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THE DISINFORMATION MACHINE<\/strong> has created a world in which Israel has become a country that commits genocide. (Leon de Winter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n DESINFORMATIONSMASKINEN<\/strong> har skapat en v\u00e4rld d\u00e4r Israel har blivit ett land som beg\u00e5r folkmord. (Leon de Winter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE DISINFORMATION MACHINE has created a world in which Israel has become a country that commits genocide.John Spencer, the American top expert in the field of urban warfare, wrote last Monday on X: ”If you still claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, you are either stupid and ignorant, or antisemitic.”He then wrote: ”The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"israel","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanners.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
John Spencer, the American top expert in the field of urban warfare, wrote last Monday on X: ”If you still claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, you are either stupid and ignorant, or antisemitic.”
He then wrote: ”The antisemitic variant usually means that one applies a double standard to the definition of genocide and the laws of war, purely to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist or its right to pursue legitimate targets in a war it did not start, and\/or to dehumanize every IDF soldier into a monster. I have tried to argue with the basic definitions. Genocide requires the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. On the contrary, it shows exactly the opposite.”
Spencer has meticulously studied urban warfare after having fought in urban warfare himself, and he leads the Urban Warfare Project at the Modern War Institute of the military academy West Point. For some in the Netherlands, Spencer’s qualifications are insufficient; they prefer to listen to A.J. Boekestijn, J. Derksen, and F. Timmermans.
Spencer explains that Israel took extraordinary steps to prevent civilian suffering while having to fight ”an enemy that hides among them [Gazan civilians], uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own population as props in a malevolent political martyrdom strategy to eliminate all Jews on the planet.”
Spencer lists the facts of enormous quantities of food that were brought in, water supplies, electricity and fuel supplies, medical supplies, field hospitals, polio vaccination campaigns. Spencer concludes: ”That is not how you try to exterminate a people.” And he writes: ”Then look at the disinformation machine.”
That machine has created a world in which Israel has become a country that commits genocide. The facts rule out that horrific conclusion, but they do not reach the news consumers.
The former British commando officer Andrew Fox recently wrote: ”For more than two years we have been telling it: Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes. The dead ’journalists’ are fighters. Hamas uses child soldiers. Aid is diverted by Hamas. Tens of thousands of dead and wounded in Gaza are fighters. Hamas uses human shields. And so many other things, which are now all irrefutably proven. Yet not a whisper to correct the story of the global media that since October 7 has been spreading lies about genocide and war crimes.”
If the facts are so irrefutable\u2014and they are\u2014then John Spencer is right: the denier of those facts is either stupid and ignorant, or antisemitic. But the damage is done, and I have no idea how the collective madness can be dismantled.
Every day, television news offers mutilated reports about Israel, almost all newspapers in Europe pile on through their correspondents, preferably putting forward Jewish self-haters (a tragic phenomenon in Jewish history) to make the republic of Israel even crueler than their moving-image colleagues claim.
So I thought: I’m going to check the website of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). No government institution in the West Bank and Gaza can be suspected of respect for the facts, because everything is political, especially the numbers, and everything must be seen in the Palestinian context of a corrupt, internal, tribal struggle for power and economic benefits. The PCBS figures will never nuance the situation in Gaza, but will, if possible, make it burst at the seams.
The PCBS reports in a recent Excel overview that in Gaza in 2005\u2014when Israel handed Gaza over to the Gazans (who established a free Palestinian state there)\u20141,304,388 people lived. There are useful idiots who claim that those poor Gazans ended up in the largest open-air prison on earth and were unwitting victims of the Jews In 2022, a year before the surprise attack by the Gaza army on Israel, the population of Gaza had grown to 2,166,269, or an increase of more than eight hundred thousand.
And what does the PCBS say about the population size of Gaza in 2026? 2,411,790 people live there now. So 245,521 more Gazans than in 2022.
Sure, these are the official figures from the Palestinians themselves.
On the total population numbers including the West Bank (a name invented by Jordan), the PCBS is also clear: they rose from 3,508,126 in 2005 to 5,876,648 in 2026. An increase of 2,368,522 people, a population explosion since 2005 of 67%.
We know that Jews are good at math, playing the violin, and nowadays also at committing genocide\u2014but that last skill must be doubted.
If the number of Palestinians, according to the PCBS, in ”the territories” has grown by 67% in twenty years, the use of the word genocide is an obscene lie to demonize the Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Spencer, den amerikanska toppexperten inom omr\u00e5det urban krigf\u00f6ring, skrev i m\u00e5ndags p\u00e5 X: \u201dOm du fortfarande h\u00e4vdar att Israel beg\u00e5r folkmord i Gaza, \u00e4r du antingen dum och okunnig, eller antisemitisk.\u201d
Han skrev sedan: \u201dDen antisemitiska varianten inneb\u00e4r vanligtvis att man till\u00e4mpar dubbelmoral p\u00e5 definitionen av folkmord och krigslagar, enbart f\u00f6r att delegitimera Israels r\u00e4tt att existera eller dess r\u00e4tt att f\u00f6rf\u00f6lja legitima m\u00e5l i ett krig som det inte startade, och\/eller att avhumanisera varje IDF-soldat till ett monster. Jag har f\u00f6rs\u00f6kt argumentera med de grundl\u00e4ggande definitionerna. Folkmord kr\u00e4ver avsikten att f\u00f6rst\u00f6ra, helt eller delvis, en nationell, etnisk, ras eller religi\u00f6s grupp som s\u00e5dan. Bevisen visar inte den avsikten mot folket i Gaza. Tv\u00e4rtom visar det precis tv\u00e4rtom.\u201d
Spencer har noggrant studerat urban krigf\u00f6ring efter att ha k\u00e4mpat i urban krigf\u00f6ring sj\u00e4lv, och han leder Urban Warfare Project vid Modern War Institute vid milit\u00e4rakademin West Point. F\u00f6r vissa i Nederl\u00e4nderna \u00e4r Spencers kvalifikationer otillr\u00e4ckliga; de f\u00f6redrar att lyssna p\u00e5 AJ. Boekestijn, J. Derksen och F. Timmermans.
Spencer f\u00f6rklarar att Israel vidtog extraordin\u00e4ra \u00e5tg\u00e4rder f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rhindra civilt lidande samtidigt som de m\u00e5ste bek\u00e4mpa \u201den fiende som g\u00f6mmer sig bland dem [civila i Gaza], anv\u00e4nder sjukhus och skolor som baser och behandlar sin egen befolkning som rekvisita i en illvillig politisk martyrstrategi f\u00f6r att eliminera alla judar p\u00e5 planeten.\u201d
Spencer listar fakta om enorma m\u00e4ngder mat som togs in, vattenf\u00f6rs\u00f6rjning, el- och br\u00e4nslef\u00f6rs\u00f6rjning, medicinska f\u00f6rn\u00f6denheter, f\u00e4ltsjukhus, poliovaccinationskampanjer. Spencer avslutar: \u201dDet \u00e4r inte s\u00e5 man f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker utrota ett folk.\u201d Och han skriver: \u201dTitta sedan p\u00e5 desinformationsmaskinen.\u201d
Den maskinen har skapat en v\u00e4rld d\u00e4r Israel har blivit ett land som beg\u00e5r folkmord. Fakta utesluter den fruktansv\u00e4rda slutsatsen, men de n\u00e5r inte nyhetskonsumenterna.
Den tidigare brittiske bef\u00e4lhavaren Andrew Fox skrev nyligen: \u201dI mer \u00e4n tv\u00e5 \u00e5r har vi ber\u00e4ttat det: Hamas anv\u00e4nder sjukhus f\u00f6r milit\u00e4ra \u00e4ndam\u00e5l. De d\u00f6da \u2019journalister\u2019 \u00e4r k\u00e4mpar. Hamas anv\u00e4nder barnsoldater. Bist\u00e5ndet avleds av Hamas. Tiotusentals d\u00f6da och s\u00e5rade i Gaza \u00e4r krigare. Hamas anv\u00e4nder m\u00e4nskliga sk\u00f6ldar. Och s\u00e5 m\u00e5nga andra saker, som nu alla \u00e4r oveders\u00e4gligt bevisade. \u00c4nd\u00e5 inte en viskning f\u00f6r att korrigera historien om globala medier som sedan den 7 oktober har spridit l\u00f6gner om folkmord och krigsf\u00f6rbrytelser.\u201d
Om fakta \u00e4r s\u00e5 obestridliga\u2014 och de \u00e4r\u2014s\u00e5 har John Spencer r\u00e4tt: f\u00f6rnekaren av dessa fakta \u00e4r antingen dum och okunnig eller antisemitisk. Men skadan \u00e4r skedd, och jag har ingen aning om hur den kollektiva galenskapen kan avvecklas.
Varje dag erbjuder tv-nyheter leml\u00e4stade reportage om Israel, n\u00e4stan alla tidningar i Europa hopar sig genom sina korrespondenter, och l\u00e4gger helst fram judiska sj\u00e4lvhatare (ett tragiskt fenomen i judisk historia) f\u00f6r att g\u00f6ra republiken Israel \u00e4nnu grymmare \u00e4n deras r\u00f6rliga bild. kollegor h\u00e4vdar.
S\u00e5 jag t\u00e4nkte: Jag ska kolla webbplatsen f\u00f6r Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Ingen statlig institution p\u00e5 V\u00e4stbanken och Gaza kan misst\u00e4nkas f\u00f6r respekt f\u00f6r fakta, eftersom allt \u00e4r politiskt, s\u00e4rskilt siffrorna, och allt m\u00e5ste ses i det palestinska sammanhanget av en korrupt, intern, stamkamp om makt och ekonomiska f\u00f6rdelar. PCBS-siffrorna kommer aldrig att nyansera situationen i Gaza, utan kommer om m\u00f6jligt att f\u00e5 den att spricka i s\u00f6mmarna.
PCBS rapporterar i en nyligen genomf\u00f6rd Excel-\u00f6versikt att i Gaza 2005\u2014n\u00e4r Israel \u00f6verl\u00e4mnade Gaza till Gazaborna (som etablerade en fri palestinsk stat d\u00e4r)\u2014 levde 1 304 388 m\u00e4nniskor. Det finns anv\u00e4ndbara idioter som h\u00e4vdar att dessa stackars Gazabor hamnade i det st\u00f6rsta friluftsf\u00e4ngelset p\u00e5 jorden och var omedvetna offer f\u00f6r judarna. \u00c5r 2022, ett \u00e5r f\u00f6re Gazas arm\u00e9s \u00f6verraskningsattack mot Israel, hade Gazas befolkning vuxit till 2 166 269, eller en \u00f6kning med mer \u00e4n \u00e5ttahundratusen.
Och vad s\u00e4ger PCBS om Gazas befolkningsstorlek 2026? 2 411 790 m\u00e4nniskor bor d\u00e4r nu. Allts\u00e5 245 521 fler Gazabor \u00e4n 2022.
Visst, det h\u00e4r \u00e4r de officiella siffrorna fr\u00e5n palestinierna sj\u00e4lva.
N\u00e4r det g\u00e4ller det totala befolkningstalet inklusive V\u00e4stbanken (ett namn som uppfunnits av Jordanien) \u00e4r PCBS ocks\u00e5 tydligt: de steg fr\u00e5n 3 508 126 2005 till 5 876 648 2026. En \u00f6kning med 2 368 522 personer, en befolkningsexplosion sedan 2005 p\u00e5 67%.
Vi vet att judar \u00e4r bra p\u00e5 matematik, spelar fiol och numera ocks\u00e5 p\u00e5 att beg\u00e5 folkmord\u2014, men den sista skickligheten m\u00e5ste betvivlas.
Om antalet palestinier, enligt PCBS, i \u201dterritorierna\u201d har \u00f6kat med 67% p\u00e5 tjugo \u00e5r, \u00e4r anv\u00e4ndningen av ordet folkmord en obscen l\u00f6gn f\u00f6r att demonisera judarna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n