Hyperreality

Cheap fuel?

Imagine for a second that the Israeli minister of national security had just claimed Hamas has chemical weapons.

Imagine I then replied with this wikipedia entry:

Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli lawyer and politician who serves as the Minister of National Security ... Ben-Gvir, a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has faced charges of hate speech against Arabs and was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American terrorist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron, in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. He removed the portrait after he entered politics. He was also previously convicted of supporting a terrorist group known as Kach, which espoused Kahanism, an extremist religious Zionist ideology ... He has called for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to Israel. Ben Gvir is "widely known for his openly racist, anti-Arab views and activities" ...

Would you have replied "Don’t like the message, shoot the messenger."?

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?

Wikipedia on Middle-East Eye:

MEE has been accused of being backed by Qatar. The governments of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain accuse MEE of pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias and receiving Qatari funding. As a consequence, they demanded MEE to be shut down following the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar. ... On 20 October 2022, MEE cut ties with Palestinian journalist Shatha Hammad after it was discovered that she made a Facebook post in 2014 which praised Adolf Hitler for "sharing the same ideology"

Original Dutch article cited in the English article above, translated with deepl:

The victim is 33-year-old Islam al-Ashqar. She was killed yesterday in an explosion in the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza. ... AP news agency reports, based on Palestinian witnesses and authorities, that it was an Israeli bombing. The Israeli military has not yet responded to NOS questions about it. ... Whether this was also the explosion that killed Ashqar has not yet been confirmed. NOS is trying to verify that.)

So let's go over your comments here:

Dutch media sources seem to really be burying the lede on the fact that she was killed by an Israeli bombing run. ... that fact at the end

Not a verified fact.

and equivocating it with "According to the Associated Press". ... Most of the headlines just say she died "in an explosion", giving the implication Hamas was responsible.

Not equivocating or implying anything. Engaging in good journalism. They weren't there. They didn't see it with their own eyes. They're simply reporting on what they've been told. IDF says this. Hamas says that. Nothing more. That's just your bias speaking.

If the IDF makes a claim, reporters shouldn't report it as a fact. If Hamas makes a claim, they shouldn't report it as a fact.

the IDF acknowledges that they bombed the refugee camp market on Saturday

Article says the IDF has not yet responded to inquiries. It is as yet unclear in which explosion the victim died.

Population and media are also distracted by the whole Palestine thing, so it's an ideal time to bury news of a screeching u-turn.

I say, let him have this one.

Not as if the west can complain too much, given the Qatar-Hamas relationship thing we choose to ignore.

Joint Photogiraffic Experts Jroup.

I find the socratic method sometimes works. You ask them questions and let them argue with themselves.

But as you say, arguing with pigeons will only result in shit in your hair.

I don't think anyone really thinks gif is pronounced 'jif'.

They just pretend they do, to wind people up and for attention.

Giraffic Interchange Format. GIF.