Bolstering Hamas and Transferring Money to Hamas”

¨Bibi Netanyahu and his ideological ilk represent more of an existential threat to the continued existence of the Israeli state – and possibly the world if it gets dragged into its geopolitical melodrama — than any foreign adversary ever could hope to.

What many casual news consumers might not know, even ones who consider themselves “informed” – in large part because MSNBC/CIA-funded Washington Post would never tell them – is that Hamas is in no small measure a creation of the Israeli state.

This is not to mean “creation of the Israeli state” in the figurative, obscure sense of “Israel forced the birth of Hamas-style militancy through its Apartheid policies in the Gaza Strip,” although that is certainly true.

I literally mean to say the Israeli government actively and directly participated in creating and propping up Hamas in the service of its own political machinations.

Straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s how Netanyahu schemed behind the scenes for years to promote the terrorist group he now publicly decries and postures as the savior from.

Via Haaretz:

“Effectively, Netanyahu’s entire worldview collapsed over the course of a single day. He was convinced that he could make deals with corrupt Arab tyrants while ignoring the cornerstone of the Arab-Jewish conflict, the Palestinians. His life’s work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas.

‘Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,’ he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” Read More

https://www.globalresearch.ca/bibi-netanyahu-2019-israel-must-support-bolstering-hamas-transferring-money-hamas/5836624?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles

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Mario, I do not defend the Israeli government, G-d Forbid, I defend the Israeli people. No need to copy paste the entirety of the curated narrative that has been repeated ad infinitum, until people imagine it must be exclusive truth. It is an impossible task to bring light to the deluge of misconceptions surrounding this war and its myriad of factors when even real time and location reports cannot broaden the perspective of the conviction of those who have read some articles written by those who have read some articles on the situation in which I live and breathe.

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I often paste the articles because most of the time, people just read the titles and don't go further than that. I have posted those articles because it explains well my thoughts about what is going on now. I can see it with my inner voice.

Netanyahu is destroying Israel, first with the bioweapon jabs and now with this inside job, October 7th event... No defense for +- seven hours, to have an excuse to bomb civilians in Gaza, hoping Iran intervention to start a huge conflict in the Middle East.

I am very sad to see all those top IDF officers and some politicians going along with this satanic agenda.

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¨Did you know that Hamas was really created by the Mossad of Israel for the strategic purpose of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state? Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories.¨

Do your own research.

The Mossad didn't see it coming. Impossible.

This last October 7 event is similar to the 911 one in 2001, an Inside Job, a PsyOp Operation to create war, terror and control.

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Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”. Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement.

According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.” The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor.

And in 1978, they created an “Islamic University” in Gaza. “The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza.” At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks), the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories.

Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression. In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities.

And when the Intifada (“uprising”) began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): “God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution”, proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization. Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993.

The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin’s death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement.

The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians who were already poverty stricken and living in metal sheds, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections. Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison (“on humanitarian grounds”) where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997.

Arafat was helpless in the face of these events. Moreover, because he had supported Saddam Hussein during the1991 Gulf war (while the Hamas had cautiously abstained from taking sides), the Gulf states decided to cut off their financing of the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, between February and April 1998, Sheik Ahmad Yassin was able to raise several hundred million dollars, from those same countries. The budget of the Hamas was said to be greater than that of the Palestinian Authority. These new sources of funding enabled the Islamists to effectively pursue their various charitable activities. It is estimated that one Palestinian out of three is the recipient of financial aid from the Hamas. And in this regard, Israel has done nothing to curb the inflow of money into the occupied territories.

The Hamas had built its strength through its various acts of sabotage of the peace process, in a way which was compatible with the interests of the Israeli government. In turn, the latter sought in a number of ways, to prevent the application of the Oslo accords. In other words, Hamas was fulfilling the functions for which it was originally created: to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State.

And in this regard, Hamas and Ariel Sharon, see eye to eye; they are exactly on the same wave length.¨

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I like the work of these people: https://jewishcurrents.org it is a magazine in continuous publication since 1948. Much more nuanced than tik tok. Voices for peace for the long haul. Maybe some nuggets of wisdom and strength to found in these dialogues?

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Thanks so much for the link, I will check their site and publications.

I follow since 2014 Jewish Voices for Peace, are an important referent for all except for the censorship-new-inquisition-of-the-unholy-global-prison.

Ilan Pappe, Gabor Matte, Norman Finkelstein have to insightful and inspiring reflections, sometimes very sharp ones, but it is not time for euphemistic minuès, too much blood and history.

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continuation: All the crimes allegedly Hamas did on 7th october.... seems to be, more or less the 50%, by the israeli forces (and a lot were even false news, aftermath corrected, but the propaganda against were imprinted in the minds of so many). I think there in Israel is for sure very difficult to achieve more completely and neutral information, and at least, this words are a message to you to be in your center, because I saw that you alongside those times (not only this 2 months), are in the side of messure and rationality, with compassion.

These times are letting in the world a hudge mark, a turn point. We are in a crossroad. Calm and guts are needed to find the right way forward. All around us is done against this process, to confuse us, to make us emotionals and primitives, and look for shelter by our torturers.

Never again is happen again. And this is a diabolic plan in motion.

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"A Textbook Case of Genocide": Israeli Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Decries Israel's Assault on Gaza

¨Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel's assault on Gaza a textbook case of "intent to commit genocide" and its rationalization of its violence a "shameful use" of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to "Nazis" are used to "justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow mass violence against Palestinians," says Segal.¨ 9:18 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGGjLZNuyg

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Israeli History Teacher Arrested & Jailed for Facebook Posts Opposing Killing of Palestinians

This is a very disturbing news.

Democracy Now!

¨On November 9, Israeli police arrested Jerusalem history and civics teacher Meir Baruchin after he posted a message on Facebook about hisopposition to the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians. Police seized his phone and two laptops before interrogating him on suspicion of committing an act of treason and intending to disrupt public order. After being in jail for four days, Baruchin was freed but lost his job as a teacher and is still facing charges. "These days Israeli citizens who are showing the slightest sentiment for the people of Gaza, opposing killing of innocent civilians, they are being politically persecuted, they go through public shaming, they lose their jobs, they are being put in jail," says Baruchin, who says if he had been Palestinian, he would have faced more violence.¨

https://youtu.be/F5SMzQzdnZw?si=o9EHUtae4OZwCIjg

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Pollard: Oct 7 Helicopter Pilots Ready to Fly, Didn't Get Orders for Six Hours

Pollard addressed the appalling, unexplained, and even unquestioned failure of the Israeli military to react to the Hamas massacre of October 7

Recently, in this video clip, Pollard addressed the appalling, unexplained, and even unquestioned failure of the Israeli military to react to the Hamas massacre of October 7, even as, according to Pollard, military bases were within earshot of the attack as it was underway.

What was the reason for this?

Like BG Dan Goldfus, Pollard believes the truth will come out some day. I doubt it, but maybe. As Solzhenitsyn recognized, however, truth delayed loses its power to shape events. If what Pollard says is true (below), however, there are Israeli officials who should burn in eternal flames of wrath. From Pearl Harbor to Gulf of Tonkin to 9/11 to Benghazi and on and on, they will have plenty of company.

Pollard states:

The actual reasons why this happened on Simchat Torah (October 7) will come out eventually: why the Gaza Divsion, whose headquarters were overrun, stood down; why it was that it took six hours for any reaction to occur, when the army and air force bases were within earshot of what was going on.

I have friends who were helicopter pilots, attack pilots, who were sitting in their cockpits, ready to take off, fully loaded, ready, ready to stop them at the fence. They didn't get their orders for six hours.

They could hear it, they could hear the fighting. They were called by friends in the border kibbutizim ... that were being overrun and slaughtered, saying, Help us, please, they're killing our children. They weren't given permission to take off. That will haunt my friend for the rest of his life. He feels personally responsible for many deaths because of that, wrongly.¨

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/pollard-oct-7-helicopter-pilots-ready

Jonathan Pollard: Helicopter Pilots Were Given Stand Down Order 1:32 min

https://rumble.com/v3svwei-jonathan-pollard-helicopter-pilots-were-given-stand-down-order.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2

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The blood drinkers, the cabal want war. This is what they want. General Wesley Clark comment about war in the Middle East. The last country was Iran.

¨So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." Read More

General Wesley Clark Wars Were Planned Seven Countries In Five Years 2:12 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4

General Clark on the Iraq Invasion | American War Generals 2:59 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs4TFSjrY

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¨Security experts are blaming Israel’s government for Saturday’s invasion in which Muslim forces from Gaza massacred over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped at least one hundred hostages.¨

So why. The goal is Land Grabbing

¨So far no investigations have been launched into how the invaders were able to cross Israel’s heavily fortified border unimpeded, nor why it took Israel’s highly trained security forces over six hours to respond to calls for help.

Since 2005, when Israel expelled all Jewish residents from Gaza and ceded the territory to Muslims, Israel has been building sophisticated defense systems along the border. Foreseeing a possible above-ground invasion, Israel spent $220 million to develop an advanced security system “with no margin of error.” This includes barbed wire fences and a 23-foot high wall. Motion sensors are embedded in the ground along the electronic fences, which are accompanied by watchtowers armed with remote-control machine guns. The border is also patrolled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, and Humvees operated by highly trained troops. Hundreds of night-vision cameras placed along the border constantly transmit to command centers which are operational 24/7.

Also deployed along the Gaza border is at least one semi-autonomous robotic vehicle called the Jaguar, equipped with dozens of cameras, sensors, transmitters and a 7.62mm MAG machine gun. The Jaguar sports a remote-controlled PA system and can self-destruct if captured by the enemy.

To stave off underground invasions, a 40-mile-long underground “smart fence” equipped with hundreds of AI-powered cameras, radar, and other sensors. The fence can detect infiltration by sea and is connected to a remote-controlled weapons system. One hundred and forty thousand tons of steel and concrete were reportedly used to build the barrier.

Israel’s Gazan border security also includes Sky Dew, a giant airborne balloon designed to help the Israel Air Force detect threats such as missiles and aircraft.

Video footage from Saturday’s invasion shows Muslim forces using a single bulldozer to dismantle a barbed wire fence. Media operatives have tried to claim that the invaders were able to cross the border after first dropping bombs on observation towers, somehow evading detection by Sky Dew, UAVs, electronic sensors and patrols. There is also no explanation for how the loss of transmission escaped notice by the military and intelligence units in the command centers.

Those units conduct regular drills and maneuvers. According to one military commander who was stationed at the Gaza border, one of those drills is a daily “dawn alert” during which both the night and day shifts inspect the border’s defenses. The Muslim forces, who invaded during the dawn hours, would have stumbled into a massive surveillance exercise by hypervigilant troops.

“In the 40 or more years that I’ve been following Israel one way or another, I’ve never seen this happen,” commented Trump-appointed former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “I’ve never seen the border breached in this manner. Usually, even one person from Gaza gets close to the border, they’re intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. This is just something I’ve never seen before. It’s of course a large intelligence failure.”

Israeli officials have also not addressed how hours after the attack began and Israel’s forces had been alerted, the invaders were able to return the way they came, taking hostages on dirt bikes back to Gaza.

“It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said CIA counterterrorism veteran Marc Polymeropoulos.

Security experts are also baffled as to how Israel’s intelligence network, which includes the feared Mossad and the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, could have been ignorant of the operation.

“I’m truly astonished for something of this magnitude to go down and for the Israelis to have no clue that this is about to happen. I’m just speechless,” said Senior Fellow Colin Clarke at the global security research tank Soufan Center. “They have had sources inside these Palestinian groups for years.”

“Israel has exquisite, world-class intelligence collection and analysis capabilities and would have a far better picture of what’s going on in its own backyard. This one falls squarely on the Israelis,” he added.

Former Kerem Shalom Battalion Commander Yoram Erez wrote: "Something here doesn't add up to me!!! This is a mystery that I can't find an answer to since yesterday?

"I happen to know how things work in Gaza and on the border. I was the commander of the Kerem Shalom sector (Rafiah), I was in charge of Kissuf sector, I know the perimeter fence very well, I know how the army works there. I was in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza, I was in charge of the Jibaliya refugee camp, I would make ambushes on the fence and deep in the area. I met Gazans, ate and breathed Gaza.

"The obstacle is built so that even a fox cannot pass it:

"Alerts are set according to 3 levels of pressure. It must alert when it is cut. There are, 24/7, forces that are responsible for arriving within a few minutes, if not seconds, to the point where there is an alert in the fence.

"Every day they do at least one penetration drill. Each subdivision has a standby squad whose role is to increase the force in an emergency situation. Observations scattered along the border cover every inch of it.

"The female observers are champions at identification. They don't miss. They detect movement even before it even approaches the obstacle - day and night. At problematic points (dead areas) they place a tank with observation and detection capabilities, and a terrifying firepower. In some cases snipers are deployed in the field.

"Every day before dawn there is a ‘dawn alert’ procedure. At this hour all the forces are awake (in this case also the hour when hundreds of terrorists entered Israel). The night shift alternates with the day shift. The commander of each force inspects the axis to make sure there were no infiltrations during the night.

"Trackers that move on the axis know how to recognize traces. They know who crossed the fence, how much and even when.

"Each scenario has a clear procedure. For example, a procedure for infiltrating terrorists, a procedure for taking hostages. Everything is written in blood and has been proving itself for years.

"There are several other layers of security that this is not the place to talk about. In short, we are talking about an obstacle that proves itself for years and years.

"So how the hell does a Palestinian tractor move towards the fence without anyone reacting to it?

"How did the tractor manage to sabotage the fence for a long hour and open access to Israel without anyone reacting to it?

"How did hundreds of terrorists and civilians cross the barrier without anyone on our side lifting a finger?

"How did terrorists arrive on foot and in vehicles, armed from head to toe, to dozens of Israeli settlements, without any reaction from our side?

"How did hundreds of terrorists stay in Israeli territory for long hours, shoot hundreds of Israelis, loot property, without there being even a single reaction on our side?

"How did it happen that hundreds of terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis, woke women, children, babies, old people from their beds, surprised soldiers, officers when they were not ready, and kidnapped them to Gaza, without anyone stopping them?

"How is it that one bullet was not fired?

"How did all this happen under our noses?

"Where did an entire division go?

"Where did 3 brigades go?

"Who swallowed 9 battalions?

"What happened to 36 companies?

"Where did an entire regular infantry brigade go that usually outnumbers the elite?

"Where were all the reserve battalions that augment the regular army?

"Where did thousands of soldiers go???

"Someone here needs to provide explanations!!"

https://frontline.news/post/security-experts-blame-israel-government-for-attack-they-had-sources-inside

https://frontline.news/post/security-experts-blame-israel-government-for-attack-they-had-sources-inside

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I just watched a very moving conversation on the YouTube channel of Israeli journalist Efrat Fenigson titled, "You're The Voice - Ep.14: Lino Hermesh, brother of Omer Hermesh, murdered on Oct. 7th. I would recommend it for its rare display of humility and openness which might be the only qualities that might stop the carnage.

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Again: thanks so much! this seems to be a very balanced source of information.

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