‘Civilians killed in Gaza equivalent to 6,000,000 Americans killed.’‘IDF has been accused of not caring at all about civilian deaths. Note IDF Spokesman’s Office… has not let Western press report from Gaza unaccompanied.’
‘if (Hamas) violates IHL (International Humanitarian Law) it does not give (Israel) right to violate it. Hamas is not asking for US and Western support and arms...’
‘Many organizations have all agreed that there have been tremendous losses of civilian life in Gaza and on a per capita basis extremely high. Repeating discredited talking points that the whole world is making up their data and tremendous civilian deaths are not happening is even worse for Israel.’
‘Warning whole civilian areas of bombing in advance could be construed as an attempt to cause the civilian population to leave an area which could be prohibited.’
‘Israel essentially destroying majority of civilian residences in Gaza-Hamas still there. Hamas still controls Gaza and strategically Gaza War cost Israel US support which it needs to survive yet defend IDF policy in Gaza of Bombs Away’
‘Using bombing warnings to get civilians to leave a whole area could be construed as an attempt to get civilians out of their homes-may at times be an independent war crime. Even if civilians gone need very rare exceptions to justify bombing their home.’
‘the ridiculous attempt that Israel at the beginning tried to do doubting deaths by saying Hamas Ministry of Health. After a few months of war Hamas gave a list to Western press of address and name and ID no of all deaths they claimed-it was proven accurate. Western media has come jp by their anslysis higher deaths combining estimates from bombing when bodies not recovered and victims no record of for months and years’
‘(Isreali propaganda) nonsense: war correspondents go everywhere else in line of fire, some die, some get injured badly, but Israel refusing to let them take their own risk is interpreted that Israel does not impact of the war reported.
(IDF spokesman) Hagari used to give frequent briefings himself until Western press showed his answers were not credible.’
‘Bibi and Gallant announced in the first days of the war that they intend to blockade Gaza from food and water.’ coming from one of those anti-Israel sources.’
These recent comments (lightly edited for clarity) were not
made by the Hamas Health Ministry, a Hamas supporter, a UN official, a BBC
reporter, Tucker Carlson, or an anti-Israel Democratic Socialist.
They were all made by a Jew. Not a progressive secular Jew,
but a religious Orthodox Jew who comments here frequently.
And he is not the only Orthodox Jew making comments like
this. In the mistaken belief that he is offering Mussar (an
admonition) to blind supporters of Israel who refuse to acknowledge the “truth”
about the ‘bad’ things Israel is doing.
Instead, however, he is giving aid and comfort to Israel’s
enemies. By repeating the accusations routinely made against Israel by its
adversaries, he lends credibility to their narrative. Adversarial accusations
are amplified by a mainstream media whose values often align with those of
Israel’s harshest progressive critics, who portray the Jewish state as a
decades long monstrous oppressor of helpless Palestinians.
I sometimes wonder how these critics fail to realize how
much damage condemnations like those quoted above do. Condemnations based
largely on biased media coverage of the war in Gaza. Condemnations that advance
the Palestinian cause of liberating ‘Palestine’ form the Jews. When one makes
comments like those - they may as well be a spokesperson for them. One would
think that an Orthodox Jew would realize that...
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