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Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, Failed Rocket Launch, Hamas, Hamas Lies to Save Face, lying, malignant narcissism
First things first: Israeli Precision Guided Rockets neither miss their their targets nor fail to destroy them in their entirety.
The explosion that took place did so in a parking lot, and it produced no cratering nor damage to nearby buildings.
Next: Arabs may lie to save face and sustain pride in allegedly blameless fashion.
I would ascribe such behavior to primitive, medieval, and tribal mentality and would do so across cultures inclined to both humiliate and spoil their boys as humiliation motivates the development of the malignant narcissist.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) analysis has included review of Israeli military launch records; radar air activity tracking records; reverse-tracked rocket fire traced to the proximity of the hospital, i.e., rocket trajectory show the launch took place south of the hospital–and not far from it; and independent video of the actual failure of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket.
In intercepted audio communications, launch controller-tracker officers note the location of launch as a cemetery behind the hospital . . . . So there’s the location south of the hospital–a cemetery!–and both cause and opportunity to lie about the attempt.
Related Online
Oppenheim, James S. “Malignant Narcissistic Process Distilled.” BackChannels, July 10, 2022.
Whitaker, Brian. “Lying is a cultural trait of Arabs, says Barak.” The Guardian, May 22, 2002.
Addendum: October 25, 2023.
Regarding the matter of Hamas having lied to Palestinians to cover the shame attending a failed rocket launch (while blaming it on the other guy), the ways have always been several: cover, deflect, deny, erase, fabricate, frame, and omit.
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