Israel - Palestine conflict. 2023-24 misery and horror continues

Angry Liam Neeson GIF

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You know it’s bad when my uneducated analysis was just a small sliver of everything that was fucked up about that whole PowerPoint presentation of his.

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There has been a sharp rise in extremist Israeli settlers taking land from Palestinians, analysis shows.

“Settlers.” Not say, “thieves.” :thinking:

Come on now, BBC…

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Same difference. I think these guys kinda were settlers without theft.

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This is quite useful in laying out what Israel’s plans are for Gaza. Note how much of Gaza in this is consigned to be a buffer zone (so, a substantial reduction of Gazan territory, in defiance of the Biden administration’s ‘redlines’). But there is more to watch for.

(Why not both?)

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Why the scare quotes around “killed”? :thinking:

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In British news headlines, quotation marks indicate a statement made by an individual, although for space reasons it is usually a paraphrase instead of their exact words.

The current headline on the page is

Girl ‘killed inside home’ as Israeli West Bank operation continues

The second paragraph reads:

Lujain Musleh’s father said she was shot in the head as she looked out of a window of her home in Kafr Dan, just outside Jenin, after soldiers surrounded a neighbouring house on Tuesday.

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Also because they did not allow the reporter to write “brutally murdered” in the headline. Probably

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If two Palestinian podcasters entertained the idea of pressing a button and eliminating all Israelis or Jews at once, because of the grave danger they pose to Palestinians, how long, in your estimation, would they be allowed to remain online with their platform intact?

If you are student & call for freedom “from the River to the Sea”, the US Congress will call you genocidal.

If you are the perpetrator of an ongoing genocide & put the word “Israel” stretching from the River to the Sea, the US Congress will give you $18 billion in weapons.

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Why Would Six Israelis Receive More Attention Than Tens of Thousands of Murdered Palestinians

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