I'm still not entirely convinced by their debunking of the rapes(, not that i care, murder is worse than rape, being tortured dozens of minutes beforehand is still only marginally worse in comparison to the eternity of death, and we(sterners) have done so much more barbaric in our "prisons", sometimes for years), but i can't trust our journalists who don't have the necessary time to investigate before publishing, nor Israel who lies at least as much as our western governments(, if not even more).
According to Paul Linebarger, atrocity propaganda leads to real atrocities, as it incites the enemy into committing more atrocities, and, by heating up passions, it increases the chances of one's own side committing atrocities, in revenge for the ones reported in propaganda.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda
Some quotes :
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt
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“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
Aldous Huxley
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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Noam Chomsky
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“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Rudyard Kipling