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Originally Posted by Chris
Mmm. “Coming soon” … funny how they’re still working on *one day* of savagery more than a year on, despite it being recorded and live streamed by the perpetrators, while they’ve apparently spared no effort to wade through an entire year’s worth of material on the opposite side in order to get their report out condemning Israel.
As I said, context and framing is everything. Putting the very reason this latest round of bloodletting began downpage, rather than at the top where it belongs, is a deliberate editorial choice. As is leaving out words like ‘rape’ and ‘torture’, for which there is copious video evidence. Amnesty clearly wishes to downplay, to the maximum extent it can get away with, the fact that Hamas initiated this and nothing that has been done to Gaza or its people in the last year would have happened were it not for this.
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Hamas don’t have a monopoly on rape or torture in the conflict, as demonstrated by the prisoners brutalised at the hands of the IDF in the absence of trials or evidence. Indeed the IDF slaughtered Israeli hostages for having the audacity to approach them with a white t-shirt waving as if to be a white flag. Heinous does not begin to cover it - the day in, day out existence of the Palestinian people.
It may suit you to deploy such evidence as examples to create an emotive response - indeed the Israeli state has done so effectively alongside the “40 beheaded babies”. None of this, absolutely none, would justifiy a genocide.