Nexer mind the octopus...from some reports a thousand Gazan children are now dead...but Israel can't be responsible because that would be to raise the spectre of a medieval anti-Semitic legend nobody but a few scholars had really heard about until recently called "Blood Libel".
A smear mechanism and get out of jail free card for mass murder in one neat package...what's not to like?...genius.
The Westerners of course go along with it for their own reasons...