Warnings over Hamas ‘attacking Europe’ rumours: preparation for Israeli false flags?

Observers are warning of imminent ‘false flag’ attacks in Europe after Israeli intelligence services and Western pro-Israel media claimed that ‘Hamas’ is preparing attacks on the continent.

Hamas ‘likely to attack Europe’?

The Jewish Chronicle and other Israel-supporting media outlets have published articles claiming a “high likelihood” and even a “looming risk” of attacks by the terrorist-designated Palestinian militia group, supposedly based on a report by unnamed ‘western’ intelligence officials from unnamed intelligence services handed anonymously to the Daily Mirror:

The same reports are being amplified in the UK by Israel proxy groups like the ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’, which – unsurprisingly – attached the claims to a list of demands for a crackdown on its opponents by the Starmer government, which is already waging war on anti-genocide journalism and activism in the UK, and emphasised the supposed involvement of Israel’s frequent targets in Iran and Lebanon:

Smells like Mossad

However, a deeper dive reveals that the reports over Hamas appear to be drawn from, or at least mirror, an intensifying campaign of claims by Israeli intelligence services and government – including a statement from Mossad that its “cooperation with European security services” had revealed that “Hamas has been cultivating an operational network across Europe, working through covert cells”. There seems little practical doubt that the ‘western’ sources are either Israeli intelligence directly, or European intelligence regurgitating information received from its Israeli counterparts, particularly when Israel’s habit of feeding conveniently misleading intel to European services dates back to at least the 1970s.

Certainly, many observers consider the latest claims to be groundwork for a false-flag terror campaign by a colonial power desperate to undo outrage among populations in Europe and other ‘western’ regions over its mass slaughter of Palestinians. Author Susan Abulhawa’s warning encapsulated the suspicions – in an X post she responded to the Jewish Chronicle’s post by pointing out that it:

looks like Mossad is planning another false flag. Hamas has NEVER attacked anyone in Europe, NEVER expressed a desire to do so, and in fact has always made it clear that they are fighting the Jewish supremacist colonizers and oppressors on their OWN SOIL in their own homeland of Palestine. watch out Europe.

Israel is coming for you again for yet another false flag on your soil to whip up anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiments. here’s a partial list to jog your memory [not including the ones we know they did but can’t yet prove it].

– The Lillehammer Affair (1973)
– Embassy Bombing (1994, London)
– Targeted Assassinations Using Forged Passports (all over the world)
– The Lavon Affair (Egypt, 1954)

Israel: a history of false flags

The concept of Israeli ‘false flag’ attacks designed to put blame on an uninvolved group or nation (like Hamas) is anything but the stuff of conspiracy theories. Israel has long form for them. In June, former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levi warned that a false-flag attack was likely as Israel sought to increase US engagement in a direct war on Iran. His warning was inadvertently reinforced by the actions of pro-Israel mouthpieces in the US, who at the same time began setting the scene by predicting an Iranian attack on US soil or against a US vessel.

Israel has a proven history of such false-flags to try to achieve political and strategic aims, from the ‘Lavon affair‘ of the 1950s, mentioned by Abulhawa, in which it bombed Jewish buildings in Egypt and tried to blame it on Muslim groups, to its air attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 to try to provoke the US into attacking Egypt, to the 1994 bombings in London blamed on Palestinian activists, also mentioned by Abulhawa.

The Europe campaign was preceded by a similar fear campaign in the US in September as Israel sought to pressure the US into fresh attacks on Iran, a wish it has still not fulfilled. With the occupation known to have its eyes on the permanent seizure of southern Lebanon, where outlawed resistance group Hezbollah is strong, the latest campaign to link Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah to supposed terror plans in Europe would certainly appear to fit its past tactics.

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