Questions tagged [israel]
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State.
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Were the weapons shown in Gaza hospitals really left there by Hamas? [closed]
The IDF has released videos of weapons they claim were left in Gaza hospitals Rantisi and al-Shifa by Hamas members, to prove Hamas used these protected institutions for military purposes, rendering ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
There are a few sources claiming he said this ("I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"), but all of those I found are rather left-wing. E.g. a 2012 opinion piece in Haaretz or a piece in ...
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Did Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar state he aims to remove all people from Israel?
German tagesschau quotes Israeli journalist Ehud Yaari about Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza:
Das erklärte Ziel Sinwars sei es, alle Menschen in Israel entweder zu töten oder zu vertreiben.
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?
When discussing the ongoing Israel/Hamas war, the following quotes occasionally come up.
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and ...
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Was Israa Jaabis tortured or subjected to mutilation?
A video (graphicy content and heartbreaking) was posted on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) showing a Palestinian woman who freed in the recent Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange. The user (and ...
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
In this widely watched interview with Middle East Eye, Yasmin Porat describes being kidnapped from a kibbutz by Hamas (translation provided by Middle East Eye):
Yasmin Porat: We shouted at that point ...
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Does the US operate 400-metre tall towers/antennas in Israel?
Wikipedia had this claim up for about 15 years:
Dimona Radar Facility (Hebrew: מתקן המכ"ם בדימונה) is a radar facility near Dimona, Israel, owned and operated by the United States.
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Did Stuart Seldowitz work as Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs?
According to this New York Post article, former White House official Stuart Seldowitz said,
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as ...
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Does this clip show Israeli Apache helicopters shooting their own citizens on Oct 7?
A Tweet in French with some 200K+ views (and some thousands of likes/retweets) claims
Des images inédites ont fuité où ont voit des hélicoptères israéliens Apache bombarder ces propres concitoyens ...
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Did “thousands of Gazan citizens” join the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel?
One of the survivors of the Hamas music festival attack on the 7th of October 2023 has claimed the following:
When I say “terrorist”, I am including not only Hamas but also the thousands of Gazan ...
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Does a study claim that there is a lack of organized rape by the Israeli Defence Forces for political motives?
A December 2007 article in Israel National News claims:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to ...
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Does an Arrow 3 cost more than 10 times less than its closest US equivalent (SM-3 Block IIA)?
According to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, an Arrow 3 costs $2,200,000, while a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IIA
costs $36,387,000.
Both of these are 21 inch (fit in that tube diameter) ...
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In 2015, did the Israeli Defence Force execute an elderly Palestinian woman, Ghalia Abu Reida, after taking a picture with her?
[Warning: The links below contain distressing images of the result of violence.]
X/Twitter account @HoyPalestina posted a tweet on 15 November 2023, claiming:
In 2015, Israeli army spokesman Avichai ...
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Is Hamas trying to destroy Israel? [closed]
There seems to be continued confusion about the actual goals of the Hamas movement and the motivations for the butchery of Oct. 7th.
The UN Secretary General implied the motivation was decades of ...
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Is there "video evidence that [Palestinians] deliberately avoided targeting women and children" during the Oct 7 attacks on Israel? [closed]
Forward, an American Jewish newspaper, reports that Queens College, City of New York University had a Muslim student group posting Instagram stories defending Palestinian/Hamas attacks on Israel on ...
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Did Hamas release a video of a doll "accidentally" masquerading as a dead child in Gaza?
The Twitter account of Israel (MFA) has [archive link, the original tweet was deleted] this slightly odd claim:
Hamas accidentally posted a video of a doll (yes a doll) suggesting that it was a part ...
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Does TikTok "shadow ban" pro-Israeli content?
According to one influencer interviewed on Fox News, TikTok makes it difficult to post pro-Israeli content. She alleges that such posts don't get publicly displayed but that she has to manually send ...
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Was the Israeli interception of a missile (from Yemen) recently "the first combat ever to take place in space", 62 miles high?
Claim in The Telegraph on Nov 5:
Israel this week used its Arrow missile-defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile outside of Earth’s atmosphere, in what is believed to be the first combat ...
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Did Hamas kill Israeli babies during the October 7 2023 attacks on Israel?
In another question, the topic of whether babies were beheaded in the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel is addressed.
Putting aside the specific claims of beheadings, allegedly some accounts are ...
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Were most of the people killed by Hamas on October 7 Israeli soldiers (at some point)?
In this clip by Richard Medhurst he says,
Israel published a list of 1,400 causalities killed on October 7th and it turns out most of them are soldiers. Their ranks are listed right along side their ...
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Do more Israelis die from peanut allergies than Palestinian conflict?
In his 2010 song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
It seems nuts, how could there be such agony?
When more Israelis die from peanut allergies
In the context of the song, he seems to be claiming ...
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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
The Persian-language newspaper, Ettelat published a story a few days ago claiming the Algerian parliament has ratified a bill to allow the president to use military action against Israel. This appears ...
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Does this video show Israeli police brutalizing anti-Zionist Jews? [closed]
[Caution: Attached video portrays moderate violence by police.]
According to this tweet by the Quds News Network
Israeli police on Wednesday raided the anti-Zionist Jewish neighborhood in occupied #...
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Were multiple Israeli children found decapitated by Hamas on the same location and responders were trying to figure out which head belonged to whom?
According to Eli Beer [interviewed on TBN], after the Hamas attack on Oct 7, Israeli first responders ran into a scene where multiple children had been decapitated on same location and "we were ...
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Did Hamas bake a baby to death in an oven?
A new report has emerged of Hamas baking a baby in an oven. [NSFL images at link] (Video of the Eli Beer speech referenced in the Tweet embedded in that previous article.) This has also, of course, ...
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Were babies found with their heads decapitated in Israel after the Hamas attack?
According to this tweet by CNN,
The Israel Prime Minister spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found with their "heads decapitated" in Kfar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas ...
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Did the Arabic IDF page on Facebook say "it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death"?
From Lowkey,
The translation reads,
Due to the lack of medical equipment and the lack of a medical staff, it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death
Was this ...
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Did Netanyahu say "We will turn Gaza into a deserted island" in early October 2023?
According to a October 7, 2023 Al-Jazeera article, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said:
“We will take mighty vengeance for this black day,” the Israeli leader said in a televised address. “...
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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Did Israel replace a puppy with burned babies in a photo?
This is a more direct claim than what's been asked in another Q about "murdered babies".
A (Singaporean, I think) website called "Defense Politics Asia" claims (also on their ...
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Did a soldier who confirmed babies decapitated by Hamas previously call for "wiping out entire Palestinian villages"?
According to Anandolu Agensi [Oct, 12]:
To this day, only one soldier has said he saw babies were beheaded. David Ben Zion of Unit 71, an extremist settler who earlier this year called for “wiping ...
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Did Benjamin Netanyahu say this about Christian Zionists? [closed]
The following quote is attributed to Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel.
It appears in inspiringquotes.us.
It was shared by a couple of Facebook users, and the quote or part of ...
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Did UNESCO pass 46 resolutions against Israel and 1 against any other country in one period?
From Hillel Neuer (in a recent Twitter Moment):
In 2009-2014, UNESCO adopted:
46 resolutions against Israel
1 on Syria
0 on Iran, North Korea, Sudan or any other country in the world
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Is this infographic about Palestinian loss of land since 1947 accurate? [duplicate]
I've come across this infographic a few times on social media, most recently in this widely shared Facebook post:
Here is a larger version of the infographic:
Are the borders in it largely accurate?
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Is Israel exporting 100s-of-Millions, or Billions, USD of arms per year?
A multi-annual chart on the "trading economies website suggests Israeli arms exports have a "total insurable value" of hundreds of millions of USD per year.
However, this story on the ...
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Did China receive blue prints of the IAI Lavi jet from Israel?
On the Internet, it is frequently found that the Chinese J-10 fighter jet evolved from the Israeli IAI Lavi project in that either China obtained the blueprints or received direct technical assistance ...
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Are the British to blame for Israel's stray cat problem? [closed]
Stray cats are extremely common in Israel and there is a common urban legend that they were imported by the British during the mandate period to combat a rat problem.
For example, you can see this ...
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Is this data about COVID Vaccination breakthrough infections from the Israeli government?
I've been seeing this infographic circulating lately in private WhatsApp groups, and also on Twitter 1, 2. It has also been retweeted by Ivory Hecker who has 100k twitter followers and 173k Instagram ...
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Did Iranian state TV say that the drone attack on the tanker in July 2021 was in retaliation for an Israeli strike?
CNN claimed that the Iranian state media has taken credit for a deadly drone attack on a tanker connected to a "Israeli billionaire" going so far as to say it was "retaliation" for ...
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Has Israel used banned weapons against the population of Palestine?
According to this graphic from the Facebook group zionistlies,
The Israeli army uses 3 internationally banned weapons in its military aggression against the unarmed civilian population of Palestine.
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Are Hamas' Qassam rockets not very destructive?
Recently there was this answer on Politics.SE, which quotes extensively from Norman Finkelstein's book, Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom. In particular, there was deep disagreement from this quote ...
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Did Nelson Mandela directly compare or accuse Israel of apartheid?
The question can be split into 2 parts:
Did he compare Israel to apartheid as an analogy?
Did he directly accuse Israel of the crime of apartheid?
Currently, the only mention of "Nelson Mandela&...
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Does Hamas prevent construction material from reaching Palestinians?
Recently, with the situation in Gaza worsening again and many buildings being destroyed, the lack of construction material to aid in rebuilding has been brought up again.
The IDF claims, on their ...
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Is information about Israel/Palestine in this infographic accurate?
I found this infographic shared on Twitter:
https://www.visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/identity-crisis-the-israeli-id-system#&gid=1&pid=1
The infographic depicts the different status of the ...
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Does Israel have a contracted minimum quota of people they must inject with Pfizer vaccines?
From Outcry to the world, from Israel!!! (NL+ENG subtitles) (transcript from The Current Situation in Israel as Told by Ilana Rachel Daniel)
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Did Hitler support zionism?
According to Ken Livingstone (UK Labour politician, former Mayor of London), Hitler supported Zionism:
Evening Standard:
Mr Livingstone told BBC Radio London he had never heard anyone in the party ...
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Did Downer claim Israel told him to spy on Papadopoulos?
Former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos just tweeted this:
Alexander Downer has made a bizarre, and unfounded, claim and perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Israelis ...
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Did India plan to get Pakistan's nuclear facility destroyed by Israel in the mid-'80s?
A 2010 article by Shahid R. Siddiqi in Dawn (a major Pakistani English newspaper) states:
After successfully destroying the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981,
Israelis planned a similar attack on ...
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Did Ariel Sharon say that the Jewish people control America?
Kevin Barrett claims:
I remember it like it happened yesterday.
It was early October, 2001. I was driving through the Shorewood
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Did Jews "take over" 73% of their land from Palestinians?
I found an article by Matt Giwer saying that the cause of the Israeli-Arab war is that
The Jews, [...] did in fact steal the land from the Palestinians. They actually bought and paid for at most 9% ...
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