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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   30318 thread views

Israel-Gaza Megathread #2

This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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I guess this got removed from the news cycle once it became obviously absurd: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-disinformation/

If you're going to claim that Hamas' strikes against Israel on Oct 7th are all "disinformation" I gotta ask, where did the corpses come from?

Did they actually produce the 40 beheaded baby corpses? Maybe they turned up since the above article was written and I missed it.

This is getting to be Alex Jones and Sandy Hooks level denial

Did they actually produce the 40 beheaded baby corpses? I may have missed it in which case I retract my comment.

No but the original claim was 40 killed babies and some beheaded. They produced pictures supporting the number of killed babies and one picture arguably supporting the beheading.

Islamic extremists absolutely would do that. These same ones shot up a whole music festival and murdered innocent children and took toddlers as hostages. But we are supposed to believe killing babies is too far? There is almost no amount of savagery by Islamic extremists that should shock you at this point, especially after ISIS, but here we are I guess.

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