(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - We need to talk about the pathological distrust of Israel. About the speed and relish with which our media elites dismiss every Israeli claim about the war in Gaza. Consider the Battle of al-Shifa Hospital. Israeli officials have offered up ample proof that the hospital was used as a military base by Hamas. They've shown us caches of weapons, video footage of gun-toting, knife-wielding men hurrying hostages through corridors, a vast tunnel that is 10 meters down and 55 meters long. And yet it is all breezily discounted. This is not healthy skepticism. It's a dogmatic refusal to accept a single thing the Jewish state says. When IDF commanders displayed the Kalashnikovs, ammunition, hand grenades and bullet-proof vests they found at al-Shifa, the BBC in its best haughty voice, said these are just "small stashes" of weapons. This begs the question of how much weaponry Britain's public broadcaster thinks it is acceptable for a fascist movement to store in a hospital. In some media clips there were more weapons than in other media clips. Yes, because more "terrorist assets" were discovered throughout the day, said the IDF. Yet CNN claimed that the IDF's display of Hamas weapons seemed to be "rearranged." This claim spread like a pox through social media where Islamists and racists giddily cited it as proof that those sneaky Israelis planted the weapons to try to frame poor Hamas.
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