The events of the October 7th, 2023 attack have been wildly embellished by Israel and the complicit Western media. This is not the first time atrocity propaganda has been implemented by the media to manufacture consent for retaliation. It has also occurred with Libya and Iraq, for example.
One of the most common bits of atrocity propaganda that came from Israel about October 7th was the "40 beheaded babies" lie. The western media echoed this narrative and continues to cite babies killed in the operation in spite of no evidence to support it. In fact, only one baby was recorded to have been killed on October 7th, and it appears to have been caught in a case of cross fire.
Other lies regarding babies include babies stuffed in ovens, hung from clothes lines and cut from the mother's womb. All of these come with zero supporting evidence, and even evidence to the contrary. This does not stop the media from repeating these talking points almost one year later.
The most repeated line of atrocity propaganda is the "mass rape" lie. A true blood libel against the Palestinians. There appears to not only not have been any mass rape, but no confirmed cases of rape on October 7th at all. Independent reporting shows that hospital records from Israel do not show one instance of rape from the events of October 7th. That has not stopped Israel and news outlets such as CNN and even presidential candidate Kamala Harris from repeating the "mass rape" lie.
Similar tactics have been levied against Western enemies before. In 2011 it was said that Gaddafi's forces were "supplied Viagra" to conduct mass sexual assaults against civilians. This of course proved to be completely false. Likewise, Saddam's military was accused of throwing babies out of incubators. Again, these claims proved to be entirely unfounded. But the damage was done.
It doesn't matter if the events are exaggerated, or even if they aren't even real at all. Western media will repeat the line until everyone believes the other side is evil. Usually this is done to manufacture consent for wars. This time it is being done to manufacture consent for a genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza.
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