What does the steady stream of laughable Israeli propaganda say about us
The Israeli propaganda may be laughable, but the joke is on us.
Israel has been dropping tons of bombs on the captive population of its Gaza concentration camp, slaughtering civilians by the thousands. The Israelis have so far killed more than 15,000 Gazans, nearly half of them children, since their extermination campaign went in full swing on October 7.
The famed Israeli propaganda machinery (also known as Hasbara), which sets narratives for Israeli crimes and produces justification for the said crimes once they are committed, has churned out some very shoddy fare over the course of the last 7 weeks.
40 beheaded babies and mass rapes of Israeli women
The Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza began with a bunch of egregious lies.
The Zionist regime of the apartheid state began its propaganda push with the atrocious and unsubstantiated lie about Hamas fighters beheading 40 Israeli babies and mass raping Israeli women. Seven weeks into their extermination campaign in Gaza and a mountain of Palestinian corpses later — all aided and abetted by self-proclaimed Zionist Joe Biden — the Israelis are yet to produce a single piece of evidence that Hamas fighters killed children or raped women.
Moreover, a mountain of evidence has piled up, indicating the Israelis opened fire on their own citizens and killed them by the hundreds. They also want the public to believe that melted cars, bodies charred beyond recognition, and destroyed buildings inside the Israeli territory were Hamas’s handiwork when the Palestinian fighters possessed no such firepower during their October 7 incursion.
Bombing at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
Ten days into its extermination campaign, the Israelis bombed a part of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. Hananya Naftali, a digital aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, all but confirmed the attack on the hospital to be perpetrated by the Israeli military, writing on Twitter: “Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza.” The post was soon deleted.
A day later, the Israelis produced an audio clip purported to be a recording of two Hamas operatives claiming the attack on the hospital to be a Palestinian resistance group’s handiwork. It was quickly debunked due to the glaring inconsistencies in the audio. There’s also the small matter of Hamas rockets not being powerful enough to kill hundreds of people in one strike.
Israeli actress posing as an Al-Shifa nurse
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has left no doubt in anyone’s mind that it is specifically targeting hospitals. Commentators have even called it the Israeli war on Gaza’s hospitals. One of the most egregious assaults of the ongoing campaign by the Israelis has been their attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital.
They laid a siege on the hospital — Gaza’s largest — for days on end, shooting at patients (including a quadriplegic), cutting off essential supplies, forcing days-old premature babies out of their incubators (killing 3 of them), and ultimately evacuating the hospital completely after rendering it dysfunctional.
Amidst the Israeli barbarity in the hospital came a video from a woman cosplaying as a Gazan nurse at the Al-Shifa Hospital. In the video, the woman lies about Hamas fighters stealing medical equipment and asks everyone to evacuate the hospital overrun by Hamas in her telling. She was later revealed as Hannah Abutbul, an Israeli actress.
Israel military spokesman sees terrorists in calendars
Israeli occupation army spokesman Daniel Hagari produced a shoddy effort of his own.
Attempting to show the Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza as a place used by Hamas to hold its captives, all that Hagari managed to reveal in his army’s heroic discovery were hospital gowns, a small cord, a control box for water pumps, a baby bottle, a small kitchen, a toilet, and a wall calendar. Hagari pointed out that the calendar had the names of Hamas fighters on the days they were supposed to be on duty. Arabic speakers soon pointed out that all that the calendar revealed was the days of the week written in Arabic.
Of course, the Israelis are yet to show to the world the slick graphic of “Hamas' Headquarters,” beneath the Al-Shifa Hospital that they claim exists and which they showed in a detailed 3-D animation.
Having evacuated the hospital completely and posed for pictures with the Israeli flag inside the medical facility, the Israelis are yet to provide any evidence of the structure in the hospital’s basement that their designers have so slickly produced.
Mein Kampf in a child’s bedroom
The very top of the Israeli political hierarchy hasn’t been any good at propaganda either.
Israel President Isaac Herzog held up a copy of Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, during a TV interview and declared that it was found in a child’s bedroom in Gaza. Despite the heavy bombardment that Gaza has been subjected to since October 7, the annotated book appeared pristine, free of any wear and tear.
As I wrote in an earlier piece: “Having equated the Palestinian resistance fighters with ISIS and slandered them with the Nazi label, the only logical place this blatant propaganda was heading was for a copy of Mein Kampf to be found in a Gaza house, as one Gazan journalist had predicted some weeks ago. Worse, to be found inside a child’s room in Gaza.”
Many, many propaganda fails
There is a huge pile of Israeli propaganda fails over the last 7 weeks.
Among other Hasbara efforts include the video of the Israeli occupation forces ostensibly helping an elderly man find his way before executing him when the camera stopped rolling, the footage of the Israelis giving water to thirsty Gazans at the beach before shooting at their feet when the camera stopped, the social media post of the Israelis pretending to supply incubators to a Gaza hospital when hospitals needed fuel for the incubators that stopped functioning due to the cutting off of essential supplies, the Israelis wanting you to believe manholes to be Hamas tunnels. The list is endless.
There were also guided tours for Western journalists in the supposed Hamas base inside Al-Shifa. The journalists were barred from talking to doctors or patients inside the hospital. No self-respecting journalist would have accepted such a deal, but self-respect and Western mass media don’t go together.
Humiliation fetish or …
What does such blatantly false propaganda meant to convey? Do the Israelis have a humiliation fetish? Do they like to be laughed at by the rest of the world at their idiocy and duplicity? Surely not.
For a criminal colonial state that has illegally occupied a hapless population for 75 years and has meted out all kinds of humiliations to its victims, perhaps there’s another explanation for its poor propaganda: it just doesn’t matter.
No matter the egregiousness of their crimes. No matter their vocalising of genocidal rhetoric as they commit it. No matter their piling of Palestinian corpses, including thousands upon thousands of children, against all norms of warfare and human decency. No matter their targeting of hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, refugee camps, bakeries, and civilian infrastructure. No matter their barbarity of running over human bodies with bulldozers and kidnapping women and children from their bedrooms. None of it matters.
They know — hell, they very well know — that no matter what they do, no matter how ridiculous their claims, and how shoddy their propaganda, and how barbaric their behaviour, their bloodthirsty enablers in Western governments and their mockingbirds in the mass media will always have their backs, making apologies for them and justifying their genocidal crimes against humanity.
If the masses rise, they will be called terror sympathisers and labelled antisemites. If individuals dissent, they will be fired from their jobs and labelled antisemites. If politicians object, they will be censured, have their reputations tarred, and labelled antisemites.
The message from the Zionists in the settler colonial apartheid state of Israel is loud and clear: Israel is untouchable. Your opinion doesn’t matter.
Laugh about it if you want.
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Okay, this is more like it, the bit with the nurse was , simply hilarious because she is the best actress they got.