General Discussion

Whether 3K+ were "quietly" dropped or not makes no difference to the 50K+ dead, does it?

You know what really amazes me is that intelligent, inquisitive people who can smell bullshit from a mile away when it comes to the Trump Regime for example, cannot seem to apply the same intellectual rigour and smarts when it comes to most things about Israel.

Honest Reporting, really? A spreadsheet using mystery methodology, lack of any reporting or supporting evidence as "research", really? Nothing on their website at all about this "research", really? 13-year old boys classified as "men" and therefore combatants, really? Quietly dropped but then apparently quietly replaced by verified "true dead" apparently as the totals didn't change - really?

Obviously the propaganda I was referring to is the one by Honest Reporting. It transparently serves to push the narrative that Hamas' numbers can't be relied on - so maybe it's not true that 50K+ were killed, or that most of them were women and kids? Of course classifying 13-17 year-old dead boys as "men" so that they can be viewed as "combatants" is laughably transparent propaganda. It's also a good example of how when it comes to Palestinians, even their kids are not viewed as kids as if somehow they were lesser humans, closer to animals. And that point is not even noticed, let alone raised by any Israel supporter, very revealing too.

It's exactly this view of Palestinians that allows for any sympathy for Palestinians to be labelled and mocked as merely "performative outrage". As if something like human solidarity and God forbid - EMPATHY - with them is impossible to imagine...

I don't understand this view and never will.