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Document Isaac Herzog said showed Hamas intended to stage a chemical weapons attack is an al-Qaeda biography of World Trade Center attacker Ramzi Yousef

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[–] livus@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is the WMDs all over again.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

It's pretty apparent that the Israeli government is trying to push propaganda to shore up their excuses for the ground invasion. A chemical weapons threat would be a massive excuse for them just going in and destroying everything.

[–] laskoune@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Learning from the best !

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"A document presented by Israeli President Isaac Herzog as proof that Hamas intended to develop chemical weapons is actually an amateur biography of World Trade Center attacker Ramzi Yousef and contains no instructions on how to develop chemical weapons."

""It's al-Qaeda material. Official al-Qaeda material. We are dealing with ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hamas. And in this material there were instructions on how to produce chemical weapons," Herzog said of the document.

"This is how shocking the situation is where we're looking at the instructions that are given on how to operate and how to create a kind of non-professional chemical weapon with cyanide.""

"Readily available on the internet, the 30-page book contains no instructions on how to make chemical weapons but makes reference to the Kuwait-born Yousef's life working for al-Qaeda, especially his role in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center."

I see Israel is continuing the tradition of incredibly dumb and easily debunkable propaganda. And outside of Arabic-related news sources, I see no other media reporting on this that's actually noting said propaganda, but is instead taking Herzog's statement at face value.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 years ago

Just a fucking fire hose of low-effort disinformation to distract from genocide.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Israeli propaganda forces out in force recently

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And? They're one of the only news sources bothering to debunk the blatant misinformation from Herzog. Plenty of other individual people had already debunked it, but none of the non-Arab media appears to be even attempting to point out the false claims he's making.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

none of the non-Arab media appears to be even attempting to point out the false claims he's making.

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-hamas-war-isaac-herzog-documents-under-scrutiny-12991143

Did you just falsely claim that no non-Arab media are investigating if it's a false claim?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So you admit it’s a false claim in one breath, while discrediting the source in another. You are not operating in good faith. But as you say, arguing with pigeons will only result in shit in your hair.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t like the message, shoot the messenger.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

False equivalency. Middle East Eye could be the militant newspaper of Hezbollah and the information in this article would still be true. Since this post, this info has been reported in other places. As for your example, if the information is true, I don’t care if it comes from Cthulhu.