IDF propaganda with planted weapons. One is reminded of Iraq's WMD which turned out to be a phantom. Clueless Samsters here falling for it hook, line & sinker. LOL.
Israeli propaganda is deemed necessary by its patrons or allies to justify its massacre of the Palestinian people.
The state of Israel scored a major victory in its war against the people of Gaza when it captured ‘al-Shifa’ hospital on Wednesday (November 16). Israeli soldiers, the IDF, were seen foisting their flag on the top of the hospital. Their claim was that this hospital was a cover for the military operation of Hamas. In fact, it was much more sinister than that. It was the base from which Hamas was conducting its military action. This claim made al-Shifa a ‘legitimate’ target for Israeli forces.
Just a day before the Israeli forces tightened their siege on the hospital, the Pentagon felt it necessary to justify this by claiming that it had credible intelligence inputs that al-Shifa was being used by Hamas. When asked about the source, the spokesperson refused to comment but admitted that the USA did not have its own boots on the ground. Which is to say that what it is presenting before the world as evidence is supplied by Israel and there is no independent party to verify its claims.
That Israel has been lying all along was proven after it conquered the hospital which it alleged was a military base of its enemy. It was reported by sympathetic media that “In a video filmed at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, showed about 10 guns, ammunition, protective vests and Hamas military uniforms, some of which he said were hidden behind M.R.I. machines, others in nearby storage units and some behind what he described as a ‘blast-proof door.'” But the media platform took caution to say that, “The assertions made in the video could not be independently verified.”
No independent verification, no third party check and yet, we are asked to trust Israel. Only because NATO and the Americans say so? We are shamed if we raise doubt. And asked how can we not trust a country like Israel? Is it not the only true democracy in the Middle East? Does it not espouse the values of enlightenment? And above all, was it not wronged on October 7 and does it not have the right to defend itself? The last one seems to click all arguments.
Governments have been asking us to believe what Israel presents before us as evidence because it is a victim of Hamas – an assertion presented as truth without verification.
American political scientist Norman Finkelstein rightly asked, even if slightly sarcastically, as to why “Hamas didn’t take the weapons to its command-and-control centre beneath al-Shifa. No, it decided to leave these weapons lying around in the radiology ward so as to give Israel a photo-op.”
That it was all a set up by Israel is so clear from the video that it was immediately called out and laughed at. The video was so embarrassing that the IDF quietly deleted it without any explanation.
Yesterday the claim was that Hamas was using al-Shifa as a “command centre” to hold hostages, and that they stored weapons there. Now it’s about tunnels. A senior Israeli official said that the purpose of the IDF operation at the al-Shifa hospital wasn’t to rescue hostages but to locate and expose a Hamas tunnels hub that connects the hospital with other parts of the Gaza strip.”
Lie after lie. And one after the other, they get debunked.
What is and should be treated as true by any sensible person is what independent sources, that is those who are neither Palestinian nor Israeli, have been saying. Those who have worked at al-Shifa for decades. They have been refusing Israeli claims of the hospital being a military base or cover of Hamas. But Israel’s powerful allies choose to believe its lies. Or, knowing well that Israel was lying they decided to back it. After all, are these not the same countries which had invented the truth of Iraq hoarding WMD to invade the country and destroy it?