Khaberni - An Israeli journalist reveals all the false narratives that the occupation government has been promoting since the beginning of the genocide war on Gaza, urging Israelis to beware of them and the engineering of consciousness.
In a report published by the Hebrew newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" in its supplement last Friday, journalist Dr. Ronen Bergman, the intelligence affairs editor at the newspaper and a correspondent for the "New York Times," reveals what he describes as "Israeli official slanders and lies" about the war since October 7, 2023.
Under the title "The Ten Lies," Bergman begins his report by stating that the well-known saying "the first casualty of war is truth" was very true in the current war in Gaza. He reviews "The Ten Lies" told by the official Israeli establishment and marketed to Israelis, pointing out that this list is "partial."
Bergman explains that the first lie is the claim that it is possible to manage a war with contradictory goals: dismantling Hamas and its infrastructure and recovering the kidnapped. The second lie, he says, is the claim that military pressure alone is sufficient to bring back "the kidnapped," while the third lie is that "Hamas" does not want a prisoner exchange.
Bergman notes that the fourth lie is the claim that the head of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, does not obstruct nor sabotage the deals, and that he always prioritizes "the kidnapped." The fifth lie lies in saying that Salah al-Din Axis (Philadelphia Corridor) is the central smuggling channel that Hamas will use to smuggle the kidnapped, meaning they will be lost forever.
The sixth lie comes with the claim that killing the leader of "Hamas," Yahya Sinwar, whose martyrdom anniversary was on Thursday, will lead to the surrender of the movement and their raising the white flag. In "the seventh lie," the political level said that if Israel occupies Gaza, Rafah, or other cities in the strip, Hamas will raise the white flag. According to Bergman, the eighth lie is the claim that "Hamas" will never return the kidnapped.
He adds: "In the ninth lie, the ruling Israeli establishment told Israelis that protests and demonstrations in Tel Aviv help Hamas and increase the costs related to prisoner exchange," while the tenth lie, he says, is the claim that the current deal proves that Hamas has submitted and surrendered."
Bergman continues: "Last Friday, Netanyahu announced that thanks to the agreement, Hamas will be disarmed, and Gaza will become a demilitarized place. These are desired outcomes, even if they were not the absolute victory that the government repeatedly promised Israelis. But there is a simple problem in Netanyahu’s statement: "Hamas" did not sign anything stating what he said, there is no disarmament nor clearing of the sector from weapons, there is no commitment from Hamas leaders to leave the sector to abroad or to dismantle the movement or to continue Israeli security control over the entire area of the sector."
Bergman says Netanyahu threatened that if the movement is not dismantled and disarmed, Israel will do so "the easy way or the hard way," noting that this is a show of strength, but it is difficult to understand how Netanyahu will implement that after Israel signed an agreement stating that "the army will not return to the areas it withdrew from as long as Hamas fully applies the agreement."
Bergman wonders what "full application" of the agreement by "Hamas" means, and adds: "Returning the kidnapped, ceasing fire, and cooperating with the international body that will be established to find the bodies that Hamas says it does not know the locations or fate of. If Hamas commits to all this, and Israel uses the harsh method, it will be considered a violation of the agreement, which is Trump's greatest achievement so far."
Bergman says that Israel showed flexibility in reaching the agreement, explaining that Netanyahu repeats in his statements that the army is still deep inside the sector and controls all the strategic points, while the truth is that the army is withdrawing from all the cities of the sector, or what remains of them, including Gaza City, and from most of the controlling points.
He proceeds to outline the gap between the statements and the reality on the ground, saying: "The agreement includes an achievement for the Netanyahu government represented in increasing the area that will remain under Israeli control until the end of the second phase, which is a concession from Hamas that has given up its demand for full withdrawal. Since then, Gaza has changed, and most of the areas under Israeli control are destroyed and devastated and are no longer relevant to Hamas’s attempts to restore its capabilities."
Bergman concludes in his report by saying that when the sounds of cannons faded, the war of narratives erupted, and Israel tried to present the agreement as a victory for it. He questions: Who won? And he believes the truth says: no one won the war, adding: "A senior intelligence source said that in the overall assessment, and in the flexibility equation to reach the agreement, Israel has covered 70 percent of the way, while Hamas took the rest of the steps to achieve the agreement."
