the worst example of this was a report on Iraqi civilian casualties released two weeks before Bush was reelected. Published in a major medical journal, by a guy with public health experience, it gave the anti war types a victory, and only later did people question why the numbers didn't match the actual deaths on record (maybe because the doc who did the report had worked for Saddam, and bias in who was asked).
So anyway, just like ALJ always shows photos of women and children, in emotional poses, the MSM and the intellectuals just gobble up this propaganda and believe it. Yet these photos are often too good to be true. Were they staged?
Are the shrouded bodies of Military Age Men, or is this a variation of the goats shrouded and buried in Afghanistan so the families could claim a family member died to get money from those naive Yanks? (numerous reports by soldiers who fought there, but hey reporters and human rights types never caught on to the scam).
well, anyway, has anyone actually analyzed what is being reported?
I mean, if I, an aged grandmother sees such things, where are the reports?
the Washington Institute report did, and it says almost the same thing that I noticed: Deep fake.
As analysts noted at the outset, civilian harm is inevitable in urban battles where terrorist fighters hide among the population and refuse to surrender. The humanitarian cost in the current war has caused justifiable dismay, and fatality figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health and the Government Media Office (GMO)—both Hamas-run institutions—have provided a focus for global horror, providing metrics that have been relied on almost universally by international media and NGOs and at the International Court of Justice.
italics mine. War is hell, but manipulation of atrocities as a war tactic is not new, as John Kerry knows when he repeated the claims of human rights groups about the VietNam war that turned out to be false.. Yet did John Kerry notice the thousands who died in re-education camps, or the millions who fled after the US pulled out of the war, partly because of his testimony?
But in some ways, the Gaza lies are more blatent: Because they simply don't report any soldiers being killed. WTF?
If Gaza fatality counts fail to distinguish combatants from noncombatants, underreport the deaths of men, and highlight the deaths of women and children—as they have done until now—then observers can be expected to assume that mainly women and children are being killed. ..
no honest observer would assume that fact. An honest observer would note that the figures come from Hamas (a fact) and that there is a lack of military age men in the casualty figures (also a fact). They might dispute about the weapons hidden in civilian areas if they didn't see them with their own eyes, but they have access people who can detect secondary explosion evidence from stored weapons, or (in the notorious hospital hoax) the lack of a crater and evidence it was a fuel fire explosion not ordinance.
Although thousands of Palestinian noncombatants, including military-age males, have undoubtedly been killed in the Hamas-initiated conflict, the world must also recognize that the group has manipulated and exploited civilian fatality claims for its strategic benefit, in an attempt to truncate Israel’s air and ground operations and stir international outrage. The international media and NGOs have repeated such claims without proper scrutiny and in turn validated and reinforced Hamas propaganda efforts. ...
So why is no one questioning this openly? Maybe because of all those photographs; yet a quick perusal of the photos suggest they are too perfect: so a real situation was posed to show maximum emotional disgust, or even completely faked.
but in the hospital attack hoax, it was the photos that caught them in a lie.
...Hamas’s public relations and information warfare campaigns, especially after the October 17 explosion at al-Ahli Hospital, are instructive. For instance, on the night of the hospital explosion, Hamas claimed an Israeli strike had killed 471 Gazans. Israeli, U.S., and other intelligence agencies now confidently assess the disaster was caused by a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, with a death toll closer to one hundred, raising concerns that Hamas may be inflating fatality figures for other incidents as well.
Ya think?
if you read the article, it gives an analysis of their reports on who died in detail, and why it is suspicious. Here is a short example:
Hamas’s GMO—part of the group’s propaganda machine—is particularly active in pushing the narrative that a large majority of deaths are women and children. Health Ministry figures from December 31, as noted earlier, show males making up 40% of fatalities, and this figure excludes northern Gaza after November 11, where the proportion of men killed can reasonably be expected to far exceed that in the south, owing to the weeks of ground fighting there.
Yet the GMO figures for the same day show males making up just 23% of fatalities. The Health Ministry also claims, contradicting its own data, that 70% of deaths are women and children. At the very least, these inconsistencies, both within Health Ministry reporting and between the ministry and the GMO, necessitate more explanation of methodology and procedure before the data can be regarded as trustworthy, with specific attention going to the fatalities evidently derived from media reports in northern Gaza.
In summary, deep fake.
One might suggest one sided reporting is bad and we need to listen to both sides. But what if one or both sides are exaggerating the truth? A good reporter will simply report, but let the reader/viewer realize that it is a one sided report.
An example of this is the recent, much condemned, interview by Carlson with Putin.
Tucker Carlson goes to talk to Putin and gets a boring lesson in the 1200 year history of Eastern Europe and the Ukraine. But without recognizing Putin's version of history that sees Russian imperialism as necessary based on it's long history that shows a strong government is needed to stop attacks by enemies and prevent anarchy that threatens ordinary folks. Without knowing such history, we lack background to judge why Russia wants to do. He claims there was a CIA coup in the Ukraine to get a pro American president there, and without this context you won't understand why Putin sees this government as a threat to Russia, and without knowledge of the need of a warm water port, or that the Crimea was never part of the Ukraine, you might not recognize that there are good reasons to split that country.
By the way: the remaking of a Greater Russian empire would enable resources to be joined as a way to peace and prosperity...
So yes, Tucker let Putin manipulate opposition of the war in the US and Europe. But there are hundreds of other reporters who report the reasons why the US needs to support Ukraine's independence. And maybe the result will be to split the country as was proposed years ago, before hundreds of thousand died in that conflict.
Americans don't know history: but other countries remember and are basing the wars that disturb the NWO on the memories of past greatness.
Gaza is not about Gaza: it is about making Israel the bad guy (and as an extension, the Yanks the evil empire). This will inflame the area into a war against the Sunni Arabs that Iran is planning to win.
Hamas is an extension of the Persian empire: Hamas and Hezbollah are threatening the Sunni Saudis and Jordanians. The Houthis used missiles to hit Saudi sites for years, and their war against shipping will bankrupt Egypt by cutting traffic through the Suez canal.
if Hamas wins Iran's proxy wars in Gaza, their proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, will spread Iranian infuence.
what was standing in their way was the Abraham accords, where the Sunni states quietly decided to admit Iran, not Israel, is the real enemy.
In the meanwhile, of course, Biden is weak, and probably senile, but preferred to Kamela who is more incompetent than Jill Biden.
As the Chinese curse says: May you live in interesting times.'
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