{"id":275766,"date":"2023-11-17T07:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T07:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275766"},"modified":"2023-11-19T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T09:38:10","slug":"israels-comically-bad-disinfo-proves-theyre-losing-the-pr-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275766","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Comically Bad Disinfo Proves They\u2019re Losing the PR War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Owen Jones \u2013 The Daily Beast Nov 15, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israel\u2019s<\/a> official Arabic account affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a<\/a> selfie video of a Palestinian nurse condemning Hamas <\/a>for taking over al-Shifa hospital<\/a> in the Gaza <\/a>Strip on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

But some things about the video didn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n

Everything about it smacked of high school theater\u2014from the botched accent that sounded like it was straight out of an Israeli soap opera to the perfectly scripted IDF<\/a> talking points rolling off her tongue.<\/p>\n

Hamas <\/a>were stealing the fuel. Check.<\/p>\n

Hamas were taking morphine. Check.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then there was the pristine white lab coat looking like it had just come back from the dry cleaner, the audio track of bombs falling that sounded like samples from a late-\u201980s Casio keyboard, and the contrived stethoscope-waving you\u2018d expect from an extra on Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n

Hamas hadn\u2019t stolen her makeup though, which was immaculate.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Ministry of Health logo slapped strategically in the background but visible over her shoulder looked like an OSINT honeytrap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis video must be authentic right, I can see the Health Ministry logo\u201d\u2014at least that\u2019s what whoever made it would hope the burgeoning army of sketchy anonymous OSINT (open source intelligence) researchers might say.<\/p>\n

The only thing missing was a degree hanging in the background saying Tel Aviv Upstairs Medical College.<\/p>\n

Oh, and perhaps I should have mentioned this first, no one at al-Shifa had ever seen<\/a> the nurse before.<\/p>\n

Soon, the volume of ridicule directed at those sharing it reached such a pitch that the Israel Arabic account deleted their tweet.<\/a> I guess they didn\u2019t know the source either.<\/p>\n

Forget Nurse Ratched, this was more like Nurse Hatchet-job.<\/p>\n

It Gets Worse<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If only it stopped there. But the IDF appear to be engaged in an internal competition to see who among them can drop the biggest disinfo bomb.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 13, Daniel Hagari, the IDF\u2019s spokesperson, appeared in a video<\/a>. There were no nurses this time, but Hagari looked like he was standing in a nursery. Murals painted by children adorned the walls, and he pointed to a baby\u2019s bottle and a bag of diapers.<\/p>\n

Hagari claimed that he was standing in the basement of al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza. He also claimed that this is where Hamas was keeping hostages. Among his evidence for this claim, a jerry-rigged toilet, and a pair of curtains covering not a window, but a wall.<\/p>\n

Why have curtains in a basement right?<\/p>\n

But he saves his most damning evidence for last, pointing to a piece of paper stuck to the wall. On the paper is Arabic writing. With mounting indignation, Hagari offered his translation: \u201cThis is a guardian list, where every terrorist writes his name, and every terrorist has his own shift, guarding the people that were here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only thing is: It wasn\u2019t a list of names; it was a list of days of the week.<\/p>\n

Why Lie?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

These disinfo whoppers aren\u2019t anomalies, but rather a series of increasingly desperate attempts to try and justify the growing number of civilians killed in Gaza in response to the horrific Hamas attack on Oct. 7. Even Israel, which has enjoyed broad support from most Western allies, and particularly the U.S., is aware that President Joe Biden is under<\/a> more and more pressure to push Israel for an end to the killing.<\/p>\n

Yet this desperation is evident in a seemingly unstemmable tide of preposterous claims. Even the tactics appear to be shifting.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s usual strategy has been to try and claim Palestinians are exaggerating or making up their casualties\u2014the so-called \u2018Pallywood\u2019 tactic<\/a>. On Oct. 14, for example, the MFA-run Israel account claimed<\/a> that Palestinians were trying to pass off a doll as a dead Palestinian child.<\/p>\n

This was false. The boy, 4-year-old Omar Bilal al-Banna, was killed by an Israeli airstrike. He was real, not a fake nurse with a stethoscope.<\/p>\n

As the war has progressed, the so-called \u2018crisis actors\u2019 trope has become harder to defend with the undeniable evidence of mass civilian atrocities.<\/p>\n

This partly explains why Israel seems to be ramping up its disinformation.<\/p>\n

But it also might explain why the disinformation is getting more sinister. On Nov. 12 the IDF claimed to have found<\/a> an annotated and pristine copy of Mein Kampf<\/em> in a child\u2019s bedroom in Gaza. This came shortly after the Israel account also posted a cartoon<\/a> showing how Israel brings up its babies with love while Gazans are brought up on hate.<\/p>\n

All this on the back of Netanyahu\u2019s now-infamous deleted tweet, where he stated that the current war was one between \u201cthe children of light and the children of darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

A worrying aspect of though is how it seeks to dehumanize Palestinian children. After all, if you can\u2019t deny killing them, maybe try and portray them as children worth killing.<\/p>\n

In Israel\u2019s increasingly desperate disinformation, we can see the foundations of a disturbing campaign attempting to try and justify or legitimize an impossible-to-justify statistic\u2014that of the over 11,000 civilians killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the Ministry of Health, over 4,500 are children.<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On closer examination, a video of a nurse at al-Shifa hospital condemning Hamas for taking over hospital and stealing fuel and drugs points to more Israeli disinformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,42,37,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275807,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275766\/revisions\/275807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}