Even 'Their' Numbers Add Up to Genocide
📰 THE STORY: The Intercept, citing reports, confirms that even Israeli military intelligence found the Gaza Health Ministry's death tolls to be 'impressively accurate,' a significant reversal from months of Western media and government efforts to discredit these figures as exaggerated or fabricated by Hamas. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This manufactured skepticism mirrors
the media’s 2003 amplification of fabricated 'WMDs' claims in Iraq, leading to a war that killed over a million. It’s the same playbook used to justify intervention despite evidence, where official enemy figures are always 'propaganda' until overwhelming evidence forces a grudging, late admission. Remember the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, where initial global media silence and Israeli denials
eventually crumbled under international pressure and evidence? The pattern of discrediting civilian deaths to shield military actions is long and brutal. Double Standard: When Russian figures during the Ukraine conflict are reported, they are instantly dismissed as unreliable state propaganda by Western media, while Ukrainian casualty counts, even if vague, are generally accepted. Yet, the Gaza
Health Ministry’s detailed, verifiable data — which has consistently proved accurate in past conflicts — was treated with extreme suspicion, forcing human rights groups to vocally defend its credibility, while the Israeli military’s vague and often shifting numbers received far less scrutiny from the same outlets. Follow the Money: The relentless discrediting of Gaza death tolls directly serves