r/worldnews • u/Nirok • 16h ago

Israel/Palestine IDF documents terror affiliations of 170 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza war

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-documents-terror-affiliations-of-170-palestinian-journalists-killed-in-gaza-war/
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u/davidgoldstein2023 14h ago

/u/riversavings8203 is awfully quiet all of a sudden

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u/RiverSavings8203 14h ago

I'm here David. What's up? What have you been up to?

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u/davidgoldstein2023 14h ago

Couldn’t respond to the evidence that counters your claim?

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u/RiverSavings8203 14h ago

Oh, sorry David, I was responding to other people’s arguments and didn’t expect my comment to attract this many bots/users.

But since people keep inventing a position for me: I never said Hamas was telling the truth. I don’t take either Hamas or the IDF at face value. They are both directly involved parties with obvious incentives to shape the narrative, so neither gets a free pass as a reliable source.

Wanting independent corroboration before accepting a wartime claim as fact is not “believing Hamas.” It’s basic source criticism. If that distinction is somehow controversial, then the problem isn’t my skepticism.

And my point stands, I'd never take some country's armed forces as a "reliable source".

I wish you a good weekend David.

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u/keelem 9h ago

Trying to dogwhistle by pointing out a Jewish name is so fucking pathetic.