The worst part of this lie is that so many Western politicians and establishment media outlets will repeat it as if it were true.
“Libel: Israel’s newest ‘war crime’ is ‘killing’ Palestinian prisoners with the Coronavirus – official PA daily op-ed,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, February 28, 2021:
The Coronavirus has served as a breath of fresh air for the PA libel that Israel medically neglects and abuses Palestinian terrorist prisoners. Whereas COVID-19 has provided new raw material for libels against Israel in general, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the PA in particular has exploited the pandemic to repeat the libel about Israeli abuse of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists.
It really doesn’t matter what Israel does in terms of dealing with the Coronavirus in connection with the terrorist prisoners. If Israel doesn’t vaccinate the prisoners, the PA criticizes it for “neglecting” the Palestinian prisoners and even “deliberately exposing” them to the virus. If Israel does vaccinate them, the PA claims Israel is using them as guinea pigs and conducting medical experiments on them. Israel is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.
During the pandemic the PA has
– alleged that Israel deliberately exposed the terrorist prisoners to the Coronavirus.
– complained that Israel wasn’t protecting the terrorist prisoners from the virus.
– claimed Israel was using the virus as “a tool of abuse” to further harm the terrorist prisoners by isolating them (when the Prison Service was actually following the Coronavirus guidelines for isolation to protect them from further spreading of the disease.)
– demanded Israel vaccinate the prisoners but opposed Israel’s vaccinations unless Israel agreed to international supervision, claiming Israel might otherwise use the prisoners for “medical experiments.”
Some of these libels were printed by the official PA daily. The paper’s regular columnist Muwaffaq Matar – who is also a member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council member – claimed Israel is using the Coronavirus as “a new weapon” with which it carries out a “war crime” – an alleged “plan of tormenting and killing the prisoners slowly and indirectly”:
“War crime – Tormenting the prisoners with the Coronavirus!”
“The Israeli racist occupation system found a new weapon in the Coronavirus, which it is using [as part of] a plan of tormenting and killing the prisoners slowly and indirectly… Regarding the Coronavirus, it has made the act of tormenting the prisoners easier for them through its symptoms that cause physical pain and have an emotional impact… it is enough for there to be one executioner from the occupation forces who is sick with the Coronavirus in order to infect hundreds of prisoners in mere days – considering the crowded prison rooms, or the inhumane conditions in isolation and when transferring the prisoners to the hospitals – this enables the ideology of imposing terror on the prisoners and their relatives which the occupation authorities are working diligently at, and it appears that the desire of its leaders and officers is to continue committing war crimes against the prisoners and to violate the international laws and treaties under the cover of the Coronavirus epidemic.”[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 31, 2021] …
mortimer says
The Pally rumor mill provides endless tropes for the Globalist cabal of elites who are using the Muslims to destroy nationalism, starting with US nationalism and Israeli nationalism. Ironically, they use nationalism to destroy nationalism and destroy Judaism by promoting assimilation of Jews.
I’ve spoken with Leftists about their alliance with fanatical jihadism, but they scoff at it and suggest they can easily make Islam go away when they are ready.
We see how real Marxism deals with Islam, first in Stalinist USSR and now in communist China.
The Chinese tried re-education camps for Muslims, but now they seem to be saying ‘enough of that’. Now, the Chi-Coms are forcing Muslim women to abort and then sterilizing them.
I think that’s the only way that Leftists can ‘deal with’ Islam … namely, by bringing the Muslim birth down to zero. That would be called genocide.
mortimer says
The Leftists love to claim that Israelis are promoting a genocide even as the Pally birthrate skyrockets. A very ineffective ‘genocide’, indeed.
The Leftists are using the accusation of genocide against Israelis … meanwhile, the Leftists are trying to commit a genocide against the only Jewish state on earth. It’s such hypocrisy. They use cries of ‘genocide’ to promote their own genocide against Jews through globalist assimilation.
Westman says
A very ineffective “genocide” indeed. Serious illnesses get Israeli medical care which might be related to the low Covid death rate for “Palestinians” compared regional nations.
Now Abbas would rather let “his” people die than accept Israeli vaccinations. Now is the critical time. Where is the voice of all those leftists and militants who claimed Israel was witholding vaccinations? We listen for their condemnation of Abbas and what we hear is….crickets. The leftist view seems to be, “If you can’t say something bad about Israel, don’t say anything at all.”
COVID Death Rate
Palestinians – 1.1% rising
Iraq – 1.9% steeply rising.
Iran – 3.7% rising
Afghanistan – 4.3% falling
Egypt – 5.7% flat
Syria – 6.5% rising
somehistory says
Didn’t the moslums say that the virus was from their fake god, and targeting the U.S.? Didn’t some of them claim that their demon god would protect moslums from the virus?
Don’t they expect their demon god to protect them from the Jews, whom they have vowed to slaughter until there are no more Jews? Didn’t that one say only recently that when the Jews were all slaughtered by the moslums that everything would be peachy,,, with “peace and security”?
Why don’t they just call on their demon god to make all of the terrorists well and healthy?
Liars all, and this is just another big one.
James Lincoln says
Constantly evolving lies, somehistory.
They keep throwing them against the wall, hoping that something sticks…
gravenimage says
+1
john smith says
Yes Somehistory they did say all those things, everything.
gravenimage says
Official PA daily accuses Israel of ‘war crime’: murdering imprisoned jihadis with coronavirus
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More calumny against the civilized Israelis.