“Will the reporters believe what they see in the dry streets, or their need to amplify our cause?”
Gaza City, June 8 – Representatives of NGOs and media outlets that parrot annual wintertime accusations of Israel opening dams next to this coastal territory to inundate it and immiserate its residents plan to see just how absurd they can make their allegations and still have American and European progressives greet those allegations with no skepticism, activist groups disclosed today, referring in particular to accusations of Israel opening those nonexistent dams during the current summer dry season, when even real-time footage of actual flooding born of inadequate rain drainage infrastructure remains unavailable.
The activists voiced their curiosity to reporters regarding whether any limit exists to the credulousness of Western media who, after all, continue to publish or broadcast the annual open-dams charge despite repeated debunking and no actual evidence of such actions on Israel’s part.
“The first couple of times, I understand, they didn’t think to question it,” explained Palestinian Human Rights Committee field worker Ful Miwanz. “They saw the images of the flooding, and their natural bias caused them to accept that it was Israel’s fault. What isn’t, you know? But the complete absence of dams in the area should have given them pause, and it didn’t. So we want to see whether they’ll believe us if we just recycle the flooding images from last year as we level the accusations anew. Will the reporters believe what they see in the dry streets, or their need to amplify our cause?”
Experts noted that the flooding phenomenon is genuine – but not as a result of open Israeli dams, or any Israeli measures at all. Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group that governs the Gaza Strip, neglects infrastructure projects, in favor of military investment, even appropriating metal sewage pipes for the production of rockets to fire at Israel. The activists, fresh off of a round of credulous acceptance of their propaganda in the weeklong battle between Islamic Jihad and Israel last month, will now attempt to get the same journalists and outlets who painted a picture of Israel murdering Palestinian children to convey to their readers and viewers charges that Israel has opened dams once again, this time during the dry season, when no one is prepared for flooding, making matters even worse. Reporters stationed in Gaza, they expect, will refrain from critical analysis of the accusations or the repurposed footage of wintertime floods.
“It’s not so much a question of will they facilitate our propaganda,” Miwanz elaborated, “but for how long and with how much, if any, editorial pushback. I have my own predictions, but am open to being surprised.”
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