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Re:Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, ... by Cyph0n on Thursday October 24, 2024 @08:53PM (#41941302)
But beheaded babies and babies in ovens portrays a different level of atrocities being committed. This kind of fictional atrocity dissemination is very similar to the approach used during the Gulf War[1].

More importantly, the point is that Western media outlets - who have always proclaimed to be arbiters of truth, objectivity & journalistic integrity - neither did the absolute basic fact checking required before publishing such information, nor apologized later for doing so once the dust settled.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

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Re:Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, ... by orionsbelt on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:03PM (#41941370)
I'm not going to disagree with you about the media sucking, but for what it's worth, I think every side thinks that. I am pro-Israel and have the same feelings about other stories that were rushed, not vetted, wrong, and never apologized for.
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Re:Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, ... by throw310822 on Friday October 25, 2024 @01:42AM (#41942532)
Just one thing: you mentioned the "girls" (in fact soldiers) with "bloody pants" in your previous comment. It's quite a stretch to go from bloody pants to "victim of rape".

Indeed, this picture came out much later:

https://www.instagram.com/israelmfa/p/C7Q1v38tKql/

Shows what appears to be the famous "bloody pants" soldier sitting on the floor close to other presumably injured soldiers after some sort of combat. Isn't that the most obvious way of getting "bloody pants"? Why the leap from those to unfounded rape accusations?

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