“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Rabbi Chananya Weissman is here to help.
An excerpt from his latest newsletter:
Thousands of invaders in dozens of locations all being totally on the same page about their ability to rampage in heavily protected border communities for hours, despite Apache helicopters and reinforcements being minutes away (and nothing being too far in Israel), is overwhelming evidence, beyond any reasonable doubt, of coordination.
On top of that add children and old men with canes being brought to loot in a supposed active war zone, also without concern that they would run into the IDF at any point.
We also have testimonies that soldiers were given stand down orders, and that urgent requests for help throughout the massacre went unheeded when help was minutes away. Testimony is evidence in every legal system.
The only reasonable explanation is corroboration to enable the attacks, though of course, if pressed, the criminals and their lawyers (devil’s advocates) will come up with some story and hope people buy it. I see no reason to be a devil’s advocate and come up with stories on their behalf, or accept highly implausible stories on their behalf, and pretend this is reasonable and moral.
Even the media reported this: Israeli military abandoned kibbutz for hours during Hamas’ attack Oct. 7, IDF inquiry finds
Even when security forces did arrive at the entrance of the kibbutz, they failed to engage in combat amid scattered or conflicting orders, the inquiry found.
Some were following a command decision to “wait in order to evacuate civilians.” Others were fighting, then exited the kibbutz in response to a command decision, while some waited for a force commander and others remained outside the community to set up a perimeter.
There is also no plausible explanation for a lack of response for so long without stand down orders. And soldiers who went on their own faced heat for it. None of this is new.
The soldiers literally stood outside the kibbutz and watched the massacre. Imagine how conditioned you have to be to follow such orders, regardless of the official justification.
Also imagine how conditioned the people have to be to take to the streets over nonsense, and only when called to do so by controlled organizations that manipulate them, but not over this.
The stated purpose of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) to exist is to defend Israeli citizens from just this sort of thing. They ignored copious warnings for months on end, threatened to prosecute those who persisted to give warnings, confiscated weapons from the nearby communities, and stood down while our people were being slaughtered. All of this and more is indisputable fact.
“Israel should commemorate October 7 not with a moment of silence, but 8 hours of silence.”