• x00z@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Interesting thing about false flag attacks is that many of them are not real false flag attacks but are attacks that have been carefully chosen to be allowed by ignoring the intel regarding them.

    Israel for example had been notified by many countries of an incoming attack by Hamas with an extremely accurate description of what would happen, but decided to ignore it and not even strengthen their border defenses. It was in Israels best interest as it would give them an easy reason that would make their people allow them to ramp up the genocide.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      Valid.

      Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.

      If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.

      But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.

      A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.

    • phx@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah I honestly found the timing of that suspicious given Bibi’s trials coming up and plummeting popularity at the time.

      I could see the same with 9/11. Various people didn’t need to actually be involved with terrorism so much as “let it happen” and plan on how to profit from the response