Israel Has a Nasty Habit, Part II: Abandoning the Hostages

It is now obvious to all that the Israeli leadership does not care about recovering the hostages held in Gaza.

In my January 25 article, “Israel Has a Nasty Habit of Killing Its Own”, I explained how the Israelis have policies and practices of sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of a greater Zionist strategy.

Chief among these policies is the despicable “Hannibal Directive”, a military policy drafted in 1986 which decreed that no Israeli soldier was to be taken alive; that all possible measures would be taken to kill the enemy captors, even if it meant killing the captured soldier.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have since said that the Hannibal Directive was revoked, but several sources within the IDF have since confirmed that the Hannibal Directive was invoked on October 7, to apply to civilians captured by Hamas.

The result is that hundreds of Israeli civilians at the Nova Music Festival and in the nearby kibbutz settlements were killed by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopter gunships.

Vehicles stacked up near the southern Israeli town of Netivot, near Gaza, in November. They were destroyed by the IDF soon after Palestinian fighters began taking captives on October 7. [Source: The Electronic Intifada | Photo: Jim Hollander/UPI]

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