The left lobs yet another ‘Big Lie’ on Israel — – Latest News
The left’s Big Lies about Israel keep growing greater — as do the ugly penalties.
The newest: Rep. Gregory Meeks’ bid to put a “hold” on a $2.8 billion sale of US bombs to the Jewish state.
“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs . . . raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon,” huffed Meeks; it’s empty virtue-signaling, since he can’t truly stop the sale.
These are weapons needed to destroy underground tunnels and bunkers; withholding them helps maintain Hamas and Hezbollah, although Meeks claims he backs Israel’s proper to defend itself from the terrorists.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) likewise opposed the sale, claiming preposterously that “US weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide.”
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It’s all nonsense: Israel has by no means — by no means — used bombs indiscriminately or the place it believed main civilian casualties have been seemingly, not to mention to “perpetrate a genocide.”
And there’s no professional worry it ever would.
These expenses match with a slew of whoppers in a new movie, “NAZA” (an acronym for the Hebrew phrases for “collateral damage”), that the Israel Defense Forces used AI to establish targets in Gaza and carried out strikes figuring out they’d principally kill civilians.
Contrary to the vicious smears, the IDF by no means leaves focusing on selections to AI, nor wouldn’t it proceed with a strike if it anticipated a high civilian-casualty price.
What makes these lies particularly heinous is that the exact reverse is true: Israel goes to lengths to keep away from civilian casualties.
Even as Hamas tries to maximise them through the use of them as human shields.
Urban warfare skilled John Spencer, who’s studied the conflict in Gaza, experiences that Jerusalem has “implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in history.”
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That consists of not simply calling off strikes and diverting missiles mid-flight slightly than skirt the principles of conflict, but additionally informing civilians prematurely of an assault by cellphone and leaflets, utilizing pinpoint focusing on and more.
And it doesn’t simply keep away from casualties; IDF troopers have truly risked their lives to guard civilians — from Hamas.
The army has additionally opted for ground assaults slightly than airstrikes to keep away from civilian casualties, though it knew it might lose its own troopers by doing so.
Of course, the charge of genocide goes approach past lies like these in “NAZA.”
Along with Jayapal, numerous lefties — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Brad Lander, Rashida Tlaib and on and on — fling the time period with abandon.
Never thoughts that Israel might have worn out Gaza’s population if it wished to, nor that it’s offered food and drugs to the strip as an alternative.
Or that Gaza’s population has grown 50% up to now 20 years, and didn’t shrink even on the peak of the “genocide.”
Adolf Hitler outlined the “Big Lie” as a fabrication so wild that people would consider it, not realizing anybody would “distort the truth so infamously.”
He pretended Jews used the approach; in actuality it was central to the Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda.
How telling that it’s now deployed on a international scale towards Israel.
