How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas ‘Massacres’

Gareth Porter reviews the Netanyahu government’s process of planting stories of nonexistent atrocities by Hamas on Oct. 7 with credulous foreign-news outlets and the Biden administration.

In the days after Hamas entered Israeli kibbutzim near Gaza on Oct. 7, foreign press accounts of what happened have broadly reflected the Israeli interpretation of events of the deliberate slaughter and dismemberment of innocent civilians by Hamas fighters.

Those stories were blood-curdling in the extreme: Babies beheaded. People dismembered and deliberately burned to death. And the total of innocent civilians murdered in cold blood were said to be as high as 1,400.

The Israelis quickly recycled parallels between Hamas and the Islamic State, with its glorification of killing innocents.

But a reconstruction of how that story line emerged as the dominant theme in early press coverage shows that it was deliberately created by a decision by top Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was done by inventing stories about nonexistent atrocities and planting them with credulous U.S. news outlets.

[consortiumnews.com]

Why does it still work? People instantly came out in droves in disgust of the initial story line. Despite all the history telling us that the initial story line is always a lie. Especially since the late 20th century beginning with Middle East wars under Bush Sr. The baby story of Kuwait making a good starting point. Where Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ falsely testified to support a manufactured story from a long list of conglomerates with an agenda. [en.wikipedia.org]

There have been an endless amount of these types of accounts ever since in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Ukraine. All having the same repetitive cycle of news agencies being newly developed and working with some wealthy billionaires and their foundations, public and foreign relation firms, people of power in the region or political arena. They have even used photos of atrocities the western governments manufactured or of the same nature from other places to falsely use in their new deceptive campaign that didn't have anything to do with the current situation. Some of the people they've used are mysteriously able to be in multiple situations of different places on the planet virtually at the same time. Our medias are reporting on issues they have absolutely no clue of what they are echoing for a system of death and destruction. Yet many fall for it and later don't hold our representation accountable when the truth is finally known. They're actually rewarded with a vote of confidence to keep doing it in the next election. I can't tell or recognize which group is the most profoundly, disturbingly, sick anymore.