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https://open.substack.com/pub/larrystevenprice/p/the-mother-ship?r=mtvbh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true Preview Update Edit email header and footer The Mother Ship War Day 104 WAR Gaza As of Wednesday, Jan 17th since the IDF entered the Gaza strip on Oct 27th 192 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza. Israel had called up nearly 360,000 troops following the Hamas invasion and massacre of Israelis in settlements along the Gaza border leaving 1200 Israelis murdered, some mutilated, some raped and 242 taken captive. 136 still remain in captivity, and some of those are assumed dead. A prisoner exchange over 50 days ago saw the release of 102 Israeli hostages who recounted horrific tales of their imprisonment. The youngest hostage, Kfir Bibi, still in captivity, celebrates his first birthday tomorrow. Israeli troops have begun to withdraw from Gaza. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Hamas’ military infrastructure in north Gaza has been dismantled. He said pockets of terrorists still exist, though. Gallant said that Israel would now focus on clearing south Gaza of Hamas terrorists, many of whom are hiding deep inside tunnels. Reportedly, Hamas leader Yeheh Sinwar is in one of the tunnels surrounded by hostages he’s using as human shields. Veteran Ynetnews military correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai thought that the drawdown of troops was too soon. He pointed out that the rocket attacks on the south of Israel as an example. Ben Yishai wrote that the IDF should have waited until there was no longer a chance for Hamas to fire rockets into Israel. Ben Yishai also wrote that “abandoning the hunt for Sinwar now will put every Israeli at risk of kidnapping. …stopping the fighting before dismantling Hamas militarily and neutralizing the leadership will be a total loss to Israel security. There will be no safe travel abroad. Even holidays in the north of Israel are questionable. And the next massacre will be even closer. There are steps to be taken, but not with the present government.” Gen (ret.) Dan Harel told Channel 12TV “The army is confused. There have been no government decisions. And they don’t know what to do.” He said that tribes, criminal families control the tunnels leading from Egypt to Gaza along the 12km Rafiah border area. These tunnels are used to smuggle goods to be sold in Gaza as well as weapons and supplies for Hamas. Harel said that Israel must cut off the flow of weapons to Gaza because Hamas needs the weapons to survive. Harel said that there are still over 1000 tunnel shafts leading to Gaza’s hundreds of miles of underground tunnels. According to the IDF spokesman, the army have discovered and destroyed 5700 tunnel shafts leading to hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. According to Channel 12TV’s Arab affairs correspondent Ohad Hemo, there are still tunnels under Rafiah used by the criminal families. And that with “envelopes of cash” anything can be smuggled in uninspected through the Egyptian/Gaza border crossing. Israel wants to take control of the Philadelphia route to control the tunnels and border crossing but Egypt has said they are against this move. Nir Dvori, Channel 12TVs military correspondent said “The IDF hasn’t gotten to the last missile launchers or the last terrorists…but the IDF hasn’t abandoned the fight. Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland said, Israel needs to control the Philadelphia route (along the border with Egypt).This is getting harder by the day. Israel’s present government is not willing to discuss the “Day After.” EIland also told Channel 12TV. Israel has taken over 60% of Gaza but it is a mistake to think Israel will take the remaining 40% in the next two months. “So, the decision of what to do is left in abeyance. US Sec. of State Anthony Blinken has been practicing shuttle diplomacy flying between Israel and Qatar. The US position, according to Blinken, is that a two-state solution is the only way to quell the present violence. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has long resisted this solution. Israel’s Reshet Bet radio reported that the Palestinian Authority currently provides approximately one billion shekels (@$260 million) a year to Hamas to pay for salaries in hospitals and schools and aid organizations. However, according to Mossad financial experts, the money is diverted by Hamas to pay for weapons and materials to build tunnels. There has been a call by the USA for a “revamped” Palestinian Authority with new leadership to assume some control over Gaza. So far the PA has done nothing to indicate they are taking that request seriously. In Davos, Switzerland, at the annual World Economic Forum, Israel’s President Yitzchak Herzog said “Now is not the time to talk about peace.” Herzog pointed out that Israelis were still raw about the Oct 7th invasion. And anxious to see the 136 hostages still held in Gaza released. Gen. (ret.) Dan Harel told Ynetnews, “The war is ongoing for political reasons. I wouldn’t stop the fighting, but we could slow it down and use Qatar to negotiate a ceasefire. Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant told Channel 13TV on Monday that the “intense fighting in north Gaza has ended and would soon be over in Khan Younis in the south.” But Gallant warned “political indecision” regarding the future of Gaza “may harm the progress of the military operation.” According to Channel 13TV, unnamed defense figures fear that Hamas could regroup in areas once the IDF pulls out, without an effective solution to fill in the power vacuum. “…current achievements are dissipating. A civilian element is needed.” Gallant also said “…at the end of the war there will be no military threat from Gaza. It may take a long time, but it will end with a single scenario, total victory.” According to the Times of Israel, the finance ministry announced that the war was costing about a billion shekels a day ($269 million). This didn’t count the hit on the economy from the reservists in uniform, the closed shops, the understaffed restaurants. At one eatery in Tel Aviv’s Kerem HaTemani quarter, the founder of the 60-year-old restaurant was setting up tables while his son took orders and daughter-in-law cleaned tables. “The war,” lamented the middle-aged son. “Everyone’s in the army.” And of course, the Arab staff wasn’t allowed into Israel to work because of the security situation. “Sad,” said diners visiting from the USA. South Residents of the south of Israel, called the Otef, the envelope, or alternately Western Negev region, are slowly filtering back to their homes. The IDF has issued a directive that anyone beyond the 4km limit can return home. Chen Breich, a resident of Kibbutz Nativ HaEsera, that was hard hit by terrorists on Oct 7th, now lives with relatives in the center of Israel. Others from Nativ HaEsera are ensconced in the Royal Beach hotel in Tel Aviv. Chen, who runs a company called “With Love from the Otef”, providing and even shipping abroad, local Israeli products produced along the Gaza border, returned home for the night on Monday with her children. “They wanted to go home, so we went and spent the night. And I wanted to look into my studio. I haven’t been back since October 7th.” She said she wasn’t afraid. And didn’t hear the 50 rocket barrage that hit the region while she was there. She expects to return home once the army allows it. One American couple who were in Israel on a solidarity mission and were staying at the Royal Beach Hotel, where many evacuees from Chen’s Nativ HaEsera kibbutz were temporarily relocated by the government, said they saw a young boy, about ten-years-old, come into the lobby and walk behind the desk while they were checking in. “It was like it was his home,” said one of the couple. “And you know, after living there for so long, it was like his home. No one paid any attention to him when he went behind the counter.” However, even though many evacuees are staying in five-star hotels, the amenities are lost on them. “Do you know how difficult it is to live with a family in one 4 meter by 4 meter room for three months?” one resident from the north told Reshet Bet radio. “It is not easy.” North Hezbollah continues to pound the north of Israel. Rockets are fired on nearly a daily basis. Most of the homes are empty since the army ordered the residents to evacuate. Israel Radio conducted an interview with a resident of the northern moshav Shtula whose house was hit by a rocket. She said she hadn’t seen the damage because she hadn’t been back to the moshav since October when the army advised residents to leave. “I’m not going to move back,” she told Yair Weinreb, the interviewer on the Yair Weinreb/Eran Cicurel talk show. “I’ve lived there for 50 years but I’m not going back.” According to Ynet’s Ron Ben-Yishai, U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein was in Beirut over the weekend to speak with Lebanese officials about Hezbollah’s rocket attacks. Previously, Hochstein passed along the message that Israel was not going to go to war. Ben Yishai wrote that this time, according to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Akhbar newspaper, Hochstein told his hosts that they must move Hezbollah back to at least 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) north of the Blue Line marking the frontier, and that the Lebanese military should deploy to the area to act as a buffer between Hezbollah's elite Radwan force and other armed groups, and the Israeli communities in northern Israel. Ben Yishai reported that the American envoy Hochstein, according to the Al Akhbar newspaper, told the Lebanese officials that if this does not happen, Israel would begin a war against South Lebanon that would likely spread further north. Ben Yishai wrote that "among forces being taken out of Gaza are special units and regular service forces that would be prepared for any scenario, including a war in Lebanon…The military has trained and supplied for a multi-front campaign and the achievements on one front should not be compromised for the other.” Nir Dvori, Channel 12TV military correspondent said, “The IDF is hitting launch sites, pushing Hezbollah back. But this is a dangerous situation that could get out of hand.” Ohad Hemo, Channel 12TV Arab affairs correspondent said, “The Lebanese border has been quiet for 16 years. Now of the Radwan soldiers (Hezbollah’s top fighters) are there. Some are being pushed north. However, residents of the north say they will not return until Hezbollah is neutralized. Eytan Davidi, the head of Moshav Margaliot, said that, “In the Otef (the Israeli settlements along the Gaza border) only those living beyond 4 miles can move back. I’m 150 meters from the Lebanese border fence.” Former Mossad chief Udi Levi told Channel 12TV " …that (assassinated Iranian major General ) Qasem Soleimani,’s battle plan was “to build a multi-front war. We have to send a strong message that this type of behavior by Hezbollah isn’t going to work.” Hostages A breakthrough of sorts took place on Wednesday when two Qatari army planes carrying medicines for the hostages landed at an Egyptian air base in the Sinai. Trucks then brought the goods into Gaza. This was a result of negotiations between Israel and Hamas using Qatar as the middle-man. This was the first successful negotiations since 102 hostages were released nearly two months ago in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Part of the deal was that Hamas would receive 1,000 packages of medicine to be distributed to their hospitals and medical facilities for ever one package sent to the hostages. The Red Cross is to be responsible for distributing the medicines. Another part of the deal was that the medicines would come from Qatar and not from France, a supporter of Israel, and that no Israeli inspections would be conducted. However, a flap ensued with criticism coming from Israel. Reportedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu originally allowed the shipments to enter Gaza without undergoing an IDF security check to insure that weapons and rockets weren’t secreted among the medicines. Ultra-right-wing Cabinet Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir complained that Netanyahu had not lived up to his obligation to make certain no weapons or explosives were hidden in the shipment. Netanyahu cast the criticism aside saying the IDF was responsible for examining the shipments and he had no say in the matter. Ben-Gvir accused Netanyahu of avoiding responsibility.. Netanyahu was also criticized for not carrying out inspections by a member of the “War Cabinet” former chief of staff Gen (ret) Benny Gantz. According to Ynetnews Netanyahu later “zigzagged” on his order not to inspect the trucks. The prime minister ultimately instructed the IDF to inspect them. The trucks arrived at Kerem Shalom and at the end of the inspection were brought into the Gaza Strip Pundits question if these medicines would ever reach the hostages or if they would be purloined by Hamas as much of the aid has been up until now. Families of the hostages say that some are elderly and others ill and in need of their daily dosages, something that hasn’t happened since they were taken captive on Oct 7th. And family members worried who would administer the drugs. Would there be a concern to provide them after meals, if called for? Or several times a day? Israeli physicians expressed concern over the way the drugs would be given to those hostages in need. On Sunday, hostage families held a 24-hour vigil in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, located in an open area outside the Tel Aviv museum, on the 100th day of the hostages’ captivity. The signs and slogans “Bring Them Home Now” were everywhere. The common theme was that every day the hostages were held prisoner was another day their lives were at risk, from disease, starvation, and abuse. Udi Levi, former Mossad chief, told Channel 12TV, “it has been 52 days since the last hostage was released…we don’t have to stop firing until we reach an agreement we like.” Levi pointed out “We don’t know what (Hamas chief) Sinwar wants. We only guess. But we can judge by his actions.” He said, “If we stop, go to a ceasefire, will he release the hostages? Or do we have to fight until we get the hostages back? We are already in a ‘Day After’ scenario.” “And a vacuum won’t exist in Gaza. If we don’t have a ‘Day After’ plan Hamas will certainly return…We need a plan who will runs things. If not the IDF then who?” On Monday, two former Chiefs of Staff, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkott both reportedly urged a hostage deal and a long halt to the war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was opposed. Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland told Channel 12TV he was against any humanitarian aid to Gaza. “because it only strengthened Hamas. According to the Times of Israel, the CIA has been tasked with organizing teams to find Hamas leader Sinwar and the Israeli hostages. West Bank On Wednesday, according to Ynetnews, Israel eliminated Abdallah Abu Shalal, a prominent terrorist in the West Bank. Shalal was driving with two other terrorists when his car was hit by an Israeli airstrike. According to the IDF, Abu Shalal was planning a major terrorist attack inside Israel. Ynetnews reported that Abu-Shalal had orchestrated numerous attacks throughout the West Bank over the past year, including a shooting in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood last April, injuring two residents, and a bombing attack against IDF soldiers last October that resulted in a soldier's injury. And, a soldier was seriously injured in Tul Karem on Wednesday during an operation to capture wanted terrorists. On Tuesday, two men from Hebron, an uncle and his nephew, who were working illegally in Israel, used stolen cars as their weapons and rammed into Israeli pedestrians. One 87-year-old woman was killed, and 18 injured in the two attacks. The two apparently worked in a Raanana car wash and had rented a small apartment in the city. The owner of the car wash was brought in for questioning to determine why he’d been illegally employing the men. The IDF raided the men’s homes searching for other weapons. Also, according to Israel radio, over 100 illegal workers were arrested in Israel and the owners of 50 apartments where the workers had been staying were also arrested. Also this week, IDF forces raided Tul Karem and engaged in a firefight with terrorists while seeking to arrest a wanted man. Weapons and explosives were reportedly found in his home. 20 Hamas activists were arrested at Nablus university by the IDF and the Shin Bet. Reportedly, Hamas has been trying to recruit students and provide funding to set up Hamas cells using the university’s students. According to Ynetnews, last week the IDF had an eight-hour operation in Tul Karem’s Nir al Shams refugee camp. A firefight ensued between the IDF and terrorists. On Wednesday, the IDF again raided Tul Karem. A number of IDF soldiers were injured in the fighting. Rockets According to residents of Netivot, in the south of Israel, the city was hit with a barrage of 50 missiles on Tuesday. The IDF said, however, only 25 missiles were fired. Ynetnews veteran military correspondent Ron Ben Yishai wrote,“The barrage of rockets on the southern city of Netivot on Tuesday must force Israel to pause and rethink its decision to withdraw some of its forces from the refugee camps in central Gaza. The IDF should at least finish its task to solidify its control on the area. “As long as launch sites and command and control locations are active in Gaza, the IDF's job is not complete and Hamas terror infrastructure remain intact, without which there can be no safety for residents near the Gaza border. The military should examine if there is a need to go back and complete the mission.” The IDF spokesman’s office said, however, that soldiers had found the site of three rocket launchers that fired at Israel and destroyed them. The spokesman’s office said that immediately after troops of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade spotted the barrage, they launched a pursuit after several suspects in the area. The IDF said the soldiers captured seven armed operatives and killed several more gunmen in the area.The rocket launch site had three launchers, each capable of firing 10 rockets. Some of the launchers were primed with rockets. The owner of the store in Netivot was interviewed on Channel 11 KanTV and said, “We were in the store. We never thought we’d get hit by a rocket.” Also, according to the Times of Israel, A recent study by the U.S. think tank, the Stimson Center, discovered that the relationship between North Korea and the Palestinian terrorist organization, as well as other adversaries of Israel like Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Syria and the Houthis, has been established for many years. This placed the North Korean dictatorship in a prominent position in the so-called “axis of resistance.” The report also stated that N. Korea has had an arrangement with the Palestinians dating back to the 1970’s when Yasir Arafat was the head of the PLO. Reportedly, Hamas began doing business with N. Korea in 2007, with N. Korea supplying arms and explosives and rockets to Hamas. During the current war in Gaza the IDF have uncovered stockpiles of rockets manufactured in N. Korea. The report also stated that “In a secret deal, it was reported that Hamas made an advance payment for rockets and military communication equipment through a company in Lebanon.…A possible route for the weapons was from Iran to Sudan and then to Egypt, where they entered the Gaza Strip through tunnels. Hezbollah reportedly also does business with N. Korea. “In the 1980s, Hezbollah operatives traveled to the dictatorship for military training. During the 2000s, North Korean instructors trained Hezbollah in constructing underground bunkers for storing weapons, food and medical facilities. “With this assistance, the terrorist organization also built an extensive tunnel network from south of the Litani River in Lebanon to the Israeli border, allowing it to store rocket launchers underground and evade Israeli aerial surveillance. North Korea also allegedly transferred rockets to Hezbollah via Iran and Syria.” According to the Stetson report, S. Korea is now worried that N. Korea is encouraged by Hamas’ successful rain on Israel on Oct 7th and might try the same thing. Red Sea According to the Times of Israel, Japan’s Nippon Yusen is the latest major shipping firm to suspend Red Sea routes amid the Houthi attacks. Reportedly, 12% of global shipping passes through Red Sea. On Thursday, there were reports of another Houthi missile hitting a cargo ship. The UN has called on the Iranian-backed Houthis to stop attacks on Red Sea shipping. And the US has again listed the Houthis as a terrorist group. According to the Washington Post the US is facing growing challenge to contain the Middle East violence.. Last weekend, a combined US/UK force hit Houthi radar and missiles sites in Yemen, after two months of Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan condemned the US/UK attacks on the Houthis saying the forces are turning the Red Sea into a “Sea of Blood.” Russia also condemned the allied attack. But the Kremlin said they’d warned the Houthis to stop firing at ships in the Red Sea. Politics Veteran Ynetnews political correspondent Nachum Barnea wrote an article wondering who is running the war in Gaza. According to Barnea, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an ongoing feud with Defense Minister Yoav Galant. Both war cabinet ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot do not trust Netanyahu and are waiting for the moment when they leave the government. Gallant does not forget it was Gantz and Eisenkot who thwarted his appointment as Chief of Staff. The members of the political-security cabinet are angry at the war cabinet that was formed and pushed them aside. Above all, the abnormal American involvement in the central decision-making center of the country hovers. Public Opinion Pro-Israeli protesters showed up in London to oppose the estimated 250,000 pro-Palestinian protesters who gathered on Sunday. However, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has come out with a statement defending Israel. David Cameron, Britain’s former Prime Minister, told the Jewish Chronicle, "Their worry and heartache is simply unimaginable. I stand in complete solidarity with Israel at this most challenging time and fully back the Prime Minister and UK Government in their unequivocal and steadfast support." According to Ynetnews, Israel’s army spokesman’s office and the National Advocacy Service, have build a website exposing Hamas’ atrocities on Oct 7th. The site Hamas Massacre 7.10, found at https://saturday-october-seven.com has reportedly already garnered over 3 million hits. Yuval Horowitz, who helped create the website, said "The further we venture from October 7, the more important it is to remind people what started all of this, as it carries huge significance for our global legitimacy. This has to permeate to audiences who can't even believe that's what happened. We've been able to bring October 7 back into people's consciousness, making it directly accessible." And, the CIJ (Court of International Justice) finished their hearings in the Hague. On day one South Africa presented their case that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. On day two Israel presented their defense, saying the genocide was in fact committed by Hamas when the 3000 terrorist broke through the border fence and raided Israeli moshavim and kibbutzim, raping, mutilating and murdering 1200 and taking 242 prisoner. Israel also presented evidence that before any military strike thousands of phone calls and SMS messages were sent and flyers were even dropped, warning residents to evacuate the buildings about to be attacked because of Hamas terrorists in the building. No decision is expected from the court for months, perhaps years. Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland said on Channel 12TV “Imagine if Luxembourg had invaded Belgium, killing 1200 and kidnapping 242. The world would be on Belgium’s side. With Israel, world opinion is the reverse.” Also, according to the Times of Israel, France is to honor 41 French citizens killed on Oct 7th in a national ceremony. Meanwhile, TUS, the Cypriot Airlines, Lot, the Polish airline, joined Austrian air, Air France, Lufthansa, Whizz, Swiss Air, and others have resumed flights to Ben Gurion airport. On Thursday, low-cost Whizz airlines also announced the resumption of flights. In Turkey, Sagai Yehezkelie, who played for the Turkish soccer team, was fired from the team, and arrested for dedicating a goal to the hostages in Gaza. The court found him guilty and had him deported. He arrived home in Israel to a heroes welcome. Health and Tech Radiologists breakthrough in forensic medicine prompted by Oct 7th war. Ynetnews reported that dozens of radiologists assisted in identifying the murdered and worked around the clock on the most difficult cases in a tremendous effort led by Dr. Alon Crispin from the Institute of Forensic Medicine. "Some of the bodies were headless," said Dr. Ran Masherki of Belinson Hospital who was recruited for the mission. At the same time, Prof. Ilan Sarfati from Tel Aviv University began working on an unusual development - which allows automatic comparison of skeleton parts: "The system has reached an incredible capacity." The Institute of Forensic Medicine performed CT scans of the bodies that came from the events of the massacre, and looked for unique findings in the skeleton that do not change after death. "Among other things, we looked in the CT scans to see who had a pacemaker, who had open heart surgery, who had electrodes in their skull, and who had a hip replacement," said Dr. Crispin. "Then we went through the list of the missing and their imaging tests from before Death and we checked who these unique findings were. This is how we reduced the comparisons required for each body." But even after the reduction, the National Center for Forensic Medicine still has many comparisons to make. Led by Dr. Ran Masherki from Belinson Hospital, a team of 40 radiologists was recruited, most of them experts in the field, who volunteered to help compare the CT scans from before and after death manually. "The volunteering in the nation was amazing. People came and gave of themselves 16 hours a day here - for nothing in return,” said Dr. Crispin The Mother Ship All is not lost. Many Israelis are now in despair wondering how Israel can survive the implacable enemies striking from many fronts. And a Moslem population surrounding the country that is only growing in Malthusian proportions. Then the observer posited a hypothesis using a few popular movies and TV shows as examples. The observer first mentioned the films Independence Day, with Will Smith, and Star Wars, with Harrison Ford, also TV shows like Invasion and a plethora of others. In every instance, once the mother ship is destroyed all of the deadly drones become useless pieces of otherworldly metal. Imagine that Iran is the mother ship.You take out the mother ship all of the drones, the proxies, the appendages, become useless. Admittedly, says the observer, this is a very dangerous move. There may be retaliation from those allied with the mother ship. Russia, China, N. Korea, Yemen, Turkey and probably Qatar. Or perhaps not. And who would strike the mother ship? Israel? The USA? Britain? And Pakistan, a nuclear power, is growing impatient with Iran. Then there are the Iranian drones like the Houthis hammering away at shipping in the Red Sea are disturbing the world order. Interrupting the supply lines. Angering the USA, Britain, Japan, Germany and others. But even if one of these countries, or an alliance, eliminate the small appendages, like the Houthis, another will grow back just as tentacles are regenerated on an octopus. Taking out the Houthis, or Hamas, or Hezbollah, will only be temporary solutions. Billions of dollars will be poured back into these entities allowing them to rebuild. To regenerate. The only real answer is to cut off the supply of funding at the source. And then there’s the reason behind the mother ship’s aggression. In the movie version of H.G.Wells’ War Of The Worlds the goal was to colonize the earth, use humans as food. In our present situation, says the observer, the reason is multi-purposed. The Iranians want to impose Sharia law on every corner of the globe. But the Iranians have two main partners. The Chinese and the Russians. Two countries who are longing to regain their once proud place a leaders of the world. Toss in N. Korea, and you have a powerful enemy whose overall goal, independent of creating Sharia law, or regain pride of place, is to weaken the United States enough so that it can be toppled, downsized, removed from power. This alliance of evil sees the USA, not Iran, as the mother ship. This alliance of evil, says the observer. is not only using violence as a tool. They have also combined in a social media campaign in their war on the USA, democracy, and even western thought. Weakening the USA, Britain, France, Germany and others by dividing the country over issues like Gaza is part of the master plan, says the observer. The observer says this is out of the Nazi party’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels playbook Back in 1923 he began to plan the seeds in the German mind that the Jews were not only the other but vermin. Slowly that idea sank in. Killing vermin was something everyone did in their own home. Ridding the country of vermin became not only acceptable but desirable. By the late 1930’s the idea was commonplace. Slowly, slowly, the concept sunk in that the Jews needed to be eradicated. And the Nazis would be the exterminators. Not much has changed. Only the names and faces and locations of the architects of destruction. But of course, the observer said, in all humility, this may be just another conspiracy theory that is more imaginative than real. More fiction than fact. But then again, maybe not. See all PCI's films and Kindle books for sale and rent at: www.pricecominc.com Find Jerusalem Magazine at: www.jerusalemmagazine.wordpress.com www.jerusalem-magazine.blogspot.com Helping Sisters Podcast Youtube: spotify. Kindle Books: Sambatyon Crossing https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sambatyon+crossing&ref=nb_sb_noss Arrested Overnight https://www.amazon.com/s?k=arrested+overnight&ref=nb_sb_noss View draft history Settings

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