• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    It does sound rather lurid, a bit like Saddam Hussein’s troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators (which turned out to have been made up for selling Operation Desert Storm).

    Of course, that’s not ruling it out, though it does feel like someone at some stage may have over-egged the pudding.

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      It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. Preying on parental instinct is stupidly easy.

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    1 year ago

    People who believe the baby beheading story would’ve 100% fallen for the Nariyah testimony about the baby incubators

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    I’d say 20% chance the babies never even existed and, if they did, 70% they weren’t beheaded.

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      100% certain they weren’t beheaded or it would have been confirmed by now.

      Inevitable that children, including babies, died. And also inevitable that Israelis get much more media attention than Palestinians, before and after they are killed by this wickedness.

      Predictable that the media are, often uncritically, publishing calls for the massacre of Palestinians in response, while condemning Hamas for doing exactly what they’re demanding Israel do.

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    It has now been confirmed by the IDF and a senior coroner. It was not widespread luckily and only happened in one village. I didn’t believe it at first either, and had assumed it was misinformation.

    Sad news for sure.

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    I read that various journalists had confirmed it with their own eyes, I think French ones.