Israel’s Pathological Lies About October 7
By Kevin Barrett, for the just-published edition of American Free Press, posted here in full for paid subscribers only
On October 7, 2023, Gazans, led by resistance groups including Hamas, broke out of their concentration camp to inflict a monumental military defeat on their Israeli tormentors. Using extensive and detailed intelligence, including maps of classified Israeli military facilities, they defeated the Israeli army in stand-up battles not only at every Israeli base along the Gaza wall, but also at other IDF fortresses deeper in Israel. Shockingly, Palestinian fighters trounced the IDF’s elite troops. Scott Ritter calls it “the most successful military raid of this century,” pointing out: “Two battalions of the Golani brigade were routed, as were elements of other vaunted IDF units.”
Israel’s best troops, accustomed to shooting helpless children for sport, panicked when faced with an adversary that could fight back. Israel’s government and media, seeing its military panicking and losing, panicked too. In what may one day be remembered as the most monumental outpouring of cravenly mendacious hysteria in human history, Israelis began dreaming up outrageous lies about imaginary Hamas “atrocities.”
On October 10, the Israeli Foreign Ministry promoted ridiculous claims that Hamas fighters had “beheaded 40 Jewish babies.” Netanyahu’s spokesman made the rounds of Western media claiming dozens of babies and toddlers had had their “heads decapitated.” A fanatical settler named Asher Moskowitz swore he witnessed babies who had been “roasted in ovens.”
Western media trumpeted the absurd claims. One of Britain’s most reputable newspapers, The Times, “put out banner headlines that ‘Israel shows mutilated babies’ while using the image of Palestinian children wounded in Israeli airstrikes being treated at Gaza Strip's Shifa Hospital.” Weeks later, as Israel gradually released its October 7 casualty list which featured virtually no children or babies, such claims were dropped—but not before they had been promoted by US President Biden and believed by millions of Americans.