Israel calling Francesca Albanese a witch!?

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I understand anti semite was losing its power to silence but now Israel is calling Francesca Albanese a witch??? At a meeting of the UN?
Has the Israeli government lost it’s mind

Expect to be set upon?
I think quite the opposite.

And yes, it is rooted in racism. You can deny it all you want but it's the truth. Some of the deleted posts calling Israel 'to just go in and finish the job once and for all' were sickening.

Even if that were true - it isn’t - it would be a damn sight less racist and horrible than the frenzied, relentless perma-attacks on a country that is the sole Jewish homeland. To the exclusion of attacks on nations and peoples caught up in every other conflict in the world.

'Less racist' - there we have it folks.

I am comparing Hamas with those groups. They are all terrorists organisations in control of territory, the same as Hamas.

The integrity of Palestinian journalists in Gaza absolutely should be questioned. They are reporting under Hamas!

It’s not rocket science is it?

Casualty of war, not murder.

The integrity of Palestinian journalists in Gaza absolutely should be questioned. They are reporting under Hamas!

But you agree it’s not ok to kill them right?

So your argument is that as there are no other Jewish states they were entitled to take the land from the local communities living there?

Damn!

He says it plainly
Miss Albanese every time you try to curse Israel with falsehoods and libels your curses fail. Miss Albanese you are a witch and this report is another page in your spell book. You have tried to curse Israel with lies
and hatred, but your poison has failed. Every page of this report is an empty spell, every accusation a charm that does not work, because you are a failed witch. Your words have no power and your report will have no impact. Every time you try to curse us, the opposite happens

Totally unacceptable.

Nope. Killing journalists, even in a war zone, under the Geneva Convention, is a war crime and hence murder. Killing aid workers and trying to bury them and their vehicles, murder. Killing WCK while trying to deliver food, murder. Hind Rajab, murder. Killing the ambulance drivers who went to help her, murder. Saying the IDF is the most moral army is like saying Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were the most moral serial killers.

You seem to have misunderstood. I'm applying your can't possibly say approach to the Israeli refusal to allow journalists in, so naturally I can't possibly provide a reason because it's not like either of us know for certain. That would defeat the whole point.

We'll either have wide eyed naivete and a rule where you can't surmise anything for both parties, or neither. Personally I favour the latter, because it's incredibly obvious that both sides don't want journalism due to having things to hide. But you can have the former as long as you apply it across the board.

Israel should let journalists into Gaza | The Jerusalem Post
https://share.google/pxLCCaplrdIqTNdu2

An article published in Israel that imcludes some detail on just some of the Palestinian journalists known to have cooperated to varying degrees with Hamas.

HASSAN ESLAIAH, who worked for the AP and CNN, is kissed by then-Hamas leader Sinwar

Abdallah Aljamal, the Gaza correspondent for The Palestine Chronicle, whom the IDF killed while rescuing three Israeli hostages he was holding in his home.

The Associated Press and CNN fired Oct. 7 infiltrator Hassan Eslaiah, who was photographed being kissed by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, after an HonestReporting investigation revealed his terror ties, The New York Times rehired Gazan stringer Soliman Hijjy on October 8, 2023, despite being aware that his Arabic social media posts praised Adolf Hitler.
Just three weeks ago, ABC News interviewed Gaza Civil Spokesman Mahmoud Bassal, an active Hamas operative, as “an emergency responder searching for missing Gazan civilians.” It apparently did not cross the interviewers’ minds to do the most basic due diligence a journalist can – a background check on those being interviewed.
Had they done a check, they would have found that Bassal was an active member of the Zeitoun Battalion of the Izz-ad Din-alQassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, directly involved in terrorist attacks.

to add, this means he was not considered a civilian under the Geneva Convention.

“It’s not true” that support for Israel and Jews is racist. But relentless and exclusive attacks on Israel are racist. There you have it folks.

Funny how words used in defence of Jewish lives and interests don’t mean what anti-Israel campaigners want them to mean.

So being seen with a Hamas leader in what context we don't know as they may have been doing their job by interviewing them or a journalist actually having a sickening admiration for Hitler on his social media justifies murdering 270 does it. It is only Israel who claimed that Mahmoud Bassal was an active Hamas operative so I don't know if any due diligence would have revealed anything. Bit like the calendar on the wall which Israel claimed was a list of guards. Could just as likely be an excuse in order to justify silencing him. Even if all five were active Hamas, does not mean it is open season on all journalists.

I have not misunderstood anything. Logic can be applied in certain situations when you can eliminate all other possibilities. You are trying to surmise that Hamas won't let in international journalists is based on nothing more than your opinion. My logic tells me that Israel won't let international journalists in because they have something to hide from the rest of the world. How do we know it is not about protection. Simple. Jeremy Bowen not being allowed to photograph out of a plane window is nothing to do with protection unless they were worried he would fall out. Also, I know, Israel knows, the international courts also know, that it is not Israel's job to protect journalists. They're just not supposed to kill them.

I've got stuff today so I'm taking a break from posting. Need to harvest my olives before the IDF busses in a load of settlers to burn them.

Yeah right!

Israel accusing someone of being a Hamas operative? Oh my, we must believe them! They’ve told the truth about everything else.

Asking me for an explanation of Israel's actions is, in fact, total proof that you misunderstood the point. Which was that we're equally applying the can't possibly say for certain and can't surmise either approach. If you surmising the bleeding obvious counts as logic, the same is true for others.

And speaking as someone who does think the Israelis have something to hide, your Jeremy Bowen example is really poor and you're articulating our point badly. Of course there could be security implications if someone takes photos of a war zone from a plane window. You've not even listed the other possible explanations, much less eliminated them.

Not for the first or even the hundredth time its as if people are unfamiliar with the nature of conflict. Which so often shapes the narrative that Israel is uniquely awful.

O for goodness sake.

Do you seriously expect people to believe that Israel has not let international journalists in for their own safety and that it has murdered hundreds of Palestinian journalists because they are Hamas?

If ournalists are Hamas operatives or protected by Hamas they will be embedded with Hamas and therefore likely to be in Hamas locations targetted by the IDF. It does not mean journalists are targetted by the IDF for being journalists.

Like this, you mean?

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/visual-evidence-upends-israels-official-story-deadly-attack-gaza-hospital-2025-09-26/

Michael puts it best….

How come? Surely with the world's eyes on Gaza and Israel, nothing can be concealed, disguised or re-represented?
Well, to do this you need two things working in tandem. You need the world's media to regard anything produced by Palestinians and/or networks from within the Arab world as useless, suspicious, lying, Hamas propaganda. Second, you need a situation in which the 'trusted' media (BBC, NBC, Fox, CNN, Reuters, PA etc etc) are not allowed in.

Sorry, meant to say Michael Rosen and here is his entire post for anyone who might be interested.

https://www.facebook.com/michael.rosen.5496/posts/ive-been-thinking-about-where-we-are-in-the-news-cycle-with-the-gaza-events-let-/10163099303887225/

Ah yes, Michael Rosen, seasoned war correspondent and strategic urban warfare expert sending despatches from a conflict zone, hang on, is he back in comfortable Muswell Hill now?