"Champion of Humanitarian Aid" Argument סיוע הומניטרי (טיעון פגום)

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"If you plan a siege strategy, don't later declare yourself the hero of aid. Its disingenuous, and they'll doubt your claims of rape and mutilation."

Israel is the champion of humanitarian aid to Gaza. If they could, they would come and bring fresh hummus to all of them. And what are they forgetting? They're forgetting when the war started, what was Israel's plan? Israel's plan was to siege Gaza, to turn off the water, to turn off the gas.

Now, if that's your strategic plan and you want to go with it, fine. There are benefits, there are drawbacks, absolutely. Could it motivate the population to rebel? Could it motivate the ouster of Hamas? Could it motivate people to... There are arguments to be made, but that's not the point here.

The point is, if you start off your war by starving the people and doing a modern-day siege of water and gas, you cannot come back and claim that you are the hero of humanitarian aid. It's disingenuous. It backfires. You lose all credibility.

And then when you start to show and claim that Hamas did this and Hamas did that, don't wonder why people don't listen to you. Don't wonder why people question your credibility. So when you say, Hamas raped and they kidnapped and they mutilated, and they'll say, well, you're lying. Look what you did with the aid. You claim this and didn't do it.

Don't forget, the young American public in universities, in the famous AOC video where she can't even answer a thing about Israel, you're talking to an ignorant population. They don't know. They don't know what's going on. They can't find anywhere on a map. They probably can't find the Ukraine. They can't find Israel. They can't find Gaza on a map. So they're susceptible to being manipulated.

So when you, Israel, go out publicly and make these blunders, these easily correctable, easily fixable, easily telegraphed mistakes that you're claiming to be the hero of humanitarian aid when two months you said the opposite, they have, they, the other side will have smart leaders. Hamas will have smart leaders and they will manipulate this and they will show you to be deceptive and you will lose public support.