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originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: cherokeetroy
Ever since the MSM decided to become toe suckers of the democratic party, we lost journalistic integrity.
Says the guy who saw a few videos and thinks they know what the entire attack looked like...
You disagree based on assumption. I disagree based on what I saw from the videos hamas itself uploaded everywhere during october 7 and the following week.
I would call you stupid, but I don't like to compliment Hamas supporters.
originally posted by: cherokeetroy
My question is do you have proof that everything your leadership's telling you is the full truth?
originally posted by: jofafot
So, where is your proof? You should have some proof from october 7 attacks.
Israeli hostage recounts sexual assault in Gaza captivity -NYT
By Reuters
March 26, 20243:00 PM EDTUpdated 2 months ago
www.reuters.com...
Amit Soussana, 40, was taken hostage on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Security camera footage showed her fighting back against her abductors. She said that around Oct. 24 she was attacked by the man guarding her after washing in the bathroom.
Killing of Shani Louk
en.m.wikipedia.org...
Viral video
Hours later that day, a video emerged showing Louk's body,[28][29][c][d] partially clothed, with a significant head injury and blood-matted hair, being paraded in the streets of Gaza City by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck; they were exclaiming "Allahu Akbar", and were joined in the cheers by the people in the crowd surrounding the vehicle, some of whom spat on the body. [33][22][34][35] The video went viral,[36][37][3] becoming one of the first viral videos of the Israel–Hamas war.[36] It was released in a wave of videos of Hamas members parading hostages and bodies.[38][39][40] Photographs were also taken and circulated on the internet.[29]
originally posted by: jofafot
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Says the guy who saw a few videos and thinks they know what the entire attack looked like...
So, where is your proof?
Who else is holding captives? An unspecified number of Israeli captives are being held by civilian residents in the Gaza Strip, Hamas said.
“After the Israeli army’s defence lines were broken and the army’s Gaza Division fell [on October 7], hundreds of citizens and dozens of fighters from various Palestinian factions entered the territories occupied in 1948 and captured dozens, most of them civilians,” Abu Marzouk said.
During the same month, Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri also blamed Palestinian civilians for committing most of the atrocities against Israelis:
"When the people in the Gaza Strip heard that the border had been breached and that the Israeli army in the area had collapsed, several young men and gunmen entered [Israel], and this caused a state of chaos.
"There were [Israeli] civilians who were captured by people who entered, as ordinary people, who captured them and brought them into the Gaza Strip."
Several other images show children, apparently between the ages of ten and fourteen, also joining in the looting, also by taking bicycles that appear to have belonged to the kibbutz.
Schoolteacher Natalie Yohanan spoke about hiding in her family’s “safe room” while Palestinian civilians, including a woman, made food in her kitchen and stole everything they could — including “women’s items,” such as underwear and toiletries.
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
Now, you've been insisting that you're not taking sides here, you're not "taking any pills." So can you admit you were wrong?
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
originally posted by: cherokeetroy
a reply to: Lazy88
The thread title is "Gaza Genocide Real or Propaganda"
My question is do you have proof that everything your leadership's telling you is the full truth? If you can't prove you're being told the truth, then you'll have to admit you're likely falling for propaganda.
So basically, if there's no proof either way, your narrative is more likely to be correct?
Yeah, that's not how evidence works, chief.
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
Palestinian civilians participated in the attack and did more than "just cheer."
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: cherokeetroy
you didn't ask me, but I'll open my pie hole. NOBODY is telling the truth in this, or the other war going on. Ever since the MSM decided to become toe suckers of the democratic party, we lost journalistic integrity. So the news is whatever you want it to be based on where you look. MSNBC? Trump orange, Trump bad, Biden allows the pope to kiss his ring. Fox, exact opposite. CNN? almost a carbon copy of MSDNC. The best you can do is find reports, adn facts that haven't had a chance to be manipulated yet, and those are few and far between.
The only thing I think we know for sure, is HAMAS attacked Israel on October 7th, killed about 1300, and bragged about raping folks. Israel has since attacked HAMAS who is likely hiding behind civilians as that's their thing. Has been for a while now. And lots of civilians are being killed. That much is accepted fact (I think). Who's fault it is, depends on how bad you hate the Joos, or hate the A-rabs. If you aren't smart enough to know who to hate (like me) you likely just go with what you can verify and let the rest float with the turds.
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
originally posted by: Mwawa
In December, Israel's military said it estimated 66% of those killed to be civilians. Even the conservative figure of 61 percent is higher than the average civilian death rate in all world conflicts "from the Second World War to the 1990s
The UN says 90 percent civilian casualty rate is the norm.
This demonstrates that Israel is being extra careful.
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
originally posted by: jofafot
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Says the guy who saw a few videos and thinks they know what the entire attack looked like...
So, where is your proof?
Both left- and right-leaning media have reported that Palestinian civilians participated in the attack and did more than "just cheer." It's also been widely reported that the reason some of the more vulnerable hostages, such as women, children and the injured, weren't released in the first hostage deal was because Hamas didn't have them, they were being held by Palestinian civilians.
Most notably, even Al Jazeera reported Palestinian civilians participated in the attack and took hostages
Who else is holding captives? An unspecified number of Israeli captives are being held by civilian residents in the Gaza Strip, Hamas said.
“After the Israeli army’s defence lines were broken and the army’s Gaza Division fell [on October 7], hundreds of citizens and dozens of fighters from various Palestinian factions entered the territories occupied in 1948 and captured dozens, most of them civilians,” Abu Marzouk said.
NBC Analysis reveals Israeli woman was taken hostage by Palestinian civilians
Hamas blames Palestinian civilians for kidnappings
During the same month, Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri also blamed Palestinian civilians for committing most of the atrocities against Israelis:
"When the people in the Gaza Strip heard that the border had been breached and that the Israeli army in the area had collapsed, several young men and gunmen entered [Israel], and this caused a state of chaos.
"There were [Israeli] civilians who were captured by people who entered, as ordinary people, who captured them and brought them into the Gaza Strip."
Victims testify Palestinian civilians--including women and children--participated in looting
Several other images show children, apparently between the ages of ten and fourteen, also joining in the looting, also by taking bicycles that appear to have belonged to the kibbutz.
Schoolteacher Natalie Yohanan spoke about hiding in her family’s “safe room” while Palestinian civilians, including a woman, made food in her kitchen and stole everything they could — including “women’s items,” such as underwear and toiletries.
CNN roundtable discusses Palestinian civilians holding hostages
"Hamas doesn't have all the hostages"
Now, you've been insisting that you're not taking sides here, you're not "taking any pills." So can you admit you were wrong?
originally posted by: YourFaceAgain
a reply to: jofafot
It doesn't say civilians took hostages from Hamas. It says civilians took hostages themselves. If you don't think that can be done without weapons, then obviously they had weapons.
And that was just what I could find in a couple of minutes googling, which wasn't easy considering a lot of Western media are anti-Israel and support the Palestinians and don't like to report anything that makes the Palestinians look bad.
originally posted by: jofafot
...if what they did was loot empty places and keep hostages after hamas did what they did I don't see how that can be considered civilians causing more "death and destruction".