“In a blizzard of ideological fiction, how are sane citizens in Israel, or anywhere else, supposed to know what’s true and to do the right thing?” -
Matti Friedman - When I asked a former senior government official if there is mass hunger among Gazans, he answered me honestly: ‘I don’t know.’
JERUSALEM — A few weeks into the Gaza war that began on October 7, 2023, we Israelis learned from every major press outlet in the West that
we’d just bombed a hospital and killed hundreds of people. The devastated Al-Ahli hospital was on front pages around the world, with a
New York Times headline reporting “at least 500 dead.”..
- The story was fake. A misfired Palestinian rocket had landed near the hospital, which was intact...
Reports of
impending hunger engineered by Israel in Gaza have been
commonplace not just since the beginning of this war but for at least a decade and a half...
Now we hear
claims that this same period of supposedly extreme deprivation was actually a Gazan idyll that Israel has cruelly destroyed in this war.
- Very little of what is reported here, in other words, is what it seems.
- This is nothing new...
