Copernicus
Industrial Strength Linguist
I made what was clearly a passing remark that I "wouldn't put it past" Hamas (or now Islamic Jihad) to have deliberately blown up the building themselves precisely because of the effect it would have on the now-delayed ground invasion, not to mention stoking up outrage. You keep spinning it as a "conspiracy theory" and "alternative facts", but false flag operations are not unprecedented. For fanatics, the end justifies the means sometimes. This is just an internet discussion board, and it is perfectly permissible here to air opinions about what might account for an event where all of the facts are not known.
I have said nothing to contradict the facts as reported, but Israel has been spinning video evidence from an Al Jazeera feed that Al Jazeera itself says has been misused by them:
Video investigation: What hit al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza?
Israel says Palestinian fighters bombed Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital in a misfire. Is that true?
Al Jazeera is trying to make it look like the tragedy was caused by a misfired rocket from the terrorists, but their analysis does not really explain what caused the explosion. It looks possible to me that debris from the Iron Dome defensive strike may have rained down on the ground and set off that explosion. Maybe it hit an ammo dump near the hospital. Maybe the cause was really just a misfired rocket that wasn't caught on video. We may never know.
That makes a lot of sense, and I agree with it up to a point. The problem is that it isn't clear what the facts are, and what people accept as facts tends to be reporting that confirms their biases. I think that Bloomberg's Marc Champion has a great take on how the truth gets buried in competing claims by both sides.
Gaza hospital tragedy escalates war risk, no matter who’s to blame
Obviously, we need to suspend judgment until all the facts are known, but we can never be sure that we've arrived at a time when all the facts are known.
