{"id":262500,"date":"2024-05-20T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=262500"},"modified":"2024-05-16T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T04:12:16","slug":"gaslit-to-death-giving-cover-to-israels-rafah-atrocity-with-phony-gaza-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/gaslit-to-death-giving-cover-to-israels-rafah-atrocity-with-phony-gaza-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel\u2019s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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15 May 2024 <\/em>– Playing with the death toll from Israel\u2019s genocide on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 people, the majority women and children. But it is still cruel and heartless. It is also another way we are being gaslit by the pro-Zionist US establishment.<\/p>\n

There is that scene in the first Star Wars<\/i> film when Obi Wan Kenobe uses Jedi magic to convince the Storm Troopers looking for R2D2, \u201cThese are not the \u2018droids you\u2019re looking for.\u201d Congressional staffers once told me that that is the way politics works on the Hill. Now they\u2019re trying to tell us that actually all those little dead children are figments of our imagination.<\/p>\n

The US government repeatedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist, fascist cabinet not to invade Rafah without a practical plan for protecting the nearly two million civilians whom Israel has force-marched into the small enclave, most with no potable water, no toilets, and insufficient food and shelter.<\/p>\n

Israel is in the process of invading Rafah, forcing some 360,000 internal refugees<\/a> to flee the area designated as a \u201csafe zone\u201d for wilderness or already-destroyed towns that are still being actively bombed.<\/p>\n

I think it is in order to take people\u2019s minds off the current additional war crimes being committed by Tel Aviv that Zionist agents provocateurs have signaled their useful idiots to try to make an issue of the Palestinian death toll.<\/p>\n

It is a phony issue. Netanyahu himself has admitted that 30,000 are dead, though he implausibly alleges that 14,000 are Hamas militants and he leaves out another 5,000 he\u2019s not accounting for.<\/p>\n

The UN World Health Organization <\/a> said Monday that 25,000 of the Palestinians in Gaza had been positively identified by the Gaza Health Ministry \u2014 which is run by professionals, not by the Hamas politburo. Another 10,000 of the corpses awaited such definite identification, coming to 35,000 total. The identification of 25,000 is an advance, since previously names had not been put to so many of the dead.<\/p>\n

Persons who hate Palestinians the way the devil hates holy water jumped on the disaggregation of the two figures to allege that the UN was admitting \u201conly\u201d 25,000 had been killed and the MoH numbers were unreliable.<\/p>\n

These horrid prevaricators included the US Council on Foreign Relations, which thereby lost all credibility, and Rupert Murdoch\u2019s New York Post<\/i>, which never had any credibility, and Joe Scarborough, long a right wing clown.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t what the WHO said.<\/p>\n

As a historian I like primary sources. So I\u2019ll let you hear it from the horse\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video:<\/p>\n

WHO Video: World Health Organization Gaza Casualties <\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n