“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
—Winston Churchill
Extremely high-level information warfare has erupted in the vacuum of the shockingly rapid Hamas invasion of Israel under the auspices of “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” that seized the world stage by means of an unforeseen “October Surprise.” Just precisely at the heart of this information warfare lies covering up the events of a collapsing Israeli government throughout the majority of 2023 which entails mass protests by large swaths of the population against a corrupt regime, and ever-the-more failing radical Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beginning with a high-level corruption trial of Israel’s longest standing leader in 2020 up to the mid-2023 passage of the outrageous and anti-democratic law of “Reasonability” virtually establishing a near total dictatorship of the Israeli officialdom, the current state of Israel has reached the dangerous crossroads of its weakest existence since 1948 fringing on total collapse.
The death rattle of the American Century simultaneously with the Israeli government began at the turn of 2020 with the abject failure of the US armed forces inability to respond to Iran’s Jan. 8, 2020 ballistic missile attack on Ayn-al-Assad Airbase in Iraq after the blatant US act of war assassinating General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. Few in the United States understood the epoch that erupted on the smoldering ruins of Ayn-al-Assad forgotten rapidly on the emerging CoV-19 hysteria.
Not only had the US enviasaged “full spectrum dominance” doctrine of purported hegemonic power been smashed, but exposed the United States government at its weakest precipice since the Life publication of Henry Luce’s 1941 American Century which shockingly and criminally declared, “...our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world and in consequence to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit." For the first time in US history, up to and including the deranged-jingoist project of President Donald Trump, the Rubicon was crossed into openly executing a high-level political assassination of a highly ranking foreign official. Adding injury to the insult, a little over a year prior to this unprecedented event, the elitist-psychopath CIA director turned Secretary of State—under neocon hawk Mike Pompeo’s China Initiative—goaded Project Trump into forcing Orient Overseas International Limited (OOIL) to sell its Long Beach, California container port to another foreign buyer rather than an American company, the Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (Macquarie Group).
Forcing a foreign company to sell the largest container port in the US to the world’s largest infrastructure asset management firm based in Sydney, Australia was anything but “make America great again (MAGA)” or “America first.” This catastrophic trade-war leadership and dubious decision led to the unquestionable collapse of the cross-Pacific supply chain and the supply chain crisis a full year on before the outrageous Covid-19 hysteria swept it all under a convenient rug, which was easily manipulated by obfuscating public opinion in the vacuum. No one dared blame their coveted “Cyrus the Great Trump” responsible for such a terrible political and economic disaster. Chinese hysteria proved all too convenient propaganda, especially when it could be blamed for being responsible for every evil under the sun including an emerging pandemic.
Trump Chains America’s Leg to Netanyahu’s Sinking Corrupt Anchor
On November 21, 2019 the neo-jingoist Zionist and highly corrupt Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu was officially indicted for breach of trust, accepting bribes, and fraud. Further exacerbating catastrophic leadership of destroying all credibility and international stature of the United States—not seen since President George W. Bush—in the wake of the Long Beach supply-chain debacle, the strategically anti-American AIPAC, NGO Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Trump administration, and Netanyahu cabinet were conjuring up what would become the “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People.” No one bothered to include or engage any Palestinian authorities to participate on deciding their own future, so there was absolutely no wonder why it would be wholly rejected by Palestinians or their political bodies.
A shocking move of setting this stage by the CIA, FDD, and AIPAC controlled Trump Project was the announcement of a then US Presidential “candidate” declaring Jerusalem would be the capitol of Israel on March 21 2016, standing of all places, at an AIPAC podium before he was even elected. Why was a US Presidential candidate hopeful declaring a city located in a foreign country as its relocated capitol and on what authority?. This was an unprecedented election-meddling farce that should be decided by the authorities of the respective country concerned, and a disgrace on the Holy City, condemned by real Jewish Rabbis.
Precisely 20 days after the anti-diplomatic disaster of assassinating IRGC Major General Qasem Soleimani and the destruction inflicted on Ayn-al-Assad Air Base in Iraq by Iran’s retaliatory strike resulting in approximately 150 US troops being injured, the “Trump Peace Plan” was unveiled at a White House press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020. It was but only a poorly contrived diplomatic disaster to prop up the failing and corrupt longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister facing an inevitable demise and a bid of political and diplomatic clout in a US election year to falsely project an image of something Cyrus the Trump was certainly not. The “Deal of the Century” was nothing but benevolent garb to justify further annexation of the remnants of former Palestinian territories in contravention of international law, wrestle away further control of Jerusalem and creating a mere two more “Gaza Strips” in the Negev Desert, but certainly no Palestinian state.
The timing of this event was also of the essence. On January 28-30, 2020 there were a series of events internationally in which developments were lost to even greater shocking developments amidst the emerging Covid-19 hysteria, like clockwork. Also on January 28, 2020 was the shocking announcement of the arrests made by the US Department of Justice against Harvard Professor Charles Lieber for alleged ties to Wuhan University and China’s Thousand Talents Program, along with two Chinese nationals, Yanqing Ye and Zaosong Zheng. Though the 21 biological samples Zaosong was apprehended with turned out to be related strictly to cancer cell research, the DOJ arrests proved vital to the propaganda machines of the “Five Eyes” in the collective West as a major tirade against China in the rising WHO declared Covid-19 Health Emergency. Adding gasoline to the fire of catastrophic US and Israeli leadership that would be conveniently swept under the emerging Covid-19 pandemic rug, the CIA-AIPAC lexicon controlling Project Trump and the White House under CIA director Mike Pompeo was sounding the anti-Chinese alarms loudly.
On January 30, 2020 while on a “Five Eyes” tour to the UK, Pompeo declared at a meeting with British PM Boris Johnson, “The US sees the Chinese Communist Party as the central threat of our times.” The catastrophic leadership of the CIA-AIPAC Trump Project under Pompeo shockingly brought on the literal collapse of the US government seven days after President Trump declared a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus on Friday March 13, 2020.
In one of the most shocking moments in US history, CIA director Mike Pompeo made a jaw- dropping statement on March 20, 2020 in a Coronavirus Task Force Briefing with the US President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence standing behind him. The “unseen hand” calling the shots baffled a national and international audience watching intently: “May I just say...may I just say one more thing? There's been some discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And I've been very critical. We need to know immediately. The world is entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of this risk to the world. And that puts a special obligation to make sure that data...that data gets to our scientists, our professionals. This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. We're in a…we're in a live exercise here.” In the background Project Trump could be heard saying, “You should have told us; you should have let us know.”
Merely three days after the beginning of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial on March 17, 2020, catastrophic leadership and collapse of both the US and the Israeli governments drowning in a sea of corruption would be lost in translation amid the emerging Covid-19 pandemic. Swept under the propaganda and information warfare rug, it was but a temporary pause for the doomed Netanyahu cabinet and Trump administration flying out of a frying pan and into the geopolitical fire as we shall see.
Netanyahu Dooms Israel Into Dictatorship and War
On the very same day the US CIA director Mike Pompeo shocked the public with outrageous “we are in a live exercise” revelations of catastrophic US leadership on March 20, 2020, major protests erupted on the streets of Israel against catastrophic leadership of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Likud Party. By no coincidence whatsoever, the Knesset was closed and shut off by Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein the following day of the trial proceeding on March 18, citing dubious “coronavirus restrictions” in a poorly contrived bid to stop any hearings and proceedings on removing PM Netanyahu from office while a major corruption trial against him ensued.
It was an extreme case of a dual crisis as the Israeli government collapsed failing to form a new government under Blue and White Benny Gantz while embattling a corrupted PM Netanyahu clinging to the power in an unprecedented manner. By no means were these developments legitimate nor welcomed with flowers and champagne.
Knesset Speaker Edelstein refused to step down from his position in forming a new government clearly preventing any discussions or hearings over immunity of PM Netanyahu from prosecution. Former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak was the loudest and most influential voice against Benjamin Netanyu and the corrupted Likud Party in the March 2020 buildup calling on all citizens of Israel to wave black flags in distress, “When there are a million of them on every window and balcony, the defendant will go home. The court will not be closed and the Knesset will not be closed. We, the citizens, cannot go through with it.”
By May 2020, the outrage would only grow against a more-than-defiant Netanyahu clinging to his own corruption as the trial ensued and Barak would not back down: “The High Court of Justice is facing its most important verdict ever…[T]he High Court can make its name for generations in one moment’s brave decision; On the other hand, should the court opt for legalistic niceties, irrespective under what intricate pretexts, it too will be crushed further down the road.”
The words of the former PM Ehud Barak were the most shocking and yet absolutely pivotal truth of what would become the 2023 summer dictatorship disaster of the Israeli government and precursor of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Hamas resulting in a major military confrontation with Israel unseen in decades. Being “crushed further down the road” was ringing loudly in the background.
Protests continued to rock Israel regardless of “coronavirus restrictions” as the Israeli nation was plunged into a sea of corruption, disarray, and government collapse that began with the dissolving of the Knesset in late 2018 dooming the Israeli cabinets to form a new governments and failing repeatedly throughout 2021. Much of the cross-Atlantic West paid little to no attention to the crisis unfolding in the Levant and its implications as the destitute PM Netanyahu clung to absolute corrupt power, that is well known to corrupt absolutely. By no means was it a coincidence that the Israeli PM was the biggest pusher and salesman on multi-dimensional fronts of NSO cyber intelligence and global security software, developer of the much-vetted world’s most powerful “cyberweapon” known as Pegasus.
But the Machiavellian schemes of PM Benjamin Netanyahu get worse, ostensibly much worse, when one takes a closer look at the fallout between Project Trump and then US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson resulting in appointing the head of the CIA Mike Pompeo coming into the foray to replace the former CEO of Exxon-Mobil. In September 2019 not only did Tillerson make some shocking revelations of the Trump-rift being over Netanyahu’s scheming, an even more shocking revelation of Israeli cellphone spyware found on the premises of the US White House house emerged that was kept well under the radar of public awareness. Bear in mind this shocking revelation occurred almost a full year after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a major scandal of Pegasus software behind it.
Rex Tillerson would reveal that, “In dealing with Bibi, it’s always useful to carry a healthy amount of skepticism in your discussions with him. [T]hey did that with the president on a couple of occasions, to persuade him that we’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys….You’ve been played….It bothers me that an ally that’s that close and important to us would do that to us.” No less important, Tillerson also exposed Netanyahu as an “extraordinarily skilled politician,” but albeit a Machiavellian.
It seemed the neo-jingoist far-right wing atop of the crumbling Israeli government had somewhat created a geopolitical “eye of Sauron” watching anywhere and everywhere as the crisis in Israel only grew worse, marking enemies of exposing PM Netanyahu as his indictment was officially filed in November 2019. September and October 2019 would bring massive lawsuits and accusations against NSO and the Pegasus scandals targeting journalists and activists to major software firms such as WhastApp, especially enemies of the emerging Israeli political and surveillance dictatorship under a massively corrupt Prime Minister being exposed in the emerging trial against him which ultimately would remove him from power indefinitely if not landing him in prison. It should be no wonder why Case 4000 against Netanyahu concerns bribery and major conflicts of interest with the Bezeq Communications Company over “favorable coverage of the PM” in light of the major scandals involving him.
A small “light in the tunnel” was extinguished when the all-corrupt PM Netanyahu and Likud Party was ousted in the March 2021 election, bringing in a breath of fresh air of a joint-government shared by PM-elect Naftali Bennet (Yamina) and Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid). However surmounting conflicts and crises internally led to the November 2022 election which would most detrimentally bring the Likud Party and Benjamin Netanyahu back into the chair of the Prime Minister being officially sworn in on December 29, 2022. Things were only to get much worse.
The radical neo-jingoists of the Likud and other right-wing factions would make a grab of power that would change Israel forever, and bring the 75 year old nation state to its weakest existence since 1948 fringing on total collapse. In January 2023 the newly formed government wasted literally no time in one of the most unprecedented power grabs in recent history, by going after a judicial reformation in a manner such it would ultimately remove High Courts and the Supreme Court’s power to challenge any decisions of government officials. The very government officials who could not be challenged in their decisions as before would now be the pigs running the farm in a deranged version of Orwell’s Animal Farm, giving themselves power of the judiciary appointments that could not challenge their decisions. “Legalizing” such a decision in light of not being able to challenge the decisions of a Prime Minister whom was on trial himself for corruption, nor his cabinets was nothing short of achieving dictatorship of the Israeli state. Ehud Barak’s warning of “being crushed further down the road” was ringing ever so loudly in the foreground and the background.
Adding injury to the unprecedented insult, Deputy Prime Minister Yair Levin drafting and unveiling the bill to effectively turn Israel into a dictatorship “coincidentally” was also the Justice Minister. It was most definitely flipping both sides of the same two-headed coin in a losing game for the state of Israel against its highest ranking officials that cared not what anyone thought about it. Above all, it clearly was cui bono for none other than PM Benjamin Netanyahu amid a major corruption trial in which the judiciary would be wholly undermined especially concerning matters of decisions rendered against Netanyahu in his ongoing trial.
Effectively passing the “Law of Reasonability” was approaching a Rubicon of anarchic chaos, hatred, violence, discord, and potentially civil war. Speaking from both sides of the mouth the embattled Netanyahu was publicy warning against “inflammatory slogans about civil war and destruction of the state” in the gambit of actually causing that very outcome, contradicting existing reality. For Israelis, watching the corrupt PM having his cake and eating it to was not welcome. From activists to current high ranking and former Israeli officials upwards of 100,000 protesters were a regular appearance as things went from bad to worse: “The journey to stop this coup has just begun; this is a determined and uncompromising fight to save democracy, and the people of Israel are coming out en masse to protest….We will fight in the streets, the squares and on the bridges — in the courts and in the Knesset.”
By the end of March 2023 an even greater danger emerged for Israelis when the collapse of the government over judicial reformation turned-dicatorship came ever closer. Masses of Israeli armed forces reservists, officers, and former commanders were threatening to refuse to serve and were refusing to report for duty in retaliation to the deteriorating crisis, posing an extremely dangerous national security situation to emerge. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant even threatened resignation in light of the judicial debacle warning: “I’m working to keep the military above any political dispute and to remove any instance of insubordination; the IDF is the state’s defensive mechanism. Without it, the state and its citizens cannot exist. Insubordination erodes our basic foundation — security. Calls for insubordination or joining [refusals] endanger all of us, especially given the threats all around.”
A few days later on March 26 a furious PM Netanyahu sacked Gallant sparking even further outrage in the streets after the Defense Minister warned to call off the judiciary dictatorship spearhead. Given no formal notice of an official decision in the meantime, Gallant remained in his position until the PM called off his purported firing on April 10, 2023.
A casus belli was brewing among the sworn enemies of the corrupted Israeli government collapsing before their very observant eyes in the circles of Hezbollah (Shiite) north in Lebanon and Hamas (Sunni) south in the Gaza Strip. The Shiite cleric Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah—who is best known for being brutally honest above all—pointed out: “I see the end of Israel. People will be thronging to the airports, the seaports and the border crossings. We won’t have to wait forty years for Israel to perish. All the elements of its survival are weakening while the tempest is growing stronger. In the light of current events, Some Arabs are saying that Israel is just the same as their own countries with no effective central government, like Iraq, Syria and Libya.”
The Israeli IDF and the government were at their weakest point in the history of Israel, nowhere in a position to fight a major conflict—much less on two fronts—amid turmoil and collapse instigated by PM Netanyahu’s lust for dictatorship and clamoring to power. Hezbollah leaders knew it, former Israeli commanders knew it, and above all Hamas planning a major qualitative sneak attack at the right moment in the shadows knew it.
A multi-dimensional war of attrition was being prepared by Hamas in light of both the utter collapse of the Israeli government, and a much bankrupted and extremely weak United States government that had failed its proto-NATO proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation which it had catastrophically miscalculated and been “bled white” into massive debt and depleted munitions. By no means could the US military or government support another major conflict with finances and weaponry, nor miscalculate in getting dragged into an uncertain disaster.
Al-Aqsa Flood: A Major Geopolitcal Earthquake Erupts
The Machiavellian Likud Party heeded no warnings and held no bars on its march to dooming Israel into nothing short of a Netanyahu-led dictatorship and free its corrupted longest-standing ruler of prosecution and conviction amid a trial that was far from over. By July 2023 the summer of discontent and being “crushed further down the road” had ran into its predicted dead end. On Friday July 21, 2023 1,142 Israeli Air Force personnel had signed a letter to IAF Commander Tomer Bar literally refusing duty to the country’s armed forces (not counting swaths of IDF and other reservists refusing to serve in protest).
In the heat of the dire crisis they made it emphatically clear that “We all have a duty to save the country from a ‘Third Temple Destruction’ and heal the disastrous divisions, polarization and splits tearing our society apart. Israel’s innate democratic nature is precious to the entire nation….[U]nreasonable government actions will undermine our trust and willingness to continue to put our lives on the line for the sake of the country. It is with deep heartbreak that we are bound to suspend our voluntary duty as air force reservists.” The “Third Temple Destruction” being loudly warned about was but only waiting on the following Monday.
By Sunday, another 10,000 reservists had joined the IAF reservists refusing to perform voluntary duties if the Law of “Reasonability” was to pass within the next 24 hours. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Hertzi Halevi was forced to issue a shocking statement of the dire situation: “They must realize that without a unified and strong military, Israel’s very survival is in jeopardy.”
The bell of dictatorship doom tolled loudly on Monday July 24, 2023 in Israel when the Law of Reansonability was passed astoundingly 64-0 in the Knesset with all opposition parties within the Israeli government abstaining from the vote. Protesters attempted to storm the Knesset after the reading which revoked the power of Israeli high courts and the Supreme Court to challenge or disqualify any decisions and laws made by a new Machiavellian dictatorial regime convinced of its own radical coup of collective suicide.
Hamas was watching intently and calculating a plan for a major operation against an extremely weak and fragile regime only a straw away from breaking the camel’s back. Given the example of the Ukraine crisis in attrition warfare and the dependency of funding and munitions from the West resulting in catastrophic military disaster and political defeats for the cross-Atlantic US-EU-NATO lexicon that were all weaker than ever and in no position to take on multiple major conflicts. The Israeli government was now naked as ever, purported to have one of the most powerful intelligence apparatuses and modern military forces on Earth, and in destroying itself for the sake of Machiavellian PM Netanyahu’s personal ambitions was now just a mere paper tiger.
As protests continued throughout September 2023 into the Fall, Hamas waited intently to strike the Israeli government under its beleaguered throes as it became ever so weaker. On October 7, 2023 Hamas launched its attack on the Sabbath in between Rosh Ha'Shanah (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) violently and abruptly taking international headlines by storm and rocking the world with a new geopolitical earthquake that was already mired in an abyss of crises.
Even more shocking and violent than the Hamas sneak attack has been the unprecedented retaliation of the IDF and IAF operation against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip by Israeli commanders in an openly and defiantly acknowledged and proclaimed genocide by aerial bombardment resulting in over 15,000 deaths in a mere 45 days, nearly achieving the 16,000 mass civilian deaths inflicted over an 8-year period by Ukrainian armed forces in eastern Ukraine. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant shocked many including this author proclaiming loudly his intent to literally raze the Gaza Strip to the ground, a defiant and criminal proclamation not seen perhaps since the Nazis ordered to raze Warsaw, Poland to the ground in 1944, destroying 85-90% of the city in retaliation to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The disturbing October 9 proclamation by Gallant was a most shocking and criminally insane declaration because he made no discernment of fighting a military operation against entrenched Hamas guerrillas or the civilian population of Gaza, half of which are known to be children. “We are imposing a complete siege on the city. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.” High level information warfare by the Machiavellian Israeli regime was at an all time high, throwing the catastrophic failure of Israeli collapse into dictatorship responsible for bringing on a self-fulfilling prophecy of its own demise into the background and hopefully forgotten about by the collective West in a fit of international outrage.
However, the Israeli government has further exacerbated the crisis of its own making with catastrophic leadership and military blunders in both its southern and northern territories failing to achieve any tangible military objectives in Gaza and failing altogether to address successful Hezbollah attacks from Lebanon resulting in high Israeli casualties and losses of nearly 400 tanks and armored vehicles. The greatest catastrophe now on the hands of the Israeli armed forces is blatant and inhuman aggression by commanders like Yoav Gallant is the mass civilian deaths, the majority of which are women and children triggering full spectrum outrage not only across the Arab countries in western Asia but around the world.
Outrageous attacks by the IAF on October 19, 2023 destroyed the 1,600 year old St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Cathedral—third oldest known Christian church on Earth—killing hundreds in the strike were virtually unreported in the west. This shocking development came merely 2 days after the unprecedented bombing of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City killing far more people than any other known single-strike by the IAF, forcing mass international condemnation and sworn direct military confrontations by the Yemeni Ansar-Allah Houthis and Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba vowing to attack Israeli targets and US forces in Syria and Iraq.
Since the October 17th attack on the Baptist Hospital the Iraqi Hezbollah al-Nujaba has attacked multiple US air bases in Iraq and forward operating bases in Syria over 75 times for US support and supplying of weaponry to the IDF and IAF used in the Gaza operation. PM Netanyahu had made an extraordinary demand for munitions to the US government which President Biden has since moved to lift all restrictions of Israeli access to US weapon stockpiles. Considering the absolute disaster and failure of weapons supply and support to a failed state in Ukraine, has the Machiavellian regime in Israel dragged us all into a deadly trap with unpredictable consequences in the act of destroying itself since January 2023?
We now all stand at an extremely dangerous geopolitical crossroads of war by miscalculation. In the United States you can condemn and criticize God, but you cannot criticize and condemn the Israeli government. The collapse of the Israeli government into PM Netanyahu’s dictatorship is swept under the western media machine’s rugs and lost in translation, just as the Israeli public’s outrage and outcry that, “Netanyahu must go now—not after the war in Gaza!” Let us hope the Machiavellian dictator is stopped before it is all too late.
R.A. Jones is an independent writer, researcher, and chief editor of the Global Political Awakening Project. Please donate and keep the global political awakening phenomenon growing.