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You are not covering the genocide right. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/27/israel-defence-forces-most-moral-soldiers-in-the-world/

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn’t seem any more spiteful and misleading – the slippage into the mainstream of slurs like “genocide” and “famine”, for instance, neither of which are remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza – a story breaks that destroys all my remaining confidence that such outlets will cover the war impartially.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

And it’s not just theoretical: the IDF’s morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other “aid” funds. Hamas operates via an outstandingly well-constructed tunnel network bigger than the whole London Underground.

God that first sentence. What an unserious person.

Hamas’s whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields and as many brutal tricks as possible, such as those that have resulted in IDF soldiers firing on their own and on aid workers.

No, she doesn't explain how they were tricked into shooting aid workers or themselves.

But according to one analysis earlier this year, even if we accept the terror group’s statistics, for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed.

She doesn't even bother linking the analysis. Is this a poorly thought out reddit comment that got too big for the character count?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed

They're claiming that a full 40% of the 40,000+ deaths so far were combatants. What a coincidence that it's almost exactly the percentage you'd get if you counted every "military aged male" as a combatant.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

"all men are terrorists and it's okay that 2/3rds of the casualties are women and children"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I see why you wouldn't like to an analysis that's supposed to help your point, if it's just "guilty until proven innocent".

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[...]that have resulted in IDF soldiers firing on their own

skill issue

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

I would simply identify things before I started shooting at them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money

NETANYAHU'S GOVERNMENT LITERALLY FUNDED HAMAS FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS projection

YOU FUCKJING FUCK!!!1