(10-16-2023, 08:54 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Hamas releases its first footage of a hostage, 21 year-old Mia Shem. The group says it is providing medical treatment to her. Though it may just be typical Hamas psychological warfare propaganda. The hostage appears to be Israeli.
Jerusalem Post speculation: one factor that has delayed the ground invasion is "a growing concern that Hezbollah is waiting for the moment that most IDF ground forces are committed to Gaza to open a full front with the IDF in the north."
From the article about the hostage video:
Quote:We demand that the countries of the free world make sure that she return to us.
First, they're in no position to demand anything from anyone, much less other countries that are not their own. Second, "the countries of the free world" are not the ones who abducted their daughter, nor are "the countries of the free world" responsible for her well-being. They should address their "demands" to Hamas. Hamas is solely responsible for whatever happens to their daughter from here forward until her release or death.
This video release is boilerplate propaganda. They're trying to put a human face on their terror activities in order to avoid an ass-whoopin' that is on it's way. They are playing to emotions, while being themselves emotionless. It's evidence of their psychopathic culture.
It was not a standard "proof of life" video. There was nothing to indicate that she is indeed still alive. It was just boilerplate propaganda.
And what the hell is wrong with that girl's lips? They're cartoonish. Did she get busted in the mouth during her abduction or something? And why in the hell does she have bits of metal in her nose, like a nose ring in a hog that keeps it from rooting it's way out of the pen?
All in all, knowing the purpose of it, the video doesn't make me sympathetic to anyone at all. It just solidifies my desire to turn Gaza into one great big crater, then let the Mediterranean wash into the crater to make a huge swimming pool for a future resort there.
Regarding the timing of the invasion, the article could be right, but I have an alternative explanation to offer. The best raids are not conducted when everyone expects them to be. The very fact that they are expected on a certain timetable in fact makes them harder to conduct, and less likely to succeed. When the time and date is known, then folks are waiting on you, dug in and with guns aimed. The longer you draw it out past their expectations, the more nervous they get, and therefore the more prone to make fatal mistakes... or, the more jaded, bored, and inattentive they get, which also causes them to make stupid mistakes... OR they finally decide you're not coming at all, and relax. If I were running Israeli ops, I'd be making them wait, and speculate on the whys of the delays too. You should strive to keep your enemy off balance, and never give them a firm time table for your own actions for them to be prepared for.
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The propaganda is flying thickly now, from both sides. Be careful of what you hear, and vet everything. If it can't be vetted, just put it in the "bullshit" column until such time as it can be. For example, I'm hearing a lot about Americans killed and abducted, but so far have no evidence that any actually were. I have only one name, and citizenship status is unresolved. Was she really an American, or was she really Israeli? Or was she a "dual citizen", which is not a citizenship at all as far as I'm concerned, it's just an inability to declare a major. Dual citizens are the same as "hyphenated Americans" to me - you know, "African Americans", "Irish Americans", "Italian Americans", etc. You're either an American, or you are a "not American". Trying to be two things at once shows a split personality, and is a mental disorder. Pick a major, be one or the other, because being both is really being neither.
Beheaded babies - the story is flying all over everywhere, but still no evidence. I've seen bloody cribs and playrooms, but no evidence of beheadings of kids. I've no doubt that it probably happened, but where is the evidence for their claims? Isn't it enough that kids were killed, that they have to add "beheaded"? I'd bet it doesn't matter to those kids how they were killed. The death itself is was probably more on their minds than the method chosen. For what it's worth, we have all seen beheadiings of captives to be a Muslim M.O. - I have no doubts it happened, to some folks, but why the emphasis on it?
No propaganda is ever released or dwelt upon without a reason. look for the reasons beyond the propaganda.
On the other side, the "hostage video" was released by Hamas for a reason, and it wasn't because they are nice people. They released video of them doing things on the Day of Destruction, yet now are backpedaling and saying they never did those things... after having already release video to the contrary to the world themselves. What idiots!
They used propaganda catchphrases and words like calling Israelis "occupiers", conveniently failing to point out that "Palestinians" are mostly just as much occupiers as Israelis, since they too originated from other places than Palestine for the most part - Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt primarily.
Did you know there are about 3 times as many "Palestinians" now as there were in 1948? So most "Palestinians" have NEVER had a country, and have been trying to take other folks' countries by force all their life.
They call their terrorists "freedom fighters", but fail to point out whose, or what kind of, freedom they are terrorizing for. "Palestinian" freedom? They were free to go wherever they wanted to, even back home to their native countries,but instead elected to try taking over other folks' countries to the point that even their Arab cohorts won't take them any more. They had the freedom to go into Israel proper from their territories to work, and I'm sure that over time they'd have gotten the freedom to live there as well... but they used that "freedom" to reconnoiter Israel for terrorist ops.
They refer to themselves as a "resistance" movement, but trying to take over someone else's country makes one an invader, not a resister. The natives - in this case the Israelis - are the only people who could be described as being a "resistance", as they are resisting an invasion of their own country.
These are just a few examples, but the propaganda is everywhere, flying from both sides. Question everything. Look for the reason behind the "information" being presented. What is it trying to make you feel? Which heart-string is it tugging on to lead you around with?
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