{"id":108059,"date":"2023-10-23T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=108059"},"modified":"2023-10-23T05:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:53:20","slug":"01-05-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=108059","title":{"rendered":"Believing the Lies Terrorists tell me"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Believing the Lies Terrorists tell me<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Meron Reuben<\/strong> \/ JNS.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The IDF has found Hamas weapons left behind, as well as hundreds of documents and certificates have been recovered, alongside an array of mobile devices, communication tools, and cameras in southern Israel. Photo: IDF<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Major media outlets around the world reported on Tuesday night that the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City had been bombed, killing at least 500 Palestinians. Hours of live broadcasts left viewers with few doubts about the identity of the culprit. As in the past, Israel was immediately blamed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although later on that evening, journalists did relay a statement from Israel denying involvement, many appeared to have trouble hiding their distrust of the preliminary finding by the Israel Defense Forces that a rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza had fallen short of its target and was responsible for the tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the fog of war began to lift\u2014or rather, the heavy layer of Hamas disinformation\u2014it became apparent that much of the original reporting was wrong: that the hospital itself was not struck, its parking lot was; that the\u00a0death toll<\/a>, while dreadful, was likely in the dozens not the hundreds; and above all else, that the cause of the disaster was not IDF ordinance but unmistakably a faulty rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even after the IDF spokesperson presented the results of its in-depth investigation the next morning, alongside hard evidence that proved the finding of a misfired Palestinian rocket, it was not uncommon to see news reports that still cast doubt on Israel\u2019s conclusions, or at best conveyed them alongside Hamas\u2019s unfounded allegations as if they were no more than reasonable competing narratives. Even U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s announcement that \u201cit was\u00a0the other team<\/a>\u201d didn\u2019t clear the air.<\/span><\/p>\n

In sharp contrast to the contempt shown to Israel, claims made by the Hamas-controlled Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health were treated with the utmost respect and instantly reported as fact. While in democracies like Israel, Health Ministry bureaucrats are independent medical professionals and impartial civil servants, in Gaza they are all Hamas officials first and foremost. Their loyalty is to the fundamentalist terrorist organization controlling the Gaza Strip and the evidence has revealed that they knew exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one impartially following events in this part of the Middle East would be shocked to see that Israel was falsely accused of wrongdoing. Lies horrific enough to be considered blood libels are immediately and automatically believed. Even if later disproven by Israel, the damage has already been done, and new evidence favorable to Israel receives little attention. So the lie that was used to delegitimize Israel, enflame Arab sentiments, enrage protesters in Boston and throughout New England, and incite violence lives on and on and on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blaming Israel for errant Palestinian rockets that cause Palestinian casualties is a frequent occurrence. In recent conflicts, up to 25% of the projectiles targeting Israeli villages, towns and cities fell short and landed inside Gaza, leading to distressing images of death and destruction. In the nearly two weeks since Hamas began its attack on Israel, approximately 500 rockets that targeted Israeli civilians have hit the residents of the Gaza Strip instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

When will the press and the international community stop believing terrorists, as if somehow those who live by a moral code that encourages the murder of innocents can be trusted as reliable and fair-minded conveyors of fact?<\/span><\/p>\n

Compare Israel\u2019s inherent honesty with Hamas\u2019s perpetual manipulation of the truth and the result might be surprising to some. It shouldn\u2019t be, not considering Hamas\u2019s hatred of the values most humans with a shred of decency hold dear, including towards the sanctity of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas, a ruthless terrorist organization whose goal is the destruction of Israel and its replacement with a caliphate, is driven by an Islamist ideology so extreme that it is willing to do almost anything to achieve its aspirations. It is certainly prepared not only to slaughter Jews in the most gruesome ways imaginable but to sacrifice countless Palestinian lives as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

No better example of this can be found than in its consistent and ongoing use of human shields. Palestinian civilians, including children, are deliberately placed in harm\u2019s way so that when the inevitable tragedy happens, international pressure on Israel to stop defending itself grows.<\/span><\/p>\n

This appalling tactic and Hamas\u2019s long history of duplicity are well-documented, but as happened this week, many still prefer to be duped by its propaganda. Some continue to refuse to believe indisputable evidence, such as that provided by Israel on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the \u201cblame Israel first\u201d crowd, recordings of two Hamas terrorists discussing PIJ\u2019s misfired rocket as the incident was actually happening aren\u2019t enough. Nor is\u00a0visual proof\u00a0<\/a>of the facts, including videos of the failed launch from a cemetery right near the hospital. Not even verification of the evidence by the Pentagon and numerous independent analysts will suffice.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a simple message that should be sent to these people: Terrorists lie. And if you continue to believe these lies and spread them, then you are supporting Hamas\u2019s campaign to deny Israel the same right of self-defense afforded to every other nation under terrorist attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Believing the Lies Terrorists tell me Meron Reuben \/ JNS.org The IDF has found Hamas weapons left behind, as well as hundreds of documents and certificates have been recovered, alongside an array of mobile devices, communication tools, and cameras in southern Israel. Photo: IDF Major media outlets around the world reported on Tuesday night that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108066,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059\/revisions\/108066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}