Ich bin skeptisch.
For knapp einem Monat wurden gefälschte Hamas Dokumente von Israel "geleakt", die dann von der Bild und anderen Rechtsextremen Puiblikationen zur Meinungsmache für Netanyahu genutzt wurden.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/forged-hamas-documents-leaked-shape-public-opinion
Dazu kommt, dass die New York Times für ihren Artikel über sexuelle Gewalt am 07. Oktober eine ehemalige IDF "intelligence" Offizierin angeheuert hat, die keinerlei journalistische Erfahrung hatte. Entsprechend musste dann von der Times Druck auf Journalisten ausgeübt werden, die den Artikel wegen zahlreicher Falschinformationen kritisiert haben.
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
Das Timing ist jetzt perfekt, um einen Angriff auf den Iran zu begründen, und von den Angriffen auf die UN in Libanon, sowie den Vertreibungen im Norden Gazas abzulenken. Außer "trust me bro" steht im New York Times Artikel nicht, woher die Informationen stammen, und wie sie überprüft wurden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-war.html
Edit: im NYT Artikel ist genauer beschrieben, wie sie die Dokumente verifiziert haben wollen. Ich hatte den Adblock-Cutoff nicht als solchen wahrgenommen.
The Times assessed the documents’ authenticity by sharing some of their contents with members of and experts close to Hamas. Salah al-Din al-Awawdeh, a Hamas member and a former fighter in its military wing who is now an analyst based in Istanbul, said that he was familiar with some of the details described in the documents and that keeping organized notes was consistent with the group’s general practices. A Palestinian analyst with knowledge of Hamas’s inner workings, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive topics, also confirmed certain details as well as general structural operations of Hamas that aligned with the documents.
The Israeli military, in a separate internal report obtained by The Times, concluded the documents were real and represented another failure by intelligence officials to prevent the Oct. 7 attack. The Times also researched details mentioned in the meeting records to check that they corresponded with actual events.
Inwieweit das zur Verifizierung genügt, hängt dann stark von den Details ab, die von dritten bestätigt wurden. Den IDF Bericht sehe ich wegen den "leaks" gefälschter Dokumente, sowie zahlreichen anderen Propagandaaktionen weiterhin als kritisch.
Das soll nicht heißen, dass ich glaube diese Dokumente seien gefälscht oder echt. Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kann man es aus meiner Sicht schlichtweg nicht sagen und es bräuchte eine Untersuchung der NYT vorliegenden Dokumente durch weitere Journalisten und Experten.
The jpost article showed Israeli officials forging and then leaking fake Hamas documents to spread misinformation. We have seen many such propaganda efforts, like the bullshit animation of the alleged tunnel system, or the video claiming a simple calender to be some terrorist schedule.
You misinterpret what the NY Times article claimes and what the UN investigation concluded. The NY Times article claimed widespread sexual violence and the sexual violence being an integral part of the strategy of Hamas for 07. October. The UN report concluded that there is evidence of sexual violence, but that it is not possible to determine it to be part of a deliberate strategy.
This is a very important distinction to make. Especially as Israel used this claim as "proof" how barbaric Palestinians would ne to justify their countless massacres and war crimes. There is no doubt that sexual violence did occur, but the NY Times and their intelligence asset deliberately blew it way out of proportion and made ridiculous claims off on it, in order to keep the support for Israels onslaught on Gaza high.
When i opened the article it stopped after "prelude to war". I didnt see the rest to be cut off.
With the description of some of the details being confirmed as well as the general structure, that still has limited use, without knowing ehich details. If the meetings and resulting letters with Hezbollah/Iran are confirmed, that is strong evidence. If it is just confirmation that they do keep notes and meet regularly, that is something everyone should know.
As for the IDF report "obtained" by the NYT we are back to square one. The IDF deliberately makes forged leaks to media outlets to spread misinformation. This is also th be expected from any serious army, but with this particular army we have a lot of recent evidence of the practice.