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Comment by rendall

2 years ago

Honest question: why are you convinced that Israel is making up the burned baby story? Not asking you to justify your stance and I won't attack you for what you do have, just, why?

It was debunked in Haaretz itself a week ago, along with a lot of other persistent lies that are still being used to justify horrific ongoing war crimes.

> https://archive.ph/fCj9i

The absurd claim was always based on testimony from one single guy (Eli Beer), with nothing else.

Why were you so convinced it was real? Try and justify it however you like; it was always absurd, and there was never any actual evidence.

Israel are running targeted assassinations on journalists, poets, academics, health workers. Ten thousand very real children have been murdered. And you're all worked up over a baby that never existed. Explain it to me.

  • Thanks for that article.

    > And you're all worked up over a baby that never existed. Explain it to me.

    This is from the article:

    A variety of evidence is available on Hamas' cruelty, which includes the murder of parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents. There were sexual assaults, rapes and mutilations, while some victims were bound and some of the dead were desecrated. Some homes were burned with the people still inside.

    None of this is in dispute.

    It goes into quite some detail.

    So, I am worked up over this atrocity. I'm glad that I can relegate to fiction the image of a woman being raped while her baby burns to death in an oven, because that's nightmare fuel. It is important that the world gets the details accurate, so I would not say it doesn't matter. It does.

    Just, I guess I don't understand - and again, I really want to understand your perspective - how, given all of the other depraved stuff that Haaretz confirms did actually happen, how that translates to Israel is necessarily lying? Like, Hamas admits to doing the other stuff, there's video of it. What is it about the story of the burned baby and 40 beheaded babies that, because it didn't happen, makes you so angry? Again, not attacking, I promise. Really trying to understand.

    • > What is it about the story of the burned baby and 40 beheaded babies that, because it didn't happen, makes you so angry?

      I say this with all kindness and good intent: if you struggle to understand that, there's something very wrong with your worldview. I can't be expected to diagnose that.

      Why do you think lying about beheaded babies is okay?

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