Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before Oct 7 [pdf]

Re:Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before... by nolongerthere on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:56AM (#38518811)

Considering Qatar (and thus by proxy Hamas and Iran) has access to global markets it’s not clear to me why the assumption here is that these moves came from Israeli leadership and not the more likely source… those planning the slaughter who also wanted to benefit economically and not just in blood.

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Re:Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before... by ethanrc on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:05AM (#38518959)

the story is a Rorschach test for your politics -- if big bad globalist bankers control everything, of course they allow their own people to be slaughtered for financial gain

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Re:Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before... by sudosysgen on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:51PM (#38522232)

There is currently no evidence that Iran or Qatar knew about the timing of the attacks, and the US's position is that they don't believe it was known.

See : https://www.reuters.com/world/initial-us-intelligence-shows-...

> Initial U.S. intelligence reports show that some Iranian leaders were surprised by the Islamist group's unprecedented attack from Gaza, U.S. sources said on Wednesday.

> A U.S. official said, however, that Iran, Israel's regional arch-foe, had likely been aware that Hamas was planning to take action against Israel "but without the precise timing or scope of what occurred" last weekend.

It's also a fairly low amount of money for already-rich Qatari royalty to risk running afoul of their access to US markets.

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Re:Spike in short selling in Israeli-company ETF days before... by rokkitmensch on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:06PM (#38526980)

Homie we would have nary a fart of evidence. OSINT is a 5EYES figment to convince us proles it's even remotely feasible to know what is transpiring.

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