WhatsappA Jewish farmer shot in self-defense, yet the IDF relied on misinformation from Arab media sources, that then turned into a blood libel parroted by the State Department, blaming the Jewish farmer for killing an Arab. This is a horrible situation, that was totally avaoidable. However, the knee-jerk reaction to blame Jews and leave our Arab enemies blameless, even from within our own IDF and security forces, is an absolute disgrace.
My friend Boaz Hatezni posted the following very important information in Hebrew on his facebook page, which I translated into English:
The IDF spokesman “shot himself in the foot” with a recent update about a terror incident. The misinformation publicized by the IDF spokesman created a huge pr disaster for Israel, the IDF and for himself!
On Friday evening there was a lynching against a Jewish shepherd who was grazing in the area of the village of Burka in Benjamin.
This is part of the increase of Arab harassment of Jewish shepherds, a strategic move to stop the Jewish shepherds who are protecting illegal Arab land grabs.
Dozens of Arab terrorists attacked the Jewish shepherd and tried to murder him.
They then lied about the incident because they also realize that lies they tell on Shabbat, against Shabbat observant Jews, have a long lifespan of a whole day, an eternity in communication terms, because Shabbat observant Jews do not watch the news on Shabbat to be able to be interviewed or report corrections to the media reports.
The Jewish shepard called for help, the details are yet to be revealed, but the handful of Jews with the shepherd found themselves in extreme danger. Then, contrary to the rules of self-defense dictated by the glorified legal system, the insolent shepherd dared to shoot and kill one of the Arab terrorists, *after* a large stone broke his skull.
Another intolerable scandal in the context of “settler violence”.
So the terrorists lied as usual, because what is a lie for them that completely changes the story, relative to an attempted murder? Their lying is nothing new. If they were telling the truth, then it would be a real sensation.
Unfortunately we are used to the establishment media in Israel eating up the lies of our enemies and reporting them as truths. We are used to it. And if the hostile American State Department – certainly when the Democrats are in power – eats up the lies of the so-called Palestinians with appetite, this is also nothing special, especially when this is combined with the global campaign of “settler violence”.
But we have a new player in this dinner of lies – the IDF spokesman.
The IDF spokesman took the terrorists’ version and marketed it to the world without any testing. By the way, in the meantime he admitted it.
The result is giving absolute credibility to the blood plot, a credibility no less than that of the IDF.
Then the left and the slander erupted in an orgy of incitement and slander, because it’s not every day that the murderers and liars’ version of the terrorists receives such approval, they felt that there was solid ground under their feet, and here is the “settler violence” in action, we told you!
Therefore, when the spokesman for the State Department repeated the lie even when doubts began, Israel did not try to dislodge him, because the IDF joined the plot, and everyone gave vent to all feelings of loathing and hatred for the Jewish faces with the faces of the “murderers” that were widely spread on all the screens and newspapers. Add the fact that one of the detainees was a parliamentary assistant of a MK from Otzma Yehudit, what could be more perfect? Connection between Ben Gvir and the murder. no less.
But the moment of truth comes (sometimes) in court, where facts are ascertained and not engaged in anti-Semitic propaganda. When the versions of the lynching victims began to be heard, an image of self-defense began to emerge. And despite the sincere efforts of the prosecution to keep them in custody and somehow protect the plot, judges began to release the dangerous “murderers” to house arrest, more precisely to “hospital detention”, at least the “murderer” with the broken skull.
Until you get to the High Court, of course. Here the evidence plays less of a role, and Judge Ruth Ronan decided not to release them and return the hearing to the Magistrate’s Court due to a new “document” brought by the Shin Bet. It was probably written there that it would embarrass all the partners in the plot, from the terrorists to the Americans, and it would be unpleasant in front of everyone, so someone with wigs was sitting in prison.
And in the course of the discussion, the decision came to her mind even before she heard the defense attorney. So he said to her “wait, we didn’t voice our claims at all”, the snoozer, so she said “Ah, you’re right, then claim and then…”. It’s quite tiring to pretend to be fair all the time.
Well, then they went back to the Magistrate’s Court and it ordered the release of the two “murderers” to house arrest.
The most disgraceful character in this whole story is the IDF spokesman who has implicated the country, the army and himself in the reverberations of a primitive lie spread by real murderers, who almost succeeded in murdering and almost handed out candy if they succeeded.
Every drop of credibility that the IDF spokesman gave to this blood plot is deducted from his own credibility and the credibility of the IDF and the State of Israel, which was reprimanded by the American government as a result of the power the speaker gave to this lie.
To spread, without a trace of investigation, a very bad story about Israel that complicates its image and diplomatically, is a failure that is difficult to describe worse than it, not only a serious moral and national failure, but first of all a horrific professional failure.
Therefore, only the politics of hating settlers and avoiding giving them victory (because that’s simply the truth, yes?) keep Daniel Hagari in his position, and as long as he is the spokesman for the IDF, the credibility of the entire IDF is damaged, because from now on why would anyone believe the word of a spokesman Such a sloppy?
