Roger Waters argues Hamas’ “fishy” October 7 attacks could have been “false flag operation”

nme.com:

Roger Waters has said he wonders if the “fishy” attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 could have been a “false flag operation”.The Pink Floyd co-founder has once again faced accusations of anti-Semitism for claiming the massacre, which killed 1,400 Israelis last month, was “thrown out of all proportion” and questioned the origins of the attack.In an interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald, Waters expresses doubt about the death toll and Hamas’ role in the attack.

When asked if the attack could be “justified”, he said: “We don’t know what they [Hamas] did do” during the invasion.“Was it justified for them to resist the occupation?

Yeah,” he said. “But again, it’s what you said, it’s the Geneva Conventions. They are absolutely, legally and morally bound to resist the occupation since 1967.

It’s an obligation.”He added that while he would “condemn” war crimes “if” they were committed, he believed the massacre “was thrown out of all proportion by the Israelis making up stories about beheading babies.” The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had shared graphic photos of “murdered and burned” babies in the wake of the attack.“What we do know is, whether it was a false flag operation or not, or whatever, or whatever happened, and whatever story we’re going to get to … and we don’t know if we’re ever going to get much of the real story,” Waters continued. “It’s very, it’s always hard to tell what actually happened.”After being repeatedly asked to condemn the attack, Waters said that “there may have been individual” cases of civilians killed.