Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on Tuesday that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion that day in Gaza, an accusation that sparked political backlash against her from Republicans as Israel denies fault.

Tlaib joined thousands of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during a solidarity rally hosted by the left-leaning group Jewish Voice for Peace at the National Mall. She was visibly emotional, at times pausing her speech to openly weep and criticizing lawmakers who have not backed a ceasefire resolution.

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    Then why lie to strengthen your cause if it is already justifiable without the facts being known?

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      The ones that have a long track records of lies and deceit are Israeli and US government. History is the witness. I don’t need to strengthen the case I want the end of civilians murder, humanitarian aids and international investigation on war crimes such as this.

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            Is there a reason you choose to believe their story about the hospital explosion? Have they presented any evidence at all?

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              I take no stance on the hospital bombing, from what I’ve seen it seems like it was a group called Islamic Jihad

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                Ah, I thought I was still replying to the OP of this thread. It probably was PIJ, but the only party that originally asserted it was Israel was Hamas, so people piggybacking off Hamas’s story and running with it rather than looking at any of the evidence is a real problem.

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                  I think people are just fearing the worst of the Israeli retaliation, honestly its not outlandish to me for Israel to bomb a hospital so I can see why people jumped to conclusions.

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                    So people are biased into thinking Israel would kill hundreds of civilians in one shot just because it wanted to, yourself included, and after seeing all the evidence point to the opposite, you’re just saying “oh well, they’re still just as evil as they clearly aren’t?”

                    I bet you also assume, apropos of no evidence, that Israel did bomb the Rafah crossing, even though Israel keeps telling Palestinians to go evacuate south, and Egypt, Jordan, Hamas, and PIJ all keep telling them not to. The media moved on bare accusations from Arab parties, but can’t cite any evidence or reason for the claim.

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        There’s a good essay on The Atlantic by a former AP reporter on how the press fails to counter Hamas strongarming them to give them a pass their failures in Gaza. Walking into the office armed to make them pull articles about misfires killing civilians and such. Rest assured that the ‘history’ you’ve seen is heavily colored by the Palestinian side as well, and perhaps even more.

        https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

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          This is actually an interesting point worth consideration. For all the talk of the propaganda and lying and manipulation, we often don’t apply similar scrutiny to Hamas nor question their numbers.