{"id":207398,"date":"2024-01-27T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=207398"},"modified":"2024-01-27T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T14:13:53","slug":"watch-israeli-media-admits-hamas-atrocity-propaganda-was-all-made-up-to-drum-up-support-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=207398","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>WATCH: Israeli Media Admits Hamas Atrocity Propaganda Was All Made Up to Drum Up Support for War<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Chris Menahan<br \/>\nInformationLiberation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/files\/israeli-media-admits-hamas-atrocity-propaganda-was-faked.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" \/>Israeli media outlet Channel 13 is now openly admitting that Israeli officials made up Hamas atrocity propaganda about babies on October 7 being killed en masse, baked in an oven and so on to drum up support for Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1750424276795015529&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D64258&amp;sessionId=a9454a392ce2d84515518c5250d996428769ea64&amp;siteScreenName=infolibnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1750424276795015529\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Enough time has passed since October 7 for Israeli media to state what we&#8217;ve been saying for over three months, which is that Israel&#8217;s military and political leadership fabricated many of the grisliest Hamas atrocities in order to generate support for the genocidal war it planned in Gaza,&#8221; Max Blumenthal noted on X. &#8220;Here, a Channel 13 panel including Mickey Rosenthal, the longtime Israeli police spokesman who spread many such lies after October 7, acknowledges that lurid stories of babies hung on clotheslines, a fetus cut from a pregnant woman, a baby baked in an oven, and more were invented &#8216;to increase the magnitude of hatred for Hamas.&#8217; As Rosenthal put it, &#8216;The war is not only military, not only political, it&#8217;s mainly media.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Channel 13 manages to elicit a statement of contrition from the IDF spokesman, who apologizes for &#8216;describ[ing] a reality that didn&#8217;t happen.&#8217; Of course, confessions like these are easy when the damage has already been done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the segment, they use these admissions to try and bolster their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64215\">latest debunked lies about &#8220;Hamas mass rapes.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their argument is essentially, &#8220;Yes we lied to you about everything that happened at the start of the war but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2023\/12\/despite-lack-of-evidence-allegations-of-hamas-mass-rape-are-fueling-israeli-genocide-in-gaza\/\">these stories about mass rapes<\/a>\u00a0that we took two and a half months to come up with but have no evidence for are totally true. You can trust us because we admitted we lied about everything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64258\">https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64258<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}