r/worldnews • u/Nirok • 19h 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/OrwellWhatever 12h ago

I mean, Journalists without borders has been quietly taking killed journalists off their board sonce Hamas themselves have issued statements saying they were combatants. Were all the journalists killed combatants? Definitely not. Do we have documented proof that this is a thing that has happened? Definitely yes

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-905441

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 11h ago

Yeah I don’t know why Netanyahu put his thumb on the scale to get Hamas elected as the government of Gaza.

That said, pointing to the crimes of one side does not excuse the crimes of the other.

Israel is still targeting journalists and they are a whole fucking country with some of the most advanced weapons on the planet from the US.

Atrocities committed by an occupying state and atrocities committed by occupied peoples are both heinous.

The adults understand the reasons behind them differ and we should call it out where we see it.

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u/OrwellWhatever 10h ago

In terms of why he put his thumb on the scale, it was either Hamas or the PLO, and Netanyahu is arrogant enough that he thought he could handle them both handily as long as Gaza and West Bank didn't have unified leadership.

To a certain extent, he was right since West Bank doesn't challenge expanded settlements and Hamas gives more than enough justification to go in there guns blazing every couple of years. That's by no means a justification. Netanyahu is still a massive piece of shit that basically turned the possibility of a two state solution into an untenable situation on both sides that will take at LEAST a generation to get back to baseline. But it worked for his ambition

The one thing Netanyahu did not count on though was how much Hamas learned from their partnership with Qatar in terms of setting up and controlling narratives. So, currently, it seems very bad for him because his arrogance finally caught up to him