Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel

Spiked ^ | 20 Nov 2023 | Brendan O'Neill

[Rummyfan]

From CNN to the radical left, why won’t people accept the truth about Hamas’s horrors at al-Shifa?

We need to talk about the pathological distrust of Israel. About the speed and relish with which our media elites dismiss every Israeli claim about the war in Gaza. Consider the Battle of al-Shifa Hospital. Israeli officials have offered up ample proof that the hospital was used as a military base by Hamas. They’ve shown us caches of weapons, video footage of gun-toting, knife-wielding men hurrying hostages through corridors, a vast tunnel that is 10 metres down and 55 metres long. And yet it is all breezily discounted. This is not healthy scepticism of ‘war propaganda’ – it’s a dogmatic refusal to accept a single thing the Jewish State says.

The morbid disbelief of Israeli evidence has reached insane levels in recent days. When IDF commanders displayed the Kalashnikovs, ammunition, hand grenades and bullet-proof vests they found at al-Shifa, the woke media shrugged. These are just ‘small stashes’ of weapons, said the BBC in its best haughty voice. This begs the question of how much weaponry Britain’s public broadcaster thinks it is acceptable for a fascist movement to store in a hospital. Ten guns? Twenty? ‘Those piles of Kalashnikovs’ are ‘frankly not convincing’, said the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen with superb derision. Maybe they belong to the hospital’s ‘security department’, he said.

[silent majority rising]

Here is an excellent report in how Hamas is using the hospitals as an instrument of war:

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas-operation-in-hospitals/

[GOPJ]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4198373/posts

For Gazans and West Bankians ... survey found that, after the October 7 massacre in Israel, 98% now feel even prouder than before to be “Palestinians.”

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Here’s an excellent poll on the reality of Gaza...

[DCBryan1]

‘Those piles of Kalashnikovs’ are ‘frankly not convincing’, said the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen with superb derision. Maybe they belong to the hospital’s ‘security department’, he said.

Simple retort: "....what about the grenades, RPGs, plastic explosives, and suicide vests"?

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The network media is absurd. It's "Israel says..." or "Israel claims..." every other sentence. The real kicker is when they throw in "has not been verified" - by whom? They never say what an acceptable authority for verification is.

 

 

[Organic Panic]

“Simple retort: “....what about the grenades, RPGs, plastic explosives, and suicide vests”?”

That’s just a typical pediatric wing of a Palestinian hospital.

[Eagles6]

But, they take ham ass’s claim that 1,000,000 women and children were slaughtered by the IDF at face value.