Friday, 20 December 2024

Canadians must become aware of the horrible truth

   


Rally in Montreal  -  picture CTV News internet capture

The Christmas and New Year season is a time to reflect on our lives, give thanks for what we have, and make gestures for those who may have less.  Unfortunately, the ideological lefties use this emotional time to advance their guilt politics.  The stories of the plight of the people of Gaza are used as a device to advance the agenda of the anti-Semitic hate machine.

One ploy is to use the media to exploit the tragic pain and suffering stories of Gaza residents to obtain sympathy.  It is part of the overall strategy to de-legitimize and discredit Israel and deflect attention away from Hamas crimes.  False reporting of the war in Gaza fuels the internationally organized to obtain sympathy, money, and political support. 

The legacy media have done a poor job of “observing and reporting” as distinct from “opinion and analysis.”  Western journalism has a backdrop of unreliable propaganda manufactured by Hamas, and they have not made sufficient effort to sort fact from fiction.

In December 2024, Andrew Fox published an in-depth report entitled,

QUESTIONABLE COUNTING: ANALYSING THE DEATH TOLL FROM THE HAMAS-RUN MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN GAZA

https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HJS-Questionable-Counting-%E2%80%93-Hamas-Report-web.pdf

He makes key findings that have received no coverage in the Canadian legacy media.

The issue for Canadians is to understand and admit the philosophical and religious base of Hamas.  Why do they exist, and what are their stated aims?  What have they done?

Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".  This acronym, HMS, was glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant by the Arabic word ḥamās (حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery".

The 1988 Hamas charter proclaims that jihad (war) against Jews is required until Judgement Day.  On October 24th, Hamas leadership excused their October 7th attack: "Israel is a country that has no place on our land.  We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation.  We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs. We are the victims of the occupation.  Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do".

Canada, under the Jean-Chretien government, declared Hamas an illegal terrorist organization on November 27th, 2002.

Once the blood flowed on October 7th, 2023, Hamas launched its political cyber offensive of lies to feed its confederates in Canada and around the world.  Moreover, until now, their casualty counts have not been seriously challenged.

Andrew Fox says that Hamas listed men as women to inflate female fatalities to inflate the narrative that civilian populations, particularly women and children, bear the brunt of the conflict, thereby influencing international sentiment and media coverage.

Fox says: “This fatality analysis report recognises the immense toll of the war on Palestinians in Gaza.  Even as fatalities are discussed as quantifiable numbers, it is important to remember that innocent people are suffering, and each number represents a human life.  Many of those lives were innocent people caught in the middle of a brutal war started by Hamas on 7 October.  The suffering, death and destruction are very real for actual human beings.”

Adults were registered as children.  It inflates the number of child casualties, which is emotionally impactful in global reporting, and frames the conflict as disproportionately affecting children.  They also disproportionately report deaths of fighting-age men.  This evidence says that many fatalities classified as civilians may actually be active combatants.  They also include natural deaths.  Despite the typical annual rate of 5,000 natural deaths in Gaza, such practice inflates the civilian death toll.  Then there is the media underreporting of combatant deaths.  The omission creates a skewed narrative that portrays all casualties as civilians, thus shaping public opinion and international policy based on manipulated data.

In conclusion, the report says:

“Global media outlets have, understandably, focused on the number of deaths in Gaza as a lens of critique of Israeli operations.  Many media outlets give the proviso that the Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas-run, but few give the same level of attention to IDF reports of the number of fighters killed as part of the overall Israeli fatality total.  Nor do media outlets give the methodology, reporting, or content of the lists of names the scrutiny they deserve.”

“A definitive figure of fatalities is impossible due to the lack of transparency from the Ministry of Health (MoH), a general lack of access to the Palestinian Population Registry, and the challenges of counting militants killed in combat.  However, this report finds numerous errors that cannot be explained by a lack of access to the Ministry of Health computer network that went offline in November 2023.”

“We have identified distortion of statistics, misreporting of natural deaths, deaths from before the war started, and a high likelihood of combatant deaths being included on the list.  This report also challenges the assumption that MoH fatality reports from previous conflicts are reliable and reveals evidence of efforts to hide militant fatalities.  We also identify critical differences in the demographic breakdowns reported by the MoH and the Hamas Government Media Office.”

Given the Fox report, it is not hard to surmise that Hamas lies about everything.  They exist on a false premise.  Their actions are murderous.  They will resort to anything to pursue their goal.  Sympathizing Canadians must become aware of the horrible truth.

 

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