It’s not what everyone thought it was. The Israeli airstrike on Rafah, which killed dozens of civilians and that even Bibi Netanya called a “tragic error,” wasn’t as bad as people said.

Hamas claimed that Israel’s Air Force (IAF), in a strike on a camp of Palestinian refugees, killed at least 45 and injured more than 200 people. A closer look at the evidence shows that this is not what happened.

You don’t need to get lost in the details or the finer points of this issue because you can see right through Hamas lies with the broad strokes.

This is the shortest report I’ve seen in the past 24 hours that has cleared Israel.

CNN Defense Analysts have now determined that the Israeli Airstrike on May 26th against a Hamas Compound in Western Rafah, which was believed to have possibly caused an Explosion and Fire which resulted in the Death of between 35-45 Palestinian Refugees, could not have been… pic.twitter.com/kcfND1FOou

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 30, 2024

Here’s a TL;DR version: The IAF successfully eliminated two Hamas leaders that were not in the camp. The bombs used were too small to produce the explosions captured on video. In fact, they were secondary explosions caused by Hamas’s weapons cache, which was located right next to camp.

Hamas does not use civilians as human shields, but rather to store weapons. It wants dead civilians, even if it must make them up. Hamas is in the business of killing people, and it is a good business.

The facts seem to be of little importance. Hamas, as usual, spread its propaganda quickly and dirty. Jerusalem gave in to the international pressure, which was a result of Hamas’ propaganda. It conducted an investigation on an airstrike it knew wasn’t as Hamas had claimed. Hamas, its media compatriots, and the Israeli military were all attempting to determine “what actually happened” while they were putting on a show.

Netanyahu’s wartime Cabinet could do a better or more importantly faster job. According to a post made by X users last night, Israel wins the war over lies, but loses in the battle for world opinion. Why? “They take too long to verify all facts and need to change the way they operate and respond instantly with imperfect data about the probable cause of an event, to reduce the Hamas propaganda.”

Indeed. Jonathan Swift wrote, in 1710: “Falsehood is like a bird that flies and Truth follows it.” Jerusalem should start releasing its version as soon as Hamas — and then make any corrections that are needed later.

I could also do a better work. I didn’t immediately write about the Sunday airstrike reports because they did not pass the sniff-test. Instead, I waited until the analysis came in.

The Biden administration is the biggest problem for the truth, as it always has been.

White House played both sides again. John Kirby, the White House’s spokeswoman, repeated Hamas propaganda and called the deaths “devastating.” He also said that the airstrike alone would not change American policy towards arming Israel.

The world needs to hear and see an American president who has the moral fibre to declare that Hamas was founded on murder and lies, and that the United States will not make any statements regarding Hamas until the truth is revealed. This president would state that “my administration does not repeat or reinforce unproven allegations of terrorist groups.”

Needless to say, we do not have that president.