New in PJ Media:
The Israeli defensive action in Gaza has become, we are told, a massive humanitarian crisis, and it must stop. All the most trustworthy people in the world tell us so.
“The United States is unequivocal; international humanitarian law must be respected. Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” declared putative Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. “Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating.”
Then on Monday, the Associated Press, with a fine regard for journalistic objectivity, reported that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Soviet Union) and what it called “a robust group of Democratic senators” were “done ‘asking nicely’ for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.” These fearless solons “warned President Joe Biden’s national security team that planned U.S. aid to Israel must be met with assurances of concrete steps from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government.” Sanders thundered, “The truth is that if asking nicely worked, we wouldn’t be in the position we are today.” AP added, “It was time for the United States to use its ‘substantial leverage’ with its ally, the Vermont senator said.”
To buttress their indignation and increasingly shrill demands, Harris and Sanders and the rest can look to no less an authority than the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday published a chart of “Reported Casualties” in Gaza, and the numbers look grim indeed: over 15,523 deaths, with 4,257 women and 6,387 children making up fully 70% of that figure. The far-left establishment media is putting out substantially the same figures; the UK’s Guardian wrote Tuesday that “in the last three days, bombing has been heavy, and the total death toll since 7 October has risen to 15,899.”
These figures not only aroused the righteous indignation of our nation’s leftist self-appointed voices of conscience, but they moved the antisemitic Unz Review to the heights of hysteria: “We are certainly witnessing the greatest televised slaughter of helpless civilians in the history of the world, with nothing even remotely comparable coming to mind.”
Oh my, that sounds terrible indeed. But let’s step back for a moment. If you follow an asterisk down to the small print, you’ll see that the UN attributes its figures for Palestinian casualties in Gaza to the “Ministry of Health” and the “Government Media Office.” Which Ministry of Health? Which government? The UN doesn’t say, and its reticence on this point is likely due to the fact that the government and Health Ministry in question are those of Hamas in Gaza. The Guardian likewise attributes its figures to “the Gaza health ministry.” Yes, that’s right: the one that Hamas runs.
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Troybeam says
Civilians killed in Gaza, here’s a question: How many were killed by Hamas to make make Israel look like it killed them, remember people Israel acknowledged their areas where it would be bombed so if the people did not leave and or Hamas killed or planted the bodies the lies that Hamas tells is on them not Israel.
libertyORdeath says
I wrote a similar article a few weeks ago.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnfromjamestowne/p/the-israel-war-is-a-lie?r=288rw5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It’s ALL lies!
Westman says
15,899 is a very large number yet false by itself. Anyone with training in the hard sciences knows this is a fabrication simply because it claims to have all significant digits, a 100% accuracy, in the midst of war where both the counted and the counters are perishing.
One notices that neither Ukraine or Russia, in their war, ever attempt to estimate propagandized losses with precision beyond the nearest thousand because they know it would be laughable on its face.
As Muhammad is proported to have said, “War is deceit”. Where there is ignorance, propaganda fills the void.
libertyORdeath says
Very well said.
Keith O says
Pretty much my thoughts as well.
The only way to know the casualty count would be to conduct a census after hamas is beaten and an accurate head count is done.
somehistory says
Israelis has been finding their dead….in the places where the terrorists sneaked in and murdered hundreds at the festival, in various communities, and in their homes. The medical establishment, the government, the military have been dealing with the dead and dying and have been making an effort to accurately count.
The last I read, a few days ago, they were still searching and counting.
Now, the so-called hamas *ministry of health* has an accurate count of the dead? So accurate that the victims are categorized by age and sex?
If the number of children is so much greater than the numbers of women, and the numbers of women are so much greater than the young males of fighting age, this is telling. The children are being ***used*** to shield those who are responsible for the ghoulish murders and rapes. And the young women are brought in when the children have all hidden from those who wish to sacrifice them to the devil.
Anyone who gives any credence to words from mozlums….except their threats of what they plan to do….is an idiot. Those who publish the lies, are aiding and abetting crime, because the pressure is on Israel to cease the fight to the finish, and if they don’t finish, hamas will fully resume their terror…which is a crime. A horrific crime.
And they are the responsible ones for any children killed on either side.