CNN Finally Tells The Truth About The Flour Massacre After Previously Shilling For Israel by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-04-10 at 23:15:11 )

CNN Finally Tells The Truth About The Flour Massacre After Previously Shilling For Israel by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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CNN has a new report out showing that (surprise!) Israel lied about the Flour Massacre in which IDF troops fired machine guns into a crowd of starving Gazans waiting for food this past February, killing over a hundred people. CNN found that Israels timeline and version of events does not line up with video footage, witness testimony, and forensic evidence.

Which of course was obvious from the beginning to anyone who is not deeply invested in pretending Israel ever tells the truth about these things.

Within hours of the massacre Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor had a preliminary report up saying that video, audio and material evidence shows that the IDF had been firing into the crowd in contradiction of Israels claims that the injuries and deaths sustained on the scene were mostly due to Gazans trampling on each other in a mad rush upon the convoy of aid trucks. Now here is CNN, a month and a half later, telling us essentially the same thing.

This is the same CNN who at the time reported on the Flour Massacre in ways that advanced Israels information interests with headlines completely exonerating Israel of any wrongdoing like "At least 100 killed and 700 injured in chaotic incident" and "Carnage at Gaza food aid site amid Israeli gunfire". CNN also repeatedly refers to the killings as "food aid deaths", as though it is the food aid that killed them and not the military of a very specific state power.

The Flour Massacre was indeed a flour massacre.

As I told abbydphillip on CNN that night, we should not trust the Israeli militarys initial and kneejerk denials. They lie. They are good at lying.

And, now, CNNs own latest and important investigation proves me right: "please see here:"-Mehdi Hasan (mehdirhasan) April 9, 2024

I do not know if there is a word for when a government does something evil and then churns out a bunch of easily disprovable lies with the understanding that by the time those lies are debunked public attention will have moved on from the controversy, but there should be.

Over and over again we have seen the Israeli regime do just enough lying to dampen the initial burst of attention and outrage and get people doubting themselves, only to discover far too late that it was all a bunch of crap after the initial crime has been forgotten.

This is exactly what happened with Israels initial assault on al-Shifa Hospital back in November, when Israel was cranking out propaganda claiming the hospital was being used as a command center for Hamas. Not until the end of December did The Washington Post show up to acknowledge the abundantly obvious fact that there was no evidence for Israels claims, which independent outlets like Consortium News had been reporting since mid-November. Now al-Shifa Hospital - the largest hospital in Gaza - has been completely destroyed.

Back in October Israel and its apologists were shrieking with outrage that anyone would dare suggest that Israel would ever attack a hospital at all, saturating the media with bogus evidence that it falsely claimed proved its innocence. Since that time Israel has launched hundreds of attacks on Gazas healthcare services and has destroyed most of its healthcare system.

in just 3 weeks, israel went from faking phone calls to say it never bombed a hospital to just bombing hospitals without a care in the world.
- mike (__mike91) November 8, 2023

It is a weaponization of the adage "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth even puts its boots on." They know all they have to do is lie really hard for a week or two, and then when the truth inevitably surfaces it will not matter, because the truth will never be able to have the impact their lies had when it mattered.

It is so obnoxious how even after all this time Israel is still given the benefit of the doubt on such claims by the western political-media class until they are debunked weeks or months later, long after the outcry over the incident has been muted and neutered by Israeli lies. If a state power is preventing journalists and human rights groups from investigating the facts on the ground in a given area, then it is not legitimate to give their claims about what happens in that area weighted consideration when their track record and all the facts in evidence say they are probably lying.

The fact that the western press keep giving Israel the benefit of the doubt whenever reports like this emerge after they have been caught in so very many lies means the western press are just as culpable for the circulation of Israeli lies as Israel itself.

In journalism you are taught that if someone says it is raining and someone else says it is dry, your job is not to quote them both and treat both claims as equal, your job is to go look out the window and see which is true.

The fact that the imperial media take so long to drag their asses to the window serves nobody but Israel and the globe-spanning empire of which it is a part.

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