What is made up here are the false headlines the media irresponsibly used to smear Israel. The left and mainstream media parroted Hamas lies without fact-checking, which stirred a lot of hate and led to President Biden's diplomacy efforts being negatively affected.
The NYT headline isn't a lie. They quoted both sides in the story. They adjusted the headline. It is a made up concocted story for people just looking for an extra reason to be mad. I understand it, but it isn't rational or helpful.
Please read the Drew Holden tweet thread @basso posted. The usual suspects from the left, including Keith freaking Olbermann, gobbled up Hamas propaganda and used it as the basis for attacking Israel. As we now all know, everything about this incident was a lie.
A few things. Is Keith Olbermann even employed? He is an individual and not representative of a media outlet. Number 2. Early on and even now, it isn't definitive what happened. An IDF spokesman Xweeted that Israel attacked the hospital. The rush to put out headlines and opinions is problematic, but it isn't devoid of support. Number 3. The media should do better. But pretending it is Hamas sympathy that 100% motivated them is ignoring a ton of real factors. It reeks of self-inflicted victim hood and persecution complex. Number 4. There are real enemies in Hamas. Let's focus on that and not water down the anri-Hamas focus by diluting it with this kind of crap. It brings the sincerity of folks that wander off down that path into doubt. It it makes it feel like it's simply part of the tired old political game garbage that see over and over. Keep the focus on Hamas terrorism and not imagined sights by journalism outlets that whatever the many faults they have are still exponentially more reliable than social media Xweets used by many as the main source of information for news.
Yeah - no. Everywhere I saw the headlines were "Hamas Claims" or "Hamas said" and it was always brought up that Israel claimed otherwise. The uncertainty was reflected. What you are reacting to is the randos on Twitter making assumption, but the mainstream media did not. Twitter is not the mainstream media, that is where the confusion lies. Many on here, including myself, expressed skepticism about it being Israel after the first photos came out. The whole main stream media is believing Hamas's lie is a lie meant to further make people buy into the crap on Twitter from the right as being the truth.
This is irrelevant and it's not even clear that it's the same capitol building from the blurry X photo.
If you look at the Reuters headline, it clearly states that "the besieged enclave said" - so the headline is accurate as it refers to what Gaza was saying, not what actually happened. It's not Reuters fault that people don't read headlines carefully.
