Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

Israel reports to the ICJ this week, to evaluate if they were following court orders to take all steps to reduce civilian harm. They will fail spectacularly. Blocking the humanitarian aid and Rafah were the most egregious. But they didn't care from the beginning. Rulings can be political, favoring the group with the greater power. In this case that's Israel, who most of the $ and the world's biggest superpower is behind. But I think the utter defiance will lead to Israel being found guilty in the end. If they didn't find Israel guilty when all their top officials are admitting to their crimes, then there's no point to the court. You'd hope they'd expedite the ruling since it's an open and shut case and now's when it would be an influential statement.

Also, there's a huge scandal at the NY Times. One of the co-authors (Anat Schwartz) of the Hamas mass rape story was a former Israeli intelligence official who was on her first job there and had approved previously of turning Gaza into a slaughterhouse. IMO this should be the end of the paper. They're cutting ties w/ her, and the Times didn't made an accompanying episode for this feature because of dissent w/in their ranks, but it's too little too late. The damage is done. Really exposed them for what they are - propagandists. The corporate media as a whole has been brazenly manipulative, which the Intercept has been doing a good job covering, e.g. - CNN running all stories thru an IDF censor and a broad-spectrum of corporate media using passive voice for Palestinian deaths but active for Israeli ones. You'd think having to constantly lie for a side would drive home their cause wasn't righteous.

Finally, a US airman named Aaron Bushnell has self-immolated and died in front of the Israeli embassy to avoid participation in genocide and make a statement. I'd refuse duty for a criminal foreign country who uses their bodies for their own selfish desires, and take the prison sentence, not die for them anyway. But massive respect for this gentleman. Let's take down all the AIPAC-backed politicians and the criminal Israeli status quo too with BDS in his honor! Don't let him die in vain.

 

If you recall, a lot of the “testimony” of the rapes and mutilations came from Zaka, a dubious organisation which uses tales of horrific acts to fundraise. Haaretz had an expose on their actions a few weeks ago which can be found here:

https://archive.ph/2024.01.31-20482...its-role/0000018d-5a73-d997-adff-df7bdb670000

Here’s Yossi Landau lying on TV to try and pull at the heartstrings of the public - his allegations of piles of dead babies and pregnant mothers killed with their umbilical cords cut out have since been found to be verifiably false.



Zaka, and Yossi Landau in particular, are known to be liars and any stories using them as the source need to be looked at with the utmost scrutiny. Zaka was heavily indebted before the attacks, but raised millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath.

Now we find that not only do certain media organisations not apply scrutiny to tales told by dubious sources, but they actively hire israeli intelligence personnel (former or active) to co-write their stories for them, like the New York Times did with Anat Schwartz.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extr...merge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwartz/

 

The media scammed people initially on the motive of the airman's self-immolation too (before smearing him as mentally unwell):

A 25-yr old sets himself on fire in protest of the massacres in Gaza and to support Palestinians at a time of genocide and the Press presents it as a mere suicide, forgetting to mention Gaza, Palestinians, Israel. Goebbels would be proud of the Western Press and Orwell horrified https://t.co/mRT6BmvD8e

— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) February 26, 2024

The Mossad official account also called the man - who wanted to die by his own hand instead of potentially while carrying out a genocide for their foreign country - "an enemy".

This shouldn't surprise anyone who knows history. They think they are entitled to use American bodies any which way they please, even if it means murdering them so they can do it to more Arabs as well, while they "defend themselves" by taking more and more land/resources.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/201...-hit-her/0000017f-e48c-d7b2-a77f-e78f76800000

To add a little levity to a dark situation I guess, "America 1sters" think they're being patriotic by blindly supporting Israel, as Trump, and his supposed liberal nemesis Biden has as well. Just as LBJ had when he said he didn't want to embarrass an "ally" to save a few (300) servicemen aboard the USS Liberty.

Fitting in the whole US media-Israeli genocide propaganda scheme, for over 15 years the Chicago Tribune had an article up about Israel's and LBJ's complicity in the USS Liberty bombing. During this onslaught on Gaza they've scrubbed it from their website.

Best article on USS Liberty attempted false flag is 2007 Chicago Tribune https://t.co/VQduoaqjeI

— OxLion (@cuisineillum) May 21, 2018

You can find it in the Wayback Machine though:

https://web.archive.org/web/2023120...otribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html

You get more truth about Israel's crimes towards Arabs, the US, or the world in Israeli outlets because they know most of their citizens are trained not to care or even cheerlead it.

 

1. I specifically spoke about rapes and mutilations. No one here is denying that people were killed (which is terrible enough without having to lie about the circumstances to justify a genocidal response). There was no live-streaming of any mutilations or rapes, and nothing credible I have found from any independent source not linked to the israeli military or intelligence services.

2. I cannot open your article but have seen the underlying allegations by Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy. The reasons I do not find them to be credible are below, and that article you linked was written before the expose on Zaka in January which exposed them as peddling fraudulent claims:
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/cnn-...s-some-with-undisclosed-ties-to-israeli-govt/

3. The article I provided is certainly saying that many claims made by Zaka are outright falsehoods. They aren’t just saying the claims were used to raise funds. They are saying many claims were invented, and the invented claims were used to raise funds:

By all means choose to believe these stories and the “67 samples of semen” crap and the story of the gang rape where the guy cut off the breasts of the victim and played with them, and any other stories that the pro israel people churn out to justify the genocidal attacks against the Gazans, but don’t expect people to believe this sort of nonsense without it being tested by credible independent experts.

 

Max Blumenthal informed Cochav Elkayam-Levy that a photo she was using to prove Hamas raped israelis was in fact a photo of a Kurdish female fighter.

The chair of Israel's "Hamas rape" commission, Cochav Elkayam Levy, has delivered a highly revealing response to me.

After I exposed her for promoting a 2022 photo of dead Kurdish fighters as women raped by Hamas on Oct 7, she did not bother to refute me, nor did she explain her… pic.twitter.com/nScT7HBZrp

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 6, 2023

 

Took a sanity break and I am only on 483 but every post by Puck has me like

 

I maybe a crazy SOB but I ain't that crazy.

 

You know people can google right?

1. The "HUUUGE" scandal is about liking tweets not Mossad

2. This has nothing to do with her being "military intelligence"

As for her being an IDF "Airforce Intelligence" ....it is one guy. One guy an twitter said that. A screenshot of something that looks like wiki and no source.

Every single website that are blogs masquerading as news websites is quoting the chip and dale twitter guy. Every single one. Find me one other source not quoting him:

BREAKING: Anat Schwartz, one of the principal authors of the NYT "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax, not only expressed support for genocidal mass murder of Palestinians right before they gave her that job, but also served in the Israeli military's intelligence service pic.twitter.com/qSbaPCnjrK

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) February 25, 2024

Also saying IDF Airforce Intelligence -not a thing - and then shortening to IDF intelligence is just trying really hard to make it seem she was Mossad

Israeli Air Intelligence Group is the real thing. You would think people who worked there knew the actual name

 

Well, them and pre-Tusk Poland.
And the current Prime Minister of Italy is a self-avowed Mussolini fangirl.

 

There are problems with some of the "mass rapes" stories, but you can't credibly argue that women weren't raped on 10/7: the physical evidence is too damning for that, and the people who committed those crimes need to be punished.

And I wouldn't cite Max Blumenthal for anything.

 

I haven’t seen any physical evidence which would stand up in court but I reiterate - I support the death penalty for all rapists, Hamas or otherwise.

I know the issues with Blumenthal but he quite clearly shows that some of the evidence provided by that israeli lady was from atrocities done to Kurdish female fighters in earlier conflicts.

I do not know how it is possible for any credible independent organisation to mix the two incidents up, unless they are just acting as a cipher for another organisation and aren’t checking anything. The question then would be who is feeding her the false photos.

 

Palestinians are people as well.

 

Without digging too far into the gruesome details, the documented physical evidence is more than enough to support the conclusion that women were raped.

Cite someone else then. Syria genocide deniers, RT stooges, and Glenn Greendelwald are people to stay away from.

Without knowing what specifically you're referring to, it's hard to comment. But there's been a ton of misinformation here and news organizations have given Israeli claims a level of credulity that they aren't giving Palestinians.

 

1762517009827340525 is not a valid tweet id

As far as I can tell she hasn't made any remotely offensive statements. So this is 100% about her expressing support for Palestinians? Wow.
Her father is literally from there.

The breadth of acceptable expressions of support is thus thinner than paper.

 

Indeed. The last thing those true rape victims of the 7th of 10th can use is that their stories get doubted because of a bunch of scum try to benefit from making up things.

 

I agree with Jon, however, I think Israel won't accept a METO only with those countries guaranteeing security equally for both sides.