One Of The Israeli Girl-Soldiers, “Israel’s Eyes,” Watching The Border With Gaza.
Harry H Trueman was an American President who understood that in a crisis he was responsible for the actions of his country. On his desk was a plaque which simply stated: “The Buck Stops Here.” Sadly, there’s no Harry H Trueman in charge of Israel.
Perhaps one of the most horrific accounts in all the many to come out of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has come today from the BBC journalist Alice Cuddy:
“They were Israel’s ‘eyes on the border’ – but their Hamas warnings went unheard”
She tells the story of teenage girls conscripted into the IDF. Their job was to man control centres close to the barrier with Gaza and watch for suspicious activity.
As time went by it became obvious to the girls that there was an ever-increasing amount of very suspicious activity taking place. They duly reported these actions down the line to their superiors, as per orders.
Time after time after time.
They were ignored. No-one came to verify the information they were relaying. Visits by superior officers only occurred in order for further tasks to be delegated to these young soldiers. No-one, it seems, questioned them on the information they had duly processed and passed on.
One can ask the question: why not?
Maybe, at some point in the future, there’ll be a day of reckoning, a public enquiry that will lay blame where it belongs. If these young female soldiers had been listened to and their information acted upon, then possibly their lives might been saved, along with the lives of 1,200 other innocent Israelis brutally murdered on the night of October 7th 2023. 24,000 innocent Palestinians, half of them children, need not have been indiscriminately slaughtered.
The Israeli military had the information that something big was in the pipeline. They chose to ignore it. Thousands of innocents have now paid the ultimate price for them doing so? Or was the job of watching over the security fence – Israel’s “Iron Wall” – considered too menial for real soldiers, and was given to young conscript girls.? According to Cutter, they hadn’t even guns to defend themselves. They were the first to die, defenceless.
There has to be a day of reckoning at some point in the probably distant future, when Netanyahu decides it’s the moment to end his carnage.
It’s time someone placed a notice on his desk: “The Shekel Stops Here!”
I saw an interview with an anonymous deep cover Mossad intelligence agent a couple of months ago on (to the best of my recollection) PBS. She said empathically that she had literally handed the hand-drawn plans of an attack on Israel to the higher authorities in Israel as to what was going down, a year ahead of the attack itself. She fears for her life.
Netanyahu was on his last legs politically with all the protests going on around him.
I connected all the dots then and still smell the rats from miles away.
It’s a horror show and the longer he keeps it rolling, the longer he stays in power.
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WWW ~ It does not surprise me one bit. I’m sure I’m not the only one to have come to the conclusion that Netanyahu knew of the impending attack and welcomed it, because it gave him the justification he’s craved for a long time – to go in and raze Gaza and destroy not only Hamas, but the Palestinian people en masse. He may have bitten off rather more that he can manage. Already, the war drums are beating all over the Middle East. Biden has got himself in deep, with the British hanging on to his coat tails as usual. Meanwhile, Putin rubs his hands with glee and cosies up to the Iranian Ayatollah.