On thing the Al Jazeera documentary makes clear is that the atrocity propaganda was as much about distracting Israelis away from the complete and inexplicable security collapse of the IDF on October 7 as it was about producing an external-facing justification for genocide
I say inexplicable because even LIHOP as a frame for understanding top level nonresponsiveness cannot account for how easily individual military bases were overrun and captured with basically no resistance
@shaabiranks @SGardinier Are the Israelis also Jews?
@shaabiranks That's part of the reason why so much reporting/debunking of that propaganda has come from critical journalists in Israel. The same investigations can be motivated solely by concern over Israeli civilians/security rather than any concern at all about Palestinians
@shaabiranks if they wanted to distract israelis from the security collapse then they would try to hide hamas atrocities
@shaabiranks Maybe the latter explains the former... they needed an excuse, the ethnic cleansing is not spontaneous...
@shaabiranks One of the things Al Jazeera making a documentary about Oct 7 proved is that they're not an impartial journalist outfit but a state sponsored propaganda arm of Qatar, which is openly allied with Hamas