yeah, that's the way it was, and i was there to see it, says satanyahu as he spins more lies;
On the night of October 17, 2024, after Israeli soldiers stumbled on Yahya Sinwar in Rafah and killed him, the prime minister recorded two statements. In Hebrew, he called Sinwar the mass murderer “who murdered thousands of Israelis.” In English, a little later, his office preferred a smaller noun: “Sinwar’s terrorists murdered in cold blood 1,200 people.” Same prime minister, same night, same dead man. The Hebrew audience got thousands. The foreigners got the figure that could survive a fact-checker.
At the United Nations last month, the 1,200 went back to work. “Altogether, they slaughtered 1,200 Israelis that day,” Netanyahu told the General Assembly. Then he multiplied it by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s: “this is equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24 hours. That’s 16 times 9/11.” The arithmetic is doing a lot of work. The bodies are not.
Counting the murdered
“Murdered” usually means civilians: people killed in their homes, on buses, at a music festival. So count the civilians, and leave out the soldiers who died fighting wars Israel also fought.
Start with Hezbollah. In the 2006 war, its rockets killed 43 Israeli civilians, 45 if you include the heart attacks. That’s the Foreign Ministry’s figure, not a critic’s. About 120 soldiers also died in that war. Since October 2023, Hezbollah’s rockets and drones have killed a few dozen more civilians in the north, including the 12 children at Majdal Shams. A published tally through late 2024 puts Hezbollah’s civilian toll at roughly 90 to 100 across a quarter century. The often-cited figure of 134 Israelis killed on the Lebanon front through October 2025 includes soldiers..........more..........
