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1337toothbrush posted...

The israeli government has a very polished message and you can see part of it here where they emphasize that they've got figures on how many hamas combatants they've killed (to show that as their primary mission, instead of wholesale genocide) and that they're taking great precaution on not harming civilians (part of the whole "world's most moral military" angle), but it absolutely crumbles if you go, "hey wait a minute, if you have numbers on hamas combatants killed and you're taking great precaution to not harm civilians, how come you don't have the number of civilians killed?" like piers did here. The thing is that the israeli government is not used to being under any scrutiny from any large platform, so normally they'd get away with the narrative.

Piers imo did not press enough on the way comparison excuse imo. He probably should have been like "I can go look up estimated civilian Casualties in the Russian invasion of Georgia but how can I compare that to your war if I don't have your civilian casualty numbers?"