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raditions are that the sukkah is a hut and it has to do with something in their ancient history where they built a hut and lived in it. So as part of the celebration many people build a little temporary hut and then they hang out in it and maybe sleep in it overnight. Kind of cool. Netanyahu is saying that Iran could soon target the US with its missiles. Do you think Netanyahu really wants a peac…

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to Grok and I said how often does a false flag happen? Has Israel ever done a false flag? Well I thought I knew but I did not. So here's what Grok said. There were two examples that you might call a false flag. One was in 1954 called the again this is from Grok so I don't know if it's hallucinating or not I probably should have looked that up but it's called the Lavon affair. It's and Grok says it's quote the only confirmed false flag by Israel targeting US assets. It's the only one.

Now what did it do let's see orchestrated bomb attacks remember 1954 targeted symbols of Western influence. Blah blah blah. So this was the bad old days. But apparently that's a confirmed false flag but it's also 1954. So I'm pretty old and that was before I was born.

Now I'm seeing in the comments that you're saying Scott you're forgetting the obvious one the USS Liberty incident in 1967. Right? So I'm looking in the comments and every one of you is saying oh you're forgetting the big one the more recent one. It was the USS Liberty a US ship that got blown up.

However there are two hypotheses for what happened with that and they're not the same. One hypothesis is that it was always a false flag and that's what it was from the beginning to the end. It was just a false flag. The other according to Grok which I'd never heard before is that it might have been a horrible thing that the Israeli military did but it was to cover up the fact that they made a mistake in attacking the ship.

So apparently they machine gunned the lifeboats. They machine gunned the lifeboats. And the thinking is that that was because they realized after they did the attack that it wasn't the ship that they thought they wanted to attack and that once they realized they'd blown up an American ship that they may have this is speculative so this is unproven but the thought is that they might have said just the military not necessarily the government but the military might have said we're going to have to get rid of the evidence.

So you've got one that's confirmed according to Grok but it's in 1954. Nothing since then. Nothing. And the one that may or may not be true was 1967. That was pretty long ago as well. Over 50 years ago. And so we don't know now.

I believe that if this is like every other thing in the world the people who have an anti-Israel bent will say Scott you fool that's obviously a false flag. And the people who are more pro-Israel are going to likely say oh I didn't realize it was ambiguous. You know either way it's terrible. So it's not remember it's not excusing Israel if the real answer is that they machine gunned the survivors. So if you think that there's one story that makes them look good but another story that doesn't that's not happening. No there are two stories that make them look terrible or at least you know the military who happen to be operating in that specific area not the whole country of course.

So I don't know. So that's your context. Do you think Jimmy Dore is correct that Israel would do a false flag attack given that there's always some chance they get caught? Because if you're doing any kind of sneaky stuff you can never really be sure if everybody is on your side that's in on the plot and that nobody's listening to your digital communications.

Can you imagine Israel doing a f

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alse flag while Trump is president and getting caught? So here's my take. The risk reward analysis of doing something while Trump is president, a false flag, and maybe getting caught no matter how clever you are. I know Mossad is really good at this but you'd always have a chance to get caught. There's no freaking way that Netanyahu is dumb enough to take that chance. No way. Unless you can come u…

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