@MaxBlumenthal
“Tony Blinken declared the bloodthirsty Netzah Yehudah battalion “remediated” after it killed a US citizen, so he could keep the weapons flowing to Israel’s genocide machine Blinken cleared the way for this latest on camera atrocity https://t.co/m5uMpMJarO https://t.co/qt8M5ocCMB”
False Causal Link
How They Deceive You
Propaganda
Heavily misleading by falsely claiming Blinken cleared the way for a new atrocity via superficial remediation, omitting substantive US-approved measures and the full context of the US citizen's death as a heart attack amid disciplinary actions.
Main Device
False Causal Link
Attributes a supposed recent atrocity directly to US remediation of the Netzah Yehuda battalion as if it enabled the incident, distorting the timeline and purpose of the effective Leahy Law compliance steps.
Archetype
Anti-imperialist pro-Palestinian activist
Frames US-Israel policy as fueling 'genocide' through a lens of consistent anti-Zionist rhetoric and criticism of Western imperialism.
Max rattles off a causal chain here that's pure fiction — Blinken supposedly "cleared the way" for some fresh "on camera atrocity" by remediating the Netzah Yehuda battalion after it "killed" a US citizen. But the videos he links aren't even from that unit, and there's zero evidence this remediation enabled any new incident. It's a timeline distortion designed to make US policy look like it greenlit murder. The real story? Omar Assad, the US citizen in question, died of a heart attack in 2022 during detention — autopsy tied it to possible violence, but the IDF called it a "moral failure," discharged two soldiers, and took disciplinary steps with no criminal charges due to witness problems. Israel then rolled out vetting improvements and a two-week human rights seminar for the battalion, which the State Department explicitly deemed "effective" Leahy Law compliance. Max skips all that to peddle "bloodthirsty" and "genocide machine" hysteria, framing remediation as a cynical ploy just to "keep the weapons flowing." That's not analysis; it's activist sleight-of-hand pretending omission equals proof.
Writer's Worldview
“Anti-Israel genocide critic”
Anti-imperialist pro-Palestinian activist
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