{"id":2243950,"date":"2024-05-14T03:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T07:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-and-democrats-helped-create-the-israeli-genocide-lie\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T07:20:12","slug":"how-the-media-and-democrats-helped-create-the-israeli-genocide-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-and-democrats-helped-create-the-israeli-genocide-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Media and Democrats in Spreading the Israeli &#8216;Genocide&#8217; Falsehood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-media-and-democrats-helped-create-the-israeli-genocide-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Wall \u2062Street Journal reported\u200c Hamas leader Sinwar&#8217;s tactics of using civilian \u2064casualties \u200din Gaza to pressure \u2063Israel. This strategy \u2062includes creating martyrs, spreading lies, and\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-mainstream-medias-go-to-human-rights-experts-spoiler-alert-they-hate-israel\/\" title=\"Introducing the Mainstream Media's Preferred Human Rights Experts: They Strongly Disfavor Israel\">manipulating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-at-least-40-dead-120-wounded-transferred-to-kabul-hospitals-60-critical-taliban-not-allowing-release-of-casualty-counts\/\" title=\"Report: \u2018At Least 40 Dead,\u2019 120 Wounded Transferred To Kabul Hospitals, \u201860%\u2019 Critical, Taliban Not Allowing Release Of Casualty Counts\">casualty numbers<\/a><\/a>. \u2064Various leaders and media outlets have uncritically repeated these falsehoods, including the White House, perpetuating the &#8220;genocide&#8221; myth. Recent revisions of casualty numbers highlight the misinformation surrounding the conflict&#8217;s narrative.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>In late February, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/hamas-thinks-it-could-win-gaza-war-with-israel-6254a8c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar sent a message to superiors shacked up in ritzy Qatari hotels, reminding them that \u201chigh civilian casualties [in Gaza] would add to the worldwide pressure on Israel to stop the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, starting wars and then cowering behind civilians, churning out martyrs, lying about death tolls, and putting on low-budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/pallywood-ahli-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pallywood<\/a> productions for credulous Western audiences is almost as old as Palestinian nationalism itself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1341716578\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ed832a57ab36b36a2e34bd243b80036e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ed832a57ab36b36a2e34bd243b80036e\"><\/div>\n<p>And for over seven months now, world leaders, American politicians, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6909636\/gaza-death-toll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experts<\/a>,\u201d and many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-burns-donald-trump-again-after-former-president-grants-them-exclusive-interview\/\" title=\"Establishment Media Burns Donald Trump Again After Former President Grants Them Exclusive Interview\">establishment media figures<\/a> have regurgitated the wholly unverified casualty numbers provided to them by a terror organization. It is a detestable abdication of duty that feeds the delusions of the far-left\/Islamist alliance that\u2019s infected college campuses, media organizations, and the U.S. government. Namely, it gives credibility to the \u201cgenocide\u201d myth.<\/p>\n<p>There are the usual offenders \u2014 United Nations, The Washington Post, The New York Times, MSNBC, and other organs of the left \u2014 but perhaps for the first time in history, the White House has also given these\u00a0lies\u00a0credence. In a Ramadan message to the Islamic world, Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/10\/statement-from-president-joseph-r-biden-on-the-occasion-of-ramadan\/\">repeated<\/a> the fantastical claim that \u201c[m]ore than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children\u201d by Israelis. Samantha Power, now administrator of USAID, made the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/press-releases\/apr-01-2024-celebrating-national-arab-american-heritage-month#:~:text=Since%20the%20beginning%20of%20the,the%20lives%20of%20many%20more.\">claim<\/a> during National Arab American Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>This is roughly the equivalent of using al-Qaeda propaganda in the middle of the invasion of Afghanistan or repeating Russian information in a Christmas message to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs dramatically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-hamas-war\/article-800772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revised<\/a> casualties, halving its child fatality numbers from an imaginary 14,500 deaths to an imaginary 7,797 and its women fatalities from 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths. These seem like pretty big discrepancies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3cf55d55e838e1b635f4daca4c891278 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3cf55d55e838e1b635f4daca4c891278\"><\/div>\n<p>You know why that happens? <em>Because it is all just made up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet, in February, when anti-Israel Rep. Ro Khanna asked Lloyd Austin, \u201cHow many Palestinian women and children have been killed by Israel since Oct. 7?\u201d the secretary of defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pentagon-head-says-over-25000-women-kids-killed-in-gaza-inflating-hamas-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">answered<\/a>, \u201c<em>It\u2019s<\/em> <em>over 25,000<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon later walked back that insane number, claiming Austin had inadvertently spread unverified\u00a0stats. Why would one of the most powerful men in the United States government reflexively give an imaginary death toll as an answer? Why did the president? Why did others in the administration? Because they are trying to create a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel to placate the left flank for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s set aside the fact that\u00a0Palestinian casualty numbers include not only apparitions but anyone who perishes from natural causes, misfired rockets, old age, or executions and murder. More pertinently, Hamas doesn\u2019t distinguish between civilians and armed terrorists. The IDF estimates it has killed around 15,000 terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad \u2014 some of them, believe it or not,\u00a0are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10576100802408121?casa_token=n-nvR6PhI0MAAAAA:jUQX1XmoUjZP_GB_0Znl7Z-CWR30L4u41Fzu_DlV3TA4N8TeW215P8-pjpG5r4_xTgoMLmT-wGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">women<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2024\/03\/13\/palestinian-teen-stabs-two-israelis-at-west-bank-checkpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">children<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which is a better civilian-to-combatant ratio in an urban warfare setting than perhaps any in history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2cb7881b1b9bb595020845658d6767d7 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2cb7881b1b9bb595020845658d6767d7\"><\/div>\n<p>Now, you have no reason to be un-skeptical about Israel\u2019s contentions. All governments will lie. You will notice, however, that only one entity in this conflict is the go-to source for most of the media \u2014 and it is not our allies.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to argue that the administration and media were merely relying on statistics that were available, they should have known better. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable\">released<\/a> a report back in January debunking the \u201cGaza Health Ministry numbers\u201d the UN relies on. Another study by three professors <a href=\"https:\/\/fathomjournal.org\/statistically-impossible-a-critical-analysis-of-hamass-women-and-children-casualty-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded<\/a> that the oft-repeated 70 percent civilian casualty rate was statistically impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science at the Wharton School, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers\">debunked<\/a> the Gaza Health Ministry\u2019s casualty numbers, which were a near-perfect incremental daily uptick, despite the vagaries of battle and numerous other factors. Wyner theorizes that the fake daily numbers vary so little because Hamas does \u201cnot have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows the claims are fake.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that it took Israel, a sophisticated nation, weeks to sift through the carnage of Oct. 7 to get a proper tally of the dead. And yet, miraculously, whenever an Israeli attack is carried out, within hours \u2014 sometimes minutes \u2014 Hamas determines not only the number of dead but often their ages and sex and whether or not they were civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, Hamas wants more dead women and children. If it didn\u2019t, the group would unconditionally surrender and return the men they kidnapped and women they sexually tortured. That would lead to an immediate cessation of violence. If\u00a0Israel were in the business of \u201cgenocide,\u201d as so many ignoramuses contend, it could have carpet-bombed the place rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/08\/if-palestinians-wanted-peace-and-prosperity-theyd-already-have-it\/\">providing<\/a> it\u00a0water, electricity, and agricultural equipment for many years.<\/p>\n<p>But, tragically, it is impossible to upend the terror apparatus without some civilian casualties. Hamas is counting on it. And it\u2019s also counting on Westerners, now including the administration, to help it spread its lies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-183ee8535b5481d5de72d8888c511cf0 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-183ee8535b5481d5de72d8888c511cf0\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal revealed in late February that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar messaged superiors from luxurious Qatari hotels, suggesting that high civilian casualties in Gaza would increase global pressure on Israel to end the war. This tactic involves starting wars, hiding behind civilians, creating martyrs, and spreading falsehoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2243951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Pro-Hamas-demonstrators.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Pro-Hamas-demonstrators.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}