what is astounding is that the Hamas propaganda of victimhood is being accepted by much of the world.
The press is in an "if it bleeds it leads" mode, meaning they cheerfully publish Hamas propaganda, often without checking it out first if it is true.
These stories blame Gaza's problems on Israel, ignoring their looting of aid money, a lot of which goes into these leaders' bank accounts, but also to buy weapons and hide them in civilian areas, meaning that if Israel tries to destroy them, civilians are harmed.
To them, this is not a tragedy but a desired effect: dead babies are much more impressive than showing weapons and missiles destroyed.
And it distracts the world when they continue to steal supplies meant for civilians, place weapons in aid trucks and ambulances, and even rob backs openly with no one bothering to arrest them.
the Iranians are behind the Hamas government, and of course, news from that area is controlled to be one sided.
Also ignored is their ultimate aim of Hamas and the Mullahs of Iran: Kill all Israelis and then on to the west.
the rule is: when confronting an epidemic, always stand with the doctors, not the disease.
Here, the radicals use Islam as a cover for their power and money grab are not the good guys. But hey, when was the last time any news report quotes what they actually say openly in Arabic on local news sites?
How much publicity was given to the fact that Iran sent hundreds of missiles into Israeli territory in April, luckily most of which were shot down. So how did the press report this? As if it was a minor attack proving Iran was not really trying to kill Israelis.
the history of who lives in Israel is complicated: but when the Islamic crazies kill Christians, it is blamed on the Jews. When the Islamic crazies steal literally billions of dollars of aid money, the poverty is blamed on the Jews.
The irony? if they made peace, all would prosper. That is the idea behind the Abraham accords. Instead, Biden is releasing money to prop up the regime in Iran, who essentially is funding Hamas and Hezbollah and propping up the Houthis to attack Saudi. Why is Biden helping Iran while he is stopping weapons from being sent to Israel? Place conspiracy theory here. It either didn't happen, or it's a Republican made up story to harm Biden, or it's Trumpieboy's fault.
This war is puppets all the way down.
But it's hard to forgive when both populations know people harmed by the other side, and the propaganda continues to slant what is going on.
Sigh.
update: Guess what? The number of civilian deaths cited by most of the media were exaggerated:
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths on May 6 but then 7,797 on May 8. OCHA also revised downward its figure for women fatalities from more than 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths. ,,,,
The UN attributed its original, higher figures to the Hamas-controlled Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza, whose figures OCHA has cited continually for the past two months. The UN gave no source for the lower figures in its May 8 update, but the figures precisely match those in a May 2 report from a different Hamas-controlled organization, the Gaza Ministry of Health.
yes, still too high: But remember that Hamas deliberately uses civilians as human shields.
DavidBrooks at the NYTimes notes the tunnels storing weapons are under civilian areas and institutions, and then writes:
in this war, Hamas is often underground, the Israelis are often aboveground, and Hamas seeks to position civilians directly between them. As Barry Posen, a professor at the security studies program at M.I.T., has written, Hamas’s strategy could be “described as ‘human camouflage’ and more ruthlessly as ‘human ammunition.’” Hamas’s goal is to maximize the number of Palestinians who die and in that way build international pressure until Israel is forced to end the war before Hamas is wiped out. Hamas’s survival depends on support in the court of international opinion and on making this war as bloody as possible for civilians, until Israel relents.
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