Deja vu: Israel is doing now the exact same thing they did when they murdered Shireen Abu Akleh; flood the internet & news with denials & shaming anyone who "rushes to conclusions"
Their goal is NOT to disprove they butchered 35 aid seekers today, but rather to create confusion so mainstream media & politicians would wait "until things become clearer"
And by the time we get a confirmation from the media that Israel did what we all saw them do on camera, the story would be too late for the world to care about
Israel's strongest weapon is "it's complicated". The goal of Israeli propaganda is NOT to convince you Israel is right, but rather to tire you out, exhaust you, drain you mentally so that you feel this topic is too much & you check out
A good friend once attended a training session at an Israeli consulate in the US (pretending to be a Zionist). Their Israeli trainer said "10-20% of people on campus are pro-Palestinian, 10-20% are pro-Israel, what do you do about the remaining 60-80%?"
Participants eagerly said "we try to win them over"
The trainer said "no, that's the wrong strategy. You should convince them this topic is 'complicate' so they avoid it. If they insist, then shame them & ask them why they choose to focus on this topic out of all the conflicts in the world, is it because of antisemitism?"
This is Israel's propaganda in a nutshell, as we see it unfolding today. They were caught red handed murdered 35 starved Gazans seeking aid & wounding over 170. To avoid global outrage, they're denying this event ever happened or accusing Hamas of doing it, so as to make people reluctant to condemn Israel "until the facts are clear". By then, it would be too late.
This is how they crisis-managed murdering Shireen Abu Akleh, don't let them get away with it again today!
Seriously, what does Netanyahu want from this war? To defeat Hamas militarily? They have more members now than 20 months ago
To pressure Hamas to disarm? Force Gazans to leave? He can do that without the war; by preventing reconstruction & maintaining siege like many wars before
Israel can continue the genocide in many other ways even under a ceasefire & after the IDF leaves Gaza. The easiest & most predictable is to ban the entry of construction materials as “dual use items”, or maintain the collapse of Gaza’s economy by banning exports/imports, trade & movement (which Israel has been doing already for 2 decades)
So why continue the war? “To destroy everything that’s left of Gaza” as Smotrich put it? But Israel already destroyed 92% of all homes in Gaza, what difference would destroying the remaining 8% make?
To save his government? Netanyahu can sign a ceasefire without collapsing his coalition. At most, Ben Gvir & Smotrich would withdraw from gov but won’t leave the ruling coalition b/c Smotrich in particular knows he won’t enter the Knesset again if this gov collapses.
The only answers that come to mind for why Israel continues this war are: to use the fog of the genocide in Gaza to destroy the West Bank as well & advance the legal coup (war creates opportunities that would be impossible during calm)
& to keep the IDF inside Gaza forever & soon rebuild Jewish-only settlements
Don't believe your lying eyes & ears; this piercing noise of Israeli machine guns emptied in a hungry crowd is only happening in your head.
Trust the Israeli government that lied about the ambulance men, Shifa hospital, flour massacre, beheaded babies, looting gangs, Hamad hospital, Hind Rajab, the ‘terror’ calendar at Rantisi hopsital, World Central Kitchen workers, babies in ovens, white phosphorus, deliberately starving Gazans, Sinwar surrounding himself with 20 hostages in a tunnel, gassing hostages, Ahli hospital, killing women & children with white flags, mass r@ping Palestinians, non-existent tunnels under graveyards, Nasir hospital, Husam Abu Safia, mass graves, snipers targeting kids in the head, providing protection to criminal gangs to loot aid, wiping out Gaza, who refused/collapsed the ceasefire, blowing up Gazans fleeing south, Kamal Adwan hospital, claiming dead Gazan children are dolls, creating 'safe zones', the generals plan, how many Hamas militants we killed, Red Crescent taking part in Oct 7, calling killed journalists Hamas ‘militants’, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the Indonesian hospital, UNRWA, al-Awda hospital, killing women sheltering at a church, bombing the church, destroying every single Gazan university, the Turkish cancer hospital, Hamas hiding giant stockpiles of fuel in Rafah, finding active smuggling tunnels in Rafah, hostages returning pregnant, who killed Yossi Sharabi, Itai Svirsky, Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, Elia Toledano…
They promised their next lie would be 100% true, remember?
🚨Anyone claiming Hamas rejected Witkoff's ceasefire deal is outright lying
Hamas accepted the proposal & added to it the following points:
1- Hamas steps down from gov, hands control over Gaza to a technocratic independent committee (Netanyahu removed this from an earlier draft)
2- Immediately rehabilitating Gaza's infrastructure, inc. electricity, water, sanitation, telecom, roads, hospitals, schools
3- Negotiating a possible long-term truce for 5-7 years that entails full cessation of "offensive military operations" by both sides
4- Allowing Gazans to travel out of & back to Gaza freely through the Rafah crossing & resuming commercial goods & trade
5- Finalising reconstruction arrangement & plans during the negotiations on ending the war & providing aid to Gazans affected by the war.
6- Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip to be implemented over 3-5 years (i.e. the widely endorsed Egyptian plan); under the supervision of a number of countries & organizations, including Egypt, Qatar, & UN.
6- Ceasefire would continue automatically after the 60 day pause if Israel & Hamas are still negotiating by then (this was a basic condition in the Jan 19 ceasefire agreement Netanyahu signed).
7- Hamas would release 10 Israeli captives & 18 bodies during the 60-day pause, & will release all remaining captives as soon as the final phase is agreed upon (i.e. ending the war).
Most of those points were ALREADY in the outline Hamas reached with Trump's negotiating team last week before Netanyahu rejected that proposal completely out of hand & forced Witkoff to take those items off
🚨Conclusive evidence of Israel running the very criminal gangs looting aid in Gaza🧵
Hamas released footage today of an ambush against what they thought were Israeli Mista'arvim (undercover) soldiers in Rafah
But upon closer inspection, they turned out to be Abu Shabab's gang; the Israel-backed warlord, drug dealer, & serial criminal responsible for looting the vast majority of aid under full IDF protection.
Abu Shabab runs a gang of 100-200 armed mercenaries who sat up a military complex in Rafah with Israel's backing
In the footage, Abu Shabab's mercenaries were walking around a depopulated Rafah freely carrying weapons in front of Israeli troops (currently any Palestinian that walks into Rafah is killed on the spot).
The mercenaries were conducting surveillance activities for Israel of those areas.
