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The Rafah attack: another day, another lie by the anti-Israel crowd

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It’s no mystery why they lie: lies work, especially with the full weight of the MSM behind them. In fact, the Palestinian cause is mostly lies, but on the strength of those lies they gain more and more supporters. The lies have managed to unite the Jew-hating left and Jew-hating right, which is a neat trick. And the lies pull in people like my friends who are not Jew-hating at all but merely read the MSM and mostly believe it.

And so we have this (and please note the subtitle of the Melanie Phillips piece, which is, “Another murderous lie travels round the world before the truth gets its boots on”) [emphasis mine]:

On Sunday, Israel’s air force carried out a strike in Rafah targeting two senior Hamas commanders whom it had tracked by aerial surveillance to a compound in the Tal as Sultan area.

Following this strike, a terrible fire broke out in a number of refugee tents where Gazans displaced by the war were burned alive. The Hamas-run health ministry says 45 civilians were killed here and many more injured. …

The western media, politicians and “humanitarian” groups parroted the Hamas claim that the Israelis had willfully targeted a refugee camp that Israel itself had designated as a protected humanitarian area. …

The fact that Israel had done what the world had demanded but said was impossible, by moving almost one million Gazans for their safety out of the area of Rafah where the IDF was about to conduct its military operations, counted for nothing. The strike on this humanitarian area, said the world — from the UN to the EU to the French president Emmanuel Macron — showed that there was “no safe space anywhere”. This apparently proved that the IDF assault on Rafah, in the teeth of the global requirement to desist, demonstrated the Israelis’ callous disregard for human life and the rules of war and therefore that they were truly monstrous.

Except that this was totally untrue. The Israeli strike had taken place one and half kilometres away from the designated humanitarian area. The IDF’s target location was inside the Rafah combat zone. You can see this clearly on the IDF map above. …

Israeli jets had used two small bombs to minimise civilian casualties. The IDF said it had taken steps ahead of the attack to ensure that no women or children were in the Hamas compound. The strike took place more than 100 metres away from the shelters that caught fire. …

Earlier, Israeli officials told the Biden administration that shrapnel from the strike may have ignited a nearby fuel tank. Further information that has come to light, however, suggests that the tents were actually ignited by Hamas munitions.

This video footage, reportedly filmed by a Gaza resident in the immediate aftermath of the Israeli strike and obtained by the website Abu Ali Express, features an onlooker saying that what was hit was a Hamas Jeep “filled with ammo and weapons,” and he expressed a worry that “any moment a [Hamas] rocket can fly at us…”

The IDF says it now suspects that ammunition, weapons, or some other inflammatory material was stored in the area of the strike, causing a secondary blast and the fire that spread to the civilian tents.

The IDF has released an intercepted conversation between two Gazans suggesting that an ammunition store in the area had ignited.

If you recall the false Hamas story of the hospital strike by Israel early in the war, widely reported to have killed 500 people and destroyed much of the hospital (fake news which traveled swiftly around the world), you will find this familiar. In both cases there are civilians taking refuge, an unfortunate incident that kills many of them which is blamed on Israel, and a reality that the cause was Hamas rather than Israel. With the hospital incident there was the additional claim of 500 deaths reduced to a few dozen (we never have learned the true number; at least I’ve never seen it), as well as a bomb Hamas had fired at Israel that fell short and landed in the hospital parking lot only and not on the hospital itself. In the current incident it may be that the number of casualties was properly reported, but once again this does not appear to be Israel’s fault and is a direct result of Hamas’ own methods of warfare.

How many people realize even now that the hospital story was false? I doubt it’s even anywhere near half of those who heard the initial story. How many will ever get the facts on this one? Vanishingly few.

What’s more, after so many lies of this sort, the newspeople as well as heads of state should know enough to keep their mouths shut for a while until the facts emerge. But they cannot and will not do this. They are not interested in telling the truth. They are interested in pushing the anti-Israel narrative.

Many people criticize Israel’s messaging. But how on earth is Israel supposed to counter the enormous number of sources spreading the lies? I really don’t see how that can be done. Richard Landes, who specializes in these issues and coined the term “Pallywood” (and who is a friend of mine), wrote Can the Whole World Be Wrong, a book that was published in 2022. The subtitle is “Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad.” As far as I know, Landes also coined the phrase “lethal journalism,” and it is apt. Things have only gotten worse since 2022, and yes – the “whole world” can indeed be wrong.

And if the exploded Hamas ammunition story turns out to be incorrect, and Israel is responsible for these deaths, I will point out that mistakes are made in war all the time that lead to the unintended deaths of civilians. There is no army on earth – none – that takes more steps to avoid this than the IDF, as “Cynical Publius” (great name) points out in Tablet. And although he is talking about a particular person here, the MSM obviously is to be included in the group of “people like” that person:

But it’s people like my fellow soldier on X who trouble me more. When you know that Israel is the freest, most liberal state in the region; when you know that war is hell and civilians die in all wars; when you know that the IDF engages in state-of-the-art mitigation measures to protect innocent civilians; when you know all of these things and still engage in the blood libelish lies of “Israel is committing genocide,” No. 2 is the only logical conclusion. The only stain is the one on that person’s soul—a black stain of Jew hatred that goes back millennia.

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The Rafah attack: another day, another lie by the anti-Israel crowd — 26 Comments

  1. Rule Number 1 when hearing of events in Gaza and Israel; never, ever believe anything uttered or shown by Hamas and other Gaza based “news” sources.

  3. I have become coldly indifferent to these lies, the food delivery deal involved hamas personnel on the trucks, the hospital fracas, et al, the games played with statistics,

  5. Most excellent post! Gotta love the “Pallywood” term!

    I fell onto these terrorist tactics back around 2006 w/ Salam “Green Helmet” Daher in Lebanon. MSM still covers up the true story of what he was doing.

    “Green Helmet” kept showing up in news reports – crying and wailing whilst holding up a dead baby. People started wondering how come this “Green Helmet” person had lost so many babies.

    Then it was discovered that he was a “first responder” with an “ambulance”.

    Then it was discovered that “first responder” Salam “Green Helmet” Daher was carrying around dead babies in his “ambulance” – then bringing them out to the Hezbollah MSM staging areas for photo shots. Not sure if they had ‘..ywood’ term for those staged terrorist shots back them…

  6. Karmi:

    Landes coined the term for the al Durah incident, which occurred earlier, in 2000. I’m not sure exactly when he started calling it Pallywood, but it was several years before 2006.

  8. “al Durah incident”

    Here’s the link.
    (More than you’ll ever wanna know…)
    https://theaugeanstables.com/al-durah-affair-the-dossier/

    A tidbit from an article*** linked to from the above link:

    …And for reasons that have a great deal to do with both legacy and new media journalists who promoted the new century’s most potent Icon of hatred (The notorious Mohammed al-Durah Case), by mid-decade a plurality of Europeans believed the empirically false (but metaphorically apparently so attractive) notion that the Israelis were committing genocide against the Palestinians.

    Suddenly, Nie Weider (Never Again) meant protecting the Palestinians from Israel. By turning the self-proclaimed heirs of the Nazis into the victims of ‘Nazi Israel’, Palestinian irredentism became banalised as ‘nationalism,’ and the fantasy of a coexistence where Israelis cannot defend themselves as ‘peaceful’, becomes, in Penslar’s words a viable ‘alternative to the status quo.’

    As someone who warned in 1996 of a possible resurgence of Jew-hatred in the new millennium, I must admit that while the Palestinian Jihadi version that sprung up before our eyes did not surprise me (David Cook had already introduced me to the deeply disturbing literature), the way the Jihadis’ poisonous narratives found enthusiastic favor in the eyes of people who considered themselves members of the Global Progressive Left, left me reeling….

    ***”‘A Remarkably Aggressive Naïveté’: A Response to Derek Penslar and Michael Walzer”—
    …https://fathomjournal.org/a-remarkably-aggressive-naivete-a-response-to-derek-penslar-and-michael-walzer/

  11. Hamas slaughtered 1200+ and takes captives as “hostages”,both female and male, the females being turned into sex slaves.
    Yet the world, Biden included, thinks that Hamas is a legitmate actor on the world’s stage.
    Has Jew hatred (= Israel hatred) taken over the world as if it were a form of COVID? I do not get it.
    My parents honeymooned in (!) Poland in 1939, just before the Krauts invaded, which meant I was to be born in Germany.
    I have never in my life thought ill of Jews or any Christian denomination. Why should I? The West has a Judeo-Christian history of 2000 years, of which we should all be grateful.It is the basis of our civilization. Get it:Judeo-!
    None of any other whiney groups get my sympathy, though blacks or LBGTQ+ playing victims do not gain my sympathy. Now they have their own “cultures”!
    They should kiss the ground they walk on, as do I, and cease their demands.

  13. Cicero:

    You ask: “Has Jew hatred (= Israel hatred) taken over the world as if it were a form of COVID?” I believe that’s a good description.

    It is irrational. It is ancient. It is mutable as to reasons. It is evil. And now the internet and worldwide communications have caused it to spread very far very fast.

  14. I read some about the Holocaust during college and I loved “Sophie’s Choice.” Both the movie and the book.

    I remember thinking: This will never happen again. But it has; just not on the same scale.

  15. Cornhead:

    Not yet.

    It took a long time for the Holocaust to come to fruition.

  16. Give the Islamists and the Left more time, they are working hard to bring it about.

  17. Gaza is a tiny slice of land. The population density is 16,853 people per square mile. How does one conduct military operations in such an area without collateral damage?

    Whoever is criticizing Israel’s operations are in denial of the actual situation.

    If Hamas cared about their civilians, they would never expose them to this. But they don’t. In fact, the civilian deaths are part of their so-called strategy. And the dupes in the West are falling for it.

    We can hope that Israel will get the job of finishing Hamas off before “world opinion|” demands a cease fire. However, it doesn’t look good. Wake up Western Civilization. The barbarians are at the gates.

  18. I’m curious. Have any of you bloodthirsty old boomers actually taken a look at the pictures of the Rafah atrocity?

    Look if you dare. We’re talking children with heads blown off, dismemberings, melted skin, and plenty more.

    At least go have a look at what you’re cheering on before you cry out in pain.

    You people are disgusting.

  19. @ “DalaiLama” > your nom is stolen valor and your reading comprehension is low.

    Neo quotes: “Except that this was totally untrue. The Israeli strike had taken place one and half kilometres away from the designated humanitarian area. The IDF’s target location was inside the Rafah combat zone. You can see this clearly on the IDF map above.”
    AND
    “The IDF has released an intercepted conversation between two Gazans suggesting that an ammunition store in the area had ignited.”

    Since we have seen multiple proofs that Hama stores munitions among civilians – in hospitals, homes, UNWRA schools, etc. – it is not a big stretch to believe they deliberately endangered the refugees.

    https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/05/28/unrwa-gaza-chief-stumbles-across-the-truth-and-then-apologizes/

    Let us all “At least go have a look” and let the full evidence come out before committing to any conclusions about who is at fault.

  20. PS – take a look at the comments on the 2021 Neo post I linked (I didn’t realize until now that it is 3 years old exactly), and see how easily they could be transferred to a thread about the current conflict.

  21. At least go have a look at what you’re cheering on before you cry out in pain.

    No one is cheering it on. Just assigning blame based on facts.

  22. If someone is going start the conversation by calling me a bloodthirsty boomer, my response is fuck off troll.

  23. The point is that Hamas WANTS those people to die.
    (Even kills a few itself from time to time and/or greatly inflating its reported casualty rate to absurd numbers—all perfectly believable, of course, for the usual moral and ethical geniuses out there…)

    Israel would very much prefer if those deaths could be avoided and goes out of its way to avoid them, often putting itself and its soldiers in danger to do so.

    This doesn’t always work, much to Hamas’s delight.

    Disgusting is indeed the operative word here. Chillingly, mind-numbingly disgusting…

  24. “…and see how easily they could be transferred to a thread about the current conflict….”

    Because THAT is precisely the modus operandi.

    Palestinian Rules.
    (AKA Democratic Party Rules.
    Hezbullah, as well, not to mention its patron.)

  25. Questions for DalaiLama:
    1. Who started the war?
    2. Does Israel have a right to defend itself?
    3. Why does Hamas hide among civilians?
    4. Why does Hamas store munitions in civilian areas?
    5. Why won’t Egypt let the Palestinian’s seek refuge in the Sinai?
    6. Do Palestinians have the ability to change their circumstances? If so, why don’t they do it?
    7. If Hamas had the weaponry that the IDF has, would they be careful and restrained in its use?
    8. Israel exists because of the attempted genocide of the Jews by Hitler and the SS, coupled with the fact that it’s the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. It was deemed proper by the UN to give the Jews a place where they were safe from antisemitism. Why are you opposed to that?

    That is all.

  26. @ DalaiLama:

    ‘Families Melted Together’ – Hamas *WIRED* Jewish families together & burned them Alive

    “They were burned while tied together”: The gut-wrenching work of identifying victims of the Hamas attack

    “I don’t know if we will be able to take DNA from these samples because they are very charred,” he said. “Some of the victims were not shot as no metal fragments were discovered in their bodies, but they were burned. It’s like a crematorium.”

    He showed one example of two people whose bodies were discovered together in a burned-out safe room. “This is an adult with a child. The adult was hugging the child, and a metal wire might have been used to tie the two bodies together. They were burned like this”..

    Adult & child melted together – GRAPHIC pic

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