I was in the same boat (outside of being already critical regarding israels illegal settlements in the west bank). Main reason was that growing up in Austria, criticizing anything jewish was practically a taboo, and the only ones doing it publicly were the far right, which delegitimized all of it in public discussion.
It took their atrocities to make me realize how much effort Israels Zionists are putting into trying to tie Judaism/Ethnic Jews/Zionism together, so that blaming Israel can be countered by accusing anyone to be an antisemite. (I also have to say that for how good Israel is at Psyops, they really botched this one on the world stage.) I also realized that the conflict became a lot more one sided over the years; in the 80s and 90s there still was a push for a 2-state solution, and attacks in both directions were a common occurrence. Nowadays Israelis getting hurt is often the direct result of repressive action from Israels side.
Oct 7 might very well have been an false flag op in retrospective. It gave Bibi the chance to annex all of Gaza, Genocide be damned. It’s similar to Putins staged apartment complex attack.
One lesson here is that psyops only work in a nominal range of material conditions.
You can keep comfortable people from paying too much attention to a distant problem, but once daily life becomes too difficult, people’s pattern recognition starts seeing through it fast.
Also people are extremely sensitive to rates of change. The elites panicked and/or got impatient, thought they had it in the bag, and now the general public is more activated and cohesive than they have probably ever been.
Bibi received warnings from multiple sources that an attack was planned and yet weren’t troops moved away from the venue where it occurred in days before?
I was in the same boat (outside of being already critical regarding israels illegal settlements in the west bank). Main reason was that growing up in Austria, criticizing anything jewish was practically a taboo, and the only ones doing it publicly were the far right, which delegitimized all of it in public discussion.
It took their atrocities to make me realize how much effort Israels Zionists are putting into trying to tie Judaism/Ethnic Jews/Zionism together, so that blaming Israel can be countered by accusing anyone to be an antisemite. (I also have to say that for how good Israel is at Psyops, they really botched this one on the world stage.) I also realized that the conflict became a lot more one sided over the years; in the 80s and 90s there still was a push for a 2-state solution, and attacks in both directions were a common occurrence. Nowadays Israelis getting hurt is often the direct result of repressive action from Israels side.
Oct 7 might very well have been an false flag op in retrospective. It gave Bibi the chance to annex all of Gaza, Genocide be damned. It’s similar to Putins staged apartment complex attack.
One lesson here is that psyops only work in a nominal range of material conditions.
You can keep comfortable people from paying too much attention to a distant problem, but once daily life becomes too difficult, people’s pattern recognition starts seeing through it fast.
Also people are extremely sensitive to rates of change. The elites panicked and/or got impatient, thought they had it in the bag, and now the general public is more activated and cohesive than they have probably ever been.
I cannot believe that the vaunted Israeli intelligence apparatus, perhaps the best on the planet, didn’t have a clue such a massive attack was coming.
It’s pretty much been confirmed that Netanyahu let it happen.
Then there’s this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive
Bibi received warnings from multiple sources that an attack was planned and yet weren’t troops moved away from the venue where it occurred in days before?
Yeah, the troops patrolling the border were told to stop patrols that morning!