This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
American journalist Max Blumenthal was in Gaza during the 2014 war. Blumenthal wrote that doctors were burnt out after weeks of amputations and shrapnel extractions, with some "on the brink of insanity". One of the hospital directors screamed "Can’t the world see that we’re human?".[31] Blumenthal reported that many refugees had setup tents beside the hospital during the war.[32]
To be honest i haven't dug into it, but seems like he was added and cited as an anti-"Hamas uses this hospital as a base" voice? Even the citation itself seems biased, and doesn't even include the full book?!
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how reliable is max blumenthal? seems like hes always writing about “51 days in gaza” but wasnt actually there, etc.
do the citations substantiate his piece? sorry, have read his stuff before and am less trusting
He’s not permitted as a Wikipedia source, for whatever that means.
He's a direct cited source in the Al-Shifa Hospital wiki page, specifically described in the 2014 war section and is the 31 and 32nd citations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital#cite_ref-31):
To be honest i haven't dug into it, but seems like he was added and cited as an anti-"Hamas uses this hospital as a base" voice? Even the citation itself seems biased, and doesn't even include the full book?!
Sorry, to be clear "not permitted" means Max and The Gray Zone have been deprecated as a source.
Some discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_287#RfC:_Grayzone
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I don’t think he is ordinarily trustworthy, but I checked all his links and the links appear trustworthy to me.
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