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Infant photos at Shifa are not believable (incubator propaganda?)
EoZ ^ | November 19, 2023

Posted on 11/19/2023 4:00:50 PM PST by Freeleesy

Infant photos at Shifa are not believable

Over the past couple of days, we've seen photos like these out of Shifa hospital:


The caption from Reuters says, "Newborn babies in al-Shifa hospital are swaddled and laid down seven or eight to a bed in a desperate effort to keep them warm and alive."

But if you want to keep the babies warm without an incubator, you would swaddle all of them - not leave some naked. You would cover their heads with the knit caps some of us are familiar with.Or, ideally, you would find people to hold them - preferably their mothers - and give them skin to skin contact to keep them warm. 

You don't just lie them on a bed, some of them without clothes, one of them (who does not look premature or sickly at all) with their face pushed up against the sharp corner of a box.

This is not treating premature babies. This is abusing them for a photo-op. 

Another photo of babies from Shifa hospital shows something interesting:


There is equipment and lights in the background that is clearly running on - electricity. 

In 1991, Kuwait was trying to get US public opinion to go against Saddam Hussein. And they used the best prop they could find: babies forced out of incubators to die.
In his urgent arguments during the fall and winter of 1990 for military action against Saddam Hussein, President Bush made much of the Iraqi leader's cruelty toward the Kuwaiti people. Mr. Bush's allegations of atrocities by Iraqi forces generally went unchallenged. Mr. Hussein's violent disposal of dissident Iraqis was a matter of record, so few politicians, journalists or human rights investigators were prepared to question the President's campaign to paint his opponent as Adolf Hitler reborn.

Some claims were no doubt true, but the most sensational one -- that Iraqi soldiers removed hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them to die on hospital floors -- was shown to be almost certainly false by an ABC reporter, John Martin, in March 1991, directly after the liberation of Kuwait. He interviewed hospital doctors who stayed in Kuwait throughout the occupation.

But before the war, the incubator story seriously distorted the American debate about whether to support military action. Amnesty International believed the tale, and its ill-considered validation of the charges likely influenced the seven U.S. Senators who cited the story in speeches supporting the Jan. 12 resolution authorizing war. Since the resolution passed the Senate by only six votes, the question of how the incubator story escaped scrutiny -- when it really mattered -- is all the more important. (Amnesty International later retracted its support of the story.)

A little reportorial investigation would have done a great service to the democratic process. Americans would have been interested to know the identity of "Nayirah," the 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who shocked the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Oct. 10, 1990, when she tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who "left the babies on the cold floor to die." The chairmen of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah's identify would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in occupied Kuwait.

There was a better reason to protect her from exposure: Nayirah, her real name, is the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S., Saud Nasir al-Sabah. Such a pertinent fact might have led to impertinent demands for proof of Nayirah's whereabouts in August and September of 1990, when she said she witnessed the atrocities, as well as corroboration of her charges. The Kuwaiti Embassy has rebuffed my efforts to reach Nayirah.
Saddam was no saint, but the story was a hoax. Americans, picturing the cruelty of babies forced out of their incubators to die in the cold, - a story amplified by an American public relations firm - solidly backed the war. 

We know that many doctors at Al Shifa are fans of Hamas. Others are afraid of Hamas. We know there was plenty of quite public Hamas activity around Shifa Hospital on October 7 that hospital workers witnessed and stayed silent about. Their testimony and staged photos are not anything to be relied upon. 

But the media believed them, and still believes them, no matter how ridiculous their lies are.  



TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: alshifa; babies; gaza; humanshields; incubator; incubators; pallywood; swkrdsofiron; swordsofiron; war

1 posted on 11/19/2023 4:00:50 PM PST by Freeleesy
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Pallywood strikes again.

The thing is that we are seeing so much Pallywood fakery that one wonders why they have to do this. It is almost as if they have to invent atrocities because Israel is being so careful to avoid innocents and is denying them the opportunities otherwise. https://t.co/lRVH8xzqfV— David Wurmser (@Wurmserscribit) November 13, 2023

A photo of Gaza babies has appeared all over social media saying they were taken out of their incubators because the hospital doesn’t have electricity.

The thing is there’s also an uncropped photo that clearly shows a functional electrical monitor in the background.



Did Hamas… pic.twitter.com/S5qm5ZdJPR— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 12, 2023


2 posted on 11/19/2023 4:07:25 PM PST by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

I am reminded of the 1943 movie NORTH STAR in which the evil nazis take Russian kids, drain their blood to give wounded German soldiers transfusions.

Such propaganda has been with us for years. In 1969 I used to listen to Radio Moscow over short wave. It was interesting to hear how many North Vietnamese schools, hospitals and Orphanages acted as bomb magnets for US bombs.


3 posted on 11/19/2023 4:23:40 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Freeleesy

They look like Hammie shields to me. The same ones they use when they’re killing Jews.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 4:28:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Incubators pallywood...


5 posted on 11/19/2023 4:36:10 PM PST by Milagros (Y)
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To: Freeleesy

…right next to the baby milk factory….


6 posted on 11/19/2023 4:36:44 PM PST by wny
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To: Freeleesy

Things were different back then. We had no internet. Got what the media fed us. Easier to lie.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 4:42:21 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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…right next to the baby milk factory….

I remember that well, watched it on CNN as the reporter dipped his finger into the powder and tasted it. They pulled back and in broken English was written on a board "baby milk factory". CNN ate that crap right up as did every jello brain zot. At that point I was always suspicions of the media, it was an very simply example of media manipulation.

8 posted on 11/19/2023 5:27:39 PM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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My favorite part was a pristine file cabinet, standing perfectly undisturbed amid a pile of smoking rubble and all the idiot “journalists” examining it as it was genuine.


9 posted on 11/19/2023 5:31:41 PM PST by wny
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Oh yes, forgot about that one. So many instances of Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw broadcasting half truths just so CNN could remain in the country with Saddams permission.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 6:19:14 PM PST by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: Freeleesy
Some claims were no doubt true, but the most sensational one -- that Iraqi soldiers removed hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them to die on hospital floors -- was shown to be almost certainly false by an ABC reporter, John Martin, in March 1991, directly after the liberation of Kuwait. He interviewed hospital doctors who stayed in Kuwait throughout the occupation.

He interviewed ONE doctor, not a Kuwaiti doctor but a Palestinian, who turned out to be a collaborator, who had to fled Kuwait as soon as his little feet would carry him away, never to return, when his Iraqi friends pulled out. The western press took the word of a Palestinian collaborator over that of a score of nurses.

11 posted on 11/19/2023 8:10:54 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Freeleesy

Que the lady with the bomb magnet.


12 posted on 11/19/2023 11:42:06 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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FLASHBACK to - JANUARY 2008

https://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=901
https://archive.ph/dHUy4

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LIARS in ACTION in Gaza - (and ..ckers will buy the lies as usual)

Look at these telling photos:  http://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/16576.shtml#25
Poor Palestinians have to be with candles everywhere; in the streets, in conference rooms, even babies in incubators!   Or, can it be a staged lie?! Watch the windows and the artificial lights on the photos made with wider angles ... 















How sad! The only problem is that for seeing the candle-lights they had to darken all these rooms with shades first, and in the street they forgot to turn off the advertisement lights.
Look at all these fakes in the really telling photos by the AP and Reuters.
 
Liars are in action as usual, and ..ckers will buy their lies as usual...



We can only hope that the next Palestinian generation will grow up without having lies around all the time...
 
(E.M.)

13 posted on 11/20/2023 4:43:53 AM PST by Milagros (Y)
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To: piasa

Not surprised.


14 posted on 11/25/2023 4:58:48 PM PST by Freeleesy
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes i heard about that of WW2.

Very interesting about the 1969 Russian radio. Thanks for sharing.


15 posted on 11/27/2023 9:44:27 PM PST by Freeleesy
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