The @washingtonpost did its own "analysis" of #ShireenAbuAkleh's death, and ignores the same evidence that the others did. Because they had already determined the outcome before the "investigation" they ignored the more compelling evidence. @SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix 1/
@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix The interview Ali Samoudi, a known Pallywood liar. He says that he knows the bullets came from the IDF convoy. But on May 11, he said they came from roofs of buildings "opposite" from him. WaPo didn't ask him about that.
There is line of sight from buildings across. 3/
@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix He was not the only witness who noted the snipers on buildings across from the Shireen. But they assumed they were IDF. THEY WEREN'T. The IDF didn't take over any buildings that day - but the shebab sure did.
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@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix The WaPo said that Shireen was 182 meters away from the IDF convoy. Based on their own pictures, Google Maps and Bing say they were nearly 200 meters away. This is a major difference - one is within the audio forensics distance, and one isn't.
But even more important....
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@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix The WaPo is measuring from Shireen;'s location - NOT THE MICROPHONE LOCATION. The audio forensics is from mic, not her. That adds an additional 10-15 meters beyond her - 210-215 meters away from gunshots, which is WELL outside the range of the audio analysis.
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@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix Which means that if Google and Bing are correct in distance, and the IDF was at that street corner (which video shows they were), there is no way this could be from the IDF.
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@washingtonpost@SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix And if you want to see what a clear line of sight looks like from 177-187 meters away from the camera mic, here it is. Did you check this building out as a possibility? Did you ask residents about Pal snipers? Did you act like real reporters? @SarahCahlan@mmkelly22@SBHendrix
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Of course, @time is part of the problem of spreading the new antisemitism.
Its initial report of #October7massacre was about Israel's response, and didn't mention any Israelis were killed. elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/repreh…
Ten of the basic facts that the news media doesn't report:
1. The conflict is older than Israel and older than Zionism. Arabs have held Jews in contempt since Mohammed.
2. You cannot assume the Palestinian side is rational. Their mindset is governed by an honor/shame mentality that is more important than what is best for Palestinians altogether.
3. That same honor/shame mindset means that lying is acceptable - or even mandatory - when the truth is embarrassing.
4. According to surveys, Palestinians are the most antisemitic group on Earth. Not "anti-Zionist" - antisemitic.
5. Urban warfare is the most difficult warfare there is. The extensive tunnel system makes it perhaps the most difficult in history.
6. If Hamas survives the war, it is a major blow to the entire Western world's freedom.
7. The only winner when Gaza civilians die is Hamas.
8. Hamas' entire war strategy is based on Israel not wanting to kill civilians and willing to do anything to protect Israeli civilians. In short, Hamas views Israel's morality as its weakest attribute.
9. Palestinians - West Bank and Gaza, Fatah and Hamas - overwhelmingly support murdering Jews. A huge majority have supported the most heinous specific terror attacks. And they overwhelmingly do not support a two state solution, except as a stage to destroy Israel.
10. The IDF is a professional army. It doesn't act out of revenge or fury. Every move it makes is for a specific military purpose and every attack has a specific military target in mind.
Supporting data:
1. The Quran includes the themes that Jews - as a whole - are "killers of prophets" and that they cannot be trusted to hold on to their side in agreements.
The Jews of Yemen wrote a letter to Maimonides in the 12th century asking for advice on how to deal with their persecution. His response included very pointed criticisms of how Arabs treat Jews throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.
The "kinot" - intricate poems chanted on Tisha B'Av, the Jewish fast day that recalls many historic tragedies - include oppression by Arabs of Jews. And some communities like the Tunisian and Moroccan Jewish communities wrote their own kinot about pogroms and attacks on their communities centuries ago.
19th century travelers throughout the Middle East often noted that the worst insult an Arab could hurl at another was to call him a "Jew."
All of these were before modern Zionism.
The Arabs don't hate Jews because of Israel. They hate Israel because of Jews. And all the talk about "Nakba" or "occupation" or "apartheid" are excuses for Arab hate created after the fact, not explanations of it.
2. The Honor/Shame psyche is a larger topic than I could do justice to in a tweet, but in short it means that some societies have a shame culture (much of the East) and some have a guilt culture (much of the West.) In a shame culture, one must do everything to avoid being dishonored (hence, "honor killings" of women who embarrass their fathers/husbands.) In a guilt culture, people take personal responsibility for their own actions, in a shame culture, the guilty party tries to hide their shameful actions.
Everyone likes to project their own feelings and attitudes onto others; after all, we are told to put ourselves into others' shoes before judging. But the two systems are utterly alien to each other, and both sides constantly attribute their own ways of thinking onto the other.
Israel's very existence is an intense source of shame. A small number of Jews, who were derided as weak and inferior, defeated Arabs in the one field they are most proud of: the battlefield. This is why 1948 was a "nakba," a catastrophe for the Arab world, and not just another of their many military defeats. They could handle being defeated by Christians since they were undoubtedly many and powerful, but Jews? The shame is unmeasurable. And the only solution is the complete destruction of Israel.
The good news is that this attitude can be changed. The UAE, Bahrain and to some extent Morocco have managed to look at Israel as a permanent fixture and a nation that they can cooperate with for mutual benefit - a corollary to shame/guilt is zero-sum/win-win thinking. But Palestinians have entrenched themselves in the failed shame culture, and to them, any Jew they kill helps restore their lost "honor."
Abbas tells UN that the Kotel is exclusively Muslim: "The occupation government is also violating the city of Jerusalem and its people, assaulting our Islamic and Christian sanctities there, and violating the historical and legal status of the holy places, especially the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which international legitimacy has recognized as an exclusive right for Muslims alone, including the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall and the Buraq Wall (Kotel), according to the report of the League of Nations in 1930."
He also called for "an apology, reparation, and compensation" from the US and Britain for the Balfour Declaration.
Abbas again falsely claims that Israel's recognition by the UN was conditional on accepting resolutions 181 and 194. That is a lie, as anyone can see by reading the resolution accepting Israel. elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/07/erekat…
The only reasonable response to this has been that the Zionists had large amounts of capital from the Jewish diaspora.
This is true - and it proves my point. Jews didn't depend on anyone else to build their nation. They funded it themselves, they drained the swamps themselves..
...they built their government themselves, they built cities from scratch themselves, they built an economy themselves. They had no foreign aid, no NGOs giving advice, and the British didn't allow them to do a great deal.
The ONLY people to have dug underneath the Temple Mount in the past century are Muslims.
Here is a 1990s photo of the Waqf digging out Solomon's Stables to build a huge underground mosque. They destroyed countless artifacts from the times of the Temples.
@UNESCO More on this issue here, since Palestinians claim that Israel is digging under the Temple Mount and that no Jewish artifacts were ever found in the area - which is absurd.
A lot of Israel haters have discovered this account in recent months. To help you out, here are some of my themes, all of which I have backed up with voluminous evidence on my blog.
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1. Anti-Zionism is thinly veiled antisemitism
2. Arab antisemitism is orders of magnitude worse than reported in the media