The role of the New York Times throughout Israel's genocide has been, let's put it this way, instructive.

It has frequently whitewashed Israel's atrocities, often simply ignored them, given undue deference to Israeli claims and indeed lies.

Deference, of course, the Israeli official narratives, erased Palestinian voices and experiences,

where we could go on. It's all too infrequent investigations into Israel's atrocities

have been detached from the newspaper's overall narrative of what Israel is doing to the

Palestinian people. And even then, they often watered down, admit, offer apologetics,

whilst regurgitating what has already been long established by journalists and media outlets

elsewhere who have only a fraction of the same resources. Enter stage right. Their new investigation,

Israel loosened its rules to bomb Hamas fighters, killing many more civilians.

This is a new piece which The New York Times has released a few days ago.

Now, some might go, just be grateful that establishment media outlets are publishing this stuff at all.

The piece, which focuses on Israel's bombing campaign in the first few weeks after 7th of October 2023 confirms that Israel has committed multiple war crimes in that bombing campaign.

The newspaper notes how an order is issued at 1pm on the 7th October 23, which granted mid-ranking Israeli military officers the authority to approve missile strikes against thousands of supposed militants and military sites, and that they could now aim for those classified as the lowest-ranking fighters. And crucially, these mid-ranking Israeli military officers now had the approval to target those classified the lowest ranking fighters

if it meant risking killing up to 20 civilians. That is 20 civilian deaths being an acceptable

level of collateral damage for one supposed strike on a lowest ranked fighter, which we'll discuss more later on.

According to this New York Times article, mid-ranking officers had never been given so much

leeway to attack so many targets, many of which had lower military significance at such

a high potential civilian cost.

Crucially, the newspaper states, the order which has not previously been reported,

had no precedent in Israeli military history.

Let me just read part of that again, which has not previously been reported.

As soon as I read that sentence, it jarred,

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