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Aaron Maté Profile picture
@aaronjmate
Apr 12, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The organization that censored its own investigation and scientists in the April 2018 Douma probe wants us to pretend that it has any credibility to weigh in on others, and isn't being directed by the exact same imperatives behind the unaddressed Douma cover-up:
Unsurprisingly, @OPCW misrepresents its report: "IIT concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib." No, IIT -- just like w/ Douma -- uses the cowardly "reasonable grounds" qualifier. Why? They want to suggest guilt without having to prove it.
As dissenting OPCW insiders wrote about last IIT report: "Perhaps to the credit of IIT members who argued against more definitive, stronger language in their report, what the IIT produced was the desired Western opinion about what could have happened..." thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opc…
"Weak language stating that 'there are reasonable grounds to believe' the official story, it could be argued, actually implies a 50/50 case in which there are similarly reasonable grounds 'not to believe' it."
OPCW IIT did not visit Syria for this "investigation", after OPCW was caught censoring the Douma probe. IIT instead relied on the same Syria opposition & NATO state-tied pipeline of dubious "evidence" & fake "experts." OPCW insiders addressed this too: thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opc…
Oops: @EliotHiggins & @Bellingcat failed to coordinate w/ their OPCW partners.

OPCW's IIT report explicitly contradicts Bellingcat's junk science claim about "Chlorine's Unique Fingerprints."

IIT acknowledges the "absence of truly unique environmental markers for chlorine." 😬
Sorry @iridium_tea, looks like your ability to "comment authoritatively" on chemical weapons chemistry -- as opposed to the veteran OPCW chemist who conducted the chemical weapons probe -- just took another hit. All due respect to your Rutgers grad school program, of course. 😂
Background: @EliotHiggins & Bellingcat once bragged that they "partner" w/ OPCW. When that became too embarrassing for the latter, Eliot suddenly declared that it was all an error; the result of a mistaken copy & paste from "another document." Somehow, OPCW was the lone "error."

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Feb 28
Guess who was an advisory board member for ZAKA, the scam Israeli "rescue" group that's spread fake Oct. 7th claims including beheaded babies, “mass rape”, and a fetus cut from its mother?

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It's right here on : ZakaWorld.org
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Here's a picture from the Feb. 12, 2018 ceremony "to officially install the members of the ZAKA Board."

Is that Stuart Seldowitz second from left? Regardless, he was there as a new ZAKA board member.
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Jan 29
.@gettleman, lead author of the NYT article that weaponized sexual violence to baseless claim that "Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7th", is on the defensive -- and doubling down on his fraud. ()

In a new article, he attempts to rebut unspecified "critics" -- whom he tellingly never names or cites.

That's because if he actually acknowledged and linked to the debunking by @TheGrayzoneNews, @intifada, and @Mondoweiss of his scam "reporting," it would be obvious that he can't refute it.

This comes one day after The Intercept reported that @gettleman's own NYT colleagues have raised serious concerns about his "reporting." ()nytimes.com/2024/01/29/wor…
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.@gettleman faced a serious problem: He led his story with a slain Israeli woman, Gal Abdush, and claimed she was a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence. He even all but declared that she was raped.

But then Gal's sister, Miral Alter, called out @Gettleman as a fraud. She said that "there is no proof that there was rape" and accused @gettleman of misleading their family.

Playing damage control, @gettleman went back to Miral and tried to get her to back down. The result is more scumbag journalism.
In his initial article, @Gettleman prominently featured the claims of Yossi Landau, Southern Commander of the scandal-plagued ZAKA. (pic 1)

But Haaretz has already exposed Landau as a liar for falsely claiming that he saw burned babies and a fetus cut from a dead woman’s womb on October 7. ()

So now, in his new attempt to defend his original article, how does the NYT fraudster @Gettleman handle relying on the Zaka fraudster Landau? He simply pretends he doesn't exist.

According to @Gettleman, two of the people he interviewed who described witnessing sexual assault "have since come under intense scrutiny." (pic 2)

This allows @Gettleman to omit that Yossi Landau has also come under "intense scrutiny" -- and found to be a flat-out liar.

Memo to @gettleman and his NYT editors: you don't get to escape accountability for relying on fraudulent sources by suddenly omitting that you relied on them. That shows you're only doubling down on your fraud.archive.is/H6rAmImage
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Jan 2
A major embarrassment for NYT's @gettleman
and his story on "How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence."

Gal Abdush is the Oct. 7th victim whose story leads and is featured throughout the NYT article. Her family is even featured as the cover image. NYT describes her as a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence.

But Abdush's sister says "there is no proof that there was rape." She also accuses the NYT of manipulating their family. They didn't know that she would be presented as a rape victim.

In other words, NYT weaponized both a dead woman and sexual violence to spread propaganda in the service of a genocide.
The instagram post with the sister's statement is here: instagram.com/p/C1lk5qzocmK/
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Dec 20, 2023
@noam_dworman No I don’t.

“So far, there was only one direct eyewitness testimony” — whose tale was outlandish and had zero evidence. Image
@noam_dworman Now we got two new purported male witnesses. One isn’t identified. The other happens to be an officer from an elite Israeli military unit. Image
@noam_dworman The head of Israel’s rape commission says “we will never know neither the numbers or the scope” of these alleged rapes. Why not? And why should I buy these claims if so?
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Nov 14, 2023
“CNN got an exclusive look on the ground in Gaza” by embedding with the IDF and letting it exclusively approve everything CNN puts on air.

Stenographers for mass murder:
“As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms....”

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Nov 12, 2023
Your first clue that the Washington Post's new NordStream scoop -- which blames a senior Ukrainian intel officer for the bombing -- is yet another CIA cover story is in the second graf:

"...U.S. and Western officials have called" the NordStream bombings "a dangerous attack on Europe’s energy infrastructure."

No, top US officials -- namely Blinken and Nuland -- have openly celebrated the NordStream bombings as a "tremendous strategic opportunity" that they're "very gratified" by.
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