Thomas Wictor

Regardless of how I feel about the Israeli Defense Forces, I don’t lie about them to make them seem better than they are. I also don’t lie about Hamas. The terrorist group’s actions speak for themselves and don’t need embellishing by me. But suddenly Israel haters are sending me insanely fake statistics and photos that wouldn’t fool a child. Yet none of these people are children. It’s as though their brains have shorted out.

We’ll start with BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who makes this laughably moronic claim in a tweet.

To give Orla all the rope she needs to hang herself, we’ll use Palestinian casualty figures. These numbers are fake. They include people counted twice, people accidentally killed by Hamas, people murdered by Hamas, people who didn’t die, victims of domestic violence, and those who died of natural causes. Most importantly, adult terrorists were listed as civilian children.

Orla Guerin’s assertion that “Gaza has lost a generation of children” is wrong on every possible level, even when we use Palestinian numbers. We’ll say that 578 children were killed, which is a lie, but we’ll say it anyway.

Now, let’s look at the demographics of Gaza.

There are 669,844 children under the age of fourteen in Gaza, 343,988 of them male and 325,856 of them female. If 578 children were killed, that represents 0.09 percent of the population. Nine one-hundredths of 1 percent. Hardly a lost generation. Back to journalism school with you, Orla.

People send me this type of thing every day.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide describes the crime thusly:

Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Again, look at the demographics. The population of Gaza is 1.8 million. If we take the utterly fake casualties figure of 2143 Palestinians killed, that represents .1 percent of the population. One-tenth of 1 percent.

Killing less than one-tenth of 1 percent of a population whose government is at war with you does not qualify as genocide. Has Israel imposed measures intended to prevent births?

You know who does things to Gazans that qualify as attempted genocide? Hamas. The UN halted aid to Gaza in 2009 because Hamas was stealing it and selling it so that the bosses could get even more obese. Hamas also tries to get as many Gazans killed as possible, such as when it shot up the UN school at Jabalia.

Article Seven of the Hamas charter is explicitly genocidal.

[T]he Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).

Hamas promises to kill all the Jews in the world. If that isn’t genocidal intent, what is? Words used to have meanings. The openly genocidal Hamas is embraced in the name of opposing a fantasy genocide that Israel is not carrying out.

A complete moron and lunatic sent me this.

This person says that the IDF used more bombs on Gaza than were dropped in both world wars combined. I calculate that including ALL munitions, Israel used less than 1000 tons of high explosives on Gaza. Explosive aerial bombs were probably no more than 500 tons, given all the inert cement munitions used.

I’m sort of stunned at the stupidity of this statement, but let’s deconstruct it.

We don’t know how many aerial bombs were dropped in World War One, but the German (300 tons), British (660 tons) and Russian (65 tons) totals add up to 1025 tons.

This was how most bombers operated in World War One.

In World War Two, the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs. I couldn’t find totals for the Axis powers, but Germany dropped 74,000 tons on Britain alone.

The Nazis also launched 9521 V-1 flying bombs and 3172 V-2 ballistic missiles. That gives us 12,693 tons of explosives to add.

Remember, Israel used maybe 500 tons of bombs, as opposed to the millions of tons of bombs dropped in both world wars. See, they don’t teach history anymore, so people think all wars are the same.

A raving, Jew-hating Irishman who lives in Spain thinks this photo is real.

I assumed he posted it as a thickheaded, sledgehammer attempt at irony, but no, he thinks that Israelis soldiers really fly this flag. He also obsessively uses the non sequitur of all times, a self-negating word.

“Zionazi.” Because Zionists and Nazis were on the same side. Nazis loved Zionists, and Zionists loved Nazis. They had a bromance.

As an Israeli man replied, “Dean Martinazi!”

It makes as much sense as “Zionazi.” The crazy, drunken, Irish Jew-hater blocked me on Twitter, but he still reads my posts and responds to them, even though he lacks the courage to allow my comments to appear on his timeline.

The world is getting dumber. While trying to find out how many tons of bombs were dropped in both world wars, I came across this incomprehensibly foolish passage in Dream Of Civilized Warfare: World War 1 Flying Aces and the American Imagination, by Linda R. Robertson

In reality we dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq, which is considerably less than than 3.4 million tons. So Ms. Robertson was off by 97.4 percent. That’s how much she despises the US.

I’ve been invited to co-create a short film. Although I’ll cooperate on it, I’ve asked to have my name not included in the credits. The project is pure art, so it wouldn’t be fair for the artist to be lumped in with Thomas Zionazi Wictor, seer of ghost cats. It could negatively impact sales. The artist feels terrible about being forced to accept my condition, but I’m fine with it.

The thousands of messages I get from Israelis and Jews make me feel like this.

Update

At the request of a reader, I took a look at the photo of the bloodied little girl used in the “Stop genocide in Gaza” posters.

This version of the photo first appeared on November 14, 2012, the opening day of Operation Pillar of Defense.

However, the photo has been heavily doctored. Here’s the original.

As you can see from a side-by-side comparison, more blood has been added, even in her mouth.

Since the photo was ready in its doctored form to be widely disseminated on the first day of Operation Pillar of Defense, it could not have dated from that conflict. This image was prepared ahead of time, in anticipation of another Hamas war.

It could be from Operation Cast Lead, or it could be from a car accident, or she could be a little girl who was deliberately injured by her father so that Hamas could have some nice propaganda. We’ll likely never know.

But like almost everything the Palestinians do, it deceitfully exploits suffering for an evil politico-religious agenda.