🇵🇸🇮🇱 Various reports claim photo of burned Israeli child published by Netanyahu’s office is fake. Here is what we know

▪️Some users on social media claim they found the original photo featuring a puppy rescue, which was used as the backdrop for the “fake” one. The source of the photo is unknown. However, the puppy looks surprisingly clean and has no visible signs of injury.

▪️X (formerly Twitter) user Arlington Post ran an ELA* (Error Level Analysis) on both pictures, concluding that the baby photo is "most likely not altered, but it could still be a fake photo in the sense that the subject may not be a dead baby, but a prop to look like one.”

* ELA is an analysis of compression artifacts in digital data with lossy compression such as JPEG

▪️Arlington Post says that in the baby photo, the edges of the burned areas are consistent in sharpness and brightness throughout, there is a uniform noise pattern throughout the photo, and there are no clearly defined altered areas.

▪️In the case of the dog photo, compression artifacts in certain areas, especially on the edges of the dog, are distinctly different from the rest of the image. The main background noise in the photo is the same, except for the suspicious area.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli army declares area near northernmost city of Metula a closed military zone

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🪧Hundreds of Kashmiris rally against the US and Israel over operation in Gaza 🇵🇸

📍The demonstration was held in Central Kashmir's Budgam and was attended by hundreds of Shia Muslims, who raised slogans condemning Israel for its operation in Gaza city and the United States for its support of Israel.

◾️People in Kashmir region have traditionally supported the Palestinian cause: protests, including violent ones, have been held in the past in support of Palestine.

🗯Mirwaiz Molvi Umer Farooq, the chief cleric of the historic Jamia Masjid, had offered its unwavering support to Palestinians previously, calling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict the result of the decisions taken by colonial masters that have caused massive suffering for the local people.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, notes that Western outrage related to civilian deaths in Palestine-Israel conflict is heavily politicized

💬 "The West is expressing outrage at the attack on Israeli civilians. Well, that's correct. You should do that. But they expressed no outrage at the attack on civilians in the Donbass, you know, over nine years, where those civilians were regularly being attacked and killed – not as military targets, but just as civilians that the Ukrainian military was wantonly killing. And the same with Palestinian civilians that have been killed. I mean, the images of these dead babies that are floating around. The propaganda is put out that Hamas was beheading Israeli children, which is not true. But the actual images of the dead Palestinian children are quite accurate. So, you know, the standards are very simple."

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💬 A defeat in Ukraine and a defeat in the Middle East will be the last two nails in the coffin of the US empire. Oh, yes, the Ukraine war is over. As White House spokesperson admitted a couple of days ago, “US will support Ukraine as long as we can, but it is not indefinite. We are at the end of the rope,” Sputnik India columnist S.L. Kanthan said.

Here are the main pointers made by Kanthan:

◾️Israel created and supported Hamas for decades for two reasons: split the Palestinian leadership with the divide-and-rule strategy; and delegitimize Palestinian aspirations by pointing to Hamas’ violence.

◾️Igniting the Middle East weakens US military, diplomatic power, and strengthens China as Muslim nations align against the US, ending US hegemony.

◾️Arab leaders shouldn't mislead; 80% of Muslims view the Palestinian cause as an Arab one.

◾️The sad thing about this long conflict is that humanity and compassion have been replaced with vengeance and hatred.

◾️The life of Palestinians is a tragic story of misery and violence: high rates of poverty, malnourishment and unemployment plague Gaza. To the east of Gaza, the West Bank is occupied by Israeli forces, which have extraordinary control over the lives of Palestinians, who are deprived of fundamental liberty and freedom.

The solution to this tragic situation is:

🔸Palestinian statehood based on 1967 borders
🔸East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, and
🔸UN membership for Palestine

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🗣️ Israel not ready for urban warfare in Gaza:

"If the troops do go into Gaza... how do you go in there? What are you looking for? How do you identify a Hamas member? He doesn't have a tattoo on or he doesn't have a uniform. I mean, they're not distinguishable from any other male population", Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat and MI6 agent, told the New Rules show.

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🎧 Listen to more of Alastair Crooke's analysis in our podcast New Rules

🇷🇺 LIVE NOW: Putin holds press conference on results of CIS summit

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🇷🇺 Putin: EU's proposal to Kiev equivalent to destruction of all key industries of Ukraine, we witness this now

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🇷🇺 Putin: Creation of a joint air defense system in CIS is very important, every state agreed with it and expressed their desire to develop it

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🇷🇺 More key points from Vladimir Putin's press conference on results of CIS summit:

▪️Russia ready to facilitate resumption of peace talks between Baku, Yerevan, both Aliyev, Pashinyan know this

▪️US media often distort reality

▪️Russian military base Kant in Kyrgyzstan is a deterrent for various extremists

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Putin: Israel is facing an unprecedented attack that has never been seen before in history, the country is responding on a large scale and also with quite brutal methods

We need to think about civilian population, the Russian president added.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 "You won't learn any good things from there"

Putin advises Russian journalists against reading US media

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🇷🇺 Putin says he doubts that there were arms supplies to Hamas, but has no doubt of leak of arms supplies from Ukraine

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🇷🇺🇫🇮🇪🇪 Putin comments on alleged Russia's involvement in Finnish-Estonian pipeline bombing: Nonsense, I didn't even know about this pipeline

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🇷🇺 ‘Ukraine is selling everything that can be sold’: Putin exposes the Kiev regime's black market weapons sales

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🇷🇺 Putin on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: we need to think about the civilian population.

💬 “Not everyone [in the Gaza Strip] supports Hamas, by the way. Not everyone, but everyone should suffer, including women and children. Well, of course, hardly anyone will agree with this.”

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