As has been said several times, one of the first casualties in war is truth and deciphering and deciding what is true and what’s not from a distance is hard. One source that must always be treated with extreme skepticism is Biden’s White House, which lies almost as much as the Jacinda regime in NZ did. But the mainstream media always believes them.
Al Jazeera’s prime raison d’etre has always been to support Palestinian causes, and more specifically that of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood which is banned in multiple Arab states including Egypt and Jordan. It has been shown to have a willingness to broadcast whatever reports it receives without any concern for veracity. Having said that, it has established a solid journalist presence in Gaza and the Westbank and the video can largely be accepted as real, even if it omits important facts.
It’s a different situation with Ukraine as there are commentators with reliable sources in intelligence on both the NATO and Russian sides and we’ve posted several of their commentaries.
from Mountainside FM via the BFD
After more than 24 hours of letting the story run freely, Qatari mouthpiece Al Jazeera deleted the page featuring their former story, which accused Israeli soldiers of allegedly perpetrating rape against women during the IDF’s latest excursion against Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who barricaded themselves inside the former hospital-cum-terror headquarters at Shifa Hospital.
And for a more realistic take: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/we-were-lied-into-the-gaza-genocide
So Al Jazeera deleted a report on rape by the IDF within 24 hours, while veracity challenged Western media and bloggers are still regurgitating Israeli propaganda months after Israeli witnesses have shown it to be false.
Hamas’s “murdering, raping, beheading and incredible cruelty in killing hundreds of people of all ages [and] immensly cruel murdering of any Jew they could find”. Not sure how murdering any Jew they could find squares with Hamas taking hundreds of hostages.
Claims like that of beheading babies and largescale raping were quickly debunked. A burnt victim, who was the poster child for the Israeli propaganda campaign for weeks, turned out to be been burned to death when the IDF shelled where she was sheltering. No matter, proof of Israeli atrocities was ignored, while the debunked claims about Hamas atrociies were quickly replaced with others, such as cutting open a pregnant woman.
Israel has been accused of taking the Hannibal doctrine to extremes, thus the shelling of buildings holding large numbers of civilians. However, there is plenty of evidence that Israel orchestrated a massacre to enable its ethnic cleansing programme, eg by blocking off exits to the rave venue and then shooting those escaping in cold blood,
War crimes on the part of Hamas which appear to be factual, such as throwing grenades where people were sheltering, can be attributed to discipline breaking down – there is still no evidence of the vicious crimes attributed to them by Zionists.
The Hamas attack has been described by people like Jonathan Cook and Scott Ritter as a “spectacularly sophisticated military operation” – how else could they have broken through the border? This is at odds with the picture painted of Hamas setting our on a murdering, raping spree.