Steve QJ
1 min readDec 10, 2023

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Okay, great. Do you have any of that for the claims about the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza? Have you seen any independently verified, first party testimony that 17,000 people have been killed? Do you have any independently verified evidence for the claim that Israeli citizens were caught in any crossfire? DO you imagine that Hamas are an entirely trustworthy source?

Do you have any evidence that meets this standard for the claim that Israel's PR strategy is crumbling or that it's being dishonest in any way? Especially given that, as you say, they voluntarily revised their casualty figures (I published this on October 31st, before those revisions were made).

Do you expect to have DNA evidence available to you at this stage of an investigation about crimes that happened on the other side of the world? Are you in the habit of describing a claim of rape as "propaganda" until that DNA evidence is delivered to you by hand for sequencing?

What I keep seeing on both sides of this debate is a willingness to uncritically accept information that supports a preferred narrative, and unbreakable powers of skepticism when faced with evidence that contradicts that preferred narrative. This is, at best, just childish and intellectually lazy. But when it comes to being a rape denialist, especially given the multiple videos, witness testimonies and medical reports, it's really despicable.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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