{"id":258873,"date":"2024-04-08T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=258873"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:14:56","slug":"ai-lavender-conclusively-irrefutably-debunks-idfs-human-shields-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/ai-lavender-conclusively-irrefutably-debunks-idfs-human-shields-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Lavender Conclusively, Irrefutably Debunks IDF\u2019s \u2018Human Shields\u2019 Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_258875\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fake-fact-logo.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258875\" class=\"wp-image-258875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fake-fact-logo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fake-fact-logo.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fake-fact-logo-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fake-fact-logo-768x401.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-258875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Israel isn\u2019t being \u201cforced\u201d to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>5 Apr 2024<\/em> &#8211; One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF\u2019s Lavender AI system that\u2019s not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses \u201chuman shields\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed this story, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/lavender-the-ai-machine-directing-israels-bombing-spree-in-gaza\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major report from +972<\/a> revealed that Israel has been using an AI system called Lavender to compile kill lists of suspected members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which have been carried out with hardly any human verification. One automated system, psychopathically named \u201cWhere\u2019s Daddy?\u201d, tracks suspects to their homes so that they can be killed along with their entire families. The IDF has been knowingly killing 15 to 20 civilians at a time to kill one junior Hamas operative, and up to 100 civilians at a time to take out a senior official.<\/p>\n<p>+972\u2019s Yuval Abraham writes the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMoreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes\u200a\u2014\u200ausually at night while their whole families were present\u200a\u2014\u200arather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called \u2018Where\u2019s Daddy?\u2019 also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family\u2019s residences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another +972 report<\/a> by Abraham back in November revealed that IDF AI systems ensure that the Israeli military is fully aware of every child it\u2019s going to be killing in each airstrike, and that it deliberately targets civilian infrastructure as a matter of policy.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A targeting system called &#39;&quot;Where&#39;s Daddy?&quot;&#39; is among the strongest prima facie evidence of genocidal intent the world has ever seen. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFty6ClaVU\" >https:\/\/t.co\/fFty6ClaVU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Studans (@maximumwelfare) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maximumwelfare\/status\/1775703032086581457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When questioned about these systems by +972, the IDF Spokesperson responded that \u201cHamas places its operatives and military assets in the heart of the civilian population, systematically uses the civilian population as human shields, and conducts fighting from within civilian structures, including sensitive sites such as hospitals, mosques, schools and UN facilities. The IDF is bound by and acts according to international law, directing its attacks only at military targets and military operatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chuman shields\u201d narrative that\u2019s become so popular in Israel apologia insists that the reason the IDF kills so many civilians in its attacks on Gaza is because Hamas intentionally surrounds itself with noncombatants as a strategy to make the innocent Israelis reluctant to drop bombs on them. But as The Intercept\u2019s Ryan Grim recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1775889114740498870\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observed on Twitter<\/a>, this is soundly refuted by the revelation that Israel has been intentionally waiting to target suspected Hamas members <strong><em>when it knows they\u2019ll be surrounded by civilians<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s argument that they kill so many civilians because Hamas uses \u2018human shields\u2019 is torn apart by the revelation that the IDF prefers to attack its \u2018targets\u2019 when they are at home with their families,\u201d tweeted Grim. \u201cIt is not Hamas using human shields, it is Israel deliberately hunting families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA human shield is only a shield if your enemy values human life and seeks to minimize civilian deaths,\u201d Grim adds. \u201cIsrael deliberately maximizes the number of civilians it can kill by waiting until a target is with his entire family. Palestinians are not shields to Israel, they are all targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l78dOLxt6_g?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This is such an important point. Advocates for Palestine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l78dOLxt6_g\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like Abby Martin<\/a> have for years been presenting compelling arguments against Israel\u2019s \u201chuman shields\u201d claims, and common sense shows that the presence of civilians is clearly not a deterrent to Israeli airstrikes, but because of these +972 revelations the lie has now been thoroughly, irrefutably debunked. Civilians aren\u2019t getting killed because Hamas hides behind them, civilians are getting killed because the IDF <strong><em>waits until suspected Hamas members are around civilians<\/em><\/strong> to target them with high-powered military explosives.<\/p>\n<p>A popular quote attributed to former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir says \u201cSomeday we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill their children.\u201d You see this quote pop up all the time in varying iterations, shared approvingly by Israel apologists around the world as though it\u2019s something wise and brilliant instead of a horrific defense of murdering children. But it turns out this morally depraved quote isn\u2019t even true by the most generous of interpretations: Israel isn\u2019t being \u201cforced\u201d to kill Palestinian children, it is <strong><em>knowingly choosing to<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chuman shields\u201d narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer. They <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1ixq3\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lied about beheaded babies<\/a> so that they could get away with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/17\/over-13000-children-killed-in-gaza-others-severely-malnourished-unicef\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murdering babies<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/dwzue\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lied about mass rapes<\/a> so that they could get away with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/22\/claims-of-israeli-sexual-assault-of-palestinian-women-are-credible-un-panel-says\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">committing rape<\/a>. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/04\/05\/the-human-shields-lie-has-been-conclusively-irrefutably-debunked\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>Join the<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><b> <\/b><\/i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>campaign<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>BARCODE<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b> STARTS WITH<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>729<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Apr 2024 &#8211; One aspect of the IDF\u2019s Lavender AI system that\u2019s not getting enough consideration is that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses \u201chuman shields\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":258875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3078],"tags":[1733,532,1854,2898,1199,2242,87,865,1643,1029,1966,1644,88,2416,3256,715,427,124,70,965],"class_list":["post-258873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-hunger","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-lavender","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258986,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258873\/revisions\/258986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}