The IDF has admitted to bombing a hospital in order to assassinate a prominent Palestinian journalist in Gaza, explicitly stating that they assassinated him for engaging in journalistic activities.
The official Israel Defense Forces account made the following post on Twitter (emphasis added):
Don’t let Aslih’s press vest fool you: Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih, a terrorist from the Hamas Khan Yunis brigade, was eliminated along with other terrorists in the ‘Nasser’ hospital in Khan Yunis. Aslih participated in the brutal October 7 massacre under the guise of a journalist and owner of a news network. During the massacre, he documented acts of murder, looting, and arson, posting the footage online. Journalist? More like terrorist.”
Documenting newsworthy acts and posting the footage online is also known as journalism. It’s the thing that journalism is.
Nice name btw, I’m Lebanese so quite likely more biased than most against Israel. But I cannot for the life of me understand the worlds outrage at Russia in Ukraine while the events in Gaza over decades has been so much worse. As an Arab raised in the west, this hypocricy and double standards has always pissed me off. If they’re white christians then they must be defended at all costs it seems. (I understand this is a gross over simplification and the Russian agression could possibly threaten Europe). But to the manority of people of colour in the world see it this way. Just look at the latest bullshit from Trump bringing white afrikaaners to the US citing genocide. it’s insanity.
You’re partially correct but they do not care about Ukraine either. Ukraine is not being defended it’s being used and extorted.
Europe and America refused to send Ukraine actual weapons at the start of the war because of “fears that Putin could see it as an escalation”. This all but confirmed: Ukraine could not win no matter what.
They wanted to throw as many Ukrainian men as possible into the meat grinder to weaken Russia and get Ukraine into debt. All of that military “aid” suddenly turns out to be a loan. Now that Ukraine is too far into the sunk cost fallacy they start openly blackmailing Ukraine for control over its natural resources.
Please don’t dump Europe and the US together in this context. Neither of them has done as much as it should, I agree with you, but Europe has not turned any of its military aid into loans and it’s not extorting Ukraine for its natural resources now. That’s only the US and it’s completely despicable.
Europe was very clear that they did not want Ukraine to win. They could have sent Ukraine all the weapons if needed to win the war at the very start. Yet they refused to do so, because Russia has nuclear weapons, and they “feared for an escalation”. However, now that Ukraine is starting to lose, they are sending the weapons, which they said they would not send before.
If Ukraine is not allowed to win for “fear of escalation”, then I do not see any other option than a stalemate or a loss for Ukraine. In this case that means the goal is throwing Ukrainians into the meatgrinder to weaken Russia.
Agree with you on that, as it is the situation just prolongs suffering in Ukraine. Europe and NATO should properly defend Ukraine, including with troops if necessary. In any case the fear of escalation is bs, because if Russia gets what it wants, it will not stop with Ukraine.
nato is a trench coat filled with nations with 2 agenda’s that take precedence over defending ukraine:
the united states wants its minerals and is using its leverage of weapons to force the ukrainins to sign over minerals rights without any future guarantees of security; robbing them of a future income from this natural resource.
europe want’s them to sign over guarantees of future economic ties with strings of future austerity measures as disguises to ensure that eu will have permanent access to the ukrainian market; robbing them of the ability to keep their future economic independence.
the ukrainians were fooled into believing that they could join the nato fold by the americans and the only thing they got for it is a dissolution of their future sovereignty like the vassals states of africa and latin america.
They should but they won’t. Because their actions contradict their words. And Trump says the quiet part out loud.
There was a ceasefire deal which Ukraine almost accepted. Then Boris Johnson intervened and said Europe and America would 100% super duper most definitely support Ukraine to win the war pinky promise no cap on a stack fr fr.
Europe is a colony of America, Hitlerite crakkkers countries
I will accept that, as in fairness I haven’t delved into that conflict deeply, on the surface it seems like the whole NATO push was to incite Russia in the first place, but again, I’m not too well versed in this. As for the blackmailing, that became pretty obvious when Trump took power but I’m unsure if that was the case before. Thanks for the info.
It wasn’t the case before Trump. What NATO push? Any country is free to decide what alliance it wants to belong to, Russia does not get to decide what its sovereign neighbouring states do.
I’m talking about the security gurantees for Ukraine to have the nukes removed, and Russia had always maintained they do not want Nato on their door step. I am not justifying anything, I am merely pointing out the talking points used by various parties.
Completely agree on the security guarantees by UK and US and that it’s fucked up they weren’t upheld. When repeating Russia’s talking points you should also point out that they’re BS though. Who cares whether Russia wants that or not, Ukraine is a sovereign state and they can make their own decisions, just like other former UDSSR states.
“you should also point out that they’re BS though. Who cares whether Russia wants that or not, Ukraine is a sovereign state and they can make their own decisions, just like other former UDSSR states.” My bad, I assumed that was a given.
i think most of us that care about Ukraine also care about gaza… but our governments are corrupted and not going by the will of the people anymore.
But I cannot for the life of me understand the worlds outrage at Russia in Ukraine while the events in Gaza over decades has been so much worse
Both Ukraine and Israel are puppets of USA, which controls much of world’s media so naturally you would have outrage fueled and consent manufactured for both.
True, although the line of puppetry is a little blurred between the US and Israel. While ultimately they rely heavily on the annual military aid, their influence in US politics is immense.
You claim the US puppets Israel, but why would the US care about gaza to the point of making Israel do this evil stuff? Why would the US pay 80 years of horrific costs and complications over this particular middle eastern people? Why can we still criticise the US government, but criticisizing Israel or zionists is being criminalized?
Israel is the puppeteer over the US. The US government let money buy politics and it got thoroughly bought. Both US political parties are for sale. the Us doesnt give two shites about building an Israel and never has. Anyone who tells you that Israel is a US puppet would seem to me to be just a lying zionist trying to pawn off ownership of their filthy warcrimes.
Ukraine was different because the west had an arrangement for defense with them while US still had a semi functional government. Don’t be misled the western population is plenty outraged at what’s going on in Gaza our government are the ones failing.
Believe me I know how the western population view Gaza, unfortunately they are unable to bring change about, when I mention the west etc, I am talking about the governments. Much like the millions that protested around the world prior the second Gulf war that ousted Saddam, the people were against it, but it went ahead anyway. I’m very happy with the recent comments by the Spanish premier calling Israel a genocidal state, but as long as the US veto remains, and European guilt (specifically Germany) means that Israel will seemingly have immunity no matter how many atrocities they commit.
It’s not a gross oversimplification. If Russian aggression had really been that important there would have been a stronger reaction back in 2014, but back then our military industrial complex was already churning out profits for a different foreign engagement. -An engagement also against brown people.
An engagement also against brown people. Indeed
“not a gross oversimplification”.
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proceeds to grossly oversimplify
Israel is such a pathetic country.
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Thanks for the death threats, good chat society, I’m out
So I can film a crime to get away with a crime ?
What crime? I didn’t see a crime.
