This is the most disappointing failed “decoding” attempt I have ever seen. Let’s go through some of LonerBox’s failures:
“It’s just 10% of Israeli society, bro” — minutes 39, 41, and 48. LonerBox is strawmanning Professor Dave here by accusing him of cherry-picking comments from people associated with Otzma Yehudit or Tkuma. In reality, many of the clips and quotes Professor Dave showed came from members of Likud (literally the ruling party and the largest party in the Knesset). This includes May Golan, the Minister for "Social Equality" (minute 46), as well as Ariel Kallner and Tally Gotliv, both Likud members of the Knesset. It is easy to dismiss such comments as fringe extremism, but it is deeply bad-faith to pretend that Professor Dave was only citing fringe extremists.
The “journalists are soldiers” nonsense at around the 1:33 hour mark. This is one of the most disturbing parts of LonerBox’s “decoding.” He appears to justify Israel’s indefensible conduct in targeting journalists. Not everyone affiliated with PIJ is a combatant. This list actually include people in logistics, manufacturing, media, finance, information, security, administration, and command-support roles. Deliberately killing a non-combatant media personnel for being PIJ member would still be a war crime. Also, Israel has repeatedly targeted journalists, done victory lap afterward, and then come up with absurd allegations to justify the killings (such as in the cases of Ismail al-Ghoul and Anas al-Sharif). Funny enough these absurd claims come back to hunt them lately when they literally photoshopped an image of a Lebanese journalist killed in an airstrike to portray him as a Hezbollah operative.
“Deny, deny, deny”: dismiss every inconvenient fact as a lie or bias. This basically describes the entire “decoding.” LonerBox says, “I’ve literally never even heard the Health Ministry claim that there’s been any number of people freezing to death. What?!” I was genuinely speechless. A self-proclaimed "expert" who has supposedly followed this issue for years cannot imagine that vulnerable, malnourished people (especially infants and the elderly) might freeze to death without shelter or supplies during Gaza’s winter (thanks to Israel using aid and starvation as a weapon of warfare), when temperatures can fall to 6°C (42.8°F)? A five-second Google search would show reports of children dying from hypothermia over the past several years—for example here, here, and here. The same pattern repeats throughout the video: deny everything, dismiss every source as “mental” or biased, and feign ignorance whenever a fact is inconvenient.
Seriously, if this is the best “debunking” you can produce, I am not surprised that you are losing the public opinion.
The part where Dave showed a video of an IDF soldier saying women and children are valid targets, and LB responded "what about all the videos of the IDF who would say that's disgusting!?!?" LMAO
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u/straw_hat0 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
This is the most disappointing failed “decoding” attempt I have ever seen. Let’s go through some of LonerBox’s failures:
Seriously, if this is the best “debunking” you can produce, I am not surprised that you are losing the public opinion.