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The Folly of Basing American Gaza Policy on False Hamas-Reported Casualties
American Thinker ^ | 13 Jul, 2024 | Michael S. Goldstein

Posted on 07/13/2024 4:26:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

There is no gnashing of teeth in Western nations, or even in Arab countries, and certainly not in the United Nations human rights commissions and committees, about the hundreds of thousands of Arab civilians killed by other Arabs in modern Arab-on-Arab Middle East conflicts.

The American administration continues to apply immense pressure on Israel to stop its defensive war against Hamas in Gaza, and to pivot to a “diplomatic option” under which it would negotiate with Hamas and agree to a “two-state solution” which would impose on Israel yet another hostile Arab state. This “second state” would present a long and indefensible border to Israel’s east. The administration also looks to Israel to accept Arab administration of a post-war Gaza, to include participation of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The administration states as its motive to justify this pressure by claiming that “too many” people are dying in Gaza, but this conclusion is based on false casualty information and statistics provided by Hamas itself. It is convenient, albeit tendentious and unethical, for the Administration to accept Hamas propaganda as the driving force to pressure Israel to stop defending itself.

In reality, casualties among Hamas terrorists and Gaza civilians are unknown and cannot be ascertained, because the published casualty figures are based on Hamas casualty releases, and there are no credible primary confirming sources. To say that these Hamas reports are merely unreliable is to grant them undue credulity. They are propagandistic fiction, as this author discussed regarding a 2014 Israel/Hamas conflict in Fantasy War Reporting.

The veracity of Hamas’ self-reported casualty lists has not improved in the 10 years since. Civilian casualty figures are not nearly as high as Hamas is reporting. Their figures do not report as a distinct group any, much less all, Hamas terrorist fighters...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; hamaslies; hamaspropaganda; israel; jihad; unitednations; unrwa; untiednations; unwra; waronterror

1 posted on 07/13/2024 4:26:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left always sides with islam. That says something about both.


2 posted on 07/13/2024 4:26:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

The regime learned how to create false statistics during the lockdown.


3 posted on 07/13/2024 4:32:21 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

Taqiyya, the weapon of evil individuals. Jihad continues. Civilizations are invaded, overtaken, destroyed.


4 posted on 07/13/2024 4:43:56 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Enemies domestic. Coalitions of anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life totalitarians destroying the republic.


5 posted on 07/13/2024 4:49:38 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Negotiations to develop a “two-state” solution are doomed to failure, since when has Hamas EVER agreed to, or even stipulated, anything like a “two-state” arrangement?

Hamas wants a “one-state” solution, with every Jew (and recalcitrant Muslim) pushed into the sea.

Jonah attempts to swallow the whale.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 4:54:55 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: MtnClimber
North Vietnamese Army (NVA) tank columns occupied Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, without a struggle on April 30, 1975
South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered to North Vietnam on that same day.
This event marked the end of the Vietnam War

Gaza needs to unconditionally surrender to Israel and that war will be over.

7 posted on 07/13/2024 6:17:52 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: mjp

Gaza is not able to surrender. The Hamas must surrender.

Rather than surrender, like the Japanese in the 1940’s, Hamas chooses to die for their ideology.

Hamas can’t grasp the fact that the attack, take hostages and retreat back to Gaza is not working like it has repeatedly for the last 75 years.


8 posted on 07/13/2024 6:22:44 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: bert

If Hamas does not unconditionally surrender then the war must go on until they do.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 6:45:19 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: HIDEK6

Ping


10 posted on 07/13/2024 7:53:32 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 10:48:41 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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COGAT: ‘UNRWA is simply trying to evade responsibility’

Major General Ghassan Alian lashes out at UNRWA on Twitter for their criticisms of the IDF raid of the UNRWA facility that was completed today.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393095


12 posted on 07/16/2024 2:43:04 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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