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by grafmax 363 days ago
The politifact page isn’t a news source. It presents a straightforward argument. It deconstructs the most substantial evidence I could find that the Gazan population is growing amid the genocide and quote population measures - basically some outdated population projection. The argument there is admittedly quite paltry, but so is your claim. Do you actually have any substantial arguments or evidence or do you plan to just impugn the source rather than its reasoning?

As for the notion that a reporter mangled the claim about 50 beheaded babies - that just isn’t true. People from IDF spokespeople to Biden have propagated this lie.

Children are dying of famine in Gaza. Photos, reports, statistics all corroborate this story. Israeli forces have destroyed the agriculture and are starving the helpless population. They have cut off aid. They shoot many of the people who come to the remaining four “aid” stations they operate. A fraction of the deaths that have occurred after October 7 are Israeli. Countless innocent Gazas have been murdered, toddlers sniped, families bombed, drones have played the recordings of crying babies to lure victims out of hiding. Groups in Israel have rioted for the right of Israeli soldiers to rape Palestinians. The atrocities committed against an almost completely defenseless population are horrifying. Now the population is utterly defenseless and the murdering does not cease; the goal seems to be total starvation now.

People turn to condemning the genocide after becoming appalled by the facts not out of anti-semitism. Condemning genocide isn’t anti-Semitic if it happens to be Jews doing it. Numerous Jews condemn the genocide including many holocaust survivors. Genocide is a crime against humanity. All people should unite in condemning it.

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> As for the notion that a reporter mangled the claim about 50 beheaded babies - that just isn’t true. People from IDF spokespeople to Biden have propagated this lie.

This is plainly false. No other argument is needed with you because you continue to make totally false claims.

> A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider on Tuesday that its soldiers found the decapitated corpses of babies

https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-says-hamas-decapitated-b...

> deputy commander of the IDF's unit 71, David Ben Zion…He says: "They cut off heads… of children, of women."

> a spokesperson for Mr Netanyahu's office, said: "Toddlers, babies, I can tell you some of them... yes, heads were cut off. This is what we are hearing from... soldiers on the ground who dealt with the bodies."

> In an interview with Sky's Mark Austin on Tuesday evening, Israeli economy minister Nir Barkat echoed a similar claim: "We've seen just now... we've heard of 40 young boys. Some of them were burned alive. Some were beheaded. Some were shot in the head."

> [Biden] said: "I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children, I never thought I would ever, anyway..."

https://news.sky.com/story/its-important-to-separate-the-fac...

literally just read the articles you're sharing, like just read the quotes you're quoting... none talk about 40 beheaded babies.

I've never seen someone bring proofs against themselves and be so kind as to highlight the exact place that disproves their own argument. good job