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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Even if one takes Israel’s allegations at face value — which I absolutely do not, given Israel’s track record — and entertains the idea that in 2013, at the age of 17, al-Sharif joined Hamas in some form, what are we to make of that choice? Hamas has been the governing authority of Gaza since 2006.

So... maybe he was Hamas, what's the big deal?

Yeah if the guy was Hamas, he's a valid target.

So there was a lot of outrage over his death by news organizations around the world last week. Israel presented their evidence, and then... silence. That indicates news organizations consider Israel's evidence to be at least credible.

And then this opinion column comes out and this guy is saying "He's not Hamas... and even if he was, it's ok for him to be Hamas." It smacks of the Trumpian "I didn't do that, and if I did, it's perfectly fine" style of logic.

The silence of news organizations (other than Al Jazeera and alt media trash) on this and then this opinion piece making excuses about why it's perfectly fine for Anas al-Sharif to be a member of Hamas... it kinda seems like he actually was a member of Hamas.

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, according to the Geneva Conventions only armed combatants are legitimate targets. A militant Hamas member who is injured and in hospital is not a legitimate target.

A journalist, even if he was a Hamas member, is not a legitimate target.

A doctor, even if he worked for the Hamas run health ministry is not a legitimate target.

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It’s a hasbara bot unfortunately

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm surprised the NY Times published this information, even if only as an opinion piece, given how long and hard (oh, so hard, with some of the slimiest half-truths, denials, cherry-picking and most differently charged language used anywhere) they've been propagandizing for the baby murderers.

By the way, it's hilarious that somebody created an account for a badly made spam both just to flood two posts related to Palestine and got banned within 1h or or so for 2 major communities.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

It is funny that the only real journalism by New York Times is in the "opinion" section.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I’ve totally lost track of what this post is about because I’m just looking at the 8000 mod removed comments by SlackShaolin.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Old troll discovered how to be a script kiddie today. Block them and they'll be removed from your feed. They're already banned with content removed so you're not missing anything.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Once again, thank you for your efforts.

Incidentally, how can we help?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

When you see it, report it. It goes to the mods of the community, the admins for the instance of the community, and the admins of the users home instance.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Took me fucking 10 seconds to scroll through to the bottom on my phone on full speed scroll

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

Lol I thought you were exaggerating then I scrolled down, damn that's a lot of comments removed

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago

Journalists do not get enough credit. Recently I heard the full 'oh the humanity' recording. It shocks me that its used as a joke because you hear the full thing and you follow the reporter as he starts to break down at what he is seeing its pretty horrific. But the whole time he stayed there telling people what was happening because as a journilist its his job to make sure the world understand what is going on. The video was being recorded separately and was certainly not being broadcasted for all he knew the job of informing the country what was happening rested soley on his shoulders and he did is absolute best and you can tell how hard it was for him to maintain some kind of composure.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Modem Holocaust complete with an industrial scale cover up.

We're going to be reading history books written by Israelis in US classrooms that tell all about their glorious war of liberation in another ten years.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

"Modem Holocaust" sounds like some synthwave death metal band. I'm imagining Terminator imagery with some added 80s tech details for music videos, and the sound is kinda obvious.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 57 points 1 day ago

Right after learning how nice slavery was.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Liberation, meaning liberation of the land

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think that's how China will cover the subject.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

There are a lot of subjects that China wont cover.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Won't matter. Americans aren't going to be allowed to read Mandarin.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 22 hours ago

We need rate limiting for user comments, Jesus christ

[–] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (9940 children)

What the fuck happened in the comments?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago

It's an old troll user who got banned for cause back in the day then went off the rails creating dozens to hundreds of alt accounts.

Some day they'll get the proper therapy and medication they need. Today is not that day. 😅

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

It’s an old troll user who got banned for cause back in the day then went off the rails creating dozens to hundreds of alt accounts.

Some day they’ll get the proper therapy and medication they need. Today is not that day. 😅

If you block the user, it will hide their removed posts.

[–] IvyisAngy@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I had to turn off notifications. What the actual fuck?

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some ass-hat thinks 'activism' (slacktivism) is bot-spamming his same comment thousands of time.

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome to the party, NYT. Better late than never I guess.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

It is an opinion article hahaha.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Zio York Times decides to do some journalism now that the genocide is at its peak.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More like washing up after the work is done.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

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[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Sadly when propaganda is 3/4 of the war, a lauded journalist is a type of commander. This was a calculated strike I assume.