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| Lies In The Service Of Hamas |
| 2014-09-21 |
| [Ynet] One can understand journalists who work in Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s service when they are coerced to do so; it's a little difficult to understand the repeated mistakes of 'rights groups' who operate free of coercion. How many Paleostinian were killed in Operation Protective Edge? The Paleostinians say more than 2,000. And how many of them were civilians? During the course of the war, various organizations tried to create the impression that some 70 percent of the fatalities were civilians. This is the figure that appeared, for example, in a letter from human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups to Israel's attorney general. Similar claims involving inflated numbers of civilian deaths appeared in the wake of Operation Cast Lead too -- before Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad came along and clarified that 700 of the 1,200-1,300 fatalities were Hamas personnel. And then this week, it was none other than Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... himself, as reported by Paleostinian Media Watch, who stated that 861 of the fatalities in Protective Edge were Fatah members, while just 50 were from Hamas. The squabble itself between Fatah and Hamas over who the fatalities belong to is of minor significance; the total number, of more than 900, carries much more weight. It took a long while for the truth to come to light after Cast Lead. It was quicker this time. The conclusion is the same: Relying on sources that are dependent on Hamas is tantamount to propaganda and lies in the service of the organization. Time and again, the Israel Defense Forces publishes far more credible figures. One can understand journalists who work in the service of Hamas when they are coerced to do so; it's a little difficult to understand the repeated mistakes of "rights groups" who operate free of coercion. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 The numbers are cooked for propaganda purposes as they were when we were fighting in Iraq. That said, the problems are similar to those in the U.S.; border problems, illegal immigrants, crime, security and costs. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-21 10:12 |