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'Chemical weapons manual' shown by Israeli president is biography of a bomber (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t like the message, shoot the messenger.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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."?

[–] TokenBoomer 2 points 1 year 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.