Ory Band

Your job may be surviving on inertia. Your resentment won’t extend the runway. What do you actually want to do with the intelligence now at your disposal?

Someone tell @Wikipedia's editors that neutrality doesn’t mean equating Hamas’ claim that the Bibas family was killed in an airstrike with forensic evidence of brutal homicide. That’s like weighing propaganda against proof. Hamas, the abductors, have every reason to distort the truth, while forensic experts deal in hard facts. Equating the two isn’t balance - it’s misinformation.

In presenting information about a war, a key element is establishing who initiated the conflict. However, the English Wikipedia entry titled "September 2024 Israeli attacks against Lebanon" lacks crucial context, omitting Hezbollah's aggressive actions against Israel and Israel's defensive response. This omission creates an incomplete narrative that risks misleading readers about the nature and progression of the events. The Wikipedia entry exemplifies how selective facts can produce a misleading portrayal of a complex situation. On October 8, 2023, a day after the devastating attack on Israel, Hezbollah, a recognized terror organization that Wikipedia refers to as a "militant group", began launching rockets into Israeli cities and villages from Lebanon, escalating to drone and anti-tank missile strikes. This assault led Israel to evacuate over 96,000 residents within a two-kilometer range of the Israel-Lebanon border to protect civilian lives. Yet, the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia entry fails to mention Hezbollah's sustained assault. The entry also omits that the IDF disclosed Hezbollah’s initial plans to invade Israel, which could have resulted in mass casualties reminiscent of the October 7 events. Additionally, the article fails to note that Israel’s airstrikes were specifically focused on Hezbollah’s military assets, targeting sites like missile stockpiles intended for attacks on civilians. Notably, in an incident such as the Majdal Shams massacre, where a rocket struck a football field, killing 12 children, the context of Hezbollah’s missile threat remains unaddressed. Instead, the entry lists Lebanese casualties without distinguishing between combatants and civilians, even implying that Israel’s actions constitute a "war of annihilation" against Lebanon. By omitting this essential context, the article presents a skewed perspective that could lead readers to dangerously incomplete conclusions about the conflict. Such one-sided narratives must be addressed by @Wikimedia to prevent @Wikipedia from becoming a tool of propaganda through what might be called #wikiwashing.

This post is a bit long, but it's crucial that you read it. The short 22-second video is probably the toughest one I've watched from October 7th. It doesn't show any graphic scenes like bodies, injuries, or blood. It's just a brief exchange between a police officer in combat and two girls he rescues. I watched it exactly a week ago for the first time, and since then, it hasn't left my mind. Every time I think about it, a shiver runs down my spine. Here's the story of these girls and their family. A horrific tale beyond imagination. On the morning of October 7th, the Swissa family from Sderot woke up to an alarm instructing them to enter a protected space due to rocket fire from Gaza. The parents, Dolev and Odia, had a routine: whenever rocket fire from Gaza began, they quickly packed a suitcase and left the city for a short period until the rocket threat subsided, as they did this time. After a few minutes, they took their two little daughters, placed them in the family car, and headed towards the exit of Sderot. As they approached the city's entrance, Dolev saw a car with terrorists on it. Realizing they had no choice, Dolev took his 3-year-old daughter, Lea, and ran with her out of the car, while Odia took 6-year-old Romy and tried to hide with her among the trees. A few meters behind the car and in the midst of running, Dolev was shot by the terrorists while holding his little daughter in his hands. He told her to run to her mom and hide. When Lea, the 3-year-old, reached her mom, Odia realized she had to do something to save her daughters. She put both of them in the car but couldn't start driving due to shock. At that moment, Amar, an Arab-Israeli, recognized the mother's distress, got out of his car, and entered the Swissa family's car in an attempt to save them. Amar drove the car towards the Sderot police station, unaware that, at that moment, Hamas terrorists had taken over the police station. As Amar approached the police station with the car, the terrorists sprayed the car with bullets, killing both him and Odia in the front seat. The two little girls, Lea and Romy, continued to sit in the back seat of the car while their mother died in front of them. After long minutes, several police officers arrived at the scene to rescue the little girls. As seen in the video, 6-year-old Romy, in her desperate plea, shouts, "No, please, no." She thinks they are terrorists. After the officers identify themselves, she cries out, "Take us, please take us." And then immediately, "I'm here with my baby sister." While the officers rescue her and her little sister. This scream has not left me for long days. A 6-year-old who saw her mom murdered before her eyes, surrounded by a war between terrorists and police, has to protect her little sister. I've attached the video and a segment from an article about them on Channel 11 in Israel with English subtitles. Please share this. No little girl in the world should go through something like this. No child should see their mom die because of terrorists like this. That's why Hamas must be eradicated. There's no other choice for a free world. #HamasislSIS #October7massacre #Israel #FreeGazazFromHamas #Gaza #TheRealImage