Anti-Israel journos with the intelligence quotient of a moth flying face-first into a bug lamp are just inventing stupid new ways to stir up furor at the Jewish State for daring to defend itself against terrorists obsessed with its obliteration.
The Guardian’s climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani put out a staggering piece of mind-numbing, fallacious eco-drivel May 30 that insults common sense. “Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries,” cried Lahkani.
Writing as if she found some kind of proverbial silver bullet, she flexed a new bonkers study to claim that the “carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll.” She tied her nonsense to the typical climate agitprop: “Burning fossil fuels is causing climate chaos, with increasingly deadly and destructive extreme weather events forcing record numbers of people to migrate.”
Who in the bosom of Gaia has ever heard of a clean war?
Lahkani attempted to make a big deal out of the notion that Israel’s war emissions “is more than the combined 2023 annual greenhouse gases emitted by Costa Rica and Estonia.” As if those are countries with vast territory? What’s even more incredible is that Lahkani even attempted to make Hamas out to be the victim of an asymmetrical war: “Israel’s relentless bombardment, blockade and refusal to comply with international court rulings has underscored the asymmetry of each side’s war machine, as well as almost unconditional military, energy and diplomatic support Israel enjoys from allies including the US and UK.”
The irony is that the study Lahkani referenced, began its research period on October 7, 2023, the day Hamas unleashed a genocidal attack on Israel, killing 1,200 Israeli citizens, 40 American citizens, with another 251 individuals taken hostage. Murderous events of this caliber serve as the lynchpin for retaliatory wars, but that seems to have flown straight over Lahkani’s head. Even more wild is that one of the statistics Lahkani cited was that a whopping 40 percent of the so-called “total emissions” from Israel came from — wait for it — the 70,000 aid trucks the Jewish State sent into Gaza, of which she used the United Nations as a spring board to condemn “as grossly insufficient to meet the basic humanitarian needs of 2.2m displaced and starving Palestinians.”
Lahkani wrote nothing about how much of the Israeli aid to Gaza citizens was reportedly being stolen by Hamas operatives, but why bother with the pesky little details?
Now, we at NewsBusters are not military historians. However, it is reasonable to suggest that one would be hard-pressed to find many examples of military combatants in world history sending aid to the citizenry of the countries, warlords, or cabals they’re at war with, especially those that ardently support their enemies. Yet Israel has shown itself to be the exception.
But it gets worse. Lahkani also had the audacity to cite the George Soros-funded pro-Hamas group Al-Shabaka as a source for her story. MRC exposed Al-Shabaka for celebrating Hamas’s October 7 genocide against Israel and its history of getting funds from Soros in late 2023. “We stand alongside those committed to this effort [of decolonization from Israel] and to the liberation of Palestinians worldwide,” Al-Shabaka spewed on X October 8.
A statement from Al-Shabaka, in light of unfolding events: pic.twitter.com/vsFypisCKB
— Al-Shabaka الشبكة (@AlShabaka) October 8, 2023
Lahkani didn’t mention any of this, of course, when she propped up the babbling climate sentiments of Al-Shabaka policy analyst Zena Agha, but it makes sense if her only goal was to just smear the Israeli state and its allies along with it. Agha railed to Lahkani:
This report is a staggering and sobering reminder of the ecological and environmental cost of Israel’s genocidal campaign on the planet and its besieged people … But this is also the US, UK and EU’s war, all of which have provided seemingly limitless military resources to enable Israel to devastate the most densely populated place on the planet. This brings home the destabilising [regional] impact of the Israeli settler state and its inseparability from the western military-industrial complex.
Someone should check the climate emissions emanating from the brain rot of the woke buffoons within The Guardian editorial staff.
