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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
I found what you've quoted here, here and here:
The “trick” that stopped further withdrawals, Mr Netanyahu adds, was to redefine what parts of the occupied territories counted as a “specified ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
Yes, he did say it.
In this video, uploaded in 2011, he is seen talking to a kid in his home and claiming that he stopped the Oslo accords by interpreting the wording in a way favorable to Israel (...
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Did Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar state he aims to remove all people from Israel?
First it should be said that the counter-claim made in the question that "[n]either charter seems consistent with killing or displacing all people in Israel, which would include Palestinians and ...
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Was Israa Jaabis tortured or subjected to mutilation?
The Arab media account is that an Israeli police officer shot at Jaabis' stopped car, causing it to explode. However, the Israeli legal system found her guilty of setting off a car bomb and sentenced ...
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Was Israa Jaabis tortured or subjected to mutilation?
No she wasn't.
She was hurt when her car, which contained a gas tank, exploded. Israelies claim that it was a failed a failed suicide bombing, while she claims it was from a fault in her car. She ...
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
Yes.
TRT World with the following title: Israel's army helicopter hits Israeli festivalgoers during Hamas attack — report reported that:
The Haaretz newspaper said on Saturday an Israeli security ...
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Does the US operate 400-metre tall towers/antennas in Israel?
No, the American are operating a Radar that is located in Har Qeren, the 400 meter antennas are operated by Israel. From a 2008 article talking about the detection devices that will be built. It's ...
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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?
Mostly True
The source for that claim seems to be Gotham Government Relations,
Stuart Seldowitz, former Director of the National Security Council (NSC) under President Obama and former diplomat for ...
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Did “thousands of Gazan citizens” join the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel?
Yes, there is clear evidence that non-combatant citizens joined the Hamas attack, though their exact number cannot be determined. In this article there are videos from the Nir Oz security footage, as ...
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Did “thousands of Gazan citizens” join the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel?
Balance
"Gazan citizens", "civilians" and "non-standard uniforms"
Presumably "civilian" and "Gazan citizens" in the question are the same, and ...
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Does a study claim that there is a lack of organized rape by the Israeli Defence Forces for political motives?
In the study, Nitzan distinguishes between two types of military rape - intentional military rape and symptomatic military rape.
The first is intentional rape intended to achieve political goals and ...
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Does an Arrow 3 cost more than 10 times less than its closest US equivalent (SM-3 Block IIA)?
The United States contract to Raytheon for the SM-3 Block IIA antiballistic missile is $2.7b for 62 units, which includes development cost, procurement, and ongoing support. This works out to about $...
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Were the weapons shown in Gaza hospitals really left there by Hamas?
Outside of Israeli sources, expect stuff like the quote below for quite a while.
The Washington Post was unable to independently verify who the weapons belonged to or how they came to be inside the ...
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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?
This case is far from proven to the end.
No proof she was shot, and that it was from close range, or that it was intentional.
Finding a dead body in a place where intense fire exchanges took place ...
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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?
It does not seem that there was any further investigation by the Israeli officials about the incident, so there is no really any concrete proof or evidence that the IDF executed her, however, we know ...
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Does TikTok "shadow ban" pro-Israeli content?
TikTok is a company that has a good degree of congressional oversight. It's been called to answer on privacy (Mar 2023), security (Nov 2022), culture and children (Oct 2021) and probably quite a few ...
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Does this clip show Israeli Apache helicopters shooting their own citizens on Oct 7?
There is a more detailed article about this in The Gray Zone website. They collected almost all details from relevant news. (interviews with the apache pilot, witnesses, etc.) Here are some parts of ...
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Is there "video evidence that [Palestinians] deliberately avoided targeting women and children" during the Oct 7 attacks on Israel?
On October 13, 2023, Aljazeera reported on videos released by Hamas that shows Hamas fighters taking care of and playing with Israeli children during the attacks:
Publication of the military media ...
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?
Yes, certainly
This isn't a hidden point in Israeli media,
Times of Israel
According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted ...
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?
Yes and no.
He did say it, or at least the evidence show that he said it.
However, in proper context it does not have the same meaning as you seem to attribute to it in the question. In short, it ...
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Is there "video evidence that [Palestinians] deliberately avoided targeting women and children" during the Oct 7 attacks on Israel?
There is clear evidence that the terrorists attacking Israel on Oct 7th were deliberately targeting civilians and civilian population centers.
There are plenty of video evidence of them targeting, ...
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Were most of the people killed by Hamas on October 7 Israeli soldiers (at some point)?
Addressing the Graphic
I ran the following graphic which seems to be used in the above Tweet through OCR
I then broke it apart on what seemed to me like military titles
NADAV GOLDSTEIN LIMOR VAKNIN ...
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Does this clip show Israeli Apache helicopters shooting their own citizens on Oct 7?
The video was contextualized in a Ynet article.
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b111niukzt
After the pilots realized that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied ...
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Were most of the people killed by Hamas on October 7 Israeli soldiers (at some point)?
The list of names shown in the OP video was posted by Israel's official Twitter account
So it is true that Israel posted the list displayed in the video. I haven't counted the names yet. It is ...
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Does this clip show Israeli Apache helicopters shooting their own citizens on Oct 7?
The footage hasn't recently emerged as the tweet claims, but is available since at least Oct 9th with the description:
Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas militants with 30mm chain ...
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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
There's news directly from Algeria Press Service on this session. It is accompanied by a wide angle photo that matches the footage from the Iranian source in a key detail.
APS photo first; note the ...
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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
Yes, the footage is probably real.
From looking around the internet, there was a special session of the Algerian lower house of Parliament on Nov 2nd about Palestine.
The twitter account of the ...
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