{"id":247597,"date":"2023-11-06T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=247597"},"modified":"2023-11-04T05:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T05:58:48","slug":"the-7-oct-2023-hamas-invasion-of-israel-an-alternative-viewpoint-on-the-palestinian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/11\/the-7-oct-2023-hamas-invasion-of-israel-an-alternative-viewpoint-on-the-palestinian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Oct 2023 Hamas Invasion of Israel: An Alternative Viewpoint on the Palestinian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat the Eyes perceive and the Ears hear are, at most times, incongruous.\u201d [1]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Two Faces of Human Suffering<\/strong>
Main Photo:<\/strong> Palestinians rescue workers and paramedics try to pull a child out of the rubble of a building that was totally destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, 01st November 2023, killing, injuring and targeted maiming of hundreds of Palestinian youths. Photo Credit: Abed Khaled\/AP Photo
Inset Photo:<\/strong> Israeli Friends and family take cover as rocket sirens sound during the funeral of Sagiv Ben Zvi, 24, who was killed following the deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip as he attended the Nova festival in southern Israel, in Holon, Israel, October 26.
Photo Credit\u00a0 REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/p><\/div>\n

This paper, highlights the 07th<\/sup> October 2023, Hamas\u2019s invasion of the State of Israel and the author presents an alternative view of the perceived brazen belligerence of a small group of armed militia to the international community.\u00a0 This attack, essentially taking on the might of United States, with President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. the 46th<\/sup> and current president of the United States.[2]<\/a>, Antony Blinken[3]<\/a>, the 71st<\/sup> and current United States Secretary of State since 26th<\/sup> January, 2021, appointed under the Biden administration and Lloyd J. Austin III,[4]<\/a> the 28th<\/sup> Secretary of Defense, visiting Israel to confirm that its support for the state of Israel is \u201cRock Solid\u201d, to express solidarity after Biden\u2019s statement[5]<\/a>. In addition. Secretary Austin has also stated that \u201cThis is no time for neutrality, or for false equivalence, or for excuses for the inexcusable,\u201d Austin makes these statements at a press meeting, alongside his Israel counterpart, Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv.\u201d[6]<\/a> This is gross misinformation, noting that United States has been giving military aid to Israel of between 2 and 3 billion dollars, annually. The physical visits of the three most important and highest ranking officials of United States government, coincides with significant peace disruption, destruction of property, mass internal displacement, gross suffering and death of Palestinians[7]<\/a>, by Israel, as revenge and retribution..\u00a0 Israel has since killed more than 9300 Palestinians in indiscriminate bombings[8]<\/a> that the United Nations chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres[9]<\/a> said were \u201cclear violations of international humanitarian laws\u201d[10]<\/a>.\u00a0 Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council on that and he condemned unequivocally Hamas’s deadly attacks in Israel two weeks ago, but that they “did not happen in a vacuum”. Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan accused him of “justifying terrorism” and called for his immediate resignation.\u00a0 The next day, Mr Guterres rejected “misrepresentations” of his statement. But Mr Erdan said in reply that the UN chief “once again distorts and twists reality”, and repeated his call for Mr Guterres to resign.[11]<\/a> This and other statements[12]<\/a> made by the Secretary General criticising Israel, might cost him his career, noting that the Israel Ambassador to the United Nations has already called for his resignation, for highlighting the suffering of the Palestinians, who are being collectively punished for the attack launched at 06:40 am, local time, by Hamas, \u00a0while the Israeli Jews were observing the Supernova Sukkot Gathering. This spiritual festival is an annual, weekend-long, outdoor trance music festival, that began on 06th<\/sup> October in 2023. It took place in the western Negev desert, approximately 5 km from the Gaza\u2013Israel barrier, near kibbutz Re’im, as a Jewish tradition. Israeli security was provided for by the organisers of the event, since concern was expressed by the attendees that the event was held so close the Gaza barrier wall[13]<\/a>.[14]<\/a>,[15]<\/a>.\u00a0 This “Supernova Sukkot Gathering”, an open-air psychedelic trance music festival celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot[16]<\/a>.\u00a0 Sukkot is a week-long Jewish holiday that celebrates the fall harvest. It is one of the most joyful festivals in Judaism, meant to bring families, friends and communities together. The holiday also commemorates the scriptural 40 years that Jews spent in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt, under the brutal regime of the Pharaoh, probably Ramesis II[17]<\/a>.\u00a0 However, the frolicking music festival is not favoured by the orthodox Jews, in Israel.[18]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Left:<\/strong> Artifex during his DJ set, performance at the Nova Music Rock Festival, in the Negev Desert, or Negeb is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region’s largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba, as the Hamas air strikes commenced, on 07th October 2023
\u00a0Right:<\/strong> A large crowd of youngsters, at the Nova Rock festival held in a kibbutz Re\u2019im, close to the Gaza border, shortly before the Hamas attack. It was 6:40 early in the morning and Artifex, whose visual trademark is shaving his head on each side, was in the middle of his set. The music was so loud that at least some in the crowd had no idea mortars and rockets were hammering in the distance. \u201cAt this moment, there was also music, so we couldn\u2019t hear any sirens,\u201d says Nikitin. \u201cI noticed there was a big boom, and I looked up in the sky and saw the missiles and the bombs.\u201d Photo credit: IDO DERBY, 2<\/p><\/div>\n

Background to Alternative Viewpoint on the Hamas Attack on Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

The author categorically states that the following view point, as stated, is not the conjecture of a conspirational theorist, nor it is to undermine the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from 76 years of oppression and occupation by Israel, but it is based on circumstantial evidence, gathered from his journalist friends in the Middle East and the Peri-Mediterranean countries, which the author will present, in the discussions, based on facts that are evident to readers with an objective outlook. This is with respect to the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict, causing sustained Peace Disruption and an enormous loss of lives, on both sides, but disproportionally higher amongst the Palestinians, including the targeted murders of women and children.<\/p>\n

Firstly, the author is of an opinion that the concept of \u201ccircumstantial evidence\u201d, warrants a comprehensive definition. \u00a0This is a type of evidence in a legal context that does not directly prove a fact but can be used to infer or deduce the existence of that fact. Unlike direct evidence, which provides explicit proof of a fact, circumstantial evidence relies on drawing logical conclusions from a set of circumstances or facts that suggest the fact in question.\u00a0 The key points about circumstantial evidence are:<\/p>\n