• blitzkrieg@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No, spreading lies about Hamas beheading babies to dehumanize Palestinians and justify the war crimes Israel is committing against them is not “relatively minor and pretty well handled”.

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      1 year ago

      Spreading “lies” requires intent. Like what Hamas did with the hospital parking lot. With the babies all context points to a professional screw up at best. And there was no screw up or lying required to create justification for Israel’s behavior, slaughtering hundreds of civilians including babies and likely torturing them was enough.

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        1 year ago

        What makes it a screw up instead of an intended lie?

        “Yeah there were no actual beheaded babies, but that wasn’t a lie, that was just a screw up!”

        What kind of mental gymnastics do you play to look at it this way?

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          1 year ago

          First news from Israeli forensics institute are out, seems like it was not a lie at all: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-769339

          Kugel also explained that the age range of the victims spans from 3 months to 80 or 90 years old. Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads.

          Asked if they were decapitated, Kugel answered yes. Although he admits that, given the circumstances, it’s difficult to ascertain whether they were decapitated before or after death, as well as how they were beheaded, “whether cut off by knife or blown off by RPG,” he explained.