Comment by johnnyworker
1 year ago
> Among a list of LinkedIn content that Iron Truth told its Telegram followers it had passed along to the company was a post demanding evidence for the beheaded baby claim, categorized by the project as “Terror/Fake.”
Just one instance of that is one too many in my books.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-...
Is there a name for this tactic that people like you use? Where you think you can deflect attention from the disgusting atrocities of October 7 (atrocities which continue to this day as the perpetrators continue to torture hostages) by laser focusing on just one perhaps false claim made during the fog of war?
October 7 was a barbaric act of murder, torture, rape and kidnapping, involving men, women, children and babies. Women were forced to watch their children burned to death before themselves being burned alive. Men had fingers, toes, hands and feet removed before being shot in the head. I couldn't care less if the rumour of beheaded babies is false because there were enough atrocities at the same scale which have been confirmed. Shame on you for deflecting from this fact. Shame on you.
Nearly every single thing you have just listed as "things that happened on Oct 7" have ALREADY been debunked and shown by INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS to be a lie.
Mutilation. False. Burnings (except by Israeli tank shells and Hellfire missiles). False. Beheaded babies (the one thing you did admit to). False.
You just PROVED the entire raison d'etre of the article, and of the poster you responded to.
A lot of these are indeed missing evidence verified by journalists. But mutilation is not one of these. Mutilation of already dead bodies were captured on videos recorded by Hamas terrorists and released on the 40 min propaganda video by the IDF which has had public screenings and were watch e.g. by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. See e.g. this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5iG3DX7ho) of a pro-palestine activist recount of that video. This is actually a good recount and does list quite many of the oft cited supposed atrocities which are indeed missing, at the very least, from this particular compilation.
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I have seen a gruesome hamas video of them hacking at a Nepali worker's neck with a hoe. It was publicly available in reddit. There were burnt remains of victims at different sites, and have seen media reporting them with graphic videos. It is interesting how hamas supporters downplay the horrors of the October 7 attack and try to change the narrative.
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Even if the October 7th attacks had been worse than the rumours, does anyone really think that justifies killing thousands of innocent people including women and children, displacing over a million, destroying hospitals and cutting off water and food supply?
When there is a school shooting, should it be punished by a massive bombing campaign on the town where the perpetrator lives?
These atrocities are just plane wrong, no matter the motivation. Pointing out the crimes of Israel is not the same as supporting violence by Hamas. Both sides are in the wrong for their treatment of innocent civilians, however Israel is entirely to blame for their illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
It's called "intellectual honesty". It's not a tactic, it's more like a strategy.
One crime doesn't justify or deflect from another. Simple as that. And to exploit the victims of the Hamas attacks to commit ethnic cleansing is not honoring them, it's really just exploiting them for jingoistic purposes, and to dehumanize all Palestinians. We've seen so much of that we won't forget for decades.