Hannibal Directive - Standing Order for The Israeli Armed Forces to Kill Their Own Soldiers & Civilians to Prevent Them from Being Taken Hostages by The Resistance
By Alon Mizrahi, New
Age Islam
10 July
2024
For Long Hours of October
7, 'No Vehicle Is Going Back into Gaza' Was The Standing Order, Kubovich
Reveals. IDF Forces Were Ordered to Make the Area Between Israel and Gaza a
Death Zone for Everyone and Anything.
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An
Israeli soldier gestures atop a tank near the separation fence before it enters
Gaza as seen from Israel, July 4, 2024 [Amir Cohen/Reuters]
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1. It has
been my suspicion for a long time that Israel killed a great number of its own
casualties on October 7. We know about dozens who died at IDF hands for certain
already, but the scale of the use of Hannibal Directive is only gradually
coming out.
Today in
Haaretz, Yaniv Kubovich, one of Israel's finest journalists, provides a peek
into how extensive the use of that directive was on the day.
For long
hours of October 7, 'No vehicle is going back into Gaza' was the standing
order, Kubovich reveals. IDF forces were ordered to make the area between
Israel and Gaza a death zone for everyone and anything.
2. What
does it even mean that a military has an order to eliminate its own soldiers
and civilians if there's a suspicion they are being kidnapped? Has any military
in history given such an order to its troops? What does it mean about the
psychology of Israeli soldiers, who may be required to kill their comrades at
any given moment? How can actual camaraderie develop under such conditions? Has
anybody given serious thought to this lunatic policy and its devastating
meaning? Or was it done, in standard Israeli fashion, as a brain fart
improvisation that stuck?
3. Rules
always expand and encroach, and so, inevitably, the Hannibal Directive is
applied more frequently for more situations that may have been considered gray
areas under the former, softer insanity. But think about the mentality of
high-ranking Israeli officers, who are basically given sweeping permission to
eliminate their subordinates when a kidnapping is suspected. Can they see
they're soldiers as important human beings that matter under such conditions?
Of course not.
4.
Palestinians are said to be the religious crazies who don't value life, but
we've never seen Hamas members shoot at their own to prevent them from falling
into Israeli hands - even as they know what awaits them in captivity:
unimaginable torture and humiliation potentially to death.
Israel is
always (and quite comically, at this stage) presented as a normal and
life-loving vibrant democracy, but what does it say about its mental health
such an order exists?
5. Can you
imagine what would happen if it was discovered that American or British
soldiers killed dozens or hundreds of their own service men and women, and
civilians, 'to prevent them from being kidnapped'? Could you imagine the
complete and devastating outrage? In Israel, it is not even news. It doesn't
matter. It's a smallish side issue we don't talk about.
6. The Hannibal Directive Lets Us See The
Breath-Taking Derangement Of Zionism: it creates people who would rather
kill their own than have to deal with an enemy as a human equal. Once an
Israeli becomes a hostage, their existence is perceived as a threat to
collective pride, which is more important than life, making them an unbearable
burden. I'd say there is a more pressing need to kill potential hostages than
the people who took them, as they embody leverage that can potentially diminish
Israel's sense of absolute human superiority.
And this is
so insane, so extreme, so bizarre and uncanny that no establishment can even
recognize it and its meaning, so everyone acts as if this utterly clinical show
of deadly exceptionalism does not even exist
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