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How Blinken and Company Laid the Groundwork for the Hamas Attack
American Thinker ^ | 2 Nov, 2023 | Matt Wolfson

Posted on 11/02/2023 7:09:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Banner headline events almost always flow from quieter real-life causes, and the worst attack on Israel in fifty years is not an exception. The coordinated raids and massacres on October 7 were possible only because of more subtle interventions over two and a half years in rooms at the State Department and the White House, with indirect help from nonprofits like the Soros-funded International Crisis Group. These interventions were driven by a small network of government and interest group insiders whose actions have gone unreported in establishment media. Though their further consequences aren’t yet clear, they’ll almost certainly involve a push to weaken both Israel and an Israeli government resistant to accords with Iran.

The interventions flowed from one motivation: the State Department’s determination to achieve a “reset” with Iran, restoring the consensus reached at the end of the Obama Administration through its 2015 nuclear deal. This was the main priority of high-level department staff, including Robert Malley, whose family history as well as his work at the International Crisis Group align him with pro-Iranian movers, and the recently-retired Wendy R. Sherman, whose legacy is the 2015 deal. These players, along with National Security staffer Brett McGurk, had been crucial in pushing the Obama-backed alignment with Iran. In the Biden Administration, working under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, they have had a supportive superior: a low-key gladhander who has made his career supporting whatever establishment foreign agenda is teed up for action. In this case, that foreign agenda, perhaps at the urging of ex-president Obama, has been bringing Iran back to the negotiating table by reducing Israel’s power in the region while sidelining Netanyahu, an ardent opponent of negotiations.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2015; 202310; 20231007; antonyblinken; blinken; brettmcgurk; georgesoros; hamas; icg; iran; irandeal; israel; israeliranhamaswar; jihad; leftism; malley; mcgurk; obamasfault; robertmalley; sherman; soros; wendyrsherman; wendysherman; wot

1 posted on 11/02/2023 7:09:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This started with Jimmy Carter.


2 posted on 11/02/2023 7:09:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: All

Netanyahu is really, Really frantic about that stalled US foreign aid bundle.....
browbeating his poor surrogates, pressuring them to find Americans to blame.....or else.

Lo and behold......they went all the way back to 2014 to find an American to blame for Hamas’ use of cement in their tunnels.

That was a laugh riot.

And here we have a nicely gaslighted attempt to name Americans for what Hamas did.


Now sit back, taxpayers, and watch the “need” for American tax dollars to double.


3 posted on 11/02/2023 7:20:44 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: Liz

Israel has now existed for 75 years. If it can’t even defend itself because it’s still a welfare client of the U.S. and subject to political pressure from its benefactor government in Washington, then it might be time to consider the possibility that Israel isn’t even a viable nation.


4 posted on 11/02/2023 7:37:20 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Could be........ could be time to do that.

Especially if they get so desperate, they resort to
blaming Americans to save Netanyahu’s failing ***..


5 posted on 11/02/2023 7:57:14 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: Alberta's Child
Israel has always been a viable nation: the only threat to its viability has been the aggression of its neighbors. Since it only has a few million people vs. 80 million in Iran alone, it can't exist without foreign military assistance.

If you want Israel off the US teat, then comprehensive normalization of relations with its neighbors is necessary, which is why the Abraham accords (and not the chimerical "two state" idea) were always the solution and why Hamas, acting partly in Iran's interests, launched its attack to scuttle KSA's recent attempt to normalize relations.

Jimmy Carter's failure to support the Shah is the remote cause of the current conflict. The proximate cause is the "Biden" regime's pursuit of Obama's plan to enhance Iran and destroy US influence in the region.

It's the projection of US weakness and stupidity starting with the Afghanistan rout and enhancing Iran with billions in payments and relaxed sanctions that have caused both the war in Ukraine and Hamas' attacks.

6 posted on 11/02/2023 8:05:52 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Alberta's Child

Odd isnt it?

The writer of this claptrap cites amazing details ..... times dates, agencies, etc......but never
noticed Hamas training in Iran, never noticed warlike activity at the Gaza border, and the like.

Why is that?


7 posted on 11/02/2023 8:06:47 AM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

“the State Department’s determination to achieve a “reset” with Iran, restoring the consensus reached at the end of the Obama Administration through its 2015 nuclear deal.”

Translation: they were dead set on getting Iran’s nuclear weapons program back on track so that Iran would have cover to attack Israel.


8 posted on 11/02/2023 8:12:15 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: pierrem15

And then there is Biden’s limits on oil distribution, production, and exploration, which enriched Iran and Russia and funded their aggression re Israel and Ukraine.


9 posted on 11/02/2023 8:32:49 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: MtnClimber

No kidding— Blinken (the utter obamaumao embed TOOL), dressed his own son at the White House Halloween party (a new event seen almost never before) as Zelenskyy!! With his own green fakeA@@ Ukie commando sweater and actual sewed on Uke military insignia!

One cannot make this up— Blinken is beyond any framework of an actual Secretary of State for all the States of the USA. Only hitlery surpassed him with her world tour of nations using US aircraft as “diplomatic bag” of CASH bribes solicited from the countries. This happened- she did NOT bank the Cash less it be traced in rare oversight. Blinken the moron an hitlery the cabbage patch whore.


10 posted on 11/02/2023 8:42:46 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: MtnClimber

Soviet dnc usa

Leveraging hamas

Is anti Jewish Israel

Anti orthodox Russia too


11 posted on 11/02/2023 8:43:44 AM PDT by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: pierrem15

Don’t feed the trolls.


12 posted on 11/02/2023 10:37:43 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: MtnClimber

This is SO LIKE THE CARTER YEARS!! INFLATION, WEAKNESS, AMERICAN HOSTAGES, WEAK LEADERSHIP!


13 posted on 11/02/2023 10:47:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

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14 posted on 11/02/2023 2:56:21 PM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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