Hamas is a terrorist organization. It recently raped, pillage, and decapitated children. It has a long history of lying all the time. It has lied in this conflict.
True. The Israeli government is an apartheid state and an illegal occupier. It has an extensive history of killing civilians and brutally oppressive millions of people for decades. It has a long history of lying all the time about civilian casualties. This goes both ways. You can’t trust either side.
Media ran with this story because it is believable given the decades of blatant disregard for human lives from both Israel and from Hamas. More evidence will tend to be demanded from the side that makes a claim that counters something that has already been claimed.
If you pull out the antisemitism card the moment people is willing to believe claims from the Palestinian side then you’re grossly and offensively abusing the term in away that makes rooting out actual antisemitism more difficult.
So then Israel comes out with an extreme amount of proof that the entire thing was a hoax.
This is exaggerating the situation. They e.g. had to withdraw videos because it turned out timestamps didn’t match, which made it easier for people to further distrust it, from a source with an extensive history of lying to cover up civilian deaths.
At last, the DoD verifies the Israeli account. Turns out the entire thing was a hoax.
The closest I can find is that their “current assessment” … “is that Israel is not responsible”. E.g. this as reported by CNN:
“While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open-source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” Watson said in a statement on Wednesday.
The NSC followed up with an additional statement Wednesday afternoon leaning further into its assessment. “Intelligence indicates that some Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip believed that the explosion was likely caused by an errant rocket or missile launch carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The militants were still investigating what had happened,” Watson said.
Saying they are not responsible, and that Palestinian militants believed it may have been an errant rocket or other failure is very different from saying it was a hoax, the latter of which implies intent to deceive or even intentionally causing the destruction from the people who first made the claims that made it into the media, irrespective of what others may or may not have wanted to do.
It’s very possible it is a hoax. But jumping to conclusions about that is just as bad as jumping to conclusions the other way. Should we talk about the (not so) low-key Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism this conflict has evoked too?
It’s hard to view this as anything but malicious at this point.
Plenty of racism on both sides. However only one side is a powerful apartheid state with the power to stop this in a humane way.
True. The Israeli government is an apartheid state and an illegal occupier. It has an extensive history of killing civilians and brutally oppressive millions of people for decades. It has a long history of lying all the time about civilian casualties. This goes both ways. You can’t trust either side.
Media ran with this story because it is believable given the decades of blatant disregard for human lives from both Israel and from Hamas. More evidence will tend to be demanded from the side that makes a claim that counters something that has already been claimed.
If you pull out the antisemitism card the moment people is willing to believe claims from the Palestinian side then you’re grossly and offensively abusing the term in away that makes rooting out actual antisemitism more difficult.
This is exaggerating the situation. They e.g. had to withdraw videos because it turned out timestamps didn’t match, which made it easier for people to further distrust it, from a source with an extensive history of lying to cover up civilian deaths.
The closest I can find is that their “current assessment” … “is that Israel is not responsible”. E.g. this as reported by CNN:
Saying they are not responsible, and that Palestinian militants believed it may have been an errant rocket or other failure is very different from saying it was a hoax, the latter of which implies intent to deceive or even intentionally causing the destruction from the people who first made the claims that made it into the media, irrespective of what others may or may not have wanted to do.
It’s very possible it is a hoax. But jumping to conclusions about that is just as bad as jumping to conclusions the other way. Should we talk about the (not so) low-key Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism this conflict has evoked too?
Plenty of racism on both sides. However only one side is a powerful apartheid state with the power to stop this in a humane way.