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In reply to the discussion: Israeli strike kills nine of Gaza doctor's children, hospital says [View all]Violet_Crumble
(36,303 posts)66. That one gets trotted out quite regularly, accompanied by dit-dits around Palestinians...
It's not often at all that I find common ground with Piers Morgan, but even he's had enough of the ugly bullshit coming from the Israel Is Always Right brigade.
During a debate on Piers Morgan Uncensored, lawyer Natasha Hausdorff argued that it couldnt be further from the fact to say that Israel is targeting children. When Morgan brought up the al-Najjar family, Hausdorff claimed the reporting was largely based on hearsay. A stunned Morgan then pressed Hausdorff:
MORGAN: Wait a minute, you dont believe that those children were killed?
HAUSDORFF: I have seen conflicting accounts and I want that story to be properly investigated
MORGAN: Wow.
HAUSDORFF: before the international media runs with it.
MORGAN: You think those two parents one of whom, I think, operated on one of the children you think that those two doctors, the parents, they just made it up
HAUSDORFF: Why are those children there?
MORGAN: that nine of their 10 children had been blown to pieces by an Israeli air strike?
HAUSDORFF: If this is true
MORGAN: You dont believe it?
HAUSDORFF: Why on earth was artificially-generated imagery used to promote this story when it first happened? Weve seen time and time again
MORGAN: I gotta say, I think what youve just said about that family is despicable. Im sorry. Its despicable.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/piers-morgan-lays-into-pro-israel-lawyer-denying-killing-of-nine-children-in-gaza-what-you-ve-just-said-is-despicable/ar-AA1G23X7?ocid=BingNewsSerp
I'll add revolting, hateful, and disgusting to Morgan's despicable. People who are peddling that ugly shit are no better than those who denied what happened on October 7.
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"Where's Daddy" was developed by the Israeli military and has been in use in Gaza since the beginning of the war.
AloeVera
May 24
#2
Isn't it the same hospital on whose grounds three top Hamas commanders, including Mohammad Sinwar, the leader of Hamas
Beastly Boy
May 25
#3
Other than your presumptive assertions, there is nothing you can produce to challenge me.
Beastly Boy
May 25
#8
The claim appears to be that it was a targeted attack on Hamdi Al-Najjar via "Where's Daddy?".
lapucelle
May 26
#12
They ran out of claims that appear halfass legitimate. An outright illegitimate one will do just fine
Beastly Boy
May 26
#13
Healthcare workers like this guy? "Journalist, doctor held Israelis hostage in Gaza"
lapucelle
May 26
#36
"Taking a specific incident and generalizing it to condemn an entire population"...
lapucelle
Wednesday
#79
My background is in education. Students learn best when they figure things out for themselves.
lapucelle
Wednesday
#81
Geneva does not authorize going hog-wild in an orgy of destruction on hospitals.
AloeVera
May 26
#19
Geneva does not authorize the use of hospitals for harboring top belligerent commanders.
Beastly Boy
May 26
#24
Yes, for some reason "going hog-wild in an orgy of destruction" is not in the Geneva conventions at all.
Beastly Boy
May 26
#26
I believe nothing. The Geneva conventions are not a religious text to believe or disbelieve.
Beastly Boy
May 26
#28
Oh and... the house where the kids burned to death was 3 miles from the hospital grounds.
AloeVera
May 25
#7
So it wasn't an *attack* terrorists hiding in a hospital? The claim is that it was a targeted attack
lapucelle
May 26
#11
The Hamas bigwigs were hiding underground in the tunnel under the European Hospital.
lapucelle
May 26
#9
That was terrorist stronghold in a different hospital. You pointed that out, remember?
lapucelle
May 26
#17
Upthread when you got into a quibble about the hospital tunnels where Mohammed Sinwar and the murder videographer
lapucelle
May 26
#21
Yes. Hamas needs to release the remaining hostages and hostage bodies, surrender, and beg
lapucelle
May 26
#10
Never mind terrorist organizations use civilians as human shields. That doesn't enter the equation at all because
AZLD4Candidate
May 26
#18
When Jewish lives are treated with such reverance, maybe I'll change my mind
AZLD4Candidate
May 26
#42
Appalling. There were nine real, alive children burned and mutilated to death. That is indisputable.
AloeVera
May 26
#33
According to the article posted by the OP, it was a targeted strike on the father, a Hamas militant terrorist.
lapucelle
May 28
#49
The 972mag article doesn't say anything about the father recently killed...
Violet_Crumble
Jun 3
#68
Actually, it's an inference based on evidence that the OP so helpfully provided.
lapucelle
Jun 3
#69
Just trying to be pro-active.... Because of course the IDF would claim that "terrorists" were there!
AloeVera
Jun 3
#73
Because the story in the OP is raising so many red flags, it is likely a lie.
Beastly Boy
May 27
#48
That one gets trotted out quite regularly, accompanied by dit-dits around Palestinians...
Violet_Crumble
Jun 3
#66