Two tweets summarizing @veteranstoday articles that blamed Israel for nuking a ME country. On the left a Jan 2019 tweet on Yemen that got 1.6K retweets & 1.1K likes & practically NO #Ziotrolls. On the right a tweet on Beirut from Aug 2020 with TONS of Ziotrolls. Was it the #bird?
For those interested in the actual tweets, here's the Jan 2019 thread on Yemen.
Of course, you can't have an aboveground "ammonium nitrate" explosion without a large crater! That's a "truism" that goes all the way back to the 1921 Oppau explosion! If you didn't have a crater when the smoke cleared in Bandar Abbas, people might start asking questions!
Fortunately, the 2025 Bandar Abbas crater didn't immediately fill in with seawater like the 2020 Beirut blast so we should be able to get undeniable dimensions of apparent crater diameter & depth. But my bet is we NEVER get those "official" numbers.
You see the problem for the perps of the 2025 Bandar Abbas blast & all the gatekeepers, shills, limited hangouts, disinfo agents, controlled opposition, et al who support those perps is that with exact crater dimensions you can calculate explosive yield and height/depth of burst
The megablast on 10 April 1992 outside the Baltic Exchange in London marked the beginning of a coordinated yearlong attack with small NUCLEAR devices on financial districts in London, New York City & Bombay, reported Aussie journalist Joe Vialls back in 1993.
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Vialls' article "Nuclear Bombs in a Briefcase?" was published in the Aug-Sep 1993 issue of the Australian bi-monthly alternative news magazine Nexus New Times. 2/
For Vialls what distinguished this 1992-93 terror wave was "each megabomb was exploded in a known financial centre, each left few if any scorch marks, and the resulting shock blast...exceeded the normal & logistic capabilities of any existing, known 'terrorist' organisation." 3/
In previous threads I have laid out the long history of Netanyahu's "Hamas is ISIS" & "battle of civilization agst barbarism" rhetoric that dominated Zionist hasbara in aftermath of 10/7. What still needs to be told is the story of those who chose to fight this hasbara.
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Late on 10/7, Israeli PM Netanyahu tweeted (in Hebrew) to the citizens of Israel "Hamas started a cruel and evil war...Hamas wants to murder us all. It is an enemy who murders children and mothers in their homes, in their beds..." 2/
On 10/9 Netanyahu addressed the citizens of Israel in Hebrew & English. In English he said "Hamas is ISIS. And just as the forces of civilization united to defeat ISIS, the forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas." 3/
Up until 10/7 Netanyahu's rhetoric dating back to the 1980s that "the battle agst terrorism was part of a MUCH LARGER STRUGGLE, one btwn the forces of civilization & the forces of barbarism" had been treated as hyperbole. Is it still hyperbole?
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To understand whether Netanyahu's post-10/7 rhetoric threatens WWIII or just revival of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, a good start is to compare/contrast how identical rhetorical elements played out in 2014 "Gaza War" & are currently playing out in 2023 "Israel-Hamas War" 2/
A key rhetorical device employed in both Gaza wars was the meme "Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas", personally introduced & propagandized by Netanyahu in the last week of the six-week long 2014 Gaza War (8 July – 26 August 2014) 3/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza…
No doubt if Netanyahu gave this "battle of civilization against barbarism" speech before joint session of Congress, he would break the record of 29 standing ovations he got in 2011! But what is it w/this WWII rhetoric? What happened to the "War on Terror"?
As Christopher Bollyn outlined in 2018, "the War on Terror is essentially an Israeli war strategy," first promoted on world stage by Netanyahu & Menachem Begin at Jerusalem Conference hosted by Netanyahu Institute in July 1979 web.archive.org/web/2018111208…
Netanyahu continued as the leading proponent of "the global War on Terror" through the 1980s & 1990s with books like "Terrorism" How The West Can Win" (1986) & "Fighting Terrorism" (1995)
Richard Medhurst & Paul Lookman have recently raised doubts 2020 #BeirutBlast was an ACCIDENT, observing how destruction of port of Beirut fit into a pattern along w/other recent events that can ALL be seen as part of a #USrael plan for Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”
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Both @richimedhurst & @PaulLookman suggest war in Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, blowing up Nord Stream pipelines, US occupation of & Israeli bombing of Syria, killing of Iranian nuclear deal all part of plan to give Israel oil & gas monopoly in Europe 2/
@richimedhurst @PaulLookman Both also see geopolitical motives behind the recent Gaza genocide/Nakba 2.0 as Israel needs to "extinguish the Palestinian issue once and for all" in order to provide the regional "stability" necessary for #USRAEL to carry out "New Middle East" agenda 3/ geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2023/10/28/de-…