Just watched "We Will Dance Again," a BBC film written & directed by former (?) Israeli army reservist Yariv Mozer (who took part in the failed 2006 invasion of Lebanon).
Many significant omissions but perhaps most striking: the disappearance of the "Hamas rape campaign" lies.
Many significant omissions but perhaps most striking: the disappearance of the "Hamas rape campaign" lies.
Aside from two interviewees in the film who make extremely vague insinuations of fears of rape, even the word "rape" does not feature.
It didn't happen. @AliAbunimah has led the way in debunking this particularly malignant lie: electronicintifada.net/tags/mass-rape…
It didn't happen. @AliAbunimah has led the way in debunking this particularly malignant lie: electronicintifada.net/tags/mass-rape…
Raz Cohen, the former Israeli special forces soldier who repeatedly lied to mainstream media about seeing people raped at the Supernova festival –– and whose quote was behind the NYT's notoriously fake "Screams Without Words" headline –– DOES NOT APPEAR and isn't mentioned.
Read more about that in my colleague @AliAbunimah's story from January here: electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…
Also strikingly absent from the film is any mention of the Israeli border police checkpoint set up outside the Supernova carpark exit, which seemingly played a large part in trapping the rave-goers in the midst of a live gun battle –– here's a CNN graphic from October.
Times of Israel reported recently the checkpoint blocking the road was in fact set up earlier than CNN had thought: at 0700.
It also reported –– for the first time –– that even a tank was present at the Supernova battle.
Mozer's film confirms a Merkava tank at the rave:
It also reported –– for the first time –– that even a tank was present at the Supernova battle.
Mozer's film confirms a Merkava tank at the rave:
Well worth reading @WVanwagenen's piece in @TheCradleMedia from January for an overview of what really happened at the Supernova rave:
thecradle.co/articles/how-i…
thecradle.co/articles/how-i…
Still lots that's unclear about the Supernova rave, but what's certain is this: Israel killed a large number of its own people on 7 October.
Israeli media has repeatedly confirmed time and time again (but usually in Hebrew) that the entire area was essentially a free-fire zone to Israeli forces and anything moving at all was to be bombed, from the air or from the ground –– including Israeli captives.
The Hannibal doctrine was extended from Israeli soldiers to Israeli civilians by the Israeli military on 7 October.
Dead Israeli captives are better to Israel than live Israeli captives. That is the brutal calculation the generals made that day.
Israeli media has repeatedly confirmed time and time again (but usually in Hebrew) that the entire area was essentially a free-fire zone to Israeli forces and anything moving at all was to be bombed, from the air or from the ground –– including Israeli captives.
The Hannibal doctrine was extended from Israeli soldiers to Israeli civilians by the Israeli military on 7 October.
Dead Israeli captives are better to Israel than live Israeli captives. That is the brutal calculation the generals made that day.
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