As you may have correctly presumed, my statement "No country on earth is engaged in more disinformation and lies than the Israeli state" is an opinion as there are no means to accurately verify it. But it is also not a matter that can be gauged quantitatively (as in number of lies or disinfo), but the breadth, scale and impact that it can have on a global basis.
All sides in any conflicts rely on disinfo to gain an edge. Sure the Pals do it too, just that they are crude and simple relying on inflating casualties. Not to say their casualties were not considerable given their huge densely packed population that has been subjected to virtually indiscriminate bombing. But the Pals are not as far thinking or as sophisticated as the Israelis in pulling off disinfo or outright lies like the beheaded babies which even the PMs spokesman was claiming.
Yes, Putin and other dictators, even democracies as the U.S engage in disinfo too, but whether they top the Israelis at it I dont know for sure, just that its a reasonable guess they do not. They also dont reach the scale and impact of Israeli lies and disinfo in terms of its effectiveness over decades of perpetuating myths and falsehoods esp in the West and their huge influence over much of the media that peddles it.
For Israel, disinfo and lies are critical to help it survive without being regarded as a pariah state by the rest of the world. This disinfo goes all the way back to 1948 and before. Much of these lies and disinfo have been debunked by Israeli historians when Israel declassified its war and military records in in the 1980s. They found that most of Israels myths re the birth of the nation were revealed to be fabrications.
Aside from "Palestinian advocacy" groups that rely on reputable external references (HRW run for many years by Ken Roth who is Jewish and Amnesty Int'l), I could build my case entirely from Israeli and Jewish sources, academics, and historians, who have been continuously debunking much of Israels lies and disinfo over the decades.
Let's just get this clear, you made an accusation against a sovereign nation, which was a very serious accusation. You claimed they are the most dishonest nation in the world. You now, after ignoring my point for awhile and instead responding to a different point I said was irrelevant, and me not letting the matter drop, have decided you had to admit that you did not prove the statement you made with your link, or with any other evidence. That wasn't very honest, was it? The fact is, your statement was hyperbole, no different than the accusations of "genocide," "apartheid" and "they're just like the Nazis" I keep hearing. You guys LOVE to make these kinds of remarks. Doesn't matter if you know you can prove them or not, does it? Because the entire point is to de-legitimize the world 's only Jewish state in other people's eyes. Why is that?
Now you try to suggest that we should consider Palestinian lies somehow less important because they are "crude." LOL, I hate to break it to you, but a lie is a lie. And just to be clear, those alleged lies that your source claims were made by Israel are mainly in the nature of claiming they didn't do something bad to Palestinians. So they're saying we didn't kill people that they actually killed. While the Palestinians are accusing them of killing all sorts of people they didn't kill. It's the exact same lie in reverse. However, there is one key difference. Whether Israel lies about a specific thing like using white phosphorous, their total Palestinian civilians casualty figures are corroborated by the same aid organizations that hate Israel like you do. So they aren't lying about the big picture. Only the Pals are doing that. But somehow we should consider the one worse than the other, because one is too "crude" to be important. Pretty much the same thing that's been all over this thread: the only lives that matter are the ones taken by Israel, while the ones taken Palestinians are irrelevant and not worthy of discussion. Just insert "lies" for lives, and it's exactly the same double standard.
Oh and it gets better. Now you're "making a reasonable
guess" (as opposed to a declaratory statement showing no doubt) that Israel tells more lies than the US or even Russia. LOL. Your "reasonable guesses" mean exactly nothing.
Have you considered the fact that Israel has a free press, which Russia does not and never has, and that it's press is overall quite left leaning? Which means any time they tell a lie, they have a significantly higher chance of getting caught and exposed. There was never a chance of that in the lie factory of Soviet Russia, and Putin's lies only get exposed outside their border. So if we're trafficking in "reasonable guesses," I'd say Russia lies more than Israel or any democracy on the planet. By an order of magnitude.
And finally, you made the "look this Jew agrees with me" ploy. You have any idea how many times I've seen that? Holocaust deniers citing Noam Chomsky to bolster their claims. Israel haters quoting other Jews who agree with them? You do know that it doesn't matter, right? I mean, seriously, an American historian named Howard Zinn wrote multiple books painting the United States as the world's worst villain, attaching millions of deaths to the US that were committed by other nations whose government we may have aided in some way. So all those deaths were on America. Now, shouldn't we believe Zinn because he is, after all, an
American, and no American would accuse his country of doing something bad if it wasn't true, right?
Out of curiosity, have you even read any of those books by the Israeli historians you refer to? Like Benny Morris or Avi Schlaim, for example. They are two of the most oft quoted by Israel haters. I've actually read several of their books (The Iron Wall by Schlaim and Righteous Victims by Morris are the 2 I recall at the moment). Be aware that they are not only controversial but entire books have been written claiming they are bad scholarship. You'd really have to digest both sides of the argument by reading a lot of books. Which is why I tend to rely on undisputed facts, like the Palestinians rejecting statehood 4 times, in these kind of debates. I doubt you've even read your own books, let alone those on the other side.
In any event, you have not made your case, not even close.