We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. al Jazeera Has Shown Us How
We Were Lied Into the Gaza Genocide. al Jazeera Has Shown Us How JONATHAN COOK Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October For weeks, as Gaza was battered with bombs and the body count in the tiny enclave rose inexorably, western publics had little choice but to rely on Israel’s word for what happened on 7 October. Some 1,150 Israelis were killed during an unprecedented attack on Israeli communities and military posts next to Gaza. Beheaded babies, a pregnant woman with her womb cut open and the foetus stabbed, children put in ovens, hundreds of people burned alive, mutilation of corpses, a systematic campaign of indescribably savage rapes and acts of necrophilia. Western politicians and media lapped it up , repeating the allegations uncritically while ignoring Israel’s genocidal rhetoric and increasingly genocidal military operations these claims supported. Then, ...