# Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** israel-hamas-war\ **Created:** [October 9, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317 "2023-10-09T15:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 413
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/413 "2023-10-19T12:30:19Z")
> [@IDF's alleged recording of Islamic Jihad, and questions of journalistic integrity and trust](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idfs-alleged-recording-of-islamic-jihad-and-questions-of-journalistic-integrity-and-trust/991857/29): > > Goes hand in hand. Why fake a recording to show some minor point when the important point isn’t in dispute? For the 24 hours after the incident occurred, it was being reported across the world as an Israeli strike on a hospital. This precipitated huge protests across the Arab world and beyond, which could have pressured the governments of these countries to intervene in the conflict in some way. I don’t think it’s right to say that the incentive to potentially fake a recording would not be there. I do not claim that the Arab journalists were correct in their assessment that the audio recording might be fake, just that they should not be instantly dismissed, as was happening in this thread, including on the grounds that the IDF were not capable of incompetence in attempting a cover-up, which is proveably false. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317)._