I don't really like what Israel's doing, concealing this evidence and showing it only to invitees.

This should just be made public, period. The terror-deniers are not going to be convinced because some media people -- who are trusted by about zero of us -- report what they the Israel Defense Forces showed them.

But if you are going to do this, invite terror apologists like Mehdi Hassan and Karen Attiah. Put them in the difficult position of being forced to straight-up lie to continue propagandizing for their Jihadist allies. Make MSNBC and the Washington Post choose between firing its woke identity-politics hires or endorsing their lies about what the video shows.

The video shows savageries little-seen since the 11th century. Outside of the Holocaust.

The Israeli government on Monday screened for 200 members of the foreign press some 43 minutes of harrowing scenes of murder, torture and decapitation from Hamas's October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, in which over 1,400 people were killed, including raw videos from the terrorists' bodycams.

The government said it had decided to show journalists part of its collected documentation in order to dispel what a spokesperson characterized as "a Holocaust-denial-like phenomenon happening in real-time," as doubts have been raised around the world about some of the most horrific of Hamas's atrocities.

The footage was collected from call recordings, security cameras, Hamas terrorists' body cameras, victim dashboard cameras, Hamas and victims' social media accounts, and cellphone videos taken by terrorists, victims and first responders. Over 1,000 civilians were slaughtered by the terrorists, and at least 224 people were abducted.

In one pair of videos that were screened, Hamas terrorists are seen dressed in IDF uniforms, flagging down passing cars and then shooting their occupants.

Dead bodies are dragged out of vehicles and left in the middle of the road after terrorists rifle through their belongings and in some cases steal the blood-soaked, bullet-ridden cars.

In another video, first responders are seen pouring bottled water over still-smoldering bodies, hoping to snuff out the remaining embers.

In another, a man writhes on the ground, bleeding from his stomach, as a terrorist tries repeatedly to decapitate him with farming equipment. The man appears to be southeast Asian, possibly one of Israel's foreign agricultural workers.

In another clip, from after the assault, an Israeli woman is seen trying to work out if a partially burned woman's corpse, with a mutilated head, is that of a family member. The dead woman's dress is pulled up to her waist and her underpants have been removed.

Major Gen. Mickey Edelstein, who briefed reporters after the viewing, said that "we have evidence" of rape but "we cannot share it," declining to elaborate further.

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In the second segment, captured through a call recording application on a victim's phone, a different son reaches out to a different father. "Dad, I killed 10 with my bare hands," the terrorist excitedly tells his father in Gaza. "Their blood is on my hands, let me speak to Mom."

"Please be proud of me, Dad," he adds.

Identified by his father as Mahmoud, the terrorist says he is calling his family from the phone of a Jewish woman he's just murdered, and implores them to check his WhatsApp messages for further documentation.

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Among the still images included in the raw footage reel were those of a decapitated soldier, several charred human remains including those of young children, a pile of dead bodies in a bomb shelter, and several Islamic State flags that the military said were found in Israel.

Speaking to the press corps, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israel has been identifying Hamas with Islamic State (or ISIS) since October 7 primarily because of the Gaza-based terror group's methods.

"When we say Hamas is ISIS, it's not a branding effort," said Hagari.

"We say ISIS in the sense of -- [Hamas's] media elements, cruelty, and barbarism are ISIS elements," he said. He also noted "the guidance of manuscripts" found on killed and captured Hamas terrorists, the primary force of which was from the group's Nukhba commando unit.

"It's this idea that they would take all measures, [even] against Islam, to not allow the existence of Israelis, wherever they are, [including] Bedouins, Arab Israelis, foreigners," Hagari said.

Not shown in the film is the account of girls being found dead and so thoroughly raped that their bones were broken during the violation.

So is this working?

No, the terror deniers are just claiming that just because a baby was decapitated, it doesn't mean it was "beheaded." If you shot an RPG into a family home and the shrapnel cut a baby's head from its body, that's not an deliberate beheading, you see.

No intent, as James Comey says when he's rewriting the law to excuse Hillary Clinton.

Another AWFL, lunatic Wine O'Clock Wendy. Of course.

The video has had no effect on AP. AP forbids its "journalists" from referring to Hamas terrorists as terrorists. They must be called only "militants."

A "militant" is defined as "someone engaged in combat." The synonym offered by M-W.com is "fighter."

So that's what these guys were -- just soldiers, "fighting" children and little girls who objected to being mass-raped.

The news outlet states in its "Israel-Hamas Topical Guide" that because "terrorism and terrorist have become politicized, and often are applied inconsistently ... the AP is not using the terms for specific actions or groups, other than in direct quotations." The guidance will affect how dozens of regional newspapers and national outlets like Politico report on the ongoing war in Gaza.

Hamas, an Islamist militant group dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and Jews around the world, is classified as a terrorist organization by dozens of countries, including the United States and the European Union. Hamas has undertaken hundreds of terrorist attacks against civilians since 1993, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.

Instead of referring to Hamas--which earlier this month killed hundreds of innocent civilians, including children in an unprompted attack on Israel--as a terrorist group, the outlet says journalists should call its members "militants."

"Terms such as Hamas fighters, attackers or combatants are also acceptable depending on the context," the Associated Press style guide states.

If someone phones a death threat in to the AP's offices, would that person be a terrorist or a "militant" according to the AP, do you think?

The BBC has been successfully lobbied to stop calling Hamas terrorists "militants" -- but it also won't call them terrorists, which it says suggests moral judgment.

We wouldn't want to express moral judgment about raping and killing children.

The BBC has dropped using the term "militant" as a default term in describing Hamas.

According to reports, the decision was revealed during a meeting with Jewish leaders in England and amid criticism from UK politicians. The Financial Times reported the decision was announced during a meeting between the Board of Jewish Deputies and BBC director-general Tim Davie.

The BBC has resisted calling Hamas fighters terrorists. Under this new approach, "militant" will no longer be the default term used by the broadcaster, though the new approach stops short of using the word "terrorist," reports say.

In an article last week, BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson laid out the broadcaster's position.

"Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally," Simpson wrote.

Terrorism means the use of political violence against civilians to terrorize that populace in order to gain a political advantage.

Which part of that does not apply to Hamas?

I'd really like Grabien to put together video contrasting the media branding J6 protesters as "insurrectionists" or "terrorists" with those same media figures referring to Hamas terrorists as "militants."