A group of three world-leading nano-technology experts have just published the results of a two year study conducted independently across three separate university laboratories. The results are alarming.
“Self-assembling Nanobots: An Unexpected (?) Inclusion in mRNA Vaccine Technology”
Study by Professor Angela Belcher, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dr. Kenji Tanaka, Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Professor Emily Carter, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Published in: Journal of Advanced Nanomaterials and Engineering
Abstract:
This ground-breaking study presents compelling evidence of the presence of sub-microscopic nanobots within mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. Studies were conducted independently in three highly regarded nano-technology research laboratories. Utilising advanced electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy techniques, the researchers observed unique, self-assembling structures within vaccine samples. These structures exhibited characteristics consistent with synthetic, biocompatible nanobots, including:
COVID-19 Vaccine Nanobot Researcher
• Self-replication: Observed nanobots demonstrated the ability to replicate within controlled in vitro environments.
• Frequency response: Significant activity increases were observed when the nanobots were exposed to electromagnetic fields within the 5G frequency range. This suggests remote activation and control capabilities.
• Biocompatibility: Preliminary in vivo studies in animal models showed limited adverse reactions, indicating potential for long-term integration within biological systems.
Key Findings:
• Nanobot Composition: Analysis revealed the nanobots to be composed of novel, self-assembling polymers and biocompatible metals, suggesting sophisticated engineering.
• Activation Mechanism: Detailed spectroscopic analysis indicated that the nanobots possess unique resonant frequencies that align with 5G frequencies, enabling remote activation and potential control.
• Biological Interactions: No public studies are available which demonstrate the safety or intended function of these nanobots.
COVID-19 Nanobot Vaccine Research Machine
Conclusions:
This study provides the first concrete evidence of the existence of nanobots within mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. These nanobots are constructed of novel materials, demonstrate the ability to self-replicate, and show increased activity in response to frequencies in the 5G range. While the purpose and long-term effects of these nanobots remain to be fully elucidated, their presence raises significant ethical and safety concerns. Further rigorous, independent research is urgently needed to investigate the potential implications of this ground-breaking discovery.
Also, everything above is complete nonsense. I made it up this afternoon drinking a Coke, after I got back from a swim. I know virtually nothing about nano-technology or research. Only one of the authors named actually exists, and I invented the Journal of Advanced Nanomaterials and Engineering. The photos are just random pics I got from Google images. There is, of course, zero, zip, nada, none whatever, evidence of nano-technology in COVID-19 vaccines.
Don’t believe everything you read on social media.
Some of you may have seen a meme or an article from SlayNews being passed around claiming Korean researchers have found a link between COVID-19 vaccination and vastly increased (141% higher) rates of Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM), with up to a 233% higher rate of spinal cord inflammation in those vaccinated compared with those who were not vaccinated.
Shocking! Another cover-up by big pharma and the medical establishment…. Or maybe not.
Frank Bergman, whoever he is, is the author of that article. And lots of others on similar subjects. The trouble is, in every case, the studies Mr Bergman refers to do not say what he claims they do. In some cases, the original studies have no relation to the claims he makes at all – they are on completely different subjects. Either Mr Bergman does not understand what he reading, or he is deliberately misrepresenting the results.
Let’s look at the Korean paper on ATM and COVID-19 vaccination.
The study referred to can be found in the European Journal Of Neurology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ene.70020
If you read the original per you may notice that it doesn’t mention the figure 141% at all. And while it does mention spinal cord inflammation, it does not do so in relation to COVID-19 vaccination.
The rate of diagnosis of ATM is about 3 per million population per year. This results in average figure of 1400 new cases per year in the USA, and about 90 per year in Australia.
Research does not show an association between COVID-19 vaccination and increased risk of myelitis
What does the paper actually report? Here is what they say, word for word: “The total number of COVID‐19 vaccinations between February 26, 2021, and August 31, 2022 was 128,223,471. We identified a total of 368 individuals aged 18 or older who received their first COVID‐19 vaccination and were diagnosed with ATM during the study period.”
But hang on. Out of just over 128 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in an eighteen month period, 368 people were diagnosed with ATM sometime in the following eighteen months. The normal figure is about 3 per million per year; about 4.5 per million over an eighteen month period. 4.5 x 128 is 576.
But doesn’t that mean the incidence of ATM for this group of vaccinated people was LOWER than might be expected? Yes, it does.
More from the study itself: “There was no clear evidence of an association between the respective ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 vaccinations and ATM. The incidence and relative risk of ATM are too low to detect an association in the general adult population. In a population‐based study that compared historical rates with the SCCS analysis based on the data from primary care records in both the UK and Spain, the incidence of TM, defined as occurring within 21 days after the first vaccination, was less than five events.”
And a little more: “Additionally, the possibility that TM cases are related to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection itself cannot be ruled out.” .. “Compared with the influenza vaccine, the mRNA COVID‐19 vaccine did not show a significant difference in the incidence of myelitis. Our literature review found limited conclusive evidence directly linking vaccines to ATM.”
The paper does note that there have been reports of diagnoses of ATM following COVID-19 vaccination. This is unsurprising. Out of a million people, vaccinated or not, you would expect 4.5 diagnoses of ATM in an eighteen month period. The paper also suggests that it may be possible that there is an increased risk, but that the rarity of the disease and confounding factors including the effect of COVID infection itself, make it difficult to identify.
The question is, is the rate of incidence/diagnosis higher amongst vaccinated people? On figures so far, the answer, according to the paper so egregiously and so typically misrepresented by Mr Bergman, is no.
Masks, lock-downs, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic were about reducing risk. Research comparing locations where these measures were introduced and where there were high levels of compliance with locations where they were not, shows such precautions were effective in reducing COVID-19 infection, or at least, in reducing the speed with which the virus was transmitted through the community. There is still, and will be for some time, discussion about whether the positive effect of longer lock-downs was justified when balanced against high economic and personal costs.
However, one very positive effect was the dramatic reduction in infection, serious illness, and death from the various strains of influenza which afflict us most commonly during Winter. Most strains of influenza and the common cold (some of which are caused by other forms of coronavirus) are less infectious, and far less deadly, than COVID-19. This was to some extent expected; prophylactic measures effective against COVID-19 will be even more effective against less infectious aerosol-borne illnesses.
It is impossible to keep up with the endless stream of malicious medical misinformation that is posted and reposted on social media. Malicious because giving people false medical advice, including passing on false information in the form of memes on Facebook, can lead to people making the wrong decisions, which in turn can lead to serious illness and death. The eighty-three deaths, most of them children, in the measles outbreak in Samoa in 2020 is a perfect example.
People who care about the truth, who care about accuracy, who care about others, including their health and their children, will check, every time, that what they are posting is supported by real and reliable evidence.
One example of misrepresentation of fact is a meme which claims that nothing natural can patented, and that a patent proves it was deliberately created. It then lists supposed patents for AIDS, Swine Flu, Ebola, and of course, coronavirus, proving that these diseases were designed.
Patent 5676977, claimed to the patent for AIDS, is first on the list. It is not a patent for AIDS, but for a proposed treatment using tetrasilver tetroxide.
Patent 10130701 is the last on the list, its presence supposedly proving the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. It is not a patent for COVID-19 but for an attenuated (weakened) form of another coronavirus entirely, one that causes avian infectious bronchitis. It was patented for possible use as a veterinary vaccine. No patent on the list, when checked, has anything to do with the invention of any illness.
It takes much more effort to stop, check, think, and ask questions than to pass on harmful memes. But a person who is honest and who cares about others will check nonetheless, and do so every time.
Another is a claimed list of ingredients for the flu vaccine. It is not a list of ingredients for any flu vaccine, but an apparently random collection of scary-sounding chemicals and pollutants. One of those listed is thimerosal. This is a form of ethyl mercury which was included in tiny amounts in some vaccines as a preservative. There is a difference between ethyl and methyl mercury, just as there is a difference between ethyl alcohol (a few beers with your mates) and methyl alcohol (going blind or dying in a bar in Laos). Ethyl mercury is quickly and easily removed from the body with no ill effects. Because false anti-vaccination propaganda was making the presence of thimerosal a cause for vaccine hesitancy, it was removed from vaccines in Australia. No flu or COVID-19 vaccine contains any form of mercury.
Truth does not matter to anti-vaxxers.
The list goes on. “Worm-like self-assembling entities found in COVID vaccines” No, they weren’t.
“74% percent of children who died from SIDS had been vaccinated the same day.” Completely false. There is no correlation between vaccination and an increased rate of SIDS.
“Leading doctor says medical personnel instructed to murder millions by putting them on ventilators.” Getting to the bottom of this one took some time.
The “leading doctor” was not a doctor at all but a low-level respiratory therapist in a non-acute clinic. And he didn’t say millions were killed on instructions from some mysterious figure or organisation. He noticed COVID-19 patients on ventilators died at higher rates than those not placed on ventilators, and said he thought maybe thousands had died because of this. He forgot to take into account that patients on ventilators were the most seriously ill and would certainly have died had they not been ventilated.
If you see one of these memes, or anything that similarly intends people to reject life-saving medical procedures, or anything at all from slay news or the people’s voice, or other fake news sites, just stop! Stop and think, check, ask questions.
Passing on memes on medical matters without checking is not proof of your superior critical thinking skills. It is not proof of your superior scientific knowledge. It is not proof that you are enlightened, or that the real evidence is being hidden by the medical establishment. The only thing it is proof of is that you care neither about truth nor other people. Stop it.
I purchased a new Baumr-AG snipper brushcutter. It would not start. I did eventually get it working, with no help from the seller. Review below, with some hints on what to check. These are cheap, poor quality controlled devices, but may still be worth considering if you are confident with maintenance and minor repairs.
I am currently reading through Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike mystery series. They are well-written, with engaging characters and great character development, and complex and interesting plots. One of the nice features of these books is that the reader gets all the clues, there is no cheating, like an identical twin popping up at the last minute. Book five, Troubled Blood, is one of the best crime stories I have read. Highly recommended:
I am also reading Nabeel Qureshi’s No God but One. This is a clear and compassionate description, often based on personal history and struggle, of the differences between Islam and Christianity, and of the author’s journey from one to the other. Also recommended!
Next on the list after the these are two books by my friend Susanne Ratcliffe. I can’t comment on the books yet, but they have been well-reviewed, and Susanne is a clear-thinking and intelligent woman. This link will take you to the first in the series. Enjoy!
As an example of unchecked, critical thinking lacking, zero investigation passing on of misinformation, consider the recent explosion of posts and memes about bovine feed supplement Bovaer.
Before I start on Bovaer specifically, I must reiterate that I regard claims of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming as overblown, if not entirely baseless. I have been writing about this for more than twenty years, and in 2007 wrote an introduction to climate alarmism which I think still holds up well. https://qohel.com/2015/06/22/global-warming-2/
Nonetheless, it is clear humans do influence climate. The urban heat island effect is one example. Changed rainfall patterns following extensive land-clearing is another. What is also clear is that climate has changed constantly since the world began. Most of the concern over the last forty years has been related to CO2 levels. But there have been periods of higher CO2 and lower temperatures, and lower CO2 and higher temperatures. There is no correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature over geological time periods, and despite the small (about 1 degree Celsius) increase in temperature over the last 150 years, we are still nearly ten degrees below the average for the 200 million years.
There are about 1.55 billion cattle (including beef, dairy, and working cattle) in the world. https://www.statista.com/…/global-cattle-population…/ Micro-organisms in the cow’s rumen produce enzymes which combine carbon and hydrogen to form methane. This is then belched out by the cow. Each of these animals produces between 250 and 500 litres of methane per day. This amounts to about 620,000,000,000 (620 billion) litres of methane added to the atmosphere every year.
Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas, approximately thirty times more powerful than CO2.
Should we be concerned about this? This answer is, maybe.
Methane is only present in the atmosphere at about 1.7 parts per million. By comparison, in the lower parts of the atmosphere, and in regions where most humans live, water vapor accounts for about 10,000 parts per million of the atmosphere – 1 %. CO2 accounts for about 400ppm, about 0.04 percent. Methane is about 1.7 ppm – 0.00017%.
Because methane is such a tiny trace gas, it is not easy to measure accurately, but it is probable that this amount has doubled since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Even allowing for measurement difficulties, it is likely that current levels are higher than any time in the last 800,000 years. But they have also varied wildly in the past, and in Earth’s very early history, about 3.5 billion years ago, may have been a thousand times higher than now.
Methane absorbs heat in similar wavelengths to water, which is vastly more abundant, and this, combined with the fact that methane is present in such tiny quantities in the atmosphere, means that the impact of any increase in methane caused by human activity is likely to be minimal. But we are not sure. It may have a negative impact on the environment, including the climate. Should we be scared about this? No. On the other hand, if it is possible to reduce methane emissions safely and at minimal cost, then it makes sense to do so. https://clear.ucdavis.edu/…/why-do-cattle-produce…
Bovaer is a feed additive used to reduce methane emissions from cattle. Contrary to claims on social media that it has not been tested, Bovaer began extensive, multi-country, multi-organisation safety testing processes in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Nitrooxypropanol Those tests have continued up to the present day. Rigorous safety assessments (more than fifty-eight separate assessments) have shown zero risk to cattle or to human handlers. As a result of this testing, Bovaer has been approved for use in several countries, including the EU, Australia, Canada, and the US.
Bovaer helps reduce methane emissions from cattle
The active component of Bovaer is 3-Nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP). The rest is refined sand and a small amount of a standard food additive, propylene glycol, which acts as an emulsifier. 3-NOP itself is combination of a naturally occurring nitrate and a bio-based alcohol. This forms a liquid which is then reduced to a powder, and combined with the other two ingredients to form a product which is safe to handle and easily added to stock feed. How much is added? About a quarter of a teaspoon per animal per day. In other words, the daily dose per animal is about 2 grams, of which about 10%, 0.2 grams, is the active ingredient 3-NOP. Most dairy cattle in Australia are Holsteins. These weigh an average of about 650kg. This is a dose of 0.0003076923 grams per kilogram.
Studies conducted over the last fifteen years show that the safe dose of 3-NOP in cattle is about 1mg per kilogram of bodyweight. The dose actually fed to cattle is more than 1,000 times less than the demonstrated safe level.
In breaking down the enzymes that form methane, 3-NOP is itself broken down into its natural components. It does not enter the bloodstream, or meat or milk, and has no effect on the safety, taste or quality of those products. https://theconversation.com/bovaer-is-added-to-cow-feed…#
The cost to administer Bovaer to cattle is minimal, and this cost is almost completely made up by the fact that it makes the cow’s digestive system slightly more efficient. More grass is converted to milk or meat, meaning a sufficiently higher return for farmers using Bovaer to cover its cost.
Despite long and widespread safety testing, including a huge number of repeated tests on meat and milk composition, long-term cattle health, and human handler safety, there are still claims on social media that Bovaer is unsafe. Some of these include what purport to be genuine material safety data sheets, but which are actually sourced from other accounts on Facebook and Instagram.
While claiming that Bovaer has not been safety tested, these posts also claim that safety testing showed an increased risk of cancer, and of impairment to male reproductive capacity.
In reality, tests showed that daily doses up to 100mg per kilogram of bodyweight had no ill-effect in a variety of animals, including cattle and rats. As noted earlier, this is 1,000 times more than the actual daily dose fed to cattle.
At a rate of 300mg per kg of bodyweight every day for two years, that is, a daily dose 3,000 times that actually fed to cattle, researchers found benign tumours in the small intestines of female rats. No harm was observed in male rats. Feeding cattle between 300mg and 500mg per day over two years resulted in shrinkage in ovaries and testicles. This is a dosage rate up to 5,000 times greater than anything actually fed to cattle.
I promise if you eat anything at a rate 5,000 times more than the recommended quantity, you will suffer some ill-effects! You may, for example, drink five glasses of water per day without any ill effect. If you plan to drink 25,000 glasses of water every day you will be dead before you get through the first two hours. The same would apply if you go from a daily consumption of 200mg of caffeine per day, about four cups of coffee, to a daily consumption of 1 kilogram of caffeine per day – about 20,000 cups, that is, a cup every four seconds every 24 hours. That would be ridiculous. But it is no more ridiculous than claiming ill-effects related to a dosage of 5,000 times the recommended amount of any substance prove that the substance is dangerous.
Bovaer has been extensively tested with different animals in multiple different countries by multiple different organisations over a period of fifteen years. There is no evidence it poses any danger to famers, animals, or consumers. It reduces methane emissions at virtually zero cost to farmers. Its active ingredients are broken down into their natural components in the cow’s rumen, and do not pass into meat or milk.
Of course it is much easier to pass on a scary-looking meme than it is to stop, think, ask questions, read and research. But if we are concerned about misinformation on social media we must do this, every single time. Misinformation incurs real costs and causes real harm.
Just one more thing. Antipathy to Bovaer is often accompanied by the claim that Bill Gates is behind it. He is not. Bill Gates has shares in a company that is in the process of producing a completing product called Rumen-8. If anything, the company producing Rumen-8 and possibly Bill Gates would be delighted by the social media opposition to Bovaer!
Rumen-8 works in the same way, by breaking down the enzymes which cause the production of methane. It is made of more natural-sounding ingredients; seaweed and molasses, but it requires a far greater volume of product to achieve the same result. Rumen-8 is not yet available for commercial use, because it is still going through the same extensive safety testing that was applied to Bovaer.
I leave it to your imagination to decide what the social media reaction will be when a methane-reducing product in which Bill Gates really does have a stake hits the market!
I keep seeing a meme which claims Stanley Milgram found that 80% of the population does not have the moral courage to stand against the crowd, but will follow rules regardless. This claim is usually accompanied by the claim that this “leaves only 20% of us with critical thinking skills.”
In reality this post, and reposting it, is evidence of a severe lack of critical thinking skills.
Critical thinking is primarily about asking questions. The questions vary according to circumstances. In this case, questions like these would be appropriate: Was the study well designed and implemented? Was data from the study adequately and accurately analysed? Does the data and analysis show what the author claimed? Do they show what the meme claims? Have subsequent reviews supported the findings, or brought them into question?
One, of these questions, at least, is easy to answer. The study was not about critical thinking skills, but about compliance with authority. Even if the findings of the study were accurately reported and have stood the test of time, it does not show, not even remotely, that only 20% of people have critical thinking skills. You might be justified in thinking that even if only 20% of people do have critical thinking skills, this is not likely to include people patting themselves on the back for their own cleverness and reposting memes without doing any checking.
Even more fundamentally, a quick search would have shown that Milgram’s experiment was fundamentally flawed, if not deliberately mis-reported. When actual records are examined, it becomes clear that Milgram cherry-picked his data – reporting on only one iteration of his experiment when multiple instances were conducted. In addition, many of the participants quickly came to the conclusion that the shocks were faked. If anything, these were the ones who showed critical thinking skills. Of those who did believe the shocks were genuine, 80% refused to comply with the experimenters’ instructions to continue, pretty much showing the exact opposite of Milgram’s claims.
Two reviews can be found at the links below. A book, also linked, examines the experiment, and asks why, when Milgram’s experiments clearly do not demonstrate what they claimed to, they continue to hold a place in popular imagination.
You may also note that many of those who post the abovementioned meme, confident that they are among the alleged 20% with critical thinking skills, are those most likely to repost other memes which are counter-factual, or which are dismissive of real research, and to do so without question or investigation. This is the very opposite of critical thinking.
Blue zones, places where a high proportion of people who live to be over 100 years of age, have been examined and analysed for variations in diet, level of education, physical activity, proximity to water, trees, etc, etc, etc.
King Randall (if you haven’t heard of him, look him up) conducted a social experiment by posting two videos. In one video, he said he would vote for Kamala, and in the other, he said he would vote for Trump. When Trump supporters who followed him saw the Kamala video, they were disappointed, but did not threaten, abuse or try to cancel him, and still pledged to continue supporting his community work.
But when Kamala supporters watched his Trump video, the result was an avalanche of anger and insults. News of this went viral and Trump supporters all over the country bought gifts to send to Randall’s new school. If anyone asks what the difference is between the two sides, remember this.
King Randall conducted a social experiment by posting two videos. In one video, he said he would vote for Kamala, and in the other one, he said he would vote for Trump.
When Trump supporters who followed him saw the Kamala video, they didn't cancel him over his beliefs and still… https://t.co/MGkk64lH2u
Apropos of nothing in particular. Just an interesting read.
Something unthinkable happened during the summer of 1718. Edward Teach, the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard, decided to give up piracy—at least ostensibly—in exchange for a royal pardon from the governor of North Carolina absolving him and his men of all wrongdoing.
Barbanera (Blackbeard) the nickname of pirate Edward Teach (1680 -1718)
This was a great deal for the pirates, whose wrongdoing was extensive. But Blackbeard’s lawfulness—and his life—didn’t last long.
Just a few months prior, Blackbeard and his small pirate flotilla had blockaded Charleston, South Carolina, for close to a week. He plundered ships, took hostages and “struck a great terror to the whole Province of Carolina,” according to the pseudonymous author Captain Charles Johnson.
A week ago, eight weeks before President-elect Trump is due to take over, President Biden approved the firing of US ballistic missiles deep into Russia. Two days ago, the first of those missiles was fired at the Russian city of Karachev, 130 kilometres from the Russia – Ukraine border. https://www.ndtv.com/…/in-a-first-ukraine-hits-russia…
In just three and half months, up to January 2020, there were 5700 cases of measles in Samoa. Nearly two thousand people had to be admitted to hospital. Eighty-three people died. Almost all of these were children. One family lost three of its children. This in a country with a population of 200,000 people. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/measles-in-samoa/
How could this happen? In 2018 two Samoan infants died after receiving a vaccine which had been mixed with expired muscle relaxant instead of water. This had nothing to do with the vaccine itself. The two nurses responsible were sentenced to jail for manslaughter. https://www.abc.net.au/…/samoa-nurses…/11378494
Three of Fa’aoso Tuivale’s children died in the measles outbreak
Anti-vaxxers including Robert F Kennedy Jr used this incident to scare people in Samoa about vaccines in general, resulting in a collapse in vaccination rates.
Just as bad, after the outbreak began, RFK Jr wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Samoa, telling him the outbreak was probably caused by the vaccine itself, and urging him to stop the government’s renewed efforts to protect people from the virus. Comments on this from an infectious diseases doctor:
“In brief, RFK Jr. laid down a stinky thick layer of bullshit. There is one of two possibilities. Either he was utterly clueless and was just regurgitating a particularly brain dead bit of Wakefield antivaccine propaganda, or he knew just what he’s doing and was lying. Take your pick. In his letter to Prime Minister Malielegaoi, he despicably weaponized that very bullshit in order to try to convince the leader of a country in which measles has already killed over five dozen people and sickened thousands more that the MMR vaccine both caused and has exacerbated the epidemic. Words fail me when it comes to describing how—dare I say?—evil this is.”
If the Palestinian cause is just, why is every argument in favour of it a lie?
Lie 1. Israel is an apartheid regime. This charge is especially misplaced because apartheid involves race. Israel is the only state in the Middle East where there is no distinction in law for people of any race or religion. Israel is a democracy where its Arab citizens are fully equal under the law. It is the only place in the Middle East where Hindus, Bahais, Jews, Christians, Muslims and others can and do live together in peace. There are distinctions made between Israeli citizens and the Palestinian Arabs who are not citizens, just as every other nation makes a distinction between its citizens and others. Even more than usually justified in this case because of legitimate security needs.
The Bahai Gardens in Haifa
Lie 2. Israel is committing, or attempting to commit, genocide. Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where one party acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. There is absolutely no evidence that Israel intends to destroy the Palestinians, in whole or in part. This is why the South Africans are having a problem making this claim, even with a biased anti-Israel international court. Palestinian Arab population numbers continue to grow, and grossly exaggerated Hamas claimed casualties are dwarfed by those from many other recent conflicts (see the Sudan, the Congo, Syria, etc.) On the other hand, Jews have been expelled or exterminated in almost every other Middle eastern state, and Hamas routinely call for a genocide of the Jews.
Lie 3. Israel is targeting civilians/or Israel is indiscriminate about its attacks, leading to excessive civilian deaths. No, it isn’t. The civilians who die do so largely because Hamas routinely uses civilians as human shields. Further, the IDF has made great efforts to minimize civilian casualties, by warning Gazans to leave areas or buildings about to be targeted. They have done this through more than nine million leaflets dropped, fifteen million messages sent, and sixteen million robocalls made. As a result, the ratio of civilians to terrorist in this conflict is probably approaching one to one, an unprecedented modern ratio, and Israel has been praised for its success in protecting the lives of civilians by noted experts in modern warfare such as Richard Kemp (UK, Ret.) and Major John Spencer (US, Ret.).
Lie 4. Casualties reported by the Gaza department of Health are credible and should be accepted. No. The Gaza department of Health is an arm of Hamas which regularly produces poorly fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Israel bases its own casualty figures on careful counts and multiple checks, and on the basis of those checks reduced the number of its reported casualties from the October 7th massacre by Hamas terrorists.
Lie 5. Israel is the aggressor in this conflict. Not so. Israel has never started a war against it neighbours. The Jewish state has made real peace offers to the Palestinian Arabs in 1993, in 2000, in 2001, in 2005, and in 2008, all immediately answered by vicious and bloody Palestinian terrorism. Former President Bill Clinton took Palestinian Arabs to task for their failure to accept the generous offers made to them and embrace peace during his term. And of course, Hamas started the current hostilities in a particularly bloodthirsty way on October 7, 2023.
Lie 6. Favouring the Palestinian Arab Cause is in our national interest. No, it isn’t. Favouring terrorism and dishonesty is never in anyone’s long term interest.
Lie 7. The Palestinian Arabs are a stateless people. False. Jordan was intended to be a homeland for the region’s Arabs. It has a majority of Palestinian Arabs, and its Queen is a Palestinian Arab. The Palestinian Arab majority does not rule in Jordan for two reasons. Native Jordanians do not trust them – they have invoked and encouraged acts of violence against the king and other Jordanian citizens, and of course, none of the 21 Arab states are democratic.
Lie 8. The conflict needs to be solved soon because the Palestinian Arabs are having more children than the Israelis. They need living space. False. This is outdated demographic data. Today, Israeli citizens including Jews, Arabs and others have higher demographic growth than the Palestinian Arabs. And do we really want to base arguments on lebensraum?
Lie 9. The Palestinian Arabs have a population in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza that is too large to be controlled by Israel. So agree to peace or else. Threats are not proof of a righteous cause. In addition, and as in everything else, the Palestinian Arabs are simply lying about their numbers. Based on Palestinian reports, the UN numbers the Palestinian Arabs in those areas at roughly 6 million. In reality, there may be less than 4 million.
Lie 10. Creating a Palestinian state will lead to peace and the protection of human rights of Palestinian Arabs. As stated above, none of the 23 Arab states are democracies, and none of them are protective of human rights. A Palestinian Arab state will most certainly be a what Gaza has been since 2005; a brutal dictatorship with discriminating policies against women, homosexuals, Christians and other religious minorities including atheists.
Lie 11. The Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous people in Israel and the Jews are the settlers. No – absolutely not. The Palestinian Arabs are mostly descended from Arabs and others who immigrated to the area from other Muslim areas in response to the economic job opportunities created by the return of many Jews to the area in the early 1900s. Only a very small percentage of the Palestinian Arabs are native to Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and those are descended from the original Jewish, Christian, or Samaritan inhabitants who were forcibly converted to Islam. Meanwhile, a majority of the Jews in Israel are descended from Middle Eastern Jews, who were exiled from Israel but stayed in the Middle East, and who are physically indistinguishable from Arabs. The minority Ashkenazi Jews, who are often portrayed as European settlers, are descended from Jews from ancient Israel, but with some European influence, from living in Europe for so long. Their original Middle Eastern origin can easily be seen in the physical appearance of most Ashkenazi Jews, for example Adam Sandler and Gal Gadot.
Lie 12. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the lack of a ceasefire deal. As Eli Lake at Commentary has written, “There was no deal for Netanyahu to reject. Hamas is not participating in the actual negotiations. The diplomacy has been between America, Israel, Egypt, and Qatar. The Qataris are stand-ins for Hamas, but they are not proxies. Several times since April, Hamas has rejected offers for a cease-fire, or in some cases, has insisted on last-minute deal-killing demands—such as a stipulation that the first round of hostages need not be alive.”
Lie 13. Israel is violating international law. How? Doing what? Every country has not just a right but a responsibility to take steps to protect its citizens from attack. If your country had been subject to the hundreds of rocket, missile and terrorist attacks Israel has endured, there was no end to these attacks in sight, and the perpetrators repeatedly agreed to cease fires and then broke them as soon as it thought it had an advantage, how would you expect your country to respond?
Lie 14. Gaza was occupied by the Israelis prior to the October 7th. False. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, trading land for promises of peace. It forcibly uprooted thousands of its own citizens, some of whose families had lived in that part of Israel for generations. It left major infrastructure intact, including water and sewage networks, schools, hospitals, ports roads, and glasshouses. Gaza has not been “occupied” by Israel since 2005. Instead, it has been administered by Hamas, a terrorist organisation committed to the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews around the world. Hamas was (at least at first) freely elected by the people of Gaza.
Lie 15. Gaza was an “open-air prison” before the October 7th. Make up your minds! Was it a peaceful and prosperous society made up of peace-loving Arabs trying hard to build an independent society, now reduced to rubble to by Israeli attacks? Or a concentration camp Arabs were forcibly moved to and deprived of basic necessities? Which story you hear depends on what argument the terror proponents are trying today. Neither is accurate. No Arabs were forcibly relocated to Gaza. Gaza was left with industry and infrastructure to enable it to be a prosperous independent state like Monaco or Singapore. Instead, it still relies on Israel for electricity and water, much of its food, and much basic medical care. Providing these should be a top priority for any responsible government. Instead, Hamas has spent billions in aid buying weapons and constructing terrorist tunnels, while basic necessities continue to be provided by Israel, even while Israel is under attack.
Destruction in Gaza following the October 7th terror attacks
Lie 16. The Gazans were suffering from an Israeli caused famine. The U.N.’s own Famine Review Committee admitted in a report that the claims about not enough food being sent into Gaza were untrue. And why on Earth is it Israel’s responsibility to provide food and other basic necessities to Hamas? If someone broke into your house, murdered some of your family, and tortured and kidnapped others, would it be your responsibility to provide them with dinner?
Five star luxury hotel in Gaza
Lie 17. Hamas is a legitimate nationalistic organisation seeking a Palestinian state. Really? Israel and the wider world community accepted Hamas at first because it was the elected government of Gaza. But Hamas is a part of the international Muslim Brotherhood terror organization, which also briefly ruled over neighbouring Egypt. Hamas is also a terror proxy of Iran, a nation which is the leading state sponsor of terrorism, and which has provided Hamas with billions in funding for weapons, training and equipment. Hamas has made no effort to implement the basic requirements of statehood. Instead, it has continued to attempt to do exactly what its charter says is its purpose – to destroy Israel and murder Jews.
Lie 18. The Palestinians should have been recognised as a separate nation state. Despite there never having been an independent state called Palestine, and despite the land of Israel never in the last 3,000 years having been home to any independent state except Israel, Palestinian Arabs have repeatedly been offered their own independent state, for example in 1936, 1948, 2000, and 2008. In every instance they have refused and responded with violence. Despite having administered the West Bank (actually the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria) since 1993, and Gaza since 2005, no Palestinian Arab group has focussed on building a stable state or society.
Lie19. The Palestinian Authority is the “moderate” force among Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Authority uses their various cultural, educational, and media sources to undermine the peace process with Israel, uses their children’s shows and elementary schools to incite Palestinian children to kill Israelis, including women and children, produces government officials, from the President down to their diplomatic envoys, who spread anti-Semitism throughout the world, names streets, buildings, and squares after terrorists who have killed Israelis and Jews; sells and teaches Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; smuggles arms, rockets and explosives into Judea and Samaria to be used to attack Israeli cities and farms; praises, pays and otherwise honours Palestinian terrorists, and their families, who kill Israelis, Jews, and even Americans, denies Jewish history in the Middle East, and denies the Holocaust, while calling for another one. The PA is not in any way “moderate.”
20. After October 7th, now is the time to recognise the Palestinian Arab Cause and work with them. Israel, the US, and other Middle Eastern states have been consistent in their willingness to work with Palestinian leaders towards a Palestinian state, and towards lasting peace. There was a ceasefire in place on October 7th. Calling a ceasefire now, when Hezbollah and Hamas have continually broken previous ceasefire agreements and continue to fire missiles at random into Israeli schools, homes, hospitals and shopping centres, and responding to October 7th with renewed effort to negotiate the offers of peace and statehood which have been violently rejected at every previous attempt, would encourage international terrorism by rewarding Hamas for kidnapping, rape, torture and mass murder. That is not a responsible or fair way to expect any state to respond to ongoing attacks and acts of terror.
