Read your earlier bit, so the conflict of interest is that the IDF has a stake in the recording being legit because it helps them. I can understand that to a point, however...
And this goes to your previous with Mr. Moore... if there was no evidence that he faked it, and I could find none other then I do not trust him... then I couldn't very well say anything after two sources after that without being made fun of.
I counter with "Why do you distrust the IDF? They are the only ones that would have this audio."
I disagree about the "made fun of" part because, as I pointed out, its
NOT two sources...its two NEWS sources reporting about the same SOURCE. If 50 things reprint the exact same statement from a singular source that doesn't make that statement 50 times more credible or that 50 sources back up that statement, it means that 50 news sources are reporting what an individual source said.
To even go simpler. If I go up to someone and say "You're a dick" and they go "No I'm not" and then my buddy John standing next to me goes "Yeah, Zyphlin says You're a dick" the notion that this guy is a dick does not magically become stronger because John repeated what I said. Even more, if then our mutural friend mike joins in and go "I concur, Zyphlin does say you're a dick" the fact that I now have two people repeating me doesn't make my initial statement any more legitimately true.
As I've said in other threads.
I don't believe the IDF nor those on the barges statements and accounts as if its the god honest gospel truth. Both sides have reasons and motives to lie, distort, misrepresent, and possibly even commit fraudulent accounts.
Now, that being said I have far more respect for the IDF and how they operate than I do with those on the ship. So in general I give them a higher benefit of the doubt.
That does not equal assuming everything they say is true.
Israel is losing the propaganda war on this, they are also far from a country lacking in technology, so I do not think its out of the realm of possibility that a faked audio track could be produced.
Do I think its highly likely? Not really. I don't think its out of the realm of possibilities either however.
There's too much coming out (in general) from both sides on two very extreme ends of the spectrum and I simply don't buy one side is 100% truth and the other 100% lies.
As such, while I think its absolutely foolish to decry "Its a fake!" without no evidence, so too do I feel that treating this like absolute gospel truth and thus a nail in the coffin to the righteousness and correctness of Israel and the horrors of those on the ship is also rather foolish if less so than the previous.
While they've demonstrated no evidence thus far that its "faked", the only assurance its "real" is from the people who are giving it to us who are the ones currently looking bad internationally and could use a possible swing in their favor. I give them more of the benefit of the doubt, thus I don't think its foolish to think that its likely legit and if it is feel it just makes the boat members look worse. I do not give them the benefit of the doubt enough to just assume, act, and speak as if its undeniable fact because the IDF said so.
