Green Beret Veteran Argues Urban Warfare Realities and Hamas Tactics Undermine Genocide Accusations
In a fiery clip from the TRIGGERnometry podcast, shared on X yesterday (Tuesday), former Green Beret and Virginia State Delegate Nick Freitas pushes back against accusations that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. Freitas argues that Hamas’s tactics, embedding fighters in civilian areas like schools and hospitals, deliberately inflate civilian deaths to sway global opinion. “It’s not genocide: it’s what Hamas wants,” he said.
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Freitas contends that the complexities of urban warfare, coupled with Hamas’s strategy of using civilians as shields, distort perceptions of Israel’s actions.
Why Listen to Nick Freitas?
Freitas’s military background lends credibility to his analysis of the Israel-Hamas conflict. His Green Beret experience, involving counterterrorism operations against Iranian-backed groups, as he mentioned in a November 14, 2024, X post, gives him firsthand insight into asymmetric warfare, where groups like Hamas use civilian shields—a tactic he highlights in the TRIGGERnometry clip. A 2023 IDF video showing tunnels under Al-Shifa Hospital supports his claim that Hamas embeds military assets in civilian areas, a strategy documented by sources like the American Jewish Committee.
His argument that this inflates civilian casualties to sway media aligns with Israel’s defense against genocide accusations at the International Court of Justice, contrasting with critics like Amnesty International, who cite airstrikes and blockades as evidence of genocidal intent.
The video has since gone viral, with almost 500,000 views. In a world where it has become fashionable to hate Jews, Freitas offers a compelling counter-narrative.
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