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When the story was that this was a lethal attack by the IDF with hundreds of casualties, there was nothing funny about this. Now that most credible sources in the first world agree that the IDF was probably not at fault for this particular atrocity (yeah yeah death to the first world and hail Xi & Putin etc, if you're one of those people just kindly stop reading), now it's suddenly time to turn this into a joke and short-circuit people's critical thinking. "ha ha, 'we didn't do it', sounds like a made up claim that the person who did it would say". What a genius master stroke of insight.
You know what, I now have newfound respect for the people who at least put in the work to argue that the rocket geolocations were fabricated, the Hamas operative convo discussing the malfunctioning rocket was by paid actors, etc etc. At least they are making an argument, which a reader can evaluate and decide whether they believe. This headline is exactly as productive as if they'd written "Hamas reports deadly Israeli airstrike with 3000 victims at the house of You, The Reader". What a disgrace.
Someone's heated that everyone knows their favorite genocidal ethnostate did the thing they said they would do.
It's the Onion, bro. It's satire. Why you so mad?
The evidence is pretty overwhelming at this point that it was not an Israeli airstrike, and was most likely a failed missile from Hamas. I say this as someone who considers both Hamas and the current right wing government of Israel to be terrorist organizations.
There have been plenty of actual crimes committed by Israel in this war and many more in the years leading up to it. It just doesn't look like this is one of them.
Bet you believed in the WMDs too
I bet you believed Russia would never invade Ukraine. I can tell this will be a productive discussion.
The idea of productive discourse went out the window when you decided to replay 2003. Your trust is entirely with Israel and media sources that cite the IDF uncritically.
LOL, yeah, sure, I trust Israel. This entire conflict is their fault. They are the oppressors, and they held all the cards required to make a better future. Ultimately they are at fault for the deaths on both sides. This discussion is just about the details of a particular incident.
You are literally parroting the Israeli line verbatim subject to no critical thought whatsoever.
I'm literally not.