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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Ask anybody how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and the number will be at their fingertips. It now stands at more than 50,000; they heard as much on the BBC.
Ask them how many of those sorry souls happened to be fighting Israel at the time, however, and you’ll find that they soon draw a blank.
A year ago, for instance, I wrote about “the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures,” when the American data scientist Professor Abraham Wyner became the first of several analysts to comprehensively debunk them.
“By rights,” I argued, “if the central pillar of the anti-Israel edifice has been discredited, the whole structure should come tumbling down.” Fat lot of good that did.
This week, it emerged that Hamas had quietly dropped 3,400 fully “identified” deaths from its casualty figures, including 1,080 children. “These ‘deaths’ never happened,” wrote Salo Aizenberg, a board member at Honest Reporting, the NGO which made the discovery. “The numbers were falsified. Again.” But not before they had been verified by the United Nations and parroted by a gullible — or ideologically blinkered
Further analysis of the data showed that among those old enough to be fighting for Hamas, 72 per cent of the dead were male, a testament to the care and precision of the IDF on a battlefield often crowded with human shields. By contrast, in the most tragic statistic of all, the balance of child casualties was 50-50 between boys and girls. This builds up a picture of the way Israel is fighting this war, confirming that they are targeting belligerents, the very opposite of a “genocide”.
Moreover, Honest Reporting found that Hamas had unscrupulously included natural deaths in the list of supposed victims of the IDF, including infant mortality rates of around 780 each year. This amounted to about 8,300 fatalities that any reporter acting in good faith would remove from the total. But the media has shown a singular lack of curiosity about that.
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Ask them how many of those sorry souls happened to be fighting Israel at the time, however, and you’ll find that they soon draw a blank.
A year ago, for instance, I wrote about “the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures,” when the American data scientist Professor Abraham Wyner became the first of several analysts to comprehensively debunk them.
“By rights,” I argued, “if the central pillar of the anti-Israel edifice has been discredited, the whole structure should come tumbling down.” Fat lot of good that did.
This week, it emerged that Hamas had quietly dropped 3,400 fully “identified” deaths from its casualty figures, including 1,080 children. “These ‘deaths’ never happened,” wrote Salo Aizenberg, a board member at Honest Reporting, the NGO which made the discovery. “The numbers were falsified. Again.” But not before they had been verified by the United Nations and parroted by a gullible — or ideologically blinkered
Further analysis of the data showed that among those old enough to be fighting for Hamas, 72 per cent of the dead were male, a testament to the care and precision of the IDF on a battlefield often crowded with human shields. By contrast, in the most tragic statistic of all, the balance of child casualties was 50-50 between boys and girls. This builds up a picture of the way Israel is fighting this war, confirming that they are targeting belligerents, the very opposite of a “genocide”.
Moreover, Honest Reporting found that Hamas had unscrupulously included natural deaths in the list of supposed victims of the IDF, including infant mortality rates of around 780 each year. This amounted to about 8,300 fatalities that any reporter acting in good faith would remove from the total. But the media has shown a singular lack of curiosity about that.
It is now far past time to stop paying attention to the lies of Hamas
Ask anybody how many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and the number will be at their fingertips. It now stands at more than 50,000; they heard as much on the BBC.