| > Setting aside the fact that these are numbers provided by Hamas […] This is an unserious argument. 1. The numbers come from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is indeed “controlled” by Hamas since Hamas is their governing entity. 2. The Ministry has no verifiable history of being wrong on the civilian casualty numbers. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: The Ministry’s numbers have held up to scrutiny in ALL of the previous wars (including scrutiny from Israel) [0]. 3. The Biden Administration has corroborated the numbers. 4. Israel hasn’t denied the numbers. In fact, in one report from the IDF a couple months ago, they corroborated the Ministry’s numbers at the time. 5. The same silly argument could be made to dismiss just about anything coming from Israel given their documented history of lying and even manipulating our (American) media, from lies about beheaded babies [1] to pushing propaganda via U.S. media outlets like the New York Times [2]. > The United States killed many more Japanese civilians than American civilians who died during the war, that doesn’t make them right. […] This is just a whataboutism and another unserious argument. One evil act doesn’t justify another evil act. This is as serious of an argument as someone trying to justify slavery in 2024 by pointing to America’s history with slavery. [0]: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-mini... [1]: https://theintercept.com/2023/12/14/israel-biden-beheaded-ba... [2]: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schw... |
This is laughable. They claimed that Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people that the Palestinians themselves bombed. You are either hopelessly biased and unserious or uninformed.