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Urban Warfare Scholar Admits He Cannot Quantify Gaza Civilian Deaths Despite Ratio Claims
Piers Morgan Uncensored
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What was said
"50,000 minus the number of combatants that the IDF have said. I've asked you multiple times how many civilians have been killed and you don't know. Therefore, your assessment is bullshit."
John Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute and frequent defender of Israeli military operations, was unable to provide civilian casualty figures for Gaza when pressed repeatedly by Piers Morgan, despite having publicly claimed the IDF achieved the best combatant-to-civilian death ratio in modern warfare. Spencer, who has embedded with IDF forces in Gaza six times, could only reference Hamas's overall death toll minus Israeli military estimates of combatants killed, undermining his central argument.
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- Programme
- Piers Morgan Uncensored
- Episode
- ‘I STAND By It!' Nicholas Kristof DOUBLES DOWN on NYT Israel Brutality Report - With Eric Weinstein
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- 32:17
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