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Israeli propaganda can afford to be preposterous because racist dehumanization has already done the real work for them. If you accept that Palestinians are irrational and violent (“human animals”) and that Hamas is uniquely barbaric then even the flimsiest lies will do. 1/
A missile launched agst them becomes a missile that they launched, a hospital becomes a terror ward, an ambulance could only be a transporter of terrorists, a basement room clearly used as a shelter from bombs could only have held hostages because only Israelis can be victims 2/
Unfortunately this is effective not only among Israelis but for most of the North American and European media, beyond whose liberal principles lie the same racist structures of thought. They are not being cynical—they believe they are being responsible. (Most of them anyway.) 3/
The rest of the world is not so stupid. 4/
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