Hasbara is the Israeli euphemism for propaganda, and there are some things, said the late ambassador Yohanan Meroz, that are not ‘hasbarable.’
Hamas grew out of the Palestinian resistance in 1987. Forty (40) years previous Israeli are militia massacred people at Deir Yassin and occupied Palestine with the assistance of United States and European powers because of guilt over the Holocaust. In 2023 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spread horrific stories about beheading babies which US President Joe Biden put about Hamas without foundation. No proof has ever been submitted anywhere of Hamas beheading babies. This fabrication is part of a system of lies that Israelis call hasbara.
A number of reports suggest that the main objective of the Palestinian resistance on the 7th of October 2023 was to take hostages, to strike at military targets and to show its ability to make an incursion into Israel through the same border fence where, during the march of return, thousands of Palestinians were murdered and maimed by Israeli occupation forces to the applause of people from neighbouring kibbutzim (= colonial settlements in Israel, typically farms in this case Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
The resistance seems to have achieved that purpose. The rejectionist front in Palestine grows yet again.
Here is one of those reports from Israeli newspaper Haaretz
Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed
Israeli occupation forces received orders to shell homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israelis to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire?
Several new testimonies by Israeli witnesses to the October 7 Hamas surprise attack on southern Israel adds to growing evidence that the Israeli military killed its own citizens as they fought to neutralize Palestinian gunmen.
Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, set up a hotline to coordinate betweens ùkibbutz residents and the Israeli army. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that as desperation began to set in, “the commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.”
In light of this Workers BushTelegraph asked how many Israeli hostages have been murdered by their own forces inside Gaza since the bombing began on 7 October and how many hostages have been killed since the ground invasion commenced on 28 October?
It has taken nearly a full year of genocide to get a clear answer to this question. Israel admits to killing its own people on October the 7th under the Hannibal directive.
Ian Curr
29 Oct 2023 updated on 16 September 2024