Al Shifa Hospital: a new low in war propaganda
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THE Israeli government is pumping out crude propaganda and fake stories to justify its wildly destructive war in Gaza — just as Britain and the US promoted fake tales to get the Iraq and Afghan wars going.
And just like the Iraq war, while some reporters have done a great job exposing this, a substantial and larger section of the press and TV news have actually transmitted the fake stories or even added to them.
Take the Israeli army (IDF) and its war on hospitals in Gaza. The IDF is systematically, surrounding, firing upon, invading and closing down Gaza’s hospitals and arresting key medical staff. It has made this shocking tactic seem normal with some pretty crass propaganda.
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