Octopus Game Part III – Hidden History
Octopus Game Part III
Press TV (2024)
Film Review
Based on interviews with Palestinian refugees and former Haganah members, this episode begins by focusing on the systematic destruction of Palestinian villages in the months prior to Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948. These massacres occurred in parallel to terrorist attacks in Palestine cities that drove the majority of Palestinians from their homes.
Israeli historians have documented at least 70 separate massacres with numerous Palestinian villages being wiped off the map. Typically Zionist terrorists would invade a village, kill all the military age men and then burn all the homes. The filmmakers interview a Palestinian Christian Archbishop who came across mass graves in his village as a child. Many Palestinian females were sexually assaulted, with those who resisted being slaughtered. In describing their 1948 activities, some Haganah veterans compare their terrorist actions to those of the Nazis under Hitler
The massacres continued following Israeli independence on May 14, 1948, with the three Zionist terrorist groups (Haganah, Irgun and Lehi) consolidating to form the Israel Defense Force. Palestinian Christians and Muslims who survived fled to refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
This episode then fast forwards to events triggered by Hamas’s Al Asqua Flood attack on October 7, 2023. On October 8, Israel began indiscriminately bombing Palestinian civilians, revoked the work permits of all Gaza residents working in Israel and began arresting them as illegal immigrants. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pape, the AoIsraeli historian, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant declared all Palestinians “animals” and ordered al their food, medicine, water and electricity cut off (a war crime).
In response the Lebanon-based pro-Palestinian militia Hezbollah fired rockets into Israeli-occupied Lebanese territory (with most being shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome* defense system) and European governments organized flights of European Zionists to Israel to assist in the war. Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced they would join the war on the side of the Palestinians if the US re-armed Israel.
*The Iron Dome is an Israeli mobile air defense system, developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries and relying on US-supplied rockets. The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometers away.
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