How the Israeli military "rescued" Israelis by killing them on 7 October
Watch my appearance on the American Exception podcast.
I appeared on the brilliant American Exception podcast last month, and you can watch the full episode in the video above.
In discussion with hosts Aaron Good and Bryce Greene, I talked about my article from January in which I revealed the scale of the “mass Hannibal” event that was 7 October.
An important article that appeared in the Hebrew press that month confirmed — based on the highest level military and intelligence sources — that Israel did indeed reactivate its “Hannibal Directive” on 7 October.
Reporters Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun specified that the order was issued by Israel’s high command at midday. But they do also state that in practice the pilots fired on Israeli civilians who were in the process of being taken captive to Gaza all morning, hours before the order was issued.
It's likely also that IDF responders on the day were thinking (or were told) that it didn't really matter how many of "their own" they killed since these deaths would all be attributed to Hamas etc. In fact from this perspective, the more, the better.
So they didn't just aim at the Jews.