[Yasuraka]

That sounds similar to Lantos' statement

>"given the countless cases of verified Iraqi [here: Israeli, the author] human rights violations", it was "unnecessary and counterproductive to invent atrocities."

In that sense I do see the connection between that made-up event and the bombed hospital, in that it doesn't really matter if this specific case happened, there's enough true ones to go around.

That is to only say that I now get your point, not that I agree to what I would call muddying the waters.