SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: One of the craziest phrases you can possibly utter in the year 2025 is “Let’s give Israel the benefit of the doubt on this one.”

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They *ferociously* denied it. At the beginning of this month Israel and its spinmeisters were crying antisemitic blood libel at the very suggestion that IDF troops would fire upon people trying to obtain food. Israel’s official Twitter account called the reporting “Hamas propaganda”. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a deceitful video clip which it falsely claimed showed Hamas members, not the IDF, firing on the crowd. Netanyahu advisor Caroline Glick and Israel’s “Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism” Amichai Chikli both called the reporting on the June 1 massacre a “blood libel”. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely accused the BBC of peddling Hamas propaganda for reporting on the June 1 massacre. Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennet shared a video clip of people in Gaza not being shot at some point and claimed this proves nobody was shot at the specified incident on June 1, saying “When it’s about Israel, all slander works.” The Jerusalem Post published an article titled “Media blood libel over alleged Gaza aid shooting will have far-reaching repercussions.” The Washington Post bowed to pressure and retracted its article on the June 1 massacre, saying it didn’t “give proper weight to Israel’s denial and gave improper certitude about what was known about any Israeli role in the shootings.” Then, a few days later, CNN published a report based on extensive video analysis and eyewitness interviews which found that all evidence, contrary to Israel’s claims, “points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.” And it's happened almost every day of the month since. Which should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to Israel’s mass atrocities in Gaza. This is after all the same genocidal state which indignantly objected to claims that it would ever bomb a medical facility after an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in October 2023, only to bomb that exact same hospital many times thereafter while deliberately destroying Gaza’s entire healthcare infrastructure. One of the craziest phrases you can possibly utter in the year 2025 is “Let’s give Israel the benefit of the doubt on this one.”

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

Remember the first time Israel massacred starving Palestinians seeking aid, and then flatly denied it ever even happened? Now they carry out a massacre *every single day*, and the world hardly shrugs. We’re witnessing the total normalization of mass killing at record speed.