Netanyahu's '5 million dollars per hostage' aides' public opinion manipulation, Korean media manipulation
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared that he will refuse a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and offer '5 million dollars per hostage' to Hamas.
On the 12th, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Israel will pay $5 million to Hamas members who return hostages and provide generous compensation to ensure their safe escape from the Gaza Strip.
On that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "I want to tell those who want to escape this entanglement," adding, "Whoever takes us hostage will find a safe escape for themselves and their families." He also said, “We will pay $5 million per hostage.”
“Choose, the choice is yours, but the result will be the same,” he said to Hamas. “We will bring them all back.”
On Gaza, Netanyahu said on the same day that “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” and Israeli forces have repeatedly returned to Gaza to fight Hamas militants, and fighting has broken out in places previously said by the Israeli army.
In Gaza, according to local health officials who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, the fighting has displaced about 2 million people, left most of the area in ruins, and killed about 44,000 people.
The New York Times said, “The bounty offer comes as members of Netanyahu’s office are under investigation for leaking confidential documents in an attempt to influence public opinion, stifle public demands for a ceasefire to free the hostages, and promote the prime minister’s negotiating position.” “Many Israelis, including the families of the hostages, have accused the prime minister of prolonging the war in order to hold together his fragile ruling coalition, which opposes a ceasefire and has threatened to overthrow his government if he agrees to a ceasefire,” the New York Times reported on the 19th.
Regarding the verdict in the case of Netanyahu’s associates’ “public opinion manipulation” that was released on the 17th, the New York Times reported, “On Sunday, an Israeli judge released more details about the case involving an official in Netanyahu’s office and a military officer accused of leaking and mishandling confidential information documents.” “The judge said in his ruling that the leak was intended to influence Israeli public opinion and reduce pressure on Netanyahu to reach a deal that would secure the release of the hostages and end the war in Gaza,” and reported it as “an attempt by an associate to manipulate public opinion against a ceasefire.”
Regarding the verdict, the New York Times reported, “In his ruling, Judge Mizrahi said Feldstein’s actions “were a threat to Israeli negotiations underway over the hostage issue.” "It was intended to influence public opinion, particularly the issue of the contribution of the protests to the strengthening of Hamas," he wrote.
The judge noted that Feldstein's attempt to disclose information came shortly after the Israeli military announced on September 1 that six Israeli hostages had been found shot dead by their captors in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
The judge wrote that Feldstein's actions were motivated by a "desire to change the public discourse and deflect blame" for the failure to reach an agreement on the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Critics saw this as part of a disinformation campaign by Netanyahu and his supporters to weaken public pressure to release the hostages and to influence Israeli public opinion in favor of the prime minister's negotiating position.
On the 18th, ‘Newsis’ completely overturned the ‘New York Times’ report on the ‘leakage of confidential information by close aides to promote the prime minister’s position on negotiations’ incident under the title <Netanyahu’s secretary Feldstein jailed for leaking confidential information to German newspaper… 3 accomplices as well> and the subtitle <Netanyahu’s press secretary Feldstein jailed after investigation, operation to suppress public opinion against protests demanding hostage exchange negotiations, opposition to prime minister putting hostage rescue on the back burner, confidential information provided to German newspaper Bild> by calling it the ‘incident of the prime minister’s opposition press secretary’s confidential information leak’. ‘Newsis’ reported that <Prime Minister Netanyahu’s aide was arrested on charges of leaking top-secret government information to a European newspaper in order to sway public opinion against the protesters demanding a hostage exchange and ceasefire talks with Hamas>, and that “according to the released court documents, Feldstein leaked confidential documents related to the deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, which recorded that Sinwar was reluctant to agree to ceasefire talks including the release of the hostages. Since the contents of the documents were blocked from being reported on domestic TV due to Israeli military censorship, Feldstein passed the materials to the German newspaper Bild to avoid domestic censorship. He then encouraged Israeli reporters to write follow-up articles after Bild broke the news first>, changing the report to say that Hamas ‘avoided ceasefire talks’ and Netanyahu’s aides provided Bild with documents to ‘strengthen ceasefire talks’ in order to achieve a ceasefire. The New York Times reported on the 14th that “Prime Minister Netanyahu opposed the ceasefire negotiations, saying that the terms of the negotiations would allow Hamas to regroup, and his attitude infuriated many of the hostage families.
They claimed that he abandoned the captives for the sake of far-right lawmakers who threatened to destroy his coalition if he agreed to the ceasefire.” “On September 8, to reinforce his position, Prime Minister Netanyahu issued a statement at his weekly cabinet meeting citing an article that had been published a few days earlier in the German tabloid Bild.
The article was based on a memo written by a Hamas intelligence officer and then obtained by the Israeli military, which was leaked to the newspaper.
Bild said the document showed that Hamas had tried to manipulate the hostage families into persuading Netanyahu to compromise in the ceasefire talks and agree to less favorable terms for Israel.
Citing this Bild report, Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed that Hamas was trying to "sow discord among us and wage psychological warfare against the families of the hostages," and the Bild report was revealed as "Netanyahu's support for opposing the ceasefire."
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