🧵Fabricated Israel genocide claim relies on quotes by Israeli officials to show “specific intent” necessary to prove genocide. South Africa ICJ filing lists 8 quotes by PM Netanyahu (numbered below) claiming intent to genocide. But each one is a lie. See debunking of all 8: 1/
Quote 1: Bibi promised “to operate forcefully everywhere.” Does this prove "specific intent" to genocide? NO. Tweet literally says opposite, attacking only Hamas and telling civilians to leave! Lie #1 by South Africa, this is the FIRST evidence claiming Bibi intends genocide. 2/
Quote 2: Bibi said ““[w]e are striking our enemies with unprecedented might.” Did this mean intention to kill all Pals? No. In same 3 min statement he specifically states the goal is to “eliminate Hamas” and NEVER refers to Pals or civilians. Lie #2. 3/
Quote 3: South Africa claims AFTER airstrikes that killed 2,670 Pals Bibi said soldiers “understand scope of mission” & stand ready “to defeat bloodthirsty monsters who have risen against [Israel] to destroy us.” There are 2 lies here, one shows shoddiness of court document. 4/
First, South Africa claims Bibi’s words came AFTER 2,670 Pals killed, as if they were connected. But the document cited about deaths is from Oct 17 (see below) while Bibi’s statement was made on Oct 15 or two days earlier! So the supposed connection is incredibly dishonest. 5/
Second, Bibi said absolutely nothing, zero, about killing Palestinians, genocide, anything like this. Here is the entire statement. It specifically names Hamas as the monsters, not civilians. Lie #3 by South Africa. 6/ gov.il/en/departments…
Quote 4: South Africa cites Bibi saying to Knesset situation as “struggle between the children of light and children of darkness, between humanity and law of the jungle” as “dehumanizing” and therefore "specific intent" to genocide. This is false, just lie #4 as shown next. 7/
Bibi's words to Knesset only cite Hamas, never Palestinians or killing civilians, names Hamas often as the “darkness” & "murderers." Not Palestinians or anyone else. It’s not "dehumanizing" to call rapists & baby kidnappers these things. Below is the core of Bibi's statement. 8/
Quote 5: South Africa cites a second statement by Bibi about “sons of lightness and… darkness” and “good” vs “evil” as somehow genocidal. Here is the full tweet; but the prior tweet in same thread specifically says “Hamas” – not Palestinians. Lie #5. 9/
Quote 6: South Africa cites Bibi’s “Christmas message” below as “specific intent” to kill all Palestinians. It’s not clear how, there is nothing remotely “genocidal.” Calling rapists & baby kidnappers “monsters” and “barbarians” does not evidence genocidal intent. Lie #6. 10/
Quote 7: South Africa claims Bibi’s reference to biblical story of Amalek evidences intent to genocide. But there is no evidence he meant Palestinians vs Hamas only. Amalek is used metaphorically in Jewish study to refer to mortal enemies of Jews, in this case Hamas. 11/
It may be true other Israelis in past used Amalek to refer to Palestinians. This does not therefore prove Bibi meant Pals. But better evidence: in SAME press statement Bibi specifically noted Hamas & “the murderers” were the target; so Hamas=Amalek. 12/ gov.il/en/departments…
Quote 8: This is the second time Bibi mentioned Amalek, again the focus was clearly on Hamas. He literally said Hamas the sentence before. So how it is possible to claim Bibi really said Amalek as meaning to kill ALL Palestinians? Lie #8. 13/
South Africa lies 8 times in failed effort to show Netanyahu voiced “specific intent” to genocide. Without intent proven, entire genocide charge against Israel FALLS APART. How strong can their case be if there isn't even ONE convincing "genocidal" quote by Israel’s PM? END
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🧵Report by @Mr_Andrew_Fox debunking Hamas fatality data has been predictably attacked by Hamas defense attorneys who can't accept a group that did 10/7, kidnaps babies & rapes hostages would lie. Review of criticism and why report remains accurate: 1/ henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/q…
First, critics claim, ad nauseam, that Hamas Ministry of Health (MoH) data has been reliable in the past so it's credible today. False, as HJS report and thread below prove. Hamas vastly overstated civilian deaths in prior wars like they are now. 2/
Many react to report's key chart showing male overrepresentation in fatalities with “so what, it's known men die in wars more then women”—thereby admitting the narrative of IDF targeting women & children is false and admitting fatality list probably has many male combatants. 3/
🧵Libelous new @Airwars analysis on Israel bombing of Gaza in Oct 2023 assumes all deaths are civilian unless proven otherwise. This crazy assumption leads to their conclusion that of 606 IDF airstrikes only 32 combatants died versus 5,139 civilians or 99.4%. Analysis: 1/
According to Airwars, IDF invested millions of dollars sending up F35 & F16s, huge air force resources on 606 bombing attacks but could not kill even ONE combatant in 96% of these sorties, but did kill 8 civilians/strike. Are we supposed to take this Airwars report seriously? 2/
Fatal flaw is the "lack of information bias": Airwars does not know which males age >13 was civilian vs combatant as it does not have master list of 40,000 Hamas/PIJ militants. Airwars also does not know how many combatant deaths were omitted from any casualty list by Hamas. 3/
🧵Why does Ireland want ICJ to “broaden its interpretation” of genocide as legally defined? Why did Amnesty find law “cramped” and change it? Because ICJ 2015 ruling in Croatia case clearly proves no genocide in Gaza. Here is review of case. Worth a read to really understand: 1/
Core issue is the very high bar ICJ required to prove “special intent” under the Genocide Convention. For acts by an accused party to be genocide the “ONLY reasonable conclusion to be drawn” from those acts is to kill the group. A strict hurdle that requires hard evidence. 2/
ICJ ruling notes that Croatia argues that Serbia’s crimes are in fact such that the “ONLY reasonable inference to be drawn is that Serb leaders were motivated by genocidal intent.” But if ICJ accepts that Serbia had other specific aims, then this hurdle of intent is not met. 3/
🧵Amnesty invents new laws of genocide 5 times in its “report” which it admits. Amnesty cannot find “intent to genocide” by Israel so it literally created new standards & legal terms in a desperate attempt to find "dolus specialis." It still fails. Detail on 5 fabrications: 1/
Amnesty admits it is not following “international law” but a vague “jurisprudence” allowing them to mix & match opinions & interpretations as they wish. They falsely claim that if "direct evidence" of intent cannot be found, circumstantial evidence is good enough, voila! 2/
Amnesty fabricates more ways to show intent this time by claiming that other violations of int'l law, such as “ill-treatment of Palestinians” and basically anything bad is good enough. It gets easier and easier for Amnesty to prove intent after every page of its report. 3/
🧵Here is a pre-war image of the luxury Hamad towers where Hamas dug under to build a tunnel network where it held and killed 6 Israeli hostages. The lie of Gaza exposed: luxury civilian homes exploited by Hamas for combat. Israel is then blamed for its destruction. Detail: 1/
As disclosed today, 6 hostages were held by Hamas, then murdered, in a tunnel network with many shafts dug right under this complex of 60 5-story buildings comprising 3,000 apartments built by Qatar, in the "open air prison." Here is a map of the tunnels: 2/
Hamad Towers is a microcosm of the entire Gaza war: massive int'l aid pouring in, Gaza is actually a modern urban enclave, Hamas exploitation of civilian Gaza for war, careful IDF action within rules of war and tragic destruction blamed on Israel only. 3/ gulf-times.com/story/557266/w…
🧵Hezbollah vs IDF killed casualty ratio in Lebanon corroborates the IDF claim of at ~18,000 Hamas/PIJ combatants killed in Gaza. The 48:1 ratio in Lebanon precisely matches the ratio of Hamas vs IDF killed in Gaza. Key data & analysis below: 1/
IDF reports 46 soldiers killed in ground operations in Lebanon. Hezbollah killed are at least 2,200, identified individually by death notification, compiled by a number of observers like the one below. Hezbollah casualty counts do not appear disputed. 2/
The 2,200 killed in the ground operation matches the 3,000 Hezbollah the IDF says have been killed since 10/7. Several 100 were killed before the ground operation, others in the beeper attack, etc. Again, I have not seen disputes on these numbers. 3/