Radio War Nerd EP #401 — Hamas's Surprise Invasion of Israel

Egypt says they had let Israel know something was brewing. So either the system really did break down or some folks like the hard liners running the gov said "Go ahead let them attack and then we'll have our excuse to finish them once and for all." Apparently not realizing that the house cat now has serious claws.

Was wondering if Mark has seen this piece in Slate or if they'll discuss it on the next episode: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/vladimir-putin-boris-yeltsin-russia-parliament-shelling.html

Not only did Israel think hamas was weak, Bibi actually propped them up to create division between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, they thought they could use Hamas for their colonial project.

I really wish this could become the start of a change for Palestine. I wanna share Gary & Mark’s excitement. And maybe (probably) it’s a fool’s game to try to appeal to the sympathy of the Western public and media. But still, if the West didn’t give sympathetic coverage to Palestinians during the last 14 years of images of Palestinians being brutally assaulted and bombed, I dread to see the West’s coverage of images like those Hamas/Jihad guys driving around with Shani Louk’s body in the back of their pickup.

Because I (or anyone) said Israel (or anyone else) dropping a bomb on an apartment building is “just a fact of life”? Some straw men are certainly getting routed in this comment section, tough night for them.

Lol the IDF should all ritually off themselves. Getting the shit kicked out of you even for a day is pretty embarrassing when your opponent's airforce has paragliders and you have the most "sophisticated" fighter bombers in the world.

Except the Rabin assassination is, essentially, what put Bibi in power, and this 10/7/23 incident is what may force his departure

Again: you guys proving that youre the only ones with nuanced and informed takes. Thank you. Happy to be a supporting member.

After decades of watching Israel brutalize Palestinian men, women, elderly, disabled. Shoot journalists, ambulance drivers and blow up press buildings. After hearing them brag about putting Palestinians “on a diet” and even the “doves” in Israeli politics worried about the racial question and the hawks openly calling for genocide. Crowds of Israeli’s watching from hill tops and cheering as bombs blow up Palestinian cities and end hundreds of lives. The hundreds of Palestinians children every year being shot. Hearing settlers and Israeli soldiers brag and mock as they aim at Palestinian protestors and laugh as the body/crumbles and collapses. Seeing crowds of Israeli’s smash Palestinian homes and stores and lynch them on the street. Watching hundreds of Palestinian homes and farmers fields being bulldozed to build luxury homes for settlers with well watered and manicured lawns as Palestinian children and families suffer from food and water insecurity. Seeing the Palestinian resistance launch a successful mission that destroyed their oppressive explicitly and often openly genocidal apartheid state’s adversary’s bases and soldiers was quite amazing. Unequivocal support to them. It’s good knowing that some of the bastards who shot at the overwhelmingly peaceful protestors and killed hundreds of them were likely killed or captured in this recent counter attack. That protest which was met with brutal violence where hundreds were killed and tens of thousands injured and wounded didn’t garner a peep compared to the condemnation coming in now.

Rumor is that Mossad has been observing Hamas training with paragliders for about eight years now, which gives off a lot of "mass shooter was under police surveillance for years" vibes

Does this have a tet offensive effect in some way?

Based on the success of this counter-offensive, I think it's time the U.S. started providing critical military aid to the Palestinian people to support them in their defensive war against the unprovoked aggression of Israel. The Israeli regime's claims that they are only invading Gaza in order to remove extremist elements are a transparent excuse for a mad land grab, unprecedented and inexcusable in the post-WWII era. If the U.S. isn't going to bring Palestine on as a NATO partner to safeguard their sovereignty, the least we can do is arm these brave fighters against imperialist aggression. Seriously, the contrast between the treatment of Palestine and the treatment of Ukraine is really something to behold. Zelenskyy is expressing support for the Israeli regime! He might as well cheer the Russian army on for battling against dangerous radical elements in Ukraine! Disgusting.

There's a video of probably the most Israeli thing ever which is a desert rave festival going on near the Gaza fence, and there's explosions in the background and people are still dancing. It's arrogance more than complacency. That said, where do you practice motorised hang gliding in Gaza without anyone noticing?

Warsaw Ghetto Tet Offensive Hang Glider Uprising

"Nimrod Aloni" hahaha 'Nice Going Nimrod!'

Something about Hannas tunnels 🫤 🙊

Thanks guys, starting the episode now… couldn’t wait for your opinions and you didn’t make me

This has got to be one of the greatest intelligence fails since the Trojan Horse, surely... But maybe the failure was more from the political apparatus, not the intelligence services - there's a great 2012 documentary called "The Gatekeepers" on Israel's internal security service Shin Bet, in which six former heads are interviewed. They're a very depressed group of men, knowing as they do the consequences of Israel's harsh occupation of Palestine but unable to persuade anyone in power to change policy, despite the Oslo Accords signed in 1993. It also goes into some detail about how Shin Bet was aware of the impending assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in 1995 but all warnings were ignored by the politicians & other state actors... Maybe something similar happened here?

Guys, thanks for putting this emergency episode together on such short notice. Hope the dental adventures wind down soon with a minimum of discomfort.

Man I miss when Blumenthal was just a troll and not a fuckin maniac

Gaza is about to be Artsakh-ed.

This offensive is really making the genocidal Zionists come out of the woodwork. All of the sudden, when Palestinians actually fight back and succeed the mask comes completely off and now it's impossible to share a country with them and they need to be eradicated.

Get Blumenthal on here to talk about how rape of Israeli civilians is justified. Smh

I get Tet vibes from this offensive, and I'll have to tune in to see if that's right

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