THEY KNEW: Evidence Of Investors Making Millions Short-Selling Stock Right Before Hamas Attacks
US professors detected unusual trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges right before 7 October
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
“Days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come.”
By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (12/5/23)
Israelis better realize pretty quick they are confronted by three enemies: Hamas; their government and the wealthy criminals who own their government.
Surprise Hamas attack? Really?
Open your eyes. Remember the numerous warnings from Egyptian intelligence and recent revelations Israeli intelligence knew details of a planned Hamas border attack as long as a year ago. An Israeli border surveillance soldier reports months of repeated warnings of actions along the border fence were ignored by the military command. The real deciders, the big-time terrorists — the big money people — knew ahead of time and cashed in on the murder, brutality and hostage taking.
Amazing, but no surprise how this story of profiting off the attack — and all it implies — is not getting the news coverage it deserves in the corporate media. Of course the reason it doesn’t is that the some of same fraternity of global financial lowlifes running corporate media and every government were profiting off short-selling stock right before the tragic Oct. 7th attack. The tell on whodunit will come as to whether or not there is a serious investigation or the issue sinks from view.
Let that sink in for a moment before checking in your brain at CNN.
Beware of what you hear from mainstream corporate media. Doubt the narratives we are being sold by all of the official enemies — foreign and domestic — involved in the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Researchers Say Traders On The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ‘appeared to anticipate the events to come’ On October 7
The professors noted similar patterns of short-selling in early April, when it was reported that Hamas was initially planning its attack on Israel.
By Jonathan Yerushalmy and agencies
The Guardian (12/4/23)
Israeli authorities are investigating claims by US researchers that some investors may have known in advance about the Hamas plan to attack Israel on 7 October and used that information to earn millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli shares.
Research by law professors Robert Jackson Jr from New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University found significant short-selling of shares leading up to the attacks that triggered the war.
Short-sellers place bets on shares that they expect to fall in price. They pay a fee to borrow shares in a company and then sell them in the hope of buying them back at a lower price and pocketing the profit.
The report notes that the sharpest increase in short-selling occurred during what is normally a time of relatively little activity in Israel due to Jewish holidays.
“Days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come,” the researchers wrote, citing short-selling of an exchange traded fund that broadly tracks the performance of the Israeli stock exchange that “suddenly, and significantly, spiked” on 2 October.
More than $100 million in profit
“And just before the attack, short-selling of Israeli securities on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) increased dramatically,” they wrote in their 66-page report. One of the researchers told the Telegraph newspaper that it was not inconceivable that the profits from this short-selling were “above $100m”.
Their research was based on data from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said it was aware of the matter and that it was “under investigation by all the relevant parties”. …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/israeli-authorities-investigate-claims-of-short-selling-before-hamas-attacks
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MYSTERY: Who Made BILLIONS Betting On 10/7 Terror?
Breaking Points (12/5/23)
Krystal and Saagar discuss reports of insider knowledge before Oct 7th where a mysterious entity purchased massive gambles against Israel shares and the possibility that some had knowledge of the coming attacks.
