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9/11 was after an election year.

Oct 7th was during an election after Bibi started to directly take power out of Israeli courts.

It makes very little sense for George Bush to try to create a problem so far away from reelection.

That being said, it's a bit conspiracy theorist to blame Bibi without evidence. But if any evidence came up, the timing and overall political environment makes more sense.

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Israel elections were on November 1st 2022, the next elections will take place around November 2026.

They had bombs in Hezbollah pagers. At this point I'd need to be convinced mossad didn't know about thousands of hamas soldiers massed for an attack.

Look at the flack they're getting for defending themselves. This was after the scope and scale of that initial Hamas attack, which kicked everything off. Now imagine the flack if they blew up all those pagers (and the associated collateral damage) without a war under way.

I think if the war didn't happen, they would have targeted high-profile people all at once, but with minimal collateral damage, leaving the rest of the pagers un-triggered.

Is "they" in the first sentence Gaza?

Gaza wasn't and still isn't in the Mossad jurisdiction. It is part of the Shin-Bet and the Military's jurisdiction.

I hope you got convinced.

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